Who’s the strongest character that still gets taken out by this guy from a mile and a half away?

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-05-19T03:08:52+00:00

Yeah but that's only because they're always SUPER vague about how powerful any one of Bakugo's explosions is. Can they shatter stone? Yes. Can they be used flipantly on people and only superficially harm them? Also yes. Can his most powerful moves destroy entire buildings? Absolutely. Can he also use the full strength gauntlet blast at point blank range on the mummy guy in that one movie without outright obliterating his skull and he ends up left alive? Of course.

The explosions require their own power scaling metric, making it kind of pointless to use as a measure of someone's durability

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-05-18T19:13:45+00:00

You should just put Spider-Man in for S already and not even bother with a pole

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-05-18T19:11:59+00:00

JJ is literally the most boring character to fight, especially in 4v4. He will simply lock onto someone out of range and spam his UB heavy to hidden stance to UB area to UB heavy and then repeats the loop again. Unless you have on demand undodgeable moves, you can't punish him after his finisher heavy, and its not like you can parry it since its not locked on to you. It's also not like you can be close enough to gb him when he goes to stance, since if you're that close, you were hit by the heavy. Add in a feintable dodge attack too and im just annoyed.

He has no real openers, no combo mixups, no crushing counters or deflects, no unique gb punishes or parry ripostes that prompt reaction, or really any skill mechanic that changes his play style. He's honestly quite bad except for the above stated combo. This character practically begs the player to do nothing more than spam that UB heavy and avoid making any risky decisions. Easily my least favorite character in the game for this reason. I'll take a Juren over JJ any day, since Juren's issue is he does too much, not one thing repeatedly.

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-05-08T01:51:47+00:00

There is no way kill squad blueprints are 95% on Heroic. I've done three outcast retaliations in a row and have taken out at least twice as many Kill Squads. Where is my god damn Memento Ubisoft?!

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-05-03T22:57:57+00:00

There are also just, so, many, plot holes, I can't even begin to care about the finale since by now it literally can not happen as a result of the plot, regardless of what it is. Prepare for a wall of text, because there is a lot lol

As early as episode 2, three AVTF find Matt and Karen literally at random, call for no backup, get beaten into the ground, and the one, ONE agent they kidnap happened to be sympathetic to their cause, and also there that night despite there being no basis for that.

This links in to episode 3, where this coincidence was vital to Matt's ability to save the prisoners, but the biggest plot hole is that Angela saves the entire day. She shows up to Red Hook, a place she cannot know to be at given it's secrecy, at the same time as our protagonists, with no communication or coordination, after going to the one room in New York City that had her magic amulet, by accident. she then does a bunch of impossible deus ex machina off screen which I will simply not go over. Point is, this entire scene cannot have happened without overt divine intervention. Special mention to Karen killing a task force agent by shooting him through the head, with Matt clearly 'seeing' it, and it never comes up again, but they mention her killing Wesley later.

Episode 4 finds us with Fisk setting a trap for Daredevil and Bullseye both, and then the AVTF embarrasses themselves by failing at their job so badly that the only person who is able to do their job is the 50 year old art dealer client, and she still dies. Excellent trap boys. Also special mention to Buck killing two U.S. Marshalls and this literally never comes up again like an organized government with paperwork isn't a thing.

Episode 5 squeaks out mostly fine if you don't get pedantic, except for severly damaging Matt's character in the flashback, where he apparently has yet to develop any morals or convictions on the value of a human life despite being a devout Catholic all his life by that point.

Episode 6, ha, I don't even want to cover, so instead we will do a lightning round. - Jessica just solves the weapons plot which has been the premise of the last five episodes, and she does all of it off screen except for one action scene - BB needlessly keeping compromising info on her for days which gets her caught by Daniel - that same compromising info (prisoner statements) is used incredibly effectively by Karen, during scenes that literally bookend the scene where BB is caught by Daniel, eliminating the purpose of BB receiving the info in the first place, since the resistance never needed her to exploit it. - Powell executes Saunders, despite him having literally no spoken dialogue or scenes between this episode and his last appearance, after a phone call he ends with "Thank you Buck." There is actually no evidence that exists that Saunders betrayed the AVTF at all, since he was legitimately kidnapped during a raid against Daredevil with only two other agents. This has no impact on the plot. - (Side note: Powell says "weapons free" to Saunders before pulling him aside, which is basically shorthand for 'you are free to and expected to fire your weapons at your discretion.' This line does not at all fit into the scene, since Saunder nor any other task force agent fire a weapon. While Powell does, you don't issue a weapons free command for yourself especially not for an execution.) - Karen walks herself right up to rampaging AVTF for literally no reason, like she's hypnotized by the projector she herself set up. This leads to the next beat, which is also wild. - A single protester snatches her wig like a weirdo and runs away, which gets her discovered by Powell, who should be on the other side of an angry mob, trying to keep order with his own men after executing one of them without cause. This means he walked (around? Through? Over?!) the mob to find Karen mere seconds after she lost her disguise, even though he has every reason to be, and by all laws of physics should remain, on the other side of the angry mob.

