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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

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Mr Zoat said:
'Dryad' covers a range of power levels. If she surpasses those, she'd just be a minor goddess. A metadryad would have to have a genuinely novel ability.
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She does, though. Paul gave her the ability to use holy/blessed attacks and smite demons when she absorbed the essence of the Tree of Knowledge, which is something that other Dryads usually can't do. Thus, she has a unique ability that her sisters don't have, and combined with her immensely buffed natural abilities, that would make her the Dryad equivalent of superhuman. (Superdryad? Superplant?)
 
CrazyNoVa said:
She does, though. Paul gave her the ability to use holy/blessed attacks and smite demons when she absorbed the essence of the Tree of Knowledge, which is something that other Dryads usually can't do. Thus, she has a unique ability that her sisters don't have, and combined with her immensely buffed natural abilities, that would make her the Dryad equivalent of superhuman. (Superdryad? Superplant?)
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No, any dryad who had enough raw power and access to a piece of antediluvian wood could do the same. It's more like someone putting on an inertia belt; pretty nifty but hardly unique.
 
Mr Zoat said:
No, any dryad who had enough raw power and access to a piece of antediluvian wood could do the same. It's more like someone putting on an inertia belt; pretty nifty but hardly unique.
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Okay, then what do you define as a genuinely novel ability, then? Because if novelty is what we're looking for, there's hardly anyone in the story who fits that criteria. Almost every power we've seen so far has at least one other person who also has that ability.

Take the Flashes, for example. By your own logic, wouldn't this mean that none of the Flashes would be true metahumans either, since anyone who has access to the Garrick Formula (or Speed Force, depending on the continuity) could do what they do, provided they get enough practice and experience with the power?
 
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