Professor Beef
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It was hilarious that Yami basically confirmed that he had plot armor as a special power in his final duel against Yugi.
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Most blatant Plot-Armors in fiction?
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It was hilarious that Yami basically confirmed that he had plot armor as a special power in his final duel against Yugi.
They did.
Leia literally says it was too easy for them to escape, and that they're being tracked, and Han is like "you call that easy?"
Oh yeah thanks, I forgot. How the hell is Han the one who got fooled, not Leia?
The heart of the cards is pretty much the purest plot-armour there is
super-famicom
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I agree with everyone who brought up Kira "Jesus" Yamato.
sometimes he amazes even himself
deadscreensky
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Leia's been the one fighting against the Empire, and she would have grown up with political warfare and similar trickery.
Han is just a smuggler/gambler/thief. Different class of deception, and he probably regularly believes in nonsense like luck. It's also possible he's less familiar with the Empire and their military tactics.
This thread is making me reexamine Halo 4 a bit more kindly. Hmm.
a Master Ninja
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I swear they call Sergeant Johnson and Keyes "Reclaimers", so I naturally assumed that meant "humans". Thinking back to Halo 3, Gravemind calls humans the children of the Forerunner or something, and I know that the Guilty Spark explicitly calls you "Forerunner" right at the end. Humanity not being direct descendants of the Forerunner, rather reborn thanks to the Forerunner or something, sure feels like a retcon, even if Bungie somehow planned it from the beginning. It's like if you make Luke and Leia siblings it doesn't break the movies, but if that was the plan from the start why did you have all that kissing...
But look, I get it. When a franchise reaches a conclusion and you are tasked with making a new trilogy, you gotta play around with some stuff.
You made me look up the lore dump from Halo 4. The Librarian says her planning is directly responsible for humanity's evolution, Spartan Armor, and Cortana. To me that sounds like the character of Master Chief basically has no free will, which is deflating. He's not a solider in an impossible situation; he's a tool destined to fulfill the role an ancient alien planned out for him thousands of years in the past.
I just hate stuff like that in fiction.
Rynocirator
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Eh Haku spared him after connecting with Naruto earlier. He used the same technique he did when he made it appear that Zabuza was dead. Naruto actually realized this later. But yeah Sasuke has mad plot armor. When he rolled up on all the kages at the summit and lived he became pretty much untouchable.
But it's hopeful optimism not control.
All stories are the meaningful witness of coincidence.
Permanently A
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Jotaro does mention during the D'arby fight that Star Platinum and The World are the same type of Stand.
andythinkpad
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I basically ignore Dany's storyline because of blatant plot armor.
Lmfao, yep.
They just kinda went into "don't give a fuck mode" with that bit.
Seriously, they straight-up weaponized luck.
Permanently A
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I vaguely remember that but did they mention the whole power set or like we thought at the time the stands were just super fast and powerful.
In hindsight it makes sense but the manga went out of its way to hide star platinum ability.
Unspeakable Evil
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If it helps. Athrun should be dead too. Or maybe Shin just sucks at killing
Chairmanchuck
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Didnt they explain it at the beginning of the series that if you die in the human world, you will be reborn into Soul Society and if you die in Soul Society you will be reborn into the human world?
a Master Ninja
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When Chief met the Librarian, I had flashbacks to Ezio meeting Minerva, which really soured me on ancient holograms and their hopeful optimism.
But look, if you make Halo 6's campaign a blast to play, and keep the multiplayer as fun as it is in Halo 5, I won't bust your balls if the hero of your video game defeats the bad guys and saves the day.
Elitist1945
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I'll throw in a video game:
from Until Dawn
Sam and Mike
blankempathy
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I wouldn't say they fought on equal ground but they were prepared and had Giles and even Angel early on to lend a hand.
Didn't Batman actually throw him off the building? He more or less let Ra's die due to his own devices.
But Korra knew the stances and the moves she just couldn't actually produce any air. The way I look at it was her airbending was block due to <insert reasons here> and wasn't able to do it until she lost everything.
Kinda how in avatar when Aang has his avatar state blocked. Hell how he gets it back may be even more silly as all it takes is getting hit right in the same spot.
Killer Queen
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The villans and stuff that goes on in season 3 is pretty great, season 2 wasn't amazing but on rewatch it wasn't awful either. I like that they cover political themes in each season and how an all powerful neutral figure fits into it all, especially one and imperfect as Korra. Season 1 and 3 are best, 2 and 4 are forgettable. They dropped the ball hard with the last arc imo.
Jesus christ lmao
Double dead.
