Meliodas, Rey, Kirito etc.
Who are the worst protagonists ever?
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Potter.
I say it's good I can't recognize a single shit of this series.Redo of Healer, Ainz and any other bastard MC that’s too overpowered to ever face any comeuppance for the things they do, Abby from the Last of Us, the generic OP Isekai protagonist / Kirito clone
Point is they look all the same to me that I can't differentiate them.
King of time
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why? Decade is so bad even Zi-O couldn't redeem him
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Yuno from Black Clover. I swear I hate him.
I want an explanation for this, dude is pretty good rival to motivate asta and he's better than most rival character by a mile.
Doronbo_Shirake
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Randomdude
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You know credit where credits due, ainz may be a terrible monster but he doesn't have the generic isekai design.. Heck even among skeletal isekai protags his fucked up proportions/skull makes him stand out.
King of time
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Here are some I can think of.
Galadriel (Rings of Power, not to be confused with the original Galadriel)
Bella Swan (Twilight)
Spartan Locke (Halo 5)
Alex Eggleston (YIIK)
Ryder (Mass Effect Andromeda)
Galadriel (Rings of Power, not to be confused with the original Galadriel)
Bella Swan (Twilight)
Spartan Locke (Halo 5)
Alex Eggleston (YIIK)
Ryder (Mass Effect Andromeda)
Randomdude
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Ill throw one, james heller prototype 2.
Now being fair he's not a terribly written chracter on his own, he's a generic action hero that wants his daughter back...The problem is the world around him and the power set they gave him with the story they wanted to tell.
James heller is gifted the same powers as alex mercer...This makes him a defacto man eating abomination against god, he literally eats people to steal their faces, skills and memories. With the occasional snack on other monsters to get stronger. Now short of starving yourself I really can't think of a way to make this powerset "good". At best you might reach a dark nuetral point (only eating criminals/those that "Deserve" it) but they're really designed to be edgy evil powers.
His powers fundamentally don't work with the character the writers wanted and the story bends over backwards trying to pretend heller isn't an abomination.
Most notably three to four missions in we go on a mission to eat a commander, and heller doesn't because he catches the commander on the phone with his daughter...The problem? At this point you've had to eat atleast three or four military personal as part of the story, likely dozens more as you ate the soldiers attacking you for health boost...
The way hellers powers work is he takes everything, name, memory, skills...Everything that made you special as a person gets subsumed and abused by the person that eats you. Are we supposed to assume this commander is the first person hellers met with connections? Friends? Family? Its nonsense the only way for heller to be consistent as a character in that moment is either to eat that man or for him to not have been snacking down on others beforehand.
In the end the real issue was someone wanted a more morally upstanding protagonist but didn't want to change the underlying powers/mechanics from the last game cause they were cool/what made it successful. So we get a man eating abomination against god the story can't ever fully acknowledge is an abomination and will brush aside you eating people as either "they deserved it" OR "We'll pretend that didn't happen"
By the end of my first playthrough I was hoping alex mercer would just eat me, cause as much of an emo bitch as he was being at least he wasn't pretending to be anything other then a megalomaniacal monster with a god complex.
For the flaws with prototype one alex character and his powers were always in sync, there was never a sense of disconnect because in and out of story alex knew he was a monster and reviled and reveled in his nature in equal parts. Hell one of the writers once got @ on twitter about alex barely being better then the monsters/military/black watch and he stated "That was the entire point"
Alex personality and powers were designed around the fact he was a monster, the story worked to reinforce that point throughout the game
Where hellers story trys to dance around what he is and what he does being fundamentally horrifying.
Now being fair he's not a terribly written chracter on his own, he's a generic action hero that wants his daughter back...The problem is the world around him and the power set they gave him with the story they wanted to tell.
James heller is gifted the same powers as alex mercer...This makes him a defacto man eating abomination against god, he literally eats people to steal their faces, skills and memories. With the occasional snack on other monsters to get stronger. Now short of starving yourself I really can't think of a way to make this powerset "good". At best you might reach a dark nuetral point (only eating criminals/those that "Deserve" it) but they're really designed to be edgy evil powers.
His powers fundamentally don't work with the character the writers wanted and the story bends over backwards trying to pretend heller isn't an abomination.
Most notably three to four missions in we go on a mission to eat a commander, and heller doesn't because he catches the commander on the phone with his daughter...The problem? At this point you've had to eat atleast three or four military personal as part of the story, likely dozens more as you ate the soldiers attacking you for health boost...
The way hellers powers work is he takes everything, name, memory, skills...Everything that made you special as a person gets subsumed and abused by the person that eats you. Are we supposed to assume this commander is the first person hellers met with connections? Friends? Family? Its nonsense the only way for heller to be consistent as a character in that moment is either to eat that man or for him to not have been snacking down on others beforehand.
In the end the real issue was someone wanted a more morally upstanding protagonist but didn't want to change the underlying powers/mechanics from the last game cause they were cool/what made it successful. So we get a man eating abomination against god the story can't ever fully acknowledge is an abomination and will brush aside you eating people as either "they deserved it" OR "We'll pretend that didn't happen"
By the end of my first playthrough I was hoping alex mercer would just eat me, cause as much of an emo bitch as he was being at least he wasn't pretending to be anything other then a megalomaniacal monster with a god complex.
For the flaws with prototype one alex character and his powers were always in sync, there was never a sense of disconnect because in and out of story alex knew he was a monster and reviled and reveled in his nature in equal parts. Hell one of the writers once got @ on twitter about alex barely being better then the monsters/military/black watch and he stated "That was the entire point"
Alex personality and powers were designed around the fact he was a monster, the story worked to reinforce that point throughout the game
Where hellers story trys to dance around what he is and what he does being fundamentally horrifying.
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OrlandoSky
Paramount
Three way tie between:
-Meliodas (his existence and power level completely trivializes everyone else’s agency in the show and the fact that he’s written as a jack of all trades self insert from the writer and is a groomer doesn’t help)
-Kazuya from Rent-a-Girlfriend (GET. A. FUCKING. HOBBY DUDE…he literally just cries and jerks off, the dude is so pathetic it goes beyond pitiable and is just downright despicable. There is nothing he says or does that doesn’t invoke secondhand cringe)
-Natsu Dragneel (Dude is an actual destructive menace. I don’t care how many villains he nakama punches he causes so much property damage with 0 repercussions every time cuz “lolimsocheeky”. Fucking wild animals have more restraint than him)
-Meliodas (his existence and power level completely trivializes everyone else’s agency in the show and the fact that he’s written as a jack of all trades self insert from the writer and is a groomer doesn’t help)
-Kazuya from Rent-a-Girlfriend (GET. A. FUCKING. HOBBY DUDE…he literally just cries and jerks off, the dude is so pathetic it goes beyond pitiable and is just downright despicable. There is nothing he says or does that doesn’t invoke secondhand cringe)
-Natsu Dragneel (Dude is an actual destructive menace. I don’t care how many villains he nakama punches he causes so much property damage with 0 repercussions every time cuz “lolimsocheeky”. Fucking wild animals have more restraint than him)
You remind me of why I was happy when Gildartz put him in his place and made him cry
TrueG 37
Acclaimed
The dudes inoffensive at worse tbh. I only wish he had more screen presence.....well he gets more than most but still. He actually has a healthy rivalry with Asta and that's way more than I can say about characters like Bakugou or Sasuke etc.
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OrlandoSky
Paramount
I’m curious, What made Midoriya a popular choice? Dude just kinda seems completely wonderbread stale and boring. But that’s about it.