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The Hindsight tropes, Hilarious in Hindsight, Harsher in Hindsight, and Heartwarming in Hindsight, are among the most misused Audience Reaction tropes on this site. Many people don't understand that the tropes require more than just "This happened, so that happened", and end up adding examples which either lack connection or the substance that makes them funny/serious/not-so-funny/heartwarming. Some of them may be suited better for other tropes (ex: Life Imitates Art), while some may not belong on TV Tropes at all (such as ones involving politicians, due to Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment).

Please report any Hindsight example that you feel are questionable, and we'll analyze them to see if they are actually examples or not.

Remember that the Hindsight tropes are Audience Reactions. That means if an example under review discusses significant fan response pointing out the hindsight, the example can't be cut solely for being too tenuous for this thread.

    Common NOT in Hindsight examples 
  • Creator's character/portrayal dies in work and then creator dies in real life, unless their fictional death is closely similar to their real one (such as Billy Bob Joe portraying a character who dies from pancreatic cancer, then Billy Bob dies from pancreatic cancer himself)
  • Mundane word related to something terrible (such as "corona" or "Epstein") unless there's more to the connection (such as someone named "Corona" having the flu)
  • Creator appears in work then becomes more controversial later on.
  • A common event (such as a typical natural disaster) happens in work, then happens in real life (unless they are closely similar, such as the event happening to the same area in both reality and fiction around the same time) For once, not everything related to disease has to do with COVID-19, not everything related to racism and Police Brutality has to do with George Floyd and Black Lives Matter, and not everything related to sexual abuse has to do with #MeToo.
  • A common/generic concept was used in this work and then later reused in that work (too loose for a connection, unless the concept is so unique it's identified with the work)
  • Two actors appear together then do so in another work
  • Hindsight examples involving recent events, due to them often being shoehorns. Specifically:
    • COVID-19 examples, before 75% of the population has returned to normal
    • George Floyd/2020 Black Lives Matter examples, before protests have declined
  • Examples which fall guilty of Older Than They Think, such as "Make X Great Again" slogans. Aside from violating the ROCEJ, this slogan has been in use since the 1940s.
  • Characters using slurs which are treated as annoying at worst in the work, but is now harsher due to how severe the slur is made now. Discrimination has always existed with that slur. (May qualify for Values Dissonance if work is at least 20 years old.)

Note: As of January 2022, "Funny Aneurysm" Moment is no longer separate from Harsher in Hindsight.
  • The former redirects to the latter and all wicks to the former (with the exception of ones on archive pages and the YMMV Redirects index) must either be moved to the latter (if they're valid) or removed (if they're invalid).
  • The subpages for the former are still accessible from this page. After a subpage for "Funny Aneurysm" Moment has been completely cleaned up, turn it into a redirect to the Harsher in Hindsight subpage for the same medium to preserve inbounds.

Edited by Tabs on Jun 21st 2023 at 11:51:25 AM

HighCrate Since: Mar, 2015
#851: Jul 25th 2020 at 8:10:41 PM

What would cause the economic downturn to no longer be a "present event"? What metric shall we use to determine when it is "over"?

Edited by HighCrate on Jul 25th 2020 at 8:10:36 AM

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#852: Jul 25th 2020 at 8:14:09 PM

[up] By definition, probably when U.S. economic activity is no longer at a decline.

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#853: Jul 25th 2020 at 8:23:57 PM

frick wrong thread.

Edited by PlasmaPower on Jul 25th 2020 at 12:24:19 PM

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HighCrate Since: Mar, 2015
#854: Jul 26th 2020 at 6:13:30 AM

[up][up] by what specific metric? Unemployment numbers? The Dow Jones industrial average? Gross national product? Budget deficit? National debt?

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#855: Jul 26th 2020 at 6:47:54 AM

Again, the entry is correct that a crisis happened during Trump's administration, but it wasn't one Trump is responsible off. Nobody could have expected the pandemic, and again, blaming Trump on it is highly stupid. If the entry were to be put, a note had to be included just to point this difference.

