(Monster Hunter) Zorah Magdaros has legimitately disillusioned me in powerscaling and the media literacy involved

So years ago, I was talking to this guy, I hadn't gotten into Monster Hunter at all, so he told me that Zorah Magdaros was a continent-buster and that Fatalis scales to this. Like an utter fool I believed him, probably also because Pokémon had kind of primed me to believe that monsters could do all sorts of goofy shit like that.

And then I pick up Monster Hunter World for a bit, and get to the part in question! Yes, indeed, the quest where Zorah Magdaros dies! And you know what?

No, it absolutely is not a continent-buster! It's the Elder's Crossing that is, and Zorah Magdaros was just going to set it off! You don't even stop Zorah Magdaros from releasing its bioenergy in the quest, you just redirect it a few kilometers to the side and everything is fine! Nothing explodes even a little once this happens!

I was just 100% ready to accept that Zorah Magdaros had the ability to explode in such a way that it destroys a continent outright, but no. It was willful misinterpretation of what was actually going on.

What else is a lie? I've needed to verify that the Digital World from Digimon actually does extend beyond individual planets, and finding out that it did (according to a Digimon wiki, though it didn't actually elaborate) actually calmed me down despite liking Pokémon better!

Maybe I was right as a kid and Umineko is actually street-level! Bowser and Eggman are apparently now "Multiverse Level" despite the fact that Bowser's cosmos controlling tech (which he only maybe scales to personally, and even then only if you squint really hard) and Eggman maybe scaling to Solaris (again, only if you squint really hard) only scale to a single universe! What is a multiverse?! A miserable little pile of secrets, that's what!

solaire is not galaxy level

Honestly it only just clicked with me how ridiculous this is - probably because I was too busy actually enjoying the game at the time - but what the hell is powerscaling, even

i think it'll be really funny if i ever write a successful story and i see the stupid powerscaling. i look forward to having really shitty fancalcs that just kind of ignore how strong i made the characters

But yeah, Zorah Magdaros potentially wiping out the New World is more of a "don't nuke yellowstone" than something it directly scales to