| Seriously, I've seen more MCs with demonic powers, who is actually a demon, part demon, etc as more common than MCs with holy/divine powers. Then there is also the ridiculously overused demon king villains that I'm sick and tired of seeing. |
| I think I just got cancer. |
I'm also filled with pure-hearted ulterior motives. |
| Written by chuunis. |
| I think you need to watch better anime Also, this might happen because evil spirits are more common in japanese folklore(mazoku, maou, shit like that) .. either that, or just more popular |
 |
| Maybe you should expand upon the genres of anime you watch. |
   I envy your delusion; I wish I could live in it  |
| I think you need to stop. |
 |
| watch OVERLORD |
 |
| Deago is that you? Just avoid them and you'll be happier. You can easily tell them just by reading the synopsis. |
 (っ◔◡◔)っ 𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝔀𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓭𝓪𝔂 ♥ |
| Those animes are for edgy chuunibyous |
| Be thankful for the wisdom granted to you. |
| Because that leaves an opportunity for the MC to battle his dark side...which I always thought made for good drama. If the MC is blessed with "divine" powers, there's no danger there. |
  |
| Watch shows without villains. |
| every single one of my forum posts is dumb and invalid except for 1, I don't claim them it was a different person it was all fake |
MortalMelancholy said: i wanna be a fluffy chuu2 that has magic cloud and cotton candy powers <3 and i will have cute girls that want my bon bonThose animes are for edgy chuunibyous |
|
romagia said: MortalMelancholy said: i wanna be a fluffy chuu2 that has magic cloud and cotton candy powers <3Those animes are for edgy chuunibyous Not edgy enough. |
Chiibi said: Because that leaves an opportunity for the MC to battle his dark side...which I always thought made for good drama. If the MC is blessed with "divine" powers, there's no danger there. |
| ^I'm like WAY behind in Negima, ok. XD |
|
Chiibi said: Read the manga, it's 1000x better than the anime but the awesome stuffs only happens in the middle part of the series.^I'm like WAY behind in Negima, ok. XD |
Netouyo said: Chiibi said: Read the manga, it's 1000x better than the anime but the awesome stuffs only happens in the middle part of the series.^I'm like WAY behind in Negima, ok. XD Yes, I know....I was buying it but it got too long. I think I stopped around volume 20 or so. XD |
|
Chiibi said: Because that leaves an opportunity for the MC to battle his dark side...which I always thought made for good drama. If the MC is blessed with "divine" powers, there's no danger there. There's plenty of of possible drama, it's only just because dark side trope is so overused, you're more use to seeing it in action than holy or divine powers. It's not hard to just set the "holy" side as the bad guys. A common thing with so called light and holy powers is it's generally set to angels and whatnot and when they're the badguys, it's usually them believing they're superior, righteous and almighty gods that look down on everyone else. Netouyo said: Chiibi said: Because that leaves an opportunity for the MC to battle his dark side...which I always thought made for good drama. If the MC is blessed with "divine" powers, there's no danger there. Not sure what you mean by posting the picture but Negi doesn't use divine/light/holy, his elements are wind, lightning and darkness. |
Paul said: Chibii's reply was about the MC fighting his darker side and the first person that came in my mind was Negi.Not sure what you mean by posting the picture but Negi doesn't use divine/light/holy, his elements are wind, lightning and darkness. |
Paul said: It's not hard to just set the "holy" side as the bad guys. A common thing with so called light and holy powers is it's generally set to angels and whatnot and when they're the badguys, it's usually them believing they're superior, righteous and almighty gods that look down on everyone else. I'm not really a fan of....that. |
|
| for the mc to be able to win the fight using his dark powers as an asspull |
| Holy powers < Demonic powers |
 |
| Because in general media the protagonists tend to have good powers, so it's a nice change to have heroes with "evil" powers. |
| Because dark power are soooo coool. Those emo brats get more power the more emo they gets. |
 |
Gator said: Because in general media the protagonists tend to have good powers, so it's a nice change to have heroes with "evil" powers. It's becoming more common though. |
|
| Because demonic powers are awesome. |
 |
| watch sol from now on |
 |