Next we will be blaming Bush on 9/11, or Obama for a economic recession that happened the moment he entered in the house.

Edited by Tomodachi on Jul 26th 2020 at 6:51:52 AM

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#856: Jul 26th 2020 at 7:13:04 AM

Which is why I reworded the entry to avoid the question of who (if anyone) is to blame.

One could easily make the argument that while COVID existing is not Trump's fault, he bungled the nation's response to it in a way that made the problem worse... but that would mire us down in exactly the sort of political debate that the ROCEJ is meant to avoid.

I would ask you to kindly assist me in avoiding that debate by stopping your strawman argument against people "blaming Trump for COVID," as no one in this thread is doing that, and also by ameliorating your insulting language.

Thank you.

Edited by HighCrate on Jul 26th 2020 at 7:14:00 AM

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#857: Jul 26th 2020 at 9:26:24 AM

That's all completely pointless discussion, as any and all Trump presidency examples are verboten. sgamer82 was correct in removing it.

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#859: Jul 26th 2020 at 9:40:38 AM

[up][up][up] I shall do so. I ask you to forgive me, I didn't intend to start a discussion like that.

Let the example be deleted then. This is a similar kind of political topic, but this one involves a book, Doña Barbara, alongside two examples not added by me.

  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • In many parts of the book, Santos Luzardo thought of selling Altamira and leaving the country due to the bad situation of the flatlands not giving him a profit, and the justice system is corrupted due to Doña Barbara's influence. As of 2017, many companies that helped move the Venezuelan economy decided to leave the country due to the land not giving enough of a profit, and the harsh relationship with the government only made this worse. In fact, much of the population is leaving the country due to the terrible national crisis in what is know as the Bolivarian Diaspora. It's hard to read the book and not to feel related to Luzardo's own problems.
    • The 2008 television adaptation had a Distant Finale, said to happen "ten years later", that shows Doña Barbara dying. The finale aired on May 2009; Doña Barbara's actress in said version, Edith González, actually did pass away ten years later in June 2019 of ovarian cancer. Even more, in said finale Doña Barbara is shown growing into old age, complete with long, gray hair to signal it; not only did González die at the relatively young age of 54, but due to the nature of her illness, she spent the last years of her life with drastically short hair.
  • Heartwarming in Hindsight: In the last episode of the 2008 TV version, Doña Barbara's right-hand man Melquiades tells her in a vision, "Only us ordinary beings die, those of us who are flesh and blood. But you can not die, because legends like you stay in the hearts and souls of people forever." This phrase and its aesop about how the end of the physical existence of someone does not truly mean that they've been lost forever led to it being used in eulogies for Doña Barbara's actress in said version, Edith González, after she died on June 2019 of ovarian cancer.

What do you guys think? Keep them?

Edited by Tomodachi on Jul 26th 2020 at 9:47:18 AM

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#860: Jul 26th 2020 at 9:48:50 AM

[up][up][up] I don’t think that “Don’t say the orange man’s name” is a good strategy for example deletion. For all the good the ROCEJ does for the wiki, it’s harming how we edit, as editors think we have a complete Ban on Politics and that “Don’t say the orange man’s name” is a valid strategy.

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#861: Jul 26th 2020 at 10:43:52 AM

"Next we will be blaming Bush on 9/11..." Looks like someone hasn't heard of a certain meme.

Anyway, the entry doesn't need to suggest that Trump causes the recession, just that we had both a Trump presidency and a recession at the same time which is what makes the episode parricularly eerie. An entry about a TV show that predicted a Bush presidency and destruction of the WTC is more eerie because it matched the time era, and noting that need not place blame. As long as the entry makes the Harsher thing the recession and the Trump thing is just context to show how close the show was to reality.

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#862: Jul 26th 2020 at 10:54:30 AM

The problem with mentioning Trump in an example of an Audience Reaction or as part of editorializing is that it's commentary on contemporary politics that is not appropriate for the wiki. If the work itself mentions Trump then that would be a legit mention, but not as an audience reaction.

