WHAT DID HE SAAAAAYYY???

The first I can remember was Zordon in Power Rangers in Space, followed quickly after by Kendrix in Lost Galaxy. A bit later but also ones that stick out in my mind are Joyce from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Pyrrha from RWBY.

I know it said “First” but I can never only pick on thing.

fuck it, i'm curious. reblog and tag with the first fictional death to ever rewrite your brain chemistry and/or make you cry like a baby. mine was ares from the underland chronicles (who, for context, was a giant bat.) to this day i will weep if i think too hard about it. okay, go.

Started an illustrated lore book. Wish me luck for keeping it up <3

Motto for drawing the men in Power Rangers

thats THEIR arc thank you very much

spideytorch kissing under the mistletoe :3

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I hear marvel yaoi is back in fashion

Disliking Nami is a RED FLAG and no one can ever change my mind on that 😁 like how embarrassing for you.

What a fkn loser!🫵😭

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I feel like Shonen Manga should have the rival character double as a love interest.

A lot of this discourse made me realize that the problem has been that the rival character should be female more. Like Shonen Jump editorial will encourage male leads to be promoted as the face of the series but why not let the rival/lancer be a girl?

I mean, that's how a lot of shows and movies I saw growing up did it.

Like it often does come down to either blindspot on the part of the author (male or female, sexism rots all of our brains) or editorial too concerned with demographics like a girl becoming less appealing when they take the battle damage the boys will often get.

Even so, the Love Interest in and of itself often shows the hand of the author when they’re not allowed to be too much outside of that. But when they’re packaged with another archetype like rival or nemesis or best friend, they’re more of a likelihood that the audience will be able to see how our protagonist would fall for them.

Especially with rival characters where there’s a clash of ideologies along with the protagonist learning that there will always be somebody to surpass and the rival learning that their dogmatic stance doesn’t got to be the end-all-be-all.

If the hero guy needs a clean heterosexual romance to appease editorial, making the rival the girl they’re gonna be set up with or the best friend would make it all the more smoother.

Basically, what I’m saying is that if Sasuke was a girl, then NaruSasu would be guarunteed an endgame.

Buuuuuuut this often clashes with certain unconscious or not biases that male authors and readers have about female character in action based storytelling. MistereFusion did an excellent breakdown on Videl’s tournament battle, how it was written and how it’s been received.

Namely how there’s an unfortunate mentality that’s the girls are either to be ejected quickly with a knockout lest their “physical qualities” are compromised or they are brutalized to show that they’re outta their depth and to create an air of seriousness all of a sudden.