Oh my gosh, I completely forgot about an even worse example from the Last Knight - Megatron refers to Starscream as his "old treacherous friend" when Starscream's never actually been treacherous in the movies.
Also it's jarring to hear Megatron refer to Starscream as his "Friend". He flat out hated Starscream in the movies. He considered him a failure, beat him down after they both killed Prime, and even refused to tell him his plans in Dark of the Moon.
I guess you could argue they talked about his treacherous nature in RotF, when Megatron is angry with Starscream for not working to revive him, instead choosing to take over as Decepticon leader in his absence
Even the obscure Nintendo ds game handled that MUCH better. During the last 1/4th of the decepticon route, starscream betrays your created transformer and waits for Megatron to destroy optimus, then attacks him from behind and steals the allspark to achieve power, and he becomes the main antagonist and final boss for the rest of the game. And during the first few missions, he straight up lies to you about megatron's disappearance and even threatens you to never seek out megatron. A movie tie in game that no one talks about was beyond faithful to the character lores unlike the main movie product
Rise of Skywalker does the exact same thing. The film assumes most people knew the plot of the Dark Empire comic series so therefore it doesn't need to explain how Palpatine came back. The issue is that most people have no idea what Dark Empire even is.
One thing I can say in regards to the reverse of including information that was left out of the source material to make things flow more consistently was in DP's version of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. For example, in Part 5, Jotaro shows a picture of the Stardust Crusaders, but there was never a moment where any such image was taken during the whole of part 3. When DP did the anime adaptation, they not only had a scene dedicated to the photo being taken, but it's used again at the end of the part as a sort of "farewell" to Stardust Crusaders as a whole. Thus, when it shows up in Part 5, it carries vastly more weight with it.
Yeah DP is pretty faithful to the source material. Any changes are usually for the better and to keep things consistent(like added the joe star birth mark in parts 1 and 2)
Some spoiler-free context for why that photo was such a huge issue before DP fixed it: The photo shown in part 5 shows the full heroic group of part 3 posed together in a desert, including Jotaro, Joseph, Abdul, Polnareff, Kakyoin and Iggy. However, Iggy is first introduced about halfway through the part, meeting the heroes in Egypt and reluctantly helping them fight DIO's personal guard. Kakyoin was present for the first half of the part, but is severely injured by the very first opponent fought in Egypt proper and doesn't recover until just before the final battle of the part, at which point both Kakyoin and Iggy are visibly wounded (One with facial scars and the other missing a limb). The photo in part 5, depicting both characters without their injuries in a casual context leaves no possible point at which it could have been taken. In the TV anime, the arc where Iggy first arrives has a new scene inserted, in which Joseph acquires a new camera and decides to have a group photo taken. Jotaro is shown carrying the photo at the end of the part, giving more meaning to his appearance with the same photo in part 5, at which point he is the only hero from part 3 still active.
@@Blazecap I agree. The only change/ removal they’ve made that truly hinders the story of any part is removing the Wang Chan fight from the middle of Part 1. In the manga, Jonathan encounters Wang Chan as a zombie about halfway through the story, not long after beginning his Hamon training. This causes him to realize that Dio is alive when he sees Wang Chan aboard the ship in the finale. In the anime, the Wang Chan fight is removed, so narratively there’s no reason for Jonathan to suspect that Dio is alive just because he saw Wang Chan; the last he saw of him was at the mansion before it burned down, and he never learned that Dio had turned him into a zombie.
I'd have to say it's because things needed to be cut to make room for the MK1 adaptation. Plus, Bi Han is more famous as Noob than he is as Sub-Zero (with Kuai Liang being the more reputable cryomancer) and that Scorpion's focus has almost always been Quan Chi ever since he was revealed since MK4. Personally, the Scorpion vs Sub-Zero thing seems like something the series outgrew a while ago, despite the fact that promo materials and the odd cutscene here and there keep doubling back for it for...reasons.
Snake a thousand pardons, but the 95 film does acknowledge Liu Kang as Kung Laos descendant. The scene where Goro and Kano are taking. When Shang enters he says he's there to warn Goro about Liu kang and clearly refers to him as descendant of Kung Lao.
Did he establish anything about Kung Lao that it would make sense for them to take Kang seriously or does he just say he is the descendant and not explain any further?
@@metalmario991 Shang says: I've come to warn you that Kung Laos descendant is competing in the tournament. You must handle him carefully. And metal, in all honesty, watch the movie!
"Kung Lao? The MKII hat guy? Is he Liu Kang's dad?" "No, they're talking about an older Kung Lao. The original. The "Great" Kung Lao that Goro killed 500 years before." "WTF?!?!?!" "And the movie screwed up. Liu Kang isn't related to the old OR MKII Kung Lao. MKII Kung Lao is the old Kung Lao's descendant." "Wh-- IT'S JUST A VIDEO GAME SERIES! WHY WOULD THEY--" "You think video games should be all cut-and-dry stuff to pacify the kids? That said, if your brain's scrambled now, wait until you hear about Outworld…"
It's why most adaptions suck because they expect you to know the source material. And for those seeing it will end up being confused, due to the fact that they don't know the source material well enough, if at all.
2:38 as someone who saw the last knight and is a transformers fan, i can confirm. The only reason i even cared about unicron was thanks to prior knowledge due watching Transformers prime and the 1986 movie. Alot of my friends didnt have that luxury. One of the reasons why i despise the last knight for butchering the transformers equivalent to galactus. Its almost as big of an insult as sindels retcon and the butchering of captain marvels legacy.
@@Exo-con why do big studios fuck these things up? I can understand the origin of certain popular characters but unicron isnt as well known and palpatine death fucked up anakins arc that ended in episode 6.
I was disappointed less at the legacy butchering and more the blase nature of the entire Kree society and homeworld. It's basically an empire run by a supercomputer, but other than that the worldbuilding is very few and far between, despite there being multiple opportunities. Was Carol the only soldier with energy powers, or did the Kree implement a supersoldier program after witnessing her "evolution"? How widespread is their brainwashing used if they can capture someone and rewrite portions of their memory (especially soldiers)? Why do some of the Kree have blue skin while Mar-Vell, Yon Rogg, and "Veers" have normal flesh tones? The one that ticks me off the most is why the Kree have left Earth alone instead of conquering it outright. All the screenwriters needed to do was stick a Sentry there and say that was all they needed to monitor the Sol system for Skrulls and other enemies- plus they could've used the giant alien robot to give Carol a proper challenge for the final battle..
I wasn't happy with Sindel's retcon either, but I mostly justified it as a weird after-effect of Raiden messing with the timeline. It's for the same reason Kitana was loyal to Shao Khan and Sonya was standing with the other competitors at the start of the first tournament, while in the original timeline Kitana was already preparing to betray him and Sonya should've been restrained and forced to fight just as the tournament started. Or you can just say it's inconsistent, like how Shang Tsung was allowed to fight for Outworld even though he was originally from, even though Bo Rai Cho couldn't fight for Earthrealm BECAUSE he was from Outworld. ...Writing is not their strongsuit, IS it?
I think the first Mortal Kombat movie kept the franchise alive, all the later designs and character development were influenced by the movie, from the ninja faceplates to the personalities of the main characters, I mean we know Jonny Cage is smug, but Linden Ashby brought so much humour than the 2D character ever could.
If I remember correctly, all the plot of Virtua Fighter came from the anime movie adaptation since the developers didn't care about story but like the anime 0lot so much they ended up making it the official canon for the series, I guess.
Another example of this, is the rivalry of Wolverine and Sabretooth in the X-Men films. Sabretooth has no relationship with Wolverine at all in the first X-Men film. But when their fight kicks in, the music ramps up and it is treated like a really big deal. Which, without the context of the film, it isn't.
I think an example of the oposite would be in The Hobbit. In the book, the elves only appear as a faction, and don't have any notable characters. Their involvement only serves as an obstacle to the dwarves, and then as reinforcement against the orc army. The actions of "The Elves" are describes by the narrator, without specifying any details about individual members of the faction, or their personal motivations. Probably because film is a visual medium however, for the movies they had to give the elves a "face". A character to represent them, that would act in the events that were only described by the narrator in the book. So they added the Elven King to the story. And since they were now a character, they had to have their own motivations and convictions. There had to be reasons why they would imprison the dwarves. Why they would fight against them for the mountain. And why they would ally themselves with the dwarves at the end. For that last one, they also created another character - Tauriel, the elven warrior, who develops a romantic sub plot with one of the dwarves, which by the end of the trilogy opens the Elven King's eyes to the possibility of having a positive relationship with the dwarves, thus giving him a character arc, as well as justifying his change of goals. And then, because thay added the King, they also had to acknowledge his son Legolas, who was established in Lord Of The Rings, so he was added to the story as well, since it would not make sense for him to be absent from such important events.
Halo 5's story always baffled me. I've never seen a game roadblock a player before by basically saying: "Hey! Whoa there son! If you wanna understand what's going on in this story, you'll have to read X and Y books from over a decade ago and this comic that was just published. Also don't forget this spin-off live action movie too" I can't name a single game that requires this much homework in order to enjoy it.
And ultimately, none of this really matters, because the story is shit and it doesn't follow upon either of the "homework" media 343 forces you to know. Like, someone wanted to like Agent Locke, see Buck being a Spartan, witness anything interesting with Blue Team? Fuck that, he have to make Cortana a Skynet now. And put 7 boss fights with Warden to give any illusion this game is longer than it actually is. And drop any development Chief started to have at the end of 4. God, I hope Infinite will just dismiss this fucking atrocity.
Assassin's Creed III also did that bullshit when I played it at launch and Desmond and the gang were all like Daniel Cross this Daniel Cross that and i'm like who the hell is that and why are you acting like he's some major character then later on I found out he was from some comic I didn't even know existed XD
One good example of adaptations adding context is the Massacre at Hardhome in Game of Thrones. In the books it’s mentioned that something really bad happened at Hardhome, and the show turned it into one of the best they ever put to screen.
this is going to be a weird example of the inverse, but Ben 10 had this thing where Ben would slap his watch and get the wrong alien. While funny and leading to some interesting fights, from what i recall it was never explained in the show why that happened. However, one of the video games mentions that Ben is "too rough" with the watch and is smacking it instead of just pressing it like he should. Which actually makes a lot of sense, the watch was created to be a tool, not a weapon. Much like how being too rough with a game controller can jumble the inputs, the same could be said for the Omnitrix. Now I very well could be misremembering that, so feel free to correct me in the comments if that isn't the case, but it always stuck out to me.
