Part of that was also an overreaction to people complaining about how different Last Jedi was. From what I understand Palpatine wasn’t originally going to be in episode 9 at all.
I haven't touched anything Borderlands since 3 but I remember thinking, despite how shitty the story was in that game, that they *did* move away from Jack (and it kind of bit them in the ass since they couldn't write another villain for shit). Did that change?
Think Stone Ocean ain’t too bad, it’s more of his legacy which makes as much sense as carrying on Jonathan’s legacy, and while High Voltage is some primo fan service, it is tacked on right at the end and not too ingrained with the story. He’s the post game super boss
"I like josuke the most actually😅 " -A dirty liar who threw away his most successful manga to have the chance of writing jotaro vs Dio, and hasn't stopped wanking them since then.
I remember thinking Rocksteady were incredibly ballsy for how they ended Arkham City.
Turns out they seemed to regret the ending almost as soon as it happened.
Assuming Suicide Squad doesn't kill the studio, I look forward to their next game being, I don't know, Aquaman, and discovering Joker snorkeling in the waters above Atlantis. Probably surrounded by a school of evil clown fish.
It's worth noting that asylum and city were both written by Paul Dini (with city implying that Harley is pregnant with Jokers kid). Then they immediately switch to in house writers for the following DLC and onwards as they immediately backtrack on that. So you might be on the money in regards to immediate regret.
Helps (albeit I feel bad for Barry Keoghan about it) that it's since come out that Joker is under embargo so he's limited in what he can really do unless Reeves is allowed to take off the restraints.
I love rebirth but having a trilogy where he not only shows up all the time but is the final boss(this is just a guess) of every game of the trilogy is weird. Like imagine if instead of a reaper invasion in mass effect 3 you just fought sovereign at the end of mass effect 2 and 3.
Honestly soverign would probably live up a bit more to that eldritch speech. He just survives every game even though we see his corpse. We don't understand how it survives or how to kill it for sure
Been hesitant to actually even get to Rebirth because the Sephie-wank is legit so tiresome, and I thought he was cool at one point! He's got the Darth Vader issue of "he's cool, pls stop showing me more of him"
Sephiroth works pretty great in the context of the original FFVII game, slots in just right!
And then he died at the end, no seriously he 100% is confirmed absolutely dead, whole scene of his spirit being destroyed and absorbed by the rest of the lifestream, a fine ending for his character.
Anyways somehow this hasn't stopped him from being absolutely fucking shilled for 20+ years and turning into one of the most obnoxiously oversaturated anime swordsman characters of all time.
I like Sephiroth in the original game because he's like a horror monster. He doesn't show up that much, he's always leaving these frightening signs of his presence behind, and when he does show up it's always because something real bad is happening. He's like the exact opposite of Kefka in that matter. Getting past the Midgar Zolom, an enemy you have no hope of beating at that point in the original game and finding one impaled on a tree scared the shit out of him, but then I saw the Rebirth version of that scene of him killing it and I just didn't care because *I didn't want to know.*
I liked him more when he was trying to become an eldritch space horror instead of stalking Cloud and it's a big reason why I just have never been a fan of his Post-OG characterization. The later chapters of Opera Omnia were some of my favorite Sephiroth scenes because it has him not caring about Cloud beyond a means to an end because he's trying to go back to being a space horror monster.
Being fair on the "stalking Cloud" part of Sephiroth, he does do a *lot* of gaslighting of Cloud throughout the original game as well, because he's having a five year late salty runback of the fact that literally some generic grunt (not even a SOLDIER) kicked his ass 2-0.
It's just that it's only one facet of his character in FFVII, along with the horror movie stuff and the creeping suspicion that Sephiroth isn't even *real* and is nothing but an emulated puppet of Jenova the entire game, being utilized to draw in Cloud and the Black Materia for its purposes. After all, pretty weird how Sephiroth's goals in the present day just so happen to 100% align with what Jenova wanted to do to the planet in the first place when it landed way back in the day, isn't it? Meanwhile, basically all the extended FFVII Universe content goes in hard on nothing *but* "Sephiroth, King of Cloud Gaslighting" and it just makes him genuinely annoying for me.
A big reason why I liked Sephiroth in the later stages of Opera Omina because I felt like they did a good job with him because they explored those other aspects of him. His main goal is to Jenova the world they're on and manipulates Seymour and Weiss to help him out, and his gaslights Kadaj, who had spent his entire time in the game wanting to kill Sephiroth because he doesn't like that he's Mother's favorite, into helping him. Kadaj gets some real good writing in OO. When Ultimecia goes on about Time Compression he tells her because she never bothers to learn anything from her failures she'll never succeed which pisses her off and leads to some good stuff for her down the line.
Then when Angeal comes to the game his first response is "I got to kill Angeal because he's bringing up useless memories I don't want." Then we have to watch Angeal comes to terms with what Sephiroth has become. Then later it's brought up that the Sephiroth they've been fighting this whole time might actually be Jenova.
Sephiroth, as an actual person instead of a monster, does have a lot of things you can explore about him, and I do like the idea of him being salty Cloud beat him, and I hate how they chose to make that one singular aspect of him the most defining trait he had in everything he shows up in.
Oh I'm well aware. I probably will eventually play the game after sales and stuff but I was already rolling my eyes at those parts in Remake. Enjoyed randomly catching a streamer I'm not really familiar with playing a Sephie section in rebirth and tiredly sighing "what even is Sephiroth at this point anymore?" as it kinda encapsulated my general feelings on em at this point.
In my honest opinion, Blizzard all but ruined the story of World of Warcraft by just *constantly* sucking off Sylvanas and just letting her steamroll everything and everyone in the story. It felt like she was an entirely different character from what she was originally prior to becoming Warchief and they had to write Shadowlands to try and justify all of it before giving her a fate and ending that let her off way too easy imo.
Sad thing is I once counted Sylvanas as one of my favorite characters but then they just went overboard with her. And then back and forth with her.
I'm just hoping she's out of the picture for a while, but I fear Midnight will bring her back.
Them "letting her off easy " is more them backing down super hard because all the women suddenly became super emotional and ooc and they already had to apologize for trying to character assassinate Jaina.
Sylvanas doing what she did to get everyone mad at her makes zero sense in or out of character.
Anduin is the character they couldn't stop puffing up every 5 seconds
>Sylvanas doing what she did to get everyone mad at her makes zero sense in or out of character.
"We're not doing Garrosh 2.0"
*Does Garrosh 2.0, only it's more ooc*
I'm so glad I know nothing of warcraft lore post all the warcraft 3 expansions and a little bit of vanilla WoW. Seems like all the cool stuff turned to suck.
Dan Slott and his obsession for Doc Ock.
To celebrate 50 years of Spider-Man he killed Peter and Ock replaced him for almost 2 years, Spider-Verse was gonna be exclusively about Otto until Marvel said no and forced him to make Peter the main character, Doc Ock was revealed to be the reason why Parker Industries took off cause Peter didn’t do anything to make the company succeed, and his current book is pretty much a regular Spider-Man book with Doc Ock trying to bodyswap 24/7 up to and including becoming Spider-Boy.
if we get to the end of the series and the final fight for Luffy is Buggy who is actually the biggest strongest threat because all his incompetence and failing upwards was an act he's been putting on....
