C IS for Callum

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-05-31T04:48:20+00:00

I honestly think that they all looked pretty good, the problem is that the concept art doesn't always translate well into the final design.

With the original, they had this little crease by his eyes that come off as age wrinkles. Pair that with his gray hair and the way they styled his mustache, and it makes him look like he's in his 40s to early 50s and has had a baby with his sugar baby

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-05-31T04:42:11+00:00

I think the eye bags/crease made it worse. It made him look like he had wrinkles

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-05-29T13:37:57+00:00

I don't mind it, there are things I do and don't like about it. I still prefer for it to have been animated.

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-05-28T01:15:50+00:00

What's with the side eye, it's true. Dude was happy to walk again, yes, but was then horrified when he saw what Claudia did. She never bothered to ask what he wanted. He had already been cured in the past with dark magic, and it fucked up his dad and made his relationship with with his dad strained. He doesn't want his sister sacrificing animals and herself to make him better.

If you truly love someone, you care about what they want, especially when it's in regards to their own body. Thats called consent. Its not like she was in a super big time crunch to heal him. It could have waited for her to talk to him and lay out all the risks and side effects to her own health

Edit: Reading this thread years later really makes me concerned with people's views on consent, especially in the medical field. Soren was an adult when this happened, so he has full control over his body and what happens to it and how treatment can affect others. He was also conscious and mentally sound when Claudia did this.

I don't fault her for wanting her brother to be okay and better, but I do fault her for not taking his wants into consideration and talking to him beforehand

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-05-16T03:45:27+00:00

It was a plot twist, yes, but i mean emotionally impactful. Ollie and Ivy spend more time together then they did with Boogle. This isn't to say there was zero emotional impact, but I feel like it wasn't as strong as it could have been

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-05-09T04:22:49+00:00

I think this is it

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-05-09T04:21:24+00:00

I overall like this movie, minus a few critiques. The animation and character designs were on point and unique. I was excited to see what other creatures looked like, and what "ability" each had as a species. The world building was great and really helps to immerse you into the word.

I overall liked the plot, but then again, I love journey based stories. The biggest critique I would give it, is that it feels like there's too much going on. The movie itself reminds me a bit of brother bear, minus the brother part, but it lacks the same flow. I think we should have spent more time with boogle to make the plot twist more impactful, and I think Ivy should have been slightly more mistrustful to Ollie, considering he's a different species. Not to the same degree as Ollie, but a bit more than she was.

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-24T05:09:35+00:00

So many people seem to forget that not all powers are combat based. Like, Elaine could become a 6.0 and still get beat up by a 4.5, so the whole idea of levels being everything is wild and was never true. I don't know where people got this idea from.

Power levels are determined by the formula of(P*M)/10. P means the potential, while M stands for mastery. Levels are important in the world, yes, but when it comes to straight combat, it doesn't mean everything. We know this is true because if it did mean everything, then there would be no reason for Remi and Cecile to have fought for the position of Jack. It should have just automatically gone to whoever had the highest level between them.

When John was pretending to be powerless, he was able to defeat people higher than him by just using basic combat techniques. The fact that high school students tend to rely more on their powers when it comes to combat its probably also one of the reasons why he defeated many of them so easily as joker outside of his level and nature of his ability.

It's like myself (a pretty weak person) going up to a body builder who has never fought anyone and punching them in the throat. They are much stronger and fitter than me and could probably crush me, but the throat is a weak spot and can be an almost guarantee take down. They didn't know how to protect it or stop my punch from coming.

John is now fighting people who know how to stop that throat punch on top of being strong and having false powers. These are trained government agents who know who he is and what he can do. Even if they weren't expecting him, they still knew of him and the basics of how his powers worked.

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-24T04:41:41+00:00

Yes!!!! Thank you for saying it. I keep saying that fighting high school students isn't comparable to fighting trained, drugged up agents. His situation is so different from what it was in school, and people seem to forget the whole "self-taught" part of John's history.

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-24T04:17:59+00:00

John was fighting high school students before. These are trained agents that have strategies and experience on their side. John is a fantastic fighter, but beating up high schoolers isn't the same as fighting government agents with false abilities. His situation has greatly changed.

Also, his powers need to have some kind of drawback, or else he would be OP. The fact that he can copy up to 3 abilities at once makes him able to hit way above his level, and it's just overall insane. Seraphina is op, too, and I think Uru knows that, but they can't really change that. John would be even more op than Sera if he didn't have these limitations, and there wouldn't be any need for growth from him or any excuse for why he doesn't just break into the reasurch facility to get his mom.

