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Is The Dead Parents Theme In RHG Stories Overused?

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Dec 5, 2015 11:31 PM #1421045
I ask this because there are too many unoriginal stories that lead to revenge for their dead parents, and I think there should be a rule that there shouldn't be anymore stories that have the "parents died, learns new power, works for revenge" theme so there will be more original stories, stories that will be interesting.

EDITED: changed the title because it didn't sound right, sorry for that.
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Dec 5, 2015 11:35 PM #1421046
No, "Let the kids have their fun."
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Dec 5, 2015 11:37 PM #1421047
Christ, I was worried for a second there.
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Dec 6, 2015 12:45 AM #1421052
why would you give a shit what people put in their RHG's stories? It virtually never matters anyway when you make an animation. And RHG's supposed to allow people free reign over their characters so putting restrictions like this would take that away.
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Dec 6, 2015 1:18 AM #1421055
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I ask this because there are too many unoriginal stories that lead to revenge for their dead parents, and I think there should be a rule that there shouldn't be anymore stories that have the "parents died, learns new power, works for revenge" theme so there will be more original stories, stories that will be interesting.


Just let people do what they want but you can remind them before they make an RHG.
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Dec 6, 2015 1:21 AM #1421056
There's a very easy solution to this problem.

Let's make a petition to have stone officially say that the RHG is actually run by a Consortium that actually kills their gladiator's parents, if they do not have an even more tragic backstory by default. This will make anyone who joins to force Dead Parents unto their characters, not because it's required, because it's cool. This petition will affect the ff RHGs:

- Yoyo
- Oxob
- Jombo
- Fox N Q
- Steel
- Mr Pix
- Murph
- Chuck
- Umbrella
- Everyone who isn't FLLFFL and Nhazul

And this will not affect the ff RHGs:

- FLLFFL
- Nhazul



So basically, when someone in the future makes an RHG that says their parents died, they will basically be declaring that they now have the same emotional depth as FLLFFL and Nhazul. Look at this new and improved version of RHG:

Old Yoyo - Invents quantum thingie within his yoyo; decides to test it by applying in the RHG.

New Yoyo - Raised by quantum yoyo scientists, Yoyo (note the Capitalization) grew up doing nothing but eat, sleep, and touch quantum yoyos (often times at the most inappropriate of parts). Stone however, with his love for irony and evil, plotted with the RHG Consortium to steal this quantum yoyo technology in order to power their new Dead Parents Cryo Unit. So they had Yoyo's parents killed. Now Yoyo is joining the RHG because of revenge. Oh and to test out his yoyo technology his parents made for him too.


Let's put it to the test, shall we? Use the new backstory for Yoyo, then watch this:



Holy shit, I'm loving Yoyo already.

Now whenever I re-watch Yoyo vs FLLFFL, I can feel the intensity of what's at stake. Instead of Yoyo just having boring ole fun playing around with Terk's bitch and ending it with a draw, we now have the subtext of a broken and hollow maniacal child who is fuelled by his dead scientist parents and has become unhinged to the point that he has decided to treat everything as a fun play fantasy. And when that play fantasy ends, he is ultimately depressed. Which is why there hasn't been any Yoyo vs animation that's ever come after this.

Suddenly that scene in the beginning and end makes sense. The whole scene where all of FLLFFL's victims are dying is comedically played for laughs in the original incarnation, but thanks to our new backstory they've transcended into the symbolism behind the Consortium's sins. How the magnitude of Dead Parents is slowly taking over the Old Guard The entire battle becomes a stage between the old and the new backstory. Dead Parents vs Whatever The Fuck FLLFFL has Been Through, with Yoyo being a metaphor for the insanity context behind the RHG's formation and FLLFFL representing how his backstory is boring and stale and offers nothing to the table. That ending where FLLFFL leaves? That now represents the sorrow of having no Dead Parents. Who knows? Maybe he's off to kill his OWN parents. Because Dead Parents are awesome.

IMDB Rating for Yoyo vs FLLFFL: 5 stars.
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Dec 6, 2015 1:54 AM #1421062
Let it go, its their Gladiator so its their own decision on how their Gladiators became fighters.

BTW Hewitt your way of setting that is GENIUS but Won't this make stone feel like the villain here? He's not much of a Bad guy, is he now?
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Dec 6, 2015 2:25 AM #1421065
Role play wise, sure Stone will be a villain.

Real world wise, he won't give two shits.
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Dec 6, 2015 2:28 AM #1421067
Quote from Hewitt

And this will not affect the ff RHGs:

- FLLFFL
- Nhazul






Um, what does ff mean?Also, why is Nhazul a ff character? Don't people like Yoyo better than Nhazul?
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Dec 6, 2015 2:42 AM #1421069
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Um, what does ff mean?Also, why is Nhazul a ff character? Don't people like Yoyo better than Nhazul?


More people know Hyun than they know Nhazul Because hyun went off and made the dojo and did a shit ton of animations. Does Nhazul even animate anymore?
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Dec 6, 2015 2:51 AM #1421074
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Does Nhazul even animate anymore?



He made this 6 months ago.
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Dec 6, 2015 2:59 AM #1421077
i didnt expect this to be so one sided. it's just i felt the parents killed and going for revenge theme was unoriginal and was used to often. and part of me felt that they used that story because they were too lazy to think of something else.
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Dec 6, 2015 3:02 AM #1421078
Unoriginal? Unorfuckingiginal? That's your argument? Kid, do you even know how unoriginal every single RHG these days are? There are no such things as RHG's with unique backgrounds these days, because it's always going to be a rehash of some other dickheads who did it too. Don't complain about fucking originality, and just let everyone have their fun.
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Dec 6, 2015 3:10 AM #1421080
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Unoriginal? Unorfuckingiginal? That's your argument? Kid, do you even know how unoriginal every single RHG these days are? There are no such things as RHG's with unique backgrounds these days, because it's always going to be a rehash of some other dickheads who did it too. Don't complain about fucking originality, and just let everyone have their fun.


i just said i felt the story theme was overused, i don't have anything against a story or an rhg. and there are RHG's with unique backgrounds.
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Dec 6, 2015 3:21 AM #1421081
They just thinkin that was the most good theme in RHG stories,or because peoples didnt have any idea for make other theme for dat so de solution is
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