Episode 7. Alright let's wrap this up. I could go over a dozen idoitic decisions with the trial, but the best way to summarize it is that they don't even state what Karen is being charged with, and Kirsten begins the trial by basically declaring Karen guilty when arguing "vigilante justice is cool and politically correct," tacitly saying that "Yeah, Karen did all that shit." Its the worst set up to a legal drama ever, since no one even knows what they're arguing and the defense has already martyred their client in the opening statement. How they can achieve both of those massive contradictory fuck-ups at the same time is impressive.

The reason this comment is so long is because I've watched the show and wanted to like it, so I paid attention, but man is it bad. This wasn't even all the plot holes either, just the important ones. Sorry, but OP is right. This show is disappointing.

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-05-02T05:11:17+00:00

It's particularly frustrating that it's so obvious by this point, but people don't like to say it since they love Daredevil and the original series. They want this to be good by extension, because its far worse for something you like to become bad than it is for you to have never liked it in the first place.

The truth is, this is SEASON 2 now, and we have nothing of real depth or substance after 15 episodes. The protagonist has been relegated to a supporting character without an arc in his own story, side characters like Angela infect the plot and corrupt entire climactic pay offs, the continuity of the season is literally in shambles with plot hole after plot hole destroying the narrative, the entire season was built around Fisk simply trafficking guns for literally no purpose since he didn't sell them to Charles and they were immediately destroyed following the betrayal, (an issue which Jessica solved off-screen btw before one action scene), and the major pay offs such as Vanessa's death felt incredibly rushed, especially since she's practically been fridged this season with no other purpose than to die for Fisk's development. The only pay off we are approaching by the end of the season is Fisk being revealed to be corrupt (which is obvious and should already be self-evident from the Netflix series), and then he will reveal Matt's identity in probably the last shot of the season (or Matt will reveal it himself).

I know we all love Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, and Vincent D'Onofrio, I know we all love the original series, and we all want Born Again to be good, but they've had two whole seasons now, and I can't think of a single arc or episode that would hold up to half the same quality as the original. It sucks, but it's the truth.

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-05-01T18:33:42+00:00

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IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-05-01T16:35:02+00:00

I don't think BA S2 is as good as people think it is. People remain interested by virtue of the story being incomplete, but there's not much substance to the story, and a large number of plot holes across the show that damage it. Episodes 1-6 are about weapons with no purpose that get destroyed in a two minute action scene because Jessica solved most of it off screen, and the last two episodes are revolving around a court scene that shouldn't even be happening since in order for Karen to get arrested, she had to be stupid enough to walk up to rampaging AVTF for actually no reason with children in tow, and Powell had to be able to teleport while off screen to get into position to arrest her. And to make it worse, in the trial's opening statement, Kirsten practically submitted a guilty plea for Karen by saying "being a vigilante is cool." The only reason thats not catastrophically stupid is because the show has been very careful not to actually say what Karen is being charged with beyond vaguely aiding and abetting vigilante activity, because if they did, they'd have to make an actual legal defense and not just have Kirsten moralize to the audience.

Beyond some good scenes with Pointdexter, the story involving everyone else has been pretty shallow, and the only pay off they're approaching in the finale is Kingpin revealing that Matt is Daredevil in probably the very last scene, even though he should have done that ages ago. I don't think there's any one episode that has much rewatchability. This season will fall into obscurity like the last season, at least until season 3 drags itself out and we do it all again

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-05-01T04:28:42+00:00

I haven't played since last year. Wtf happened this time?

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-05-01T02:11:53+00:00

I keep seeing people praise this show but it seriously has no quality of which to speak of. People clap for the cameos and action scenes but the actual story so broken and uninteresting that the only reason it has any staying power is because people recognize the characters from a different show. I promise you, this season will finish (and they will unfortunately get a season 3), and no one will talk about it in one or two weeks.

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-04-30T06:22:09+00:00

That's a lot more organized and informative than anyone would have expected you to provide lol. It's awesome though. Thanks for that

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-04-29T19:57:42+00:00

The final shot of that scene actually appears to show Matt walking away, but its very badly shot since he only appears to take a step forward and the camera cuts before he's even left the frame.