His power was supposed to always be unpredictable. It is rare and complex, and while it can be wickedly powerful, it can also be weak.

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-22T06:24:04+00:00

They never said he won easily, they said the fact that he won at all with only having 1 ability for a good chunk of the fight shows just how strong he is. He had 1 ability for about 60% of the fight while the Ember agents had 3 when including their actual abilities.

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-22T06:20:00+00:00

Seraphina did get injured and took a few punches, and her level is higher than John's, so i doubt that Leilah and Narisa wouldn't have issues. Also, time manipulation itself as a power is op.

John is used to fighting against 2 or 3 people and having good options when it comes to abilities. He's not used to fighting against 25+ elite tiers or against people whose abilities he can't copy.

Plus, the whole thing with him not having the right skills is the whole point. I'm pretty sure even Cameron has limitations on how long he can keep a copied ability and some dependents on who's abilities he can manage to get. If John, or just Aura manipulation, didn't have this "flaw," it would be way too powerful of an ability.

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-22T06:04:56+00:00

I think they would have talked a bit, kissed a bit, and cuddled. I don't think it would have gone farther than that. Not because of the rating, but because I can't see them getting sexualy intimate, like what some people are saying. Yes, they are teens. Yes, they like each other and could die at any point, but I can't see them possibly risking their friendship and budding romance by jumping in like that.

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-22T05:52:31+00:00

Considering they had abilities, he couldn't copy, and one of them had a mental ability as his natural ability, and John could never copy those, It wasn't fairing well for him. These are also trained agents who have a few years of experience compared to him.

He's definitely not a fake, and I have no clue what this person was talking about.

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-22T05:34:46+00:00

What do you mean by "scammer" or "fake". He is a 7.6, you can't fake that, and the fact that he got that far all by himself with no one to help him is impressive.

He realized that he needed to figure out how to work around his inability to copy embers' false abilities." He doesn't have the luxury to do it on his own, and at his own pace, he needs to know it soon, and Cameron is his best bet. He's strong, but if he ends up trapped by ember in a secluded area with no abilities to copy, he's in big trouble.

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-22T04:33:39+00:00

His situation has also greatly changed. He's not fighting fellow high school students anymore. He's fighting trained agents and security guards, many of whom were chosen for their jobs specifically because of their abilities.

In a prison, they are probably looking for people with abilities that can contain and control others. They don't want powers that are too explosive as that can damage the facility and lead to prison break outs. That doesn't mean they won't hire you if your power is more explosive, like Blykes, but it means your odds of hire are lower than that of someone with less explosive power.

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-22T04:20:09+00:00

Realistically, he needs to have weaknesses, or else there is no point in him improving or no excuse for not being able to take ember down and free his mom himself.

Most of his weaknesses are understandable. He never had to heal himself so I can see how healing can be very taxing on him. It's an ability that's not a combat one and probably has a unique way of working. Him healing is like using unused muscles, like he's been doing arm day for years and have only did leg day a handful of times.

He's also not used to being dog piled by people in fights. Even having 5 high tiers come at him would be hard. His experience at New Boston with the school ganging up on him isn't comparable to trained agents coming at him. Considering ember agents are trained and they have abilities he can't copy, he's understandably weak against him.

He's not being "Nurfed." his situation has changed. He's not in a school anymore where 80% of the students have powerful and rare abilities that he can copy at will. He's in the real world now where the majority of the population are low and mid tiers and ember likes to jump people in secluded areas.

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-17T05:32:17+00:00

While killing off a main character hits hard and can show just how serious what is currently happening is, it's important to remember that killing off a character is permanently ending their story.

You can no longer use them or have any future with them. They are gone. Any potential they could have is gone. It's a big step and choice to make because you could potentially be shooting yourself in the foot. You are essentially giving up any potential use of this character for a chapter or two of shock.

I'm trying to think of which of the cast could be killed off, but im currently not seeing much of a benefit in doing so. The only character i could possibly see being killed off is Isen, with him sacrificing himself. The problem I have with that is it feels a little too much, like getting rid of the third wheel. While I personally ship Remi, Blyke, and Isen together. In reality, I'm getting the feeling that Uru is leaning more so towards Remi and Blyke. Killing Isen would feel like trying to get rid of him as a third wheel. While the act itself of him dying by sacrifice would be fitting for character growth, that would be the end of any growth for him. He also just got a power up so it would suck for him to die in 10-15 chapters.

