Talk:Combustion Man/@comment-4562082-20120520133542/@comment-1216259-20120530195401

Those are very poor comparisons.. In the case of Blood Bending, it can only be used a few specific days out of the month, and even still, it was avoided by Katara. In the case of lightning, I even said, "It is more accepted to give antagonists broken powers." Besides, Lightning Bending isn't anywhere near as powerful as Combustion Man's technique. It has roughly the same speed as Lightning Bending, but produces a much more powerful explosion, & can be used, by my count, about once or twice per second, nonstop, for who knows how long.

Also, just because you can theoretically be defeated, it doesn't mean you aren't overpowered. You're missing the point, main characters do not typically get "well maybe the bad guy might overpower him THIS time, if he's really, really lucky" type abilities, unless it's something like Van Hellsing, & the entire point is to see how hilariously badly they're going to beat up the enemy.