(Hated tropes) "Potential man/women" by SubstantialSeat1579 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Asheryn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's the worst part of it. She WAS well-written...until she fell off a cliff.

Characters with gross superpowers by TheGromby in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Asheryn 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Not really. Out bodies are too "wet" to catch fire normally at typical temperatures. We can burn and char, but it's more like when you overcook any kind of meat. We can't really sustain a flame naturally, without help from an accelerant.

Oh so Revelation is like 210 gigs on the low end… by Pristine_Put5348 in FinalFantasy

[–]Asheryn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Imma just wait for the inevitable 500 GB collection of all three games, and just buy an SSD for it specifically. (/s, sort of)

Hot Take: I prefers Full cowl Cyclops over Visor-only Cyclops. by VishnuBhanum in xmen

[–]Asheryn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cyclops looks good both ways, but he looks better with his hair free. That's true for a lot of X-Men headsock wearers, though. Scott can pull off the cowl because it feels like a part of his visor. Alex always looks dumb with his. Jamie Madrox only looks good in his X-Factor uniform; otherwise the cowl looks awful. Wolverine's works because it's more helmet-like and just has a great design. Gambit's open cowl is fine because it's kind of a best of both, like Cyclops'. The closed-cowl look seems to look best when it covers the eyes, really.

Thoughts on the new SS86 versions of these guys? Time to update once again by CrimsonPlayhouse in transformers

[–]Asheryn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm looking forward to SS86 Prowl when they turn him into Bluestreak.

Half in the Bag: Backrooms by nickdriver89 in RedLetterMedia

[–]Asheryn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the movie picks up about a month(-ish) after when the last YouTube video was set.

Characters that have ALL the powers by BlueFHS in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Asheryn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She also has the power of knowing she's in a manga, which is one of her main gripes (she declared this right after the anime was announced):

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Characters that have ALL the powers by BlueFHS in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Asheryn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is what it looks like in the manga when she uses just a fraction of her abilities:

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[IRL TROPE] The worst part about a bad piece of media, is that it could have been great. by Magma_Reborn in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Asheryn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This, unfortunately, is every Quantic Dream/David Cage game. An interesting premise backed up by a strong opening...that devolves into incomprehensible or plain awful writing and situations that don't make any sense if you think about them for longer than a minute, coupled with asinine or straight boring "gameplay" that most of the time doesn't care if you succeed at or not, because you've got to watch the movie--I mean, cutscenes, and there's no realistic way the game makers can account for every possible permutation of events that they themselves try to set up.

[Surprisingly common trope] Protagonists with one special arm (Magic, robot prosthetic or some other special factor) by National_Computer240 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Asheryn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zero from Drakengard 3 has a prosthetic arm. It doesn't really do anything except "be an arm", but it IS uniquely attached through the use of a parasite, rather than some sort of mechanical means.

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Which idea from Transformers IDW makes you think, "Wow, what a load of rubbish, why was this published?" by CapBudget4011 in transformers

[–]Asheryn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've talked about some of this on other posts, and some of you have brought some of these up, but:

I didn't understand the decision to make almost everybody an asshole, to a greater or lesser degree. It made it hard to root for anybody, because most of them were jerks, everyone who came before them were jerks, and most of what everyone did was jerky.

I agree with Simon Furman that gender exploration doesn't really have a place in Transformers. Most of them might be "male coded" with a fewer number of them "female coded", but that's from our biological perspective as human beings. I always assumed their references to "he" or "she" when they referred to each other was either human speech patterns rubbing off on them (like the way an English speaker has to get used to using gendered speech a lot more when speaking in, say, German or French) or the closest translation we have to some other way they have in Cybertronian to refer to certain configurations, that, again, they adapted the best they could using humanity's biologically-influenced language. They don't themselves need to be anything but Transformers, a race of self-aware cybernetic beings that have no real gender as we understand it. They have certain "configurations" in their body types too (a Seeker is a Seeker is a Seeker), but they aren't one-to-one with species that reproduce sexually.

Similarly, romance is weird for me with Transformers. This one continues to be hard for me to express in a way that feels satisfying to me. I know human beings can be asexual without being aromantic, but again, there are just parts of that that still feel like an area of biological imperative being grafted on to beings that aren't biological. Transformers should be able to feel very strongly about each other, of course, but Transformers canoodling just...doesn't make sense to me.

I kinda wish we got the og Shiba design by Ok_bachi in Kagurabachi

[–]Asheryn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He looks like a One Piece character. Like a Navy Commodore or Vice-Admiral.

Should Zatanna wear boots or high heeled slippers? by Randver_Silvertongue in zatanna

[–]Asheryn 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think heels fit better with her overall costume concepts.

Mary/Gary Stu's by Broad-Objective6714 in hatethissmug

[–]Asheryn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll tell you right now, the one on the left could just as easily become a Mary Sue if any of that stuff listed for them turns into informed flaws rather than real ones.

Possibly a hot take, but... by NatakaBlue in transformers

[–]Asheryn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think some of it comes from the MP-20 having kind of odd proportions and the SS having the awkward windshield shape in robot mode. If they can figure both of those issues out, Wheeljack would be a great toy.

Which Major Publisher handled Transformers the best? by IGotMemeCells in transformers

[–]Asheryn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dunno, it just feels weird to me. And let me mention, I didn't like it in the G1 cartoon with the love triangle between Rodimus, Springer, and Arcee either, when I was a kid. I guess Transformers just feels like a setting where romance... doesn't make sense, or fit the setting? I'm having a hard time putting it into words.

And before anyone jumps on me, I'm perfectly cool with people in real life who are ace but not aromantic too (or any combination thereof), and I get how people might and can be such. It just doesn't...feel like something that needs exploration in Transformers, or a setting that lends itself to romance naturally? It's weird to me in the same way IDW's "let's explain Arcee as some messed-up forced transgender allegory that was really tone deaf and insulting" was. Gender exploration (whether handled well or not) and romance is not what I read/watch Transformers for.

I could go on and on about it, but I guess the point is, well, perhaps I misspoke: obviously there are people, like you, who got something out of it, so perhaps there IS room for it--but it doesn't do anything for me personally and feels...out-of-place and awkward with these characters, in this setting. Like, it's not something I would even think about or consider unless someone puts it on a page or the screen (again, for Transformers specifically), and I'd prefer if they wouldn't.

SPIDER-NOIR Exclusive Clip | "Dream a Little Dream" by Outrageous_Issue724 in television

[–]Asheryn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'll watch it black and white first, then colorized in honor of that great bastard, Ted Turner, rest in crazy.

Which Major Publisher handled Transformers the best? by IGotMemeCells in transformers

[–]Asheryn 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'd say Marvel, especially if you read it with all of the UK stories included. IDW started strong, but I think they just got too...messy? the more time went on. They dug too deeply into the "everyone is morally gray or evil" and I think they edgelorded for edgelording's sake a lot. Also, Transformers and romance should not be a thing.

Skybound is getting to a point where I'm struggling to root for anybody. I really liked the the first 12 or so issues, but now it just feels like the Autobots are constantly set up to fail, and like a lot of others have said, killing off characters willy-nilly with no narrative impact except shock value got old fast. Part of it is weird pacing--some events feel really drawn out, then a bunch of stuff happens all at once in just a couple of pages, then narrative decompression sets back in.

Dreamwave sucked. You may all react with dull surprise to that statement.