Thread:Alex2424121/@comment-1672596-20160215130615/@comment-1672596-20160215140342

Alex2424121 wrote: Apparently I do not see any of this in the franchise at all. I do not see any special abilities from your point of view, just an adventurous mermaid princess who is fascinated by the human. That is all. I tried to adjust your edits to something more satisfying but it was just unacceptable from my point of view.

I may need to re-evaluate the usage of the "Powers and Abilities" section. Your line of reasoning has made me questionable of how that section should be used. Even SilverFlight says natural abilities applies. I will restore and try adjusting the notes again.

P.S. Maybe Superman was a wrong example. There is Mr. Incredible and Captain America. I just used your arguments and even explained how they applied in that case. And honestly, just ask divers. They'll tell you that it's downright impossible to open a door underwater, especially in an area with an imbalanced water volume. And for the record, if you watched James Bond and saw the scene where the bad guy brutally executed a man by locking him in a pressurization chamber, activating it, and then smashing an axe into it, you'd get a pretty good idea of what would have happened to Ariel if she didn't have superhuman endurance (and considering the writers and animators actually had to research water physics specifically to make the film as realistic as possible, it's pretty clear they knew about that bit). I follow comic book stuff all the time, and know superpowers when I see them. Heck, Aquaman's ability to talk to aquatic animals even qualified as an actual superpower.

Mr. Incredible is debatable, especially when it is strongly implied that Supers were a separate species from humans in the film (in fact the closest "hero" who is a human is the main villain, Syndrome, who relied on technology first and foremost). I'll give you Captain America, though.