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Yes. And it didn't have much of anything to hook me to it.
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With the price of death.Firephoenixearl said:Gai, who is just Lee but better trashed a God tier.
Yes, and their name is something along the lines of Tojirou Nangou, Ryouma Kurogane, Edelweiss etc.Ricsi-viragosi said:There are people that gain sexual pleasure from ripping their body apart in an attempt to become stronger. There would be someone that would keep pushing themselves till they can, magic or not.
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The main conceit of the story is "What if all helix-based lifeforms, i.e. ones with DNA, could warp reality/reverse entropy through hope?" and the entire universe/story logically evolves from that premise. At the start of the series, Simon is similar to 99.99% of humans - trapped underground on Earth. Why? Because a long time ago, a tyrannical human realized this reality warping power and trapped all other humans underground, and created massive non-helix-based mechs to terrorize any humans that tried coming above ground. This kept the vast majority of humanity from having hope of getting to the surface, however... A small number of humans made their way to the surface and through technology and ingenuity hijacked/fought the mechs, letting them fight back against the tyrant. But you may be wondering, why is this tyrant intent on oppressing all of humanity? That's because of the Anti-Spiral. The Anti-Spiral is a galactic civilization that constantly monitors planets in the universe for signs of helix-based lifeforms emerging, and wipes out those planets, so that those civilizations will never warp reality to encroach on the domain that they reside over. But then why do they want to oppress other lifeforms? Is it just so they can rule over the universe? Well actually... As the Anti-Spiral advanced as a civilization, they performed simulations on their universe, and realized that life, at that galactic level, could keep on multiplying and expanding, until the universe was essentially full, at which point all life would stop being possible, so they forced every other race into hiding, and locked their own race into simulations so they could occupy as little of the universe as possible, preventing this overpopulation crisis forever. All of the plot series, from the villains and their motivations, to why character power up, to why villains sometimes gave the heroes a chance to save their friends all logically extends. The antagonists explain stuff, show them their friends being held captive, so that they can remove the protagonist's hope, making it harder for Simon to warp reality, power up, and win. |
I think he mentioned at some point that Spiral power is tricky to deal with because if he just killed them, new spiral warriors would feel inspired and rise among the crowd, so the only way to stop a society who achieved it from progressing is by breaking their will entirely so they lose hope,give up and stop newer generations from trying to fight back.InfiniteSped said:There was something about Spiral Power that made him cautious iirc, but I don't quite remember what it was.
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this is shown specially well in Gurren Lagann parallel works 8, which shows how King genome ,after witnessing Anti-spiral's power,Turned from humanity's savior into it's biggest tyrant, slaughtering his own army and using their own greatest weapon to oppress humans back into the underground and rule the surface,all that just so he can keep humanity's number in check and make sure it never surpasses a million,which would bring the Anti-spiral's wrath and possibly extinction. |
Prototype is a series where the protagonist has all these amazing yet terrifying powers. While the sheer sandbox-like mayhem you can cause in the game is what intrigued me about the game at first, the idea of what these horrifying powers could do and what the protagonist (Alex Mercer specifically) could interact with their surroundings with it is also what kept my interest. And the revelation that the protagonist of Prototype 1 was never a human all along, and that he actually is the source of his own powers (which is a virus)... Well, that was what intrigued me about Alex Mercer as a character.Schnee One said:Question
Why do you like Prototype?