For adding details, I've noticed that Superman adaptations tend to go a bit more into why Krypton exploded like the DCAU and Smallville having Brainiac play a role or the DCEU having it due to mining the core and making the planet unstable. hey, have you ever thought of doing a wasted plotential on any of the Sonic characters? I think Silver and Blaze would be the best candidtes.
I do know in the Jojo golden wind anime adaptation David productions actually added scenes featuring La sqaudra(to give better context on who they are). Who are the main antagonist for the first half
Smackmate although the only thing that bothers me with that is that it’s inconsistent with purple haze feedback(a spin-off novel). But it’s still more than the Manga that’s for sure
@@Smackmate I feel like adding context to Fugo's backstory kinda defeated the purpose of the character: Fugo is a toxic violent sociopath represented by a literally poisonous and psychotic Stand, who is only kept from being a villain by his friends (and he almost became a villain later anyway). Justifying and minimizing his assault takes away from that characterization and distances him from similar characters like Angelo and Kira that he seems like a call back to. DP definitely made a lot of other improvements though.
I think there's a right way and a wrong way to handle that kind of information: "It's the ship that made the kessel run in less than 12 parsecs" doesn't need to mean anything to the viewer, it means something to the characters in the story and the viewer can infer it's significance from context: It's a way of saying "this ship is fast" while also implying things in the world the audience doesn't know about. In this respect the audience doesn't need to know who Kung Lao is to understand what Liu Kang is saying. "I am Liu Kang, descendant of Kung Lao..." still hints at Liu Kang's motivation, even if the viewer doesn't know who Kung Lao is. The problem is when real story points hinge on the viewer knowing things that aren't told to them. Confusing Mileena for Kitana is something that will need more explanation, since whole scenes revolve around it and "who is this person who looks just like kitana" is a question you probably shouldn't leave hanging, either make her important enough to the story that you can explain her or cut her out of the movie.
I don't agree with the Kessel Run/Kung Lao analogy. Even though it is not explained in detail, the context of the scene clearly establishes the meaning of that statement. Han is boasting about the ship's speed, so his statement is clear to be an "impressive" example of that speed. And Obi-Wan's reaction show's that it is even "unbelievably impressive", implying that 12 parsecs is an incredible speed for the Kessel Run. With Kung Lao, the movie never really gives any hints as to why his legacy is note worthy. It IS clear that his name carries weight, but not why.
I'd need to re-watch that scene, It's been a while since I watched that movie, but I feel like the point of that line is to establish *why* Liu Kang is invested: Avenging an ancestor. I feel like you don't need to know who Kung Lao is to understand that he is somehow important enough to Liu Kang to go this far to avenge him. We don't need to care about Kung Lao, we just need to know that Liu Kang does. The analogy wasn't *super* great, but I figure it was a well-known scene that could work as a counterpoint... a way to do what this video is talking about *right*
This element in adaptation's grinds my gears to no end, especially when the makers will constantly preach about changes having to be made, making it easier for the audience to follow and understand said story. Yet will include plot lines that have no explanation or context that only fans of the source material would fully grasp or understand. In some cases ends up introducing plotholes or inconsistencies that were never present in the original material. Spiderman 3 comes to mind, there's no explanation to why Eddie Brock acquires SM Powers when he acquires the Symbiote. No explanation to how Eddie Brock was able to find out SM real identity, to then kidnap Mary Jane. Most egregious one was the bell tower scene. Peter had no know idea Symbiote was weakness at that point, yet conveniently just happens to be at the right place when he wants to desperately get rid of it . While in comic Peter knew the weakness beforehand which is why he went to the bell tower in first place to unbond from it. Lastly not much explained in regard to the hostile nature of Symbiote. If you have no prior knowledge of how Symbiote works and its abilities, it's makes no sense. Clear example of filmakers just throwing in a iconic scene with no understanding of the material.
Persona 5 the animation added a lot more depth to Akechi’s character (before the royal did the same) it made Akechi’s heel turn more obvious, but also made it slightly more believable, they also added a scene before Akechi was about to kill joker where he told the other phantom thieves that he was on his way to save joker, during this encounter Ryuji has an emotional outburst, which Akechi ignores as Ryuji just being caught up in the moment and letting his emotions get the best of him, but once you realize that the phantom thieves already knew of Akechi’s deceit this scene can be read as Ryuji trying to save joker, the anime actually has some interesting moments despite the fact that it’s hindered by its stilted animation and lack of adding too much to the already established story.
Well if you want a good example of the opposite than I'd mention Gandalf side adventure in The Hobbit movies, in the book he just straight up leaves because he'd solve almost all the problems that the Dwarfs would run into with his wizard powers
I was hoping someone would mention this. The hobbit movies catch a lot of grief for changes like this, but it did a really good job of explaining why Gandalf was absent and setting up the plot of the Lord of the Rings.
they do mention lung lao in the movie. in the scene with kano and goro in the mess hall shang tsung says to goro "this is no time to act foolish liu kang is the decendant of the great kung lao" . thats one o fthe things imp that makes mortal kombat a great adaptation for non fans is it does a great job of eluding to larger history and outworld politics through dialogue and metnioning of names. as autistic as this may sound its the same thing game of thrones did when it would break the "show dont tell" rule by having lots of character speak about past battles and people you never directly see
The opposite of this happens a lot in FNAF. After the fourth game they started to add a bunch of stuff from the books into the main canon with no proper introduction and it just doesn't work
I think the biggest exemple for was in Mass Effect 3, when they intruduced Kai Leng or whatever his name was and I was so confused because he came with no background, out of nowhere. Then later I found he is a character in a novel. Still, I played the games in sequence, I shouldn't need novels to catch up with the plot and important characters. xD
2:40: Yep. It sets up Unicron as the boss for the 6th film (which we might not get, because Hasbro apparently wants to reboot the films) and gives him his Transformers Prime backstory, where he is Earth to explain why the Transformers keep coming here.
Haven't heard anyone mention Negima in literal years. I remember it had a serious anime, "Maho Sensei Negima", and a comedy-focused one just called "Negima!!"
I really wouldn't say the Spider-Man example is passable, because they change so many other details, big and small, that you can't really assume much of anything with Peter's origin.
Yeah Mileena being a twin is surprisingly difficult for many new time fans to recognize since, with the exception of the 2D games, they rarely look that alike. By that logic it would be just as easy to assume Sub Zero and Scorpion were brothers.
Every bad word discribes that crappy reboot. I don't get how some people watch it. You know what's worse? They are planing to make a PPG live action series. Like who tf asked for it??
TheFVguy are we forgetting about a creepy adult writer writing himself into multiple episodes as blossoms boyfriend. And the fact that all three of the original voice actors reached out to reprise their roles and weren’t even acknowledged
as an example of a adaption adding in details: the Transfromers UK story: "The Legacy of Unicron!" in which Unicron and Primus's origins are explained, since in the 86 movie Unicron had backstory and Primus was a comic original, in later years primus and Unicrons origin would be used in almost every new Transformers media.
There was another only Movie Canon explanation to why Kahn and Raiden don't like each other. They were brothers and Shinnok was their dad. Not too unusual of a retcon but it is interesting how that never found its way into the games.
I think one game actually referenced this connection in Raiden's kharacter bio (I think it was MK VS DC) outside of that yeah it's been ignored (And thank the elder gods for that because personally I think it was stupid)
Bethesda is talking about making a Fallout tv series. You can fucking *bet* that this sort of thing will happen, either through the tv series ignoring, missing or even overwriting events that happened in the games or where they'll try to explain why some particular thing in any of the games happened and fuck _that_ up. Short version; I don't trust it to be good.
Nice to see a video that will give Negima some love. The manga deserved better. Cases of adaptations adding details that help; -Dragon Ball Z Abridged takes the death of Dr. Gero's son from being a supplemental note to something we see referenced in series, with the reveal that he was killed in Goku's attack on the Red Ribbon Army base. Even if Gero was dead by this point it gives him a much more compelling reason to hate Goku. -The Warcraft movie changes a character who was half human and half orc to a half human and draenei in the original game/lore. Seeing as the orcs had only recently entered Azeroth, one of them have a child with one of its native humans who was an adult by that point doesn't make any sense. It does however make sense if it's a draenei since those actually came from the same world as the orcs. -The Naruto anime introduces the rest of the titular character's classmates in the early episodes. In the original manga, they just show up in the Chuunin Exam arc and the plot treats them as though they were always there even though it's the first time the readers have seen them. -The novelization to Revenge of the Sith does a much better job explaining characterization and the setting than the movie does. -The Hobbit trilogy established an orc army marching on Erebor at the end of the second movie. In the book they just show up out of nowhere with no build up. Adaptations removing details -The BlazBlue anime has Ranga defeat Yuuki Terumi, and just let him live for no reason. In the game it was explained that thanks to this thing called a Life Link, Terumi could only die if Ragna killed him and Noel at the same time. This being left out means Ragna, the man who has murdered thousands of people, spars the most evil man in the world for no reason. Now the Life Link was still an annoying asspull that was introduced on the spot with no foreshadowing, but it was something. -Jurassic Park's famous "T-Rex vision is based on movement." This is something simplified from the book, in that the reason that Rexy couldn't see anybody who wasn't moving was a trait she gained from some of the toad DNA used in the dinosaurs' cloning, since some toads have vision based on movement. For something as huge as a Tyrannosaurus-Rex to not being able to see anything if it's not moving, well that's ridiculous since how would it find food if it couldn't see anything. Plus that goat she ate right before breaking out didn't appear to be moving and she still noticed it. -The Unlimited Blade Works anime having Archer use the titular ability in his fight with Shirou. In the original visual novel, Archer didn't have the strength to use that ability, which is why when the main villain Gilgamesh showed up, Archer left Rin at his mercy. Archer did not want to leave Rin with Gilgamesh, but he wouldn't have been able to stop him if he tried. But in the anime Archer still had the strength to use Unlimited Blade Works, the very ability Shirou would use to defeat Gilgamesh. So this entire moment just makes Archer look like a horrible person since he just left Rin to her fate at the hands of heartless sadist and his rapist lackey. -Fate/Zero's anime. This is a great adaptation, but one flurb it has is with Berserker. After he's defeated, he states he regrets his past actions and wanted Saber to punish him for them. It's a very emotional scene, but it doesn't explain exactly what Berserker DID that he felt was so horrible like the original light novel did. -Justice League War. Darkseid invades Earth, and the movie doesn't bother to explain anything about who or what he is. It just takes for granted that the audience knows that. It's especially bad since the storyline the comic is adapting had the same problem. Despite the New 52 being created for new audiences to be afraid of the years of continuity, it's first arc with the Justice League had Darkseid show up without a proper introduction. Terrible movie based on a terrible story arc. -TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan. The game just assumes the audience is intimately familiar with TMNT. Transformers: Devastation was also written assuming the audience was familiar with the original show's events, but this was a much worse case since it's based on the IDW TMNT comics, when a majority of TMNT fans would know about the show from the cartoons, ergo, they know nothing about the comics. The comics does nothing to explain the origin of the turtles, their sensei Splinter, and who their enemies and allies. This is especially bad in the finale of the game where Shredder is trying to destroy New York to kill Splinter, calling him his old enemy. This is referencing the feud between Shredder and Splinter in the comics, but Shredder is barely in the game so the audience won't have a clue what is going and can only make assumptions. The game treats Shredder like he's still the arch enemy even though as far story goes, he just exists to add another boss fight after General Krang is defeated.
