Chosen One Problem 

It's pretty boring, the chosen one story.

My BREACH OF PEACE order just arrived, looking really forward to it!

Basically dishonored.

It’s ok if its soldiers… *Until you remember soldiers are people…*

I just realized you play isekai dnd

Do you know any fantasy books like that?

Dark One by Brandon Sanderson!

Great idea for a story. Book one would be a chosen one troupe then the chosen one takes over and their former companions have to try and take down their friend who turns out worse then the original bad guy.

@@patrickwehbe8020 *D U N E*

Uhhhh. Starwars?

Are you talking about hellboy? He is destined to do so.

master skywalker, there are too many of them, what are we going to do?

Master skywalker …

YounglingSlayer9000

“When I learned humanity still existed beyond the walls, I was so disappointed.”

Good thing half my characters are former or still henchmen. It's actually pretty good basis for building characters.

If the henchmen attack me first I'm killing them plain and simple. Not really a fan of the batman arrest them so they can break out again trope.

I'm just here to slaughter the bad guy, not because he's the bad guy. But because he's mildy inconvenianced me. It's just self defense really.

I agree if you're going to kill the henchmen kill the boss who forced them to do what they did

"You can't kill me! You're a paragon of justice! You have to bring me to jail!" "Dude, I just killed like 20 people 5 minutes ago. I do not give a shit about justice. I just really hate you."

Eren Attack on titans

Broken Empire trilogy.

@@hawk66100 I just finished book 1, thanks

Any more books like this ?

Anakin Skywalker

There is a spark of evil in all of us. Nice megamind reference.

Luckily, I have my copper sphere to save me!

That reminds me of Steel heart so much. That and Megamind.

That feels very Reigen from Mob Psycho 101 in the final arc of season 1. It's one of the greatest moments in the show thus far.

The trick is.... you're not _really_ supposed to tell them.😅👀🙃 🤣🤣🤣

Isn’t that what they said about itachi

I think this is why when there is a chosen one they are not confident.

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

When you realize an entire generation or two has been raised in that exact way...

Holy shit, that is easily one of the coldest, most badass lines I have ever heard! Great job on that one.

@@gregoryo4417 Wish I could take credit, I got it from somewhere else; can't remember where.

@@SH-qs7ee Thanks for posting it anyways, it is still a great reference nonetheless.

"YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BRING BALANCE TO THE FORCE!"

"The its can not stand in the way of Harms Destiny"

Some people try to overcome their demons.... Harm embraces them!

DBZ. "They said only someone with a Pure heart could become a Super Sayajin!" Vegeta: "My heart is pure....Pure Evil"

@@mermidion7552 "*Pure unadulterated badass"

@@Naija_Ninja heck yeah!

@Day *weeps in Willow, laughs in Tall Girl*

Well humans tend to follow taller people

Yup, immediately went to Rand

@@blackouthorus1519 Yeah, because they are good to make a path thru a crowded area.

@@QueenOfDarknes5 Also good when crossing rivers

the weight of expectations is a fickle thing

@@alphanoodle1877 fame is a fickly thing, harry

Problem is that Master Shifu was setting Tai Lung up for failure when he wasn't the one meant to CHOOSE a Chosen One. He should have just trained Tai Long like normal without filling his head with false promises. Like, literally Tai Long was beaten by Po in part because Po was literally chosen BECAUSE he is a panda. His body was what allowed him to not be stopped by Tai Longs most deadly technique and through training from Shifu that started WITH PO WANTING TO DO GOOD and not stopping just because Shifu didn't believe in him at the start. He kept at it even if he wasn't sure he was actually supposed to be the Dragon Warrior. Po literally had the personality of a Chosen One, Tai Long does not. The difference was simply Po was the ACTUAL Chosen One while Tai Long was thinking he could BECOME the Chosen One when in fact he was what the Dragon Warrior would have to defeat. Hell, Po was able to learn and defeat Tai Long, someone who trained his whole fucking life to be strong with only minimal training and innate ability do to his body being a counter to Tai Long AND his innate ability to do Kung-Fu. That's some Chosen One God Given Power bullshit right there. Oh, just remembered. Tai Long ACTUALLY COULD have done the pressure point thing to Po if his fingers were thinner like the needles Viper and Mantis were sticking into him that DID lock up his body when they hit the wrong points. But because Tai Long didn't do that, he lost.

