User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 440: God Serena, Review./@comment-26389992-20150615123219/@comment-3290324-20150616182919


 * 1) Except for the fact that Hades is stronger than Jura, and could finish Laxus a lot more quickly than Jura could. :/ Lol, and here is where you forget that you are dealing with a fictional series again. Why would Mashima draw Laxus grievously injured when Laxus hadn't been in battle for more than a second? Hell, even immediately after Laxus took the attack from Hades, Mashima only drew him scuffed up.
 * 2) Actually, no. The difference here was atmosphere not intention. In the first, as you mention, the atmosphere was comedic and in the second the atmosphere was very tense. However, the purpose of the sideliners remained the same. In both cases, they were intended to hype the character competing. In the first case, Erza was being hyped. In the second, Kagura was. If you honestly think Mashima was making any sort of comment on Makarov's strength here, you're deluding yourself. If Mashima wanted, for any reason whatsoever, to let us know that Kagura (or anyone else) was stronger than Makarov there are literally a thousand better ways he could do it. He certainly wouldn't do so in an offhand comment.
 * 3) And as far as that Makarov comment goes, he said that Kagura was strong, not overwhelming. And even if he did call her overwhelming, which I don't remember him saying, overwhelming simply means that she has a vast amount of power. It's not a comment on his own power.
 * 4) Each and every one of them have faced gigantic monsters before. That's nothing new. And Gray's comment was about size. Erza's (the person in question) comment was about him being a God.
 * 5) And yet, Laxus won. But you seem to be suggesting that people's reactions to other's power somehow dictates their own and this is not the case.
 * 6) Again, I've never seen Jura referred to as the strongest Human Wizard Saint whilst Makarov was an active Saint.
 * 7) That armor stopped Jupiter... and was destroyed in the process. :/ And Kagura was definitely in Nakama mode then. Chick was pissed as fuck at Erza for defending the man who supposedly killed her brother.
 * 8) Makarov isn't just versatile. He's versatile with years and years and years of experience and quote: "immeasurable" Magic power to back him up.
 * 9) Hiro Mashima said that Makarov's Magical power was immeasurable on his guild card.