Transformers Devastation is designed to be like a random episode of the original 80's cartoon, it has some things that wouldn't make sense for a fan (Megatron is now a tank, everyone has some new special powers, the lore that involves Nova Prime), but it has that feeling. This way, the story is simple, but explained. Megatron is evil and wants to make the Earth a planet for robots, why? Unless you know the most basic piece of story of Transformers you don't have an idea, but you can keep going. Why does everyone know each other? You don't know why, but you can keep going and eliminate them a little bit after the meeting.
@@Protosilver97 Devastation is aimed at people familiar with the original cartoon, and Mutants in Manhattan looks to be aimed at people familiar with the IDW TMNT. I haven't read the TMNT IDW comic but I have read stuff about it and from what I gather, Mutants in Manhattan is TERRIBLE adaptation. Shredder is set up as some generic bad guy who wants to kill Splinter and the Turtles at any cost even if it means dooming the Earth. Unlike most of the incarnations, IDW Shredder actually has depth to him and wouldn't try to cause the end of the world. As a villain in the game, Shredder also fails since he has next to presence in it. We see him meet and team up with Krang at the start, and unless you unlock the conditions to fight him alongside Karai, you never see him again till the end of the game. He shows up AFTER the main plot involving Krang's invasion is over in an attempt to blow up New York. In Devastation, the Autobots are either trying to get the Ferrotaxis or stop the power generator of the Proudstar to prevent the destruction of the Earth. Since the former option is fails, you resume the latter by the end of the game as the apocalypse grows nearer. Megatron has had a presence the whole game being behind the plot to cyberform Earth, so fitting the last level is fighting your way to him before a rematch to take back the Ferrotaxis. Shredder on the flipside feels like a boss fight tagged on because he's the franchise main villain. You could have cut him out and just made Krang the main villain.
Yeah, this is something that has always annoyed me when I notice it. Amusingly, this is something that even fan-fiction is guilty, though that has way more of an excuse in part due to the fact that it's almost exclusively going to be looked at by fans who already know the story and characters even if they don't necessarily agree about the interpretation (and can get into fierce and nasty arguments over it, especially where "shipping" is involved).
This video was actually quite insightful. As a giant nerd, I usually know all the context when I watch a movie adapted from a video game, but never considered how someone who hasn't played those games might be wondering things like "What's the thing coming out of the zombie's mouth?" when watching one of the Resident Evil films, or "Why would Sonya think that masked purple lady was Kitana?" if they watched MK Annihilation without knowing anything about the games.
I genuinely forgot that the Yakuza movie barely did anything to introduce the characters and nishiki in the movie. It's been a very long time since i've seen it. The only other thing im familiar with (and it's pretty obvious that this had it) was The Last Airbender tryin to cram in as much of the show w/o context of who the characters were, and their role in the story. Some of the deleted scenes included Aunt Wu and the Kyoshi Warriors who showed up for a split second, but without the context to back either of them up.
Kung Lao was mentioned in The Journey Begins, as was Sub-Zero's feud with Scorpion (kinda). I know it was shit and nobody wants to remember it, but it was made as a tie in to the movie.
The CGI portions and the story conveyed in them was pretty dope though. Even if that was the dawn of motion capture and it was virtua fighter levels of blocky models.
@@legionbeast No. Even in 1995 when it was released, the CGI was atrocious. If it was real time rendering that might have been good looking, but as it was pre-rendered, there really is no excuse. Even Reboot, which started airing in 1994 looked way better. Also don't forget the atrocious 2D animation that was also in there.
I miss how dark the old games used to be... its like these bew games have bloody fatalities, but the feels just arent there. Mainly the story and the music to me.... what do you think? Im 13 and i grew up on mk da and the krypt and screams and stuff was just so good. I remember grinding for months with my sister. We need a remaster of the 3d games and they better not have trash microtransactions either...
Okay, I love the S.D. Perry novels even when I know there are some errors never mentioned, like Raccoon City being set in Pennsylvania, my home state, when it's not a Midwest state. I like Jill's backstory of being a cat burglar who turned her life around, explaining how she's the "Master of Unlocking". While I look forward to you video covering them, please don't be too harsh.
6:22 The beauties of MK 😍 I remember watching that scene when Smoke mistook Mileena with Kitana. I was like. "Dude, they don't look similar. I mean, Mileena wears a more revealing outfit, her colour skin is different and SHE WEARS PURPLE!! YOU IDIOT!"
If done right, sometimes an adaptation can give the audience a piece of dialogue that new viewers will see as just world-building (Think Obi Wan's "Your father fought in the Clone Wars" from A New Hope), but will mean something to the fans who know all the backstory. i.e. the Marvel Cinematic Universe paying lip service to ideas more properly fleshed out in the comics, that could potentially either be adapted and seen as a tease, or left as a stray reference. Like them referencing Wakanda years before Black Panther. The audience doesn't have to know who Black Panther is to follow the plot, just having to know Wakanda is a country that exists in this world. I don't know many of the examples you used in this video, but the "I am the descendant of -name-" doesn't seem like it would be out of place in an entirely new, no prior context needed film. Like Luke Skywalker saying his father was a Jedi Knight
In Doctor Strange,they at one point show a weapon and mention that it was made by the Living Tribunal. My dad didn't pay any mind to it but i was freaking out inside.
Oh gods, I hated that part in ST:Into Darkness. They have all the others they could've picked, but Khan? *must hold in rant...* I have noticed some crossovers from fan made stuff that's very interesting or well-made to other fan content, or even shows/movies/etc who get in contact with fans to add in little nods to stuff like that, even with minimal context. I'd say the biggest way we view stuff is maybe in how certain time periods or places are shown? So in a movie or game we see something look like x, we always view it as x, no matter what the book or original adaptation (ex: Dorian Gray is blonde. He's only ever been played by a blond-haired guy in the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina).
As a Transformers fan, I can say that TLK does a poor job of explaining Unicron’s significance, besides being Cybertron’s enemy. Especially when the concept of Primus never comes up. So many of my friends were like “Who is Unicron?” Why is he so damn important?” “How did he end up inside earth?” Transformers Prime did a much better job with the Unicron plot. As for the Knights, little detail is offered aside from them having betrayed Quintessa long ago. It doesn’t help that they are a concept introduced in that movie, with the only other source mentioning them being the 2005 IDW continuity. If you want a good Transformers story, watch Transformers Prime or Beast Wars.
I was just watching MK: Annihilation with my sister yesterday, and realized how lost she must have been since all she knows about MK is from the first movie. The way they treated Mileena was so disappointing. And they didn't even bother to mention Baraka's name or anything!
The Halo Blue Team thing is funny to me because as someone who has only played Halo 1, but doesn't consider themselves a fan yet, my immediate thought when I heard about Blue Team was the Blues from Red vs Blue.
It reminds me of Mass Effect 3 made Kai Leng a major character within Cerberus ranks, when he was never mentioned in the games before, only appeared in the books. Those who didn't read them were propably confused. Even though i knew who he is, Kai Leng in ME3 is nothing like his book counterpart (but then again very little in ME3 makes any sense) so added context made little difference there.
the dragon age series does this too. A lot of the other forms of random media show up in the main series games and you'll have no idea who half these characters are cause you didnt read some obscure story from one of the writers tumblr accounts or something. It wouldnt be a big deal but the characters in those stories end up being main characters so its kind of annoying if you only enjoy playing the games.
I know you probably aren't familiar about this particular series but what do you think of the various reasonings for the character Snake-Eyes from GI Joes origins? Like reasoning for being a mute, how he became a mute, who was he before he became Snake Eyes? Also why for asking this, well I just found out they're doing an origin movie for the character that's suppose to release next year. I know the guy has like different origins depending on who's writing.
Speaking of Jade, any new comers to the second movie without any knowledge of the games would probably think this is the correct portrayal of her character because they didn’t pay a single damn attention to her character
The Sengoku Basara franchise... well, maybe this is just my opinion, but it committed one thing that would lead to the Last Party thing: In that franchise, character popularity is everything. If you're on low popularity chain, get ready to be replaced by someone else (Ranmaru to Tsuruhime, Nouhime to Magoichi) or get the boot, never to be mentioned again (Yoshimoto). If you're high on the chain... EXPOSURE EXPOSURE EXPOSURE EVERYWHERE! In this context, during his debut, Mitsunari exploded in popularity, surpassing even co-poster boy Yukimura. To capitalize on this, Capcom tried to push on the rivalry between Masamune and Mitsunari, no matter how much it doesn't make much sense storywise, the only main basis is that they're the top most popular characters in Basara (Ieyasu is also popular, but he's like... the 4th most popular? And thankfully, his rebound rivalry, Yukimura, actually had more sense considering what happened in the Siege of Osaka in history, compared to Masamune-Mitsunari). Not only in Last Party, but Sengoku Basara 4 also follows this, pushing more on Masamune-Mitsunari, although that wasn't my biggest gripe on the game. Let's just say after 3, Capcom pulled a Konami, not in the way of mistreating their employers, but more like thinking that their main market for SB lies somewhere else: Shounen-ai fans that would be more like referred as 'fujoshi', instead of those who appreciates subtlety and more coherent, unbiased writing. That is how the new characters are all pretty and tend to be not as memorable. At least to me. Thanks for listening on my opinion on SB's path. And need I say it more: I hate popularity polls.