See he let the power go to his head, and thought of using it to rule, instead of trying to use it to beat up bullies :/

@@RavenCloak13 last bit was more that he had too much fat so all his pressure points were in different places. Which tbh is a whole plot hole as outside of tigress he shouldnt know any of the others pressure points unless he studied other spices points in which case he should know a pandas pressure point. But guess the fat acted as a cushion or shield against pressure points.

Sounds pretty hilarious. They probably were all just waiting for you to set up their moment to shine. Turns out most "Prophecies" even in Fantasy are probably bs. And considering how flawed most gods are represented (don't know if the same in d&d) I wouldn't trust them to choose an item on a restaurant menu for me nevermind a chosen hero.

That is evil and hilarious.

It's like the fantasy epic equivalent of Cave Johnson's "We're just gonna throw a bunch of science at the wall and see what sticks!" 9/10 of those Chose Ones are probably going to die a horrible, horrible death...but hey! Number 10 might make it!

this is so freaking evil lmaoo

@@TheMightyDM I couldn't have said it better myself.

I absolutely love this idea and agree... problem being the sequels and current TV shows indicate that Anakin *didn't* actually kill the Emperor and save the galaxy, the galaxy and society overall aren't any better off than they were under the Empire (and in several ways are arguably worse), his kids turned out poorly, either abandoning their works or were driven out and didn't fulfill their potential either, and overall the following narratives almost completely undermine the entire structure of the original trilogy. I wish they'd have ended it at Return of the Jedi. :(

He was the chosen one to balance the force. If you got a few hundred jedi on one side and a handful of sith on the other the only way to balance it would be the death of all those jedi. I don't know why people didn't pick up on this.

@@craigh5236Really feels like the force is never balanced, just a swinging pendulum of very few jedi and the galaxy is ruled by sith, to sith are gone and the jedi order rebuilds.

@@snarkywriter1317 That's an issue with every story that decides to continue on after what was supposed to be the final showdown between good and evil. You have to manufacture a new conflict to justify the plot, and in doing so you destroy any sense of finality that had existed beforehand. The Gears of War series is a great example. The story wrapped up very nicely in Gears of War 3, but they still made a fourth and fifth entry that while not bad, don't really have a reason to exist. The Expanded Universe's post RoTJ timeline was similar in that way, but unlike the Sequel Trilogy it didn't throw away its original heroes and themes to justify the existence of new characters and conflicts. The heroes stayed true to their ideals in the face of new challenges, and continued to evolve with the times. Luke for example successfully refounded the Jedi Order and made it the defender of the free galaxy once more, while at the same time showing that it had moved past its rigid ideals by getting married. Han became a family man that stuck by his friends and the ideals of the New Republic. Leia was a respected politician, good mother, and powerful Jedi. The New Republic as a whole also wasn't nearly as incompetent as what it is in canon. What new writers have done to Mon Mothma in particular borders on character assassination in my opinion. Her and her government's decisions are almost too stupid to believe, and it's all too obvious that they were retroactively written simply to justify the existence of the First Order. Disney was so content with what they had received when they got Star Wars that writing something new was an afterthought. The EU varied greatly in quality but at least it was creative. The Sequel's and most of the supplemental works surrounding them are just derivative and boring. Dave Filoni and his crew are the only ones trying to do anything interesting, but at the end of the day they are still stuck working with the shoddy foundations that Disney put down.

@@BobertBobson the force tries to balance itself, but people kinda just fuck it up. light side defeated most of the sith, well now the sith that are left are really powerful. most of the jedi die and now the dark side rules. well, have this luke kid. honestly... people should just take the gray side of the force... not pure light, not pure dark. that's the true balance

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Did he learn though? -Thor face

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@@confusedwhale Well he doesn't have a long beard yet so there's time

This could be the groundwork for a Hades' kind of game. Where you play as a wise old master who has to train a hero to defeat the Dark Lord and the Hero might either die, give up or join the Dark Lord. Or slay the Dark Lord to become one himself. And with each failure, the Wise Old Master has to find a new student and figure out how to train the next one to succeed but also be good.

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"arguably"

@Day 😅

Good, he would hav been worse than her father!

@Day I think phantasy might actually be the older spelling coming back rather than a new spelling.

And the people that know the prophesy are very careful not to reveal it to her, lest her awareness jeopardize the prophesy

And the adults are so passive about it by necessity, like "I taught this kid how to read this thingamabob, and now she's gotten a clan of witches on our side, overthrown a warrior bear kingdom, and traveled to another world. Neat." Almost the complete opposite of the typical adult role in these things.

shouldnt have read the comment

Is this the one with the demon pets??

