Nitpick a beloved fictional universe!

[The Funslinger]

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.

 

[Hollyday]

It's literally impossible to nitpick my favourite fictional universe (the discworld) since Terry Pratchett takes it about as seriously as I take the pleas of my friends to stop spending so much time on the internet...

 

[The Funslinger]

It's literally impossible to nitpick my favourite fictional universe (the discworld) since Terry Pratchett takes it about as seriously as I take the pleas of my friends to stop spending so much
time on the internet...

D'awwww, Discworld!

I'm not actually sure why I put "favorite". I love Avatar, but it's not my favorite. *Editing title*.

I actually had to take a hiatus from Discworld because a lot of the humor was starting to run together for me and I needed a break for something else.

 

[Flamezdudes]

Hmm... for the Neon Genesis Evangelion universe I guess it would have to be the fact that it can be... complicated sometimes and hard to remember things. Some things are too open to interpretation I guess.

However with the A Song of Ice and Fire universe, I don't have anything to nit-pick about it, it's just so beautifully brutal. Oh George R.R. Martin... you lovable bastard.

 

[Hollyday]

D'awwww, Discworld!

Discworld is one of those things that'll never grow old for me. As much as I can accept the criticisms (And I agree that it's kind of jumped the shark) I just love it beyond logic.

If I'm going to nitpick a fictional universe I'll go for (resist the need to talk about Mass effect... RESIST THE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MASS EFFECT!!!) Margaret Atwood's dystopian future world portrayed in 'Oryx and Crake' and 'After the flood'. How on earth were people stupid enough to create animals with hyper-intelligence? Haven't they watched 'Deep blue sea'? This is pretty easy to-work-out stuff!

 

[Suicidejim]

Another Discworld vote, but yeah, I can't really criticize a universe that the author spends every other sentence poking fun at.

Oh, now it says beloved. I suppose the Ratchet and Clank universe has a terrible economy, what with using various nuts and bolts as the basic currency (meaning that every robot Ratchet vaporizes is really the equivalent of him bankrupting a third-world country on a regular basis).

 

[Psykoma]

The only one I can think of atm is pokemon.

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


They're kids...

 

[Terminate421]

In the Pokemon world, everyone smiles too much.

Thats the only, and I mean ONLY, complaint I have.

 

[The Funslinger]

In the Pokemon world, everyone smiles too much.

Thats the only, and I mean ONLY, complaint I have.

At least it's not like the Mario universe where everything has a face.

"And so we made love for the first time under that tall oak tree..."

In the Mario world, the tree saw EVERYTHING!

 

[DrRockor]

Bleach, I love you and everything you do is fantasic but please stop giving everyone a zanpakuto. It's like they are handed out by the government

 

[Terminate421]

In the Pokemon world, everyone smiles too much.

Thats the only, and I mean ONLY, complaint I have.

At least it's not like the Mario universe where everything has a face.

"And so we made love for the first time under that tall oak tree..."

In the Mario world, the tree saw EVERYTHING!

You think thats bad?

"It's MEGATREE, she just went from suck to blow!"

 

[Casual Shinji]

Hmm... for the Neon Genesis Evangelion universe I guess it would have to be the fact that it can be... complicated sometimes and hard to remember things. Some things are too open to interpretation I guess.

I got a practical complaint.

You remember that episode with the naval fleet where they fight the Angel at sea? How is it that one battleship has enough energy to sustain an Eva's power via umbilical? I thought these things needed huge amounts of energy. So much infact that they can only remain functional on their own power supply for a measly 5 minutes or so. Did they have a giant fucking battery aboard one of those ships, as well as about 3 miles of umbilical cable that's a good 10 meters in diameter? I thought these were pretty old ships that hardly get used anymore. Seem pretty ship shape, if you'l pardon the pun

And how the hell did Seele get their hands on an Angel (Kaworu)?

 

[aba1]

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.

Things get easier with time. Lighting bending would have gotten more common because things get mastered over time people figure out ways to do things more effectively and all that happened was after many years the technique became heavily explored and mastered so that it was easier for the lesser skilled benders to be capable of doing. On a side note I thought they were redirecting the lightning not producing it.

 

[Flamezdudes]

Hmm... for the Neon Genesis Evangelion universe I guess it would have to be the fact that it can be... complicated sometimes and hard to remember things. Some things are too open to interpretation I guess.

I got a practical complaint.

You remember that episode with the naval fleet where they fight the Angel at sea? How is it that one battleship has enough energy to sustain an Eva's power via umbilical? I thought these things needed huge amounts of energy. So much infact that they can only remain functional on their own power supply for a measly 5 minutes or so. Did they have a giant fucking battery aboard one of those ships, as well as about 3 miles of umbilical cable that's a good 10 meters in diameter? I thought these were pretty old ships that hardly get used anymore. Seem pretty ship shape, if you'l pardon the pun

And how the hell did Seele get their hands on an Angel (Kaworu)?

