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This goes out to authors writing action oriented stories but that doesn't mean you can include yours if you aren't writing in that genre.

Anyways, I wanna know how tough your Main Character. How strong are they? What are they're abilites? Can they beat Goku? Ok maybe not that last part.

I'll start this off with my series' main character Scamp!

Now while he does look cute and unintimidating on the outside, don't let his looks fool you. He's way stronger than the average 10 year old, hell's he's even stronger than an adult. Thanks to being half Lunite, he has super speed, super strength, and can cut the toughest materiel and blast it away using his claws. And yes, he can tank bullets.

This his skill set currently and since my series is Shonen, he's definitely going to get a lot stronger as the series goes on!

Now it's your turn!

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Well Danivere here isn't a planet buster by any means, but she can take a hit. In fact, taking hits is probably her biggest strength.

She has a biological ability called a surge, and hers boosts the density of her body to make it harder and heavier (up to levels of steel). It does make her slow in that state. Hence why she also uses an axe in normal state and combats that way.

Kenneth, let me start off by saying how amazing Scamp looks.

One my series -Thunderstruck is a superhero story.
The main character, has powers, but he's still sort of figuring them out. I have a list of abilities that he'll end up having, but given that he hasn't had an encounter with another super, I don't think it's clear to the readers how strong he is. The one ability that will be his "specialty" is his punches - which, when at full strength, will have an effect like that seen when the sound barrier is broken. I got the idea from that scene in the Justice League animated series when Superman punches Darkseid and it looks slow motion.
You mentioned Goku and from DBZ, my favorite character was Vegeta. I can't have my character be Vegeta, because Vegeta would always get his butt kicked 5 seconds into a fight. And a hero can't have that happen to him.
I'm going to try my best not to make him overly OPd, but we'll see.

As my main character is a werewolf, she posses great strength, speed, reflexing, hearing, and senses, as both a human, and when she goes beast mode.

Wait so I’m confused if you’re not writing an action series we can’t comment on this thread? My series is more of a comedy with some action in it, but I do have a few guys that are kinda tough.

ug This will be a spoiler to my story oooooo should i post it

Spoilor spoiler spoiler alert with my story eeep Though IM not at this point yet where the MC is OP... SO this a huge spoiler and don't really want to say it... so if your not going to read my book go a head but if you are then don't read it however this isn't the plot of my story this is just the aspect of what happens.. the plot is completely different...

Summary

MY MC will be OP not really psychically stronger and not because of intellect ether... Just once my story gets to the part where they are OP they can move through life with out ever being seen... and killing any without one knowing they were there...and vanish before one could even notice... But Goku would die but he has plot armor so he is reborn anyways.

They wrote “that doesn’t mean you CAN include yours” which would imply that if you’re not writing about action then you probably shouldn’t talk about your ocs here, but that phrasing is a little odd and I thiiink they may have meant “that doesn’t mean you CAN’T include yours” and that the can was just a typo, but I’m not 100% certain and also I can kind of be a bit of a literal person at times and also I don’t want to just thread invade with my comedy series lol.

They most likely made a typo from what I read, but I don't think it the OP would be mad either way if you posted here. Heck, my series (from my post) isn't even out yet :sweat_smile:

I'd say go for it :+1:

At the start of the plot. Vernon is weak, marginally better at fighting than your average joe, little to no desire to engage in combat, his only fighting ability is his above average dexterity and fast mind.

At the end of season 1 Vernon is a competent fighter able to hold his own against mutiple foes and even able to stand against some strong ass opponents... including a dragon.... He is still a reluctant fighter, but won't hesistate to dish some pain.

At the mid point of the plot Vernon can fight off dragons plural, and his powers rival that of some of the strongest characters in the entire world, even going so far as to challenge some of the mightest beings on the planet, the elder dragons...

