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** Killua wasn't disqualified because he interfered in the fight; he was disqualified because he killed another contest (they were forbidden from killing any other contest during that specific phase, not just their designated opponent. Illumi even says this when considering killing Gon). Also Killua never outright said he killed Leorio's opponent for the latter's sake. Leorio is the one who suggests that later on (when bringing up the exact contradiction you mentioned). To anyone else's eyes, including the impartial judge's, Killua just barged in for no apparent reason and killed a guy, therefore earning his disqualification.

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** Killua wasn't disqualified because he interfered in the fight; he was disqualified because he killed another contest contestant (they were forbidden from killing any other contest contestant during that specific phase, not just their designated opponent. Illumi even says this when considering killing Gon). Also Killua never outright said he killed Leorio's opponent for the latter's sake. Leorio is the one who suggests that later on (when bringing up the exact contradiction you mentioned). To anyone else's eyes, including the impartial judge's, Killua just barged in for no apparent reason and killed a guy, therefore earning his disqualification.
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** Killua wasn't disqualified because he interfered in the fight; he was disqualified because he killed another contest (they were forbidden from killing any other contest during that specific phase, not just their designated opponent. Illumi even says this when considering killing Gon). Also Killua never outright said he killed Leorio's opponent for the latter's sake. Leorio is the one who suggests that later on (when bringing up the exact contradiction you mentioned). To anyone else's eyes, including the impartial judge's, Killua just barged in for no apparent reason and killed a guy, therefore earning his disqualification.
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** Considering Alluka's powers the Zoldycks probably felt it would only make her more of a problem. Lock her up and throw away the key and all that.
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*The entire Zoldyck family trains from a young age to be assassins. I remember something about Killua starting his training at three. Then why doesn't Alluka have any combat ability? Her younger brother can fight and use Nen but, not her?
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* Unless I'm misreading something, [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i3LCD2b9uts/Tw2ZJoeLV8I/AAAAAAAADqI/I551yzDYRwE/012.png?imgmax=3000 this page]] seems to state there are 635 Hunters in total. Although the conditions for being a Hunter are extremely demanding, that seems like a rather small figure, assuming that the HXH world has a population size comparable to ours.
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\n* During the last round of the Hunter Exam, how come it was declared that Gon would be disqualified if Leorio or Kurapika interfered with his fight with Hanzo, but when Killua killed the person Leorio was going to fight, Killua was disqualified and Leorio passed?
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*** But it was in the middle of a freaking town and furthermore Genthru says that "Little Flower" isn't strong enough to kill someone the way that guy was killed.
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** Explanation of the powers was only necessary for the time bombs. He was obviously around and used small bombs on the guy that only require touch.
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** How come none of the bunch of people who were standing next to [[spoiler:Pouf when he collapsed and died]] got infected?

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** This actually becomes a plot point much later on, as some of the higher ranking hunters want to reform the Hunter exams to prevent unnecessary deaths.
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* The [[spoiler: Miniature Rose]]. How does humanity still exist in any meaningful fashion? It's a FantasticNuke that's cheap to mass-produce, delivers a lethal bioweapon explicitly stated to be perfect for making long chains of victims due to how long it takes for symptoms more serious than a nosebleed to show up, and [[spoiler: is small enough to implant in someone's chest cavity on a deadman's switch detonator]]. 80% of the countries in the world refused to ban it because [[TooDumbToLive then they wouldn't be able to use the ones they already have]]. Even disregarding that there's implied to be a ''worse'' version, how has this "poor man's" version alone ''not'' resulted in a combination of politics and terrorism entirely wiping out humanity? Why is 99% of the world so terrified of calamities from the Dark Continent, but only 20% of it is concerned about ''these'' things?
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* Can anyone fully explain how this whole Dark Continent politics thing is occurring? Over the recent chapters I'm more and more confused about WHY anyone is doing anything; especially the Zodiac, who in one chapter are meant to stop Beyond, and then several chapters later seem to want Leorio and Kurapika to join them on this voyage. Similarly, Pariston and Ging are looking to go, but I think it's implied they're a third group? Can anyone give me as concise an answer as possible?

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* From the Greed Island arc. Genthru aka the "Bomber" makes this big event of explaining his powers and that explaining said powers is the key to activating them. So why is the guy who was blown up at the beginning of the arc in order to introduce the bomber not running around telling people who the bomber is instead of just standing around. Furthermore, if the powers of all three "Bombers" are the same and the single person they are pretending to be is so notorious how has no one figured out the identity of any of them and that there is more than one bomber.




