Nitpick a beloved fictional universe!

[DrRockor]

I have another one, Fairy Tail, I have to ask you, how the hell is Lucy that powerful?! She has at least one of the zodiac keys before she's even joined the guild. There are only 12 of these things and they summon some of the best celestial spirits. I just boogals me to think that she got one that quickly. I think she has like 3 when she joins and 8 of them half way through the series. She is the most powerful celestial wizard in the whole country and does nothing!

 

[laggyteabag]

Halo - If the Forerunners could blow up the entire universe, and then repopulate it, why didn't they just repopulate their own species?

 

[Psykoma]

The only one I can think of atm is pokemon.

Basically
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=282


They're kids...

That one nails everything down about pokemon. Also, theres no "normal" animals in the pokemon world... which means they eat pokemon. All pokemon are sentient beings on (almost) same intellectual level as humans, if not higher... disturbing...

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Animals_in_the_Pok%C3%A9mon_world


At the very least the pokemon world has normal fish to eat.

 

[Patrick Buck]

Warhammer 40k takes itself WAAAAAAAAAAY to seriously. Especially when you have ork vehicles that move faster if they are painted red.

Orks have a lot of psycic energy. They can move faster because they accidently add power to them using that, when they belive that it works. Same with their guns. They shouldn't work. But because so many orks, all belive that they do, and should, They do.

Basically, their vehicles go faster, because they belive they should. I think it's brilliant.

 

[Isalan]

It can be a game, a show, a book or anything. If it has something that bugs you despite how much you love it, post it here.

For me, it's the Avatar universe. In Legend of Aang, fire benders producing lightning was a pretty legendary ability. Something belonging to fire bending masters. But in Legend of Korra, any fire bending git and his mum can get a job at the electrical plants and lightning bend.

At least with metal bending, the people learning it were an elite police force. Though I think sensibly, they should combine it with earth bending more, or they're not really at any particular advantage.

Do love me a bit of Star Trek, but how in the name of any deity are the Ferengi still around? Their sole mission is to nip around the galaxy pissing stuff off and nicking their shit. How long do you think they're gonna last as a race first time they pull something like that on the Klingons?

How are so many of them still alive?

Captcha: One Fell Swoop. So your thinking of somekind of super weapon, captcha. Interesting....

 

[Chairman Miaow]

Ok, so the universe of Friendship is Magic:

I do not like the crazy mix of 1300-ish technology with current technology. They use candles to light their houses, but yet Twilight has some sort of advanced brain scanner in her library?
Also, Celestia and Luna are semi-deities, but why? This is never explained.

Especially considering that when shit goes down, Celestia is about as useful as a condom machine in the Vatican.

 

[Mariakko]

For me, it's the Avatar universe. In Legend of Aang, fire benders producing lightning was a pretty legendary ability. Something belonging to fire bending masters. But in Legend of Korra, any fire bending git and his mum can get a job at the electrical plants and lightning bend.

Yeah this annoyed me too. Lightning bending was a masterful over powered skill, Metal bending was a masterful over powered skill, and now they are common day skills. I hope they keep blood bending as a rarely used skill. I'd like to see Korra go nuts on Amon with blood bending. That would be nice.

 

[bullet_sandw1ch]

Pokemon: What kinds of meat are they eating...?

you know what meat the're eating.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Mortal Kombat...During the MK1 portion of the game (which is supposed to be a tournament) the game doesnt even make an attempt to make the bracket make sense

Fight 1 Jonny Cage vs Reptile, fight 2 Jonny Cage vs Baraka....which takes place 30 seconds after Fight 1

Later on theres 2vs1 matchups as well lol, Storymode is still pretty entertaining though

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Yet, nothing is stopping the news from just... Not reporting criminals.

I suppose the fact that it's the news, and criminal news is fairly important.
Plus, it would stop Light. L wanted to catch him.
Not to mention Misa was able to kill, and was free to move around the country without being a suspect. And Light was able to access his father's police files.

OT: Lord of the Rings: why did the Eagles not just fly them to Mordor?
Every time this comes up, people say 'they wanted to stay out of the war' or something similar. If they just did that, there wouldn't BE a war. It would be a pre-emptive strike.

 

[Josh123914]

For me, it's the Avatar universe. In Legend of Aang, fire benders producing lightning was a pretty legendary ability. Something belonging to fire bending masters. But in Legend of Korra, any fire bending git and his mum can get a job at the electrical plants and lightning bend.

Yeah this annoyed me too. Lightning bending was a masterful over powered skill, Metal bending was a masterful over powered skill, and now they are common day skills. I hope they keep blood bending as a rarely used skill. I'd like to see Korra go nuts on Amon with blood bending. That would be nice.

The plot will probably demand she defeat Amon conventially, I mean if blood bending didn't have this massive taboo on the main characters then why didn't Katara use it on Azula during the final battle?

