Worst examples of writers wanking off a character?
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Then the answer is actually Ace, because Sabo is just Oda's "I need an Ace-like figure but oops I killed him off."
Ace, though. Got introduced as this awesome powerful character, build-up to be an important figure. The series went to two arcs about rescuing him, culminated in a world-changing war between all powerful factions. Then he got himself killed in the stupidest way possible, making all of his comrades' efforts and sacrifices for naught.
And it's ultimately framed as this noble, admirable thing instead of a dumb reaction of a guy who can't put his temper in check.
Also the guy who for no reason has never lost (the first time such a claim has been made) but shows nothing of why that would be and is a pushover like everyone else in the game.
Leon's dream of Galar being the strongest region doesn't seem like it will happen if they can't even beat him. Imagine if a real challenging character from pre-3DS showed up there.
TBF the majority of shouts in here are just posters' personal dislike of a character. What exactly is wanking off? I could pick half the shouts in here and point out a moment where they were humiliated or made to look like an idiot.
At the end of the day, a lot of media is just a power fantasy so of course you're going to have fan favourites looking good. So again, majority of posts in here = personal dislike.
Big Boss. Started out as a bad guy, but Kojima grew to love the character so much that he changed the whole story and added an awful retcon to get out of making him a real villain.
I wanted to read the Name of the Wind soon. You guys are exaggerating right? Like with the Star Wars movies and Matrix sequels.
Horatio Caine from CSI: Miami.
My girlfriend was watching this, so I decided to check it out with her. This dude runs point for Swat even though he's a Crime Scene Investigator. He marries his subordinate's younger sister after like four episodes of knowing her. He constantly outmaneuvers people smarter than him and always gets the last line. It's like a white man's power fantasy.
My girlfriend was watching this, so I decided to check it out with her. This dude runs point for Swat even though he's a Crime Scene Investigator. He marries his subordinate's younger sister after like four episodes of knowing her. He constantly outmaneuvers people smarter than him and always gets the last line. It's like a white man's power fantasy.
This. The book barely made an impression on me besides making me think the protagonist was obnoxious.
The protagonist is (eventually) the world's greatest magician, a world-class musician with multiple instruments, an amazing poet, an incredible magical blacksmith, as well as the smartest guy at his university. His only supposed weakness is being "bad with women", which basically amounts to all of the women in the story falling in love with him, but he doesn't realize it.
Despite all this, the first book manages to be fairly enjoyable and is worth a read.
However in the second book it gets so bad that it crosses over into parody. For instance,
the protagonist gets kidnapped by the succubus fairy queen, and she has sex with him for like a year straight, but he is so good at sex that she ends up subservient to him.
When Chris Chibnal decided to randomly make the Doctor some sort of immortal God that all Time Lords are powered by. There's jumping the shark, then there's whatever that man did.
Neighbours was lucky to find Margot Robbie who played Donna.
Talented, wonderful person, gorgeous, funny, every woman wanted to be her and every guy be with her. No not Donna, that's how her friend Bridget was portrayed despite showing exactly none of those charachteristcs and being played by a truly terrible actress. Her boyfriend once gave up a football career because she was throwing a tantrum and everyone thought that was reasonable. Time and time again she'd be centre of everything and praised by all for no damn reason. The ultimate Mary Sue.
Margot Robbie was essentially her sidekick despite being a better character in every sense and 100x better actress. Everything said about Bridget actually applied to Donna but she was an adorkable outcast.
Talented, wonderful person, gorgeous, funny, every woman wanted to be her and every guy be with her. No not Donna, that's how her friend Bridget was portrayed despite showing exactly none of those charachteristcs and being played by a truly terrible actress. Her boyfriend once gave up a football career because she was throwing a tantrum and everyone thought that was reasonable. Time and time again she'd be centre of everything and praised by all for no damn reason. The ultimate Mary Sue.
Margot Robbie was essentially her sidekick despite being a better character in every sense and 100x better actress. Everything said about Bridget actually applied to Donna but she was an adorkable outcast.
Close the goddamn thread.No one mentioned him?
It is over.
The whole character himself is nothing but the walking, "Jokerized" embodiment of the wank of 'BatGOD'.
I have to say it's pretty funny seeing people complain about Name of the Wind, because if you think that's bad, Wise Man's Fear says "Hold my Beer".
No, you're completely right. I get Moffat wanting to give the Doctor some mythic importance, but during his run (Eleven, especially) was basically The Most Important Person in the Universe.Here's an unpopular one
A lot of the time Steven Moffat wanked the Doctor in terms of his signifcance to the world.
I 100% agree with Council of Geeks, The Doctor being the most important person in the universe is a baaad idea (it's also one of the reason why Timless Children was bad)
How? Korra is shown to regularly be in over her head, she loses to Amon more than once, is kidnapped by Tarloq, is bad at spiritual stuff and struggles with air bending. If anything, season 1 Aang comes out looking more perfect than Korra.
We're on the same page there. I really loved what they did with them at the end of the first book. And then I agree it actually felt like book 2 was nothing but steps backwards there. Obviously that's intentional to some degree as Kvothe's friends comment on the misery/infatuation merry-go-round Kvothe has with her, but...just because it's intentional doesn't mean it's enjoyable, haha.
Personally what I think of the EU character Dr Aphra. She's bad when it's cool, but good when it's important to not make folks mad, so she's always perfectly in the middle to not upset anyone. She has run ins with pretty much everything and everyone important, outsmarts everyone somehow no matter how big a character it is. But then to make her seem flawed she has personal drama moments to herself all sads like. But then it's time to clown on another major SW character.
Yeah, at this point in the manwha, he could take on every hunter in the world together solo and win easily.
Hashirama and Madara were ridiculously wanked in the war. Every chapter, Kishi had to remind us how strong they were in their glory days and had to retcon them being" the gods of shinobi" when he himself, wrote that the 3rd Hokage surpassed the previous ones.
Every Uchiha is also wanked thanks to the constant ass pull of the Sharingan.
Every Uchiha is also wanked thanks to the constant ass pull of the Sharingan.
I tried reading a few chapters of this but I just can't continue.
Artstyle is too edgy for me.
Lunaris from the DuckTales reboot was ALMOST a wanky character before they did the brilliant move of making him so smart he couldn't comprehend an idiotic plan and got defeated by it.