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#863: Jul 26th 2020 at 11:02:36 AM

The context of this particular example is about a show that featured Trump as president and a terrible recession, so it works for emphasizing the similarity to the time period of our real life terrible recession. Not editorial politics, just highlighting the similarities of the situation.

Edited by mightymewtron on Jul 26th 2020 at 2:04:15 PM

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#864: Jul 26th 2020 at 11:03:33 AM

No current politicians on the Hindsight tropes, per Fighteer.

(If the example has nothing to do with the person's political views or career, it might be allowed to stay. Otherwise, it violates ROCEJ.)

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#865: Jul 26th 2020 at 11:20:33 AM

Again, if the focus isn't on the president's actions, but just contextualizing the similar time period, it should be able to pass.

But if this example is too much trouble, maybe we should hold off on it. Maybe in a couple years it'll be less risky.

Edited by mightymewtron on Jul 26th 2020 at 2:22:00 PM

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maxwellsilver Since: Sep, 2011
#866: Jul 26th 2020 at 2:25:54 PM

I zapped the entry about Phil Hartman for actor mortality.

I wonder if we should just delete any entry that is basically "this was already an issue, but..." or is written like it didn't exist until recently.

HilariousInHindsight.The Simpsons also has some questionable entries. Some are "this was a meme."

  • While in Hollywood, the family see Robert Downey Jr. in a shootout with some cops and realize it's not a movie scene. This was because in 1999, Downey was seen as an absolute joke due to his many arrests and drug issues and considered a total wash-up. In a bizarre reversal of what happened to Gibson, Downey would clean up his act and within a decade (thanks to Iron Man) become a major box office star and well-regarded actor."Actor with troubled past cleans up his act" is kind of meh for hilarious in hindsight. It's good he got his life together, but there's nothing "hilarious" about it
  • Similarly, a throwaway gag in "Homer Loves Flanders" in which Homer dreams of having a wig like Marge, proclaiming that he doesn't need her anymore, turns up being funny and depressing at the same time considering that "Secrets from a Successful Marriage" establishes that Homer would not survive without Marge for he is totally unable to take care of himself.
  • After the 2014 Super Bowl where the Broncos lost to the Seattle Seahawks by an embarrassing score of 43-8, the clip of Homer bemoaning owning the team received renewed interest online.Memes go under Memetic Mutation. Also, Homer imagining himself as John Elway losing to San Francisco 56-7 in Cape Feare is closer to what happened
  • "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" is a lot funnier when you realize that (a) Matt Groening originally had a Simpsons spin-off planned called Tales of Springfield (it was rejected and reworked as the season seven episode "22 Short Films About Springfield"), and (b) Seth MacFarlane (Matt Groening's friend/professional rival) created a spin-off of his Simpsons knock-off animated sitcom: The Cleveland Show.The first is about trivia from before the episode (which isn't "in hindsight") and the second about The Cleveland Show is a pretty weak connection
    • The Chief Wiggum, PI segment is based on the premise of a successful TV show creating a spinoff featuring "exciting, sexy adventures" amid the "colorful backdrop" of The Big Easy. 17 years later, cue the debut of NCIS: New Orleans.Weak connection
  • "Maximum Homerdrive" has the idea truckers aren't really needed because they all have computer systems that will safely drive for them. We're getting closer and closer to having self-driving cars take over, and it probably will start with semis."This hasn't actually happened yet, but we're getting closer so it will probably happen"
  • "Bart to the Future" didn’t slouch in predicting Donald Trump's presidency, either. This could easily fall into Harsher in Hindsight or "Funny Aneurysm" Moment if you dislike Trump, however.ROCEJ
  • Also, it's either this or "Funny Aneurysm" Moment: During Bob's Villain Song, he sings that he's grown accustomed to his plans "to disembowel [Bart]" and that "Surely, if I drank his blood, I'd be at peace." In "Wanted: Dead, then Alive", Bob does just that: the former deed after impaling Bart with a Harpoon Gun, the latter deed by mixing the boy's blood with A Glass of Chianti. It's pretty disturbing, to say the least.Well, which is it?
