As expected there will probably be a lot of trolls. But feel free to ignore idiots and trolls like God90zilla who only came to this website to annoy and troll other people.
Good characters and actual Mary Sues
The Ultimate Mary Sue: Luffy
Character Development: Nonexistent. Luffy is a completely one dimensional character
He constantly recklessly puts his teammates in danger
He is still challenging admirals and now even emperors recklessly
He is still refusing to negotiate with others.
No signs of him sympathising or negotiating with enemies.
Bellamy wasn't an enemy. He got one shot and was more of a minor annoyance same as Buggy. Bege and Law were just fellow pirate crews with different morals. Smoker even helped Luffy a few times and Luffy liked Smoker from the beginning. Nothing new there.
Luffy can make friends out of anyone. The ultimate Mary sue power up.
Power Ups: Make no sense.
Second Gear: He somehow learns an advanced version of Soru for Second Gear with no explanation of how, when or why. He just gets second Gear just because
Third Gear: He has Third Gear just because.
Then there is the fact that One Piece is literally just a hentai.
one piece female characters. Nami wears a bra and shorts like a whore. Robin wears an open shirt with her breasts hanging out like a whore. Then there is one piece characters like Sadi-Chan a blatant BDSM characters. One Piece doesn't even attempt to hide that its a hentai. I mean for fucks sake this is running gag of One Piece watch?v=EdODN0FQiBw A guy asking for panties and panty shots. Nami . /search?q=nami+one+piece&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB782GB782&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj8ytLG8qDeAhVHFMAKHRgGAdEQ_AUIDigB&biw=1366&bih=626#imgrc=oaQU-LfhEEcT-M:
Good Character: Natsu
Character Development: During his battle with Sting and Rogue, he shows that he has learned to strategize during his fights after the timeskip instead of charging in recklessly. As he figures out their fighting styles and the direction of their attacks. This is also shown during the Alvarez Arc when he restrains himself to save power for future enemies.
He learns to forgive his enemies as shown when he co-operates with Jellal and Cobra contrary to the beginning of series when he originally held a strong grudge against his enemies.
After his battle with Gildarts. He takes Gildarts' advice into future prospect and learns to accept help from his allies, something originally out of character for Natsu for example during the Mard Geer fight. When he accepts help from Gray and when he encourages his teammates during the Hades fight. Another lesson he took from Gildarts is that it takes wisdom and strength to sheathe his sword when its out. Natsu has never been on to give up a battle at the start but when he sees Brandish he realizes he is outmatched and is willing to give up & retreat to fight another day. He won't risk his comrades' lives on reckless charge.
He is willing to negotiate with August instead of jumping straight to violence to try avoid the war and save lives. He even tries to talk and sympathise with Zeref. Someone he previously wouldn't have given the time of day and just attacked. He is even willing to try talk and sympathize with Acnologia. Someone who killed his father in all but blood. I can count at least 10 things Natsu would not have done at the beginning of the series
Power ups:
Flames of emotion: Introduced during his first fight. He gets stronger, the angrier he gets.
Lightning Flame Mode: He gains this power by eating Laxus's lightning. Something previously shown when he eats etherion. As shown before Dragon Slayers can gain powers from other elements but it has its setbacks and is painful to eat.
Dragon Force: First used during the Tower of Heaven Arc, When he fights Jellal. Contrary to statements from trolls. It was never stated that dragon slayers can't eat other elements. Just that it was painful for them and more difficult.
Blaze Dragon King Mode; He gains this power from Igneel. He has to go for a year to train and refine this power so he can control it.
Good Character: Erza
Character Development:
Erza has several personality traits
Aggressive Tsundere
Loner, she wears her armors to protect herself from others
Loves sweets and cakes
Closet Pervert
Strict and Motherly
Polite, Noble and Honourable
Overtime she evolves into a more open person and learns to trust others. This starts after the Tower of Heaven Arc where Erza comes to deal with a nightmare from the past and comes to terms with her issues. She finally realizes she can't keep shielding herself from others and sees how much her family cares about her.
This is especially prevalent in the Alvarez Arc where its shown how much she trusts Natsu when he says he is going to defeat Zeref. Usually Erza is the one who grabs Natsu and yells at him to stop being reckless.
She earns her victories and learns from her losses.
Power Ups:
Nakagami Armor: A lot of trolls and FT haters called this power of friendship. But that is completely false. Before the Grand Magic Games. Team Natsu met up with Crime Sorciere. Where Erza & the others gained their second origin. Hence why Erza says "Release: Second Origin"
There is also the fact that from the beginning of series Erza is stated to have more than 100 armours.
