Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-967403-20140328150548/@comment-61022-20140328222055

Sooooo if you have an official source that has more up to date information, why aren't you going in and updating this yourself? We are an open source website for a reason. If you think someone is going to argue it, put in a reference tag on the power grid, and put a comment in the talk section for the character page. (And I'd make it a point to say that if you don't know how to do these things, learning how is a great way to be a good contributor to the wiki, you can find all the information in our help section)

... But that said, it's personal opinion time: Power Grids are possibly the most arbitrary and pointless bit of information about a character since no matter what is published or unpublished people will argue the grid rankings until their blue in the face. Power Grids are basically irrelevant data anyway because it's a work of fiction. You can't exactly measure something that a creative team can change whenever they want. It's what they call artistic license.

The best quote I read about writing for a franchise was some writer for IDW when they held the license for Transformers comics back in the early 2000s. He was commenting on how fans will gripe over every little detail. Commenting on how in one cartoon a character had a tractor beam weapon that he never used again. When pressed as to why, the writer simply said "the script called for it". So that's something to keep in mind, the whole point of entertainment is to suspend your disbelief. If you spend your time nitpicking over every minute detail that is essentially trivial to the story, you're never going to truly enjoy the story for what it is.

I've read far too many people who complain about something as silly as "Wolverine can't heal that fast" or "so-and-so doesn't have that much power" or "this character is not stronger than that character"... Really, why stress out over it? Just enjoy the tale for what it is. It's fiction. Nothing is set in stone. If you want that level of consistency, non-fiction books are rooted in reality. That might be more your speed.