I feel like the Persona 5 the Animation develops the character of Akechi better than the Vanilla game,we see more scenes of Joker hanging out with him and building mutual respect between the two,it makes it more believable that Akechi would como to respect/hate Joker because they both have a bigger friendship in the anime. and then Royal builds on that character arc with the Goro Akechi social link.
Oh wow, someone actually talking about Basara story. Like I shouldn't be surprised knowing you follow so many things, but it's nice to see it in 2020 lol. You more or less implied it already by mentioning Judge End/End of Judgement, but the other loopy part of how The Last Party switched Masamune and Ieyasu is that Masamune had a story worth having already. Basara 3 had him get decimated and humiliated by Mitsunari to force him to consider his own limits and not just dive headfirst into revenge. I'm almost positive the movie threw him into that role because he was basically the series MC... even if that made him more boring by comparison.
@@Umbra_Ursus I agree on the fact that the movie had its flaws. It wasn't very good. However saying that it's complete trash is more wrong than saying it's a masterpiece :)))).
MK movies are what introduced me to MK, and i can say that it is a good introduction to those who are not familiar with series. Even throwaway lines like the one where Shang Tsung says that Scorpion and Sub Zero are mortal enemies but are both under his control showed just how badass he is. And that Kung Lao line was something i didn't really pay attention to until i became more familiar with games, so it's fine. MK Annihilation, on other hand, just confused the living shit out of me. Probably the biggest confusion to me (which wasn't mentioned in the video) was how is Scorpion still alive even though he gets killed in the first movie. They never mentioned that he is supposed to be undead specter which was a huge oversight.
Films should explain what makes something from an already existing source material so important too those who don’t know about the source material instead of putting it in for a bone for the fans (which isn’t wrong by the way)
@@MazeDaGr8 Nope doesn't have to exposition, plus if your film has to rely on outside information to understand a film plot threads it's failed as a film.
I think with the case of Sengoku basara (IG anime) they kinda fucked themselfs over originally since both Ieyasu and Tadakatsu were originally killed off in first anime in 2009, Sengoku basara 1 and 2 (the original games) canonicity and continuity was bit weird since they were close to each other a year apart (2005 and 6), the older characters from 1 like Oda clan, xavi and itsuki came back in 2 without much explaination and it probably seems like Dynasty warriors case where the story is the same but the plotline extended further from Incident of honnoji to Hideyoshi conquest. it's not until sengoku basara 3 which came and introduced clear storyline amd timeline *in end of basara 1 nobunaga was assassinated by akechi mistuhide and 2 ends with hideyoshi succesfully conquering japan until ieyasu betrayed him in start of basara 3* . afterwords is the preparations of the battle of sekigahara as there are 2 factions: *eastern and western armies* with few outside third party like oichi and nobunaga, 3 unlike previous games which focused more on indivisual cast rather then events that surrounds them my theory is that during production of Basara 2 anime they probably decided to add in both Mitsunari and Ieyasu as last minute addition during the finale since they only apear literally at last episode and they don't fit anywhere in the story outside so they can set up *the Last party movie* in line with basara 3 (samurai heroes) which came 18 days after anime airing in japan somehow tadakatsu and ieyasu are alive
@@ShadowBerserker454 I believe it was stated in the first anime that Ieyasu was assassinated by Mitsuhide before the final battle with Nobunaga (If I recall correctly) and in the second season they retcon that by showing Ieyasu alive and healthy as if what happened in season 1 was false, they even changed Ieyasu's design from how he looked from the first season to how he looks now ignoring what they established before.
The Advent Children movie expanded some thing for the ff7 universe and brought with it Advent Children Sephiroth which is featured in the Nomura remake
Can't wait for the Negima episode tbh, granted I can barely recall a lot of the Kyoto arc except that Negi fights Kotaro in the manga and that it is the arc where he is assigned to protect Konoka because she is descendant of a magical family from Kyoto. I need to reread it, but I do agree that the anime felt...lacking in places. As an aside, the Senran Kagura sequel animes and OVAs are also kind of weird in this regard as well, because the Versus games introduce new characters that are in a different alignment compared to the old cast - like how the Gessen Academy Girls are Good Ninjas, but, unlike Asuka and the Hanzo Academy Girls, (used to) subscribe to the ideology of everything done for the greater good, meaning evil ninjas and those who are tainted by evil must be purged, while the New Hebijo Academy girls are under the rule of Suzune after the last guy funding Homura's Crimson Squad - formerly the Hebijo Academy Ninjas - betrayed him and became rogue, yet the animes following the first one just assumes you know who the characters are and their relationships, despite the first Senran Kagura anime having ended with the betrayal and defeat of Orochi (or preventing his/her summoning), while what came after was either a promo for another entry called Estival Versus I believe, and then the sequel anime starts you off thinking of the girls you saw in the Estival OVA, but you don't know the relationships of them until a few episodes after, and even so, I think the retelling isn't as well done as in the games, even if it's mostly fight scenes placed in between the cutscenes where you fight hordes of enemies and then one of the girls as a boss at the end, mostly because you don't get the full context of the relationship between say Asuka and Yumi. (I don't know if the Hebijo girls get explained either, though might have to rewatch the show since I never did finish it, but ended up reaching said episode where the Gessen Girls backstory gets explained.)
Hey, Snake, you've probably seen new Suicide Squad kill the justice league trailer. The game that take place in Arkhamverse and in which Deadshot was depicted as black man. That wouldn't be the issue if it was his first appearance in Arkham games, but he was appeared before as caucasian man. And why is king shark is alive? He died in Assault on Arkham.(i heard he has son in comics, but when i googled comic frames, the son didn't look like in the trailer). All i hope for is that the Deadshot in the trailer is not original Deadshot but the some guy who just take his name. I think something like that happened in comics before.
This is why you shouldn't use a film appearance in an already established IP after it ended. He wasn't black in the Arkham Suicide Squad animation film either
As far as I'm concerned the only thing wrong with the first MK movie is that they erased Sub-Zero and Scorpion's rivalry and made slaves to Shang Tsung While your Mileena change could work, there is no saving Annihilation
There's a retroactive BS reason as to know who the original Kun Lao is, if you got MK9 new you got a download that had the first movie as well as an animated with 3D animated back story version of the MK 1 story
Did you know there was gonna be a full on mortal kombat reboot where radian would be a god and his legs would barley touch the ground and Kano would be half American and Half Japanese and Scorpion and Subzero would have there MKX design for the game and the Lin Kua is not called the Lin kua its called something else that I cannot remember but if you don’t know about it check out brusk poet cancelled mortal kombat games.
I know how this is gonna sound cuz everyone's kinda fed up with it being brought up, but JoJo has been doing the same thing with is most recent adaptations, especially part 4 and 5
Oh my gosh, I completely forgot about an even worse example from the Last Knight - Megatron refers to Starscream as his "old treacherous friend" when Starscream's never actually been treacherous in the movies.
Armada Starscream is more treacherous than movie Starscream and is not for the power.
Also it's jarring to hear Megatron refer to Starscream as his "Friend". He flat out hated Starscream in the movies. He considered him a failure, beat him down after they both killed Prime, and even refused to tell him his plans in Dark of the Moon.
I guess you could argue they talked about his treacherous nature in RotF, when Megatron is angry with Starscream for not working to revive him, instead choosing to take over as Decepticon leader in his absence
Even the obscure Nintendo ds game handled that MUCH better. During the last 1/4th of the decepticon route, starscream betrays your created transformer and waits for Megatron to destroy optimus, then attacks him from behind and steals the allspark to achieve power, and he becomes the main antagonist and final boss for the rest of the game. And during the first few missions, he straight up lies to you about megatron's disappearance and even threatens you to never seek out megatron. A movie tie in game that no one talks about was beyond faithful to the character lores unlike the main movie product
He was also holding Starscream's head...
Which was blown up....
In the third movie......
By Shia LeBouf....
Rise of Skywalker does the exact same thing. The film assumes most people knew the plot of the Dark Empire comic series so therefore it doesn't need to explain how Palpatine came back. The issue is that most people have no idea what Dark Empire even is.
One thing I can say in regards to the reverse of including information that was left out of the source material to make things flow more consistently was in DP's version of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. For example, in Part 5, Jotaro shows a picture of the Stardust Crusaders, but there was never a moment where any such image was taken during the whole of part 3. When DP did the anime adaptation, they not only had a scene dedicated to the photo being taken, but it's used again at the end of the part as a sort of "farewell" to Stardust Crusaders as a whole. Thus, when it shows up in Part 5, it carries vastly more weight with it.
Yeah DP is pretty faithful to the source material. Any changes are usually for the better and to keep things consistent(like added the joe star birth mark in parts 1 and 2)
@@Blazecap Aye, the birthmark is also showcased into part 4 in the anime.
Some spoiler-free context for why that photo was such a huge issue before DP fixed it:
The photo shown in part 5 shows the full heroic group of part 3 posed together in a desert, including Jotaro, Joseph, Abdul, Polnareff, Kakyoin and Iggy.
However, Iggy is first introduced about halfway through the part, meeting the heroes in Egypt and reluctantly helping them fight DIO's personal guard.
Kakyoin was present for the first half of the part, but is severely injured by the very first opponent fought in Egypt proper and doesn't recover until just before the final battle of the part, at which point both Kakyoin and Iggy are visibly wounded (One with facial scars and the other missing a limb).
The photo in part 5, depicting both characters without their injuries in a casual context leaves no possible point at which it could have been taken. In the TV anime, the arc where Iggy first arrives has a new scene inserted, in which Joseph acquires a new camera and decides to have a group photo taken.
Jotaro is shown carrying the photo at the end of the part, giving more meaning to his appearance with the same photo in part 5, at which point he is the only hero from part 3 still active.
@@Blazecap I agree. The only change/ removal they’ve made that truly hinders the story of any part is removing the Wang Chan fight from the middle of Part 1. In the manga, Jonathan encounters Wang Chan as a zombie about halfway through the story, not long after beginning his Hamon training. This causes him to realize that Dio is alive when he sees Wang Chan aboard the ship in the finale. In the anime, the Wang Chan fight is removed, so narratively there’s no reason for Jonathan to suspect that Dio is alive just because he saw Wang Chan; the last he saw of him was at the mansion before it burned down, and he never learned that Dio had turned him into a zombie.