Mary Sue: Shirou Emiya
Character Development: Nonexistent. Similar to Luffy, Shirou is a completely one dimensional character
All you really need to know about him is that he wants to be a hero and protect others. That's basically his entire character. He comes from the series Fate Stay Night, the sequel to Fate Zero and boy was Fate Stay Night a disappointment.
Inherently there is nothing wrong with having your character being a hero but that is only if it is done right.
Power Ups: Can beat any enemy through the power of love and friendship.
No seriously. There is no justification for the power of bullshit this guy gets. He beats freaking Gilgamesh through the power of bullshit.
Let take these three much better characters for instance.
Kiritsugu Emiya
Character Development:
"I was reckless when I was young. I educated myself by cursing the heartlessness of the world. The world was cruel – so I made myself more heartless and used that as a weapon, trying to follow through on my ideals." – Kiritsugu Emiya
One of my favorite character. He is man who is jaded by his experiences. He originally wanted to be hero, a trait passed onto his son Shirou. But he was soon learned how horrible reality was as he saw his home, family and crush destroyed. He transforms from a happy go lucky child to burnt cinnamon bun who is a deadly assassin.
"They call certain methods of fighting good and others evil, acting as if there were some nobility to the battlefield. Such illusions, perpetrated by heroes throughout history, have led countless young men to their bloody deaths, all for the sake of this valor and glory." – Kiritsugu Emiya
He is willing to use any underhanded means to win. However he does still show signs of humanity. For example several times over he shows he is willing to give up the war and take Irisviel back home to their daughter so he doesn't risk losing his family. This is someone who is constantly scared and terrified behind a mask of calmness to hide his fears.
"Our Heroic Spirit here thinks the battlefield is something better than hell. What a joke. It's hell itself. There's no hope on the battlefield. It has nothing but unspeakable despair. Just a crime we call victory, paid for by the pain of the defeated. Yet humanity has never recognised this truth. And the reason for that is, in every era a dazzling hero has blinded people with their legends and prevented them from seeing the evil of bloodshed. The true nature of humanity has not advanced a step beyond the stone age."
He has gone through a life of misery and despair. The same dark experience that made him who he was today. He is an incredible sympathetic character. He has seen the cruel reality of life and that has destroyed his innocent view of the world. He has become cynical and close minded in his views.
That's what so great about Fate Zero. More than anything, It was a battle between ideals and different goals. You saw all these different character motivations and life stories that changed these amazing characters into who they are today. The philosophical debates between their points of view were just amazing and awe inspiring.
Fate Stay Night can be summed up as the boy who got his own harem and beat the bad guy. That's it. That's literally the entire story. You are literally deluding yourself if you think there is anything deep about Fate Stay Night. I've watched it multiple times both anime and visual novel. It is an overglorified cheap harem anime.
Kirito
Character Development:
After escaping Sword Art Online for the first time. Kirito is permanently scarred for life. This shows even in later series. He is constantly having nightmares about the ordeal, has survivor's guilt after seeing all the people who died and even gives up duel wielding except in emergencies.
Shirou on other hand comes out of Holy Grail completely unscathed, same for Rin and the others. After what is described as survival of the fittest. His view on the world is completely the same, his personality is exactly the same, pretty much no one dies, no sacrifices were made, no development was made. Shirou remains the same one dimensional character he was before.
Izuku Midoriya
Character Development:
Deku similar to Shirou, is someone who wanted to be a hero his entire life. A big difference however is how their mentor/older versions impacts their lives.
To start off the Archer & Shirou relationship. Pointless. Archer is a servant in Fate Stay Night. But the whole future Shirou Emiya thing was completely pointless. Shirou does not change one bit from this and still defeats Archer anyway. Archer could have been literally anyone and the story would not have changed one single bit. Heck just make Archer a normal hero who comes from Russia with the power of tracing and the story would not have changed at all.
Now then Deku & All Might. Deku idolises All might. Practically worships the ground he walks. Similar to Shirou. Deku is self destructive and reckless. His powers literally destroy his body from the inside out. But unlike Shirou, the biggest difference between them. Deku actually has *Character Development*.
Obviously Deku can't just keep up his self-sacrificial tendencies. So after seeing how much this affects his mother and the people he cares about. He learns how selfish and reckless he was being. Only thinking of himself and his own goals. He learns to be less reckless and take better care of himself. He adapts his fighting style so there is less pressure on his arms and begins to focus on a more leg-based fighting style with help from Tenya Iida.