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* From the Greed Island arc. Genthru aka the "Bomber" makes this big event of explaining his powers and that explaining said powers is the key to activating them. So why is the guy who was blown up at the beginning of the arc in order to introduce the bomber not running around telling people who the bomber is instead of just standing around. Furthermore, if the powers of all three "Bombers" are the same and the single person they are pretending to be is so notorious how has no one figured out the identity of any of them and that there is more than one bomber.
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*From the Greed Island arc. Genthru aka the "Bomber" makes this big event of explaining his powers and that explaining said powers is the key to activating them. So why is the guy who was blown up at the beginning of the arc in order to introduce the bomber not running around telling people who the bomber is instead of just standing around. Furthermore, if the powers of all three "Bombers" are the same and the single person they are pretending to be is so notorious how has no one figured out the identity of any of them and that there is more than one bomber.
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*** That's not entirely impossible, though it's never explicitly stated. On the one hand, removing his brain while leaving his eyes both still attached as well as functional, seems both very difficult and very unlikely, simply due to the nature of the connection between the two. On the other hand, [[FunctionalMagic Nen.]]

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*** That's not entirely impossible, though it's never explicitly stated. On the one hand, removing his brain while leaving his eyes both still attached as well as functional, seems both very difficult and very unlikely, simply due to the nature of the connection between the two. On the other hand, [[FunctionalMagic [[AWizardDidIt Nen.]]
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** That's not entirely impossible, though it's never explicitly stated. On the one hand, removing his brain while leaving his eyes both still attached as well as functional, seems both very difficult and very unlikely, simply due to the nature of the connection between the two. On the other hand, [[FunctionalMagic Nen.]]

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** *** That's not entirely impossible, though it's never explicitly stated. On the one hand, removing his brain while leaving his eyes both still attached as well as functional, seems both very difficult and very unlikely, simply due to the nature of the connection between the two. On the other hand, [[FunctionalMagic Nen.]]
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** That's not entirely impossible, though it's never explicitly stated. On the one hand, removing his brain while leaving his eyes both still attached as well as functional, seems both very difficult and very unlikely, simply due to the nature of the connection between the two. On the other hand, [[FunctionalMagic Nen.]]
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**The Queen didn't eat the whole body, just the brain. Neferpitou told the king that the "tastiest" part of a human is their brain and the tastiest humans are nen-users. So, while she wanted to keep Kite as a training dummy she didn't need a brain for that.
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* How was Kite reborn as a Chimera Ant? He was killed by Nerfpitou while the Queen was still active, but his body wasn't fed to the queen, it was reanimated by Pitou -- and then Knov and Morel captured his reanimated body using Shoot's nen ability. In fact, Kite's reanimated corpse was still "available" by the time Gon finally had his rematch with Pitou. So when did Kite get eaten by the Queen and reincarnated as a Chimera Ant offspring? Or did something else happen that I'm completely missing?

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* How was Kite reborn as a Chimera Ant? He was killed by Nerfpitou while the Queen was still active, but his body wasn't fed to the queen, it was reanimated by Pitou -- and then Knov and Morel captured his reanimated body using Shoot's nen ability. In fact, Kite's reanimated corpse was still "available" by the time Gon finally had his rematch with Pitou. So when did Kite get eaten by the Queen and reincarnated as a Chimera Ant offspring? Or did something else happen that I'm completely missing?
missing? Kite being the reborn baby ant doesn't make sense because he hadn't been eaten yet when the baby was born.
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*How was Kite reborn as a Chimera Ant? He was killed by Nerfpitou while the Queen was still active, but his body wasn't fed to the queen, it was reanimated by Pitou -- and then Knov and Morel captured his reanimated body using Shoot's nen ability. In fact, Kite's reanimated corpse was still "available" by the time Gon finally had his rematch with Pitou. So when did Kite get eaten by the Queen and reincarnated as a Chimera Ant offspring? Or did something else happen that I'm completely missing?
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**Apparently a lot.
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*The googling-for-a-location segment in the movie. ''How many'' mountains with perfectly round holes in them does HxHverse ''have''?!
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** I'd always presumed the game on Greed Island was set up to have only one winner (or team of winners). Gon, Killua and Biscuit won, and Dwun gave them the prize. I think that after that, the game was over, and everyone left -- presumably with free 'Leave's or open access to the dock. The alternative -- keeping the game open indefinitely and giving permanent prizes to all the other eventual winners -- seems utterly impractical. (It's also worth noting that Dwun, List and Razor were all seen in the voting montage in volume 30, so at minimum Greed Island would have been understaffed at that point. And we also saw several of the other players there.)
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*** It's also a Transformation ability, and i'm fairly sure that if you haven't learned Nen everything from emission and transformation is invisible.
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**There's probably an in-game event. Probably something that spawns Voting Ballots in every major city and lets every Hunter in the game vote.
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** Most likely, they just give the Hunter License at the end of the exam to everyone who finishes regardless of personal records. I think that each License is tied to the user's nen-signature/nen-thumbprint (even if they're not nen-capable yet, they can still give one off). This would explain why Hunter perks are unusable to anyone except the original carrier, yet Illumi could use "Gittarackur's" license for his assignment. They don't need personal records because that signature/thumbprint is all the proof they need of your identity. You can see that Shalnark is officially licensed and obtained it legitimately as he was required to vote for the 13th chairman--otherwise, they wouldn't have given him the obligation.


