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TV Series/Nightmare Fuel/Digimon Tri
One would think that a Digimon series where there are aliens would be one of the most ridiculous series on television: this is not the case. The fact is, this series has earned the honor of being Digimon's "darkest season" of all (beating Tamers, which came out a year later).
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  • In the first episode, the digidestined ones fight against a group of aliens that are causing problems in a town of the digiworld : the digimons are resisting without much effort the counterattack of the aliens when without previous warning, they use a weapon that makes them de-evolve : The terrifying thing is that this weapon has eliminated the digivolutions of the digimon, literally, that means that, not only can they no longer digivolve, but also that even the chosen children are at the mercy of the aliens.
  • Bordering Paranoia Fuel, the aliens of the first arc can go unnoticed thanks to the fact that they can "dress up" as humans, rocks, posts, or digimons: you would never know if that person you greeted, that tree you dressed, or a chair in your house was or was not a disguised alien.
  • Darkerus, main enemy of the second arc, full stop:
    • He is faster enough to avoid the attacks of THREE LEVEL MEGA DIGIMONS AT ONCE without sweating.
    • He, like the other members of his species, can move through dark places easily, as if moving through corridors. Paranoia Fuel indeed.
    • We know that he personally tortured Cody, not to extract information, but to have fun and break him. Worst of all, we never saw what he did to him, only his effects on the poor boy ... none of them was so pretty.
    • Darkerus has done what no other villain in the franchise has accomplished: kill two digidestined at once, his method was so simple and terrifying that it allowed him to be in this section: he simply ignored the digimon and went straight to the two human partners of these and kill them, piercing their hearts with this hands.
    • The other members of their species are no better: since their appearance, they have experimented with every human that has fallen into their clutches, including Tosh, who was just 8 years old when they captured him ... brrrr.
      • Looking at it from the point of view of the other boys: this boy was the "little brother" of the whole group, who they affectionately called "the team mascot", and to see that, not only was he kidnapped without anyone having been able to avoid it , but In addition, he was subjected to the most horrendous experiments, which have left him with the problem that he will never be able to go out into the sunlight without suffering major burns, which has made the entire group demoralized and discouraged. That would explain the sadistic and cruel way in which Darkerus was killed at the end of the arc.
  • The aliens of the last arc of the saga: until now, the digimons have fought without fear against the aliens of the previous arcs. The news that these last aliens were heading to earth caused all the digimons to flee in terror.
    • It must be remembered that many of the digimons can withstand the attack of the earth's armies, and that, with the exception of the weapon used in the first episode, they have not had many problems with the weapons of the enemies, taking that into account, one You can't help but be terrified by the fact that there is an alien species powerful enough to finish off the digimons with no problem. Sweet Dreams.
    • The final attack is the most terrifying one has ever seen on television: the aliens simply bombard the planet from the outside and then send the terrible destroyer ships to finish the job. Official sources tell us that, in the first 20 minutes of the attack, 45% of humanity had died. If not for the timely appearance of the digimons, which allowed the humans to fight back and defeat the invaders, the human species would have been annihilated in less than an hour.
 
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Kalvan

Well, I have a page where Sonic the Hedgehog was a character originally from Tiny Toon Adventures, who, after Ensemble Darkhorse status in his original show. (Like Fowl Mouth, he was originally meant to be a one off, and his academic advisor was Speedy Gonzales) gained his own show on Saturday mornings creating an hour block with Tazmania. Sega and Sunsoft, respectively, created console games that mostly averted The Problem With Licensed Games (Well, except for Hedgehog Hunt With Bull Gator and Axel and the Sunsoft Playstation era offerings) with subsequent offerings from Capcom, Infogames, and most recently WB Games. The first four seasons were on Fox, before switching to the WB for the last three, including crossovers with Animaniacs and Histeria. Since then, the property and characters have bounced around TBS, FX, and the Cartoon Network channels.

Unfortunately, that page is on a computer at work. When I get back, I'll do some cleanup and post it.
 

Night Gaul

Kalvan said:
Well, I have a page where Sonic the Hedgehog was a character originally from Tiny Toon Adventures, who, after Ensemble Darkhorse status in his original show. (Like Fowl Mouth, he was originally meant to be a one off, and his academic advisor was Speedy Gonzales) gained his own show on Saturday mornings creating an hour block with Tazmania. Sega and Sunsoft, respectively, created console games that mostly averted The Problem With Licensed Games (Well, except for Hedgehog Hunt With Bull Gator and Axel and the Sunsoft Playstation era offerings) with subsequent offerings from Capcom, Infogames, and most recently WB Games. The first four seasons were on Fox, before switching to the WB for the last three, including crossovers with Animaniacs and Histeria. Since then, the property and characters have bounced around TBS, FX, and the Cartoon Network channels.

Unfortunately, that page is on a computer at work. When I get back, I'll do some cleanup and post it.
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NGL, I'd really like to see this.
 

