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Written by: EternalRage

Category: General OBD Terms

Published: 13 April 2018

Created: 13 April 2018

Last Updated: 13 April 2018

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• Powers & Abilities

Darkseid torturing Superman with Agony Matrix

Description:

The ability to control the target's ability to feel pain, dulling one's own pain to continue fighting or incapacitating an opponent by causing their pain receptors to flare all at once.

This ability ignores conventional durability as it directly targets the brain and nerves of the target rather than attacking the opponent directly, allowing the user to defeat them even if they're unable to harm them physically (except on rare occasions where the constant usage of pain receptors wears out the target's nerves). Particularly powerful users can even control the mental and emotional aspects of pain and suffering, allowing them to instigate conditions related to them (i.e. anxiety attacks and mental breakdowns).

Applications:

• Harm or inflict pain on others by inflicting damage upon one's own body (wound transferal)
• Amplify/augment the physical sense of pain
• User can change pain into tools, objects, weapons and other items, create semi-living constructs and/or create structures of varying permanence 
• Users become stronger, faster, more durable, etc. by the pain of oneself and others
• Create a false feeling of pain on others and trick an individual's mind into thinking they are in physical pain 
• Neutralize one's sensitivity to physical pain
• The user can torture target mentally, spiritually and psychologically

Characters who can Manipulate Pain:

• Kyoka (Fairy Tail)
• Darkseid (DC Comics)
• Bartholomew Kuma (One Piece)
• Hidan (Naruto)
• Itachi (Naruto); via Tsukuyomi
• Proffesor X (Marvel Comics)
• Steely Dan (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III Stardust Crusaders); via Lovers
• Duriel (Diablo)
• Alexander Payne (ATOM)

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Written by: Blakk Jakk

Category: General OBD Terms

Published: 03 April 2018

Created: 03 April 2018

Last Updated: 14 April 2018

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Description: 

Sub-sand is the name given by Endless Mike to a very odd idea created by the poster Gohan (then known as Gaara_of_the_sand). In a thread in the Anime/Manga Battledome involving a fight between Gaara from Naruto and Sir Crocodile from One Piece, Endless Mike stated that Crocodile would win by citing the fact that Gaara has the weakness of a human body, which Crocodile, as a logia, can easly kill. Conversely, Gaara could not do anything to harm Crocodile's sand body.

Gaara_of_the_sand responsed with a bizarre post in which he suggested that Gaara could use his own sand to crush Crocodile's sand, somehow killing him. Endless Mike coined the term 'sub-sand' for this idea in his response. Ever since then, sub-sand became an OBD meme, used as an example of ridiculous/nonsensical arguments in vs. debates.

The fallacy goes something like this:
- Gaara is made of flesh and blood.
- Crocodile is made of a crystalline compound.
- Anything that is matter can be crushed with enough energy, helped that Gaara's sand is said to be a special sort of sand that's stronger and faster.
- Despite the fact that Gaara has never been shown to do this or that Crocodile can create sand from thin air and reform with any sand nearby or that Crocodile won't stand around doing nothing and can crush, slash, pierce, dehydrate, smash and kill Gaara in many ways without any counters.

Link to discussion here.

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Written by: As if I'd tell you

Category: General OBD Terms

Published: 09 March 2018

Created: 09 March 2018

Last Updated: 19 March 2018

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• Powers & Abilities

HAKAI!

Also Called:

- Erasure
- Delete/deletion
- Matter/energy destruction

A powerful and broken offensive technique that enables the user to violate the first law of thermodynamics (which states that matter and energy can neither be created or destroyed) and erase a target completely from existence, leaving nothing remaining. This is an excellent way to defeat beings capable of regeneration.

In some cases this power can be resisted by strong enough targets. High-end versions of this ability can erase not only energy and matter but things like spirits, space, time, and even concepts. A related ability is the power to erase something completely from history, so that it not only ceases to exist, but will have never existed in the first place. This power can sometimes overlap with time travel and temporal paradoxes, as going back in time and destroying a target in the past to eliminate it in the present/future can have similar results to the retroactive version of existence erasure, although it is usually not as efficient and effective.

Application:

- Erase enemies
- Erase enemy attacks to protect oneself or others
- Erase objects or barriers in your way

Counters:

- Being acausal
- Being an abstract being
- Sufficiently powerful reality warping
- Regeneration beyond the power's ability to erase (i.e. regeneration from other dimensions or timelines if it can only erase things in one dimension or timeline)
- Sufficiently high levels of immortality
- Being unable to be targeted by the attack or being able to escape it (like most of these this depends on the mechanics of the techniques involved)

Examples of characters who can use Existence Erasure:

- Most non-specialized reality warpers (such as Dormmamu from Marvel Comics)
- The Asgardian Destroyer from Marvel Comics
- Gods of Destruction and Zen-o from Dragon Ball Super
- Users of the Koukai Gyoku from Flame of Recca
- Light Hawk Wing users from Tenchi Muyo!
- The Lady of Pain from Dungeons & Dragons
- The Stands Cream and The Hand from Jojo\'s Bizarre Adventure
- The Arc-en-ciel cannon from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
- Ukoku Sanzo from Saiyuki
- Some of the Paopei from Houshin Engi, such as the Rikukonhan and the Shihouken (the latter of which accomplishes this via probability manipulation)

Examples of characters who can use Retroactive Existence Erasure:

- Many reality warpers (such as Oblivion from Marvel Comics)
- Darkseid from DC Comics (he can also use the normal version as well)
- High-end civilizations such as the Time Lords from Doctor Who
- The Krenim Temporal Weapon from Star Trek
- Crimson Lords from Shakugan no Shana
- The Ultimate Nullifier from Marvel Comics (also capable of the first type)
- Balefire users from the Wheel of Time series

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Written by: Izuku

Category: General OBD Terms

Published: 03 November 2017

Created: 03 November 2017

Last Updated: 17 September 2022

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• OBD Concepts
• Character Concepts

Distance

 
1. Standard Melee Range
2. Extended Melee Range
3. Meters
4. Tens of meters
5. Hundreds of meters
6. Kilometers
7. Tens of kilometers
8. Hundreds of kilometers
9. Thousands of kilometers
10. Planetary
11. Stellar
12. Interplanetary
13. Interstellar
14. Galactic
15. Intergalactic
16. Universal
17. Universal+
18. Interdimensional
19. Multiversal
20. Multiversal+
21.Megaversal
22. Megaversal+
23. Limitless

Range is the distance a character can attack from or travel to. It typically is the size of a battlefield, but some characters are capable of sending attacks across entire universes.

Standard Melee Range - Characters who can only use their arms, legs, and immediate range weapons (a sword, hammer, shield)

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Extended Melee Range - This is for characters with great size or enhanced limbs. Using whips or spears may also count.

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Meters - Characters who can launch attacks across the space of a room.

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Tens of meters - Typically ranged style fighters. They may mostly use bows and arrows or slingshots.

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Hundreds of meters - The prior, but to an even greater degree.

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Kilometers -  Characters who can attack across 1 - 10 kilometer distances.

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Tens of kilometers - The absolute peak of traditional ranged weaponry.

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Hundreds of kilometers - This is where planes and fighter jets become relevant.

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Thousands of kilometers - Missiles and most nuclear warheads.

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Planetary - Characters who can attack across multiple continents up to anywhere on the planet.

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Interplanetary -

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Galactic -

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Universal -

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Multiversal -

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See also:

- Strength
- Durability
- Speed
- Destructive Capacity