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Generals » Cartoon/Western Animation General » Post 32326

Philweasel
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@Holofan4life  
Ehh, Catra deserved a kick in the teeth. The thing is she got that, and made her own decision to stop being a bitch. She wasn’t forced to redeem herself, and her actions were straight out suicidal at that point. Hell, she did die. And then even worse, she was brought back to life and refused that easy way out. She actually had to live with the consequences of her shitty personality, and bar a few attempts to run away from that responsibility, actively threw herself wholeheartedly into being a good guy.
 
She earned her ending.
 
…but she earned that kick in the teeth too.
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Generals » Cartoon/Western Animation General » Post 32258

Philweasel
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@Holofan4life  
You’re allowed to think Shadow Weaver is a piece of shit. The show simply won’t let you call her shallow.
 
She’s one of my favorite characters. I bask in her awfulness, and the fact that she remains a total wildcard despite having entirely consistent motives.  
@Angrybrony
He’s probably talking about how flat they look in the pic.
 
The lack of boobs did annoy me a tiny bit. It was just… weird, and distracting.
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Pony Discussion » Unpopular opinion time » Post 162269

Philweasel
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@Latecomer  
The problem with full adventure is it can be a bit expensive. People underestimate just how much an action scene costs in comparison to a story that can be told with mostly dialogue.
 
Of course you can reduce costs… by making it all CGI. And terrible.
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General Discussion » Dragon Ball Thread » Post 4122

Philweasel
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@AC97  
I think I’m inclined to go with Frieza’s assumption in the Broly movie, where he seems to feel that immortality means you could still get yourself permanently crippled, but not die.
 
…frankly Frieza already has that. It’s always required straight out vaporization to kill Frieza, he’s shockingly durable.
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Philweasel
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@AC97  
I’m also a little suspicious of this theory that the Dragonballs can grant you immortality capable of shrugging off offensive actions by someone more powerful than the Dragon in question.
 
I note Zamasu went straight to the Super Dragonballs for that one.
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Generals » Cartoon/Western Animation General » Post 31662

Philweasel
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@Beau Skunky  
As I’ve sad before, the animation on Return of Jafar was absolutely garbage, but the plot is pretty compelling, the performances are great, the songs are decent and it actually moved the franchise forward.
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Pony Discussion » Unpopular opinion time » Post 162105

Philweasel
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@AC97  
@Philweasel
Good points, although I’ll note that Discord, aside from being tired and surprised, seemed like he didn’t oppose letting it through, with the “dead pose and rose.”
 
I’ll still take it. On a par with Starlight dispersing him, it still takes a bit of raw power to do something like that to Discord, even if he wasn’t taking it that seriously.  
The former two would generally be the type to try and sneak attack Luna, because if there’s been one thing that’s been demonstrated for both Tempest and Starlight, they don’t play fair, especially if they might have a raw power disadvantage.
 
Starlight definitely. She’s probably the least ‘powerful’ archmage in the show.
 
Tempest on the other hand is absurdly strong, and I’ve never really worked out why. I mean the physical skills I can chalk up to heavy training and being a big girl, but breaking her horn should not explain why she can block a blast empowered with the magic of all four princesses. I mean I get Starlight challenging Princesses because she’s never relied on power, but Tempest’s horn blasts seem on a par with Nightmare Moon and the Overfiend Flurry Heart.
 
@Brass Beau  
@AC97
Going just on her series appearances requires a lot of extrapolating. The comics are a good source of characterization, even if it doesn’t always mesh well with the show.
 
Be aware there’s two Lunas. One is a lot of fun, but so discordant with her show characterization that she straight up can’t be fitted into canon (though one of her best known stories was pretty much adapted for her part of Royal Problem).  

 
The other is much closer to her show appearances, where she’s quiet, calm, dignified and very sweet, with ironically the problem that she takes herself a little too seriously and doesn’t know how to be funny.  

 
Like many Luna portrayals, this is mostly down to the content being written before Luna Eclipsed had nailed down her actual characterization.
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Pony Discussion » Unpopular opinion time » Post 162099

Philweasel
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@Brass Beau  
She’s great in the comics. It’s interesting because I find her dull in the series on occasion, but the comics manage to write ‘introverted, stoic Luna’ really well. She’s the main character in some of the comic’s best stories.
 