I have no idea why Sub-Zero had 4 minutes of screen time in Legends. He's another flagship character for crying out loud
He actually has even less than that. (Spoilers) was impersonating him for the majority of that.
Not to excuse it, but I think they're planning on continuing that in the sequel
Well Scorpion high jacks fights so.....
I'd have to say it's because things needed to be cut to make room for the MK1 adaptation. Plus, Bi Han is more famous as Noob than he is as Sub-Zero (with Kuai Liang being the more reputable cryomancer) and that Scorpion's focus has almost always been Quan Chi ever since he was revealed since MK4. Personally, the Scorpion vs Sub-Zero thing seems like something the series outgrew a while ago, despite the fact that promo materials and the odd cutscene here and there keep doubling back for it for...reasons.
@@seantaylor424 ture
Sounded like you were barely holding back anger when bringing up Halo 5
I feel that
Snake a thousand pardons, but the 95 film does acknowledge Liu Kang as Kung Laos descendant. The scene where Goro and Kano are taking. When Shang enters he says he's there to warn Goro about Liu kang and clearly refers to him as descendant of Kung Lao.
Did he establish anything about Kung Lao that it would make sense for them to take Kang seriously or does he just say he is the descendant and not explain any further?
@@metalmario991 Shang says: I've come to warn you that Kung Laos descendant is competing in the tournament. You must handle him carefully. And metal, in all honesty, watch the movie!
@@tobiaswalker7562 Which was ultimately irrelevant as they never fight each other....
I’m questioning since when was Liu Kang a descendent of The Great Kung Lao.....
"Kung Lao? The MKII hat guy? Is he Liu Kang's dad?"
"No, they're talking about an older Kung Lao. The original. The "Great" Kung Lao that Goro killed 500 years before."
"WTF?!?!?!"
"And the movie screwed up. Liu Kang isn't related to the old OR MKII Kung Lao. MKII Kung Lao is the old Kung Lao's descendant."
"Wh-- IT'S JUST A VIDEO GAME SERIES! WHY WOULD THEY--"
"You think video games should be all cut-and-dry stuff to pacify the kids? That said, if your brain's scrambled now, wait until you hear about Outworld…"
When one of your favorite ninjas gets four minutes of screentime and gets absolutely wrecked by their rival in an animated movie.
It's why most adaptions suck because they expect you to know the source material. And for those seeing it will end up being confused, due to the fact that they don't know the source material well enough, if at all.
They misjudge the population set that'd be interested.
The Warriors video Game by rockstar expanded the universe of the movie by a lot.
Great example
I'd assume they added elements from the book.
@@night-seeker666 the book is pretty much the movie but more brutal
@@T-Jex Wouldn't the movie be a toned down version of the book?
@@night-seeker666 yes, thats what i said, in the book, the Warriors kill a random dude, then gang rape Mercy using the corpse'S belly as a pillow.
2:38 as someone who saw the last knight and is a transformers fan, i can confirm. The only reason i even cared about unicron was thanks to prior knowledge due watching Transformers prime and the 1986 movie. Alot of my friends didnt have that luxury. One of the reasons why i despise the last knight for butchering the transformers equivalent to galactus. Its almost as big of an insult as sindels retcon and the butchering of captain marvels legacy.
Or sw 9 Palpatine, seriously it's a fuck for all sw fans ( the sw 7 and 8 fans are also fucked)
@@Exo-con why do big studios fuck these things up? I can understand the origin of certain popular characters but unicron isnt as well known and palpatine death fucked up anakins arc that ended in episode 6.
I was disappointed less at the legacy butchering and more the blase nature of the entire Kree society and homeworld. It's basically an empire run by a supercomputer, but other than that the worldbuilding is very few and far between, despite there being multiple opportunities. Was Carol the only soldier with energy powers, or did the Kree implement a supersoldier program after witnessing her "evolution"? How widespread is their brainwashing used if they can capture someone and rewrite portions of their memory (especially soldiers)? Why do some of the Kree have blue skin while Mar-Vell, Yon Rogg, and "Veers" have normal flesh tones?
The one that ticks me off the most is why the Kree have left Earth alone instead of conquering it outright. All the screenwriters needed to do was stick a Sentry there and say that was all they needed to monitor the Sol system for Skrulls and other enemies- plus they could've used the giant alien robot to give Carol a proper challenge for the final battle..
I wasn't happy with Sindel's retcon either, but I mostly justified it as a weird after-effect of Raiden messing with the timeline. It's for the same reason Kitana was loyal to Shao Khan and Sonya was standing with the other competitors at the start of the first tournament, while in the original timeline Kitana was already preparing to betray him and Sonya should've been restrained and forced to fight just as the tournament started.
Or you can just say it's inconsistent, like how Shang Tsung was allowed to fight for Outworld even though he was originally from, even though Bo Rai Cho couldn't fight for Earthrealm BECAUSE he was from Outworld.
...Writing is not their strongsuit, IS it?
They really threw Captain Marvel under the bus for the sake of the movie.
I think the first Mortal Kombat movie kept the franchise alive, all the later designs and character development were influenced by the movie, from the ninja faceplates to the personalities of the main characters, I mean we know Jonny Cage is smug, but Linden Ashby brought so much humour than the 2D character ever could.
MK Scorpions revenge is basically a fanfiction made by Scorpion
Still a good watch. Better than Annihilation, at any rate.
Scorpion: GET OUTTA HERE!
@@Umbra_Ursus Yep
If a sequels made they need it to be focused on Sub Zero or Lui Kang and call the film The Wrath of Shao Kahn.
- Smoke -
Nah come on it has to be either Sub Zero or Kitana
If I remember correctly, all the plot of Virtua Fighter came from the anime movie adaptation since the developers didn't care about story but like the anime 0lot so much they ended up making it the official canon for the series, I guess.
Another example of this, is the rivalry of Wolverine and Sabretooth in the X-Men films. Sabretooth has no relationship with Wolverine at all in the first X-Men film. But when their fight kicks in, the music ramps up and it is treated like a really big deal. Which, without the context of the film, it isn't.
Great example
I think an example of the oposite would be in The Hobbit.
In the book, the elves only appear as a faction, and don't have any notable characters. Their involvement only serves as an obstacle to the dwarves, and then as reinforcement against the orc army. The actions of "The Elves" are describes by the narrator, without specifying any details about individual members of the faction, or their personal motivations.
Probably because film is a visual medium however, for the movies they had to give the elves a "face". A character to represent them, that would act in the events that were only described by the narrator in the book. So they added the Elven King to the story.
And since they were now a character, they had to have their own motivations and convictions. There had to be reasons why they would imprison the dwarves. Why they would fight against them for the mountain. And why they would ally themselves with the dwarves at the end.
For that last one, they also created another character - Tauriel, the elven warrior, who develops a romantic sub plot with one of the dwarves, which by the end of the trilogy opens the Elven King's eyes to the possibility of having a positive relationship with the dwarves, thus giving him a character arc, as well as justifying his change of goals.
And then, because thay added the King, they also had to acknowledge his son Legolas, who was established in Lord Of The Rings, so he was added to the story as well, since it would not make sense for him to be absent from such important events.
Halo 5's story always baffled me. I've never seen a game roadblock a player before by basically saying: "Hey! Whoa there son! If you wanna understand what's going on in this story, you'll have to read X and Y books from over a decade ago and this comic that was just published. Also don't forget this spin-off live action movie too" I can't name a single game that requires this much homework in order to enjoy it.
samzilla567 game of thrones 23 years of plot
And ultimately, none of this really matters, because the story is shit and it doesn't follow upon either of the "homework" media 343 forces you to know. Like, someone wanted to like Agent Locke, see Buck being a Spartan, witness anything interesting with Blue Team? Fuck that, he have to make Cortana a Skynet now. And put 7 boss fights with Warden to give any illusion this game is longer than it actually is. And drop any development Chief started to have at the end of 4.
God, I hope Infinite will just dismiss this fucking atrocity.
Assassin's Creed III also did that bullshit when I played it at launch and Desmond and the gang were all like Daniel Cross this Daniel Cross that and i'm like who the hell is that and why are you acting like he's some major character then later on I found out he was from some comic I didn't even know existed XD
Though it pains me to admit it, Nostalgia Critic put it best when he kept referring to movie Mileena as though her name were You Wish.
He had some good lines among the endless torrent of garbage he would out out. Like him or hate him, when his jokes landed they REALLY landed
One good example of adaptations adding context is the Massacre at Hardhome in Game of Thrones. In the books it’s mentioned that something really bad happened at Hardhome, and the show turned it into one of the best they ever put to screen.
this is going to be a weird example of the inverse, but Ben 10 had this thing where Ben would slap his watch and get the wrong alien. While funny and leading to some interesting fights, from what i recall it was never explained in the show why that happened. However, one of the video games mentions that Ben is "too rough" with the watch and is smacking it instead of just pressing it like he should. Which actually makes a lot of sense, the watch was created to be a tool, not a weapon. Much like how being too rough with a game controller can jumble the inputs, the same could be said for the Omnitrix.
Now I very well could be misremembering that, so feel free to correct me in the comments if that isn't the case, but it always stuck out to me.
I am quite sure that they explained that, with that exact explanation, in the last episode of a arc where his evil twin becomes a Galvanian M.O.D.O.K.
For adding details, I've noticed that Superman adaptations tend to go a bit more into why Krypton exploded like the DCAU and Smallville having Brainiac play a role or the DCEU having it due to mining the core and making the planet unstable.
hey, have you ever thought of doing a wasted plotential on any of the Sonic characters? I think Silver and Blaze would be the best candidtes.
I do know in the Jojo golden wind anime adaptation David productions actually added scenes featuring La sqaudra(to give better context on who they are). Who are the main antagonist for the first half
They also added context to Fugos backstory when there was almost none in the manga
Smackmate although the only thing that bothers me with that is that it’s inconsistent with purple haze feedback(a spin-off novel). But it’s still more than the Manga that’s for sure
@@Smackmate I feel like adding context to Fugo's backstory kinda defeated the purpose of the character: Fugo is a toxic violent sociopath represented by a literally poisonous and psychotic Stand, who is only kept from being a villain by his friends (and he almost became a villain later anyway). Justifying and minimizing his assault takes away from that characterization and distances him from similar characters like Angelo and Kira that he seems like a call back to.
