POWER FANTASY - Terrible Writing Advice 

I wouldn't call if a polygon since the points are not interconnected. It's just one guy and a harem of 5+.

@@Nethan2000 The love triangle isn't exactly a triangle either. It's just an angle. Also, a triangle is just a type of polygon. "harem" is more correct for Japan.

Love asterisk? Like, a bunch of points connected to a central point?

Kimi FW Well, I say polygon as in it has a higher number of sides than we have a name for. There is also always a different number of people involved in the harem, so I though it would work

​@@kimifw58 not always. the more LGBT the harem has, the closer it typically comes to resembling a polygon. occasionally, there will even be new polygons inside of a sufficiently large harem. sometimes, it even becomes fractal.

Stan lee will alway be an amazing human being

If only Marvel still lived by that guideline

Not the movies, the movies are still good, I mean the comics

@@thenumber27issomehowtaken comics like Jason Aaron's Thor prove that good writers still exist in this day. My favorite part about it was Thor's interactions with the humans. It flesh out the character and made me like him again

yeah that is why Clark is a mere journalist, timid, kind and humble i guess.

DOOM Eternal is one of the best power fantasies, combining subtle irony with also being DOOM. Power fantasies are much easier to do well in a game where *YOU* have the power.

@@bugseater1 that's what makes DOOM so good. It's tearing demons to pieces and fight for life, it requires knowledge and skills. If it was same but effortless and super easy, I don't think it would be same

Like Halo

@@theoleadfoot2864 Laughs in Halo 2 on legendary.

@@dr.vanilla9017 Yeah, well, fair enough. Normal Halo does it well

The american way also involves making the protagonist suffer none stop for having powers. Spiderman, Thor and even Superman are constantly getting their loves one killed, revived and killed again but ten times more brutally every time. I can't even keep count of all the times they revived the kryptonians just to genocide them again. At least in shonen anime once the sad backstory concludes the MC is kicking ass none stop, sure mentors usually die but is not like its their wife, daughter and entire race.

@@rafaelglopezroman1110 Subaru from Re:Zero would want to know your location.

@@RuyVuusen believe me in comic books death is a revolving door. Subaru's life expefiences are pretty standard, in DC and Marvel.

@@rafaelglopezroman1110 I just wanted to give an example of anime/manga not being so surface-leveled as some people think. Even Re:Zero is just the one popular example and there are a lot of exponentially darker ones.

@@RuyVuusen yeah there are darker ones like Berserk, Kingdom and Vinland. The reason why I still bring up comics obssession with torturing their heroes is because that's the direction DC and Marvel have taken in the last two decades. Is gotten to a point were I can't read an event without someones family getting slaughtered, and a fuck ton of heroes been used as cannon fodder, only for them to be revive again and killed again in next event. At least in Berserk they stop torturing Guts with the revival of Casca. Manga and anime while they make their heroes suffer they always end up rewarding them something after they go through hell, in comics they reward them with the status quo so that is easier to screw them over again.

Good point. Power fantasy is about raising a characters power and status- but often fails to consider that the people they defeat to get there are probably not that much dissimilar to the protagonist moral-wise by the end of the book. A good subversion could be the protagonist realising that they are no better than the enemies they defeat....

Did you just describe the plot of 50 Cent: Blood In The Sand?

Did I? I don’t know what that is..

@@ViewingChaos Negan is that in The Walking Dead comic. He throws around his power and the weight of the Saviors because he thinks he's the most capable and deserves it. Then Rick shows up, fucks the Sanctuary with the muzzle of an AK-47, and ends up throwing Negan in prison just to prove they don't have to be a totalitarian dictatorship to survive or problem solve.

I kind of felt like 3:19-4:08 implied as much even if it was going over other issues at the time.

I can’t wait to read it

I'll be there when that happens

I have no idea how you'd successfully construct such a mess, but oh boy

I can’t wait

NurBanuRD you beat me to it by mere MINUTES!

Pay 60.00 to get lootboxes which might give u the power you want.

@@ygobe2 2005 BF2

@@hunterkiller1440 The best one, you mean?

The only real one he means

How??

'Adult fiction genre'? What the hell is that?

ix it’s mainly either erotica or edgy dark knock offs that do not understand the original work nearly as much as they believe to do

You spelled onision book series wrong

Because if you like to enjoy things, you’re stupid and a baby and gay. When you’re a woke high IQ galaxy brain adult, everything has to be bleak and colorless and miserable. This is why I love YA fiction. For as much as people trash on it, at least it _tries to be enjoyable._

This is in contrast to the many MANY kids shows that depict everything as “sunshine’s and rainbows” Add that there many creative elements people have put in them. Adult cartoons have to do something else, less they end up borrowing elements from a kids show. And what can an adult cartoon have that a kids show can’t? Hopelessness, gore, and eroticism.

But not SAO Abriged. That shit is legit!

4 girls 1 paralyzed boi

"Petrified dragon shit"

He could also have meant In Another World with My Smartphone.

You mean solo leveling

Imagine just how much worse it could get as time pass

Twitter in a nutshell...

Thanks but Lord Hagenmüller is enough.

@@requieme2 Every social media in general but people just want to blame one.