It helps that she’s not OP. She’s cool and badass, but she normally needs help to get things done. She’s always threatened, but never helpless.
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Pony Discussion » Unpopular opinion time » Post 162097

Philweasel
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@AC97  
@Philweasel
The most impressive thing Luna ever did was probably drawing an entire town into a shared dream (having to actively sustain all that) and still having enough power left over to hurt the Tantabus a bit.
 
All of which is related to her special talent. Again I’m compelled to bring up hitting Discord with a sleep spell in the comics, and it working. Luna’s dream powers are actually kinda OP, though in fairness she is occasionally vulnerable to the things inside the dream (though the only things that have ever seriously challenged her are things from Discord’s dreams).
 
Let’s also consider that the Tantabus was HER creation.
 
She can also make the difference on, say, beating Sombra versus it being a lot more problematic.
 
Don’t get me wrong, she’s no scrub. Again going to the comics (where she occasionally gets to win fights, instead of going down like a scrub in five seconds to any edgelord who tries), Luna actually rarely loses. She’s beat Chrysalis handily. She held her own against shadow beasts, well after everyone else went down (Twilight was still a unicorn at this point). She dueled against a heavily powered up Rarity, twice (Nightmare Rarity, and Darkwater Rarity) and held her own both times. She overpowered Applejack and Pinky in a melee.
 
Luna is strong, but still nothing suggests to me that she would win in a fight against say… Tempest Shadow, Starlight Glimmer, Princess Twilight or her sister.  
The consensus is still generally that “Sombra is alicorn-level,” right?
 
EVERYTHING we’ve seen of him pretty much implies that. Even without the comics (which are… dubious canon for the most part) Luna and Celestia face him together, he never seems scared of them, and he duels final season Twilight fairly competently. He also apparently beat Starlight Glimmer without any difficulty.
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Pony Discussion » Unpopular opinion time » Post 162071

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@AC97  
Luna has never seemed that impressive to be honest. Aside from her dreamwalking abilities (which are legitimately unique and impressive), I can certainly see even unicorn Twilight as being superior to Luna in raw potential. The comics and books show Luna struggling as a child with even basic magic, and she doesn’t seem astonishingly accomplished as an adult.
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Pony Discussion » Unpopular opinion time » Post 162067

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@Kiryu-Chan  
Do remember also that Twilight is strangely misinformed at times.
 
In fact this is fairly consistent. With Meadowbrook being an eastern unicorn, Ponyville founded thousands of years ago, and Griffonstone being a thriving kingdom, Twilight clearly needs some new books.
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Pony Discussion » Unpopular opinion time » Post 162055

Philweasel
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@Ebalosus  
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While I understand that they couldn’t use the d-word, there’s nothing really to indicate that alicorns in-and-of-themselves are immune. I mean, if you’re a Faust-purist you probably could, but since Cadence was shown to be young herself at the end of season 2, there’s really no confirmation that alicorns are immortal.
…and even if they were, that in-and-of-itself isn’t a bad thing. I like the movie Highlander too, but not everything involving immortality has to be doom-and-gloom.
 
I note that there’s nothing to say Luna is immortal. She’s implied to be reasonably old, centuries or so, but that’s not confirmed per say. She could technically be said to be a full millennia younger than Celestia.
 
In my Fallout Equestria fanfic I split the difference, with masters of harmony (ie, Alicorns) living a cool three hundred years on average, where as a standard powerful magic user could possibly push a little over two hundred, and a healthy pony about a hundred and fifty. The fact that Celestia was pushing two millennia and still refused to die had many firmly convinced that they should start looking for her phylactery or the painting in her attic.
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Philweasel
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@Latecomer  
Well for the rest it’s hard to call anyone focused on to the exclusion of others, since spotlight episodes are the norm. And in episodes about hairstyling, it’s hard to call the sparkle unicorns overpowered.
 
…especially since apparently hair magic is beyond them. For some reason.
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Pony Discussion » Unpopular opinion time » Post 162000

Philweasel
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@Latecomer  
Half the two parters just become the Twilight show. Princess Twilight was probably the worst, where most of the other characters just… vanished, and Twilight didn’t do anything particularly special (the only action she took that facilitated the conclusion was rescuing Discord). Crystal Empire was also annoying for the sheer amount of Twilight dick sucking, despite the fact that as pointed out later on Spike was actually more useful.
 