DP definitely made a lot of other improvements though.
I think there's a right way and a wrong way to handle that kind of information: "It's the ship that made the kessel run in less than 12 parsecs" doesn't need to mean anything to the viewer, it means something to the characters in the story and the viewer can infer it's significance from context: It's a way of saying "this ship is fast" while also implying things in the world the audience doesn't know about. In this respect the audience doesn't need to know who Kung Lao is to understand what Liu Kang is saying. "I am Liu Kang, descendant of Kung Lao..." still hints at Liu Kang's motivation, even if the viewer doesn't know who Kung Lao is.
The problem is when real story points hinge on the viewer knowing things that aren't told to them. Confusing Mileena for Kitana is something that will need more explanation, since whole scenes revolve around it and "who is this person who looks just like kitana" is a question you probably shouldn't leave hanging, either make her important enough to the story that you can explain her or cut her out of the movie.
I don't agree with the Kessel Run/Kung Lao analogy. Even though it is not explained in detail, the context of the scene clearly establishes the meaning of that statement. Han is boasting about the ship's speed, so his statement is clear to be an "impressive" example of that speed. And Obi-Wan's reaction show's that it is even "unbelievably impressive", implying that 12 parsecs is an incredible speed for the Kessel Run.
With Kung Lao, the movie never really gives any hints as to why his legacy is note worthy. It IS clear that his name carries weight, but not why.
I'd need to re-watch that scene, It's been a while since I watched that movie, but I feel like the point of that line is to establish *why* Liu Kang is invested: Avenging an ancestor. I feel like you don't need to know who Kung Lao is to understand that he is somehow important enough to Liu Kang to go this far to avenge him. We don't need to care about Kung Lao, we just need to know that Liu Kang does.
The analogy wasn't *super* great, but I figure it was a well-known scene that could work as a counterpoint... a way to do what this video is talking about *right*
This element in adaptation's grinds my gears to no end, especially when the makers will constantly preach about changes having to be made, making it easier for the audience to follow and understand said story. Yet will include plot lines that have no explanation or context that only fans of the source material would fully grasp or understand. In some cases ends up introducing plotholes or inconsistencies that were never present in the original material.
Spiderman 3 comes to mind, there's no explanation to why Eddie Brock acquires SM Powers when he acquires the Symbiote. No explanation to how Eddie Brock was able to find out SM real identity, to then kidnap Mary Jane.
Most egregious one was the bell tower scene. Peter had no know idea Symbiote was weakness at that point, yet conveniently just happens to be at the right place when he wants to desperately get rid of it . While in comic Peter knew the weakness beforehand which is why he went to the bell tower in first place to unbond from it. Lastly not much explained in regard to the hostile nature of Symbiote.
If you have no prior knowledge of how Symbiote works and its abilities, it's makes no sense. Clear example of filmakers just throwing in a iconic scene with no understanding of the material.
Persona 5 the animation added a lot more depth to Akechi’s character (before the royal did the same) it made Akechi’s heel turn more obvious, but also made it slightly more believable, they also added a scene before Akechi was about to kill joker where he told the other phantom thieves that he was on his way to save joker, during this encounter Ryuji has an emotional outburst, which Akechi ignores as Ryuji just being caught up in the moment and letting his emotions get the best of him, but once you realize that the phantom thieves already knew of Akechi’s deceit this scene can be read as Ryuji trying to save joker, the anime actually has some interesting moments despite the fact that it’s hindered by its stilted animation and lack of adding too much to the already established story.
Well if you want a good example of the opposite than I'd mention Gandalf side adventure in The Hobbit movies, in the book he just straight up leaves because he'd solve almost all the problems that the Dwarfs would run into with his wizard powers
I was hoping someone would mention this. The hobbit movies catch a lot of grief for changes like this, but it did a really good job of explaining why Gandalf was absent and setting up the plot of the Lord of the Rings.
they do mention lung lao in the movie. in the scene with kano and goro in the mess hall shang tsung says to goro "this is no time to act foolish liu kang is the decendant of the great kung lao" . thats one o fthe things imp that makes mortal kombat a great adaptation for non fans is it does a great job of eluding to larger history and outworld politics through dialogue and metnioning of names. as autistic as this may sound its the same thing game of thrones did when it would break the "show dont tell" rule by having lots of character speak about past battles and people you never directly see
The opposite of this happens a lot in FNAF. After the fourth game they started to add a bunch of stuff from the books into the main canon with no proper introduction and it just doesn't work
The great Kung Lao fight with Goro lasted 3 days keep that in mind people.
Excuse meWUT
A THREE DAY FIGHT?!
@@Ramsey276one blew my mind when I first heard that
I think the biggest exemple for was in Mass Effect 3, when they intruduced Kai Leng or whatever his name was and I was so confused because he came with no background, out of nowhere. Then later I found he is a character in a novel. Still, I played the games in sequence, I shouldn't need novels to catch up with the plot and important characters. xD
2:40: Yep. It sets up Unicron as the boss for the 6th film (which we might not get, because Hasbro apparently wants to reboot the films) and gives him his Transformers Prime backstory, where he is Earth to explain why the Transformers keep coming here.
I heard that the sixth film will be made, but it's not anytime soon.
Haven't heard anyone mention Negima in literal years.
I remember it had a serious anime, "Maho Sensei Negima", and a comedy-focused one just called "Negima!!"
I really wouldn't say the Spider-Man example is passable, because they change so many other details, big and small, that you can't really assume much of anything with Peter's origin.
Would Marvel comics changing the personality of their characters to fall more in line with the movies be an example of adding something?
Depends on who
Karma - from what I understand Iron Man’s personality was changed as well as Thanos.
No, Marvel is just a case of its characters being malleable to the times + Disney's boner for "Brand Synergy".
Thomas Raines comic iron man is better in the comics
Yeah Mileena being a twin is surprisingly difficult for many new time fans to recognize since, with the exception of the 2D games, they rarely look that alike. By that logic it would be just as easy to assume Sub Zero and Scorpion were brothers.
And yet here we are now with Liu Kang's fanfi... I mean timeline.
in mortal kombat I hated when they put scorpion without the conetext, he was just a goon there, instead of the man we love because of his backstory
This is basically the biggest problem with the 2016 Powerpuff Girls reboot.
Every bad word discribes that crappy reboot. I don't get how some people watch it. You know what's worse? They are planing to make a PPG live action series. Like who tf asked for it??
TheFVguy are we forgetting about a creepy adult writer writing himself into multiple episodes as blossoms boyfriend. And the fact that all three of the original voice actors reached out to reprise their roles and weren’t even acknowledged
@@princessprincess1209 You're the twerking panda episode
as an example of a adaption adding in details: the Transfromers UK story: "The Legacy of Unicron!" in which Unicron and Primus's origins are explained, since in the 86 movie Unicron had backstory and Primus was a comic original, in later years primus and Unicrons origin would be used in almost every new Transformers media.
There was another only Movie Canon explanation to why Kahn and Raiden don't like each other. They were brothers and Shinnok was their dad. Not too unusual of a retcon but it is interesting how that never found its way into the games.
I think one game actually referenced this connection in Raiden's kharacter bio (I think it was MK VS DC) outside of that yeah it's been ignored (And thank the elder gods for that because personally I think it was stupid)
Bethesda is talking about making a Fallout tv series. You can fucking *bet* that this sort of thing will happen, either through the tv series ignoring, missing or even overwriting events that happened in the games or where they'll try to explain why some particular thing in any of the games happened and fuck _that_ up. Short version; I don't trust it to be good.
Maybe you should I dunno...
Make a Wasted Plotential on MK Annihilation and maybe even the first Movie. Just a suggestion
Why the 1st movie? It’s was mostly good except maybe the lack of fatalities
MK Annihilation would definitely be a welcome video to see, but I don't remember anything really being that bad in the first movie...
I think he just means the wasted potential in that movie like Scorpion and Sub Zero losing their backstory and characters.
The first mortal komabt movie is like the best video game movie of all time
@@epicninjasenseidinosaurpup6957 Nope. That right belongs to the Sonic movie.
Nice to see a video that will give Negima some love. The manga deserved better.
Cases of adaptations adding details that help;
-Dragon Ball Z Abridged takes the death of Dr. Gero's son from being a supplemental note to something we see referenced in series, with the reveal that he was killed in Goku's attack on the Red Ribbon Army base. Even if Gero was dead by this point it gives him a much more compelling reason to hate Goku.
-The Warcraft movie changes a character who was half human and half orc to a half human and draenei in the original game/lore. Seeing as the orcs had only recently entered Azeroth, one of them have a child with one of its native humans who was an adult by that point doesn't make any sense. It does however make sense if it's a draenei since those actually came from the same world as the orcs.
-The Naruto anime introduces the rest of the titular character's classmates in the early episodes. In the original manga, they just show up in the Chuunin Exam arc and the plot treats them as though they were always there even though it's the first time the readers have seen them.
-The novelization to Revenge of the Sith does a much better job explaining characterization and the setting than the movie does.
-The Hobbit trilogy established an orc army marching on Erebor at the end of the second movie. In the book they just show up out of nowhere with no build up.
Adaptations removing details
-The BlazBlue anime has Ranga defeat Yuuki Terumi, and just let him live for no reason. In the game it was explained that thanks to this thing called a Life Link, Terumi could only die if Ragna killed him and Noel at the same time. This being left out means Ragna, the man who has murdered thousands of people, spars the most evil man in the world for no reason. Now the Life Link was still an annoying asspull that was introduced on the spot with no foreshadowing, but it was something.
-Jurassic Park's famous "T-Rex vision is based on movement." This is something simplified from the book, in that the reason that Rexy couldn't see anybody who wasn't moving was a trait she gained from some of the toad DNA used in the dinosaurs' cloning, since some toads have vision based on movement. For something as huge as a Tyrannosaurus-Rex to not being able to see anything if it's not moving, well that's ridiculous since how would it find food if it couldn't see anything. Plus that goat she ate right before breaking out didn't appear to be moving and she still noticed it.
-The Unlimited Blade Works anime having Archer use the titular ability in his fight with Shirou. In the original visual novel, Archer didn't have the strength to use that ability, which is why when the main villain Gilgamesh showed up, Archer left Rin at his mercy. Archer did not want to leave Rin with Gilgamesh, but he wouldn't have been able to stop him if he tried. But in the anime Archer still had the strength to use Unlimited Blade Works, the very ability Shirou would use to defeat Gilgamesh. So this entire moment just makes Archer look like a horrible person since he just left Rin to her fate at the hands of heartless sadist and his rapist lackey.