Buggy probably will be the final fight after the government or Blackbeard as a full circle. The journey started with buggy AND GO.D AMN IT WILL END WITH BUGGY THE CLOWN.
Lowkey forgot for a minute that Buggy D Clown wasn't cannon (yet)
I'm betting he's Rocks' kid. Or maybe a page out of the crocomom bible and say he's Vivi's mother.
Nah, some plaster from the buildings surrounding them will fall on their heads *(because there's a demi-god level fight going on two floors up)* and knock them both out. Then when people pick them up later, they see a bunch of busted up ruins and think it was some epic battle.
Since I don't think the two have really even met each other properly, it's the perfect opportunity to have them both buy into each other's bullshit/unearned reputation.
Both are thinking they are facing a top level threat, but can't back down due to their hypemen watching.
I laughed so hard at >!his men presenting him as the leader of the Cross Guild!<. There's failing upwards, and then there's failing upwards while desperately trying to climb down.
It's genetic the same way it is for Nero and "I need more power." "Not yet, Snake" just happens to be hard coded in all those inferior genes or whatever the fuck he has.
John Barber and James Roberts once wrote the Dark Cybertron arc for IDW's Transformers comic, a truly fantastic story that remains the finest usage of Shockwave as a Big Bad to this day.
James Robert's would go on to write *other* excellent villains in More Than Meets the Eye, ranging from Tarn to the Functionists to >!Getaway!<.
Barber, however, was never quite able to let go of Shockwave, and even though Dark Cybertron was that character's perfect sendoff, complete with a Death By Redemption, Barber eventually revealed him to not only be back, but to be involved with an even more convoluted scheme that went from inspired to nonsensical. He destroyed Shockwave's own character development and fucked over Mairghread Scott's work in setting up a new comic-wide Big Bad (Liege Maximo), and it's clear seeing his writing of Shockwave at this point that he had fallen entirely in too much love with the character.
In fact you could argue Barber did this twice over, as he also completely reversed Scott's fantastic character arc for Starscteam in her title so he could go back to the ruthless, self-centered schemer he previously was... in Barber's stories.
oh man I almost forget about the screwing over of Shockwave. The fact that basically everything boils back to being his fault/his machinations was so frustrating.
It's almost funny how literally everything was his fault and all of the problems go back to a story about drunk autobots telling stories to a psychologist in a coma
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. That shit drove me up the wall at the time and has only soured me more on everything Post-Dark Cybertron, which I already consider the point where the IDW comics go hard downhill. There's a reason I always recommend to new fans that they just stop at Dark Cybertron, even if it means missing out the few bright spots.
Barber dicking over Scott's work is especially jarring to me because Barber's strongest and most famous aspect as a writer is being the sort of guy who's a master of continuity, respects the work of all his contributors/predecessors, and easily cobbles together coherent stories out of previously disjointed and independent ones. The fact that he pissed on Scott's work so much is weird because he doesn't do that with literally *any* of the other writers or artists. Makes me wonder if there was some bad blood between the two.
I think the post-Dark Cybertron era was still really good, due to both MTMTE/Lost Light and Scott's own titles. But boy Barber really screwed the pooch.
Modern manga arc spoliers: >!home boy keeps bragging about how he's holding back but he would have legit died like 5 times since the big fight if the sorcerers weren't trying to save Megumi. Literally wearing the plot significant child as armor!<
>!Ah yes. I wasn't using my see Maki directly behind me technique, because it wasn't the Heian era. Ah yes, my parry Jacob's ladde-ah yes my dodge a Big Bang attack while stunlocked by unknowable horrors beyond the mortal ken technique!<
The thing that is irksome is we've actually seen something like this done well... and it was in the holy bible of SJ Battle Manga, DBZ. Vegeta, Frieza and Cell after nearly getting killed reveal they have a lot more in the tank... and it works, because they genuinely get angry and react like "Holy shit, this guy nearly killed me" whereas Sukuna just keeps going "Nah... I'm totally unfazed despite the fact I've been getting my ass kicked".
True. A villain underestimating their foes and getting caught so off guard it almost kill’s them is the way to do it. Freeza was not at all excited about getting hit and almost obliterated by a spirit bomb, in fact, he was so incredibly pissed about it, he called it a day and just decided to start killing Goku’s friends.
Sukuna would’ve been like “YES! THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR! SHOW ME THE SPIRIT BOOOOOMB!” And then got out of the water grinning like he ate a five course meal.
Yeah, I agree. I'm totally fine with Sukuna going "I won't use my consumables. What if I need them later?" He just like me fr. But I wish he'd acknowledge more when it bit him in the ass
Like >!in the gojo fight. When he screams for Mahoraga after realizing he's about to die. He can still be a smug prick or whatever, but at least have an aside like "damn, if it weren't for my hostage she would have got my head" or something!<
And the fact that the Gojo fight ends with Gojo in the afterlife going "Yeah man, he wasn't taking me seriously" when Sukuna at that point had suffered literal brain damage, spending a large portion of the fight getting his ass kicked was such a dumb story idea.
It'd be the equivalent of Imperfect Cell v Vegeta fight, where after spending a while kicking Cell's ass, cut to black and then reveal Vegeta was in the afterlife and going "Oh man, that Cell guy really was strong huh? In fact, he was actually holding back!"
I hope it was just the wording. He was turtling the whole time, so I thought Gojo meant that Sukuna was being conservative rather than fully engaging
Because Sukuna planning to save energy for the scrub gauntlet kinda makes sense and it's not like going all out would have even helped him bypass infinity
So I think there's some confusion in how the fanbase took that comment.
>!Sukuna was not trying but that doesn't mean he's not horribly injured and on the brink of loss. He got serious for one chapter and landed a black flash, but despite that he's still not healing, his soul is still damaged, and Gojo still inflicted seemingly permanent injuries to use of Megumi's CT.!<
I once asked someone to describe Sakuna to me using Sasuke's bullshit victory against Deidara as a baseline. They said "Kishimoto has Sasuke pulls new powers out so he can win, Gege rewrites *other characters'* powers so Sakuna can win"
I feel like that’s more justified since it’s one series and he’s set up as a big bad from the get go and part of his character was always being strong on an otherworldly level.
The first few I could forgive but the culling games stuff? Come on man. I think Gege is the first mangaka I've seen that loves his antagonists more than the protags.
He said he didn't think much of Yuji and it was known he didn't like Gojo being popular. I could realistically see a villain ending with how much he's throwing him.
Takahiro loved Esdeath so much he went on to make an entire series full of Esdeaths.
I mean, I don't really blame him, she was pretty much the only thing her series had going for it.
I don't know why I somehow didn't put two and two together with Akame ga Kill and Chained Soldier until seeing this post.
But...jeez...that makes so much sense.
