This is ridiculous. There's one word to describe this. It's called "exposition".
The writer is using the statement, the dialogue, narrative, etc to convey information about that said universe or setting. Meaning it's placed there deliberately in order to give this information to the reader/audience. Now no one can control how you decide to interpret this information, but by definition that is what this is.
The reality is, these are literary works. Artistic works. Feats are always changing. If they weren't, we wouldn't have "high end feats" vs. "low end feats", or "PIS" or all of these other things that we all created as "fans" in order to win arguments with each other over who's favorite character would beat another person's favorite character.
There are some things that we simply can't quantify. Especially in the DC universe where we have characters that haven't really been given set limits to their strength/speed (Superman, Wonder Woman, Shazam, Flash etc.) Writers can change whatever they want. They don't view this the same way we do.
I was having this discussion regarding the MCU the other day. We were talking about how Captain Marvel is being built up in MCU to be the most powerful hero they've had. Even moreso than Thor or Hulk, etc. Now I think this is cool but is this consistent with what we've seen in the comics?....No. Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) is great in the comics, but is she on Thor's level of strength? No of course not...but they're writing her that way in this universe. What are you gonna do.
Conversely, ever since seeing Squirrel Girl beat Thanos...I can't even take "But the FEATS" argument seriously anymore. Because that fight alone is a clear example about how they just don't factor realistically if the writer says otherwise. Sorry.
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