Ring ring ring , I love crazy random but watching that moment in HxH made me go....huh?For an arc about the depravity and brutality of humanity, I don't see a nuke as random.
And anyway, given your avatar, you should love random. :p
Ring ring ring , I love crazy random but watching that moment in HxH made me go....huh?For an arc about the depravity and brutality of humanity, I don't see a nuke as random.
And anyway, given your avatar, you should love random. :p
Hah thats interesting.Fun fact, unrelated to the thread: in the italian version of the manga, Enel is called Ener similar to the original version, because Enel is an actual company here that provides electricty lmao
In the manga
I've always felt Azula from Avatar: The Last Airbender was an example. She was always an extremely powerful and skilled firebender, with a ruthless and cunning mind. There's no way anybody beats her one on one at her peak, so she suddenly goes literally insane in the last three episodes of the show.
Not sure how Sauron counts. The entire thing about him is that he can only be defeated when the Ring is destroyed, that's what the entire trilogy is about. This thread is more talking about creators inventing asspulls to get rid of an intensely powerful villain.Sauron - LOTR
Crimson King - Dark Tower
Voldermort - Harry Potter
I bet you that the Night King in GoT will be finished off with just one clean swipe from some sword...
Not sure how this fits at all. Oda didn't invent the idea of rubber not conducting electricity...
Frankly, as soon as you see what Enel's DF is, you're just waiting for the inevitable to happen. The infamous "Enel face" even spells it out.
Yeah, yeah, I know. And it's not like this is the worst offender OP commits. But the topic is "What kind of villain needed BS reasons to lose" arguably OP inverting how lightning interacts with the world counts. That said, narratively, yes, it laid the seeds for this in loguetown, so it's not BS in the same sense of it coming out of nowhere.Your explanation about the reality ain't nothing new to me lol, the series has never pretended to be about hard realism
You see a rubber man getting ready to go up against a man made out of electricity in the OP's cartoony universe, the outcome is hilariously obvious, with it even having literally happened before back in Loguetown.
How is Meruem's defeat BS when it fits thematically with the arcs themes of what humanity really is like? You fuckers need to pay more attention to your subtext ffs
The classic series was guilty of doing this with a lot of villains.The Daleks, every time.
They literally have multiverse scale bombs, time-travel mastery, a lone unit can wipe out the Earth and four can blow up the sun. They have viruses that turn all life into biomechanical dalek slave puppets. They can teleport planets across the universe in seconds, and even their corpses can spread under a planet with their undying cells. They are the greatest minds in the multiverse, all working in unison on how to kill everyone everywhere.
Always defeated before the credits by a man with no weapons, defences, or plan.
The writers have had to destroy their empire loads of times now as they are too powerful to exist in the series narrative, but they have to keep bringing them back because they are The Daleks and Doctor Who is unimaginable without them.
An asspull is when a writer solves a plot point randomly, without any thought or foresight on how to. Humans being the real monsters is the entire message of the Chimera arc.
The nuke in HxH wasn't an asspull. There were even some people predicting that back then. It wasn't as obvious, but rereading the arc hammers down why it got used at all.
Rubber Nen was bullshit though.
An asspull is when a writer solves a plot point randomly, without any thought or foresight on how to. Humans being the real monsters is the entire message of the Chimera arc.
What's bullshit about rubber nen? The concept itself or one of its applications? I have only seen the anime but I don't remember feeling anything was off about it.
Yhwach from Bleach had the following abilities:
The final enemy in the web serial "Worm" was similarly, if not more so, powerful, as well.