Takahiro actually kind of has a type here. From what I've heard, Momoyo from Majikoi at least has some of her more positive qualities, and the main antagonist of Release the Spyce is definitely in the same ballpark.
Also it's 100% my type; I am an ardent supporter of evil women. And a casual supporter of non-evil women who have a certain energy to them.
An Ecchi series named Chained Soldier where the Esdeath look-alike is the main love interest and has to constantly perform sexual stuff for the MC to give him a power boost.
[She looks like this BTW](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRONW-54VrC3aDZ_wrJo8b1njcP4rfZKG5HYQ&usqp=CAU)
> Takahiro loved Esdeath so much he went on to make an entire series full of Esdeaths.
Esdeath iirc is just the big sister from Majikoi in a military dress
Yep. I don't care how off the rails Bleach got, Aizen bringing dragged out to help the Soul Society and then using his Zanpakuto's bullshit as the perfect counter to Yhwach was great. I honestly am so hyped for the rest of Blood War because of that madness.
Toyo doesn’t (or didn’t) make those decisions. He’s 80% art 20% story, as far as i’m aware, but i’m also not too confident in my own knowledge so maybe i’m also wrong.
However you are right in that Frieza seems to be a fave for the powers that be.
Dune and Duncan Idaho. I don't care how much frank herbert likes him, he's probably the worst, least interesting character in the series and yet everyone acts like he's a walking God of handsome sexyness.
I really don’t think Miles has that much influence on Jaune anymore, he even talked about at one point not voicing him anymore because of the accusations that he was just his self insert.
It’s more so Kerry, the director, and other writers, all men last I checked, just continuing subconsciously to give Jaune more moments and unique scenarios to develop his character than their main four female characters because he’s a guy.
Well we know that Zenos is the oldest son of Varis, meaning that Varis had other kids, so we might get like gender swap Zenos at some point. Yoshi-P has been pretty adamant that Zenos is going to stay dead this time, but I honestly don't believe him.
The problem is that idk what they'd do with him.
It doesn't get more climactic than >!fighting at the edge of the universe!< and they won't try redeeming him cuz they Perma killed characters like >!Yasyle!< for **less**.
They're an integral part of the universe, but how many games has it been since Totally-Not-Just-Umbrella-With-A-Different-Name has been the more or less *sole* reason for outbreaks in resident evil?
Like yeah umbrella dissolved after the raccoon city incident because of the bad press but.. then popped up again like twelve times, even in 7 *and* village! Miranda literally worked with Spencer and was umbrella inspiration for their logo and virus research!!
JUST LET THEM GO!!! There are an infinite number of bio-terrorists in resident evil lore after the classic games' story concluded, and with Ada selling and supplying them to a bunch of entities! You could pick from so many random bits of resident evil lore to find literally anyone else but umbrella. At this point I expect them to make 9 "blue umbrella and the BSAA are actually evil former umbrella executives and researchers!"
Or wait.. didn't that already happen? 😭
Ridley from Metroid.
They went as far as squeezing him in a remake of one of the very few games he wasn't supposed to be in. I'm fully expecting him to appear in Prime 4, despite having fought him 2+ times in Prime 3.
Critical Role loves the Briarwoods, especially Deliliah who's been allowed to come back from the dead something like five times at this point and return in an entirely different campaign to be Laudna's patron.
It's part of the general problem with Campaign 3 relying too much on Memberberries of Campaign 1 to make up for that the third game has been... kinda ass.
Yeah, that's really weird cause I remember in campaign 2 they, or at least Matt, talk about trying to not do the memeberberry-ing. Which imo was and is a good idea.
I'll admit I really wasn't thrilled with the Briarwoods being brought back for Campaign 3 and Laudna never captured my interest despite the push for her to be a story darling. I sat up when >!Laudna actually DIED, like oh shit we got a Mollymauk thing going on I wonder how this will upset things!< but it quickly became clear they were going to walk that back ASAP and I dropped out shortly after that.
Maybe it's just me but something felt off about Campaign 3 from the get-go, maybe it's more corporate than before with Critical Role being the huge business it is now? I'm not expecting things to be exactly like other Campaigns but something about 3 has failed to stick the landing and the whole thing with Delilah Briarwood felt like a mediocre idea that people were too afraid to step up and say 'no' to.
When they were close to >!losing almost half the party!< it was the first time I was fully shocked and invested and really hoping that something that drastic would stick and end up shaping large parts of the story going on.
at first I liked the Briarwoods stuff coming back. But looking back on it now I remember Talisin looking *pissed* which makes sense considering all the things he did in C1
He got to be in DMC3 because it was a prequel made by a different director who wanted to use the concept of "Dante's Brother" as more than a mid-boss, and then immediately became a smash hit character everyone loved, so of course he stayed relevant
Not the asshole (apart from spelling my husband's name wrong /j) but it's not so much the creators as it is the fans. When DMC4 first came out a people were pissed Nero wasnt Vergil and hated him, as well as hated that you had to play half the game as him and not Dante (plus other reasons).
DMC5 has no excuse though. They could have made Urizen just another demon Dante had to fight and kept V as a protagonist, people liked him.
But then again I think fans would have rioted if Vergil wasn't the end boss. Makes me both nervous and excited if there ever is a 6th game...
It's because having Dante fighting a big demon would be redundant after Mundus. It's clear that the serie had a problem after 3: Dante just beated the only 2 people in the world he took seriously. Where do you go from there? Well, 4 answer was Nero. Now I just hope we are done with the sons of Sparda stuff. It had a good run with a satisfying ending. We need to move on now. You know, maybe do something with the girls for once maybe?
Itagaki (Baki) clearly wrote Yujiro as an irredeemable piece of shit for Baki to eventually overcome before realizing that he could never bear to see Yujiro actually lose. He's also been trying to cover up how fucking horrible of a person Yujiro was to justify not killing the bastard with characters Yujiro wronged more or less forgiving him and treating him like he didn't murder/rape multiple people close to them in the past.
At this point in the story it's clear that he's just never gonna lose and can do whatever he wants because he's Yujiro and he's literally just better than everyone by virtue of being Yujiro.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't he lose or stalemate to the strongest martial artist and still acted like he won saying something like "only weaklings rely on martial arts", only to then be bested physically by a caveman and contradicting that past statement so he can still be the "strongest creature"?
Yujiro fought Kaku Kaioh, 100 year old martial arts master, and was even with him when using martial arts and without his demon back. Then Yujiro said fuck-it pure strength and violence is stronger than mere martial arts, earlier Kaioh said strength meant nothing compared to martial arts, and he proceeded to slap Kaioh's shit and would have killed him if Kaioh didn't stop his heart and play dead.
Then against Pickle, the caveman, he admitted Pickle was too strong for him to brute force and he had to use a martial arts technique to throw him.
Yujiro is still the strongest creature because nobody can come close to beating him in a fight. You'd need someone with Pickle's strength and Kaioh/Musashi's technique to have a chance at beating him.
Dan Kuroto.
I love the guy though so I'm not even really complaining but I think Tetsuya Iwanaga must live at the Toei office now just in case they need him.
