Wasted Potential

[PsychoWarper]

Yes, that's why I'm surprised that a leftist goverment hasn't done anything regarding this issue.

I wont engage on any political stuff but I wouldnt call Lovecrafts works an “issue” nowadays. Sure it has some racist stuff (Which is an issue but it hasn’t specifically caused issues afaik) but honestly not all the stories do and overall people have seemingly disconnected the works from the author well enough.

Plus people dont really talk about it much currently and its not exactly promoting any super radical ideals or being the cause of some uproar in violence or anything like that.

I cant really remember the last time a book akin to CM was banned in the US. Regardless they still sell his works, I should know as I own some.

 

[Dir333]

Every Straw Hat but Luffy - As much as I love One Piece, Luffy always solves all the conflict. Granted, there are team efforts involved with that, but it's monotonous. All the Straw Hats fight fodder, with the exception of the Monster Trio, who fight the first, second and third strongest normally. I thought Wano was changing that but it looks like it's returning to form. I get that he's the main character and all, but could we have a conflict that's not solved by "main character stronk go brr"?

Every straw hat have fought a tobi roppo in wano

 

[ZoroNotZolo]

Every straw hat have fought a tobi roppo in wano

True, but it looks like Zoro and Sanji will be fighting King and Queen respectively (the second and third strongest) while Luffy fights Kaido (the strongest). So, even though they're not necessarily fodder, the cycle is still kind of repeating itself.

 

[Dir333]

True, but it looks like Zoro and Sanji will be fighting King and Queen respectively (the second and third strongest) while Luffy fights Kaido (the strongest). So, even though they're not necessarily fodder, the cycle is still kind of repeating itself.

That's not really wasted potentials,they are all powering up each arc and fighting stronger opponents zoro,sanji and luffy goals are just bigger/they are the main fighters

 

[ZoroNotZolo]

That's not really wasted potentials,they are all powering up each arc and fighting stronger opponents zoro,sanji and luffy goals are just bigger/they are the main fighters

Still, it's wasting them in the sense that there could be situations where they're doing more, but are for the most part relegated to pretty much fighting characters by order of power level.

 

[Dir333]

Still, it's wasting them in the sense that there could be situations where they're doing more, but are for the most part relegated to pretty much fighting characters by order of power level.

Doing more??? You expect them to be fighting the yonkos or all stars???? Robin,franky,chopper,nami and brook have done great things against the tobi roppos

 

[PsychoWarper]

Zoro very clearly did more when he also fought Kaido, gave him a permanent scar and blocked a combo attack from BM and Kaido if only for a moment.

Hes currently fighting King, Kaidos number 2, after sustaining injuries from his battle with two Yonko.

If you wanna argue everyone else ok but Zoro at this point has arguably preformed as well if not better then even Luffy has.

 

[ZoroNotZolo]

Doing more??? You expect them to be fighting the yonkos or all stars???? Robin,franky,chopper,nami and brook have done great things against the tobi roppos

I meant like not having the play of events be as formulaic and all.

Zoro very clearly did more when he also fought Kaido, gave him a permanent scar and blocked a combo attack from BM and Kaido if only for a moment.

Hes currently fighting King, Kaidos number 2, after sustaining injuries from his battle with two Yonko.

If you wanna argue everyone else ok but Zoro at this point has arguably preformed as well if not better then even Luffy has.

This is very true. Zoro been based.

 

[Kisaragi_Megumi]

Everyone in Akame Ga Kill. There are some cool ideas shown. But I feel the show was never really given the chance to flesh itself out and was way too short. And I feel like characters deaths in there were only there for shock value and nothing else. A lot of the deaths don't really contribute to anything and are just there because... why not? The show never gives you that much of a time to give a damn about these characters, which is why a lot of them feel empty.

Also about characters not being given enough time to shine.

I hate how Esdeath's trio of minions were slaughtered in like, and episode after being introduced, and yet they're suppose to be some kinda large threat to our main cast. They aren't given why we should fear them, all they do is kill some fodders, but like, so can our main cast.

Bulat felt really wasted, they wanted to show him as some badass and they wanted to portray the edeath Trio as threatening because they (Or at least only one of them) can put up a fight against him, but he himself doesn't have much before hand to make us nervous for what'll happen.

Also Wave was completely useless. I like how the show tried to have him as some rival to Tatsumi or like his opposite but just... didn't and forgot why wave was even there.

I could go on more, but that would take way too long.

Honestly i have no idea why Takahiro decised to killed almost everyone with no impact or anything, he just wen "Tomino kill'em all" but way worse

Esdeath is the only reason AgK can still entertaining, girl is basically carried the series until her death

 

[Setsuna_tenma]

Zach in lookism. He pretty much loses everytime he fights an important character.