Every year, his ego doubles in size

@Error try again later I hate all self-aware heroes (Looking at you Deadpool) and protagonists. I mean, dude, I'm watching this for a story, not some protagonist saying 'oh wow, look how quirky I am compared to other protagonists'.

@@bucket4255 what if all the characters break the fourth wall

@@bucket4255 Since when has a character who's broken the 4th wall ever said how "quirky" they're compare to another other protagonist, that a dumb reason.

@@itlinko861 they dont say that but it comes off like that

Because acknowledging your problems is better than fixing them.

Karin P - Lord Carrington

It is not power that corrupts, it is the fear of losing power that corrupts. A man with power will kill people to make sure they cannot take his power. A god in the top position would have infinite ability to multitask and thus would also not need to delegate to people who could be corrupted. You cannot offer them money to turn a blind eye to an evil scheme, they can summon anything. You cannot threaten them with violence if they do not turn a blind eye, they are invincible. If someone talks bad about them on the internet and tells everyone to rise up, what does it matter, 7 billion people on earth all trying to kick them out of office would fail because infinity is bigger than 7 billion so he has no fear of anything and thus cannot be corrupted.

@@starburst98 Could he be annoyed though? By all the petty attempt to rebel against him, ridicule him, challenge him? Or would he be impervious against such thing too? What about motivation? Did he even have need? If not why would he even do anything? He never got bore or empathic or hate or curious. Therefore he won't do anything. Just a being without purpose. Or did he had purpose? Given purpose? By whom, he's the strongest and didn't answer to anyone. By himself? Why would he task himself to do something he doesn't need? If he had need and want like normal human being then he could become tyrant. Not by the power, but to counter the challenge toward him. By fear that he'll fall, be disrespected, be forgotten. At that point could it be call corrupted? It's more like choices. If there are human on earth there'll be someone whom hate you and wish you ill, you might never have to met that person. But if you're all powerful being chance are you'll be famous and those people will know you and try to harm you out of envy, hate, or believe. When someone wish you ill, excluding offense, you could either grant their wish or change their wish. If you grant their wish you'll either losing all power or die or enslave by their endless needs. If you change their wish you're forcing their will. Either by manipulation or coercion and you became tyrant. Basically if you can grant their wish but you didn't, someone will still call you evil for it. If you have power that could not wield by others then you're a threat. And if you share your power with all of them then you became normal. And one day someone would wield the new absolute power power.

@@ryopoto55 "I wish to stab you" "You may try" *sound of a knife snapping as it hits literally indestructible skin*

Aka: The bullshit objetivist believe.

The real question can either of them beat shaggy

@@cosmicberry6096 do not DARE mention Shaggy lest ye summon him anon.

@Error try again later Mary Sue turns the love triangle into a love asterisk (with herself at the center).

Unstoppable force meets immovable object.

"Love Triangle Man Vs. Mary Sue!" I'd pay good money to watch that movie.

Nailed it

For one of the most humorous treatments on Chosen Ones, I refer you to "It's Bad Luck To Be You" from the 2000s version of Bard's Tale.

Sounds like a sequel to the Life of Brian

lol, this is what i fear those people who view tropes as the root of all evil will one day write the equivelant of. the only true way to make a truly make trope-free story is to write a documentary, even then 9/10 cases real life is crazier than fiction imo so it will loop back to fantastical territory.

There once was a boy named Askan, living in the small village of Ivythorne. The king used magic to restore food stores during drought. A spell that kills indiscriminately, but fewer people than the drought would have consumed. Askan's mother is among those taken. Askan is relocated from town to meet up with his uncle in Restinpith. When Askan arrives he sees the King for the first time, and decides he's going to kill him out of revenge, but finds that most people don't agree with his conquest, because many more people would have died had the King not used his magic, and just as indiscriminately. Askan tries to use magic to kill the King, but it doesn't work. So Askan tries to kill the King in person, but accidentally assassinates the Queen Mother instead. Because Askan is a boy, and due to his understandable motivation, the King takes pity on him. He is not punished for his transgression, and the King teaches Askan to read and write. They eventually become friends, and Askan apologizes for wanting the King dead, but admits that he's still angry about his mother's death, the King admits that so is he. However the people of Restinpith loved the Queen Mother, and find the King's reaction to her assassin deplorable. They see the King's kindness as weakness, that along with other political pressures drive the people to overthrow the King and hang him while Askan watches in horror. Askan returns to his uncle, and admits his worst fear is that the magic he had used to kill the King actually worked, and that this was his punishment for trying. His uncle points out that not only could they not be sure the King's magic saved them from drought, they can't even know for sure that it killed his mother. But he is sure the King was never safe regardless of Askan's actions, after all, this is a King, and Askan is just one boy. Askan does not feel comforted by the thought, but decides the best use of his time is to help people.

What even was Dio’s plan? lol The magic red stone got destroyed with Kars, so absolute vampire power wasnt his goal. What was it? World domination?

@@oldmanlogan9616 It just seemed like he wanted to become stupidly op and watch the world burn. His main motive for hating Jonathan seemed to be that he's a naive rich kid that didn't seem to understand that the world is cruel. As for how he was gonna do it, since the stone of aja was destroyed, he switched to "ascending to heaven" or something like that (haven't got to part 6 yet).