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* Now, from what I can recall, ''Greed Island'' is intended for Hunters only (though I'm sure other nen-enabled people have gotten in, as there seems to be more players than registered Hunters). Every Hunter is supposed to vote in the elections for th 13th chairman. However, not everyone on Greed Island can leave. Far from it. Chances are there are a number of Hunters (more than 5% of the world's Hunters, I'd bet, looking at the sheer number of players) who cannot leave Greed Island and thus cannot come to the Hunters Association HQ building to cast their votes. So what happens in cases like these? Do the election task force people come to Greed Island with special permission (I'm guessing Ging is a task force member and thus can get special permission) and allow them to cast absentee ballots?
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** I wouldn't peg them as the Big Bad, they may have started in that role in the York Shin arc, but they were more Anti-Heroes (loosely) in the Chimera Arc. Even then, having them as the big bad doesn't mean they have to be the cliche shonen big bads that want to destroy the world. Kurapika has a personal vendetta against them and Gon, Killua and Leorio are with him. So to the group the Ryodan are the designated villains by way of the other 3 not having their own villain(s), Hisoka excluded.

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** I wouldn't peg them as the Big Bad, they may have started in that role in for the York Shin arc, but they were more Anti-Heroes (loosely) in the Chimera Arc. Even then, having them as the big bad doesn't mean they have to be the cliche shonen big bads that want to destroy the world. Kurapika has a personal vendetta against them and Gon, Killua and Leorio are with him. So to the group the Ryodan are the designated villains by way of the other 3 not having their own villain(s), Hisoka excluded.
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* I wouldn't peg them as the Big Bad, they may have started in that role in the York Shin arc, but they were more Anti-Heroes (loosely) in the Chimera Arc. Even then, having them as the big bad doesn't mean they have to be the cliche shonen big bads that want to destroy the world. Kurapika has a personal vendetta against them and Gon, Killua and Leorio are with him. So to the group the Ryodan are the designated villains by way of the other 3 not having their own villain(s), Hisoka excluded.

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* ** I wouldn't peg them as the Big Bad, they may have started in that role in the York Shin arc, but they were more Anti-Heroes (loosely) in the Chimera Arc. Even then, having them as the big bad doesn't mean they have to be the cliche shonen big bads that want to destroy the world. Kurapika has a personal vendetta against them and Gon, Killua and Leorio are with him. So to the group the Ryodan are the designated villains by way of the other 3 not having their own villain(s), Hisoka excluded.
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*I wouldn't peg them as the Big Bad, they may have started in that role in the York Shin arc, but they were more Anti-Heroes (loosely) in the Chimera Arc. Even then, having them as the big bad doesn't mean they have to be the cliche shonen big bads that want to destroy the world. Kurapika has a personal vendetta against them and Gon, Killua and Leorio are with him. So to the group the Ryodan are the designated villains by way of the other 3 not having their own villain(s), Hisoka excluded.
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*This may be built upon a misunderstanding, but it always bothered me that [[CrapsackWorld In a world practically run by mobsters and mercenaries]] [[CrapsaccharineWorld (no matter how wacky those mercenaries may be)]] how are we suppose to view the Phantom Troupe as the BigBad of the series? So far they've only done one real evil thing in the series and even there it seems like the world is largely fine with it, I mean the eyes of the Kurata are so for a high price in a well publicized market event for bigwigs to buy, and the main conflict of that whole arc was pretty much about [[InsaneTrollLogic one group of people trying to steal back what another group of people stole back after they stole them from another group of people]] so it's not like they are immoral par the world they live in. Hell if [[UnfortunateImplications Kurapika died no one would care at all about the genocide of an entire ethnic group.]] It's not even like this is used to further Kurapika's character or how [[PrecisionFStrike F'd]] up this world is we're just suppose to know these guys are bad because they did that, which seems a little like lazy writing on Togashi's part.



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