History Headscratchers / HunterXHunter

[[folder: applicants dying left and right in the Hunter Exam Arc]]

[[folder: The astronomy of HxH]]

* 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? Kite being the reborn baby ant doesn't make sense because he hadn't been eaten yet when the baby was born.

[[folder: Hunter licensed durability]]

[[folder: letting Knov leave during the Invasion]]

[[folder: Riehvelt's whips should actually be pretty weak]]
* Riehlvelt's whips carry one million volt of current. That sounds impressive, but is less than some commercial stun guns. Any opponent at that level of combat would probably be in more pain from being hit at something moving at that speed than the electricity. And while we're on the subject, why does it give killua an electrical aura when it's that weak? Is this a case of cowboy bebop at his computer or something more sinister?
** The electricity part was more of a hidden-ace-under-the-sleeve kind of thing, since he already could protect himself with his impenetrable wall of whips. And it doesn't ''give'' Killua electricity; it's just the first time we see that electricity is another of the many things Killua is immune to due to the TrainingFromHell he received. He simply decided later to use that immunity to his advantage by building his Nen ability around it; remember that his training to make a Hatsu involved electrifying himself with a taser.
** Also, voltage alone does not tell you how strong some particular electrical source is. It's charge that does. Voltage is simply the difference in electrical charge between two points--that is, how easily electricity flows. Sticking a fork in a 110-volt outlet will give you a nasty shock (and a constant worry for parents of babies), and that's because the charge is pretty high. At the same time, rubbing an inflated balloon with someone's hair will set the balloon at hundreds of thousands of volts, but it's safe to touch the balloon because its charge is ridiculously small. Those "Danger: High Voltage" signs are telling you not that you'll get a strong shock, but that it's easy to get yourself shocked. (Riehlvelt could've said his whips carry one million coulombs of electricity, but far fewer people are familiar enough with coulombs to not stop and be confused or look it up.)

*** This is accounted for in the 2011 anime. Shortly after Shizuku loses her arm-wrestling match with Gon, a member of the crowd notes that his money is missing. The implication is that Shizuku stole the money for the fare to arm-wrestle Gon.

* Where did the Chimera Ant Queen get all those different species? The domestic animals, insects, water-based animals, and birds all make sense. But where did she find a penguin, or an armadillo, or a ''lion''?

* How did Illumi figure out that Killua was hiding more of Alluka's rules? The only thing that could have tipped him off about that was the fact that he took Alluka out of her room, and even that can be reasoned as "He wanted to free her", which is ALSO one of his goals. There's nothing else that he's done since leaving the room that would tip him off, and if the information came before then, Illumi would have figured it out far sooner.

* What was the trick with turning some guys' arms into flower petals at the first appearance of Hisoka? It doesn't look like his Nenabilities, unless Texture Surprise can show moving images.

** its possible it was a combination of what happend in the manga with a bit of added slight of hand involved for the pedals
* What was the point in Genthru killing the Kazsule alliance (except for Gon, Killua, Biscuit, and Goreinu)? None of them have anything he wants, nor is there any hint he suspects they know his abilities.

** He doesn't need nen at the moment. Gon has already completed his quest to find his father, which at the time was basically his life goal. After being able to survive such a horrible ordeal, Ging suggested that Gon take the time to decide what to do with his life. So basically, Gon has choose between having a "normal" life or reawakening his nen and continuing the adventure as a Hunter. In the meantime, he's rather busy with the make-up schoolwork he has to complete after his years of absence. Which surprised me, because I didn't even think Gon had an education of any kind.

* Why didn’t Biscuit teach Gon and Killua In? That would have been extremely useful for concealing their abilities! Especially Killua, who would want to keep knowledge of his abilities limited to those he trusts.

[[folder: How are the nenbeasts suppose to even the playing field for the princes?]]
the fact they each have a superpower independent of physical, mental, or political power on the surface evens things out a bit, except for the fact they cant use there powers on eachother,so for example if Benajamin fought Marayam, even ignoring Benjamin and his mens own nen abilities, there nen beasts could slaughter eachothers retainers, but then you have a full grown soldier vs a small child, a situation thats even worse for Marayam then his smaller and weaker group of retainers vs Benjamins larger and more well trained one
[[folder: Why isent ever nen user a Hunter?]]
Hunters have barely any obligations so its not like its a burden, anyone already proficient in nen would be able to rather easily pass the exam, and it comes with a whole lot of perks and can even be sold for a fortune

How is the true scale of the planet a secret? Shouldn't astronomers be able to piece together how big the planet really is? For example, if the civilized world is a tiny part of a massive planet, shouldn't there be much longer nights? Does the planet have multiple suns to allow for 24 hour days? If so, doesn't that also help give away the size of the planet? Is the planet just not a sphere to begin with, and the Hunter x Hunter day/night cycle operates in a totally alien way?

** I think they just decided that Alluka would be much more useful by just granting wishes than try to train something that they are not completely understand. The Zoldycks aren't idiots. Allukas room - while enclosed and under surveillance - is very nice with plush pets and toys and she looks fairly weak, it doesn't look like they made her make a run through hell.

*** IRL most of what we would call machine, or fully automatic weapons are MEANT to be fired from kneeling or lying with a tripod not from the standing position to begin with so they all doing it wrong. So the best snwswer is the artist watched a lot of movies.

** She materializes a revolver, she could only shoot 6 bullets ([[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/hunter_x_hunter/v13/c119/9.html which she said is the same number as the founding members]]). She is a founding member herself yet is not taking a bullet, throwing the number off, given that Shalnark is the smartest member so that may be the possibility she picked him.

* 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.

* 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 supposed 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 sold 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 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 supposed to know these guys are bad because they did that, which seems a little like lazy writing on Togashi's part.

** For all intents and purposes Kurapika's natural nen type is specialist. His scarlet eyes are his clans natural ability and that gives him mastery in each nen type. However his eyes only turn scarlet when he's very emotional so without emotions bringing it out he's just a normal person who can use nen. Think of the ability to turn his eyes scarlet and have mastery over more than just his predetermined nen type as his specialist ability

** The 1999 anime suffers from quite a bit of InconsistentColoring. Hisoka's hair was cotton-candy blue for a few arcs before Nippon changed it to his manga-accurate red in the Yorknew OVA, and Kurapika's non-scarlet mode eyes can be several shades of blue or green.

** For all intents and purposes Kurapika's natural nen type is specialist. His scarlet eyes are his clans natural ability and that gives him mastery in each nen type. However his eyes only turn scarlet when he's very emotional so without emotions bringing it out he's just a normal person who can use nen. Think of the ability to turn his eyes scarlet and have mastery over more than just his predetermined men type as his specialist ability

* How do Kurapika's scarlet eyes affect his nen? I just didn't really understand how that worked and I felt that the explanation was kind of glossed over. I'm guessing that since his eyes turn scarlet when he's angry, it might have something to do with his emotions?

* How do Kurapika's scarlet eyes affect his nen? I just didn't really understand how that worked and I felt that the explanation was kind of glossed over. I'm guessing that since his eyes turn scarlet when he's angry, it might have something to do with his emotions?
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** It could be a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, before it was established that Ging was a Zodiac, but being a public figure doesn’t mean that everything is known about you. And despite being a Zodiac, Ging spends a lot of his time away from the public eye. It seems that Ging is good at keeping his personal life a secret. After all, most people who knew of Ging and met Gon didn’t even know that Ging had a son!