@@oldmanlogan9616 His goal was to grow and grow. Ive read a little bit about Picasso, he learned how to draw people realistically really early in his life, and mastered it much faster than average person. So he tried to surprass it and go beyond realism, thats why his paintings were weird and ahead of time. Dio wanted to become stronger. Not strongest but go even beyond it, his stand described him. It gave him control on anything, but it was still getting stronger, growing. Just like he wanted. SPOILERS PART 6 HERE. In part 6 it was estabilished he wanted to achieve heaven, the power to become literally God. So goal of Dio (in spanish God) was to become God.

The actual Dio's goal was to achieve Heaven (if you read Stone Ocean you know what I mean) He said that neither immortality nor a powerful stand were able to make him satisfied At the end, all he wanted was to achieve the "peace of mind", obtaining the greater power he could achieve

@@princessdee-6580 you should read part 6, or wait for the anime adaptation I wanted to wait... But I couldn't resist so I read Stone Ocean, Steel Ball Run and Jojolion These three are now my favorite parts in JoJo

Star the Kirby LOVE 5D ULTRAHYPERDODECAHEDRON

Love megagon.

It's a love sphere

Mathematicians are currently doing research to quantify the shape of the love polyhedra to even be able to give it a name

Ah indeed as everyone knows, hexahectaenneacontakaihexagons are the hexahectaenneacontakaibestagons

We'll just use cash in place of toilet paper. It will be worthless after the hyperinflation. MONEY MACHINE GOES BRRR

kingtysonsworld IF there's a mischief night this year

@@enderpup9289, politicians might be able to cancel trick or treat but it is not in their power to cancel All Hallows' Eve / Samhain.

mischief night? Is that something you and your friends do?

@@anthonystromeyer1399 I saw a news article just recently about how US national debt just topped 24 trillion. But why get worked up about that now that we know with absolute proof the Fed will just magic as much money as they want out of thin air if there's ever something they feel they really need to prop up. All hail the petroyuan. How ironic considering the virus started in China.

*Shield hero flashback*

What?

@@ryu9123 Shield hero isn't a power fantasy though

@@ryu9123 Shield Hero is more like "Blitz main get Isekai'd and refuse to join doom."

@@ryu9123 Dude, Shield Hero does everything to *avert* being a power fantasy. The main character actually has to work for a living (crafting items and trinkets to sell, fixing messes, learning to properly coordinate with his party, etc) from being screwed over on day 3, and the other three "heroes" wound up screwing themselves over BECAUSE they think they're in a power fantasy/wish fulfillment because of the RPG-like mechanics and cliche "save the world" set-up of the whole thing. And you can't call it a Revenge Fantasy either, since he doesn't actively pursue vengeance against Malty and the King. He's more focuses on doing his job so he can go home, with his party keeping him on the straight and narrow path the entire time. When he does get his long-sought revenge, it's handed to him on a silver platter by Queen Mirelia since her country was almost ran right into the ground and destroyed by their incompetence and blind spite, and she can't afford for Naofumi to leave.

Antihero 🙄😏

¿Timestamp, please?

@@yoshitheorbit1118 6:30

No shit! They actually said that?! I don't keep up with Game Of Thrones so I wouldn't know

Ironic considering the last season has themes that are as hamfisted and blasé as ones you would find in an 8th grade book report.

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What?

so i should make my protagonist with the strenght of Krillin from DBZ? Or Yamcha is overpowered enough

Boromir Thefreeman Nah, he should be a bit stronger, like 8 Kiritos from SAO out of 10

Oh then my hero is nonexistent

We are now

Maybebecause you posted literally less than 15 minutes after the video was uploaded lol

I’m not

@@Stargazer_Pie good one

I wish my insults could be that brutal.

Whats that? I have to go to the process of complex training to master my power which would take many decades to defeat this old veteran who had lived for centuries? Screw that, the only power I need is that of friendship (or in Fast and the Furious, its family).

Really? I don't really get much of a power fantasy vibe from fairy tail. It's there but there are way worse offenders in anime

@@user-uo9gg2zc6j Fairy tail definetly has a lot of that, Natsu can't fight one fucking generic bandit without reminding us that friends are everything and that he'll win for them, etc... It's unbearable But yeah other animes do that too

@@jouille4524 it's not really power fantasy though

@@user-uo9gg2zc6j It is when he suddenly gets 10x stronger after getting absolutely wrecked by an antagonist just because he remembered his friendships. Then he beats the antagonist in 1 minute using an extremely OP attack that no one knew existed, *all thanks to the power of friendship*

ego black hole forming in the solar system

*such an astrophysical calamity is easily thwarted by the adroit writing of the following two words...."THEN SUDDENLY!!!!*

@@scottmantooth8785 You, sir, are a genius

The longer the TWA Writer remains on Earth, the stronger he will become

@@lafuentephilosophy9390 *You can't just blow a hole in TWA!*

But more importantly, is there a love triangle?

My mind is ravaged by white female blank slates that the female audience is supposed to root for somehow despite her treating everyone like dirt and the only minority seen is usually demoted to Sassy Black Friend.

It really makes you wonder who the hell started this trend

Have you been reading Twilight? If so stop before your brain explodes...