At the end of the plot...We are dealing with a 1,63m guy that can split the entire world in half, Like the world friendliest but slightly depressed nuclear warhead

As I mentioned above, Vernon's streght lies in his agility, he develops a combat style that 'needs no strenght' as he progresses and slowly focuses on increasing his stamina and resilience to be able to complete with might and tough beings of the world of JTA.
His magic is flat out OP in theory, he can create an aura an manipulate things inside it using a sort 'telekinetic like' power which grants him a lot of flexibility in combat, he can also create copies of objects he interacts with but copies do not last forever and use up a ton of energy, so it is usually best for him to already have materials in hands as he can bend materials to his will... For instance... If he has metal he can instantly forge a sword of that metal (albeit it will slowly go back to it's original shape over an hour),
His combat style revolves aroudn a clever use of things he has in hand as well as the enviroment to get an advantage, unlike other mages who can just create fireballs and melt cities, he is very much a 'tactician' type hero, but don't worry... there are plenty of people to challenge the little guy.

Also, I do not believe he could beat goku... Maybe in his most powerful form yes, but that is still kind of a long shot.

Ira and Damian are strong, but for different reasons.

Ira is strong physically, after going through rigorous training by her father (who's the general). She could withstand the pain from being burned, after being burned multiple times by him. She had gone through whippings, sprints, and bashes just to get where they are now. Although a faerie has fast healing abilities, she still bore faint scars of the pain and suffering she had gone through. You may pity her, but when you ask her about it, she's going to tell you that her father was only trying to train her to be the best she was. She could take on anyone in a fight, just by her fists alone. She has the ability to control people–like strings, where she could fling you back and forth, but that takes a lot of her force. So she prefers not to do it.

Damian is strong, but not as strong as Ira. No, he could hold his ground in a fight, but brute strength alone isn't going to save him. He couldn't throw a spear as far as Ira, nor could he dare to think of withstanding the whippings she had gone through. But he is very quick on his feet. Damian is calculative, while Ira is impulsive. He studies his opponents, measures their weaknesses, and hits them where they least expect. That's what makes Damian scary because you just don't know what you're getting when it comes to sparring with him. He has the power of turning his hands or fingers into blades, having his own personal 'swords' whenever he needs them. Those 'blades' are practically riddled with poison, so you might want to think twice of touching them. Although, he prefers not to use them.

Together, they make one terrifying team–with Ira being the brawn and Damian being the brains. That is if they stop getting on each other's nerves.

My protagonist Maor can do some light- (stun? hypnosis?) on animals with his palm aura technique. Also he is shown to have quite some stamina in terms of doing his work routines. (he need rest to replenish though) In most part he's just a meek cat boy :smiley_cat:

My MC doesn’t have combative abilities but his ability is very convenient.

Stranger approaches > escape first, ask questions later.

He is not strong but slick :hohoho:

:smirk: my main character is super strong....at making people calm and and sleepy 🤭🤭🤭 His qi aura is basically calming waves all round~

Rin Nizu isn't all THAT strong. She's stronger than the average 17-year-old girl for sure, but that's only cuz she's been in more fights than one. She doesn't have superhuman strength, but she's fast and coordinated enough to not only come up with split-second strategies but actually go through with them. Her strength comes from her "derivare" (an ability she got when a weird cat bit her), making claws grow from her nails. I haven't really put a limit on these claws yet, but they grow up to 9 inches long and can cut through anything. They can probably do some other things too, but we'll see about that.

She's not the strongest character in my story tho, not even with her claws extended

Nice to meet you @KennethLopezJr921
Scamp is def cute and sounds badass at the same time!

Yea my current project is heavily inspired by Shonen-
It follows two brothers who start at the bottom of the fighting food chain when they meet others who share their symptoms:

By default, they can infect any mammal based lifeform so that's sort of a strength against other skilled opponents. Reducing the opponent into a feral zombie-like state.
Without revealing too much, there are a handful of people also present on the island, heard the Hum- became carriers and display efficient skill in their special abilities. Most aren't nice guys either, infecting innocent humans is fair game. So the brothers are forced to learn quickly or die. There's one carrier that can remote mind-control civilians and force them into the brothers (good thing Owen turned off that tv in chapter 3 :wink: )

