Gou'ld in the SG series, these guys became straight clown college.
Doctor Who - The Stolen Earth / Journey's End
The largest dalek fleet ever amassed has conquered entire planets and is about to destroy all of reality (don't ask me why)
....but they forgot to get rid of the control panel IN THEIR OWN PRISON that has a "kill all daleks" button on it.
That is literally how this story is resolved.
Oh russell, why did you even try.
The Borg had the technology to travel the universe in a second because they could exceed warp 10. So why didnt they just do a suprise attack on earth and be done with it.
The Borg had the technology to travel the universe in a second because they could exceed warp 10. So why didnt they just do a suprise attack on earth and be done with it.
I would say the Wraith from SGA were a better example, because by season 2 they had been reduced from "Needs a whole magazine to take a single wraith out" to "takes 1-2 handgun bullet to down them". As the series goes on, it becomes rarer and rarer for the wraith to be damage resilient.
Don't understand the people mentioning the Fett's. Boba Fett never showed anything of worth in the entire series. His crowning achievement was waiting in garbage.
If I recall correctly it was mentioned in an episode that their decreasing damage resilience was because of a lack of food (read human "souls" to suck). Since their restorative abilities and overall strength drastically increases just after they had fed and they were in an open civil war during season 3 over the remaining human population....
Doctor Who - The Stolen Earth / Journey's End
The largest dalek fleet ever amassed has conquered entire planets and is about to destroy all of reality (don't ask me why)
....but they forgot to get rid of the control panel IN THEIR OWN PRISON that has a "kill all daleks" button on it.
That is literally how this story is resolved.
Oh russell, why did you even try.
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For fucks sake.
Question:
Has enemy enemy been more nerfed than The Borg? Examples please.
the pussification of the borg started before voyager, no? with first contact's 'AIM AT THIS BIT OF THE CUBE AND IT EXPLODES LOL'.
I won't say they didn't nerf the Borg, but it's not like Voyager didn't have a lot of help in those situations. They had seven, and some of those clips are from the finale where they used future tech and batmobile shields..
Much like the Borg, Galactus was introduced as this BIG FUCKING DEAL. An crazy amount of issues building up to his arrival, the eater of planets, the big mofo himself, holy fuck how do we deal with this guy!?
Nowadays, he gets jobbed out 2-3 times a year, even by new characters we don't even know. People take down Galactus for a laugh.
Fuck whoever's responsible for dropping the ball so badly on the Star Trek franchise. TNG was brilliant and DS9 even slightly better than that and then bam, Voyager. Ok, still watchable I suppose but not even close to the earlier series. Then Enterprise which is meh too (tho it's reputation is a bit worse than is warranted imo). And now they're doing the dumb reboot movies instead of a new series? FFFFFFFUUU--
Fuck whoever's responsible for dropping the ball so badly on the Star Trek franchise. TNG was brilliant and DS9 even slightly better than that and then bam, Voyager. Ok, still watchable I suppose but not even close to the earlier series. Then Enterprise which is meh too (tho it's reputation is a bit worse than is warranted imo). And now they're doing the dumb reboot movies instead of a new series? FFFFFFFUUU--
not in star trek time travel, remember when the tme traveling ex-cop planted a bomb on voyager and seven had to travel through time to stop him?Which involve paradoxes in how they got the tech in the first place.
Didn't Fantastic Four 2 change Galactus - diner of planets, into a storm cloud?
And then phoned Darth Vader to come meet him at Bespin. With a load of storm troopers. And then ran away before the shit hit the fan.
But he had a cool helmet so....
Nah, this is definitely bullshit. The nerfed Neo good and proper. At the end of the Matrix he could 'reshape the Matrix as he saw fit'.
He understood that none of the blows were actually real. There was no reason whatsoever he would ever have to fight somebody again, because the punches and kicks are just code that he can see with no real force behind them.
No longer could he dive into people and literally rip their code apart.
They nerfed him for the sake of having sequels.
Scullibundo's gonna have my head, but the Xenomorphs started as a one-entity killing machine that lurked in the shadows and stalked relentlessly, killing one by one until everyone was dead and ended up as cannon fodder for automated guns that were completely wiped out by one person.
That was explainedSovereign and Harbinger are unique capital ships. Much stronger.
Did Darkseid just fall down the stairs?
Zedd in Power Rangers got nerfed really bad as the series went on.
True, and the agents seemed to get taken down a notch for the other characters in the sequels as well. In the first film, an encounter with an agent was a big "Oh shit" moment, but in the sequels I remember Morpheus, Trinity and the like being able to hang.Not a villain but Neo in the Matrix series.
At the end of the first movie he was a walking god. Nothing could touch him because he controlled the world at the lowest level. He stopped bullets, plucked them out of the air, and killed the most powerful of the agents by exploding him from within. Effortlessly. The world around him literally bent when he flexed.
The next movie he could spar very well and fly but all of those incredible powers were inexplicably gone.
And no, don't fucking say "it was explained in this Matrix Reloaded prequel comic" or some shit.
That's what I was gonna say. Dude was SCARY even as an adult and then they made him Jewish and a joke villain.
Scullibundo's gonna have my head, but the Xenomorphs started as a one-entity killing machine that lurked in the shadows and stalked relentlessly, killing one by one until everyone was dead and ended up as cannon fodder for automated guns that were completely wiped out by one person.
You had one alien hunting unsuspecting unarmed civilian workers.
The sequel they knew they were after something, had some intel, armed trained marines, and technology. Even then the first encounter with the xenomorphs nearly wiped out the Marines.
I heard that the network got complaints from parents that he was "too scary" and toned him down a bit. Isn't the whole point of a villain to be scary?
Right. And then the same space trucker from the first movie that was so afraid that she had nightmares was able to do what a group of marines wasn't. Wow, the power of a mother's love!
Seeing that it was the marine sacrifices and deaths that pretty much kept her alive to that point... she didn't do any of it on her own, without Bishop also she would have not done much.
Does Mars Attacks count? The aliens are pretty damn superior through the whole movie... Until, by extreme luck, some dude discovers that his old grandmothers record can help destroy them. I don't know if that qualifies as "nerfed" though
You'll also notice that the acid blood - powerful enough to eat through several layers of ship Hull in seconds - became more of a lesser hazard in Aliens. Get acid sprayed on your armour? No worries, you have time to remove it safely.Scullibundo's gonna have my head, but the Xenomorphs started as a one-entity killing machine that lurked in the shadows and stalked relentlessly, killing one by one until everyone was dead and ended up as cannon fodder for automated guns that were completely wiped out by one person.
She infiltrated their nest and rescued a kid alone and armed with a flamethrower. Which, incidentally, was the weapon they actually had on the Nostromo.
You'll also notice that the acid blood - powerful enough to eat through several layers of ship Hull in seconds - became more of a lesser hazard in Aliens. Get acid sprayed on your armour? No worries, you have time to remove it safely.