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18th May '13 12:57:09 PM Primis

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16th May '13 7:33:58 PM Rebochan

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Pulling this again. See discussion.

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* Done in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. 
** Aang pulls an epic, but devious ass pull in "The Great Divide": two feuding clans are arguing over a muddled event in the past that started their conflict, but they can't find proper closure to their feud because they'll never know the real truth about that ancient travesty, and eventually, the leaders resort to swordfighting to solve their beefs. Aang, pissed off at both of them for making the trip through the divide hell at any given turn, tells them ''he'' knows the real story behind their feud, and feeds them a wacky-yet-plausible story that gets them away from each other's throats to bury the hatchet and make peace. Except for one thing: Aang sold them off on a ''big, fat, honking lie.'' The poor kid had had enough of their B.S. and did it for everyone's well-being.
** The show does some egregious ass-pulling in the Grand Finale, when [[spoiler:Aang manages to avoid killing Firelord Ozai by "energybending" to cause him to lose his firebending abilities. Until that point, the existence of energybending had not been even slightly hinted at]].

15th May '13 6:49:03 PM Lophotrochozoa

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13th May '13 5:50:07 PM Primis

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12th May '13 4:38:48 PM Primis

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That doesn't make Synthesis any less of an Ass Pull.

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12th May '13 3:49:28 PM herekitty

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that's irrelevant and the linked-to page redirects here anyway

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10th May '13 8:52:13 AM Regulas314

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9th May '13 10:32:03 PM Valiona

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** Chapter 518 contains several fairly gratuitous examples of this - Tobi apparently placed six Zetsu clones within Sasuke to spy on him, which can be [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands drawn out by Jugo's abilities]], and there [[ContrivedCoincidence happens]] to be more than enough of them to act as sacrifices for the jutsu that Sasuke's group was going to use. The only reason that the group knows about this was because [[spoiler: Orochimaru]] read Kabuto's mind somehow. There's an Uzumaki shrine on the outskirts of Konoha that hasn't been mentioned before (and, since Naruto is one of them, you'd think it would have come up) which contains a mask [[spoiler: that gives its wearer control over the god of death]]. This, combined with the six Zetsu clones, allows [[spoiler: Orochimaru to revive the four Hokages in spite of the fact that they were stated to be impossible to revive, as well as giving him [[BodySurf a new body to transfer to]] and allowing him to regain the use of his arms]]. A fairly awesome moment, but that doesn't change the fact that none of this had been built up to beforehand.

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** Chapter 618 contains several fairly gratuitous examples of this - Tobi apparently placed six Zetsu clones within Sasuke to spy on him, which can be [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands drawn out by Jugo's abilities]], and there [[ContrivedCoincidence happens]] to be more than enough of them to act as sacrifices for the jutsu that Sasuke's group was going to use. The only reason that the group knows about this was because [[spoiler: Orochimaru]] read Kabuto's mind somehow. There's an Uzumaki shrine on the outskirts of Konoha that hasn't been mentioned before (and, since Naruto is one of them, you'd think it would have come up) which contains a mask [[spoiler: that gives its wearer control over the god of death]]. This, combined with the six Zetsu clones, allows [[spoiler: Orochimaru to revive the four Hokages in spite of the fact that they were stated to be impossible to revive, as well as giving him [[BodySurf a new body to transfer to]] and allowing him to regain the use of his arms]]. A fairly awesome moment, but that doesn't change the fact that none of this had been built up to beforehand.

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6th May '13 10:38:29 PM azraelfinalstar

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** Speaking of which, the [[spoiler:Christmas episode's twist -- Sora and Matt's sudden dating]] -- was viewed by some in this light.
** As was the revelation of [[spoiler:[=MaloMyotismon=] as the final BigBad, considering he'd died ''twice'' the previous season, he became part of another villain who was subsequently killed and he was killed a fourth time during an in-canon game]].
** Another 02 example: the explanation of why the older [=DigiDestined=] can no longer digivolve to Ultimate or Mega. Essentially, they gave up their crests (which were already destroyed) to create a barrier to protect the Digital World (which neither worked nor was ever shown or brought up again). The writers caught on that this was a pretty silly plot point and changed the reason why they gave up their crests: they had to awaken the Digital World's gods (the Sovereigns). This too is an AssPull because 1) the Sovereigns were almost immediately resealed and 2) the only things the Sovereigns (actually, just Azulongmon, we never see the others) actually do is fix the Destiny Stones (which would not have broken if their digimon could go Mega at will again) and give the older Digimon the ability to reach Ultimate and Mega again (which, again, wouldn't have been a problem if they had their crests).

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