"Eventually, of course, after their galaxy had been decimated over a few thousand years, it was realised that the whole thing had been a ghastly mistake, and so the two opposing battle fleets settled their few remaining differences in order to launch a joint attack on our own galaxy. For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog."
"The Monkey King Son Goku thought himself the strongest as he ran around the palm of Buddha"
— Shaka, Saint Seiya
"Don't get me wrong, Akane's no powerhouse by any stretch but in 'real world' terms, she is to the average healthy adult male what post-Volume 38 Ranma is to Akane. Muggers and even 'trained martial artists' (real world terms, not Ranmaverse terms) are a joke to her."
— Author's note, Akane's Terrible Day
, regarding Akane handing a Curb-Stomp Battle against two muggers
, regarding Akane handing a Curb-Stomp Battle against two muggers"Sure we have abilities and 'powers' that set us apart from 'normal' Earth humes... But isn't it the height of arrogance t' call ourselves super heroes when all we are is a bunch of lost, outcast or refugee norms from our own worlds?"
— Gifford, Magellan
"Kurt Kelly. Quarterback. He's the smartest guy on the football team. Which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf."
— Veronica Sawyer, Heathers
"I told you Cal is just a regular nigga bro! Cal ain't built for this! Cal is just a regular Jedi named Todd. And he just so happened to get [...] thrown into a world that was beyond his Power Level."
"Cal realizing he was a side character the whole time"
— A YouTube comment on the same video
I get along better with the underground people. People thought I was a joke at Brakebills, but here I'm a big wheel. I guess I just got tired of being the bottom of the food chain. Nobody really appreciated me there - no, not even you, Quentin. Not really. But here, I'm like the king.
—Josh, The Magician King
Klein: I have a feeling you get beat up a lot in real life.
Kirito: (whining) SHUT UP! Here I have power!
Kirito: (whining) SHUT UP! Here I have power!
And the hell of it was, she was still a novice shapeshifter: she'd only been a member of the Amorphous League for perhaps a month or two. Less than four weeks ago, she hadn't been able to manifest clothing, and she had just gotten the hang of taking on larger shapes at the time of the final battle. In the world they'd left, she'd been a roughly above-average threat to the heavyweights of Unbridled Radiance, forced to step lightly around flame-projecting weapons and any magician with a passing grasp of pyromancy; here in Oz, where true magicians were out of fashion, incendiary ammunition didn't exist and flamethrowers barely qualified as experimental, she was just about invincible.
Riley and Lucario approached, the jackal giving his next opponent an evaluating look as his human answered the question. “She’s the best human Aura-user I’ve ever seen, as a matter of fact.”
The four teammates shared a few sidelong glances. “Aw, thanks! You’re going to make me blush!” Yang said, not really sure what else she could say to that. As good as she was, Yang was still a first-year student at Beacon, yet she was the best this guy had ever seen?
The four teammates shared a few sidelong glances. “Aw, thanks! You’re going to make me blush!” Yang said, not really sure what else she could say to that. As good as she was, Yang was still a first-year student at Beacon, yet she was the best this guy had ever seen?
Whereupon Caesar said to them in all seriousness, “I would rather be first here than second at Rome.”
— Plutarch (46-120 CE), ancient Greek philosopher and historian
Mr. Miyoshi: He always had good ideas in his head, and got good grades in art class. He was especially talented at drawing.
Akito Takagi: Whaaat!? Taro Kawaguchi was good at drawing?! No way!
Mr. Miyoshi: He was better than the rest of us — a big fish in a small pond.
Moritaka Mashiro: Yeah, my uncle told me he realized how bad he was only after he decided to become a professional manga artist.
Akito Takagi: Whaaat!? Taro Kawaguchi was good at drawing?! No way!
Mr. Miyoshi: He was better than the rest of us — a big fish in a small pond.
Moritaka Mashiro: Yeah, my uncle told me he realized how bad he was only after he decided to become a professional manga artist.
— A discussion on Nobuhiro "Taro Kawaguchi" Mashiro, Bakuman。
"That hole that you just punched in the ground? I can name at least five people off the top of my head who could do that in their sleep. I can name three who could match them blow for blow without any powers of their own. And another who can take anything those guys dish out and come back for more. And that's just the top tiers. You may be powerful, but you're only anything special up here, in your little cloudy world that's just a puddle compared to the real world down below us. When I compare you to the strongest warriors in the sea—pirate, Marine, or World Government—you're not a god. You're not powerful, you're not impressive, you're not even special. All you are is pathetic. And if you tried going up against the monsters down there, you'd get your sorry gold-plated ass handed to you in ten. Seconds. FLAT. Just like every other hot-headed Logia."
— Jeremiah Cross to Eneru, This Bites!
