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== Anime and Manga == |
== Anime and Manga == |
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* Duel Monsters in the original ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' manga was just supposed to be a one-shot deal, but eventually became [[Merchandise-Driven|more and more important to the plot]]. The same thing happened to Kaiba, who went from [[Monster of the Week]] to [[Big Bad]] to [[Anti-Hero]] and finally to [[The Rival]]. |
* Duel Monsters in the original ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' manga was just supposed to be a one-shot deal (originally named "Magic and Wizards"), but eventually became [[Merchandise-Driven|more and more important to the plot]]. The same thing happened to Kaiba (the villain in "The Cards With Teeth" story, where the game was introduced), who went from [[Monster of the Week]] to [[Big Bad]] to [[Anti-Hero]] and finally to [[The Rival]]. |
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** The mystical aspects of the game has also become this; originally just a bunch of dark magic from Ancient Egypt that the game's creator was tricked into bringing back through the game, it eventually evolved into an entire ''series'' of [[Alternate Dimension]]s full of monsters, and eventually into a power that's [[Older Than They Think]] and is part of ''the Earth itself''. |
** The mystical aspects of the game has also become this; originally just a bunch of dark magic from Ancient Egypt that the game's creator was tricked into bringing back through the game, it eventually evolved into an entire ''series'' of [[Alternate Dimension]]s full of monsters, and eventually into a power that's [[Older Than They Think]] and is part of ''the Earth itself''. |
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* [[Ki Attacks]] and powering up in ''[[Dragonball Z]]''. At the beginning of the original Dragonball, there were no [[Ki Attacks]], and the first of them, the [[Kamehame Hadoken|Kamehameha]], didn't appear until the middle of the first arc. Even then it sort of the trump card, and wasn't played terribly often. As the series progressed though, the KameHameHa became a more standard attack, and Ki Attacks became more and more prominent. Then DBZ came along and it became the main premise behind practically everything the fighters did. They could fly, teleport, power up, etc., all based on Ki manipulation. [[Ki Attacks]] eventually led to [[Beam Spam]], and the ability to power up that was introduced early in DBZ became the method by which nearly every [[Big Bad]] but the last one was defeated, by digging just a little deeper and becoming just a bit more powerful. |
* [[Ki Attacks]] and powering up in ''[[Dragonball Z]]''. At the beginning of the original Dragonball, there were no [[Ki Attacks]], and the first of them, the [[Kamehame Hadoken|Kamehameha]], didn't appear until the middle of the first arc. Even then it sort of the trump card, and wasn't played terribly often. As the series progressed though, the KameHameHa became a more standard attack, and Ki Attacks became more and more prominent. Then DBZ came along and it became the main premise behind practically everything the fighters did. They could fly, teleport, power up, etc., all based on Ki manipulation. [[Ki Attacks]] eventually led to [[Beam Spam]], and the ability to power up that was introduced early in DBZ became the method by which nearly every [[Big Bad]] but the last one was defeated, by digging just a little deeper and becoming just a bit more powerful. |
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* More or less the same thing has happened to ''[[Bleach]]'', with the early substitute shinigami stories fading into endless tournament-like fight arcs. |
* More or less the same thing has happened to ''[[Bleach]]'', with the early substitute shinigami stories fading into endless tournament-like fight arcs. |
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** Given the amount of panels and empty surrounding space they receive, the speech bubbles themselves have been ballooning into strangling whatever plot they were supposed to be driving, extending any event by months or even years. Plot carcinogen? |
** Given the amount of panels and empty surrounding space they receive, the speech bubbles themselves have been ballooning into strangling whatever plot they were supposed to be driving, extending any event by months or even years. Plot carcinogen? |
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== Comic Books == |
== Comic Books == |
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