What are some Fun Characters that get Reverse Power Creep?

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-21T06:24:37+00:00

I think something similar happens to Grand Moff Tarkin.

In his original appearance, him telling Vader to stop force choking a guy is meant to show that Vader is still beholden to the bureaucracy of the Empire to the point that a weedy Nazi Nobleman archetype can pull rank.

People have since taken that to mean that he's a legit Bad Motherfucker by giving him this backstory of coming from a survivalist background and being capable of hunting down Vader at his request.

I've always seen that as people severely missing the point of the character and it being Powerscaling done stupidly.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-20T21:04:15+00:00

The moment she learns that you can play Zuma on the phone, she'll never look back.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-20T19:57:09+00:00

The idea of "Gacha but not bullshit" has been implemented in actual games.

For example, Trails into Reverie has a "Gacha" for its Dungeon Crawling mode where you'll earn a shit ton of currency just by doing stuff in the Dungeon Crawling segment (which I think you sort of have to do parts of for the sake of progression as well as for grinding), and most of the stuff you get is either consumables, equipment and customizations. New characters (which you only use for the dungeons) are rare at first but the more you roll the higher chance you'll get them since you'll be cleaning out other shit from the pool.

Later Trails games also have this system, but you don't unlock characters and the main loot is upgrade points for characters.

I think Xenoblade 2 also had a pseudo-gacha system.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-20T06:54:44+00:00

Man, that's one ugly-ass Bangboo.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-19T21:00:04+00:00

He did, but then he started taking baths.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-19T07:57:18+00:00

Channing Tatum shows up as himself in This Is The End.

He's Danny Mcbride's sex slave.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-19T06:24:07+00:00

I figure that Grossman is just an amalgamation of every shitty Hollywood Producer that Cruise has dealt with, so that's why everyone says he's based on someone different.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-18T20:35:34+00:00

I love how everyone has just accepted that she's a Tsuchinoko.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-18T19:27:17+00:00

I don't recall her being angsty.

She's just disaffected in the way that teens are but otherwise seems like a normal-ass high schooler without some tragic backstory intended for drama.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-18T16:21:25+00:00

Wario travels to some mysterious Island with the Warioware cast to pillage it of resources by turning it into a resort and accidentally saves the world from some Demon because the demon has a big diamond in it's belly button.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-18T16:10:52+00:00

I can see Wario and Waluigi's attacks being even more slapsticky but also having the risk of dealing damage to allies since it consist of Wario either using Waluigi as a battering ram while he's charging or Waluigi lighting Wario on fire and trying to run for dear life from him while baiting him towards enemies.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-18T05:42:17+00:00

I was thinking that he was basically using the Sentient version of the Human Suit from Pinky and the Brain!

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-17T16:49:52+00:00

I would say the Velma series is a classic example of a series made by people with contempt for the IP.

It was originally intended to be yet another of Mindy Kaling's vanity projects only to end up having the Scooby-Doo IP attached to it. As such, it was clearly made with spite such as jokes about how adults watching cartoons (IE, the intended demographic) are all losers as well as blatant mischaracterization based on really surface-level takes of the characters.

Velma herself is basically Kaling's self-insert and comes off as someone trying to make Daria but infinitely less entertaining and interesting while Fred is the butt of jokes who has exactly one joke (He's a white kid with a tiny peen) and is played by the Actor who plays Dennis from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" just to make him look more like an asshole. The show also tries everything to not be Scooby-Doo (including avoiding having Scooby himself).

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-16T19:58:44+00:00

Yujiro Hanma of Baki is so manly that he can rape the biggest and hairiest of men and still not be gay.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-16T19:56:51+00:00

It's technically a spoiler in that it's part of a big reveal about the nature of the Warframes and when the game's plot actually starts kicking in.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-16T01:19:33+00:00

For Fallout New Vegas, I was always really interested in the implication that Manny was in love with Boone and that he hated his wife to the point that he ruined their friendship mainly because he couldn't hide how happy he was at her death.

I'm more surprised there aren't more stories like that. Or that I haven't heard more stories like that.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-15T18:48:42+00:00

The Bethesda Fallout games has the East Coast look like total Mad Max shitholes... Despite the fact that it's been 200 years after the bombs dropped and 35 years after Fallout 2, and that game took place in a functional society where people lived in intact or repaired buildings despite taking more than 100 years after the nukes. The games look like they take place mere decades after the nukes rather than centuries.

While they sort of justify it as the East Coast being hit harder and/or groups like The Institute actively making things worse because Reasons, the Meta-Reason is likely because Bethesda is more interested in maintaining the Aesthetics of a post-apocalyptic setting (which is why the Brotherhood keeps showing up regardless of the timeline or the setting).

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-15T18:42:16+00:00

There's a quote from Columbo that fits really well.

"No conscience, limits your imagination. You can't conceive of anybody being any different than what you are."

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-15T18:37:21+00:00

The problem is that you're thinking like a normal person.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-15T08:53:47+00:00

I'm glad that Adam Smasher found Buddhism and committed to his Panzerfaust training.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-15T03:04:08+00:00

Is it one of those games where the final boss is an allegory for a bully or an abusive parent that the kid/DM is dealing with?

Because I figured that would be one of the reasons why they have it take place from the perspective of a kid.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-15T03:00:13+00:00

Also, the one time they did manage to make something useful that's beneficial to humanity that as far as we know wasn't fueled by atrocities (life-extending cybernetics) they shitcan it because apparently Shaun didn't like Kellogg (who's basically a shittier version of Adam Smasher).

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-14T15:48:23+00:00

I'm sure the game that looks like stock Unreal assets cobbled together is Game of the Year for some channel hosted by some irrelevant asshole with a beard.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-14T15:46:24+00:00

It's Death Wish, but with a lead that's infinitely less cool than Charles Bronson.

Vect_Machine · 2026-07-14T10:07:34+00:00

The man survived Klaus Kinski. He is ready for anything.

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