  • In a pivotal scene of "Bart Gets Hit by a Car", Marge is called to testify before court by the name "Mrs. Homer J. Simpson" (rendered in some dubs as "Mrs. H. J. Simpson", even)note . Amazingly, the scene predates the O.J. Simpson trial, which happened in 1994/1995, while the episode aired in 1991.Weak connection
  • Possibly Harsher in Hindsight depending on how cynical you are, but in the Season 8 episode "The Springfield Files", Milhouse laboriously inserts 40 quarters into a Waterworld arcade game. As soon as he takes a single step, the screen flashes "Game Over" at him and demands he begin inserting more quarters to continue (Milhouse immediately denounces it as "a rip off!" before sadly starting to insert more quarters). While at the time it was only a joke about how the film cost such an exorbitant amount of money to make before underperforming at the box office, if you fast forward to today and compare it to some of the Allegedly Free Games out there trying to milk your wallet for as much as they can possibly get away with (often by using the same tricks that kept Milhouse inserting quarters), the Waterworld game looks like modern game publisher's wet dream. Bear in mind, though, that American arcade games were (and still are) designed to create unfair, unavoidable Game Over moments precisely to convince kids to put in more money, which is what this joke was also making fun of.note  On this front, the trope is averted, as the majority of arcade game developers have stopped doing that.Reaching, super wordy
  • The season 13 episode where Homer and Ned's Vegas wives from "Viva Ned Flanders" returned is named "Brawl in the Family". Also, many have noticed that the plot of the former episode is strikingly similar to what would eventually become the plot of The Hangover which came out ten years later.The Similarly-Named Works is a maybe, but The Hangover isn't "strikingly similar" to that episode, it's about a group losing their friend in Vegas right before his wedding, while Viva Ned Flanders is more of a Shout-Out to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (and "Vegas vacation gone wrong" is a pretty common plot)
  • In "A Star Is Born Again", Marisa Tomei guest-starred as a Hollywood actress who dates Flanders, who at one point leaves characters such as Homer drooling over her when she wears a somewhat revealing outfit. Tomei voicing a character that attracts attention over how stunningly attractive she is now seems like foreshadowing the many complaints and jokes that were thrown when she was cast as an Age Lifted version of Peter Parker's Aunt May in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for how May as portrayed by her was much more easy to the eyes compared to the character's usual portrayal.Reach
  • A 2003 crossover comic with Futurama made a reference to Steamed Hams years before the scene became a meme.??? "This was referenced before it became a meme"? What does that even mean?
    • And then a year after "Steamed Hams" became an internet meme, the White House ordered 1000 hamburgers as a banquet.Weak if any connection
    • It also features Lawyer-Friendly Cameos of Marvel superheroes. This is years before Disney owns Fox, and Disney has already own Marvel beforehand.Straight up not an example
  • In the Season 30 episode "From Russia Without Love", Ksenia Solo plays Anastasia Alekova, a Russian mail-order bride who nearly marries Moe until it's revealed she's actually a con woman. Anyone watching the show who is also a Lost Girl fan will immediately pick up on the similarities to Solo's character Kenzi, who was also a(n actual Russian-American) con woman.Actor Allusion at best
  • In "Lisa the Iconoclast", we learn not only that Jebediah Springfield was Evil All Along, but that his real name is Hans. Seventeen years later, we saw another Evil All Along character with the same name, although the latter was known from the beginning.Weak connection
  • In the Japanese dub, Hiroya Ishimaru is the dub voice of Lionel Hutz. The hilarity comes with the fact he was the Japanese dub voice of the titular MacGyver (1985), and Hutz was briefly married with Selma Bouvier, which, along with her sister Patty, are both fans of the titular hero.No connection
  • This isn't the first time Grey DeLisle voices twins.Actor Allusion at best