@@kazemizu Lol yes and no. The “daemons” are a persons soul in animal form.

You might enjoy The Bright Sessions, it's a podcast about a therapist helping people with superpowers

In Steven Universe, Steven goes through all the Hero's Journey stuff as a child and, in the final season, as he's older, he has to deal internally with all the trauma of all the crap he went through and all the unrealistic expectations he had to meet. He breaks and, as a result, decides to leave home to discover himself again.

@@Junosensei Steven Universe completely skips over the therapy though. We are just told that he's been going to one at the end.

​@@Junosensei Yes, but Steven Universe is a failure of a show. it has the start and the middle part of a jump sota down, but keeps falling on its face, yet continues to jump to a point were you crying telling it to please stop before it dies. It had good intentions, but maaan did Rebecca Sugar have some stuff she herself needs to work out, I never seen such horrible takes on how to deal with trauma presented in a "kidfreindly" manner.^ I would not recommend watching that show, and im not gonna rewatch it, its creepy how it presents horrible life lessons with a smile. Watching Steven Universe to the end is a trauma one needs therapy to deal with after.

@@WolframiteWraith - But he does see a doctor who, shocked at a few of his examples, explains how his mental and physical trauma throughout his childhood could have direct physical ramifications on his body.

See Uncle Ben in Spider-Man as an example :D

@@notreallyhere67 and oromis in eragon

@@notreallyhere67 *"Green m&m pus-"*

Being tall is really important

Seriously, you can do that with all of this. If you haven't yet you should.

@@userJohnSmith yeah lol Daniel's tax agent: "alright, so I've got a LOTR Gandalf replica staff, 512 books, two lapel mics, several "package opening daggers" (whatever that means), "snortable" g fuel powder, 3 dozen volumes of manga including one where... [says the thing about that THING with that part of Berzerk (and we all know the thing I'm talking about but don't say it coz spoilers)]... umm.. is that everything?" Daniel (slightly embarrassed): "well... I've also detonated about 35 coffee mugs on camera." Agent: "35 coffee mugs. Okay, th--" (blinks) "wait... what??"

@@citizensguard3433 This is the way.

Listen those kids up in Dragon Reach just needed to die, I get it.

Who's Kelsier?

@@dragonfell5078 one of the main characters in the mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson

I agree with Kelsier. If a group of people give themselves the right to enslave and massacre my people, I deserve to have the same right to massacre them in return. Justice. Retaliation. Revenge. Did you read the horrible sht commited against the Skaa? This BS about letting things go is also why I kinda hate the ending to the Wheel of Time. The 100 years of Peace BS. We're all just supposed to tolerate the existence of Religious savages, Mass Murderers and Slavers, because WHAT. because its their BELIEF!? Their CULTURE!? I dont care if the Children of Light and Seanchans joined the Final Battle, They ALL deserve to PAY for their attrocities! Same sht happened to the Grisha seried. PEACE. After ALL the tortures, and genocides, and WAR CRIMES commited against the civilians of Ravka, theyll just let Fjerda go in PEACE. Bull. Sh¡t. And Starsight, I absolutely wished, UNIRONICALLY, i wished the Empire of Man to just come in and exterminate all the aliens, filthy xeno scum.

@@Trustworthy_McLegitimate careful dude. You don’t want to cut yourself on your edge

@@Drmcsmrst wont slip and cut myself when stepping on you DOORMATS. theres so many of you, you carpet the entire world.

Maybe he should start widening his search 🤔 Trying to find different criteria. Like a woman, an elf, a dwarf, or a beastman. Someone who isn't straight. Heck, maybe if he had picked his neighbour's nephew things would have been fine.

It's just chosen ones, all the way down

@@Ikajo What are the odds they'd go evil due to prejudice?

@@ArcCaravan The same as anyone else. In fact, someone facing prejudice is less likely to be corrupted by power.

@@Ikajo Honestly considering how this guy seems to pick his chosen ones, I could see them seeking revenge.

From the way the video went, no.

That would be very fun to read!

I like that kind of cynical humor.

We now need the story of the people in charge of setting traps to thwart the hero. How peeved they must've been to hear that all of their hard work in movable stone temples that crumble upon a wrong step of a floor plate, didn't actually trap or kill the intruder of their land? They don't get enough credit or notice either.

