Line #33 DethroningMoment/FairyTail


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11	There's only [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck so many times]] you can sit through ThePowerOfFriendship before you start feeling ThePowerOfHate.
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23	* Tropers/deltanine: Chapter 372. Erza was given a golden opportunity to [[PayEvilUntoEvil torture Kyouka back.]] And she didn't. After what Kyouka put Erza through, she had no excuse not to throw it back at her tenfold.
24	* Tropers/LilyNadesico: Chapter 322. Following a pretty cool [[spoiler:fight between Laxus and Jura]], we are "treated" to the rather short and rushed outcomes of [[spoiler:the Grey & Juvia VS Lyon & Cheria]] and [[spoiler:the Erza VS Minerva fight]]. Then, after all is said and done, it seems that it will be Sting's time to shine... and yet, [[spoiler:after seeing the worn-out Grey, Juvia, Erza, Laxus and Gajeel getting ready, he just... gives up?]] Talk about a disappointing and anticlimatic end to what was until then a fairly good arc.
25	* Tropers/{{jaydude1992}}: The end of the Erza/Minerva fight. Minerva has previously beaten up one of Erza's friends, tortured another one purely {{for the evulz}}, and threatened one of her guild's members with the death of his MoralityPet if he doesn't win the Grand Magic games. After being thrown around by Minerva for a while, Erza reveals that she has magical power in reserve, and chooses to tap into it. Does this mean we'll get an epic showdown between the two of them, ending with Erza [[LaserGuidedKarma paying Minerva back]] for all her {{jerkass}}ery?\
26	Nope, she just pulls a new suit of armor [[AssPull seemingly out of her ass]] that effectively makes her a GodModeSue for a few seconds and then [[OneHitKO one-shots]] Minerva. That's it. That's all the punishment she ever gets for her behaviour. At best, it's an {{anticlima\|x}}ctic end to what should have been a kickass battle, and at worst, Minerva becomes a {{downplayed\|Trope}} KarmaHoudini.
27	* Tropers/SuperSaiyaMan: We get a desperate battle against [[spoiler:seven almighty dragons that have came through the timegate by Future Rogue.]] A tense situation where the Status Quo could really be thrown for a loop! We even have [[spoiler:Gray dying in a HeroicSacrifice for Juvia!]] How can it... wait, [[spoiler:she's reversing time by one minute... reversing any deaths]] and killing any tension? People thought Kishimoto was bad with Rinnei Tensei, but at least it was excusable in universe.
28	* KOman: The infamous conclusion to the final Erza vs. Kyouka fight. Kyouka, having entered her [[OneWingedAngel Etherious Form]], has Erza completely on the defensive with her constantly increasing strength. Then she cripples Erza with pain receptors sensitive enough to bring her to her knees screaming and crying over a light breeze, and shuts off her five senses. So, how is Erza to escape this predicament? She.. just does. She gets up, spouts a friendship speech, and suddenly starts curb-stomping Kyouka. Suddenly, neither the blinding pain or the lack of her five senses is an issue. How does Mashima try to rationalize all this? "It's because she's Erza"... Not only was this a lazy conclusion to the fight in an arc that been giving characters interesting power-ups, it completely killed all the tension in the fight, and preemptively any future fight Erza will take part in.
29	%%** Natsu's defeat of Jackal is completely absurd. Jackal's Bomb Curse doesn't translate to "spontaneously combusting a target" which is why apparently Natsu's immunity to fire countered it, it literally causes targets to explode, including people. At least one person he exploded had to be given a GoryDiscretionShot. Natsu should've been blown into bloody smithereens.
30	%%** Tartarus themselves fail the moment they show up due to being unoriginal. The Nine Gates Of Hell, the "demons" making up the final of the three dark guilds of the Balam Alliance? They're supposed to be more fearsome than the Six Prayers or the Seven Kin of Purgatory. Which is why it's completely annoying that every power of theirs is one that's already been seen before. Jackal's Bomb Curse = Azuma's Great Arc Of Trees, Seylah's Possession = Kain's Curse Doll, Ezel's blades = Ikaruga's katana, etc. This is AFTER we see the Grand Magic Games arc, where there isn't ''a single original power seen at all''.
31	* Tropers/Awesomekid42: During Natsu's fight against Zancrow, it was established that Zancrow's ''God Slayer'' fire magic was far superior to Natsu's ''Dragon Slayer'' fire magic, being a kind of fire that Natsu couldn't consume and was significantly less resistant to than other types of fire. So, does this lead to Natsu having to find a way to defeat a powerful opponent without the use of magic, an interesting idea that the Edolas arc before it brought up before throwing away? Nope. It's revealed that as long as Natsu depletes himself of magic, he's somehow able to eat the fire that was completely unedible to Natsu, the most interesting of the very few things I found interesting about Zancrow. With wasted opportunity, a reveal that comes out of nowhere, and isn't even elaborated enough to make sense making it come off as barely better than PlotArmor, this scene is the embodiment of nearly every major problem I have with the series.