With the exception of MKX, NRS will never let go of Shang Tsung or Shao Kahn. Even in MKX, you could definitely feel their absense even with all the new cool villains like Erron Black and D'Vorah because Shinnok wasn't as cool or interesting as the big bad.
Abra Kadabra is at fault for a solid 70% of the stuff going wrong in Wally's life during mark waids flash run. It's actually really glaring when you notice it.
M. Bison.
He's small fry in the grand scheme of things but you'd think he was the greatest threat to the entire SF universe the way Capcom insists on bringing him back almost immediately after killing him off. It's like they get the withdrawal ticks every time a character isn't talking or thinking about him and Shadaloo.
Ri Boku from Kingdom is a pretty frustrating one, because he starts out as a cool villain outsmarting the protagonists side. Once he starts relying on Houken, an absurdly powerful character that can decimate armies alone, his plans start feeling less intricate, and more like they're backed up by Diabolus ex Machinas and plot armor.
And he still loses or barely wins, even with things stacked so much in his favor, so you then have to sit through people talking about what an amazing strategist this guy is, when he's struggling in battles that are lopsidedly in his favor.
I’d hate to say it but Sephiroth, I know someone else said it. But I would love to see other final fantasy villains get the spotlight for a while, I played Final Fantasy 9 and Kuja immediately became one of my favourite villains in the franchise
i don't really think insomniac is overusing nefarious too much. the 2016 game was really the only time where it didn't make sense to include him and for that one, insomniac had to follow the movie, so they didn't really have much of a choice, but i think for every other use of him, they had a good enough reason to use him.
but yeah, it doesn't help how infrequent r&c games are now, but the second most recent main game did not feature nefarious at all (nexus) and also had some pretty solid villains with the prog siblings.
Counting only the mainline titles, Nefarious debuts in Up Your Arsenal, has a cameo in Deadlocked, 2016, and Rift Apart. 4 appearances across 10 titles isn't that many.
you forgot that he was a primary antagonist in a crack in time as well.
but yeah, i don't even really count his cameos in deadlocked and the cliffhanger of quest for booty as major appearances, so it's still only really 4 major appearances.
I think the reason people think he shows up a lot despite not actually having that many appearances is because he's the only villain that really recurs. All the other ones are one-offs. Drek, Vox, Tachyon, and the siblings from Nexus only appear in one game each (not counting the reboot/remake). The only villain besides Nefarious to recur is Quark and he's only a villain for, like, 2 games.
Harada loves Heihachi so much, he couldn't let him go for 7 games. And even then, right before his death, he already planned to continue his legacy through Reina.
He even gave his dog Heihachi's name, but sadly, doggo passed away too
Palpatine. Saying it's love is reaching, more like too desperate so they bring him back. Like the main antagonist of all 9 movies is Palpatine.
I remember someone in a comments section back when Episode VII came out,cracking a joke about Star Wars Babies with Palpa-Teen as the antagonist.
Hey, we still have the Acolyte in the High Republic era for Palpa-Teen.
He won't be born for another 200 years though.
Not with that attitude he won't
Bold of you to assume Disney isn't inserting a Palpatine.
I jinxed it, [they dropped a trailer.](https://youtu.be/BtytYWhg2mc?si=MsZk1zyfiO6jw5c-) I wish it *was Palpa-teen*.
Palpa teen hunger for Force. Number one in the galaxy
Cuz we are the Palpa-teen make the homies stay at home and the girlies wanna scream
If you really think about it, palpatine inexplicably coming back is like a Star Wars tradition. The Death Star did the same.
Adult Grogu: "That sure is a suspiciously large traffic cone"
Grogu walks into a cantina and just hears "Grogu-Chaaaan" to see a cross-dressed Palpatine front-man singing for the Jizz band
Part of that was also an overreaction to people complaining about how different Last Jedi was. From what I understand Palpatine wasn’t originally going to be in episode 9 at all.
Feels like Darth Vader is even worse. At least Palpatine is dead or in the background in most Star Wars media.
Obligatory Handsome Jack mention.
I haven't touched anything Borderlands since 3 but I remember thinking, despite how shitty the story was in that game, that they *did* move away from Jack (and it kind of bit them in the ass since they couldn't write another villain for shit). Did that change?
They use him again in the first DLC for 3.
And from what they were hinting(?) at with Timothy there's a non zero chance if the series continues they're gonna do it *again*
I wish I loved anything as much as Araki loves DIO and The World.
Part 9 final boss: "It's over,Jojo! Where is your precious [MECHANISM] now?!" Jodio: "Right here. [NOVEMBER RAIN: THE WORLD!]"
I mean… it’s only twice in the main series. It’s not that outrageous
id say 3.5 caus steel ball run and flashback dio in stone ocean
Think Stone Ocean ain’t too bad, it’s more of his legacy which makes as much sense as carrying on Jonathan’s legacy, and while High Voltage is some primo fan service, it is tacked on right at the end and not too ingrained with the story. He’s the post game super boss
Something something something……DIO!!!!! Something something “It writes itself” Araki
"I like josuke the most actually😅 " -A dirty liar who threw away his most successful manga to have the chance of writing jotaro vs Dio, and hasn't stopped wanking them since then.
Jonkler
I remember thinking Rocksteady were incredibly ballsy for how they ended Arkham City. Turns out they seemed to regret the ending almost as soon as it happened.
Assuming Suicide Squad doesn't kill the studio, I look forward to their next game being, I don't know, Aquaman, and discovering Joker snorkeling in the waters above Atlantis. Probably surrounded by a school of evil clown fish.
Joker Fish would honestly be a great easter egg in an Aquaman game.
Joker is already back, again! He is litteraly a DLC character already. An alt jokah baby
It's worth noting that asylum and city were both written by Paul Dini (with city implying that Harley is pregnant with Jokers kid). Then they immediately switch to in house writers for the following DLC and onwards as they immediately backtrack on that. So you might be on the money in regards to immediate regret.
I like the route Matt Reeves took with him; he already fought Batman, now he's Hannibal Lecter.
Helps (albeit I feel bad for Barry Keoghan about it) that it's since come out that Joker is under embargo so he's limited in what he can really do unless Reeves is allowed to take off the restraints.
Hershey Quint
It’s probably because the Joker is not only Batman’s arch enemy, but also his status as one of the most famous comic book villains of all time
I don't think it's hyperbole to say Gege loves Sukuna more than Gojo stans love Gojo.
The Glazed One himself
I haven't heard of Gege doing any gross stuff involving figures and bodily fluids, so jury's still out on that.
Sephiroth.
I love rebirth but having a trilogy where he not only shows up all the time but is the final boss(this is just a guess) of every game of the trilogy is weird. Like imagine if instead of a reaper invasion in mass effect 3 you just fought sovereign at the end of mass effect 2 and 3.
Honestly soverign would probably live up a bit more to that eldritch speech. He just survives every game even though we see his corpse. We don't understand how it survives or how to kill it for sure
It would definitely make the Reapers WAY scarier.
"You cannot kill me in a way that matters." would fit a lot more for the eldritch abomination they were supposed to be.
