That explains somewhat why she shuns the spotlight in the PV.




Jolly good.







It's his basic limitation, the thing that makes him a villain rather than a hero. He genuinely believes that his actions are justified because of all the injustice that only he can address. Someone has to make the tough calls, and clearly the powers that be who sustain the current system (cosmic powers, not just earthly ones) are not doing their job. People suffer and die and things don't make sense. From his perspective, only he has the insight and ability to make things work.

And yes, that makes him mad. Like most archvillains, if only he could overcome one fatal flaw he'd be a great hero. But he never will.

As for Faite, like all other major beings with the power to improve things who elect (for what are probably very good reasons) not to, the Hood ultimately holds her culpable of neglect. It's like the atheist railing that if God existed he should fix poverty and end suffering.

The Hood even has something of a point, since we've established in stories that the Parodyverse was an artificial creation of the mysterious metatextual "Creators" who made it a place for their silly stories and narrative investigations. The Wonderwall is a metaphor for the barrier between the universe of stories and the world the creators inhabit. The Hood blames the Creators for the suffering in the Parodyverse in the same way as we might blame a pet owner for mistreating a dog they bought. His long-term goal is to fix the Parodyverse by escaping it and destroying the Creators.

And like all madness, there's internal logic as well as fallacy. The PV was created for its creators' amusement. Those creators do abuse the being in there, consistently endangering and tormenting them with plot twists, and then lose interest and abandon them to their misery. From the point of view of characters in a story, the author is their worst enemy.

The Wonderwall is really only relevant as a barrier, then, when trying to transit from a story-based multiverse into a "real" physics-driven one that doesn't sustain magic and superheroes etc. Lara and Keiko and many other characters can transit to the PV from their similarly fictional (if less improbable) worlds without ever worrying about that barrier. But Visionary can't cross over to call upon Adam Diller and the Hood can't appear to murder me - yet.










What's the mechanism by which she processes and stores the power? Is it some biological process or some kind of weirder quantum thing? She's somehow drawing energy across distance and storing it, but where? You mentioned a kind of sub-space that might be like a storage bank for her.




That's always smart. One of the storylines I never got round to doing, but might if I ever do more Untold Tales after the current plotline, includes a plot where one day all superpowers vanish from the Parodyverse. Someone has suspended the law of nature that exists there but not in our world that enables magic and weird science to work. It's suddenly a world without superpowers, without wacky SF devices, a universe without cosmic entities.

But that wouln't mean there were no bad guys who might take advantage of the shift in power. In a world where suddenly there's no super-team to stop your war or terrorism the advantage goes to those who excel at corporate aggression and military force. And of course it becomes open season on the now-unpowered former heroes.







I'm not following Superman myself, but I'm given to understand that he has learned how to burn off his stored solar energy in one massive burst, leaving him de-powered for around twenty-four hours afterwards.