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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Or that Yandere Hermaphrodite Duel Dragon gets reincarnated as a card, gets launched into space to be drive insane by evil space light, and then planned to fuse all reality with the boy they are yandere for so all of existence would be the two of them.
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.Honestly I wouldn’t blame card games for that one.
Yubel was a problem that was gonna happen regardless.
Also another Yubel is another case of an attempted sympathetic /nuanced villain who goes to far in their evil actions to gain sympathy.
Edited by slimcoder on Jul 8th 2019 at 3:44:45 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."No that problem was the direct result of lack of communication.
Jaden didn't remember hes a reincarnation of The Chosen One. Despite declaring he would love them forever.
Yubel vowed to protect him from anything that threatened him.
Inevitably kids hurt Jaden and Yubel did their job.
Then Jaden launched them into space driving them insane by the evil space light Jaden was supposed to defeat and his parents decide shocking his brain was a smart idea till they damage him and he got amnesia.
Edited by OmegaRadiance on Jul 8th 2019 at 3:46:28 AM
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.Ya have to give it some respect though for taking the franchise in a direction that to this day has not ever been attempted ever again despite 4 following shows & a Goddamn decade going by,
Stakes, actual character development for the lead, the supporting cast being integral to saving the day. My major complaints lie in the treatment of the old supporting cast & how Yubel basically gets everything they want despite all the horrible atrocities they committed without any form of actual punishment or karma.
Though shit since we are on the topic of what makes a villain work, let’s bring in other villain examples, especially symmetric/nuanced villains & mention the ones that worked & the ones that didn’t work.
Edited by slimcoder on Jul 8th 2019 at 4:04:09 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Koba is pretty much the only Complete Monster in film that, in my opinion, is still a three-dimensional character. Helps that his slide into villany is actually fairly tragic.
But to re-rail the thread back on topic: Conan the Barbarian. He's technically part of Marvel Comics, how do you all figure he could fit in the MCU?
My thought is do a thing with Conan that What If did
Have the first act or so set in hyborian times and then Aku tears open a hole in time sending Conan to the future and slash or the modern world. And from there Conan has to stop whatever elder god is causing trouble while being stuck in a world he never made and where people judge him a little for carrying a sword and yelling
The reason being if you want Conan as part of the MCU it’s going to be a hard sell to have him do barbarian in the hyborian times the whole times. The appeal of the MCU is that the characters live in the same universe even if most of the time it doesn’t matter. Just do a stand alone Conan if you want sword and sandle
Forever liveblogging the Avengers...Aku tears open a hole in time sending Conan to the future and slash or the modern world.
Wait, isn't that just... Isn't that literally... That's just literally the plot of... That's even the exact name of...
Yeah I was being facetious using the name Aku
But people from fantasy universes ending up in the modern world and specifically New York often used to be as common as normal everyday people being dropped into fantasy worlds, maybe after being hit by a truck
Unnamed samurai jack doesn’t end up in the familiar real world but the principle is similar
Edited by Bocaj on Jul 8th 2019 at 12:07:31 PM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersOh, I thought you were saying that Conan literally also fights someone named Aku who opened a portal and sent him into the future, and I was honestly impressed at the writer's cajones to rip off Samurai Jack that directly and obviously.
I call those kind of stories Reverse Isekai, and they're still fairly common as a cheap excuse to make a live-action movie involving fictional characters without having to spend too much money shooting in their fantasy world.
The current storyline with Conan started in Avengers: No Road Home, where the Scarlet Witch ended up in the Hyborian Age and was helped by Conan...but then both were dropped back into the present day when they followed the Goddess Nyx. (It was a really great storyline and I highly recommend it.)
Edited by alliterator on Jul 8th 2019 at 9:20:54 AM
Budget is definitely why they were so popular in I wanna say the 80s
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThor 1 is kind of a reverse isekai I guess.
And much of the humor is in Thor reacting to modern Midgard*
*Earth
Edited by Bocaj on Jul 8th 2019 at 12:46:55 PM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI was thinking more the Walt Simonson run which went for minimalism in its Midgard star Earth footnotes. And also used it all the dang time.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

Yes but as the heroes asked, how does riding around on a motorcycle, wearing an evil mask, stealing people's cards and laughing like a maniac & engaging in said card games that supposably destroyed the world actually help save the world?
Edited by slimcoder on Jul 8th 2019 at 3:39:43 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."