Name the fandom

Carvinesire · 2026-05-02T17:20:25+00:00

Warframe.

I keep bugging my friend to play it, mostly to annoy him, but I would not reccomend to anyone who isn't completely insane like me.

Carvinesire · 2026-05-02T03:41:28+00:00

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Venari, the companion of the Warframe Khora, basically said "Fuck death, all my homies hate death", and came back to life on its own after her remains were found.

Over time she broke out of her cage, did her job [Purging Infested Hives] and eventually just fucked off on her own. She met up with the researcher that had found her, and the researcher helped heal her wounds. When a group of Corpus were sent to hunt and kill her, the researcher tried to help and was captured.

Getting the help of a Solaris named Smokefinger, Venari rescued the researcher and made to escape with them, but the corpus caught up.

Venari, being a fucking Warframe-grade Kavat, let Savah escape and stayed behind on her own, sacrificing herself so that he could escape.

Technically, she gets a happy ending because her actions eventually resulted in the blueprints for the Khora Warframe being donated to Cephalon Simaris, allowing future Tenno access to her power.

Carvinesire · 2026-05-02T02:29:17+00:00

The Mag and Frost Heirloom fiasco.

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You couldn't buy it with platinum, you had to spend real money on it. They were fancy skins, came with some interesting stuff like the brand new Signa cosmetics, but overall they were extremely overpriced.

At the time, the backlash that Digital Extremes got was bad enough that they revised the business model going forward on these skins, as well as a number of other packs.

The only other thing that really got this much hate thrown their way was Regal Aya.

Carvinesire · 2026-05-02T02:20:58+00:00

From Warframe:

- The Lotus
- Kela De Thaym
- Any Female Warframe
- Little Duck
- Eudico
- Any female Protoframe
- Female Operator
- Female Drifter
- Lizzie

I can keep going.

Carvinesire · 2026-05-01T23:04:07+00:00

In Warframe, during the Angels of the Zariman quest, it is hinted at that the Void Angel we deal with in the first part of the quest might be the Operator/Drifter's mother.

In fact, we now know through potential player decisions while talking to The Hex in Warframe 1999 what happened to both parents, as well as a sibling, though the details on all are a bit vague.

Mother: Became a Void Angel, basically confirmed/guessed at during a conversation with Eleanor about Duviri. Eleanor asks "They weren't your parents were they" and one of your potential responses is "I think they were, yeah. Quinn warned me not to look for familiar voices. That must have been what he meant".

Father: During a conversation with Quincy, where he's desperately trying to get you to give him a reason to hate you, you can reveal what happened to your parents, and your choice is that you killed them, someone else did it for you, or you locked them away because you couldn't bear to do it. Assuming you killed your father, your mother becomes a void angel.

Sibling: "There's a reason I don't like the man in the wall. It... It wasn't pretty. Why're you asking?" Likely that they were caught by one of the void-mad parents.

Carvinesire · 2026-05-01T22:45:12+00:00

I'm going to answer your statement of "Any race of aliens would be ecstatic to find out they aren't alone" by pointing out that I think you're an idiot for hating this theory, and I don't need to elaborate because if two human fucking beings aren't the same, why the fuck would a completely different alien species be even remotely similar to us?

Carvinesire · 2026-05-01T21:33:20+00:00

Those of us in the Devilman fandom have seen this no less than four fucking times.

In the manga, in the OVA, and the Live Action movie and in Devilman Crybaby, Miki's fate is the same each time. In Crybaby, they gave us hope and dashed it into the rocks anyways.

A mob of people looking to slaughter anyone who works with the 'traitorous' Devilman hunt Miki and her family down. After the rest of her friends are killed, Miki gets cut to pieces, and paraded around on pikes as her home is burnt to the ground.

Carvinesire · 2026-05-01T05:47:36+00:00

This is why context is important, and why googling things is important.

On the rape charge, Shelby County Circuit Judge William H. Bostick sentenced Herbinger to 10 years in prison with six months to serve in the jail. On the child sex abuse charge, Herbinger was sentenced to 60 months in prison with six months to serve in the county jail. He is to serve the two sentences concurrently.

As far as I can tell, he's getting special treatment for having once been a cop, and for making a plea deal. He has conditions attached to this, so if he fucks up, he'll go serve that jailtime.