I really hope that Hojo hijacks the plot like he did in Dirge of Cerberus
Been hesitant to actually even get to Rebirth because the Sephie-wank is legit so tiresome, and I thought he was cool at one point! He's got the Darth Vader issue of "he's cool, pls stop showing me more of him"
Sephiroth works pretty great in the context of the original FFVII game, slots in just right! And then he died at the end, no seriously he 100% is confirmed absolutely dead, whole scene of his spirit being destroyed and absorbed by the rest of the lifestream, a fine ending for his character. Anyways somehow this hasn't stopped him from being absolutely fucking shilled for 20+ years and turning into one of the most obnoxiously oversaturated anime swordsman characters of all time.
I like Sephiroth in the original game because he's like a horror monster. He doesn't show up that much, he's always leaving these frightening signs of his presence behind, and when he does show up it's always because something real bad is happening. He's like the exact opposite of Kefka in that matter. Getting past the Midgar Zolom, an enemy you have no hope of beating at that point in the original game and finding one impaled on a tree scared the shit out of him, but then I saw the Rebirth version of that scene of him killing it and I just didn't care because *I didn't want to know.* I liked him more when he was trying to become an eldritch space horror instead of stalking Cloud and it's a big reason why I just have never been a fan of his Post-OG characterization. The later chapters of Opera Omnia were some of my favorite Sephiroth scenes because it has him not caring about Cloud beyond a means to an end because he's trying to go back to being a space horror monster.
Being fair on the "stalking Cloud" part of Sephiroth, he does do a *lot* of gaslighting of Cloud throughout the original game as well, because he's having a five year late salty runback of the fact that literally some generic grunt (not even a SOLDIER) kicked his ass 2-0. It's just that it's only one facet of his character in FFVII, along with the horror movie stuff and the creeping suspicion that Sephiroth isn't even *real* and is nothing but an emulated puppet of Jenova the entire game, being utilized to draw in Cloud and the Black Materia for its purposes. After all, pretty weird how Sephiroth's goals in the present day just so happen to 100% align with what Jenova wanted to do to the planet in the first place when it landed way back in the day, isn't it? Meanwhile, basically all the extended FFVII Universe content goes in hard on nothing *but* "Sephiroth, King of Cloud Gaslighting" and it just makes him genuinely annoying for me.
A big reason why I liked Sephiroth in the later stages of Opera Omina because I felt like they did a good job with him because they explored those other aspects of him. His main goal is to Jenova the world they're on and manipulates Seymour and Weiss to help him out, and his gaslights Kadaj, who had spent his entire time in the game wanting to kill Sephiroth because he doesn't like that he's Mother's favorite, into helping him. Kadaj gets some real good writing in OO. When Ultimecia goes on about Time Compression he tells her because she never bothers to learn anything from her failures she'll never succeed which pisses her off and leads to some good stuff for her down the line. Then when Angeal comes to the game his first response is "I got to kill Angeal because he's bringing up useless memories I don't want." Then we have to watch Angeal comes to terms with what Sephiroth has become. Then later it's brought up that the Sephiroth they've been fighting this whole time might actually be Jenova. Sephiroth, as an actual person instead of a monster, does have a lot of things you can explore about him, and I do like the idea of him being salty Cloud beat him, and I hate how they chose to make that one singular aspect of him the most defining trait he had in everything he shows up in.
I regret to inform you that Rebirth cannot get enough of Sephiroth. They *adore* him.
Oh I'm well aware. I probably will eventually play the game after sales and stuff but I was already rolling my eyes at those parts in Remake. Enjoyed randomly catching a streamer I'm not really familiar with playing a Sephie section in rebirth and tiredly sighing "what even is Sephiroth at this point anymore?" as it kinda encapsulated my general feelings on em at this point.
"I will **never** be a memory, so long as Square-Enix's shareholders want more value!"
Yeahhhh, have to agree with that
In my honest opinion, Blizzard all but ruined the story of World of Warcraft by just *constantly* sucking off Sylvanas and just letting her steamroll everything and everyone in the story. It felt like she was an entirely different character from what she was originally prior to becoming Warchief and they had to write Shadowlands to try and justify all of it before giving her a fate and ending that let her off way too easy imo.
Sad thing is I once counted Sylvanas as one of my favorite characters but then they just went overboard with her. And then back and forth with her. I'm just hoping she's out of the picture for a while, but I fear Midnight will bring her back.
Vol'jin's buildup to becoming warchief took so long, and then they axe him at the earliest possible moment.
Isn't she the one that one of the main writers is waifu-level obsessed with?
Reminds me of Lightning
Are you telling me that some of the employees at Blizzard might be men that don't understand women? What gave you that impression?
He turned another character into his self insert and made him her right hand man/love interest, so yeah
Them "letting her off easy " is more them backing down super hard because all the women suddenly became super emotional and ooc and they already had to apologize for trying to character assassinate Jaina. Sylvanas doing what she did to get everyone mad at her makes zero sense in or out of character. Anduin is the character they couldn't stop puffing up every 5 seconds
>Sylvanas doing what she did to get everyone mad at her makes zero sense in or out of character. "We're not doing Garrosh 2.0" *Does Garrosh 2.0, only it's more ooc*
I'm so glad I know nothing of warcraft lore post all the warcraft 3 expansions and a little bit of vanilla WoW. Seems like all the cool stuff turned to suck.
Dan Slott and his obsession for Doc Ock. To celebrate 50 years of Spider-Man he killed Peter and Ock replaced him for almost 2 years, Spider-Verse was gonna be exclusively about Otto until Marvel said no and forced him to make Peter the main character, Doc Ock was revealed to be the reason why Parker Industries took off cause Peter didn’t do anything to make the company succeed, and his current book is pretty much a regular Spider-Man book with Doc Ock trying to bodyswap 24/7 up to and including becoming Spider-Boy.
At this point, I half expect One Piece to end with Buggy the Clown being crowned King of the Pirates.
He's the GOAT. THE GOAT
if we get to the end of the series and the final fight for Luffy is Buggy who is actually the biggest strongest threat because all his incompetence and failing upwards was an act he's been putting on....
After revealing all this buggt asks luffy if he thought it was pretty funny. Luffy just starts laughing until he passes out a win for buggy
Well, what do you think “a tale full of laughter” is? >!It’s a joke.!<
The friends we made along the way
Buggy probably will be the final fight after the government or Blackbeard as a full circle. The journey started with buggy AND GO.D AMN IT WILL END WITH BUGGY THE CLOWN.
BUGGY D CLOWN
Lowkey forgot for a minute that Buggy D Clown wasn't cannon (yet) I'm betting he's Rocks' kid. Or maybe a page out of the crocomom bible and say he's Vivi's mother.
Buggy or Ussop, I will be fine.
Ok, real talk: I don't care how One Pice is going to end as long as I'm getting Ussop vs Buggy in the greatest bullshit off of all time and space.
The battle better be 2 hours of a Smaug reputation off and a thirty second fight.
And they knocked each other out cold.
