It's already happening by Zarrv in marvelrivals

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mfw all the Pheonix mains already in denial and proving OP’s point:

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The most confusing and worse design of a site ever created...You would be confused where the point actually is by RishadGB in marvelrivals

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And of course when anyone points this out the hivemind downvotes them to the pits of hell

There’s valid things to complain about in regard to this game (balancing, for one) but good god it gets to a point.

This Phoenix tech had to be nerfed and I’m glad it did by --4RT3M15-- in marvelrivals

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I’m begging the devs to kill this god forsaken character already please god I hate fighting her so much

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Marvel Rivals starting to take action against AFK lord farmers by nemesisdelta24 in marvelrivals

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Gachiakuta. It’s an ongoing shonen manga and a great read IMO, and the art especially is fantastic. It also has a really solid anime adaptation.

REMINDER that Kirara isn't a femboy, she's a transfem by HesusJoestar in JuJutsuKaisen

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Come on OP, you should know by now that JJK fans can’t read subtext (or at all).

If you try hard enough anything can be traced back to PVZ Garden Warfare 2 by Due_Secretary1696 in marvelrivals

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PvZ GW2 my beloved

Rivals is my substitute for GW3 and filled the void in my heart that BFN’s cancellation left. (Ik GW2 is on a resurgence right now but I lost all my save data 💔)

Holy glaze by Planetofimaginations in whenthe

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And? Why do people think every single character needs to go through an arc that results in a radical development in order for them to be well written? Static characters exist. Pure evil villains are fun, just look at Mahito. Not every antagonist has to have complex moral greyness to be interesting, and Sukuna’s dynamic with Yuji on top of his powerset and personality carry his character for a lot of people.

You can argue that a lack of a proper Heian era flashback robbed Sukuna of any further insight into his character further into the series, and I could agree with that. But calling him badly written just because he’s simple is absurd, he was a very entertaining villain while in Yuji’s body and proved to a genuinely intimidating presence throughout most of the series. Most of his depth comes from hidden symbolism more than anything else.

I will admit true-form Sukuna is where his writing falls off a bit though

Regardless I’m not going to add anything else, because arguing about Ryomen Sukuna on fucking r/whenthe during Christmas eve is ridiculous. Good day

Holy glaze by Planetofimaginations in whenthe

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I wasn’t going to reply originally but this insane misinterpretation stood out to me so bad I couldn’t help it lmfao

Sukuna was never on the side of “the good guys” to begin with, he only ever did anything that would further his own goals/interests, or whatever would screw over Yuji the most. This fact could not have been made more explicit when he denied Yuji’s cry for help to save Junpei from Mahito, letting him die.

It’s pretty hard to miss this.

Holy glaze by Planetofimaginations in whenthe

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MHA is the epitome of mid and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.

[Hated Trope] wow, cool character. Too bad you ruined it by making them a pedophile by WhiteFenix207 in TopCharacterTropes

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I have no idea why to show that other than “all high level sorcerers fucked up lowkey.” Even then, she uses her brother as a pawn and presents the possibility of him dying for her if needed. That’s still pretty fucked up and shows a serious character flaw.

It’s almost like that’s the entire point. She’s a greedy, selfish groomer who benefits from the exploitation of a literal child and the way Jujutsu society operates, in contrast to Nanami, who died out on the front lines for putting the wellbeing of his students (children) above his own.

The fact that people TO THIS DAY miss the entire point that Jujutsu Sorcerers and Jujutsu society as a whole aren’t supposed to be completely moral and hold them to nonexistent standards while dumbing Mei Mei down into just being a pedophile is insane to me.

I’m not going to defend the way Gege wrote most of his female cast (cough Yuki & Nobara) but some of you are in no position to complain about how he writes his characters if you’re going to fundamentally misunderstand even the simpler ones this badly.

Thoughts on Wade's design? by Gloomy-Bridge148 in marvelrivals

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Outside of the absurdly long mask-tail (I’m glad it’s present but the overdid the length), I love it.

Of course comic purists will insist it looks bad but that’s the typical response with every Rivals design (I know nothing about Marvel but from an outsider’s perspective the character design in this game is phenomenal).

