A note about joining OCTs

OCT: Original Character Tournament

Quick rundown: people are paired off into battles, each person must depict their character defeating the other character SOMEHOW. Can be in comic, flash animation, LIVE ACTION (seen that once, and it was AMAZING).

The note: the character you're entering should not be all-powerful. In fact, this is a VERY BORING character.

Super strong? Check.

Super fast? Check.

Kind of snarky? Check.

Can break the JUDGE NPCs without a sweat? Check.

Any weaknesses? Nope.

No, wait, I saw one character that had a weakness. Apparently the dude has an eye covered by his hair that can he move aside to use...ILLUSION JUTSU - no wait, just some sort of hypnosis. Which is kind of familiar...oh if you take out the eye or something the character dies.

Yes, a weak spot that's a tiny little part of the body.

No. Thousand times no. A character should have flaws, no, MUST have flaws. It makes them interesting. Even Superman has a flaw, what with his weakness to kryptonite and Lois Lane.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see these characters coming from the minds of 13 and 15 year olds.

Note: technically this applies to any sort of story writing.