User blog comment:Gekkou30/Why are comic book Heroes and Villains so weak?/@comment-4652104-20131021140309

First off, lay of the f**ks it just makes you look stupid. Don't abuse people if you want to be taken seriously. Better put that energy into checking your grammar.

As to the point, let's have a little reality check here.

1. Characters are depicted with wildly varying power levels in the comics themselves.

2. Long standing characters in comics are grossly overpowered, because they are upgraded regularly. Simply because writers have to come up with new ideas. "'Let's send Thor into space!' 'Space? But he flies by throwing his hammer and he needs to breathe, how can he go into space?' 'Who cares, readers will love this. And we can have him destroy spaceships!' 'He already did that in issue XXX, remember?' 'Ok then, let's have him destroy a planet!'"

3. Screenplay writers want to do the same, but that is only possible if you start at a reasonably low level.

4. Most TV viewers haven't read the comic and don't give a damn about how strong Hulk is in the comic. They just want to see a good show. And believe me, if Hulk smashes everything effortlessly for 30 minutes, that's not a good show.

5. Thor normally does not channel the odinforce. Odin does.

6. Now the Galactus episode was undeniably stupid. But that's because they cancelled the show mid-way through and needed something big to put a cap on it. The screenplay writers probably wrote it overnight over a couple of beers and some cold pizza. Nobody planned for the episode and nobody cared if it makes sense, since it was the last episode anyway. A shame really, it was the best comic-book based show I've seen.