Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas: Difference between revisions

* [[Blind Seer]]: Asmita

* [[Blood Knight]]: Cancer Manigoldo, Scorpio Kardia; Gemini Defteros and Gemini Aspros to a lesser degree.

* [[Bloody Murder]]: Albafica.

* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Gemini Defteros was a victim of this at one point. Virgo Asmita helped him break through it at the cost of killing his twin brother Gemini Aspros, who had conspired to kill the Pope.}}

* [[Determinator]]: Tenma is reaching Seiya's level during his fight against {{spoiler|his own mother, Owl Partita}}.

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Several instances, like the fight between Manigoldo and Thanatos.

* [[Died Standing Up]]: Wyvern Radamanthys. {{spoiler|Then horribly subverted when he's show to still be alive in spite of having a huge gaping hole on his chest and being stripped of his godly powers.}}

* [[Disability Superpower]]: Averted with El Cid, he was still able to use Excalibur even after getting his forearm cut off {{spoiler|when one of his own attacks got reflected back to him.}}

* [[The Greatest Story Never Told]]: Almost! {{spoiler|If Sasha had arrived some minutes later, no one would ever know of Aspros's [[Heel Face Turn]] and that he sacrificed his own life in order to defeat Youma/Kairos and seal him for good. She's the only one to know, because she arrived on the spot little time before his death.}}

* [[Grim Up North]]: Bluegard.

** {{spoiler|Manigoldo, Kardia, Regulus...}}

** And {{spoiler|Basilisk Sylphid.}}

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Gemini Aspros. Arguably, Leo Regulus as well.}}

* [[Hope Sprouts Eternal]]: {{spoiler|If you're not too cynical about the ending, specially considering the [[Foregone Conclusion]] that this war will happen again in the future.}}

* [[Hot Shounen Mom]]: Tenma's mother, Partita.

* [[Human Popsicle]]: {{spoiler|Aquarius Degel and Seraphina.}}

* [[Hurting Hero]]: Tenma.

* [[I Am Your Opponent]]: Griffin Minos to Pisces Albafica, then later [[Big Damn Hero|Pisces Albafica to Griffin Minos]]; Taurus Aldebaran to Bennu Kagaho; Scorpio Kardia to Wyvern Rhadamanthys; Sagittarius Sisyphus to Garuda Aiacos; Libra Dohko to Bennu Kagaho, at the temple of terra; and finally [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Gemini Aspros to Mephistopheles Youma]].

* [[I Know You Are in There Somewhere Fight|I Know You're In There Somewhere]]: {{spoiler|Athena to Pandora. Sorta.}}

* [[The Power of Blood]]: Athena, Albafica.

* [[The Problem With Fighting Death]]: Hades may have lost all the previous Holy Wars, but he's taken revenge on all of Athena's saints by trapping their souls in the frozen ninth layer.

* [[Pure Is Not Good]]: {{spoiler|DAMMIT ALONE!}}

* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: By the series final, you can count the number of survivers on two hands.

* [[Race Against the Clock]]: Athena's Saints must go through the Lost Canvas and defeat Alone before the end of the [[Magic Countdown]] (see entry above).

* [[Rain of Arrows]]: One of Sagittarius Sisyphus's techniques consists on a rain of light arrows.

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: Partita, Pandora, Hakurei, and Athena {{spoiler|except after she cut it off to pay for the fee to cross the sea of clouds, before it went back to normal}}.

* [[Rasputinian Death]]: {{spoiler|Rhadamanthys.}}

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Deuteros sacrifices his life to redeem his twin brother's Aspros who had become a Specter. Aspros himself with his fight against Youma.}}

* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Youma is Tenma's father and the one who stole Hades's soul from Mrs. Heinstein's womb then ran away with it to Italy, placing it inside Alone, the world's purest child - whom was never really possessed by Hades. The god was initially withheld by Sasha/Athena's flower leash and then began a very slow process of awakening as the leash's power wore off; meanwhile, good old '''Alone''' created the ominous Lost Canvas plan and intended to execute it before Hades could fully awaken and take over his body.}}

 

 

* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: Hypnos is occasionally seen calmly having tea and enjoying the view from a balcony in the Forest Cathedral. He and Thanatos also seem to be fond of playing chess.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Tenma and Yato.

** Pandora even mentions that Alone's eyes are beautiful and lively, although full of soul-crushing sadness.

* [[Whip It Good]]: Balron René's weapon of choice.

* [[The Worf Effect]]: Subverted, when the 18th century Aldebaran goes down killing numerous Specters, including one who nobody else present had a chance against.

* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Leo Regulus has no problems in physically fighting Behemoth Violate.