Evan- This early in the story his techniques are very unpolished and has little knowledge of his capabilities.
He can calcify his saliva to form various melee weapons. In calcified form the weapons are near indestructible (think diamond). At this point, he lacks knowledge to craft more efficient weapons. With his brother's help via Fuse he learns to make adhesive substances and explosive bubbles.
Evan's style is based on the rogue and light swordsman class. He lacks physical strength vs other opponents and makes up for it with his quick reflexes. He was a former track and fielder and studied medieval sword techniques in his youth. He's also been doing parkour for the past two years (to be revealed in an upcoming chapter).
He's no expert, he gets severely destroyed by opponents who see through his amateur skill. One guy can dissolve his weapons with ease. He lacks range in combat. Unlike Owen he needs to eat, sleep and excrete, and has the basic human vulnerabilities.
Spoilertality!: Late in the story he does experience a 'true awakening' into something far beyond human.

Owen- in the beginning his gas form serves none offensive roles, in battle he works more like a ff7 Materia, fusing onto allies to amplify and alter their attacks. Anyone he successfully fuses with- he can teleport to their location and between characters. He can fly and enter porous surfaces. If wounded and he switches to gas from and back he can reset/recover his human body (there are enemies who can break this tactic). His main keep-back is his self-doubt. Most of his powers come during fight or flight response. He doesn't need to eat or sleep, his body auto-regulates temperature. In the later story another gas-based opponent inspires him, he receives some formal training - he can then teleport to memorized locations and truly becomes a beast when he starts dissolving foes. Strong winds/ Big Fans or Vacuum capability are a total nightmare for him! There exists vacuum type enemies.

Total spoiler- ancient beings exist in Sick Boy universe
Speaking of Goku, got a few ocs inspired by Ancient Gods, Vampires and Ancient Hindu Mysticism themes who can do crazy feats. One from another story is based on Hanuman, (aka Son Goku to the ppl of East Asia) XD

Sorry this got long-it's always fun to do these but hard to make 1 paragraph as it's super mechanics heavy lol.
Thanks for the opportunity and very cool topic!

Like fiteing

Haha, thanks!

The two main characters of my work are Silas Meier and Sky Lark. Silas sold his soul to the Devil in return for something priceless. He's given black magic to help him in the tasks given to him by the Devil. His shadow is a door to Hell. He is about 7 feet tall, has impeccable balance and heightened athletic skill. He's immortal but NOT INVINCIBLE. Meaning you can beat the crap out of him, it will hurt a lot but he will keep living unless you outright kill him.

Sky is a ghost, held to Silas by unbreakable chains. She floats and swims in the air. She eats souls and can separate a soul from its physical bodies.

So, this is my guy. Her name is Puzzlewuff :slight_smile:

She’s pretty cute, and she does have a little power.

She can fly, and teleport, and she can even shapeshift!

Truth is, I don’t know if she’s really all that strong. She’s a boogeyman, but she loses half her fites. Her special technique, “Puzzlewuff kick” hasn’t even killed anyone yet. And she only has 5 moves that she can truly call her own.

Puzzlewuff kick - she goes up to you and kicks you. Doesn’t work half the time.

Feelings ray - she puts all of her true feelings into a laser beam. She has terrible aim though and always misses. Not really that good.

Puzzlewuff bite - she grows a dragon head out from her back and chomps down on you.

Anti-matter claws - she coats her hand in antimatter and slashes. Can cut through anything, even the fabric of space time.

Blow up the universe - she blows up the universe.

All of the rest of her other moves, she steals and copies from her opponents. Usually at least 3x stronger than the original, however she can’t make effective use of things like psychic powers or magic. Anything that requires skill or concentration she struggles with, so it’s not that good either. I mean, she has copied some interesting techniques, like there was a time when an ancient super being tried to erase her from existence, but she recovered from that and turned said superbeing into gold. She copied that move, as well as other moves from some of her skirmishes. Oh yeah, also she can regenerate from pretty much anything, but regenerating too much can tire her out.