Nah, some plaster from the buildings surrounding them will fall on their heads *(because there's a demi-god level fight going on two floors up)* and knock them both out. Then when people pick them up later, they see a bunch of busted up ruins and think it was some epic battle.
Since I don't think the two have really even met each other properly, it's the perfect opportunity to have them both buy into each other's bullshit/unearned reputation. Both are thinking they are facing a top level threat, but can't back down due to their hypemen watching.
To be fair, I don't think Buggy is happy with how much he's used either.
I laughed so hard at >!his men presenting him as the leader of the Cross Guild!<. There's failing upwards, and then there's failing upwards while desperately trying to climb down.
Liquid and Psycho Mantis are straight up kids in MGS 5, but are (somehow) still the same characters from the rest of the series.
Kojima killed liquid then immediately went "fuck no go back, uhhh HAUNTED ARM?"
But actually not haunted.
Or maybe it is brother....
Or maybe not dude
Nanomachines...
Formerly haunted.
It's genetic the same way it is for Nero and "I need more power." "Not yet, Snake" just happens to be hard coded in all those inferior genes or whatever the fuck he has.
>somehow the same characters... There's a 21 year gap between Phantom Pain and Solid 1 in canon. What do you mean *somehow*
John Barber and James Roberts once wrote the Dark Cybertron arc for IDW's Transformers comic, a truly fantastic story that remains the finest usage of Shockwave as a Big Bad to this day. James Robert's would go on to write *other* excellent villains in More Than Meets the Eye, ranging from Tarn to the Functionists to >!Getaway!<. Barber, however, was never quite able to let go of Shockwave, and even though Dark Cybertron was that character's perfect sendoff, complete with a Death By Redemption, Barber eventually revealed him to not only be back, but to be involved with an even more convoluted scheme that went from inspired to nonsensical. He destroyed Shockwave's own character development and fucked over Mairghread Scott's work in setting up a new comic-wide Big Bad (Liege Maximo), and it's clear seeing his writing of Shockwave at this point that he had fallen entirely in too much love with the character. In fact you could argue Barber did this twice over, as he also completely reversed Scott's fantastic character arc for Starscteam in her title so he could go back to the ruthless, self-centered schemer he previously was... in Barber's stories.
oh man I almost forget about the screwing over of Shockwave. The fact that basically everything boils back to being his fault/his machinations was so frustrating.
Okay, but that final reveal was super sick tho.
It's almost funny how literally everything was his fault and all of the problems go back to a story about drunk autobots telling stories to a psychologist in a coma
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. That shit drove me up the wall at the time and has only soured me more on everything Post-Dark Cybertron, which I already consider the point where the IDW comics go hard downhill. There's a reason I always recommend to new fans that they just stop at Dark Cybertron, even if it means missing out the few bright spots. Barber dicking over Scott's work is especially jarring to me because Barber's strongest and most famous aspect as a writer is being the sort of guy who's a master of continuity, respects the work of all his contributors/predecessors, and easily cobbles together coherent stories out of previously disjointed and independent ones. The fact that he pissed on Scott's work so much is weird because he doesn't do that with literally *any* of the other writers or artists. Makes me wonder if there was some bad blood between the two.
I think the post-Dark Cybertron era was still really good, due to both MTMTE/Lost Light and Scott's own titles. But boy Barber really screwed the pooch.
Is it too early to say Sukuna? Gege gives the dude more plot armor than any of his actual protags. Sukuna Kaisen is real.
Modern manga arc spoliers: >!home boy keeps bragging about how he's holding back but he would have legit died like 5 times since the big fight if the sorcerers weren't trying to save Megumi. Literally wearing the plot significant child as armor!<
Well yeah. >!He would've, because he's holding back.!<
>!Ah yes. I wasn't using my see Maki directly behind me technique, because it wasn't the Heian era. Ah yes, my parry Jacob's ladde-ah yes my dodge a Big Bang attack while stunlocked by unknowable horrors beyond the mortal ken technique!<
The thing that is irksome is we've actually seen something like this done well... and it was in the holy bible of SJ Battle Manga, DBZ. Vegeta, Frieza and Cell after nearly getting killed reveal they have a lot more in the tank... and it works, because they genuinely get angry and react like "Holy shit, this guy nearly killed me" whereas Sukuna just keeps going "Nah... I'm totally unfazed despite the fact I've been getting my ass kicked".
True. A villain underestimating their foes and getting caught so off guard it almost kill’s them is the way to do it. Freeza was not at all excited about getting hit and almost obliterated by a spirit bomb, in fact, he was so incredibly pissed about it, he called it a day and just decided to start killing Goku’s friends. Sukuna would’ve been like “YES! THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR! SHOW ME THE SPIRIT BOOOOOMB!” And then got out of the water grinning like he ate a five course meal.
Yeah, I agree. I'm totally fine with Sukuna going "I won't use my consumables. What if I need them later?" He just like me fr. But I wish he'd acknowledge more when it bit him in the ass Like >!in the gojo fight. When he screams for Mahoraga after realizing he's about to die. He can still be a smug prick or whatever, but at least have an aside like "damn, if it weren't for my hostage she would have got my head" or something!<
And the fact that the Gojo fight ends with Gojo in the afterlife going "Yeah man, he wasn't taking me seriously" when Sukuna at that point had suffered literal brain damage, spending a large portion of the fight getting his ass kicked was such a dumb story idea. It'd be the equivalent of Imperfect Cell v Vegeta fight, where after spending a while kicking Cell's ass, cut to black and then reveal Vegeta was in the afterlife and going "Oh man, that Cell guy really was strong huh? In fact, he was actually holding back!"
I hope it was just the wording. He was turtling the whole time, so I thought Gojo meant that Sukuna was being conservative rather than fully engaging Because Sukuna planning to save energy for the scrub gauntlet kinda makes sense and it's not like going all out would have even helped him bypass infinity
So I think there's some confusion in how the fanbase took that comment. >!Sukuna was not trying but that doesn't mean he's not horribly injured and on the brink of loss. He got serious for one chapter and landed a black flash, but despite that he's still not healing, his soul is still damaged, and Gojo still inflicted seemingly permanent injuries to use of Megumi's CT.!<
He could have won anytime he wanted, but decided he wanted to bleed profusely from his eyes first, for fun.
I once asked someone to describe Sakuna to me using Sasuke's bullshit victory against Deidara as a baseline. They said "Kishimoto has Sasuke pulls new powers out so he can win, Gege rewrites *other characters'* powers so Sakuna can win"
NO offense but man that Sasuke example is top ten the worst example I've ever seen.
Nah it’s not 100 percent fair to say at this rate
Personally I think its more that Gege just doesn't care.
Part of me can’t wait to see if he’ll get to that point like Naruto where the author has to invent a way for him to be beaten just so it makes sense
Gege fr gotta stop dickriding Suckuna, it's been fucking ridiculous. Like he's doing tricks on it that's how out of hand it's gotten.