-Fate/Zero's anime. This is a great adaptation, but one flurb it has is with Berserker. After he's defeated, he states he regrets his past actions and wanted Saber to punish him for them. It's a very emotional scene, but it doesn't explain exactly what Berserker DID that he felt was so horrible like the original light novel did.
-Justice League War. Darkseid invades Earth, and the movie doesn't bother to explain anything about who or what he is. It just takes for granted that the audience knows that. It's especially bad since the storyline the comic is adapting had the same problem. Despite the New 52 being created for new audiences to be afraid of the years of continuity, it's first arc with the Justice League had Darkseid show up without a proper introduction. Terrible movie based on a terrible story arc.
-TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan. The game just assumes the audience is intimately familiar with TMNT. Transformers: Devastation was also written assuming the audience was familiar with the original show's events, but this was a much worse case since it's based on the IDW TMNT comics, when a majority of TMNT fans would know about the show from the cartoons, ergo, they know nothing about the comics. The comics does nothing to explain the origin of the turtles, their sensei Splinter, and who their enemies and allies.
This is especially bad in the finale of the game where Shredder is trying to destroy New York to kill Splinter, calling him his old enemy. This is referencing the feud between Shredder and Splinter in the comics, but Shredder is barely in the game so the audience won't have a clue what is going and can only make assumptions. The game treats Shredder like he's still the arch enemy even though as far story goes, he just exists to add another boss fight after General Krang is defeated.
Transformers Devastation is designed to be like a random episode of the original 80's cartoon, it has some things that wouldn't make sense for a fan (Megatron is now a tank, everyone has some new special powers, the lore that involves Nova Prime), but it has that feeling. This way, the story is simple, but explained. Megatron is evil and wants to make the Earth a planet for robots, why? Unless you know the most basic piece of story of Transformers you don't have an idea, but you can keep going. Why does everyone know each other? You don't know why, but you can keep going and eliminate them a little bit after the meeting.
@@Protosilver97 Devastation is aimed at people familiar with the original cartoon, and Mutants in Manhattan looks to be aimed at people familiar with the IDW TMNT.
I haven't read the TMNT IDW comic but I have read stuff about it and from what I gather, Mutants in Manhattan is TERRIBLE adaptation. Shredder is set up as some generic bad guy who wants to kill Splinter and the Turtles at any cost even if it means dooming the Earth. Unlike most of the incarnations, IDW Shredder actually has depth to him and wouldn't try to cause the end of the world.
As a villain in the game, Shredder also fails since he has next to presence in it. We see him meet and team up with Krang at the start, and unless you unlock the conditions to fight him alongside Karai, you never see him again till the end of the game. He shows up AFTER the main plot involving Krang's invasion is over in an attempt to blow up New York.
In Devastation, the Autobots are either trying to get the Ferrotaxis or stop the power generator of the Proudstar to prevent the destruction of the Earth. Since the former option is fails, you resume the latter by the end of the game as the apocalypse grows nearer. Megatron has had a presence the whole game being behind the plot to cyberform Earth, so fitting the last level is fighting your way to him before a rematch to take back the Ferrotaxis.
Shredder on the flipside feels like a boss fight tagged on because he's the franchise main villain. You could have cut him out and just made Krang the main villain.
Yeah, this is something that has always annoyed me when I notice it. Amusingly, this is something that even fan-fiction is guilty, though that has way more of an excuse in part due to the fact that it's almost exclusively going to be looked at by fans who already know the story and characters even if they don't necessarily agree about the interpretation (and can get into fierce and nasty arguments over it, especially where "shipping" is involved).
Shipping is cancer
This video was actually quite insightful. As a giant nerd, I usually know all the context when I watch a movie adapted from a video game, but never considered how someone who hasn't played those games might be wondering things like "What's the thing coming out of the zombie's mouth?" when watching one of the Resident Evil films, or "Why would Sonya think that masked purple lady was Kitana?" if they watched MK Annihilation without knowing anything about the games.
I genuinely forgot that the Yakuza movie barely did anything to introduce the characters and nishiki in the movie. It's been a very long time since i've seen it.
The only other thing im familiar with (and it's pretty obvious that this had it) was The Last Airbender tryin to cram in as much of the show w/o context of who the characters were, and their role in the story.
Some of the deleted scenes included Aunt Wu and the Kyoshi Warriors who showed up for a split second, but without the context to back either of them up.
Not to mention Aunt Wu was nothing like she was in the original.
6:25
ah yes focusing on the important stuff
Kung Lao was mentioned in The Journey Begins, as was Sub-Zero's feud with Scorpion (kinda). I know it was shit and nobody wants to remember it, but it was made as a tie in to the movie.
The CGI portions and the story conveyed in them was pretty dope though. Even if that was the dawn of motion capture and it was virtua fighter levels of blocky models.
@@legionbeast No. Even in 1995 when it was released, the CGI was atrocious. If it was real time rendering that might have been good looking, but as it was pre-rendered, there really is no excuse. Even Reboot, which started airing in 1994 looked way better. Also don't forget the atrocious 2D animation that was also in there.
@@AmartharDrakestone My mind tries to forget the 2D animation segments as even back then I only watched the cg segments.
@@legionbeast But even then and or so only the characters were hand drawn while the areas were CGI.
I miss how dark the old games used to be... its like these bew games have bloody fatalities, but the feels just arent there. Mainly the story and the music to me.... what do you think? Im 13 and i grew up on mk da and the krypt and screams and stuff was just so good. I remember grinding for months with my sister. We need a remaster of the 3d games and they better not have trash microtransactions either...
Okay, I love the S.D. Perry novels even when I know there are some errors never mentioned, like Raccoon City being set in Pennsylvania, my home state, when it's not a Midwest state. I like Jill's backstory of being a cat burglar who turned her life around, explaining how she's the "Master of Unlocking". While I look forward to you video covering them, please don't be too harsh.
6:22 The beauties of MK 😍
I remember watching that scene when Smoke mistook Mileena with Kitana.
I was like.
"Dude, they don't look similar.
I mean, Mileena wears a more revealing outfit, her colour skin is different and SHE WEARS PURPLE!! YOU IDIOT!"
Smoke... are you COLORBLIND or SMOKING SOMETHING?!
@@Ramsey276one lol
Thank you for make me laugh 🤣
If done right, sometimes an adaptation can give the audience a piece of dialogue that new viewers will see as just world-building (Think Obi Wan's "Your father fought in the Clone Wars" from A New Hope), but will mean something to the fans who know all the backstory.
i.e. the Marvel Cinematic Universe paying lip service to ideas more properly fleshed out in the comics, that could potentially either be adapted and seen as a tease, or left as a stray reference. Like them referencing Wakanda years before Black Panther. The audience doesn't have to know who Black Panther is to follow the plot, just having to know Wakanda is a country that exists in this world.
I don't know many of the examples you used in this video, but the "I am the descendant of -name-" doesn't seem like it would be out of place in an entirely new, no prior context needed film. Like Luke Skywalker saying his father was a Jedi Knight
In Doctor Strange,they at one point show a weapon and mention that it was made by the Living Tribunal. My dad didn't pay any mind to it but i was freaking out inside.
Oh gods, I hated that part in ST:Into Darkness. They have all the others they could've picked, but Khan? *must hold in rant...*
I have noticed some crossovers from fan made stuff that's very interesting or well-made to other fan content, or even shows/movies/etc who get in contact with fans to add in little nods to stuff like that, even with minimal context. I'd say the biggest way we view stuff is maybe in how certain time periods or places are shown? So in a movie or game we see something look like x, we always view it as x, no matter what the book or original adaptation (ex: Dorian Gray is blonde. He's only ever been played by a blond-haired guy in the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina).
As a Transformers fan, I can say that TLK does a poor job of explaining Unicron’s significance, besides being Cybertron’s enemy. Especially when the concept of Primus never comes up. So many of my friends were like “Who is Unicron?” Why is he so damn important?” “How did he end up inside earth?” Transformers Prime did a much better job with the Unicron plot. As for the Knights, little detail is offered aside from them having betrayed Quintessa long ago. It doesn’t help that they are a concept introduced in that movie, with the only other source mentioning them being the 2005 IDW continuity. If you want a good Transformers story, watch Transformers Prime or Beast Wars.
I was just watching MK: Annihilation with my sister yesterday, and realized how lost she must have been since all she knows about MK is from the first movie.
The way they treated Mileena was so disappointing. And they didn't even bother to mention Baraka's name or anything!
And the way Sheeva got one shotted? Future Queen of the Shokan.
The Halo Blue Team thing is funny to me because as someone who has only played Halo 1, but doesn't consider themselves a fan yet, my immediate thought when I heard about Blue Team was the Blues from Red vs Blue.
It reminds me of Mass Effect 3 made Kai Leng a major character within Cerberus ranks, when he was never mentioned in the games before, only appeared in the books. Those who didn't read them were propably confused.
Even though i knew who he is, Kai Leng in ME3 is nothing like his book counterpart (but then again very little in ME3 makes any sense) so added context made little difference there.
the dragon age series does this too. A lot of the other forms of random media show up in the main series games and you'll have no idea who half these characters are cause you didnt read some obscure story from one of the writers tumblr accounts or something. It wouldnt be a big deal but the characters in those stories end up being main characters so its kind of annoying if you only enjoy playing the games.
I know you probably aren't familiar about this particular series but what do you think of the various reasonings for the character Snake-Eyes from GI Joes origins? Like reasoning for being a mute, how he became a mute, who was he before he became Snake Eyes?
Also why for asking this, well I just found out they're doing an origin movie for the character that's suppose to release next year. I know the guy has like different origins depending on who's writing.
Speaking of Jade, any new comers to the second movie without any knowledge of the games would probably think this is the correct portrayal of her character because they didn’t pay a single damn attention to her character
So they made her Tanya the second dark skinned Edenian even though Jade in Anhillation isn't portrayed by a dark skinned actress.
@@mdrstudios7067 it honestly wouldn’t have been hard at all to pick a dark skinned woman to play her.
