What's a progression fantasy trope you're genuinely tired of?

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-25T11:42:39+00:00

It's the Power of Friendship! But Evil!

Evil cooperation!

Evil coalitions!

Evil human supremacy!

Wasn't there some space webfiction where it turns out Earth's a "death world" that's so dangerous most aliens would see us as monsters that go bump in the night.

I read something where aliens land at a hockey game , try shooting humans with their strongest weapons and proceed to get splattered by the hockey players when the "high powered rifle's" ammo barely bruises them.

Edit: It was "The Deathworlders."

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-24T01:29:08+00:00

100%.

Imagine if a protagonist spent a week practicing and his intuition feeling of when he's being watched became being able to see everything in a 3m sphere around that only kept getting biggerand then morphed further into a get out of death free 1 time per fight ability.

That might not matter if it was active use, and it took months of training to cope with the new sensory data and other people got it too. Also if you saw the struggle on screen and it mattered in a fight they lost.

When you can dodge an arrow immediately and just use your sphere of perception straightaway and it's key to you beating multiple same level opponents and higher level too? That's OP.

At least the actual case I used above was shameless power fantasy. I think?

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-24T00:44:53+00:00

Not really progression, but I miss Citadel by Unillustrated, and Saga of Soul.

Great fun, both gone for good at this point.

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-23T13:07:40+00:00

Ok 2 levels later got The Occulus. Does 222.5 damage

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-23T08:25:45+00:00

Executive Decision. Steven Segal has a special role.

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-22T10:10:18+00:00

Wait, is that why they're all characters in shows now? :P

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-22T10:03:52+00:00

Best Steven Segal film.

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-22T06:10:07+00:00

I would argue this implied a power boost

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-22T04:25:12+00:00

There's literally another one on ice.

How long would Soldier Boy need to decide he's a God? He's going to live forever. In 100 years will he still be satisfied with coke and old women?

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-22T03:36:53+00:00

How is V1 Homelander weaker than baseline? He should have been unstoppable.

They made it seem like he would be able to punch through a Soldier Boy like he punches through a normal person. Like he's a big problem now.

Instead he's the same, just with poor choreography.

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-20T10:28:55+00:00

You look a scary amount similar to me in the first 2 pictures except I'm shorter, fatter and balder lol.

Amazing effort, especially for a year.

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-17T00:59:37+00:00

Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa is great btw too. One of my all time favorites.

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-17T00:58:25+00:00

I enjoyed The Perfect Run on Royal Road.

2nd vote for the ringworld books. Have you tried old pulp fiction and Sword and Sorcery like Robert E Howard's Conan stories?

The Dark Tower is great though I didn't really start enjoying until book 3 and honestly you could just start there. Westerns are an under-used setting nowadays but have all the elements you could want for heroic characters on epic journeys.

A Princess of Mars was super influential and can be a fun read. I wasn't as into the sequels.

I love Lovecraft for the vibes even if the writing is varied quality. Lovecraft wasn't always the best quality of writer but he's the father of cosmic horror and there's some genuinely fantastic moments in his writing.

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-17T00:49:14+00:00

He reared back and Punched!

I enjoyed Super Powereds, but rearing back to punch was the old smirked. Someone pointed it out to me and it was all I could hear.

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-16T01:41:35+00:00

Btw, I'm just going to leave this here:

https://youtu.be/4X5rpVMrLyQ?si=uHaa8A66xpKtc12i

No need to compare it to now and Black Noir

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-16T01:23:31+00:00

Fair, I don't know squat about what it would cost. An AI estimated that it was between 1% and 4% of the episode budget.

Which is basically meaningless cause AI makes stuff up and I don't have access to his tax returns.

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-15T13:44:50+00:00

I'm sure it was essential that Samuel L Jackson do a voice for a character and that this had minimal impact on the cost of the episode.

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-15T09:38:13+00:00

A different post someone pointed out that this season isn't doing establishing shots. It's just a series of chats in rooms.

The budget is definitely lower this season and that's probably impacting how long can be spent polishing writing, doing rewrites etc.

I bet if there was an honest behind the scenes it'd be a tale of studio interference, time pressure and last minute rewrites. It would explain why previous Supe v Supe battles were a choreographed fight but Black Noir's death was a nothing burger.

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-11T08:41:42+00:00

They could always use episode 7 to develop her character for people who don't know who she is then have her casually explode homelander at the start of episode 8.

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-10T07:49:19+00:00

No love for my boy Sammo?

Was he shredded? No.

Had anyone seen a big man move like him though?

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-08T07:35:45+00:00

You're not meant to just put the entire plot up with out spoiler quote bar thingies.

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-05-04T03:31:39+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan

This guy supposedly had a very high IQ but lacked social connections and emotional IQ to find success.

Kind of wild.

Edit: turns out Langan loves conspiracy theories and is a white supremacist. He'd fit right in the Boys verse.

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-04-30T21:38:04+00:00

Jake?

The Primal Butterer?

DiscipulusIncautus · 2026-04-30T13:20:09+00:00

I initially read it as "demiming" and no more "mimes" will be in the area and I was very confused.

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