 

[Stefano4444]

Mass Effect 3: Reapers/Harbinger and Cerberus/Illusive Man.

The Reapers with the shitty ending which made them look stupid an lame with their mission of "preserve" life by killing everyone in the galaxy.

While Cerberus was turned into a cartoon level villain, when it should have been more morally ambiguous like back in Mass Effect 2.

 

[Setsuna_tenma]

the reapers being compared to fire is one of the dumbest things i have heard

 

[Stefano4444]

the reapers being compared to fire is one of the dumbest things i have heard

They should have go with the Unity Ending.

 

[Stefano4444]

Also even worse, no final boss fight with Harbinger/Illusive Man, when they had all the right set-ups.

 

[ZoroNotZolo]

Lady Dimitrescu in RE: Village (and kind of the game as a whole) - Honestly, she should have been the main villain of the story. What makes her stand out as an antagonist for a game would be the fact that she has a family of her own, she has daughters, and thus something to lose. Also, since it kind of links to events back when Leon was a rookie, it'd be cool to have Leon S. Kennedy return and be the protagonist of the game. His "I've seen it all before attitude" was part of what made RE4 so great, imo. Ethan won't be present since he was an annoying protagonist (we could just say he volunteered to let tests be run on him to find a solution to deal with mold should anything else like what happened at the Baker's residence happen anywhere else or something), and no plot saving Rosemary. But for real, for someone that received so much hype from the internet, she had essentially an abysmally small role in the game when it finally came out.

 

[Theendzero13]

Finn from disney's star wars, do i need to explain?

 

[Stefano4444]

Finn from disney's star wars, do i need to explain?

More like everyone from the sequel trilogy.

 

[ZoroNotZolo]

More like everyone from the sequel trilogy.

This man spitteth facts.

 

[Kisaragi_Megumi]

Lady Dimitrescu in RE: Village (and kind of the game as a whole) - Honestly, she should have been the main villain of the story. What makes her stand out as an antagonist for a game would be the fact that she has a family of her own, she has daughters, and thus something to lose. Also, since it kind of links to events back when Leon was a rookie, it'd be cool to have Leon S. Kennedy return and be the protagonist of the game. His "I've seen it all before attitude" was part of what made RE4 so great, imo. Ethan won't be present since he was an annoying protagonist (we could just say he volunteered to let tests be run on him to find a solution to deal with mold should anything else like what happened at the Baker's residence happen anywhere else or something), and no plot saving Rosemary. But for real, for someone that received so much hype from the internet, she had essentially an abysmally small role in the game when it finally came out.

I disagree hard on this one but i'm not having much energy to argue right now

 

[Dragonstitch]

Iron kingdoms: any character that is not Haley, Striker, or big time Cygnar characters post Warmachine/Hordes MK3.
To explain in MK1, and 2 they would make yearly expansion books that would add new models, story for each faction. In MK3 they got rid of these and moved to novels but the down side most of them were cygnar only or were story lines of other factions that were forced into cygnar stories. An example there was a 6 year long storyline for the faction named the legion of everblight that was hyped up to have a massive upgrade to their leader, but half the book was about Haley a character that was not been part of that storyline until now and then became the focus of the ending, the item that was going to the legion's leader was taken by her and given to another dragon who got most of the dragons in the verse to form an alliance with cygnar.

 

[Bababo]

Literally every single z figher that is not vegeta

 

[Naito-desu]

Instant Death has genuinely interesting ideas with the whole "eldritch being gets sent into another world" premise, just wish it wasn't done the way it was.

 

[EliminatorVenom]

Remembered about Mikazuchi Rei from Kengan Ashura. His concept was so cool, his fighting style was awesome, he was powerful and could do so much... But his personality was basically edgier Sasuke whose only motivation was a girl. Said girl had far more personality than him.

It's a shame that his personality is so, so undeveloped.

 

[Stefano4444]

Dragon Ball Super: Goku Black and Jiren.

Yeah, looking back at the Zamasu Saga, Goku Black was kinda wasted for a part and thinking further him be an alternative version of Goten could have work better, but instead of Goten just go suddenly evil crazy (which its dumb) or his body getting possessed like Goku, why not have Zamasu seeing the potential of a hybrid saiyan and since he didn't like Goku why not kidnapping his youngest son and twist his mind to his ends.

Ether with his Supreme Kai's mind power, actual magic or just good old fashion silver tongue (by maybe showing with visions how corrupt and evil are mortals, by using saiyans as prime example), Goten become devotee of his "divine" cause turning in something of a pupil of Zamasu, maybe an actual Supreme Kai Disciple.

Over time Zamasu will rigorously train Goten both body and mind, making him learn new techniques, giving him Supreme Kai's unique abilties and even making him learn God Ki, this until both of them are ready to enact the Zero Mortal Plan, kill all gods and mortals and repopulate all universes with people of his own image.










