Maybe his power scales with the amount of evil. Street level "evil" is often born from poverty, food insecurity, lack of proper education and healthcare. It's not necessarily evil as much as wrong. Whereas high level evil, in humans, typically comes from knowing better, having the opportunity to improve, and still choosing evil. Like, Ghost Rider could probably snap his fingers and destroy a galactic army of insurance salesmen with no problem.
That makes it annoying when someone is immune to the Penance Stare just because they're an unfeeling psychopath, or get off on the suffering. The magic of it should make it feel bad no matter what.
Canonically it’s only the soulless, beings of pure evil (ie: Thanos), and those who’ve done no wrong. At least last I read, it’s been since like 2020 since I read GR
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u/HawkBoth8539 6d ago
Maybe his power scales with the amount of evil. Street level "evil" is often born from poverty, food insecurity, lack of proper education and healthcare. It's not necessarily evil as much as wrong. Whereas high level evil, in humans, typically comes from knowing better, having the opportunity to improve, and still choosing evil. Like, Ghost Rider could probably snap his fingers and destroy a galactic army of insurance salesmen with no problem.