For the sake of explaining common sense to the idiots babyraging in the review section
UBW vs Gate of Babylon
Gilgamesh stomps. Gilgamesh even when not serious was trolling Saber by casually defending against her attacks in Fate Stay Night. He also restricted Berserker easily with Enkidu. Several Fate Fans in forums have also called Shirou & Sieg mary sues. Because Shirou himself admits that any servant could take on UBW and win. But he apparently thinks he can beat Gilgamesh because sword spam = sword spam. If that was true most anime characters would easily beat Gilgamesh. But as Fate fans love to bring up Gilgamesh has several ships, armour , shields, haxed weapons that could easily defeat his opponents e.g. moving at the speed of light or thought. You can't have it both ways.
Heaven's Feel
Shirou sacrifices nothing. He doesn't give up his dream. Best case for Shirou, He simply chooses not to take the easy way out. That's it. He doesn't deserve an award just for that. At the end of the day, its still the same as any other route, He fights Kirei, or the other repetitive bad guy, saves the day and goes back to live with his family and friends. Illya dies, that's not exactly new after saving Shirou through a Deus ex machina. He is still fighting Angra Mainyu to save the world, he is still fighting Sakura to save the world. Besides Shirou acting Emo over nothing. Nothing changes.
Depth of other routes
Non existent.
Fate Stay Night, defeat and save tsundere little sister, defeat the evil priest
UBW, Fight Kuzuki, Saber gets kidnapped, Archer turns traitor, Gilgamesh kills Illya, Shirou beats Archer and this whole scene was pointless. Since Shirou doesn't change or do anything about his flaws, Shirou beats Gilgamesh through power of friendship, day is saved again.
Your babyraging simply proves my point that all Fate fans are clearly braindead idiots who throw a tantrum at anyone who disagrees with them yet you idiots have the nerve to bash other series and act like assholes.
Asspulls and Plot Armor
Meliodas's plot armor. Estarossa completely kills him, confident he will stay dead, Zeldris agrees. But plot armor brings Meliodas back to life stronger than ever. And guess Meliodas with no training whatsoever will just suddenly have his power level increase by thousands out of nowhere.
King and Gowther power of friendship. Is Mael overwhelmingly powerful. Well don't worry King and Gowther can use the power of friendship to defeat him. Do you need your main characters powered up for demons who are way out of their league.
Diane - Have one flashback then have your power increase by over 30000 out of nowhere King - Have one flashback then get a massive powerup out of nowhere. Is that not enough. Here is a another massive powerup to defeat Mael out of nowhere.
Gowther - Here's your heart, now your power increases to over 40000 because your love and friendship. Literally the explanation given.
Merlin - Did you die by Galan's curse. Don't worry we can bring you back to life. Let's use the excuse you immune to curses. But Merlin was just petrified by a curse won't the audience figure this is a stupid deus ex machina. Don't worry Seven Deadly Sins fans are idiot.
Ichigo's Power of Friendship
Then we have Ichigo who is ultimate user of power of friendship.
Is Grimmjow completely kicking Ichigo's ass in every way even with Bankai and Hollow Mask. Orihime likes me. Suddenly Power of Friendship and Ichigo wins.
Is Ulquiorra completely overwhelming Ichigo in every way and he just killed Ichigo through the chest. Power of Friendship to save the day cause Orihime cried for me.
Is Aizen so Overwhelmingly Powerful its literally impossible to beat him. Well here comes power of friendship to save the day.
Is Yhwach ridiculously overwhelmingly powerful well here comes the deus ex machina arrow out of nowhere to save the day.
Hunter x Hunter and the Pretentious Fanbase
Gon and Killua got kidnapped by the main villains of the entire show. Let's make the Phantom Troupe into a bunch of idiots who apparently have no idea how a hostage negotiation works. Two 10 year olds nearly escaped the heavily hyped vetaran warriors on multiple occasions then just when you thought the Phantom Troupe couldn't get any more pathetic. They stupidly let Kurapika dictate to them exactly what they are going to do and how they are going to do it like these supposed villains are little children. The Phantom Troupe actually let Gon and Killua go just like that. There is plot induced stupidity and then there is this garbage.
In one Arc. Gon got a power up into Adult Gon through power of friendship. His dead friend Kite came back to life out of nowhere so Gon wouldn't have to feel sad. All of Gon's injuries was healed by Deus Ex Machina called Alluka.