@@CombatSportsNerd personal opinion? Same thing as what happened with tsundere characters. Someone popularized and codified the trope with a character that wasn't just the trope but then hack writers decided to plain copy it and here we are. To the best of my knowledge, both cases are from fate stay night where yeah, the respective character is the trope but it's explicitly pointed out WHY and on top of that there's more to them. But then deen stay night popularized the the tropes and everything went downhill from there. But I'm pretty certain I am not knowledgeable enough for my assumptions to not be verified, this is just the conclusions I draw from what little I know.

Would be cool if, for all his unbridled power, he couldn't do more basic tasks and live a good life. Imagine a character that can easily upturn a tank, but that doesn't mean much because the situations he needs that level of power for seldom exist. Maybe his immense power makes him struggle with relating to your average Joe, making him a shut-in to everyone else too apathetic to help others due to just how distanced he was from the rest of society. Eventually, he does actually help someone for no real reason other than maybe him being bored, and the rescuee (will refer to as female to make it easier to write this) takes notice of his apathy. Maybe they bond and she helps him learn to care about people, involving him in social scenarios and overall being a good friend who teaches him to actually give a darn about his life. Maybe she helps him learn to do stuff, and he warms up a bit to his new buddy. Then, for the finale, he willingly chooses to protect people and you can see him become more human throughout the story despite still having all of his power

@@mrgreenboy644 The first half of this sounds like the concept for Mob Psycho 100, an excellent anime that avoids most of the tropes associated with power fantasy by telling a compelling story of a young boy trying to better himself without the use of his immense powers.

@@mrgreenboy644 this kind of sounds like one punch man

i've read so many of those that I now like my heros to get packed up personally like they gotta really be put through it for me to like them (yuji from jjk)

@@jackmakila3776 I mean the 3 free bingo space picks for being put through suffering would probably be Shirou Emiya from Fate/Stay Night, Subaru from Re:Zero, and Guts from Berserk.

No no no not a mine but all the salt of the ocean

Nah you are still thinking too small its more along the line of a salt multiverse. Where each universe is soley composed of salt and nothing more.

Everything is salt now

No you need to make its so the entire multiverse is salt AND the empty void of nothingness is salt as well, so that reality folds in on itself doubling the amount of salt with each of the billions of multiverses multiplying with salt as well as the empty salt void that breaks reality

@@exammole4545 wait, it's all salt Always has been

(Puts kyber crystal in the lightsaber with religious intent)

What is this heresy

Kenobi doesn't stick to the moral high-ground tho he only sticks to the high ground

Batman: robin it's time to kick some ass. Alfred:oh dear

Actual high ground beats moral high ground. (Like a "moral victory" isn't the same as a real victory.)

ASMR: Steamroller flattening pavement.

Wryyyy

@Oskar Stronghart I knew I'd found one of us here

@Oskar Stronghart if you didn't I would've

I also knew that was coming once I read steamroller. Gg gamers

Who can do something like that? If I made a self insert it would be a weak and shameworthy piece of nothingness but hey everyone has his mental issues

Am i the only one who makes meme characters for dnd stuff, i have never seen anyone make a serious self insert in dnd its always a meme character

@@felipedaiber2991 You ok boomer?

@Leche de caballo Actually funny enough I prefer playing the guy that has a 10 in everything. My character is named 'Jim from the Adventurer's Guild'

I like characters who are attractive for their confidence and/or connections to the person attracted to them, like a childhood friend. That message is a lot better than "be attractive, get laid".

Schwarzer Ritter Mostly because love angle sounds bad lmao could also be a love V

The love corner

Nowadays, it is being called a "harem"

@@astridparungao4971 not really, that’s primarily for 3+

easy, probably you have seen a character relationship guide before, those pages with lines that point to the characters and what are one to the other, there are three persons, two are romantic interest of the protagonist so you make a line between them and the protagonist, that also makes them rivals, draw a line between those two , is a triangle pd: sorry for my bad english

Wha--HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE HONEST THOUGHTS LINKS IN THE DESCRIPTION ANYMORE

Honestly, it deserves it. So many characters are overpowered for absolutely no reason and they completely ruin shows and movie.

@@aaronlandry3934 Although it takes a talented writer to make a total power fantasy character wonderful, they have to realize that when you do have a character that strong you are often better off shifting the focus to an internal battle. The best Superman comics do this, so does One Punch Man and Mob Psycho 100.

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One punch man?

I like that time I got reincarnated as a slime because its not about the fighting, this insanely powerful dude just wants to build a town

I like that time I got reincarnated as a slime because its not about the fighting, this insanely powerful dude just wants to build a town

@@roguepsykerhaaker4813 Which, if you think about it, isn’t that far off from real world power. Most top nations today have noticed that fighting and warfare, while required, is not that good for an economy, and that production, distribution, etc, are a lot more effective for a nation’s growth

@@roguepsykerhaaker4813 Basically me in creative mode on minecraft

Why does this not have more comments? 😂😂

*_YESH_*

Jesus Christ. *yes*

I unironically need this.

inferno0020 I agree

fr tho 99% of isekai stories are cringe power fantasies

@@tyetass7170 I so agree with you buddy , actually it look like isekai take the terrible advice of this video seriously xD

The only isekai shows I've seen that are actually good are Konosuba, Log Horizon and Sheild Hero (not as good as the other two, but I still liked it). Let me know if I missed any^^

Konosuba is the only modern isekai I liked, considering most of them are gag characters pushed to the extreme.