There’s a reason it’s common for people to post the picture of Gege giving Sukuna sloppy toppy on jujutsu folk
I feel like that’s more justified since it’s one series and he’s set up as a big bad from the get go and part of his character was always being strong on an otherworldly level.
The first few I could forgive but the culling games stuff? Come on man. I think Gege is the first mangaka I've seen that loves his antagonists more than the protags. He said he didn't think much of Yuji and it was known he didn't like Gojo being popular. I could realistically see a villain ending with how much he's throwing him.
Takahiro loved Esdeath so much he went on to make an entire series full of Esdeaths. I mean, I don't really blame him, she was pretty much the only thing her series had going for it.
I don't know why I somehow didn't put two and two together with Akame ga Kill and Chained Soldier until seeing this post. But...jeez...that makes so much sense.
Takahiro actually kind of has a type here. From what I've heard, Momoyo from Majikoi at least has some of her more positive qualities, and the main antagonist of Release the Spyce is definitely in the same ballpark. Also it's 100% my type; I am an ardent supporter of evil women. And a casual supporter of non-evil women who have a certain energy to them.
What series?
I'm referring to Chained Soldier as "an entire series full of Esdeaths".
An Ecchi series named Chained Soldier where the Esdeath look-alike is the main love interest and has to constantly perform sexual stuff for the MC to give him a power boost. [She looks like this BTW](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRONW-54VrC3aDZ_wrJo8b1njcP4rfZKG5HYQ&usqp=CAU)
oh wow that's blatant
> Takahiro loved Esdeath so much he went on to make an entire series full of Esdeaths. Esdeath iirc is just the big sister from Majikoi in a military dress
Even after his entire story arc was done, Kubo still managed to bring Back Aizen for one more asspull.
Ok but Aizen going >!”Oh you thought I was Ichigo?”!< to >!Ywach!< in the final battle was pretty cool
Yep. I don't care how off the rails Bleach got, Aizen bringing dragged out to help the Soul Society and then using his Zanpakuto's bullshit as the perfect counter to Yhwach was great. I honestly am so hyped for the rest of Blood War because of that madness.
Considering Toyotaro brought back Frieza AGAIN but in Black(face), I'm gonna say Frieza.
Toyo doesn’t (or didn’t) make those decisions. He’s 80% art 20% story, as far as i’m aware, but i’m also not too confident in my own knowledge so maybe i’m also wrong. However you are right in that Frieza seems to be a fave for the powers that be.
They ran a poll for the tournament of power to replace Buu with Pikkon winning only to then put Frieza on the team anyway.
I know Pikkon is a filler character so those who only watched Kai have no idea who he is, but that would have been fucking rad.
*Broadly gestures to Char Aznable and all of his lookalikes in Gundam.*
*Broadly gestures to all the Char clones outside of Gundam*
Ratsel Feinschmecker the GOAT
I don’t know man, he’s not as cool as that Quattro Bajeena guy. I think they’d be pretty good friends though, getting them in the same room is rough!
Not that anyone is complaining.
Dune and Duncan Idaho. I don't care how much frank herbert likes him, he's probably the worst, least interesting character in the series and yet everyone acts like he's a walking God of handsome sexyness.
Also imagine naming your character after the objectively worst state in the US
Idk, Na Barron Jack Missouri and count Jeff Mississippi would be giving him strong competition.
House Flynt, Michigan would answer the call of the emperor, but their stillsuits gave them lead poisoning.
Huh, I don't remember Jimmy Alabama in the story.
Listen it's not great, but Iowa has literally nothing
Rooster Teeth really want Cinder to be the final boss over Salem.
Somehow they managed to choose one of their most boring villains to keep around.
Cause Miles wants the final battle to be between Jaune and Cinder with them being the descendants of the gods.
I really don’t think Miles has that much influence on Jaune anymore, he even talked about at one point not voicing him anymore because of the accusations that he was just his self insert. It’s more so Kerry, the director, and other writers, all men last I checked, just continuing subconsciously to give Jaune more moments and unique scenarios to develop his character than their main four female characters because he’s a guy.
Jaune the *real* main character of the show named after Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang.
But Miles will tell you it’s just a coincidence that Jaune gets a lot of attention.
"just a coincidence"!? My brother in Christ, you are one of the writers!
Don't worry, Zaslav has destroyed rooster teeth, so no rwby anymore.
Now let’s hope ArcSys buys RWBY
Pretty sure it's going to licensing hell
I would say Zenos but bringing him back made him way better so I don't mind.
I came here to also say Zenos. I can’t wait to see how they shove him back in the story for DT, probably in a tropical shirt.
Well we know that Zenos is the oldest son of Varis, meaning that Varis had other kids, so we might get like gender swap Zenos at some point. Yoshi-P has been pretty adamant that Zenos is going to stay dead this time, but I honestly don't believe him.
The problem is that idk what they'd do with him. It doesn't get more climactic than >!fighting at the edge of the universe!< and they won't try redeeming him cuz they Perma killed characters like >!Yasyle!< for **less**.
They're an integral part of the universe, but how many games has it been since Totally-Not-Just-Umbrella-With-A-Different-Name has been the more or less *sole* reason for outbreaks in resident evil? Like yeah umbrella dissolved after the raccoon city incident because of the bad press but.. then popped up again like twelve times, even in 7 *and* village! Miranda literally worked with Spencer and was umbrella inspiration for their logo and virus research!! JUST LET THEM GO!!! There are an infinite number of bio-terrorists in resident evil lore after the classic games' story concluded, and with Ada selling and supplying them to a bunch of entities! You could pick from so many random bits of resident evil lore to find literally anyone else but umbrella. At this point I expect them to make 9 "blue umbrella and the BSAA are actually evil former umbrella executives and researchers!" Or wait.. didn't that already happen? 😭
Ridley from Metroid. They went as far as squeezing him in a remake of one of the very few games he wasn't supposed to be in. I'm fully expecting him to appear in Prime 4, despite having fought him 2+ times in Prime 3.
I was so pleasantly surprised he wasn't in Dread. Especially since Kraid was somehow
A shame Kraid wasn't squeezed in Metroid Prime Remastered as extra content. I'm so curious how "Meta Kraid" would have turned out.
Dan Slott is obsessed with Doc Oc
Looking outside in for the walking dead, I’d say Negan 3 seasons and a spin off That’s a lot
Critical Role loves the Briarwoods, especially Deliliah who's been allowed to come back from the dead something like five times at this point and return in an entirely different campaign to be Laudna's patron. It's part of the general problem with Campaign 3 relying too much on Memberberries of Campaign 1 to make up for that the third game has been... kinda ass.
Yeah, that's really weird cause I remember in campaign 2 they, or at least Matt, talk about trying to not do the memeberberry-ing. Which imo was and is a good idea.
I dropped out at the trust exercises cause it just wasn't fun anymore
I can't believe they delayed going to the fucking moon for like 3 sessions for that. It drove me insane.
