Shepherd Wrote:The whole Marvel tangent the story went off on actually came close to killing any interest I have in the fic. As far as I could tell, characters that already had established personalities just had entire new ones grafted on, and a good number of the subplots seemed to just appear out of nowhere, without any relation to what already had happened, for no reason beyond including another Marvel character. There's also that the main plot was basically dropped for a large number of chapters, in favor of those subplots. I'm still trying to figure out why he decided to change his name to Tony Stark, for example. Honestly, I just found the infusion of comic book characters rather tedious, and was quite glad when it started looking like he was moving back to the main plot, instead of dealing with the comic book character of the week.Necratoid Wrote:Also it has been explained what is going on with things in Gaijin:Actually, I believe that the reason Gaijin counts as a 'Favorite Bad Fic' is because, in addition to the author insert who slowly develops Spider-Man style superpowers and retroactively turns out to be Spoiler [+]
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Basically, Carrot by virtue of being yoinked from another dimension, is undergoing a change that happens to all such people this happens to.. For example this is thought on scerne as what happened to Beryle's boss demon thing, long, long ago. This looming threat is why she/it wants him dead yesterday. This drags on for too long and He'll be able to fight her/ir on equal terms... possiblely with magical girl back up with an artifact that owned her/it last time.
This means that Carrot will, if he survives, eventually gain stupid amounts of power... and though not stated outright, the implication I got was that all those planet (and/or the population there of) eating monstrocities started off this way. More speculation from me is that Carrot just isn't as power hungry as they are... he'd rather screw around then take over the world. He'd rather lock himself in a bathroom they fight his enemies. All the weirdness and psedo-crossovers are because his uncontious mind, via this power, is altering things on him. This is why by channeling Spiderman he doomed himself to things happening this way.
Sailor Moon's brother
at varoius points during the fic you wind up randomly running into Japanese versions of the Vulture, Daredevil, Venom, the Hulk, Deadpool, the X-Men, the White Queen, Magneto, Justin Hammer, etcetera, with the author insert having secret comic book knowledge of these people.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.