Star Wars.

@@AsdfAsdf-mi6ks YES

Ha I was about to say Obi-Wan and Anakin!

Kung fu panda. Also garou from one punch man.

You're like the ONLY other person I know of who remembers Shaolin Showdown, let alone finished it. Kudos :)

@@amyar123 In my experience it seems to be like Code: Lyoko or Kingdom for Keflings in that it's one of those things where you either don't remember it, you don't remember it until someone mentions it and then a ton of memories suddenly become unlocked, or you can't stop thinking about and mentioning it at every opportunity.

You would probably like "The Legend of Sun Knight"

You could argue anyone but Omi wasn't conventionally worthy.

@@ArcCaravan I mean, Omi is ignorant, impulsive, and vain to an annoying degree. Clay is humble, patient, and strong, Kimiko is ambitious, intelligent, and agile, and Raimundo is crafty, charismatic, and selfish. In other words, they are of the archetypes of the fool, the monk, the alchemist, and the thief, respectively. Despite being the main character, Omi was second only to Raimundo in terms of how unworthy he is, and the only reason he is second is because Raimundo literally chose to bring about the end of the world for his own personal gain at the end of season 1.

HAI YOOOO

@@kaijublue1151 FORCES!!!!!!

Maybe I was just too realistic but that thought never crossed my mind as a kid. That sounds like a you problem.

Not all of us have schizophrenia pal

No, not really. A metric fuck ton of those all are based on "You lose your family, see great injustice done directly in front of you and/or your the last one to survive and are whisked away on a journey.". Without this part you would have to actual go out and find it or fall into it yourself and not someone specifically coming to get you. Like a lot of those stories that has the MC fall into the roll has them actually be away at the time a great disaster happens so unless you have such a place to go to you'd be part of the dead. Even more modern stuff people generally want to be good people. They have seen enough bullshit happen in the world that as soon as they get power their first instinct isn't to go and take over, it's to help. They also are usually already morally consciousness enough to just... not be evil?

Why did I assume this theoretical wise old mentor would say he has candy in his van.

@@Broomer52 You are the type of person people never want to speak to at parties

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That is actually good advice.

Uhh.. I wasn't aware that the wise old men themselves were the ones that typically _chose_ a chosen one, though? (They usually just find or gaurd/guide them after something else actually did the choosing.😅) Alsoo...aren't they supposed to choose based on choices that the one has already been observed making? 🤔 I don't think it entirely counts as a chosen one if they just happen into it coincidentally or by being chosen purely at random. But I guess that's just me.🤷‍♀️ Lol

Why are all these wise old men not actually doing the job themselves anyways, considering they usually are still endlessly powerful, magical enough to not suffer from age-related health issues and infinitely more experienced than some random kid they picked off the street?

Now that you metion it, Alfieri made a play called Saul where he doesn't rely on anyone because he thinks he is the chosen one. But god took this power fron him and gave it to David. So he, after lots of stuff, looses everything because he can't relay on anyone.

@@lm2668 Interesting-I hadn't yet heard of the play. Thanks for sharing!

All my brain went to was, "MY TALLEST!"

@@AurorXZ it's an italian playwright

If only the show around it warranted such dedication.

Bernadette is fantastic!

I wife loves her channel, so I saw those videos. She did a very good job.

That's a great video. I never knew how much work went into making costumes like that.

Love her channel! Hope more fans check it out. She's currently working on Moraine's accessories (see her Instagram) because she just can't get over it!

I do know the backstory of the dark ruler but before that I projected him to go through this

Most of the ones I've seen in these chosen one stories lacked confidence so much that what could cause a god complex evens them out.

Most are too trusting and kind to develop one. Imagine Ash Ketchum going rouge because of all the stuff he survived through?

Jolee tells such great stories. "I hate you, old man."

I question exactly how "forced" were the guards to work for the dark lord. Was it just money? If so, that'd probably be selling their morality.

@@ArcCaravan Hey, they immediately surrender once the hero came. And if neighbor nephew is a good example, the Dark Lord made "my minion" the only job available. Did they had other options? I dunno, the skit didn't show and the youtuber maybe didn't thought so far

@@foisopracurtir6389 We don't know what they did before giving up to save their own lives. They could have been opportunists who would have joined the next dark lord.