For Jiren, i don't need to say the problem of his character, he is just bland and boring overall.

 

[LordGriffin1000]

W.I.T.C.H.: Erin Peyton, she is an interesting character and shows up as a secondary antagonist due to being tricked by the primary antagonist into believing the Guardians are evil and so she not only gets the upper hand over them, but without any effort, she joins the good side simply because they showed her an image of her missing brother. You'd think she'd be more conscious but no, her brother just appears randomly out of a portal and she's now all for team W.I.T.C.H.

She goes even further than that and decided to help them find and fight the primary antagonist but when they can't find said antagonist, she just returns to her home and leaves without doing anything... it's stupid! Her and her entire part in the story didn't even need to be there. They give us a character with drive, and has an interesting story at the beginning but then just yeet her out of the story without giving any pay off.

 

[Deadguy]

Me

 

[ZoroNotZolo]

Me

lol

 

[The_Axiom_of_Virgo]

80% of the Sonic cast from the StH games; they're either jobber, useless and/or cheerleaders while Sonic hard carries the world on his shoulders because his "friends" are incompetent without him Looking at you Forces that allowed a literal self insert OC to surpass almost everyone else lol!

I could rant on all day but there are dozens of videos on YT that explain the wasted potential of the cast, (Rightfully) tears into the naysayers/detractors while also showing how other mediums that aren't directly made by Sega (E.g IDW/Archie comics and Maina) actually handle the cast way better than Sonic team's core games (Even with Sega's corporate interference and restrictions).

Tl;dr: Silver was robbed of his MC role in future games (bEcauSe 06 bAd), Blaze is criminally underutilized (Outside Silvaze fuel even tho 06 literally destroyed her backstory), Knux is a meme (With little other substance), Tails is defenceless tech support as well as an exposition machine (So much for becoming more independent from Sonic), etc.

Funny how the games have been stuck in abject mediocrity (or worst) post-Generations (Maina being the outlier) the same game that really expressed the cast being cheerleaders.

 

[ZoroNotZolo]

80% of the Sonic cast from StH in the games they're either jobber, useless and/or cheerleaders while Sonic hard carries the world on his shoulders because his "friends" are incompetent without him Looking at you Forces that allowed a literal self insert OC to surpass almost everyone else lol!

I could rant on all day but there are dozens of videos on YT that explain the wasted potential of the cast, (Rightfully) tears into the naysayers/ detractors while also showing how other mediums that are directly made by Sega (E.g IDW/Archie comics and Maina) actually handle the cast better than Sonic team's core games (Even with Sega's corporate interference and restrictions).

Tl;dr: Silver was robbed of his MC role in future games (bEcauSe 06 bAd), Blaze is criminally underutilized (Outside Silvaze fuel even tho 06 literally destroyed her backstory), Knux is a meme (With little other substance), Tails is defenceless tech support and exposition machine (So much for becoming more independent from Sonic), etc.

Funny how the games have been stuck in abject mediocrity (or worst) post-Generations (Maina being the outlier) the same game that really expressed the cast being cheerleaders.

Sheesh.

 

[Metalballrun]

Chloe Aubert/Chronoa from Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken (Light Novel).

She is the central character of one of the story's major plot point that spans in the first 11 volumes. In this first eleven volumes, her character was actually handled well. A legendary hero that is beyond even the level of other heroes. "Sealed Veldora." Is described to be capable of destroying the world. Although she can't fully harness it, she has the energy comparable to Veldora that's sealed within an infinite space inside her. Many of the mysteries tied to her that has been built up by the story was answered in Volume 11. On top of that, she awakened as a True Hero with two Hero's Eggs (basically she's a two-for-one kind), on top of all that unusable energy turning into this super OP sounding Ultimate Skill called Space-Time King Yog-Sothoth, and then she got another Ultimate Skill, Hope King Sariel. So she has the power to control space-time and life and death.

Then she gets treated like ******* Vegeta in the next major arc. Couldn't do anything significant at all.

 

[Bababo]

James from pokemon

The fact that he is not the main charater makes me mad

 

[Stefano4444]

The entire Kingdom Hearts, seriously the story its a mess.

 

[Stefano4444]

Steven Universe's entire story in a nutshell:

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

I was rereading Baki and-

wtf even was Yu Amanai in the Max tournament?

he had such a cool introduction, had a lot of hype, and even went blow to blow with one of the stronger character at the time (Doppo) just to get like killed off and never mentioned again.

kinda wish he stayed around for later parts. His fighting style and philosophy were pretty cool. Was a waste to kill him off and just forget about him.

 

[Teezar]

Rock Lee and most first villain of an anime.