User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 679 - THE END/@comment-18753817-20160623222914/@comment-4666155-20160624193456

Seriously, this is the kind of mess I'd try to get away with when I first started, and people'd get on my case like "Aha, you're acting cray-cray!". This is the kind of mess that I reprimand users for on other fanfiction wikis and force them to adjust to it doesn't look stupid.

But an actual published mangaka can get away with doing what amounts to Pre-Crisis Superman. Plot needs something? NEW POWER COMING RIGHT UP! Yhwach started with the standard abilities, and, we ASSUMED, the standard powers of the Quincy. Then, as Kubo wanted to "up the ante", he gave Yhwach more and more and more crap. Heck, Ten, you forgot, he's still got Zanka no Tachi, which he left in his other evil cloak. So add Fire Manipulation and Heat Manipulation to his list of "Abilities I Don't Need".