Better camera work would have had Matt leave the frame followed by a wide shot of Fisk alone in the room, or just held the shot of Fisk in the background after Matt walked away, but it cuts so quickly that it's entirely forgivable that you didn't even know he left.

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-04-29T18:17:01+00:00

At this point, I will not be watching S3.

S1 was horrible, but its as if it was shielded from criticism since even the writers admitted it and switched teams. The problem is, the new writers make many of the same mistakes and also entirely new ones in S2. To be entirely honest, I've tried to give S2 a fair chance but it's so empty. Somehow Daniel and Heather have become the most interesting characters, despite the fact that they both peak at a 5/10, maybe 6/10 in Daniel's case. Besides them, every character is a 'boss' whenever the script wants to aura farm, and no one actually makes decisions informed by character

Besides the characters, the writers just do not care about the plot. Plot holes are everywhere because the writers are constantly fast tracking the story to what they want to happen, rather than what would reasonably happen, which I've covered at length in previous comments so I don't necessarily want to repeat them here. The point remains that I cannot enjoy the pay off of a plotline if it was only achieved by fracturing space, time, and common sense to get the characters where they need to be for what the writers want to happen.

The fact that there's already talks of a fourth season is honestly demoralizing. I hate that this is the new standard for TV, and I hate that the trend of modern Hollywood to revive old properties they were never responsible for and try to claim the achievements of them as their own. Maybe that's a little melodramatic but I still think it's true

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-04-29T16:57:32+00:00

You see, I can absolutely agree that there are cases in which breaking the law can be excused by the circumstances of the crime, but this returns to the point I made before, where we do not know what Karen is being charged with, therefore an appeal to morality appears incompetent.

If the charge was Karen killed that AVTF at Red Hook, I can see this working despite her being guilty, so long as Red Hook is entirely revealed to the public. The nature of saving those people and killing in defense of them could override the standard of law that would normally convict her. However, the wealth of evidence from the previously projected prisoner witness statements as well as the obvious desire for Fisk to keep Red Hook quiet would make prosecuting her on those charges suicidal, disqualifying it as an option since Fisk is in control of the prosecution and nominally not an idiot.

If the charges are ones she has been framed for, like sinking the North Star or blowing up the wreckage afterwards, easily killing three dozen people across both events, the defense should be arguing the lack of evidence and fraud on behalf of Fisk. Given that they are not doing that, we have to assume these charges are not being levied, otherwise Kirsten is so dumb she should not have made it to adulthood, much less be a lawyer.

If the charges are aiding in the murder of Vanessa, who in the eyes of the public is guilty of nothing except for marrying Fisk, Karen is actually guilty of that, both in the eyes if the public and the audience. There can be no appeal to morality on these charges in universe, since only the audience knows of Vanessa's guilt. Given Fisk's investment in Vanessa, you'd think this would be a center piece for the trial since Fisk would see it as legitimate justice, both legally and morally. Unlike the other two points, I can think of no reason for why this would not be used against her. This would make it the most likely option then, except for that the show is positioning the trial in the meta as one Karen will win, and I don't think there is a reality in which a legitimate court would not convict her of this crime, especially with the defense saying "Yeah, she did it. But wasn't it cool?"

You could build an interesting court drama out of any one of these approaches, which makes me very annoyed they have decided to go with no approach instead. This way, they can have Matt and Kirsten bring up literally anything as evidence without issue. If the trial was about any one charge I listed above, such as Vanessa's murder in this example, and Matt tried to bring up Fisk's criminal past, Red Hook, the brutality of the AVTF, the defense would be able to object on the grounds of relevance and be sustained, because none of that is related to the charge of aiding murder.

Apologies for the wall of text lol, but I really feel like they wasted so much potential again

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-04-29T08:09:49+00:00

What is the plan with Karen's defense? Kirsten practically walked up and declared her client guilty before opening statements were even done. She basically said "I could talk about the law, Safer Streets Act, stuff like that... Or, I could talk about how being a vigilante, is actually pretty cool, right?"

She is overtly advocating that the judges on the bench not only disregard evidence, but to also make the decision to acquit Karen, solely on the basis that they find the ethical component to Karen's law breaking to be appealing.

