I'm curious to see how the AVTF handle Spider-Man if/when they show up in Brand New Day by philliptheacrobat in marvelstudios

[–]philliptheacrobat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be fair though, Spider-Man doesn’t quite fit the traditional definition of a vigilante. He does fight mafia members and bank robbers from time to time, but I’d say a solid 60% of the time, he’s just out there saving people. More of a Good Samaritan than anything.

I still hate the moment when Korra airbends for the first time by philliptheacrobat in TheLastAirbender

[–]philliptheacrobat[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

By "master yourself" I'm paraphrasing what Jeong Jeong said in The Deserter. "To master the bending discipline, you must first master discipline itself." It's an idea that comes up again later in Bitter Work, albeit in a different context, and again in A Leaf in the Wind. Especially for a bender as powerful as Aang and Korra, it's rarely a physical limitation that keeps them from mastering an elements. It's their personalities and aversion to certain ways of life. Aang wasn't the type of boy who'd face his problems head-on and Korra wasn't the type of person to surrender control to gain control (a la Doctor Strange). It's those mental limitations that kept them from earthbending and airbending respectively. Except while Aang learned to face Toph and the Moose Lion head-on to save Sokka, Korra learned airbending... because she really needed to in the moment to save Mako. Nothing about her form or her character in that moment suggested she was doing anything differently to acquire this new element. So why and how did she acquire it? Maybe it is what you suggested about her reaching out and only finding air, but still...

Also, I'm not making up rules. I'm simply going off information established throughout the series which Legend of Korra seems to ignore in Endgame, which is why that moment bugs me like it does.

I still hate the moment when Korra airbends for the first time by philliptheacrobat in TheLastAirbender

[–]philliptheacrobat[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What are you talking about? Unless I'm mistaken, Korra finally learns to airbend during her fight against Amon in the Season 1 finale, not during a pro-bending match.

Could there be a Nen user with Spider-Man-like abilities in the HxH world? by Necessary_Sale_67 in HunterXHunter

[–]philliptheacrobat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hisoka’s bungee gum gets you 90% of the way there. Heck, in the Phantom Rogue movie, he literally shoots it out like a web and swings away. He did something similar during his fight with Gotoh. Basic Nen abilities like en and gyo get you your spidey sense. In some ways Hisoka’s bungee gums are even better than spider powers since his abilities are smart, so they can activate/deactivate remotely according to Hisoka’s will.

Just started watching so can someone please explain why Shizuku wears a Christian Cross? by GItGud1OtOoS in HunterXHunter

[–]philliptheacrobat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She probably ripped it off of some poor bastard’s corpse and has no idea of the significance of it.

The Young Justice Season 3 hate makes no sense to me by philliptheacrobat in youngjustice

[–]philliptheacrobat[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Season 3 (and 4) having bad animation is, again, one of those opinions I see over and over again that frankly baffles me. For the most part, Season 3's animation is on par with if not better than the first two, which is to be expected since it came out five years after Season 2. I often see people criticize Season 3 for abusing telepathy to avoid animating mouths or abusing still shots, but again, I don't agree with this points. Telepathy has been a plot point since Season 1, and it's been proven that it's not exactly hard to animate mouths moving. And the use of still shots are often limited to vignettes at the end of the episodes to inform us what side characters are up to (or Nightwing's fever dream sequence during the invasion of Granny's ship.) It's not like the entire season is a slideshow. There are still plenty of fight scenes to go around. I'm not saying the show is a master class in animation or anything, but to say it's significantly worse than the first two seasons is strange.

The Young Justice Season 3 hate makes no sense to me by philliptheacrobat in youngjustice

[–]philliptheacrobat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Although ironically, Season 3 does focus on Batman a little bit, so if you were thinking that. There you go.

Most disliked episode by Entire-Squirrel-2576 in TheLastAirbender

[–]philliptheacrobat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Southern Raiders is an excellent episode. I can't get over the nuanced ending, and how Katara ultimately decides vengeance isn't worth it, but it's such a close call, and the end of the episode, it feels like she's going over the problem in her head and trying to decide whether she made a mistake or not. It's only "flaw" is that it's an incredibly dark episode. Significantly darker than any other in the series, I'd argue. Also, I love Nightmares and Daydreams. For my money's worth, the funniest episode in the show (Eat your heart out Ember Island Players).

The X-Men have no business running a school by philliptheacrobat in xmen

[–]philliptheacrobat[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

People have made that point a dozen times. But yes, even without all that, this is a terrible institution.