The parody of shounen is one punch man , but the parody of isekai is konosuba , that's why it's so good

Yes, the original Star Wars trilogy did the hero's journey quite well. Now if only they didn't have the f***ing love triangle...

Avatar the last Air Bender was similar, when Aang abandoned his training and then got almost killed at the end of book 2.

That brings up a useful note that I think is important to conversations regarding Jedi and training: Luke learned nothing from it. At the end of his time on Dagobah, he has learned nothing but how to lift rocks, and he's pretty bad at that. The whole point of that brief aside was to have Luke not learn anything and enter his darkest hour, but assertions of Jedi needing training kind of hinge on that scene without remembering how it ended.

@@a.morphous66 But at the same time, at least as of the prequels, Jedi training started at a very young age and goes on for a decade or more. Luke was on Dagobah for a few weeks at most, maybe just a few days. And he didn't seem like a very good student. No wonder Yoda wasn't able to teach him much! (Which is why it's all the more ridiculous when he shows up at Jabba's Palace calling himself a Jedi, when you think about it.)

@@jasonblalock4429 The thing with Jabba's palace took place about a year after ESB I want to say I recall, and after Vader whupped his ass, Luke would have PLENTY of time to reevaluate some things.

Where can I read it?

One more great power fantasy is Solo Leveling which uses power fantasy correctly in every way imaginable. Oh don't mind literally the entirety of the isekai genre cause that's a mess of greatness and trash.

@@dandanthedandan7558 dude you're like three levels too deep into literature class for anyone who dropped out of high school (most people) to understand you or maybe I'm just real dumb.

@@FrancisR420 Solo Leveling is a webtoon and isekai is an anime genre

death note and breaking bad

@@dandanthedandan7558 weeb was my third guess

Kono powa

Teenage Nietzsche kills God with the power of friendship

J.P. is the Nietzsche of our generation.

@@nekrataali No.

You know Nietzsche once said, words like “cat” and “dog,” they’re often short words. (Which is, of course, genius). And I thought “Jesus, that’s probably true.” So he’s very insightful.

You do know that first fight before they even traded blows Kylo Ren already got shot in the gut with a gun that can blow up a car right? And he spent more time trying to convert her than worry over beating her? Just saying if it was a true power fantasy Rey would've been the one with the injury and still beat Kylo Ren in one strike.

@@denniswilliams6519 and he was still a majorly trained Sith Lord who could have force choked, or killed her instantly while Rey had never used a lightsaber before and just became aware that the force existed, Vader was far more injured, he had no limbs was in constant excruciating pain, could barely breath and was far more threatening

@@firenze6478 Vader first off was in a suit and had years to adapt his style after being burned to death. Kylo Ren is also NOT the fully experienced Sith Master Vader was, which the film itself makes a point to mention. Maul got chopped in half by a Padawan despite being a fully realized Sith cause he got cocky. Kylo Ren similarly was not even trying in the first fight with Rey and spent more time trying to convert her, and this oversight cost him. Just saying.

@@denniswilliams6519 your comparing a trained padawan, who was about to be made a knight to someone who hasn’t even held a lightsaber before. And knows nothing of the force, Kylo could already stop a laser in midair with the force and knew force choke, he could have instantly killed her if he wanted, especially since he wasn’t even trying to take her alive yet. It was just straight up bad writing.

@@firenze6478 you kinda miss that his objective was to recruit her, not to murder her. That’s why he doesn’t just pull a Finn and brutally slice her

Subaru, gets his ass kicked almost all the time

@Damani Campbell Doesn't only Rem like him, and most other people see him as a piece of amusement? Barasu is trash though, needs to be whipped more by his fellow knights and oni companions.

A 1995 Want a really good Isekai? Try Mushoku Tensei, the one in which was what Isekais should be. Its not a novel where the mc goes “Oh hey neat Im in a real world, Im gonna be well liked and not make any self improvement”. Its MC is just a trash NEET that realised even way before his death that his life was an extremely worthless thing. So he tries to find the “Best way to live life” when he got reincarnated as a baby. And the best thing is that his decisions are not always right. Other people will chastise him for his wrongs. He becomes strong but alot of people can still beat his ass off even in the end of the novel. Hes cowardly because of his paranoia and mental trauma that he got from his previous life of being caught unprepared for problems. He suffers losses and undergoes grief, like a HUMAN.

Souma Kazuya: Fortunately I had forseen your plot. My wives are the ones overpowered...

The only good isekai are the ones that actively make fun of the genre and its tropes. Not even "MUH DECONSTRUCTION" can save the genre from irrelevancy.

He did say rip and tear there at the start

We're in quarantine after Eternal's release, everybody is a Doom's guy now Btw remember that the longer the Icon of Sin is on Earth the stronger it will become

He’s probably been playing doom eternal to be honest

@@hahacheerios743 tbf lmao

What do those stand for? I know what IDGAF means.

Like being drenched in radio active waste ? I mean pollution is free...and we produce so much of it.