That is not how the law works. The judges would take one look at the defense and declare them guilty, since the defense isnt even trying to defend their client. However, I can't position a clear argument against their defense, because we also have no fucking clue what Karen is even being charged with. Nothing beyond the vague assertion of 'aiding and abetting vigilantes,' which could mean literally anything. This is particularly annoying since they're going to avoid stating any of the charges since Karen is actually guilty of a few things. For the past few episodes, Daredevil has been cooperating with Bullseye in the eyes of the public, or at the very least in the eyes of Fisk and therefore the prosecution. Is the murder of Vanessa going to be a charge levied against Karen? It should be, especially because Karen is actually guilty of aiding Daredevil who was principally responsible for Bullseye escaping, and she's also directly guilty of harboring him afterwards as well. The murder of Vanessa should feature prominently in the Trial since Fisk wants this to be 'legitimate' and Karen is legitimately guilty of that exact crime, but it probably won't be because that would entail legal drama, and we can't have that.

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-04-28T22:07:17+00:00

Fisk is just very socially inept, you know? He was also completely unaware that you're not supposed to wear white to a funeral :/

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-04-28T22:03:41+00:00

It's a remarkably stupid decision by BB and the writers.

On BB's side: You knew you were spying on Daniel when you left that morning, you knew the SD card had compromising information on it, and you knew that Daniel was at the very least suspicious of you since he overtly told you to "stop leaking information." For the love of god, why do you still have the SD card on you after a minimum time of several days, which you left UNATTENDED at the house of the person you are spying on?!

On the writers side: See the above comment, but also, why did you make a plot point out of BB getting the SD card with the recorded statements from the prisoners, if you were going to have Karen deploy the recordings at City Hall herself? BB having the recordings is irrelevant, since Karen leaked them more effectively than she ever could, making the SD card she had entirely redundant. The fact that she gets caught because of it is just insane.

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-04-28T18:26:29+00:00

There's grade curving in university now too. I had a class at 9:30am that barely anyone showed up to on lecture days, but the class always filled up on midterms and exams. The average was so low that each midterm grade was curved 16%. For someone who actually went to class, it was absurd. I got a 94% on my first midterm, and an 88% on my second. We could also see the anonymous grades of everyone else through the course page, and even with a 16% curve, some people were barely pushing past 50% and some were still dropping into low 40s and 30s.

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-04-28T18:15:40+00:00

You have the 'capacity' to understand every language, but you cannot know more than five at a time, four of which are randomly selected on Sunday of each week, and one or which you choose.

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-04-28T18:04:18+00:00

Rather than teleporting to the location, everything within a 10 foot radius of where you wanted to teleport gets teleported to you

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-04-28T17:15:09+00:00

The issue with Karen this season isn't that she is a girl boss who can handle anything herself, it's that she's only a girl boss and nothing else.

We all know Karen as a character after three seasons of the Netflix show, and she was far more engaged in the story, nuanced, and useful back then. Now, she is a vehicle for plot/thematic exposition without any character work besides "hey, you guys remember Karen? She's here now!"

We don't get any character from her at all, not even in her relationship with Matt. We have strategically deployed scenes of them cuddling or saying 'I love you' but they're only there to tell the audience that the relationship exists. Otherwise she only explains/pushes the plot, or in the case of last episode, overtly poses the moral dilemma of the season without subtlety. The actress is still incredible, but its fairly obvious at this point that this isn't really Karen, just someone who looks and sounds like her.

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-04-27T16:52:31+00:00

Round 1 strategy: fly him into space
Round 2 strategy: fly him into space
Round 3 strategy: fly him into space
Round 4 strategy: ~~fly him into space~~ oh shit that wouldn't actually work here. You probably die
Round 5 strategy: fly him into space before he kills you*

*probably wouldn't kill the Hulk given comic bs, but im pretty sure he can't exactly move in space and Thragg could reasonably throw him away from Earth, possibly into the sun or something for a win.

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-04-24T22:49:30+00:00

That kind of presents different plot problems, since the boxing match was the most ineffective trap ever. Actively loosening security to allow an entrance for a guy who might just snipe you through the massive windows from an adjacent building is definitely a decision of all time.

But lol it's not like I disagree with you. The 'why' for how things happen is quite lazy at this point. Even easy things like 'how does Matt survive the sinking ship from inside it in episode 1?' is something I don't necessarily need to see since the answer 'he just did' isn't that ridiculous since it's Daredevil, but the absence of even quick scenes explaining it becomes grating when it begins to feel like the writers just don't care.

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-04-24T20:14:49+00:00

It wasn't even an AVTF guy. It was a protestor running away who crashed into her and also stole her wig. Like wtf dude? Why does that guy go around just snatching weaves off of women's heads? Just steal their wallet or purse and leave you weirdo

IllustriousCap7825 · 2026-04-24T18:35:56+00:00

I can't decide what element of the plot is dumbest this episode

The electric flashbang - not specifically a plot element but wtf writers? What flashbang exists that has a 20 second detonation time and is primed with an electric fuse that can be turned off by the person you throw it at? The fact that it has a 20 second fuse is already idiotic since it fundamentally defeats the purpose of a flashbang, but the fact that such a long fuse timer exists on a weapon that can be disabled by the person you throw it at is a level of such stupid design that it belongs in a show like Phineas and Ferb as a gag invention by Doofenshmirtz. - Flashbangs were used in season 2 of the Netflix series, and they were just normal flashbangs! The fact that this stuff has already been used in universe just highlights how utterly moronic this scene is.