SciencePilot
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Yeah, as people here mentioned, "chosen one" stories are really the worst. Most of these stories would be better if the hero was just some regular person that achieved great things due to hard work and determination rather than due to who they were born as. I really don't understand why these types of stories keep popping up -- the "chosen one" idea seems very outdated to me.
blankempathy
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Season 4 forgettable? Come on now. It has some of the best animated fight scenes and Kuvira is awesome.
Professor Beef
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Let's also not forget Korra getting ALL of her bending back for no reason at the end of S1.
FUCK Korra.
FUCK Korra.
NCR Redslayer
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Dude have you not seen the glory which is the yugi vs Jaden match?
He fucking cheats man.
karasu
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Batman versus any character hundreds of times more powerful than him. When characters go up against him they all of a sudden lose the ability to respond to a plan against them. Omega beams become dodgeable by a relatively slow human being. A tiny ring of kryptonite becomes enough to stop Superman when he's lifted entire islands of the stuff before, etc etc
blankempathy
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To be fair the show was originally planned as one season thanks to Nickelodeon. Of course they had to put wrap it up nicely. Sadly season 2 suffers because of that.
Korra basically regresses to her season 1 mindset and has to relearn past lessons. Season 4 feels like what season 2 should have been in terms of Korra dealing with consequences.
Yea I love the game but when its blatently obvious certain characters can't be killed off until a certain point it really takes away from the suspense the game creates.
Especially when certain characters can be killed off by screwing up just once (Jessica) or not even knowing you screwed up (Matt). I didn't even get the option to give Matt the flare gun.
Littlefang
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(Game of Thrones)
Oh totally. Just able to essentially walk away from the Faceless Men and magically teleport back to Westeros? Like what the hell show? Good job killing a character arc! And yeah obviously Jon wasn't going to die forever.
Also in the Scream tv series I'd say
the core three of Emma, Audrey, and Noah are likely untouchable at this point due to being the main characters. I'd throw Brooke in there, but I'd guess she'd be the first on the list to go if they want a gut punch death. Audrey and Emma escaping last season finale relatively unscathed is testament to their plot armor.
And on The Blacklist
it was blatantly obvious that Liz wasn't actually killed since the actress needed maternity leave and she's the lead female on the show.
I love this one because the developers were probably like
well we can't kill of all characters immediately because then there's no game. Better make some of them invincible for practically the entire game.
Hella Lugosi
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Squirrel Girl?
Halo CE nor The Flood book ever imply that Chief himself is special. Just that he's human and has a decent amount of combat armor. It never goes beyond him being at the right place at the right time.
Yeah he threw the joker of a building, but he also told Gordon to blow up the bridge. Again my eyes rolled the first time I saw that in the cinema.
GuessMyUserName
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Felicity
YesNOnoNOYes
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Shin from the Hi Shin Unit and in fact all of the Hi Shin Unit members
a Master Ninja
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The show's various storylines are not 100% simultaneous. When characters cross oceans or show up on boats it's a time skip, not magic.
And to Game of Thrones credit, at least it took a few seasons/books before you could confidently say which characters had plot armor.
Killer Queen
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Kuvira is cardboard and like the most boring villain in the entire series and the whole giant robot thing rampaging through the city was terrible and honestly felt anti climactic. The only good thing about season 4 I remember is Varrik and well
Korra getting with Asami
Fall of Reach certainly does. Maybe not at a cosmic scale but he's always been special.
unknownstranger
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Korra wasn't using an airbender stance or form. She straight up threw punches that shot air.
Zvonimir Boban
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tbf, the Fall of Reach book (which was published before Halo CE iirc?) makes sure to tell you how lucky Chief is even from a young age.
It's not a particularly large jump from abnormally good fortune to higher powers at work.
I think you mean Senzu beans.
There was a huge moment of plot armor in the most recent episode of Dragon Ball Super. (Ep. 57 spoilers):
So Black hits both SSB Goku and SSj2 Trunks directly with a kamehameha, and despite Goku being leagues above Trunks, both in terms of base strength and transformation power, they are both still conscious, appear to have taken the same amount of damage, and Trunks is the first one to be able to move afterwards. If there were no plot armor, if Goku had taken enough damage to incapacitate him, Trunks would have been evaporated. In other words, "Power levels are bullshit!"-DBZ abridged
All these Gundam SEED mentions and yet nobody bothers to bring up that the Gundams themselves have literal plot armor as a mechanical feature, lol
Vulcano's assistant
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I would say that storm troopers are poorly trained not in that they have poor aiming, but that like with most armies that are not special forces, a good number of them intentionally miss their targets. Clones are all born with the predisposition to take a killing shot so they are the marines in Mogadishu rather than the local guerrilla like empire troops appear to be.
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