A Certain Scientific Railgun: Difference between revisions

* [[Fantastic Racism]]:* Though everyone in Academy city is treated with equal rights ''in theory'', in ''practice'' your chances of getting passed over for jobs, universities and all other opportunities in life steadily increases the lower your [[Power Level]] gets. Well -meaning Level 55s<ref>Considering there are only seven Level 5s in Academy City and most of them aren'st suchvery asnice, "Well-meaning Level 5s" is for all intents and purposes synonymous with "Mikoto".</ref> try to reassure their "lesser" peers with ultimately hollow mantras of "Do your best!! Your power level doesn't matter!!" oblivious to the fact that certain people are simply ''born'' incapable of crossing certain hurdles no matter ''how'' hard they try. Naturally, this breeds '''intensely''' bitter resentment, especially amongst the Level 0's of the city's population; ripe for exploitation by people like {{spoiler|like Professor Kiyama Harumi}} through schemes like the "Level Upper" incident... Scientists such as {{spoiler|Telestina and the rest of the Kihara family}} don't even treat ''espers'' as humans; merely test subjects for their experiments.

* [[Filler]]: Because there were only 4 manga volumes of Railgun at that time, with the current arc {{spoiler|The Sister arc}} still ongoing, filler episodes were created after the first arc in the Railgun anime to fill in its 24 episode slot. Thankfully, most of the filler episodes and the characters introduced in the anime were written by the author of the novels so it's [[Canon]] - and some is referenced in later works.

* [[Flip-Flop of God]]: In the beginning of the ''Index'' novel and anime, Mikoto fires a railgun which passes by Touma but in the ''Railgun'' manga drawn by Motoi Fukuyama, she fires the Railgun at him which he stops using Imagine Breaker. Unfortunately, this caused some [[Internet Backdraft|backlash with fans since it is contested by the fandom if this is possible]]. To avoid this contradiction, the ''Railgun'' anime has the events that lead to the Railgun incident [[Retcon]] to an earlier date before the time of the first ''Index'' arc.

* [[Flower in Her Hair]]: Uiharu practically wears a ''flowerbed'' on her head, while Saten wears a lone white flower. As Uiharu has both refused to answer Kiyama about what they are (or answer any other questions at the time), and only answered "What are you talking about?" when someone pointed them out to her at the Tokiwadai Midsummer festival, they may be more than a headband.

** Remember some of those Urban Legends the girls were talking at episode 4? {{spoiler|TheyOther than the ones directly addressed in the Level Upper story arc, all of them hint about what's going to happen in the ''Index'' anime.}}

* [[For Great Justice]]: The Liberal Arts City {{spoiler|had been implied to have captured espers and experiment on them, as well as get rid of people who snoop using [[Secret Police]], control information, and other various things to create their own espers using a different method from Academy City, based off the magicians attacking them for this reason. They claim it's so they wouldn't be behind the times as the "World Police" since it's possible that espers would become common place in the future, but they were just as bad as Academy City's [[For Science!]]!}}

** {{spoiler|Frenda, Mugino, Rikou and Saiai}} can count as a Four-Girl Ensemble, too, despite being, {{spoiler|well [[Affably Evil|villains?]] [[Rule of Cool|Nah, who cares!]]}}