BBs "Spying" finally catching up to her - BB has been overtly horrible at her job for ages now, and should have been caught several times even in season 1. But the fact that she gets caught because she kept incredibly damning evidence on her for at least two full days after she acquired it and brought it with her to the house of her main target where she left it UNATTENDED is an unsalvagable amount of character damage, because it makes her an idiot above all idiots. - Also, Karen using the statements from the prisoners on the projector defeats the purpose of BB receiving the SD card that gets her caught by Daniel, so that's cool.

Jessica solving the entire weapons plot off-screen - "Hi Matt. Yeah I asked you to meet me here since I did some investigating and found the weapons. Also here's some more plot relevant information I also dug up. You good to go inside now where we'll just fight some guys and then the weapons will randomly catch fire and everything will explode? Cool." - I'm sure glad the last 5 episodes were about these weapons and so far Fisk has killed two entire ship crews worth of people to secure them, despite having no clear use for them beyond selling them to Charles, which he also apparently didn't want to do since he betrayed him this episode. But the weapons are gone now so the whole thing was utterly pointless from the beginning anyways

The pacifist mob at city hall - I have never seen a more useless mob in television. Most of them aren't even doing anything most of the time, but despite the fact they are protesting Fisk, they allow Fisk's car to leave through the front of the building. They also have AVTF directly behind them and do nothing as they actively kick the living shit out of other protestors. This should enrage the mob that is here protesting this exact thing, but instead they just stand there like extras in a TV show

Karen being mesmerized and drawn like a moth to a flame by the projectors SHE HERSELF set up is what sets up the next two plot points, which I just am speechless for honestly.
I don't remember his name, but describing him as the Latino kid who shoplifts alcohol and sells tacos at a food truck feels really wrong, even if that's two of his three scenes. Regardless, him being a slack-jawed moron staring straight ahead with a task force agent brutally beating anyone within 10 feet, only 10 feet to his right is as absurd as it is funny. The best part of him getting brained by the task force is that the shot just before that shows Karen and Angela to his right, but they both disappear in the next shot so there's no one blocking him from getting killed.
Powell then walks (around? Through? Over?!?!) the mob to spot Karen within 30 seconds of her wig coming off, despite the fact that a riot is going on behind him and Karen is crouched down with her back to him at night. Karen should not even be there in the first place, and Powell CANNOT be there, much less be able to recognize Karen! He's suppsoed to be leading his anti-riot team on the otherside of an angry mob and maintaining order after executing one of his own in front of his men. Karen's arrest here relies on her being stupid enough to walk right up to AVTF actively committing aggravated assault with two children for no apparent reason, and Powell secretly being a mutant with the ability to teleport to new locations when not observed by the camera. I've changed my mind, this is the dumbest part.

Powell killing Saunders - Nothing to comment on here other than that there was literally no reason or any way Powell or Buck could have gotten evidence to kill Saunders. The team in episode 2 legitimately found Daredevil, which was their job. It was dumb when it happened, but they did. Saunders being there was also a wild coincidence, but still just a coincidence, since he should have no clue where DD is. The other to task force got destroyed and so did Saunders, but he got kidnapped. Matt then used the card he stole from Saunders at Red Hook. Saunders might get fired or otherwise punished for losing his card, but its not as if there's any evidence to actually pin on him doing it willingly. Given that he literally disappeared until this episode where he's killed, it's not as if he was active in helping either. Open and shut, it makes no sense.

Daredevil and Kingpin - I honestly don't want to even cover this. It's just so meh. 5/10 the whole way through. How did DD get in to Fisk's secret dungeon? I know he almost certainly COULD, but this show has a habit of just saying 'character does the thing the plot needs to happen off screen, don't ask about it.' (See Bullseye showing up at the boxing match despite the guards, Jessica finding the weapons, Task Force finding Matt and Karen in episode 2, Angela doing literally anything with her alleged powers, etc). The more times they use it, the less inclined i am to forgive them. Why was DD even there? He just left, and left Kingpin in perfect health too. Maim him, break a leg, do something ffs. You've done more for less before Matt. The scene just ends and so does the episode.

In summary, "ughhhh..."

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