Game of Thrones was the same until D&D took over fully. In addition to retarded writing choices such as ballista that were achieving railgun levels of projectile velocity you had the various archers going from using "loose" to "fire" because of shitty writers who only ever think in modern vernacular.
Nature shows are at best educational pieces for families and schoolchildren and at worst made up, so the more brutal aspects of nature are often skipped or at least only briefly covered with very skewed interpretations of what is happening.
Adult male lions will kill and eat the cubs of a pride without a male in order to both remove genetic competition and induce heat in the lionesses to then produce his own offspring.
Some sharks not only give birth to live young but those that are birthed will have already killed and consumed some of their siblings who were weaker.
Some parasitoids will infect a host with not only eggs that will eventually hatch and consume them from the inside out, but also behavioural changes to protect the eggs in the mean time.
Cane toads will try to eat anything they can get in their mouths, including other cane toads. They can even die in the attempt when literally biting off more than they can chew.
Nature is very creative. Brutal, but creative.
Explaining how mice will eat their own young if their nest is discovered by a predator is always a grim one. Sure mice will eat insects, worms, molusc, and other things in general, but explaining cannibalism in order to reclaim the energy spent producing the brood rather than leave it to waste or the predator is a special kind of horror for many.
Cows contract bovine tb from badgers when they nibble on dead badgers infected with the disease. They do this because like sharks and many other animals they have nothing but their mouths to investigate their surroundings. This leads to the other thing.
Eating small animals is really just a question of scale, and in general comes down to opportunistic protein gain in otherwise herbivorous animals. Mice and similarly sized species are like humans eating a sweet such as maltesers, small enough to swallow whole but still large enough to chomp once.
In general if an animal is large enough to eat a smaller one, especially much smaller ones, it will.
Fairly sure I ended up getting that for free. I had Gods and Kings, I remember BNW getting shit on for how much it changed the game, not for the better at times, so put off buying it. Went back to play V in the last year or so on Steam and BNW was there and unlocked, ready for install 🤔
Nah, Star Trek TNG and DS9 character who had so much bad shit happen to him the "O'Brien must suffer" meme came about.
He was shot, stabbed, punched, had his wife possessed, had his kid possessed, had his kid temporarily aged up a decade, was falsely accused of crimes by alien governments twice in separate episodes, killed, replaced with his own future or past self after being killed, shot some more, given a purple nurple by Jhem'Hadar, sent back in time several times, beat up during some of those times including once by Klingons and then interrogated about why the brawl started by Kirk himself, all the while being one of the like 3 people keeping the station from exploding on a daily basis because it was that badly built, filled with traps, and repeatedly targeted for destruction for countless reasons.
Also he was married to Keiko.
Ah, my comment was to do with how quickly this guy is being paraded out infront of the general public and how rapidly his manifesto was published when quite a few previous others still haven't been. This is a distraction for the political theatre.
this girl can only rely on Korra for spiritual advice...
lol, lmao, new girl is beyond screwed. Korra had Tenzin, her own parents, the White Lotus, and all of the past Avatars up until a point for advice, although even with all that she still never heeded any of their words.
Speaking of Tenzin, one of the few moments I really enjoyed in s3, and yes I was masochistic enough to be watch all 4, was Tenzin vs Zaheer. Up until that point Zaheer had been beating everyone he fought because nobody really had proper combat experience vs an airbender any more. Except Tenzin, who not only is the sole living airbender at the time to have been taught by an actual master, but who was also trained by the previous Avatar seeing as how both were his father. Meaning he has faced both highly skilled bending abilities from the other elements in general, but likely also when combined since Aang would be able to do just that and effectively stand in for four opponents just by himself.
So Tenzin not only demolishes Zaheer with almost minimal effort because as good as Zaheer is he's so outclassed it's hilarious, but Tenzin came close to doing the same to most of the other Red Lotus members at the same time until the combustionbender sniped him. Unfortunately it was about the only time Tenzin got to show off apart from his revelation that he is not his father and should live as his own man. Easily one of the best characters in the Korra series, although for better and worse that didn't end up being something difficult to achieve.
Of course, that all went out the window after the first season.
Literally at the moment Amon did, too.
"I can air bend? I can air bend!"
/does nothing but more punches like every other time she's used any other element because she has zero creativity
How anyone was to believe that moment was her at her most "spiritual" is retarded.
and will get shut down hard for it
That still happened repeatedly, however.
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Lost her powers multiple times.
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Almost ended the entire Avatar cycle multiple times
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Trusted the bad guy over her friends and family multiple times only to be betrayed, again.
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Only ever wins because of a really badly written Deus Ex Machina that has zero precedent or any prior foreshadowing.
Unironically the kind of person who never actually listens, never learns, constantly needs bailed out, and never really thanks those picking her out of the self made fire yet again.
seven settlements and everything outside of them is a wasteland
Lol, do they not realise how much worse this continues to make Korra?
This new girl is assumedly the next part of the Avatar cycle, since Earth follows Water and is then followed by Fire, so she is born into the world Korra leaves. Why are there only seven settlements now? Why is everything else a wasteland? What did Korra do, or not do, that led to this situation?
Korra was born into a world of unprecedented peace because Aang ended the Hundred Year War by defeating Firelord Oozai and brought everyone together forming Union City, which Korra later helped destroy of course.
Aang was born into a world on the brink of war because Roku, the previous Fire Avatar, failed to stop Sozin who knew the Avatar was the only person who could be a threat to him so preemptively struck first at the Air Nomads to remove that threat first.
They really can't help themselves making things even worse when trying to create a hook for an audience 🤣
How hard are they going to try and play the nostalgia card this time because unlike the last time there isn't going to be any chance of recurring characters unless suddenly everyone special ends up being the grandchild of characters from the Korra series, which still doesn't mean that much other than excluding any possibility of there being blood descendents of Korra after she was retconned to be bi. Or will they retcon that again and write off Asami so there are in fact descendents? 🤔
Also that prosthetic leg means a significantly diminished ability to feel vibrations through the ground as per Toph, Aang, Korra, and multiple other characters who learned that way from the Badger Moles, so yet again already setting up problems just for the sake of DEIversity... 🙄
Dabi was also a bit redone ala Avatar with Zuko and Azula, the former being the good pyrokinetic with the burn/scar caused by a parent [Todoroki] against the unhinged pyrokinetic sibling who uses blue flames. While MHA had a lot of references throughout several of them were far too recent like the Naruto and Avatar ones to feel like anything other than direct copies.
trying to juggle multiple threads
Putting it lightly. Some of the "big reveals came and went so fast they could probably get missed with a physical copy if two pages get stuck together.
"Hey kids look, Stain is back!
Aaand he's dead." 🙄
But Fillion voiced Hal in the cartoons 😕