- Omni-Precognition: Yhwach can see everything that is to occur from the present moment into the far-flung future. He can "know" everything that lies within that gaze.[141] Rather than seeing a linear future, Yhwach observes all possible futures at once like countless grains of sand in the wind, and can thus act accordingly using the knowledge he has gained to anticipate and counter his opponents.[142] However, Yhwach is unable to predict the actions of Mimihagi, the right hand of the Soul King.[143]
- Future Modification: Yhwach states that the true power of The Almighty is the ability to transform the future.[144]He utilizes this power by setting up traps where he knows his opponents will be[145] and attacking them before they can even begin their own attacks. He can also maneuver around any defense and countermeasure they use to protect themselves in order to facilitate his attacks.[146] He can even revive himself by changing futures where he dies.[147]
- Power Intuition: Any power of which he "knows" will become his ally.[148]
- Reactionary Power Immunity: That power will not only be unable to defeat him, but become unable to harm him in any way.[148]
So exactly how does this guy go down? I gave up on bleach after Aizen
That was foreshadowed for chapters.Since Jojoj part 5 anime still airing
Gold E Requiem vs King Crimson
Yhwach from Bleach had the following abilities:
The final enemy in the web serial "Worm" was similarly, if not more so, powerful, as well.
- Omni-Precognition: Yhwach can see everything that is to occur from the present moment into the far-flung future. He can "know" everything that lies within that gaze.[141] Rather than seeing a linear future, Yhwach observes all possible futures at once like countless grains of sand in the wind, and can thus act accordingly using the knowledge he has gained to anticipate and counter his opponents.[142] However, Yhwach is unable to predict the actions of Mimihagi, the right hand of the Soul King.[143]
- Future Modification: Yhwach states that the true power of The Almighty is the ability to transform the future.[144]He utilizes this power by setting up traps where he knows his opponents will be[145] and attacking them before they can even begin their own attacks. He can also maneuver around any defense and countermeasure they use to protect themselves in order to facilitate his attacks.[146] He can even revive himself by changing futures where he dies.[147]
- Power Intuition: Any power of which he "knows" will become his ally.[148]
- Reactionary Power Immunity: That power will not only be unable to defeat him, but become unable to harm him in any way.[148]
I would disagree with Sauron. He was greatly weakened in the Third Age, and even then, he was of the same order as the Five Wizards and the Balrog, so not orders above similar beings inhabiting Middle-earth. The reason for his defeat was tied in to the fact that much of his inherent might was poured into the One Ring. Destruction of the One, meant the loss of much of what he was, and there wasn't much left after that.Sauron - LOTR
Crimson King - Dark Tower
Voldermort - Harry Potter
I bet you that the Night King in GoT will be finished off with just one clean swipe from some sword...
All of classic Yugioh fits into this description.I don't remember the specifics now, but I remember the big bad of the first Yu-Gi-Oh movie was defeated by the Pharaoh coming in last minute and saving the seemingly unwinnable situation by "getting lucky" and drawing the most ridiculous set of convenient cards to basically one shot him.
I agree with alotYhwach from Bleach had the following abilities:
The final enemy in the web serial "Worm" was similarly, if not more so, powerful, as well.
- Omni-Precognition: Yhwach can see everything that is to occur from the present moment into the far-flung future. He can "know" everything that lies within that gaze.[141] Rather than seeing a linear future, Yhwach observes all possible futures at once like countless grains of sand in the wind, and can thus act accordingly using the knowledge he has gained to anticipate and counter his opponents.[142] However, Yhwach is unable to predict the actions of Mimihagi, the right hand of the Soul King.[143]
- Future Modification: Yhwach states that the true power of The Almighty is the ability to transform the future.[144]He utilizes this power by setting up traps where he knows his opponents will be[145] and attacking them before they can even begin their own attacks. He can also maneuver around any defense and countermeasure they use to protect themselves in order to facilitate his attacks.[146] He can even revive himself by changing futures where he dies.[147]
- Power Intuition: Any power of which he "knows" will become his ally.[148]
- Reactionary Power Immunity: That power will not only be unable to defeat him, but become unable to harm him in any way.[148]
A mix of being shot by a special arrow, some illusion BS from Aizen and Ichigo getsuga tenshouing him. Although tbh it was confusing and rushed beyond belief so even though I read it I'm not even sure how it worked.
what bullshit about it dude just said bye and left