I agree for the first complaint actually, I also recognised that they were able to make two battleships go underwater to fire their cannon's into the Angels mouth, not submarines... which kinda doesn't make sense.

I can answer your second complaint actually, since it's highly implied and hinted at that in the Contact Experiment with Adam when they found him in Antarctica that they tried to inject Human DNA into him (for some reason) and tried to apply restraints to him. He obviously went berserk and so they stopped him using the Lance of Longinus but not before he caused Second Impact.

After this, what was left and found was most likely the Adam Embryo (that Gendo obtains and places into his hand) and Kaworu with Adam's soul. He's basically Rei but Adam version, this is also shown as the Mass Production Eva's in End of Evangelion have Dummy Plug systems with Kaworu's name on them and so therefore powered by Kaworu clones, just like how NERV's Dummy Plug's are powered by Rei clones.

http://wiki.evageeks.org/Kaworu_Nagisa - There ya go!

 

[The Funslinger]

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.

Things get easier with time. Lighting bending would have gotten more common because things get mastered over time people figure out ways to do things more effectively and all that happened was after many years the technique became heavily explored and mastered so that it was easier for the lesser skilled benders to be capable of doing. On a side note I thought they were redirecting the lightning not producing it.

That's a good way of looking at it.

No, fire benders could produce lightning. Which is what Azula, Ozai and Iroh were doing. Zuko tried to learn it, but couldn't, so Iroh taught him to redirect it instead.

 

[Scarim Coral]

The only nitpick I have for One Piece is the lack of female priates.
No I'm not talking about Luffy crew or any secondary characters crews like Whitebeard of Shanks, I mean when it come to background pirate crews. Ok I can assume there were hardly any females pirates in a pirate crew in real life but come on, add a few more! It seen abit sexist for excluding them when it come to drawing some cannonfodder/ background pirates.

 

[Flamezdudes]

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.

Things get easier with time. Lighting bending would have gotten more common because things get mastered over time people figure out ways to do things more effectively and all that happened was after many years the technique became heavily explored and mastered so that it was easier for the lesser skilled benders to be capable of doing. On a side note I thought they were redirecting the lightning not producing it.

That's a good way of looking at it.

No, fire benders could produce lightning. Which is what Azula, Ozai and Iroh were doing. Zuko tried to learn it, but couldn't, so Iroh taught him to redirect it instead.

I assumed it was because only the very upper class knew how to use lightning with fire-bending, but now in Korra's time regular people can learn how to do it.

 

[Sebass]

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.

Things get easier with time. Lighting bending would have gotten more common because things get mastered over time people figure out ways to do things more effectively and all that happened was after many years the technique became heavily explored and mastered so that it was easier for the lesser skilled benders to be capable of doing. On a side note I thought they were redirecting the lightning not producing it.

That's a good way of looking at it.

No, fire benders could produce lightning. Which is what Azula, Ozai and Iroh were doing. Zuko tried to learn it, but couldn't, so Iroh taught him to redirect it instead.

Aang and Korra lived in different times. In Aangs time people didn't concentrate on learning how to use bending for practical applications as much. If you could bend you were using it to fight. Now at the end of the 100 year war the fire nation started what we would call 'the industrial revolution'. Peace-time combined with technological development would completely change the way people thought about bending. I'm pretty sure those plant-workings could bend lighting but couldn't do much else. Look at for example pro-bending: supposedly the best benders in The City but when Korra and her two fire ferrets were attacked (some earlier episode) Bolin and Mako got their asses handed to them, they couldn't even put up a fight. Bending has just diversified and developed into task-specific specialities. I'm pretty sure there are also many more metalbenders around, they just can't use it as effectively in combat as Lin Beifongs SWAT team.

(Yes I know I'm a huge nerd)

 

[aba1]

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.

Things get easier with time. Lighting bending would have gotten more common because things get mastered over time people figure out ways to do things more effectively and all that happened was after many years the technique became heavily explored and mastered so that it was easier for the lesser skilled benders to be capable of doing. On a side note I thought they were redirecting the lightning not producing it.

That's a good way of looking at it.

No, fire benders could produce lightning. Which is what Azula, Ozai and Iroh were doing. Zuko tried to learn it, but couldn't, so Iroh taught him to redirect it instead.

Thanks also I meant that in the scene in Kora I thought they were redirecting electricity (I only saw it once when the eps first came out so I might be wrong) not anything about the original series.