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Trope Talk: Powerups

Some tropes, like the Deus Ex Machina, are blatantly narrative-breaking in almost all of their forms, but are given special dispensation to break as much as they want as long as they LOOK really cool while doing it. Shockingly, this episode is not 100% anime examples! I narrowly resisted the urge to exclusively source all my clips from Fairy Tail. It would've been *so easy.* EXAMPLES IN ORDER OF FIRST APPEARANCE: Dragon Ball Super: Broly; Dragon Ball; Dragon Ball Z; The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies; Godzilla: King of the Monsters; Yu Yu Hakusho; Spectacular Spider-Man; Inuyasha; Bleach; Thor; She-Ra and the Princesses of Power; Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan; Fairy Tail; Hellsing Ultimate; Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood; Kung Fu Panda 2; Thor: Ragnarok; Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness; The Princess Bride; Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol; Slayers; Police Story 2; Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; Sonic the Hedgehog (2020); Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse MUSIC: Sneaky Snitch, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH LINKS: http://rdbl.co/osp OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this video in another language? Check out our guide to contributing translated captions: https://www.overlysarcasticproductions.com/community-captions

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Paul Murray

The ultimate powerup was the Lensman series by E.E. Smith. In book 1 the great weapon was a beam that disolved iron. In the last book, they were womholing in planets on either side of enemy planets to crack the enemy planet like a nutcracker. The question in these books was always "What new tech menace did they come up with?"

Jason Veevaert

“Behold the power of two hands!” Lol I miss DBZ Abridged.