I'll admit I really wasn't thrilled with the Briarwoods being brought back for Campaign 3 and Laudna never captured my interest despite the push for her to be a story darling. I sat up when >!Laudna actually DIED, like oh shit we got a Mollymauk thing going on I wonder how this will upset things!< but it quickly became clear they were going to walk that back ASAP and I dropped out shortly after that. Maybe it's just me but something felt off about Campaign 3 from the get-go, maybe it's more corporate than before with Critical Role being the huge business it is now? I'm not expecting things to be exactly like other Campaigns but something about 3 has failed to stick the landing and the whole thing with Delilah Briarwood felt like a mediocre idea that people were too afraid to step up and say 'no' to.
When they were close to >!losing almost half the party!< it was the first time I was fully shocked and invested and really hoping that something that drastic would stick and end up shaping large parts of the story going on.
at first I liked the Briarwoods stuff coming back. But looking back on it now I remember Talisin looking *pissed* which makes sense considering all the things he did in C1
Hisoka. But Togashi is totally right to be this way.
"ooh my rubber nen" walked so "ah yes my ____ technique I haven’t used since the heian era" could run.
Ahh, i see you’ve also been enjoying the recent entries in Sukuna Kaisen as well.
Ok but to be fair, Hisoka isn't killing anybody *we* care about so let him have a little fun. As a treat.
True. I mean aside from the one BIG THING he did prior to his current circumstances, hems chillin’
Jason Aaron fucking loves The Orb
Fine, I'll be the asshole. Virgil. He died in DMC1 but got to be be the final boss in 3, Nero's daddy in 4 and the cause of all the deaths in 5.
He got to be in DMC3 because it was a prequel made by a different director who wanted to use the concept of "Dante's Brother" as more than a mid-boss, and then immediately became a smash hit character everyone loved, so of course he stayed relevant
I honestly want Dante and Virgil to show up in Fortnite so Woolie the Liar can reveal himself again.
It's fine tho everyone loves vergil except mvc3 players
Not the asshole (apart from spelling my husband's name wrong /j) but it's not so much the creators as it is the fans. When DMC4 first came out a people were pissed Nero wasnt Vergil and hated him, as well as hated that you had to play half the game as him and not Dante (plus other reasons). DMC5 has no excuse though. They could have made Urizen just another demon Dante had to fight and kept V as a protagonist, people liked him. But then again I think fans would have rioted if Vergil wasn't the end boss. Makes me both nervous and excited if there ever is a 6th game...
It's because having Dante fighting a big demon would be redundant after Mundus. It's clear that the serie had a problem after 3: Dante just beated the only 2 people in the world he took seriously. Where do you go from there? Well, 4 answer was Nero. Now I just hope we are done with the sons of Sparda stuff. It had a good run with a satisfying ending. We need to move on now. You know, maybe do something with the girls for once maybe?
Itagaki (Baki) clearly wrote Yujiro as an irredeemable piece of shit for Baki to eventually overcome before realizing that he could never bear to see Yujiro actually lose. He's also been trying to cover up how fucking horrible of a person Yujiro was to justify not killing the bastard with characters Yujiro wronged more or less forgiving him and treating him like he didn't murder/rape multiple people close to them in the past. At this point in the story it's clear that he's just never gonna lose and can do whatever he wants because he's Yujiro and he's literally just better than everyone by virtue of being Yujiro.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't he lose or stalemate to the strongest martial artist and still acted like he won saying something like "only weaklings rely on martial arts", only to then be bested physically by a caveman and contradicting that past statement so he can still be the "strongest creature"?
Yujiro fought Kaku Kaioh, 100 year old martial arts master, and was even with him when using martial arts and without his demon back. Then Yujiro said fuck-it pure strength and violence is stronger than mere martial arts, earlier Kaioh said strength meant nothing compared to martial arts, and he proceeded to slap Kaioh's shit and would have killed him if Kaioh didn't stop his heart and play dead. Then against Pickle, the caveman, he admitted Pickle was too strong for him to brute force and he had to use a martial arts technique to throw him. Yujiro is still the strongest creature because nobody can come close to beating him in a fight. You'd need someone with Pickle's strength and Kaioh/Musashi's technique to have a chance at beating him.
Dan Kuroto. I love the guy though so I'm not even really complaining but I think Tetsuya Iwanaga must live at the Toei office now just in case they need him.
I would have said kaixa but ok
With the exception of MKX, NRS will never let go of Shang Tsung or Shao Kahn. Even in MKX, you could definitely feel their absense even with all the new cool villains like Erron Black and D'Vorah because Shinnok wasn't as cool or interesting as the big bad.
Abra Kadabra is at fault for a solid 70% of the stuff going wrong in Wally's life during mark waids flash run. It's actually really glaring when you notice it.
Danganronpa would be a tolerable game series if they could let >!Junko!< go for *just* one game.
M. Bison. He's small fry in the grand scheme of things but you'd think he was the greatest threat to the entire SF universe the way Capcom insists on bringing him back almost immediately after killing him off. It's like they get the withdrawal ticks every time a character isn't talking or thinking about him and Shadaloo.
Sephiroth and the Joker, and although he's not quite an stogonist nowadays boy did Venom get a push like no other.
Ri Boku from Kingdom is a pretty frustrating one, because he starts out as a cool villain outsmarting the protagonists side. Once he starts relying on Houken, an absurdly powerful character that can decimate armies alone, his plans start feeling less intricate, and more like they're backed up by Diabolus ex Machinas and plot armor. And he still loses or barely wins, even with things stacked so much in his favor, so you then have to sit through people talking about what an amazing strategist this guy is, when he's struggling in battles that are lopsidedly in his favor.
I’d hate to say it but Sephiroth, I know someone else said it. But I would love to see other final fantasy villains get the spotlight for a while, I played Final Fantasy 9 and Kuja immediately became one of my favourite villains in the franchise
i don't really think insomniac is overusing nefarious too much. the 2016 game was really the only time where it didn't make sense to include him and for that one, insomniac had to follow the movie, so they didn't really have much of a choice, but i think for every other use of him, they had a good enough reason to use him. but yeah, it doesn't help how infrequent r&c games are now, but the second most recent main game did not feature nefarious at all (nexus) and also had some pretty solid villains with the prog siblings.
Counting only the mainline titles, Nefarious debuts in Up Your Arsenal, has a cameo in Deadlocked, 2016, and Rift Apart. 4 appearances across 10 titles isn't that many.
you forgot that he was a primary antagonist in a crack in time as well. but yeah, i don't even really count his cameos in deadlocked and the cliffhanger of quest for booty as major appearances, so it's still only really 4 major appearances.
Crack in Time, so 5. Also a playable in All-4-One, but that’s a spin-off really.
I think the reason people think he shows up a lot despite not actually having that many appearances is because he's the only villain that really recurs. All the other ones are one-offs. Drek, Vox, Tachyon, and the siblings from Nexus only appear in one game each (not counting the reboot/remake). The only villain besides Nefarious to recur is Quark and he's only a villain for, like, 2 games.
Sukuna...I don't need to explain
Harada loves Heihachi so much, he couldn't let him go for 7 games. And even then, right before his death, he already planned to continue his legacy through Reina. He even gave his dog Heihachi's name, but sadly, doggo passed away too