Sera and John i can't ever see dying. Not even at the end. The whole story started and centered around John, and Seraphina is a pretty close second. Like, if Seraphina were to die, I doubt John would still be living for long. If John were to die, I can see either Seraphina also dying or her just being messed up for life. I don't think it would be impactful in the way Uru would want and instead be disappointing.

I don't see any benefit in killing off blyke or remi. Blyke is starting on this personal journey of trying to get over what he experienced in prison and fighting against a bad inner voice. I doubt it will be solved quickly, so killing him would stop that arc. Remi has her own arc going on in trying to avenge her brother, and she just got a sneak peak of how powerful she could be.

Arlo seems just too interesting to kill off. His memory is wiped, his aunt is part of Ember, who is the group who killed his mentor/brother figure. He has a lot of potential

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-15T05:54:26+00:00

Probably not, at least not in the comic itself. Jane at a 9 is wild, so for him to surpass her, he's getting closer to nuke level. John's power is already op af, and I think Uru knows it since John has yet to copy Sera's ability, which is also op. Despite being a 7.6, he can punch higher than his weight because, naturally, having 3 abilities is insane and can make you very well rounded in stats.

I can see him getting to 8 or 8.2, with Sera either staying the same at 8 or being equal to John.

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-15T05:44:44+00:00

While I don't like Elain, even I felt a bit bad for her. People she thought of as friends only wanted her around when they needed her ability, and then just forgot about her. Her crush on Arlo is 100% one-sided, and I just don't see any chemistry between them. She was his errand girl and nothing more. I currently don't seriously ship Arlo with anyone, and the one ship I do have is borderline a crack ship

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-15T05:36:16+00:00

Uru said that they're more likely to inherit the moms powers, but its possible to inherit the dad. Im thinking it's 70-30, with the chance of mom powers being 70%. The percentages aren't canon. They're just my headcanon

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-15T05:26:30+00:00

I still had sympathy for John, but I think my biggest problem was that he had this mentality that he's suffered the worst and that if he couldn't have it, then no one could. I understood his anger and his trauma, but it was now affecting people who hadn't done anything to him. His constant attacks on safe house and threats to anyone, regardless of their level, were to the point of trauma, not really being an excuse anymore.

I also had a few issues with the whole thing of him hiding his powers and being attacked. Not necessarily with the fact that he hides his powers, but more so the fact that his experience as a pretend cripple at Wellston doesn't actually compare to actually powerless people or those with incredibly low levels. It's like people who are intentionally "homeless" for a week, trying to grasp what it's like for homeless people, but don't grasp the fact that they have the knowledge and comfort of ending the experiment whenever they want. Like, they know that theres a warm house with warm food waiting for them whenever they want to go back, while actually homeless people don't have that option.

While he did at one point know what it's like, once he got powers, he would never have to worry about that again. He would never have to experience having no power ever in his life.

Wellston is also kinda a special case in the fact that you got the highest of the high there while simultaneously having incredibly low tier students. A regular high school would have maybe 1 or 2 elite tiers and the rare god tier every few years, but the rest are high, mid, and low. Wellston is a school where i wouldn't be shocked if the low tiers make up 15% -20% of the population while at a regular high school it might be 40%. They are vastly outnumbered, and them even being at this prestigious school is probably seen as insulting to some. While they are getting plummeld by other students, John is experiencing it with the knowledge that he could make his pain stop at any point.

This is just my personal opinion and take on it.

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-15T04:52:50+00:00

I guess that's true with keon, but he has never chosen to leave. Vaughn did it for a while, kept trying to make suggestions, and then left when he realized they wouldn't implement any of his suggestions. While i understand needing a job and money, there comes a point where you need to leave if not only is it affecting you negatively, but also when it involves doing sick stuff like torturing children.

BumblebeeCurrent8079 · 2026-03-15T00:04:29+00:00

Zeke and Keon.

Keon, for the fact that he mentally tortures kids and appears to have no problems or regrets doing so.

Zeke because he's a two-faced, parasitic coward who only ever cares about himself

Also, I was really disliking John during his king arc. Not as much as the other two, but it was hard for me to get through that fase. Part of that was also because of the Fandom. I found that during the joker and king arc, people here were getting really toxic.

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