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whiteflame55 said:
Your cliche is certainly one I'd agree is problematic. I could pick quite a few, personally. The last dakika arrivals saving a character really get to me. Along a similar vein, I have a big problem with powerful characters conserving their strength for no conceivable reason beyond making a fight seem zaidi interesting to start. Probably the biggest problem for me, however, is the "gotcha" deaths. Fairy Tail, Naruto, and Bleach have all done this. A character, for all intensive purposes, dies. No, I'm not talking about a character taking a lot of damage and appearing dead, I'm saying that there's a certainty of death. It looks like a game changer, something that will be groundbreaking for the series. Then they revive them. Whether it's Ultear, Pain, au Ichigo's inner hollow, watching characters die and then come back to life just irks the hell out of me. Watching a series treat itself seriously for once and then immediately pull the rug out from under us is one of the worst cliches I've seen, and it's all too consistent across series. P.S. Yes, I realize that there are other examples, with shows like Yu Yu Hakusho being other blatant cliches, and Dragon Ball Z making all of these look ridiculously small kwa comparison, but I wanted to focus on the main shonen here.
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