Talk:Winter Schnee/@comment-25110963-20150813065617/@comment-24891101-20150814164712

You're expecting me to believe that hundreds of thousands of hunters through history, thousands of which are alive today, all have a completely unique superpower? DC and Marvel can't do that for a cast of hundreds. And what about the hundreds of millions of civilians whose semblances are locked? Do they too represent unused unique superpowers? We're literally talking about billions of people throughout history, at this point.

Moreover, semblances have names; Pyrrha mentions hers and clearly expects her audience to know what she means. This is only possible if that semblance has bee previously documented. And it has to be common enough that they have a decent chance of recognizing the name.

Semblances are specific to the individual, and every person is unique. But just as one can group people into personality archetypes, so too with semblances. Across the planet, there are many people with Polarity as a semblance. It varies only in minor details, and to a non-specialist, they are nearly indistinguishable. Only an expert looking at two semblances of the same sort would be able to distinguish between them. They may vary in mechanism or control or other specifics, but many hundreds could be described by a capsule summary on the order of "this person controls magnets".