Edited by maxwellsilver on Jul 26th 2020 at 5:39:59 AM

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#867: Jul 26th 2020 at 2:39:15 PM

Found on YMMV.Spongebob Squarepants:

  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • In "Patty Hype", Mr. Krabs panics when he mistakes SpongeBob's green "Pretty Patty" for a spoiled burger and immediately torches it, as a responsible restaurant owner might. In later episodes like "Born Again Krabs" and "The Krusty Sponge", Mr. Krabs is more than willing to sell tainted patties for a profit.
    • In "Hooky", Mr. Krabs warns SpongeBob that he could end up in a gift shop if he plays on the hooks. In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, SpongeBob and Patrick die while being prepared to be sold in a gift shop.
    • Given how extreme bullying has become in the 2010s, "The Bully" can be more unsettling than funny. The scenes where Mrs. Puff believes Flats' lies and SpongeBob recoils in terror are especially cringeworthy.
    • Some of the most reviled episodes of the show even make it hard to watch previous episodes. Try watching "Friend or Foe" (which is about how Mr. Krabs and Plankton used to be friends before Krabs' success with the krabby patty tore them apart) and "Best Frenemies" (where Krabs and Plankton form an Enemy Mine to investigate the success of the new Kelp Shakes) after "One Coarse Meal" (which had Mr. Krabs remorselessly use Plankton's fear of whales to drive him into suicide), or try watching "Have You Seen This Snail?" (where SpongeBob spends a good deal of the episode missing his pet snail Gary and desperately trying to find him) and "A Pal for Gary" (where SpongeBob is completely oblivious of his new pet Puffy Fluffy's violent nature and is an Ungrateful Bastard when Gary saves his life from the creature) in succession.
    • Any episode where Mr. Krabs shows that he deeply cares for SpongeBob, like in "Welcome to the Chum Bucket" when he sings "I'll trade it all away, if you come back to stay" (referring to SpongeBob) in the "This Grill Is Not A Home" song, are a lot harder to watch after "SpongeBob, You're Fired", where he is willing to (and does) fire SpongeBob just so he can save a nickel.
    • "Barnacle Boy, don't squash his enthusiasm. After all, he could be the superhero of tomorrow... or the villain."What? 
    • In "Fear of a Krabby Patty", SpongeBob gains a fear of Krabby Patties due to being overworked, specifically that giant patties are going to eat him. In "Krabby Patty Creature Feature", science-created Krabby Patties turn anyone who eats them into mutant Krabby Patty zombies, who spread the virus by making others eat them.
    • The Fantastic Racism Sandy faces in episodes like "Squirrel Jokes" gains even more uncomfortable tones due to Sandy being cast as a black woman in the musical (in which she still faces racism for being a land mammal).
    • Remember Squidward's stint as Captain Magma, screaming his catchphrase, 'KRAKATOA!'?. Well, as of April 11th, 2020, it erupted again.
  • Heartwarming in Hindsight:
    • "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve" was one of the most controversial episodes of the series due to (apparently) depicting SpongeBob and Patrick as gay parents. Over a decade later, another Nicktoon has a canon gay couple in the form of Clyde's dads, which attracted a lot less controversy due to society marching on.
    • At the end of the first movie, Mr. Krabs hugs SpongeBob and says "I'm sorry I ever doubted you." This may be a callback to "Help Wanted", the very first episode of the show, in which Mr. Krabs is hesitant about hiring SpongeBob in the first place and even makes fun of him behind his back. Really shows how much closer they've become over the series.

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#868: Jul 26th 2020 at 2:55:05 PM

I gotta admit, I've been wondering about the The Incredibles one on there for a while now...

