Trope Talk: Powerups
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- Опубликовано: 12 янв 2023
- Some tropes, like the Deus Ex Machina, are blatantly narrative-breaking in almost all of their forms, but are given special dispensation to break as much as they want as long as they LOOK really cool while doing it.
Shockingly, this episode is not 100% anime examples! I narrowly resisted the urge to exclusively source all my clips from Fairy Tail. It would've been so easy.
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I think the best "I'm holding back" explanation I have ever read was in a Spider-Man comic. He was thrashing the Vulture in a Sinister Six arc and he, in his usual mocking fashion, asks Toomes if he ever wonders how Spider-Man barely defeats them when they come at him one at a time, but can defeat all six of them at once when they come together? Spidey provides an answer. I cannot hold back anymore. When it is just you I am trying, actively, not to hurt you but when the lot of you come together I can't afford to do that.
As much as the MCU gets wrong, one of the best lines I've ever heard was "Are you Thor, the god of hammers?"
My favorite power-up moment is in The Incredibles, when the giant death robot accidentally gives Mr. Incredible a chiropractic adjustment that fixes his back and lets him fight better
The best “The Power Was Within You All Along” I’ve ever seen is in the How To Train Your Dragon books, where Hiccup suddenly discovers he is a master sword fighter after being terrible at it until that point despite constant training… because he breaks his right arm at the start of the fight and learns for the first time that he is actually left handed
I think my favourite kind of power up is the 'dropping my moral code' power up. The hero has been actively avoiding killing people because they see it as morally wrong. Then the villain does something so terrible the hero snaps, and you get the amazing "Oh sh*t, they're actually trying to kill me now. Please God help me." moment from the villain.
I think "wise-cracking character stops making jokes and just starts attacking" is a power-up in itself.
"You can't use this ability without harming yourself" will always somehow become "You will somehow get away with using this ability whenever you want, as often as you want, with the consequences being absolutely minimal"
The more I learn from these videos the more I realize that the true lesson behind it all is "You can do any trope you like as long as there's story being told along with it."
In his book, *Manga in Theory and Practice*, Hirohiko Araki tells how by the end of Part 2 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure he began to realize that basing your story around powerups and ever stronger heroes was a losing game. Over the course of the next parts of Jojo he threw out his old magic system entirely in favor of one that was designed around encounters whose structure wasn't 'am I powerful enough' but 'how do I escape this metaphysical mystery box the villain has put me in before he turns my organs into poker chips?'
I love Rock Lee's "time to stop holding back" power up in his fight against Gaara. The whole time everyone's laughing at Lee and how he can't be a ninja without ninjustu, and Gaara is built up to be this monster of a kid. Then when Guy sensei tells him to remove his training weights, they laugh again about how a few training weights could affect the fight. Lee drops the weights causing them to crater the ground and send up a shockwave of dust. It shows everyone's face an shocked expressions. It wonderfully implies all the training Lee had to go through to get to this point.
"I'm not left handed either" is one of the best god damn moments in cinematic history. When Inigo is on the ropes early in the fight and switches hands, the audience knew it was coming since he already established that he was going to duel Wesley left handed so the fight wouldn't be
I like the fact that the “spiky glasses villain” Red has been drawing for this episode is basically a villain who is also a legitimate therapist who actually does their job at all times
I love that the "I am not left-handed!" scene absolutely counts as a power up and Red used it in the video. I absolutely love it.
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the whole "The power was within you the whole time" Trope was what really killed my enjoyment for the 'Flash' live action show. Theres only so many times that the plot can be resolved by "Im not fast enough!!" "Yes you are Barry." "Oh I am" before you just start to guess the whole season by ep 1.
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I think Po is the best example of a good "the power was within you all along." The 'there is no secret ingredient ' theme means he just has to work hard and believe in himself when previously he didn't think he could.
one of my favorite "I'm always holding back" ones is that time Kingpin put Aunt May in the hospital by ordering thugs to attack her from jail. Spiderman went to the jail, Explained to Kingpin that he never kills anyone as spiderman because the suit represents a more pure ideal than that. He says "I'm spiderman, and I'm not here to kill you", starts taking off his costume, and says "I AM" He proceeds to use the full extent of his superhuman strength to BRUTALLY beat kingpin within an inch of his life; where kicks from spiderman barely phased kingpin, a punch from Peter Parker KNOCKS TEETH FLYING. He's not here to have spiderman enact justice; spiderman already did that when he put kingpin in jail. He's here to BEAT THE SHIT out of a guy that put peter parker's aunt in a coma. He holds back this lethal force as spiderman because spiderman has to be better than that; but peter parker just saw his only parent in a coma they might not wake from; Peter lets it ALL loose and after brutalizing kingpin, grabs him by the fat on his chest, Positions his hand over kingpin's mouth, and explains how when he fills kingpin's lungs and nasal passages with webs, no surgery will be able to save him before he suffocates. He says he'll kill him at zero, and counts down to zero. He then explains how he already Did kill kingpin, by showing him that at any time, no matter how well guarded he is, Peter Parker could Effortlessly Kill Him, and so if Aunt May dies in the hospital, peter will come to collect his corpse. Peter does all this in front of The Entire Jail at a gathering time. Kingpin falls to his knees, staring lifelessly at the ground.
just imagine if the protagonist just got their powerup at a random time, they could just be talking about oranges then they just suddenly go super sayian
I like how the first Kung Fu Panda did the ‘power was inside you all along’ trope. It’s built up that the dragon scroll is the ultimate power up and that it’s going to externally somehow turn Po into the dragon warrior. But when it’s revealed that the power was inside him all along we really get it, because it’s a big part of his character to constantly self deprecate. In the end it’s by being himself and using what he learned from the people who believed in him that he defeats Tai Lung who couldn’t fathom the idea that what he had always fought for had always been within