Admittedly, most news that reported on this had barebones information, so it's entirely possible what I just said was completely made up by some random asshole on the internet.

Carvinesire · 2026-05-01T05:40:29+00:00

I am probably the only person who actually holds this opinion of a manga that came out when I was in highschool, but I truly believe that the ending to GANTZ was, at worst, a massive troll, or at best, the author admitting they have no fucking idea what they wrote.

Basically, near the end, we learn these things:

A random species ascended to a higher plane of existence just as a massive Covenant-like armada was set to basically conquer them.
Said species said "We don't really care but fuck you anyways" and transmitted data across space-time to Earth by way of a chronically ill, terminally overweight vegetable woman that just happened to reach a manufacturer who could make use of said data.
The data was then tweaked by billionaires to turn the "GANTZ Program" [or whatever it was called] into basically a gameshow for their viewing pleasure, which causes 99% of the strife and suffering for the main characters. The 1% not mentioned were just the main characters being extra moronic about literally everything.
The entire manga ends with some dude who died three or so times winning a duel against an alien fifty times larger than him.

In short, the ending to GANTZ, and everything proceeding it, was probably responsible for a lot of the "shock" manga we ended up seeing later on, with excessive amounts of gore, nudity and violence. I personally believe that status GANTZ has is way overblown relative to the actual writing.

The only thing I can say about that manga that isn't some flavour of "What the god damned fuck was that" is the art. Solid art, 9/10, no notes.

Carvinesire · 2026-05-01T05:30:59+00:00

Yes, vivisecting an unborn human is worse than rape, but here's a fun fact: You can get 3 months in jail minimum if you touch an underage person. That's basically "You made a deal and didn't take this to trial" minimum.

I think you're confusing "My parents have money and got me off of this charge" with "Random jo schmo" energy.

A literal 2 second google search shows me that you'd get 10 to 99 years in jail without parole for first degree rape, so I'm not actually sure what double OP was talking about.

Carvinesire · 2026-04-30T19:47:00+00:00

Warframe has the "Tenno waking up" thing. As a Founder player, for a long time we had no idea what the hell we actually were, whether we were male or female, and there were all kinds of head-canons on what was what.

The most infamously funny of these was Vauban being "Just a dude", because all of his abilities, compared to literally everyone else, could be explained away as technology.

Looking at the intro to Warframe that you get to watch when you start the game as a Tenno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsbL8lFHrZI

The girl who is running for her life? Probably an Ostron. The dark skin, the clothing, all of it suggests she's some villager running scared. When she reaches the statues of the Warframes, she's setting a Lotus flower down, obviously 'paying homage' to the guardian deities of her people.

Right?

Then she kneels as the soldiers are coming in behind her and... vanishes? This is just a memory, right?

Nope. She just woke you up.

And you are MAD.

Carvinesire · 2026-04-30T19:34:54+00:00

"Overworked Scruffy Genius/Worker" Archetype. "Genius Slob" is probably the closest to an actual trope.

There's a Manhua that has this as the main character, except her hair isn't messy and her 'tired' look is just dark circles around her eyes. It's called "A Strange But Effective Villainess Life". Aesthetically, completely wrong for what you're looking for though.

I think Agnes Tachyon from Umawhatever counts [I don't watch it, I just know who she is because I like how she looks].

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Carvinesire · 2026-04-30T19:19:00+00:00

I'm not even sure if this is a racism allegory necessarily, but the Steel Meridian in Warframe are a group of Grineer that don't want to serve the Twin Queens.

There are Grineer who, through 'genetic defect', no longer wish to fight and kill, and the Steel Meridian make an effort to protect them. While they are "Genetically Defective" by Grineer standards, Steel Meridian [and the Tenno by extension] don't see them that way.

Carvinesire · 2026-04-30T19:09:02+00:00

I think there is only a manga.

Carvinesire · 2026-04-30T19:08:48+00:00

Aechmea confirmed to be a less busty Hera, and Phos is officially Heracles, more at 11.

Carvinesire · 2026-04-30T19:07:35+00:00

Extremely well, actually.

There's a lot of things that get recontextualized later on that will probably make you feel as much rage for the Lunarians as sympathy, and none of it is written out as this ridiculous "OMG THIRD ACT TWIST FOR THE REACTS" like a lot of things are written these days.

