Quote from Hewitt

I'm just basing Power as defined, on Dipi's interpretation based on his first post, which he appears to have abandoned. I mean, he's PM-ing me for Consortium games so that means he's still around. I'm just hoping he can step in anytime and deliberate on our assumptions.

Oh god, forgive me: I thought that me actually writing something may have sounded preposterous (like, I thought that if I acted by writing my opinions on a thread I made then the others may have seen the topic as just a way for me to vent my own opinions)
My bad

About the current discussions, I think that some people may have misinterpreted what I mean by "power growth"
I'm gonna take 3 people as examples: Batman. Winston and Guts (from Berserk) (I chose this last one because I'm kinda familiar with him)

Batman is my classical example of a character that has no power growth at all. From the start, he's shown to us as a badass: rich, high intelligence, martial artist. However, what really defines him are his morals and ideals. While he may go into different situations that make him regress (like the one Nish pointed), in the end he does not change at all: he ALWAYS keeps his morals and ideals up; he always keeps what defines his "power"

Winston is an interesting example, since I kinda agree with Hewitt: in the story, his power never grows. Orwell's story, as Alphaeus introduced, is not as simple as he wrote: there is no such thing as him descoverying true justice or some other bullshit like that. In the end, what Winston does is being introduced to one place to another. The fact that he can easily grow to then regress as much easily is proof that he NEVER grew his "power" in the first place

Guts, differently from the other 2, is instead a man that has an interesting power growth: as batman (comparison is on a VERY generic level) he trained to be what he is now. However, the reason I do not consider the beginning/training part of batman as power growth is because there is not significant change in batman during those time (no, the fact that his parents died, while important, is not that much changing in my opinion). Guts, instead, is different in the terms that he's shown to us first as a strong man who does not want comrades, to then as a man who in the past was weaker and had comrades, to then finally as a strong man with comrades. In the entire serie he changes both physically than mentally, seriously affecting what it is in his power to do

Said this, a reason that brought me to make this thread was also because nowadays I noticed something, which is that some works that feature characters with no power growth are actually popular as hell (One Punch Man, Overlord...). While there are still some other popular works that have power growths, they're not as much popular as those with 0 power growth
Some examples are Sherlock, Dr. House and so on
What really picks my interest, though, is this: why are "0 power growth" characters generally more interesting than the other "power growth" ones?