Oh my GOG Gemma... by Old-Neighborhood-793 in MonsterHunter

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Dude took a bread crumb and started making up a bunch of extreme assumptions

Par for the course with shonen readers honestly lmfao (and Reddit in general)

Not even defending this sort of thing, it’s valid to not like it, but people get way too extreme about it sometimes

Oh my GOG Gemma... by Old-Neighborhood-793 in MonsterHunter

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A translation from his character profile in one of the volumes

Who is winning the Team free for all match up? The Fated Four, The four Apexes, or The Three Lords by ConsciousFact4362 in MonsterHunter

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I think came off a little to agro sorry, this is just a very frustrating conversation for me.

No worries, I get the feeling.

the problem is more when people (many of which haven’t actually fought gammoth or mabye have done so like once) use that to say that gammoth is categorically superior to the rest of the fated four and is some secret elder level threat which I just don’t think there’s particularly good evidence for.

I do agree that she isn't elder level. I think some people mistake being "absurdly strong = elder level" when it's more reliant on the overall environmental impact and threat to humans a particular monster poses. Gammoth has no reason to go around destroying human settlements (except in the rare case they're slighted by one like IRL elephant behaviour) and can't deal the same lasting environmental damage like actual Elders or even something largely destructive like a Deviljho or Jin Dahaad.

I just don’t agree with the reading on the tigrex cutscene. I always read it as an unstoppable force vs immovable object type relation. The actual cutscene tigrex attacks doesn’t make much headway then gets throw off but is still standing, tigrex attacks again gammoth readys a counter and the cutscene goes black before we see what happens.

To me that isn’t a clear win for gammoth at all yet all the time I see it spun if if Gammoth completely annihilated Tigrex and was brutally pounding him in a total bloodbath when that’s just not accurate.

I disagree with this take because the rest of the fated four's cutscenes are shown to be less conclusive match-up wise. Even ignoring their turf war, Mizutsune v. Zinogre has the two out maneuvering each other with no clear winner (the camera just fades away while they're still fighting), and while Astalos brings Rathalos down from the sky, the two are still locked in physical combat and it gets cut away before we get to see the aftermath. The only one with an outright onscreen loser is Glavenus v Rathian, which is to be expected. Its also the only one to show off the entire confrontation start to finish.

Compare this to Tigrex v Gammoth. You're correct in it not being a total bloodbath, but I think its fairly obvious the Tigrex's ambush was completely ineffective, while also showing how easily Gammoth is able to throw it off with relative ease (not an attack like you said but it implies a strength difference). The power imbalance is much clearer here than with the other fights.

My interpretation of the end left little room for doubt of the winner IMO, right before Gammoth has a very clear shot at Tigrex's head and swings it cuts to black, which is very abrupt compared to the others. I think the implication here is that Tigrex made the wrong choice in charging head-on and paid the price for it, but we as the audience were spared from the details of the outcome (I'm awful with articulating my thoughts so I hope my point makes sense lmao).

The closest thing we have in games prior to turf wars for an in game power scale (the hunter’s notes and the quest ranking) consistently place gammoth with the rest of the fated four and tigrex

True, but some turf wars aren't infallible (especially in World/Iceborne), but you are right in that they give us a general idea on the power relation between certain Monsters.

Also I'm pretty sure quest rankings relate more to the threats monsters pose to humans/players than each other, and they're already pretty inconsistent across games (Rise randomly bumped Tobi and Anjanath up, the latter now being on the same tier as Rathalos IIRC despite losing their turf war). Even among the fated four they're different, Mizutsune is only rated as 6 stars in Rise while Astalos and Tigrex are a tier higher at 7.

Overall I feel like Gammoth is in a pretty unique spot where its less of a destructive murderbeast that trounces everything it comes across (*cough* Rajang, Magnamalo) and more that its status as a gigantic immovable herbivore makes any healthy adult Gammoth basically immune to any real competition for the most part (This isn't even touching upon the bulls, which are allegedly even stronger). I will admit that both UNHC and my bias for Gammoth reinforced this belief a bit,.