Monday, March 16, 2020

How They Compare: Eris (Billy & Mandy)


Eris is one of the most powerful characters not only in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, but in Cartoon Network as a whole. Eris is the greek Goddess of Chaos, and despite living in The Heavens, did most of her childhood and schooling in The Underworld, likely because it’s just the last thing one would expect. Since rejoining the Heavens she has done hard work for her eternal job/hobby of keeping the universe as Chaotic and Crazy as she can.
Eris is incredibly powerful, so much so that literally all Chaos in the universe is generated directly from her, she is also outright comparable or directly superior in power to Grim while he is using his Scythe, as seen when they both empowered humans with insane power to fight to the death and Eris’s quickly won. Grim himself is so powerful he can and has multiple times affected and manipulated the universe or even greater, which would put her at Universal+ power. Grim with his scythe has also empowered Billy to be a superhero, who while in this state was able to fly to a distant galaxy at speeds in the hundreds of billions of times light, as Grim can clearly make himself this fast via this, she scales. 
This being said Eris also has the ability to bolster the stats of herself and others, Comparing this directly to Grim’s ability, he once pumped Mandy with so much power she outgrew the universe and entered the multiverse itself where she would continue to expand to infinity. So in Theory, Eris can bolster her stats to potentially infinite strength and speed if need be.
Eris’s most dangerous aspect is her very nature. Eris is not simply a powerful manipulator of Chaos, but the Platonic Concept of Chaos itself. All Chaos in the Billy and Mandy Verse is generated directly from her to the point that when she got into a relationship that made her life more orderly, the universe itself became so unnaturally orderly that it would literally insta-fix any problem that arose by itself. So Long as Chaos exists, so does Eris giving her MAJOR regen and hax resistance, and should Eris somehow be defeated despite this, it would End Chaos, and according to super genius Mandy, without Chaos then Order cannot exist, to destroy her would undo All of Existence.
Eris’s Chaos Manipulation and Goddess Status grants her TONS of divine powers, She is able to fly and teleport herself even to other dimensions. Eris is able to summon forth matter, reverse time, shapeshift into anything, and has a form of cosmic clairvoyance. She can Turn Invisible, use Telekinesis and Transmutation, Mind Control Entire Civilizations, Tear Through the Absolute Plane with her attacks, Duplicate herself and others, and Decay things into Dust with a snap of her fingers. Worst Yet she can Banish people to the Puppet Dimension, which turns whoever enters into a sentient yet powerless felt puppet, the most broken thing about this is it does this not by transmutation but by changing the animation style to puppet show, so it cannot be easily resisted.
She Wields the Golden Apple of Discord, this deadly ancient fruit is the concept of Discord itself. The apple is sentient with a mind and will of its own and it can teleport itself directly to Eris at her leisure, Transform into any object or living thing to perfectly create any chaotic action with the utmost subtly, regenerate itself from being smashed to pieces and even transmutate anything it's used on. It can cause massive natural disasters, Tornados, Floods, Fire-Snows, Plague, Nuclear Explosions and even invasions of Aliens and Mythical Creatures Eris Just Made Up. Best of all it can attack and destroy things on the Absolute Plane, as it was able to consume the Title Card and Music of an Episode. Eris is an ancient and very intelligent entity, that being said she IS batshit crazy so has been able to be manipulated in the past and made incorrect decisions simply because it's chaotic.
Name: Eris: Goddess of Chaos and Discord
Origin: The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Classification: Greek Goddess
Powers and Abilities: Platonic Conceptual Existence, Stat Boosts, Chaos Manipulation, Flight, Interdimensional Teleportation, Low Godly Regen, Resistance to the Lower 5 planes of hax, Decay Manipulation, Matter Manipulation, Transmutation, Shapeshifting, Limited Clairvoyance, Time Manipulation, Absolute Plane Manipulation, Invisibility, Telekinesis, Mind Control, Duplication, Puppet Dimension, Can Make Disasters and Summon Mythical Creatures.
Weaknesses: Is totally F*cking Crazy. 
Destructive Capacity: Universal+, Potentially Infinite via Stat Boosts
Range: InterDimensional
Speed: Massively Faster than Light (Billions), Potentially Infinite via Stat Boosts
Durability: Universal+, Potentially Infinite via Stat Boosts
Stamina: Inexhaustible
Intelligence: Vastly Superhuman (Can match Mandy)

So how would she do in other verses?
DC Comics:
Within DC Comics Eris would be a Crisis Level Entity With Ease, having a very similar state of being to the Actual DC Gods and Goddesses with being a platonic concept. While her Speed and Power would initially be lacking it matters little as most of the most powerful JLA members would struggle to kill her via any means, giving her plenty of time. Even if they could figure out a way to kill her, which is unlikely, the ultimatum of doing so would take the universe with it, would likely put a GIANT wrench in the hero's plan. But the most Dangerous Aspect of Eris in DC is how the Lords of Chaos would React to her existence. The Lords of Chaos would ADORE Eris and undoubtedly help her in any way they could as she represents everything they value in existence. Essentially making Eris a leader figure to a group of entities powerful enough that the likes of Doctor Fate struggles to deal with them.
Darkstalkers:
In the Darkstalkers Series, Eris would essentially be the main villain, comparable in power to the likes of the Full Fledged Anita, but also haxier and harder to kill than previous main villain Jedah Dohma. While a lot of her Haxy abilities can be resisted and countered by top tier fighters, her Puppet Dimensional Trump Card would allow her to one shot almost anything, while she would essentially LOVE this verse for the chaotic nature of two different dimensions fusing together, it would likely be even harder to defeat her here.
 
