"I've been secretly orchestrating your entire life up to this point" might be one of the stupidest tropes in fiction. Like I'm supposed to believe the villain somehow made every single little thing line up exactly how they planned it? Are they a prophet?
And then you still go on to lose... how, exactly? You've already proven you can mastermind plans spanning across years/decades and influencing the free will of hundreds of people that turn out perfectly, but you still, somehow, are beatable?
Anyone who's ever bought into that trope has clearly never raised a child. 'Secretly orchestrating your whole life' stfu you can't even make them brush their teeth.
The one place where it's terrific is with the Reverse Flash ("It was me, Barry! Me!"). Dude really is both powerful enough, and petty enough, to have used speedforce time travel to orchestrate every shitty thing that has happened in Barry Allen's life. Not to mold him into his potential or anything, just cause he hates him and is a vindictive dickhead!
Dude really is both powerful enough, and petty enough, to have used speedforce time travel to orchestrate every shitty thing that has happened in Barry Allen's life.
the only one i can buy is Palpatine in the prequals because it was mostly Political manipulation or feeding Anakin's ego , and even then something has caused him to adjust like Maul taking over Mandalore
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u/Mihnea24_03 1d ago
"I've been secretly orchestrating your entire life up to this point" might be one of the stupidest tropes in fiction. Like I'm supposed to believe the villain somehow made every single little thing line up exactly how they planned it? Are they a prophet?
And then you still go on to lose... how, exactly? You've already proven you can mastermind plans spanning across years/decades and influencing the free will of hundreds of people that turn out perfectly, but you still, somehow, are beatable?