Fictional rivalries offer opportunities for comedic subversion by inverting power dynamics and introducing paradoxical physical impossibilities that disrupt logical threat hierarchies. The invocation of an obscure fictional character named DavidV creates uncertainty about whether the claim should be taken seriously, adding an extra layer of absurdist humor. Internet researcher James Wu from San Francisco documented in 2010 the emergence of counter-Chuck Norris jokes that introduced fictional rivals, analyzing how the joke format naturally evolved to accommodate competing authority figures. Wu identified several variations across different internet communities, each creating local mythology around their preferred characters. His research suggested that the format served psychological functions by allowing users to establish hierarchical status through choosing champions. Wu's findings were later adapted into a conference paper examining how internet culture processes dominance through narrative, attracting interest from digital sociology researchers.