Clamp:
Within the CLAMP Multiverse, Eris would be considered a Very high tier Mage, with a hax and power level comparable to the likes of Dimensional Witch Yuuko. That being said, a big speed edge and her powers being Divine rather than Magic means that their level of Magic Resistance would NOT actually be able to protect them from Eris’s power, making her a REALLY dangerous threat even among them. That being said she is not undefeatable in verse, as Top tier mages such as Clow Reed are powerful enough to seal away conceptual entities like her with a thought.
Ben 10:
In the Ben 10 series, Eris would easily be one of the most if not the single most powerful being in the verse, Comparable in power to Celestialsapians but existing on a higher plane than anything that exists within Ben 10. While it is not impossible for her to be defeated it would require making a whole slew of new universal laws and multiple top tiers working together. More likely Eris would quickly win after gaining access to ledger domain or what have you.
Saint Seyia: 
Lastly In The Saint Series, Eris would be a massive danger to everyone in the universe. Her power is comparable to some godly entities but her nature as a goddess is unique to only gods WAY above her normal paygrade giving her disproportionate defense. Furthermore her Puppet dimension hax in particular is Not something a lot of characters could resist, even heavy cosmos users. Funnily enough, she'd be very similar in status to the Saint Seyia Version of Eris and she would have an extremely hax based fight against her, essentially being Discord vs Chaos in a manner of speaking.

3 comments:

  1. Wow, it's amazing seeing someone else do one of these, especially given your much better presentation. I always include 3 pictures of the character, one at the start, one between introduction and stats section and one between stats section and abilities section however you had more pictures including pictures specific for a section (Apple of Discord). Was really blown away by Eris' power. Was not expecting an infinite power/speed entity and her sweet of haxes including abstract-metafictional stuff is truly the stuff of the strongest level of battle in fiction.

    She has quite a large variety of abilities and I thought she could really impressively, requiring an SS or DC God, two verses NOT easy to fight at all, or Clow Reed himself from Clamp! If I can make a suggestion, and I know it's hard with a character THIS strong, but I suggest using stronger verses so the character actually has a challenge in each of the verse and the character is a specific area. Saying the character would solo or it's very likely they would solo doesn't really show how strong they are as well as showing who they would beat, could beat, and can't beat. That said that is very minor, especially as she had a really big struggle in at least 3 of the verses you mentioned.

    I thought your descriptions were really cool of how she would do, particularly how she would react with the Lords of Chaos from DC, which was probably my favorite part of the comparison section. My favorite part of the analysis section was either the strangeness of the puppet dimension or the fun direct comparison of her and Grim's power. I look forward to seeing more of these if you like :)

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  2. Interesting to see you do one of these and honestly I think this was was the perfect character for you to start with. This was a good read and served as a fun reminder of many funny Billy & Mandy moments. Billy & Mandy characters are both insanely powerful and ridiculously zany, so I expected Eris to be impressive. Even then I really wasn’t expecting potential for infinite stats. It’s really shows how op she is when she would be top tier in all these verses with her stats and powers (also, hilariously how versatile her puppet dimension is) and I liked the descriptions of what it would take for some of the verses to beat her. It’s weird to think that her intelligence seems to be the weak link in her moveset even though it is quite high as well. I liked the thought experiments to see how each verse would react to her (like with the lords of chaos of the DC universe). Saint Seiya Eris vs Billy & Mandy Eris also seems like an interesting/funny discussion in its own right.

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  3. Eris, nice! She's one of my favorite Billy & Mandy characters! I think you probably know that though, I've got you to thank for getting me into that series. What a fun, crazy character Eris is. Incredibly strong, being Chaos itself is super OP. Probably one of the most flexible characters I can think of off the top of my head, given her skill set is essentially "can do whatever she wants as long as it causes chaos". Good of you not to oversimplify like I just did and actually detail all the things she's been shown to do. That puppet dimension trick is scary as heck once you realize it's not transmuting a person but manipulating the medium itself, which is one of the most powerful things a fictional character can do. The apple is also way more versatile and deadly than I thought, and I've seen that thing do crazy stuff.

    Good to see you aren't foolin' around and slapping her right into DC for starters, wow. Given her conceptual nature, it's no wonder she's an automatic heavy hitter in almost any series you could put her into. I see here she jumps straight to "final boss tier" for a lot of these. Frankly I'm impressed at all the answers you found to her in these various series you chose to get pranked by this golden girl. Of course, Saint Seiya stuck out the most to me and now you've gotten me really interested in Eris vs Eris. I'd like to see Billy and Mandy's Eris knock Saint Seiya Eris down a peg if she could, I like her style of chaos much more.

    Great job with the blog dude, I'm looking forward to seeing more of them in this format. Dropping characters into other series is one of the most fun exercises of the imagination I know. Thanks for this!

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