Also not teaching the kid to be an assassin who would just go in, kill the big boss and get out. Having him actually try and fight things is the issue here. Just kill the problem quickly with your Godlike power, liberate the people and get out. Also not giving them better morale guidance or instilling the whole "Yeah, the Gods will probably send someone after you if you try and become a great evil yourself so don't get cocky."

@@justforplaylists but isn’t it kinda harmful to think or believe that because of what was shown in this video? If you know you’re a chosen one, then you might start doing just what he did. And no one is incorruptible if given the right influence, wether they’re chosen or not. Maybe it’s just better to not be chosen because then you don’t have the temptation to be this way. Which still doesn’t solve the problem of chosen one stories I suppose…

@@justforplaylists guess that still doesn’t mean that they’re entirely good, just that they have the power they can use. And even if they earn it, they can still either pursue it for bad ends or be corrupted by the power they have.

Not really. This video is just parody of badly written stories that don't deal with what most Chosen One stories deal with. That is, the Chosen One is someone that wouldn't do this because they were chosen based on who they would be and given power to deal with the problem. The ones that make a mistake of choosing someone is either a non-omniscient God, random mentor dudes that are mortal and thus fallible, or this wasn't actually a mistake and the Gods either approve of what is being done or don't care about the small fries and only care about the big picture. Also that Owl House quote has no baring here. If your choosing to do something, your not chosen by default. Your choosing to do good, not being chosen to.

@@RavenCloak13 and yet the chosen one trope is still way too overused, and the fact of the matter is that no matter what, they still have the power and ability to do something like that, even if they’re “pure of heart” and for that matter, being pure of heart is always going to be different for everyone in every culture and every individual has a different way in which they’re pure. And if the chosen one has all this power and no one to hold them back, then they could just do as bad as the villain did. Maybe their friends can help, but if they lose them, there’s nothing stopping the chosen one from turning bad themselves, chosen by the gods or not. It happened in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 as well.

@@jacobshore5115 No, not really. It's pretty uncommon now unless your looking at shitty fanfics. Also, your changing the context. If they are the Chosen One hero type, they are not going to turn evil. PERIOD. They are the Chosen One. Why would they become evil? Your basically have to change the meaning of the term which people do to get these "Well this is what happens when your a Chosen One" without ACTUALLY going over the makings of molding someone into a good upstanding person and thinking just because someone died they were closed to even though most of these stories START with the Chosen One losing everything that they would become magically evil. Especially in these settings where war and death is expected. This also only really applies to people making decisions without omniscient powers for choosing someone wrong. Now, lets go back to the FIRST game of Castlevania: Lords of Shadows... WHERE YOU WERE MANIPULATED AND MADE THE CHOSEN ONE BY THE FUCKING BAD GUY AND LITERALLY DID BECOME DRACULA. And then you had the fact that in 2, the only way he was able to fix things is because... well it said he'd become Dracula, not he couldn't STOP being Dracula. Especially since it gives you the ability to end this fate and destroy the thing causing the problems for the MC because a physical object exist to end his suffering.

Mat is definitely my favorite character!

@@lenadoerrer9256 For now :)

@COZI too true….

exampel?

@@frodoro7108 Sekai Saikou no Ansatsusha, Isekai Kizoku ni Tensei Suru - this one is the standard one, god sends assassin to kill the hero after the hero kills the demon lord. Nidome no Jinsei wo Isekai de - sent to defeat the hero (not the main plot) because the hero wasn't a properly sanctioned one Isekai desu ga Mamono Saibai - sent to correct the heroes' mistake of killing too much but doesn't contront them physically There is another whose name I forget but the premise is that the protagonist was sent by the goddess to steal away the harem of the various heroes (who are causing mayhem) which would make them lose their hero status so that she could kill them Yondome wa Iyana Shi Zokusei Majutsushi - not the protagonist's job but the former hero has cause the world to stagnate Shokei Sareta Kenja wa Lich ni Tensei Shite Shinryaku Sensou wo Hajimaru - the protagonist is actually the former hero that became the new demon lord. Actually the above example, where a betrayed hero takes revenge on the other heroes, might be more common than the one I mentioned before Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi - is an exmaple of the above plot of betrayed hero

I mean he did technically bring balance to the force...

@@icefyre8331 yeah technically 😂

To be fair, anyone who supports the institutions that maintain and enforce the power and authority of an evil system are sort of complicit in it when you think about it.

@@AlexGoldhill exactly Chosen One has gotta do what a Chosen One has gotta do

"Better safe then sorry."