P.S. Wait, how did Tarlok even master blood bending? Katara doesn't exactly seem to want to start giving lessons on it and I can only assume that old lady isn't hanging around after 70-odd years?

 

[ZeroMachine]

Halo.

The problem with it is that, for the most part, the extended universe and games are so consistent with lore than a tiny little problem looks like a Slipspace drive just went supernova.

By established canon, the anime Homecoming can not be canon.

THERE WAS NO SPARTAN II WITH THE NUMBER DESIGNATION OF 303.

There were only 75 Spartan IIs that eventually made it to the augmentation process. That's half of the original 150 that started the program, but that shows that they were only numbered from 1-150. There were originally supposed to be 300 (part of the reason Halsey named it the Spartan project) but that still puts the highest possible number at 300, not 303.

This made Babysitter my least favorite of the animes when on all accounts it was actually very good.

The same problem made Reach very hard to accept as canon. (Though on a lighter note in regards to that, it's hilarious to see exactly how much 343i hates Reach.)

Also, I've recently become a bigger fan of the concept of comic book universes (specifically Marvel, for obvious reasons, though I do love thegoddamnbatman) but I know I'll never be able to read the comics because of how many inconsistencies and retcons and alternate universes and one shots and OMGWTF

It's too much. I'll stick to the movies.

 

[Psykoma]

Avatar world.
The elements seem to have a super powerful function that only the best of the best could master.
Fire - lightning
Earth - metal
Water - blood
Air - ???
(I haven't watched Korra yet, so I don't know if anything came out for air).

I always hoped that a super awesome airbender would be able to create a sphere completely devoid of air, and be able to place it directly around the opponents' body/head.

OT: Lord of the Rings: why did the Eagles not just fly them to Mordor?
Every time this comes up, people say 'they wanted to stay out of the war' or something similar. If they just did that, there wouldn't BE a war. It would be a pre-emptive strike.

The only thing I can think of is that without a war occupying Mordor's armies, eagles once in mordor wouldn't have made is a quarter of the way to the volcano.

 

[Random berk]

Avatar world.
The elements seem to have a super powerful function that only the best of the best could master.
Fire - lightning
Earth - metal
Water - blood
Air - ???
(I haven't watched Korra yet, so I don't know if anything came out for air).

I always hoped that a super awesome airbender would be able to create a sphere completely devoid of air, and be able to place it directly around the opponents' body/head.

OT: Lord of the Rings: why did the Eagles not just fly them to Mordor?
Every time this comes up, people say 'they wanted to stay out of the war' or something similar. If they just did that, there wouldn't BE a war. It would be a pre-emptive strike.

The only thing I can think of is that without a war occupying Mordor's armies, eagles once in mordor wouldn't have made is a quarter of the way to the volcano.

What would stop them though? I suspect they would have no difficulty in flying well out of range of an orc bow, and if the battle of the Black Gate was anything to go by, the Eagles were more than a match for the Nazgul's mounts.

 

[teebeeohh]

technology in the ME universe, for starters, who the fuck looked at the weapons and thought: giving up unlimited ammo, what a brilliant move, nobody will expect that. and then how do they spread security mechs across the entire galaxy in 2 years only for them to be completely gone 6 month later, i am sure c-sec could have used some of those.

 

[Joseph Harrison]

Warhammer 40k...You suck all around.

I'm sure it has something to do with the bricks-for-brains writers GW has though.

You do realize the title of this thread is criticize a "beloved" fictional universe.

Mass Effect, where are all the ladies, I mean come on it even states in the canon that Turian females are just as common as male ones yet they aren't any in any of the three games.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Fear and Loathing: Some of this stuff is way too extreme to be non-fiction.

Fallout (the recent ones): In 3 there were more stimpacks laying around the ruins than there was water, but I guess scaver find water more useful than stimpacks if they're not getting shot up. Some of the NPCs come across rigid and robotic.

 

[370999]

OT: Lord of the Rings: why did the Eagles not just fly them to Mordor?
Every time this comes up, people say 'they wanted to stay out of the war' or something similar. If they just did that, there wouldn't BE a war. It would be a pre-emptive strike.

What would stop them though? I suspect they would have no difficulty in flying well out of range of an orc bow, and if the battle of the Black Gate was anything to go by, the Eagles were more than a match for the Nazgul's mounts.

A) The Eagles weren't really interested in the War in the beginning. They were of chilling and doing their own thing. While they do have a personal connection with Gandalf, that's not enough to motivate them to go to war.

So imagine it being like how the Americans didn't intervene early in the second world war.

B) Mordor mass produces the fell beasts (those are the things the ring-wraiths ride) meaning that while they might be a match for them one on one, it would be a suicide mission for them. With the fact that they aren't particularly interested in getting involved in the War, there is no reason for them to do it.


Sauron isn't an idiot, he does post look outs. And if he saw Eagles he would mobilize.