Edited by fragglelover on Jul 26th 2020 at 5:55:22 AM

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#869: Jul 26th 2020 at 3:08:38 PM

Spongebob review:

  • "Patty Hype": That's more of a Character Derailment / Flanderization issue and doesn't really make the earlier episode harsher, just makes the later episodes more glaring.
  • "Hooky": Keep.
  • "The Bully": Fuck's sake people, harsh bullying existed in the early 2000's. And there were anti-bullying campaigns then, too.
  • Reviled episodes: Just feels like an excuse to complain. Besides, until very recently, Spongebob had Negative Continuity, and there are episodes after these "reviled episodes" that show these characters having a positive relationship in general. I do think that "Friend or Foe" qualifies for some sort of Harsher in Hindsight entry because knowing Krabs and Plankton used to be friends (a bit of continuity that is maintained) makes the earlier episodes of their rivalry a bit sadder.
  • Krabs caring about Spongebob: See the first and fourth bullet points.
  • Incredibles example: A stretch with Fan Myopia issues.
  • "Fear of a Krabby Patty": IDK, mutant Krabby Patty zombies sounds like something Played for Laughs, not really worth making this episode harsher, and it sounds like it's the people who eat the evil Krabby Patties, not vice versa as in the earlier episode.
  • "Squirrel Jokes": I think I added this one, actually. Personally I could go either way, but if you've seen the musical where Sandy is black-coded and faces heavier prejudice for being a squirrel, it does make the Fantastic Racism of earlier episodes a bit more cringey.
  • Krakatoa: Not sure.

  • "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve": I think it's heartwarming to know that same-gender parents are now more accepted than they were in the 2000's, but it's kind of a meta-example more than anything.
  • "Help Wanted": Not really a "hindsight" moment, more a display of Character Development.

Edited by mightymewtron on Jul 26th 2020 at 6:10:23 AM

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#870: Jul 26th 2020 at 3:12:04 PM

[up] I'm inclined to agree.

BTW, it has an entire Hilarious in Hindsight page. I'll look at it later.

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#871: Jul 26th 2020 at 3:19:14 PM

Does the HIH page still have enough?

Edited by Dghcrh on Jul 26th 2020 at 1:19:58 PM

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Anddrix Since: Oct, 2014
#872: Jul 26th 2020 at 3:24:33 PM

Reposting from the previous two pages:

Bringing up these examples from The Flash:

  • Harsher in Hindsight: The events of Flash: Rebirth annual #2 and the following crossover between Flash and Batman have Barry receive a lot of What the Hells and a break-up with Iris over what happens in Heroes in Crisis... only for it to turn out the reason for these - Wally's apparent death - was entirely off-base.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: The Return of Barry Allen has Wally and Barry/Eobard teaming up to defend a mobster named Handsome Jack Giacomo from his rivals.
    • Kilgore huh? An evil robot? Doesn't that sound familiar?
    • One of the names Leonard Snart considered before choosing Captain Cold was Sub-Zero.

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#874: Jul 26th 2020 at 3:58:02 PM

I was talking about HilariousInHindsight.Spongebob Squarepants, personally.

As for [up][up], both of those sound like shoehorns, and I'm not even sure what the first one is trying to say.

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#875: Jul 27th 2020 at 1:23:56 AM

These are from YMMV.Buso Renkin and I am wondering if either actually count:

  • Hilarious in Hindsight: In the Beach Episode, after Kazuki and Tokiko see Captain Bravo surfing, he responds with "YES! I AM!", which is the catchphrase of Mohammed Avdol from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. It's even funnier after Captain Bravo's seiyuu voiced Avdol in All Star Battle.
    • The first arc involves a teenage boy and a powerful, teenage, blue-haired girl fighting against humans who have been turned into monsters by a butterfly-themed villain (with a french name, no less) that the boy knows in his non-heroic life, with all three gaining power from transformation trinkets about the size of a deck of cards. Sounds like someone did Ladybug and Chat's story a few years early!

The first one seems more like just a voice actor doing two hammy roles and I don't see what's funny about the second (plus the Transformation Trinkets from Manga/Busorenkin are far larger than a deck of cards). Should they be removed?


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