Most of the others aren’t quite so bad, but there is a lot of “Twilight, please stop having an existential crisis and weeping in a corner. Since we’ve all become strangely useless and passive in order for this plot to work, we can only win by the power of your incredible awesomeness. Have I mentioned how you’re a princess, best pony, and a very fetching purple color?”
 
Repeat until she starts to glow, the current bad guy’s face melts off, and everyone gathers round to congratulate her like she was the only one that mattered.
 
Starlight’s one two parter as the hero on the other hand has her as part of an ensemble, most of which have no strong opinions about her either way, and actually have Thorax doing the glowy thing and melting faces. Starlight’s screentime is about on par with Trixie, who also provides the majority of raw competence and really gets about the same amount of character development.
 
 
@Myoozik  
@Philweasel
I don’t know, I’ve always heard that strong power abilities, approval rating in universe, having no visible flaws and overtaking the plot most of the time was what makes a Mary Sue. Regardless, I was never a fan of that term since it can get misused to mean anything like character one doesn’t like and such.
 
Well that’s the thing, people only focus on the first. Starlight might be powerful, but few actually like her in universe, her flaws are horribly apparent and constantly bite her in the ass, and outside of her spotlight episodes she’s always a supporting character. I think in the later seasons she might have the least amount of screentime of any main cast member but Rainbow Dash.
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Pony Discussion » Unpopular opinion time » Post 161994

Philweasel
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@Myoozik  
That’s not what a Mary Sue is though. It’s not their abilities that make them a Mary Sue, it’s their effect on the plot. The original Mary Sue didn’t have any unusual powers at all, she was just all consumingly awesome and beloved.
 
Twilight occasionally slips towards there, because people won’t stop talking her up and she’s often inexplicably important to the plot, considering she’s totally useless or actively unhelpful half the time.
 
Not to mention there’s numerous characters more powerful than Starlight, some of whom are ponies like her. Tempest Shadow, Sombra, Starswirl and possibly Rainbow Dash are all likely far more powerful than her. Hell, I might add Pinkie to that list.
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Philweasel
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@Sparx  
Everything I’ve ever heard about Seth the Programmer makes me hate him. Hate him with the fire of a hundred raging suns.
 
My only solace? That when some dude goes “BUT SETHEPORGAMMER SAYS NARUTO IS MULTIUNIVESAL!” I can safely conclude that no more time needs to be wasted on that particular conversation.
 
…Cloud vs Link is total bullshit though.
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Pony Discussion » Starlight Glimmer- What is the opinion of her still? » Post 8216

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@Dex Stewart  
It was nothing to do with Hasbro. The writers were struggling to find new plots or avenues for development within the current cast, and wanted to create a new cast to keep the franchise fresh.
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Philweasel
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@Angrybrony  
As I said, I don’t feel it IS about that. I mean a lot of people have stated that the introductions bit is the best part. I just like seeing cool character be cool.
 
I have very little knowledge of Lucy or Carnage, mostly know Dio Brando from memes and have no idea who Sakuya Izayoi is. But Lucy vs Carnage and Dio vs Sakuya are two videos I have watched dozens of times without ever failing to be entertained. And absolutely no part of that enjoyment is tied up in insecure protectiveness about what show I like more.
 
…hell, I found Twilight getting her ass kicked by Raven pretty damn hilarious.
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Generals » Cartoon/Western Animation General » Post 31128

Philweasel
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@icey wicey 1517  
Yeah, but people get so invested in whether say… Batman could beat Spider Man in a straight fight (No, he really can’t). Or get downright offended that Goku probably can’t beat Superman. And invent bullshit about Sasuke being able to fart entire universes apart, like this apparently gives them some sort of moral authority.
 
As someone called it, it’s ultimately ‘My dad can beat up your dad’ dick measuring, and I don’t get it. I look at death battle as a chance to showcase and explore the limits of two awesome characters, and I’m only interested in who wins from a scientific and in universe standpoint (I like seeing assholes get their ass kicked, so I’ll generally side with the most sympathetic fighter).
 
Some people on the other hand seem to be like “Ha, Goku could totally beat up Spongebob, this means Dragonball is CLEARLY SUPERIOR!”.
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