Yeah! Just like Iron Man got his power through his amazing intelligence and liter made it himself! He totally didn’t earn that! Or how Captain America got his power through hard work and bravery! That totally didn’t feel earned. Or how Hulk got his power on accident and had to learn how to keep under control so that he wouldn’t kill everyone around him! Totally unearned! Or how Thor got banned from his homeland and literally had to prove he was worthy of his power to get it! Nah, that wasn’t earned at all! Superheroes aside, Luke Skywalker totally didn’t earn his power! Remember how he worked his ass off training to master it? Yeah, completely unearned!

@@LjuboCupic1912 Hulk: accident Thor: naturally gifted Spiderman: accident Superman: naturally gifted Flash: accident Wonder Woman: naturally gifted Cyborg: accident Aquaman: naturally gifted All the X-Men: naturally gifted (although some do go through something resembling training) And the list goes on... Honestly, apart from Iron Man, Captain America, Doctor Strange and Batman, there are no big names which come to mind in terms of superheroes who worked for their powers, and even then, excluding CA, you could make the case they still had a massive benefit of inheriting large fortunes which allowed them to hone their talents sufficiently. Heroes who earn their powers other than retroactively are truly rare in many western genres to the best of my knowledge.

@@samuelsafin6564 Batman's power is money which he didn't earn.

It interesting isn't that the anime which is written for an audience with a strong martial arts tradition expects to see training.

Somehow that aged better than the time period you intended that for

@@mrgreenboy644 yeah, sadly this mindset infected the movies and TV shows now too.

Sorry not versed in comic books, any examples?

@Spectro Electro just look at the most recent MCU movies and TV shows

@@DurtyDan uou mean like every teenage girl is a stark tech creator or smt acording to both wakanda forever and ant man 3

Mary Sue is a "character" while power fantasy is the playground for The Mary Sue.

udhsids that’s a good summary

This sound like Rey from the New Star Wars Trilogies

@@14.huanle60 Because Rey is a Mary Sue

“empowered”

Yep, I feel the same way. Same reason why I won't read most fanfiction, or stories on Wattpad. I just can't believe people are brave or crazy enough to put their very personal fantasies on the internet for all to see. It doesn't even matter if I was anonymous, I'd still die inside if anyone saw the power fantasy stories I'd written to cheer myself up during dark times.

​@@Newfiecat You know, delving a little more in thought, I think that fear of exposing one fantasy may come as a barrier for artists with pressuring standards on themselves, and those power fantasies might be unrefined and their purpose be more therapeutic than aesthetic, but by showing it to other people who enjoy them it could be taken as a mean for social approval and liberation, while being their first steps on the artistic path. Still though, I would do it anonymously and if not, I probably would try to erase all evidence and witnesses later.

Nearly every story in western media is a power fantasy. It is a trope for a reason and some of the time it is done well. It is when it is done poorly that you notice the trope, and therefore hate it. The power fantasy is an element that can be called on but it becomes stupid when that is all you have in the story. It is like sugar. Just the right amount of it will give you a tasty Harry Potter cake. Too much will give you Disney Star Wars. All of the sugar will give you 99.999999% of all fanfiction ever.

Just curious though, what kind of story do you tend to enjoy. Nowadays it almost seems like every selection is power fantasy in one way or another, even if they're highly praised by critics, like Witcher or Game of Thrones and stuff. It's hard finding a well-balanced stories, unless you dig through some acient shounen manga

​ Hoang Kiên Vu Kinda weird for me to explain, I would say that catharsis in a story is my main focus but maybe that is too vague. Don't know if I am masochistic or something, but I get really invested in stories where the protagonist is on an endless struggle, even more when other characters like the antagonist are in the same boat, when they never completely "win", and every victory they achieve doesn't feel like it vindicates them. Aside from books (mostly historical fiction) If we are talking about action stories, I've enjoyed plenty of mangas, though only seinen manga (aimed for male adults) as sadly they tend to not be adapted in anime format. The most popular pieces I liked were Vagabond, Parasyte (20 years later it got an anime adaption!) and Shigurui. Dororo was a shounen manga which anime got a lot more serious. 91 Days was an Anime I didn't expect to like so much. I never got interested in shounen, (I remember liking Rurouni Kenshin and Death Note a little) but the Promised Neverland impressed me. If not action, Historie (from the same author of Parasyte) had a protagonist I could relate and boxing mangas usually do well with the learning curve as they are sport stories. I can't say for TV series, because I almost don't watch anything. Sorry for the long response, but action is not the main genre I read so I kinda specified. Aside from manga I don't know what I could recommend for an action series (never watched GOT, maybe in the future, and only watched Witcher for 3 episodes).

whose side will you take?

I'm with the love dodecahedron

Mad with Power or Mad with Love, the greatest battle of the 21st Century, for the TWA Expanded Universe

Bold of you to assume that they aren't on the same side, and that Love Triangles centered on the Protagonist (I mean, that's totally how triangles work right?) aren't a form of Power Fantasy, or that Power and control over innumerable side characters aren't what Love Triangles lead to

*Ishtar power intensifies*

They've been leaking out for the last few videos, you'll notice. Given that he's in middle TN, which is where the first COVID 19 cases got reported here (I'm in the eastern part of the state and bracing for the worst), he's probably feeling the same uncertainty as the rest of us.