| In the end, its just the same thing. Even though your heroes have some kind of "evil power". You don't actually see them doing evil deeds. And it's a cool getaway from a difficult situation. "Oooh, our hero's almost lost but his evil power went berserk killing everyone" (which is more bad guys than good guys anyway). And, "good powers" sounds too cringey for rebellious teenagers these days. So, they're using bad/evil power just to sound cool. Heck, you can even swap their power term by "The power of Jedi" if you don't like it and there won't be any problem at all. And their last enemies, their main goal, their end card is always "Kill the God/Evil Overlord". No matter how the series took off, the ending is ALWAYS the same tiring sh*t over, over, over and over again (Not the start is any different anyway. "Boy meets girl, etc ect"). This trope is already craved into Japanese heart since ancient time (oh look, the legend of Momotaro). And thousands of JRPGs afterward until this very day. |
 |
| Because: "It's so kewl, sonuvabitch." |
 |
Paul said: Written by chuunis for chuunis . Fixed. And/thread, really . |
 |
Chiibi said: Because that leaves an opportunity for the MC to battle his dark side...which I always thought made for good drama. If the MC is blessed with "divine" powers, there's no danger there. Warcraft disagrees...shadow form! |
| befriend (v.): To violently attack someone with very dangerous and extremely powerful blasts of magical pink light until your target sees the validity of your viewpoint. |
| It's also because it's easier to say that your enemy is evil and all than to create a development for him |
Tenshi_Shura said: Gator said: Because in general media the protagonists tend to have good powers, so it's a nice change to have heroes with "evil" powers. It's becoming more common though. In anime yes, general in TV series? Not that I know of. |
| Power of Virginity still win tbh ᕦ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕤ |
Chiibi said: Paul said: It's not hard to just set the "holy" side as the bad guys. A common thing with so called light and holy powers is it's generally set to angels and whatnot and when they're the badguys, it's usually them believing they're superior, righteous and almighty gods that look down on everyone else. I'm not really a fan of....that. Yeah...that tropes one of my biggest pet peeves. Gator said: Because in general media the protagonists tend to have good powers, so it's a nice change to have heroes with "evil" powers. Maybe when it first happened, now it's just as (or even more) dull. |
| Conventional power ups |
| Having a hidden evil demon inside of you makes for great Deus Ex Machina. |
 |
Chiibi said: Because that leaves an opportunity for the MC to battle his dark side...which I always thought made for good drama. If the MC is blessed with "divine" powers, there's no danger there. Indeed, it makes a boring MC to be a doogooder. I Iike it better when MC have dark side or are a demon of sort. Paul said: There's plenty of of possible drama, it's only just because dark side trope is so overused, you're more use to seeing it in action than holy or divine powers. It's not hard to just set the "holy" side as the bad guys. A common thing with so called light and holy powers is it's generally set to angels and whatnot and when they're the badguys, it's usually them believing they're superior, righteous and almighty gods that look down on everyone else. Yes, I much prefer having the holy side as villains. As for me, sorry, but 99% of time I've seen and read about the MC is on the good side which is always light/holy/angels and villains on dark/demons side. I think the movie Constantine is the only time I've seen an angel being a villain. So seeing and reading about the complete opposite is refreshing for me and I view the other way as an outdated concept. |
 |
| Because demons are cool. Angels are cooler though. |
 |
| Power fantasies. |
Waiting patiently for springtime to return! n_n Join the Social Justice Club now! Everyone dedicated to spreading feminism on MAL is welcome to join! Link to my interview! |
AllenNoah said: Gator said: Because in general media the protagonists tend to have good powers, so it's a nice change to have heroes with "evil" powers. Maybe when it first happened, now it's just as (or even more) dull. Like I said that may be true for anime, but in normal TV series it's not that common. |
More topics from this board
» what does waifu mean to you ?Frans001 - 2 hours ago |
8 |
by Frans001
»»
3 minutes ago |
|
» Are waifus for guys only?Dragevard - 1 hour ago |
7 |
by RaiYou
»»
6 minutes ago |
|
» 🥚 Best Husbando of the Past Eras TournamentSupersonic_Pain - Oct 10 |
30 |
by Cielord
»»
16 minutes ago |
|
» If your mean score is below 6 ... ( 1 2 3 )Dual_A - Oct 15 |
120 |
by _cjessop19_
»»
17 minutes ago |
|
» ☀️ Anime Summer 2025 Male & Female Characters Tournament ( 1 2 3 4 )ISeeLifePeople - Oct 5 |
177 |
by HimmelMyLove
»»
20 minutes ago |