32	* 55Revolver: I had problems with Fairy Tail, but the revelation that Doranbolt was actually Mest all along and was working for Fairy Tail as a spy on the Council destroyed my love for the series. I could bring up the massive Plot Holes, or lack of foreshadowing, but those have been done to death... No what bothers me about this is Fairy Tail effectively committed full blown treason against the Magic Council, and the Kingdom of Fiore. That alone would be bad enough, but the fact that this crime is never shown to blow up in Makarov, or any other member of the Guild's face effectively makes Fairy Tail a massive KarmaHoudini. You just know that if one of the dark guilds had done the exact same thing, Mashima would demonize them and portray them as criminals, but because Fairy Tail are the heroes they can do whatever they want without backlash. Bull-Freaking-Crap!
33	* Catalyst375: Chapter 433 and 434. The Dark Guild Avatar's leader has just revealed that his "Operation Purification" involved summoning a War God to consume the souls of his Guild in an attempt to make Zeref appear. Ikusatsunagi is massive, his head reaches the clouds, his sword can split the land-scape for miles with a single swing... and Natsu frags it with a single punch, while making a speech about ThePowerOfFriendship. Let me repeat that for emphasis: a capital-G God. The first one seen in the series. [[AntiClimax Fodderized]]. In one punch. By Natsu. Giving the same type of speech we have seen dozens of times throughout the story. If it didn't happen before, it has officially come to pass: Natsu and the whole Fairy Tail guild have become Mary Sues, Mashima is not even trying with his villains anymore, and the ''Fairy Tail'' manga has hit rock bottom.
34	* [=EXNativo=]: Nothing to do with the latest arc in the manga has thrilled me as of yet, but one glaring example of how pointless the story is becoming is Universe One. [[spoiler: So we finally have a current member of Fairy Tail die, and even though Gajeel was one of my favourite characters, I'm fine with that being how his story ends.]] Wait, nope, just kidding! Eileen's magic just so happened to reverse it... even though [[spoiler: the portal was quite clearly closed before she even started the spell.]] Oh, and just in case it wasn't blatantly clear that Eileen is totally a badass that we should all love, her magic even results in a cameo for [[spoiler: [[Manga/FairyTailZero Zera]]]]... despite the facts that some people will have absolutely no idea who she is (if they haven't read or even heard of FTZ) and [[spoiler: Mavis (whom apparently created her as a result of breaking free from Lumen Histoire at exactly the same time as Universe One was cast...[[MindScrew I think?]]) had enough time to open her eyes and make a comment about the state of her muscles to a listening Cana before everything got shuffled around]]. I'll be completely honest and say that I find Eileen's quote-unquote 'character' to be a bit of a train wreck who is [[SpotlightStealingSquad taking over whatever you can call current events, as I hazard to refer to it as a plot]], but my Dethroning Moment it definitely her use of magic that all but confirms that nothing for Fairy Tail is ever going to change. Despite the fact that they are current embroiled within a continent wide war.
35	* Cheed: My Dethroning Moment took place a lot earlier than a lot of other tropers here. Arc Villain Brain trying to kill his apprentice is one of, if not, the biggest demonstration of troll logic in anime history. The fight between first-generation dragon slayer Natsu and second-generation dragon slayer Cobra was one-sided. Cobra was effortlessly annihilating Natsu. In the end, Natsu is left drained and defenseless after he lets off an almighty attack that ultimately fails to defeat Cobra. Up to this point Cobra has merely been toying with Natsu and so decides to close in for the killing blow...but then his master, Brain, backstabs him. The reason? Brain says he wants a strong apprentice like Natsu.......What?? Brain was watching the entire fight, how the heck did he come to that conclusion? What am I saying - the fact that he needed to save Natsu by almost killing Cobra should already be testament to the fact that all parties involved acknowledged that Cobra was better than Natsu in every way! What even made him think that the good-aligned Natsu would ever agree to be his apprentice, especially after witnessing him try to kill his current apprentice for no good reason? Brain adds that he admires Natsu as a first generation slayer, but every fight we've ever seen between a first and second generation slayer has always been one-sided in favour of the second generation, it took two first-generations to even dent a second generation! And even if his troll logic was true, isn't the fact his loyal apprentice managed to absolutely wipe the floor with Natsu not a testament to how powerful Cobra is? Fairy Tail is full of lapses in logic but this was the moment that tipped me over the edge.