Yeah, at this point he might be getting kind of sick of the channel gimmick. At this point, I'd be happy to just see more honest thoughts videos from him

To be fair he does have a pretty major flaw in that he's not particularly bright

It's satire tho.....

@@Dave102693 A story doesn't have to be only one thing you know. It can operate on multiple levels at once. It is a power fantasy whatever else it may or may not be.

@@charleslathrop9743 I know that, but that's the core of the series: criticizing shonen battle series and their use of power fantasy.

id honestly say mob psycho 100 is a better example

Does he kill someone because one side is irrational?

TheLuckySpades that’s fantastic...

So power fantasy that requires some skill though.

@@returnedtomonkey8886 stakes and vulnerability for a sense of thrill and desperation.

@@haillobster7154 You're godamn rogjt with the part with thrill.and desperation. In eternal duringa the last level after every fight i was like "godamn that was some insane shit i pulled there"

@@returnedtomonkey8886 and that's why Doom Guy is so well-liked. Despite his tremendous strength and capabilities, no victory's effortless for him. That makes him a BADASS, not an asshole.

@@haillobster7154 he always wins because of all the things he's been through all the power , skill and mindset he earned/set into after all of these things He wins because plot demands it. He wins because he is a badass that has earned all of his badassery through endless fights and secret upgrade hunting

*perhaps the Mary Sue video would qualify for that one...but i agree that one on Eye Candy™ would be a valued addition to this series*

Just like George "Double R" Martin in the grimdark video, we're talking about BAD eye candy. Like...diet Jessica.

Kicks my Nintendo Switch under the bed

**Yeets my Netflix across the room**

Dont worry we will tell them the legendary toilet wars of 2020

*burns my art supplies*

I literally made a quarantine playlist and wrote a description that jokes about English class symbolism.

I learned a new word! XD

Icosahedron? I thought he said 'decahedron'

And I though love hexagon was overwhelming 😩😩

Robert Clark no it’s a different shape with 20 sides

Wasn't there also a love singularity at some point ?

That's sort of what DC *tried* to do with Superboy Prime, IIRC.

I thought of how not to summon a demon lord, it's on a whole new level.

Same here

@an alien How well does the Persona games do PF? You can't get more blank hero mimes then them lot.

Kirito was intensionally made that way. To satisfy avarage Japanese boys with huge ego but no social skills.

@@desubysnusnu But lets be honest we all have been beaten by a japanese dude online As a man once said "Roses are red, Violets are blue, There is always an Asian thats better than you" And this is coming from an Asian

JetSki Out of Water it’s always nice to see when a story does time travel RIGHT

@@tdmc6428 What are your example of time travel being done RIGHT?

If you want those, OSP (Overly Sarcastic Productions) has Trope Talks on Damsels in Distress and backstories/motives. I think they have something on friend/sidekick archetypes but I don't think they have anything on the young witty protagonist types. Edit: They also have a fantastic vid on Time Travel

Was this before or after the assassination?

@@SirNeutral During it. He was talking to his buddy about the play and he randomly pulled his thing out and shot the president. He also likes his guns because you can do anything with it. Even shoot the president, it would seem...

@@SirNeutral imagine what this comment would look like if he changed his username and pfp

So uncivilized...

IM TOO TIRED, PLEASE

You're a bold one!

He also said absolute and we know who deals in absolutes

@@femurbreaker4483 Only Sith deal in absolute General isation !

True, but everyome likes making fun of isekais so...

Chinese government is a whole power fantasy but real

Yeah every chines novel is a fucking power fantasy

The only exception for isekais being konosuba where kazuma barely survives on his wits and re:zero, where Subaru just dies so many times

In 99% of Chinese and Korean Light Novels there is training and MC isn't strongest from the start like the one in the video. Those are power fantasies that are mostly done right. It is a genre that is entertaining to many people, the video wasn't about how bad power fantasy is, but about how many stories fail to be a proper power fantasy by giving too much power to protagonists from the start without any struggle.

@@greenlitlleman I was just giving my personal experience here. Even in those kinds of stories you mentioned the protagonist will usually get disgustingly OP after receiving some BS power-up right in the first 5-15 chapters. I don't know, maybe I'm just finding all the shit and there are some good novels out there with proper power fantasy.

@@DeathTheManiac MC is rarely "disgustingly OP", but he always should have some kind of "OPness", otherwise the story would be just boring. Just look at high rated stories on novelupdates, there are many of them.

@HorizonCrosser 128 Still pissed that Ass war got a second season while Chivalry just got forgotten.

Dragon and Avatar Fan Assterisk war was shit.

Don't forget about the endless harems

@@timothy6583 True. The harem trope is in itself a power fantasy, if there ever was one.

@@MrAstrojensen yeah it can be nice some time like the one with the twins

I hated those anime but they're all so popular for some reason.

@@iliveinsideyourhouse3943 cute waifus thats why

more specifically the last one

@@xenon8927 what are you talking about He said at the start it was all real.