Mort the Reaper

Kalvan said:
Well, I have a page where Sonic the Hedgehog was a character originally from Tiny Toon Adventures, who, after Ensemble Darkhorse status in his original show. (Like Fowl Mouth, he was originally meant to be a one off, and his academic advisor was Speedy Gonzales) gained his own show on Saturday mornings creating an hour block with Tazmania. Sega and Sunsoft, respectively, created console games that mostly averted The Problem With Licensed Games (Well, except for Hedgehog Hunt With Bull Gator and Axel and the Sunsoft Playstation era offerings) with subsequent offerings from Capcom, Infogames, and most recently WB Games. The first four seasons were on Fox, before switching to the WB for the last three, including crossovers with Animaniacs and Histeria. Since then, the property and characters have bounced around TBS, FX, and the Cartoon Network channels.

Unfortunately, that page is on a computer at work. When I get back, I'll do some cleanup and post it.
Click to expand...
Night Gaul said:
NGL, I'd really like to see this.
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Same. Mind posting it when you get the chance?
 

Night Gaul

I wrote this as an inside joke with a friend of mine. He thought it was funny and encouraged me to share it, so here it is.

Franchise Original Sin/Yellow Dragon and Black Eagle

While many elements of this story's later installments have proven divisive, they had their antecedents in more well-received aspects of earlier chapters.

  • The vilification of historical figures has been a feature from the very beginning. Early on, it was tolerated because the worst of it was reserved for widely despised people like Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin. While people like Leon Trotsky and Ibn Saud also had their negative aspects exaggerated somewhat, they were still portrayed with significant nuance, and their portrayal actually drew praise from many history buffs for drawing attention to shortcomings and moral failings of theirs often ignored in popular culture. The treatment given to Fulgencio Batista and Sukarno garnered some more criticism, but it was considered forgivable since they were mostly in-character with their historical counterparts and they were born far enough back for them to not have been changed by circumstances too much. But things started getting heated when Joseph McCarthy and François Duvalier ended up playing similar roles to their historical counterparts despite the differences in history making it questionable whether their lives would've taken the same paths they did IOTL and they would have the power they did. When Idi Amin and Pol Pot still ended up as monsters despite having been born well after the points of divergence, many people drew a line, especially because the story had earlier emphasized how the changes had allowed figures like Puyi and Albert Speer to develop into more positive characters than their historical counterparts. The author would address these complaints after the criticism, taking some time to note how people like Saddam Hussein, Augusto Pinochet and Mobutu become better people than they were IOTL.
  • Similarly, the demonization of certain ideologies. At first, this wasn't viewed as a problem because this was focused on authoritarian, ultraviolent ideologies with few serious defenders, such as communism, fascism, Nazism, Ba'athism and Wahhabism. However, once these ideologies began to become less relevant in-universe, the author began to target ideologies without the same baggage and with more support, like Objectivism, anarcho-capitalism and mutualism, among others. Certain ideologies and even terms began to come into play decades earlier than they did IOTL for apparently no other reason than so the author could vent their spleen. After the anachronistic use of the term "wokeness" in the 1960s got criticism, the author agreed to lay off... but only agreed to the letter of the promise, introducing very unflattering stand-ins for other ideologies. By the time a caricature of Thatcherism called "Hatcherism" was put into the story, it was decided that this, too, had gone too far.
  • The use of "historical irony". At first, it was used relatively sparingly, and there was generally an in-universe reason for it. Maximilian paraphrased Mein Kampf to underscore the hypocrisy of the Nazi Party, pointing out that they were guilty of many of the things they accused the Jews of doing. Similarly, Zemin borrowed some Maoist talking points to gain mass support for his reforms, despite being opposed to communism. Later on, however, it happened more and more frequently, and seemingly for no other reason than the author wanting to wink and nudge at the audience. Some even thought it started coming off as the author wanting to show off how clever they thought they were at the expense of things being believable.
  • Later installments would include elements (especially technological developments) that were criticized for being rather unrealistic, scientifically speaking, which many said clashed with the story's attempts at coming off as grounded and having a setting similar to the real Earth. However, the more widely praised earlier installments had developments like Tesla tech and war zeppelins, which would have been of questionable viability in real life, especially back then. The difference was that early on, these things had fairly realistic limitations and weaknesses, which meant they didn't strain the Willing Suspension of Disbelief past the breaking point despite them not being what one would expect from a story like this.
  • Differences that didn't result from the points of divergence were accepted early on because they helped establish the story as a "soft", Alternate Universe take on the Alternate History genre. Europe, the Arabian Peninsula and India being somewhat larger, among other noticeable geographic changes, helped to sell the fact that the story was not set on the same version of Earth that we live on. However, as more differences started cropping up, even being outright retconned in, the worldbuilding excuse didn't hold as much water.
 
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