36	* Maj_Spoiler: Gray's fight against Invel in chapter 500. First off, it was yet another ice vs. ice battle. What made this worse than the others was that in other fights, Gray used strategy and his wit. In this one, Gray [[spoiler: only uses ThePowerOfFriendship (which he never used before) to [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp Invel]], a member of the Spriggan 12.]] That's right, even after [[spoiler: Invel equips his super powerful armor, he gets destroyed]]. Gray was the only character whose fights I still enjoyed, which was only because he didn't [[spoiler: use nakama BS or some sort of major AssPull]], making this fight the final straw for me.
37	* NTroper: [[spoiler: Makarov's]] HeroicSacrifice in Chapter 505. The lead-up to it is basically Eileen casting [[Franchise/FinalFantasy Berserk]] on all the enemy soldiers now overwhelming Erza's group. [[spoiler: Makarov then declares he will be using a wide-range Fairy Law to dispatch all berserked enemies overwhelming them, prompting the whole group to try and stop him.]] At that point, Mavis reveals she came up with a plan that will grant them victory. [[spoiler: Makarov then throws all logic out of the window by telling Mavis that he knows her plan will bring them victory, [[HonorBeforeReason but as a father, he cannot sit idly and watch his children being overwhelmed, despite that being what Mavis' plan is for! He then unleashes Fairy Law at the cost of his life, wiping out all enemies in the process]]]]. This is a problem for a few reasons: First and foremost, the way Mashima has been handling deaths in Fairy Tail, [[spoiler: particularly Gajeel's and Juvia's]], completely took the sting of killing off characters not only from this arc, but in the series as a whole. Secondly, on the case that this IS a death that does not get reversed somehow like the previous cases, it will be a case where a character was killed off by a completely idiotic motive, [[spoiler: since Fairy Tail is still getting pretty overwhelmed by Zeref's army and losing one of their powerhouses will certainly make things harder for them in the long run and Makarov had NO reason to pull that HeroicSacrifice when Mavis' plan was there as a perfect alternative with no casualties. Which, again, Makarov acknowledges but ignores for utterly emotional reasons. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Lastly, we are at the risk of, should Makarov be brought back somehow, putting up yet again with the overused joke of whoever gets assigned as the next Guildmaster handing over the job back to Makarov, making Status Quo god yet again.]]]]
38	* Retloclive: I'm deleting my previous example, because of TheReveal that went down in chapter 513. That apparently, Erza is the daughter of [[spoiler:the former Queen of the Dragons]]. No Mashima. I do not buy this revelation one bit after the Erza character has been around for so long. Not once did I ever feel like, or be hinted towards, Erza having some sort of connection to being a [[spoiler:dragon-born]]. If anything, she was always just a normal magic-user that fought with armor and swords to the point that I would have bought a different [[TheReveal reveal]] that I originally thought it was building up to. That Erza was going to be a LivingWeapon created by Irene Belserion. But no. Erza had to be a bloody [[spoiler:dragon-born]] instead, because Mashima wanted his CreatorsPet to somehow also be connected to the [[spoiler:dragon]] story-line as if already being one of the strongest mages in the Fairy Tail guild wasn't already good enough for her. Now she's a freaking [[spoiler:Dragon Princess]] too.
39	* Tropers/{{Maddoxsort}}: Only one thing in the Alvarez Arc really burned me. It was when Acnologia suddenly murdered God Serena. Hiro revealed God Serena had 8 Dragon Lacrima and then had him cut down before he barely got to use half of them, like he couldn't figure out how to fill in the remaining Lacrima and decided to [[TheWorfEffect off him for shock value]] as an excuse not to showcase the rest. Dude, when you have someone who equates to the ''Franchise/MegaMan'' of Dragon Slayers step onto the battlefield, don't kill him off before you've seen the full course of his power assortment!! (Update: August 24, 2022: I retract my Dethroner now that the 100 Years Quest SequelSeries revealed [[spoiler:God Serena was alive and barely survived the attack from Acnologia.]] I was just mad his potential didn't get a proper showing, and the Historia of him also was a letdown. Since this fix came from Atsuo Ueda's ideas in conjunction with Hiro Mashima, I'm leaving my entry as a reminder of what was so that other prospective authors who see this don't make the same mistake.)
40	* tresixteen: Natsu v Zeref round 2, anyone? I've always found Zeref to be extremely tragic—he only wanted his little brother back, but he gets cursed so that not only do the people he cares about literally drop dead, he has CompleteImmortality. He will never die. He can't be killed. He will walk the Earth for the rest of eternity, never allowing himself to care for anyone because they'll die if he does. Imagine the damage that would do to your psyche. Can you blame him for wanting to reset the world so he never tries to resurrect Natsu? Well, Natsu can. Natsu has the gall to tell him that he needed to make his own happiness, and that he's selfish for wanting to erase the world as it is when it's a miracle that Zeref hasn't just snapped.

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