​@@hundred2949​ please say this is a joke, the last book is the one where he becomes a god

Phoenix Blaz3 he literally stated: Daniel is just me. EVERYTHING IN THIS BOOK IS REAL

@@xenon8927 What do you mean you don't remember Onision overthrowing and usurping God, crushing the grim reaper with his mind, cloning himself and then modifying the bodies of every woman on the planet so they have teeth in their genitals? I remember all that happening like it was yesterday.

I love how this Channel here is one giant M-Finger in the Face of Big Corporations, Disney, Hollywood, BBC and more, if not alone cause of his famous (sarcastic) Statement that everyone and literally everyone who criticized your Product is literally H-tler. The sheer amount of Strawmanning thart Fans of various ruined Shows have to endure is insane, after all.

He's hoarding it!!!

@@rockyblacksmith: hoarding is a pitfall

@@dmas7749 LEAVE ME ALONE MEKKAH

*No Worries there...J.P is a veritable bottomless fount of near limitless sarcasm and razor sharp mildly condescending commentary...it's both his gift and a burden he bears with quiet dignity and obvious pride in his exceptional and very witty cleverness*

Because it turns the power fantasy genre on its head (at least for the main character) and asks "how would it actually feels like to have unlimited power?" The answer is of course that it's boring a.f.

Yeah, I often fantasize about being so bored I can barely function...

I have such an abusive love-hate relationship with cultivation fiction, my lord

To be honest they aren't problem by themselves. Some of best stories were love-tingle-power-fantasies. Problem is with the word "overused" as many bad authors think that it is cheap replacement for the actual plot. One Punch Man is one of best examples of using such plot in smart way.

*think of them as POWER TRIANGLES™!!!!!!! and you're half way there*

Love triangle can work as long as they not forced into the story. I have read too many books where the plot would go back to the cringe love triangle that i have no intertest in are just a pain too read.

@@marshmallowarkleseizure3742 Ah, yes, low budget triforce.

So simple, yet so elegant

And USA as well.

@Error try again later It should be mandatory reading for every aspiring webcomic writer because it showcases every conceivable problem in the medium: horrendous art that never improves, blatant Marty Stus, *really* questionable heroism of the protagonists, blatant sexism and homophobia, awful writing, walls of text that contradict "show don't tell"....

@@calebwheeler8143 What webcomics are you referring to, may I ask? I've read a lot of good (and really bad) ones, so i'm curious to get another point of view on them.

@@Loopimay I'm a bit confused by this question. Can you please rephrase it? Because the only webcomic I'm referring to is Sonichu.

@@calebwheeler8143 Oh! I'm sorry, I thought of the app WEBTOONS (yes, in all caps) by mistake and assumed you were talking about stuff on there. That's my bad.

I was looking for this one

Depends. Some of the tropes he talks about can be done well if correctly written

@@stevepensando2593 I mean love triangle can be good if written very correctly. And i'm trying to write that thing, wish me luck

@@excitonium5573 Good luck

@@excitonium5573 Best of luck with that.

He shits on poor execution, if you love that it's an issue with your lack of taste.

The drinking game that will make sure you come out of quarantine either with a drinking problem, or not at all XD

Now we’re playing with power.

@@evacesartcorner9840 you don't have the _power_ do you

Ooooh that must be fun if you are legally allowed to drink alcohol

By God are you trying to get people killed just tell them to go off themselves like normal people on the internet.

To be frank, a good portion of fictional series can be described as power fantasy, especially superhero and battle shonen series.

Weird think, america values hard work and changing your fate, but our heroes get handed their powers. Japan is more about conformity and keeping the status quo, but their heroes are the american ideal. Explains the popularity of shonen in the west at least

That describes the Legend of Korra perfectly. I mean she doesn't work to get any of that power it's because it's always handed to her. Airbending is literally just give it to her because of friendship power.

"our heroes get handed their powers." That's a load of bullshit. Most Superheroes do in fact train to get stronger and better control their powers as they grow and get older. Hell guys like Captain America and non super powered guys like Batman do almost nothing but train in their free time in martial arts and shit so all this "handed without training" nonsense is just non comic fans spewing bullshit without ever actually reading them. What's killing comics today is garbage politics and agenda's being shoved down reader's throats while the story and characters get butchered because of it.

*Gains instant powers in Isekai*

I don’t think avatar did that that... like the first 2 seasons were just him learning to use his powers simultaneously... did you not watch the episode where he hurts someone with fire bending and has to go through heavy experiences to learn earth bending?

@@saffi_taffi No, in fact that’s part of my point. Aang DIDN’T just have his bending all handed to him. That’s my point in American works giving their heroes power at a cost, even if that cost is simply, training to have them. As Aang did.

@@ThePa1riot oh oh oh, my bad

Lol I felt that way too seeing Captain Marvel. And the worst part is, they were doing all this tension about her perhaps being able to defeat Thanos, and at the end she does absolutely nothing! She doesn't even appear in the film, and when she does, she is taken out with a single punch! What a wasted climax (Even tho I love the way they defeat Thanos, I prefer Tony over Captain Marvel without doubt)

Ellie is gay. That's not relevant I just thought it might piss you off.

Ha! What?I maen sure she's strong the only time she kicks ass is at the ending. Unlike literlly every other super hero. I meant the First Avenger is basically walking through this video