Thread:Redfork2000/@comment-30384301-20180925062435/@comment-26888167-20190106045243

True. Blast is becoming stronger. I'll tell you something, he and some of my other characters are going to be growing a lot in seasons 4-5 in terms of power and maturity.

Yup.

True. First there were Ink Smash and PHX-001, and then appeared Shogo, Discord, Storm Cloud, Captain Dark Shell, and several other characters. Ink Splash is still powerful, but now she's far from being the most powerful HoEC character.

Makes sense. If Akasha tried to fight the gang nowadays, it would only take Kyoji, Red Fork or Ace alone to stop her. It really shows how much the gang has grown in terms of power.

That's true too. A good example is Dr. Zack. Notice how as stories pass, his team becomes composed of more powerful villains. Some classics like Miss Bloomina and Bob the Blob are still around, but now we've got Ink Burst for example. Also, even though the second generation of superpowered teen villains ahppens to be weak to the powers of the first generation of superpowered teen villains, the third generation (the ones made when Dr. Zack forced Dr. Sanders to work for him) Are actually much more powerful than those first two generations. And when Dr. Zack comes back in another story with new superpowered teens, they'll be even more powerful. I have about two more generations of superpowered teens planned.

Yes, that's why as we move on, more powerful characters appear. You see, I believe one of the best parts of any story is seeing how the characters grow and evolve throughout the series. It's really impressive when we look back, and remember what was considered a big threat back in the day, compared to what they're like nowadays. Gee, back in the day even Bright Spark was considered a large threat, and now he's just a regular everyday villain. Most of the time he doesn't even appear as the main antagonist anymore, but rather as a mini-boss that has a short clash with the gang when someone else is the main villain.

This is going to continue. Cosmos is very impotrant to the plot that will develop during seasons 4-5. I have already planned some more characters that will show up. And before the season 5 finale, many of my characters will have had significant growth, just in time to fight the main antagonist of the season 5 finale, which will probably be one of the most epic episodes in HoEC, surpassing The Ace Plan and Shadows of War by a long jump.

I think something that has favored the newer villains is the effect of how when one villains defeats another, the winner looks more powerful, and the defeated villain seems weaker. Well, most of the more powerful characters, in order to establish how powerful they are, have had moments where they beat some character who was previously considered to be extrmeely powerful. Take Ink Splash's situation, for example. During the entirety of season 1, she was pretty much unbeatable. It was in The Ace Plan when someone more powerful than her finally appeared, that being PHX-001. However, what really marked a difference was when Shogo appeared in the Season 2 finale. As the powerful threat he is, he demonstrated it by defeating the champions of the Season 1 finale, such as Ink Splash or Ace.

Or for example, during the Season 3 finale, Captain Dark Shell proved to be a real danger by beating up several powerful characters that were before unmatched. For example, Team Hybrids as a whole hadn't been defeated until then. PHX-001 gave a good fight, but with that defeat, marked the first time the monstrous hybrid was defeated by one character alone. Then there was even when Captain Dark Shell even forced Discord into submission with his shadow abilities, something Discord hadn't foreseen.

This same cycle will occur with upcoming characters. By the time we're in Season 5, not even Captain Dark Shell or PHX-001 will seem that menacing anymore once the real big bads mop the floor with them.