At least they got Nightwolf right I guess
The Sengoku Basara franchise... well, maybe this is just my opinion, but it committed one thing that would lead to the Last Party thing: In that franchise, character popularity is everything. If you're on low popularity chain, get ready to be replaced by someone else (Ranmaru to Tsuruhime, Nouhime to Magoichi) or get the boot, never to be mentioned again (Yoshimoto). If you're high on the chain... EXPOSURE EXPOSURE EXPOSURE EVERYWHERE!
In this context, during his debut, Mitsunari exploded in popularity, surpassing even co-poster boy Yukimura. To capitalize on this, Capcom tried to push on the rivalry between Masamune and Mitsunari, no matter how much it doesn't make much sense storywise, the only main basis is that they're the top most popular characters in Basara (Ieyasu is also popular, but he's like... the 4th most popular? And thankfully, his rebound rivalry, Yukimura, actually had more sense considering what happened in the Siege of Osaka in history, compared to Masamune-Mitsunari). Not only in Last Party, but Sengoku Basara 4 also follows this, pushing more on Masamune-Mitsunari, although that wasn't my biggest gripe on the game. Let's just say after 3, Capcom pulled a Konami, not in the way of mistreating their employers, but more like thinking that their main market for SB lies somewhere else: Shounen-ai fans that would be more like referred as 'fujoshi', instead of those who appreciates subtlety and more coherent, unbiased writing. That is how the new characters are all pretty and tend to be not as memorable. At least to me.
Thanks for listening on my opinion on SB's path. And need I say it more: I hate popularity polls.
Since when kahn is writing codes....😂😂😂
(Oh let me guess...KRONIKA)
I feel like the Persona 5 the Animation develops the character of Akechi better than the Vanilla game,we see more scenes of Joker hanging out with him and building mutual respect between the two,it makes it more believable that Akechi would como to respect/hate Joker because they both have a bigger friendship in the anime.
and then Royal builds on that character arc with the Goro Akechi social link.
Oh wow, someone actually talking about Basara story. Like I shouldn't be surprised knowing you follow so many things, but it's nice to see it in 2020 lol.
You more or less implied it already by mentioning Judge End/End of Judgement, but the other loopy part of how The Last Party switched Masamune and Ieyasu is that Masamune had a story worth having already. Basara 3 had him get decimated and humiliated by Mitsunari to force him to consider his own limits and not just dive headfirst into revenge. I'm almost positive the movie threw him into that role because he was basically the series MC... even if that made him more boring by comparison.
You gonna review Scorpion's Revenge? For it's flaws, I still loved it, and I'm curious about what an MK lore master thinks about it.
He said he is going to (but to be honest he is just going to make a "this sucks, that sucks" video like he usually does).
@@thelastcrow5660 We'd probably agree on at least some of what sucks. Sub-Zero got shafted, after all.
@@Umbra_Ursus I agree on the fact that the movie had its flaws. It wasn't very good. However saying that it's complete trash is more wrong than saying it's a masterpiece :)))).
MK movies are what introduced me to MK, and i can say that it is a good introduction to those who are not familiar with series. Even throwaway lines like the one where Shang Tsung says that Scorpion and Sub Zero are mortal enemies but are both under his control showed just how badass he is. And that Kung Lao line was something i didn't really pay attention to until i became more familiar with games, so it's fine.
MK Annihilation, on other hand, just confused the living shit out of me. Probably the biggest confusion to me (which wasn't mentioned in the video) was how is Scorpion still alive even though he gets killed in the first movie. They never mentioned that he is supposed to be undead specter which was a huge oversight.
Can't wait to see what you have to say about the S.D. Perry novels, I loved those books so this should be very interesting!
The history buff in me got started when you said “Tokugawa Ieyasu”.
4:21 Hey I remember that game. Still have it in fact. Shame I can't play it.
Didn't Masamune have a grudge against Mitsunari in that game?
It took him 3 years but he finally made a video on the RE Perry novels
For the reverse, batman the animated series created Harley Quinn. Although that probably doesn't count
First time I've seen anyone talk about Negima! That manga deserves a lot more love
6:20 Smoke is blind... I KNEW IT !
Color blind*
Wow someone else who knows about sengoku basara, subbed!
Films should explain what makes something from an already existing source material so important too those who don’t know about the source material instead of putting it in for a bone for the fans (which isn’t wrong by the way)
But at the same time most could see that as Overexposition
@@MazeDaGr8 What would you suggest then?
@@MazeDaGr8 Nope doesn't have to exposition, plus if your film has to rely on outside information to understand a film plot threads it's failed as a film.
I am sorry Snake but she did not fall for him. He simply earned her respect. It's obvious.
3:30 Wow
That’s making that even more stupid now!
Seriously, remaking over and over it’s just no good for anyone...
I think with the case of Sengoku basara (IG anime) they kinda fucked themselfs over originally since both Ieyasu and Tadakatsu were originally killed off in first anime in 2009, Sengoku basara 1 and 2 (the original games) canonicity and continuity was bit weird since they were close to each other a year apart (2005 and 6), the older characters from 1 like Oda clan, xavi and itsuki came back in 2 without much explaination and it probably seems like Dynasty warriors case where the story is the same but the plotline extended further from Incident of honnoji to Hideyoshi conquest.
it's not until sengoku basara 3 which came and introduced clear storyline amd timeline *in end of basara 1 nobunaga was assassinated by akechi mistuhide and 2 ends with hideyoshi succesfully conquering japan until ieyasu betrayed him in start of basara 3* .
afterwords is the preparations of the battle of sekigahara as there are 2 factions: *eastern and western armies* with few outside third party like oichi and nobunaga, 3 unlike previous games which focused more on indivisual cast rather then events that surrounds them
my theory is that during production of Basara 2 anime they probably decided to add in both Mitsunari and Ieyasu as last minute addition during the finale since they only apear literally at last episode and they don't fit anywhere in the story outside so they can set up *the Last party movie* in line with basara 3 (samurai heroes) which came 18 days after anime airing in japan
somehow tadakatsu and ieyasu are alive
@@ShadowBerserker454 I believe it was stated in the first anime that Ieyasu was assassinated by Mitsuhide before the final battle with Nobunaga (If I recall correctly) and in the second season they retcon that by showing Ieyasu alive and healthy as if what happened in season 1 was false, they even changed Ieyasu's design from how he looked from the first season to how he looks now ignoring what they established before.
Basically the entire DCEU
#Mk2021gondothis. Boy did they ever.
The Advent Children movie expanded some thing for the ff7 universe and brought with it Advent Children Sephiroth which is featured in the Nomura remake
Can't wait for the Negima episode tbh, granted I can barely recall a lot of the Kyoto arc except that Negi fights Kotaro in the manga and that it is the arc where he is assigned to protect Konoka because she is descendant of a magical family from Kyoto. I need to reread it, but I do agree that the anime felt...lacking in places.
As an aside, the Senran Kagura sequel animes and OVAs are also kind of weird in this regard as well, because the Versus games introduce new characters that are in a different alignment compared to the old cast - like how the Gessen Academy Girls are Good Ninjas, but, unlike Asuka and the Hanzo Academy Girls, (used to) subscribe to the ideology of everything done for the greater good, meaning evil ninjas and those who are tainted by evil must be purged, while the New Hebijo Academy girls are under the rule of Suzune after the last guy funding Homura's Crimson Squad - formerly the Hebijo Academy Ninjas - betrayed him and became rogue, yet the animes following the first one just assumes you know who the characters are and their relationships, despite the first Senran Kagura anime having ended with the betrayal and defeat of Orochi (or preventing his/her summoning), while what came after was either a promo for another entry called Estival Versus I believe, and then the sequel anime starts you off thinking of the girls you saw in the Estival OVA, but you don't know the relationships of them until a few episodes after, and even so, I think the retelling isn't as well done as in the games, even if it's mostly fight scenes placed in between the cutscenes where you fight hordes of enemies and then one of the girls as a boss at the end, mostly because you don't get the full context of the relationship between say Asuka and Yumi. (I don't know if the Hebijo girls get explained either, though might have to rewatch the show since I never did finish it, but ended up reaching said episode where the Gessen Girls backstory gets explained.)
Yusss negima!
Jade fighting Smoke in MK9... even 14yo me though “what a fking idiot “ xD
Hey, Snake, you've probably seen new Suicide Squad kill the justice league trailer. The game that take place in Arkhamverse and in which Deadshot was depicted as black man. That wouldn't be the issue if it was his first appearance in Arkham games, but he was appeared before as caucasian man. And why is king shark is alive? He died in Assault on Arkham.(i heard he has son in comics, but when i googled comic frames, the son didn't look like in the trailer).
All i hope for is that the Deadshot in the trailer is not original Deadshot but the some guy who just take his name. I think something like that happened in comics before.
This is why you shouldn't use a film appearance in an already established IP after it ended. He wasn't black in the Arkham Suicide Squad animation film either
1:53 actually all the women had big boobs in Mk 9 ( I miss those days)
It'd be interesting to see how you'd rewrite Legends: Scorpion's Revenge.
Woah a Negima episode, I'm so ready for that
As far as I'm concerned the only thing wrong with the first MK movie is that they erased Sub-Zero and Scorpion's rivalry and made slaves to Shang Tsung
While your Mileena change could work, there is no saving Annihilation
There's a retroactive BS reason as to know who the original Kun Lao is, if you got MK9 new you got a download that had the first movie as well as an animated with 3D animated back story version of the MK 1 story
6:45 Ouh! French!
That's all for me.
can’t wait for the S.D perry RE videos
I totally get what you're saying, because that is happening to me on this video LOL
For a video that's supposed to focus on Mortal Kombat, i swear at least 40% was talking about other movies 😂
You should have been the writer for MK Annihilation.
Literally any Disney reboots
Still waiting on the Irene Lew video 😭
How about an Adaptive Difficulty episode of The Last Airbender movie version?
1.) Don't cast white actors in Asian based setting
2.) Don't put M. Night Shyamalan as director
I really liked the 95 mortal kombat movie
Did you know there was gonna be a full on mortal kombat reboot where radian would be a god and his legs would barley touch the ground and Kano would be half American and Half Japanese and Scorpion and Subzero would have there MKX design for the game and the Lin Kua is not called the Lin kua its called something else that I cannot remember but if you don’t know about it check out brusk poet cancelled mortal kombat games.
I know how this is gonna sound cuz everyone's kinda fed up with it being brought up, but JoJo has been doing the same thing with is most recent adaptations, especially part 4 and 5
You make a lot of good points as usual but at the same time a lot of exposition can be annoying to ppl