I don’t really know if she could beat goku in a fite. It really depends on if she would want to play around or if she was really serious, but probably not. She’s not really that good, you see. She’s a little tough, but maybe she would lose. Goku does have ultra instinct. But she did once turn a pigeon into ultra pigeon so maybe??

Nah, Kaguyo can't beat Goku but he's still pretty dang strong. As a space pirate, he has significantly higher strength than a normal human as well as stamina. Though he's still a low level space pirate with little to no experience actually using his strength. Currently in the story, he would be on level with early dragonball or early-ish naruto. Though in reality, he is much more powerful and his power is just suppressed and wasted due to story-factors that are upcoming.

this question ha kept me thinking... I think in their actual state is not possible to say since they are spirits... :thinking:

but if they were humans...
Liar: a few of preescholers can beat him
Ira: strong enough to fight a small gang
Caelis: He avoids fights but hes really strong

Though Ereeco isn't an action comic by any means, Wizard (one of the main characters) is by far the most powerful character in the comic. Wizard's abilities include: massive power blasts, teleportation, time travel, invisibility, super strength, super speed, is easily able to travel between different universes (as well as space travel), levitation, is able to make inanimate objects move, and do things for him, shrinking, and basically anything he happens to feel like doing, excluding creating something out of literally nothing.

https://tapas.io/series/Ereeco

Japhin I wouldn't say can be measured like other characters. His powers are like if you gave a mentally unstable guy a chainsaw, then yes, I guess he is very powerful? Maybe powerful isn't the right word, more dangerous and unpredictable. He has an invisible shapeshifting punch stab demon that grows bigger with every character it maims.

Himuri is from a human-like species who get elemental-based magical powers they learn to use however they want through their life. His element of choice is fire, so kind of a small packed danger we're dealing with here. In terms of physical strength, he can lift his unconscious crush which is always handy. He can also land a punch.

Sakari is a mix of a human and said species, which according to lore already makes him pretty powerful (one of the most powerful beings in the story). If only he could control his powers better and not knock himself out with them... :sweat_smile: Physically he's not the strongest. He could defend himself, but not for too long.

Taisou is an experienced killer. Normally he also could help himself with some freaky shadowy powers if only they weren't blocked for him right now. xD

Dot has the strength and speed of an average 12-year-old girl. This was intentional, because I wanted most of her strength to lie in being good at thinking/talking her way out of situations. Normally I'm all about women who punch hard and don't take prisoners, but I wanted to tell a story without resorting to violence for a change. (My readers wouldn't know this, but I actually adore writing violence and combat).

Her space suit is technically also an exo-skeleton though, so she can lift heavier rocks and stuff while she's wearing it. And it has lil' rocket boots so she can sorta fly/make really long jumps. But it's all mechanical power, and it is not designed for combat.

Nirrod ...he isn't very strong but dumb sometimes and naive.
But he is also a fire mage.
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But also very bad at magic ...

He screws up every spell so very hard that it's becoming dangerous for everyone around him.
Until now no one died by his magic fails only a few guards got severely burned.

My battle shonen protagonist Aniro will grow stronger on his journey, but at the current moment he has a technique that multiples his power (like kaioken from dbz), creating an energy shield, and making two layers of energy around his hands to protect them and deal extra damage.

1) Pretty average for the race, but that's like higher than normal for everyone else
2) jumps very high. That's it.
3) maybe

Min-jun isn't strong when compared to most of the other characters. He has no magic, and while he's smart enough to evade attackers, he gets no proper combat training until the King takes pity on him later on in the story. Most of his power comes from his wits and experience as a private investigator, which allows him to use his companions' skill set and his surroundings to his advantage. He's all brain and a little brawn.

Shinichi has a lot of combat knowledge when compared to the average person. But the average person in my novel are also people who consume mana stones (which basically enhances a person's resilience). He'll probably break his hand if he attempts to hit anyone. He is more of a strategist and a leader (aka he orders people to do his bidding). He can beat up a pack of children on his own no problem though! Shinichi's foil character, however, is the total opposite.