Originally Posted by
Adekis
I mean frankly, that explanation doesn't really make sense in the DCU. Lesser higher powers than whatever you might see at the Dawn of Creation "rub elbows" with humans all the time, and the ones that look down upon us are easily classified as megalomaniacs. The Source gets off in my opinion because it isn't a being, but the wellspring of Being, but if you ascribe too much agency too it, and it becomes too restrictive and too judgmental to humans, it starts to just look like a really big Super-Villain to me. So, you know, don't ascribe that kind of agency or judgment to it, obviously. Easy fix.
Because in the DCU, the best treatment for megalomaniacs with phenomenal cosmic power who consider themselves higher beings? Is for an uppity lesser being like Superman or Hal Jordan to stare it down and knock it the hell out. I mean, for example, certain unsympathetic Guardians pretty much fit that description, Krona included. If the main difference between Krona and the "higher power" is weight class, pure and simple, then I might actually be on Krona's side just out of principle, at least in that particular fight.
And, you know, again, the danger of getting too advanced or powerful isn't that it's just inherently wrong, it's that the powerful might misuse their power to hurt the weak.