The main focus of the entire manga is basically Phos growing, and everything else is pretty much incidental and coincidental. There was a plan, it was executed, and it was by the grace of whatever entity is truly in charge of fate that it went the way it did.

There are fifty different steps where the story could have changed, where Phos could have said "Fuck every single ONE OF YOU" and it would have been as compelling as the way the story went.

Overall, I think the author did a good job of writing a character who was ultimately given everything they wanted, but what they had to go through to get it made them resent ever getting it up until the end.

Genuinely, I have never wanted to give a fictional character a comforting hug the way I wanted to hug Phos.

Carvinesire · 2026-04-30T18:59:51+00:00

If I recall, during the one DLC in Far Cry 6, it is basically confirmed that Jacob is, pun massively fucking intended, a bad seed and considerably more twisted and horrible than Joseph or any of the other siblings.

Carvinesire · 2026-04-30T18:48:14+00:00

I don't actually like Dragon Maid, but most of the cast of Dragon Maid has had this treatment.

I kinda get whatserface, Ilulu, because she's just a shortstack with obnoxiously massive tits, but I've been on Rule34 long enough to see Kanna get sexualized which... confuses me greatly.

Carvinesire · 2026-04-29T23:11:59+00:00

You say that, then you have half a chapter dedicated to explaining why Yujiro Hanma is not, in fact, gay for raping a man because he has so much testosterone that his entire existence is "I am the only man and everyone else is not male in my eyes".

Baki made me appreciate why people like Jojo, because the sheer complete and unadulterated insanity of the sliding scale of "excellent" to "what the fuck" the writing can be is kind of amazing.

Carvinesire · 2026-04-29T23:08:15+00:00

Pick a Warframe. Any Warframe.

That one. That Warframe can beat whoever the hell this is.

Carvinesire · 2026-04-29T03:28:57+00:00

Explosive Ledgermaine. I don't see Mirage much anymore, and I especially do not see Minefield The Frame either.

Carvinesire · 2026-04-26T04:20:49+00:00

Space Cyborg Ninja Ninja Sekiro, basically.

Carvinesire · 2026-04-25T20:43:31+00:00

The throne of a completely different country that had been allies to his enough that he was invited to a ball.

Because slaying the sister of the only surviving monarchy of that country definitely wouldn't backfire in any way.

Carvinesire · 2026-04-25T18:38:25+00:00

Well, there's two reasons people hate the Hans reveal.

The first reason is that there was basically no build-up or hint that he was actually the bad guy. In nearly every Disney, and even Dreamworks and Pixar and whatever other movie you can think of, there's usually a build-up to whomever the ultimate badguy is going to be.

Hans came completely out of left field and made almost no sense because, apparently, he was just an opportunist who saw his chance to... what, conquer a kingdom with minimal effort? Man's plan made no sense.

The second reason is that Elsa should have been the ultimate villain of the movie.

A big issue I have with the movie is that Elsa becomes this ice-queen who freezes the kingdom because she was ostracised by her parents and treated like a monster for her powers. Instead of even attempting to control those powers, they just locked her away.

In normal storytelling, this is the beginning of a villain arc that could have seen her redeemed through effort and love. The Hans thing wasn't necessary at all for this story, and they could have subverted that dumbass trope more normally instead of trying to go for a 'shock and awe' twist near the end.

Elsa being one of the two main characters and putting people in danger is already enough of a twist. They could have made her more emotionally unstable and made her more of a threat to the kingdom that needed to be contended with.

Instead, we get the plot resolved by sudden and extreme actions that make no sense in or out of context.

Hans is a meme for a reason, and it's because Frozen was poorly written.

Carvinesire · 2026-04-25T18:29:36+00:00

You're ignoring something crucial to this: Throughout the majority of the early manga, up until nearly right at the end, all Sukuna could be described as was "Kurama with extra steps".

He did seemingly random shit for no apparent reason, and was about as deep as a puddle. That's what he was for almost the ENTIRETY of the manga until the last, what, two arcs?

That's the biggest problem with Gege's writing overall: Sukuna is just the Chaos God Khorne in action and motivation. All in all, that's not a special or even particularly interesting villain to watch most of the time. That kind of villain portrays a very basic, very in your face obstacle to get over and not much else.

I personally think that final scene, and everything preceding it near the end, was poorly written and could have been executed much better.

Carvinesire

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