It always bothered me that Alice became irrelevant. Masquerade was so important to the early show and its appeal, and after the reveal I found her struggling with her past and her own self esteem and finding new reasons to fight was genuinely interesting. And they largely just threw away the character who got me and Im sure many others into the show in the first place as Masquerade, likely because they had some new product to sell. And honestly its a big part of why I gradually grew uninterested in the show. There is just so much they could have done with her character, and it is nice to see you tapping into that here.
That was actually the main reason I want to start doing these, I'm not super in deep with the Bakugan Community but I noticed a lot of people weren't making that much content or the franchise so I want to jump out the opportunity when I could
I love Alice as a character but I think that she behaved consistently. She didn’t have the same skills and power as Masquerade had. She was always kind and caring. She didn’t want to continue battling anymore because she feared she’d endanger her grandfather.
@@justsomeguy747 Masquerade got his skills and power from Alice. Alice was always a good Bakugan player, but the reason she struggled was because she lacked confidence. Becoming Masquerade just made her more confident, which is why Masquerade was so strong.
I grew up with Bakugan as a kid and I thought it was strange that half the cast was swapped out after the first season. So this is really a satisfying story. Hope you continue this into the second half of new vestroia and into seasons 3 and 4
I'm working on part 2 as we speak it is a little more difficult cuz Alice already had a story to tell with what little screen time she did have so I'm trying to take everything in perspective instead of just rushing out the next part
Since Alice Gehabich is my 2nd favorite character from Bakugan, I loved this "What If...?" scenario. Even though I like Ace Grit, this makes me wish that Alice became the Darkus battler of the Bakugan Brawlers' Resistance instead. I really hope you do Part 2 soon.
Thanx a lot for making this video, was much needed. Also, there are signs that Alice was originally planned to have a bigger role in nv. Spectra originally was planned as more of a masquerade wannabe, a darkus brawler. Helios and hades was forked out from being the same bakugan during the development. It was originally going to be called "viper". So it was spectra who would use the fake hydra and it would be alice who would battle 1v1 with her. Even after the revisions, she was obviously still going to have a bigger role. Like you've mentioned, in s2ep11, she was all confident and ready to teleport vexos back to where they came from like a boss. Then in s2ep32, her character development is reset and she's all scared again. SpinMaster must have ordered more revisions after ep26. I always have felt like sega/japanese writers wanted to have fun and write a good anime, but spinmaster wanted it to be only a toy commercial, hence fewer female characters in later seasons and less relevance of old beloved bakugan.
Oh also there is obviously more to the friendship between hydra and ingram. They must have met between events of s1 and s2, but we don't know what happened as the pilot got revised. There's also fact that s1 episode "alice gets schooled" was skipped in the original run in japan. It might be because that they might wanted to delete/revise scenes last-minute. Other 5 brawlers were all got their childhoods revealed. Soo I theoritize maybe, just mayybe, Alice would have a traumatic past with her parents dying or smth too, that later got deleted bc too dark.
Really like how in the beggining, you explain that just because you would prefer things to be a certain way, doesn't mean your story is better. It's something very true overall. I feel the same way about me wanting to keep Mira as the subterra brawler instead of Jake in Gundalia invenders.
I used narrative example cuz it's a conversation I have quite often with friends and colleagues growing up. And I feel like Mira and Jake could have shared the spot seeing that they have double the amount of villains, it be than just having her sit behind a computer doing nothing like the last season
@@mikethewarrior2723 That's true! They could! Thought we can argue that bringing someone that just started to play bakugan into a war wasn't the brightest idea... Mira would had an interesting relashioship with Fabia. Esp considering that the data phantom, aka the thing that cause her father to die, comes from Neathia. (Seriously, WHY does the data phantom coming from Neathia, a "peacefull" planet, has plans for a DESTRUCTIVE MACHINE?). With how Mira was sad about her father's death, I can see Mira going throught the stages of grief during season 3. She would also not trust Fabia. This mistrust could have been the cause of them loosing the interspace. Then, their relashioship would start to improve until they become friends.
You know, I like the idea of it all, I honestly would have like to see it as Alice furthering her journey through her ptsd. Because that’s what she went through, after the events of battle brawlers she was still left with the fact that she sent many bakugan to the doom dimension, even if it was a different persona, it was her in the end. Her journey in new vestroia could have been her further healing from that time, and eventually proving she can be as powerful, or more powerful than masquerade.
I feel percival makes sense as alice's bakugan, like a valiant knight slightly resembling alpha hydranoid like elfin resembles preyas and ingram resembles skyress
I just finished all of bakugan last month and all the og girls got done dirty. I like most of Dan’s rivals though the show but the only thing I could think was that it should be Alice and Hydranoid. Also Shun and Marucho were just there idk why they kept coming back they barely did anything significant after new vestroia.
When they brought back Hydranoid during the mechanical Bakugan arc I really thought they were going to have Alice be the Scientist in New Vestroia with Grandpa being mission control on Earth.
Very excited to see arc 2 and 3 covered with this! Its such a fun take on the original story, and while I am a fan of Ace and enjoy his character, I do still enjoy this a lot. Also I´d definitely love going into detail with the battles. Just fun to imagine it going on in my head as you explain it haha. Like its been said before though, do lower your background music audio next time. It overtakes your own voice sometimes and makes it hard to hear you. Otherwise, good video!
Thank you for the feedback I'm still writing part 2 as we speak and I am having a bit more fun with it probably because Alice doesn't battle as much so I'm focusing more on story
Thank you so much I feel the exact same way about Ace man I feel like he coulda be done better but this hypothetical is super interesting and I always welcome fellow bakugan enjoyers 🔥
I love Bakugan. I like that people talk about it nowadays. When I was like 8 years old I was super into it. I used to be such a nerd about it. To the point that I remember much later (When I was 11 or so ) watching the original Japanese version to test a long theory of mine out. On which... I was correct about. About there being more to the show and things being cut out. I highly recommend (if it's even possible nowadays) to watch the Japanese original version because the version that we got over here has a lot of censorship and things being cut out (similar deal like 4kids and Yu-Gi-Oh!) and a lot of details in regards to ability cards and how the game worked as well as the darker story aspects, all of that that were left out, which was and still is a shame. I used to be very interested in Masquerade and Alice... for some reason. I could relate to her innocence and insightful view of the game. However, when the big reveal happened, I loved the character so much more. Because in a weird way I could still relate to her. Due to my mixed boyish and girlish elements as a person XD I remember being so upset when Masquerade lost to Dan. All due to the fact that I was super into the details of the show, so when "Final Destruction" didn't negate gate cards anymore, I was super annoyed and confused and angry (Because my prediction was on Masquerade being the winner after seeing both his and Dan's respective ability cards). The reason for me being so angry though was that (heck I remember it even now) Destruction Buster and Destruction Impact, both fusion ability cards had the same effect. So why in the heck did the last evolution of Hydranoid not have the same effect and why did it only give 100g and that being it? Like I remember being 8-9 years old (watching ever so intently on every single thing) and I made so many predictions about battles that turned out to be correct and I had my eyes on Alice being linked with Masquerade but damn...
thanks for the video. not a lot of long form content about bakugan anime is made these days. but could you tune down a music a little bit in your next videos? it's hard to hear you sometimes.
I would have maybe done it a bit differently I feel like Alice could have taken the role of Shun and made maybe Ace play with wind. But Alice is truly under used character that would have deserved a spot of a main character in new vestroia
Can you do a part 2? Because I really want to see how this plays out. besides unlike in canon, I really want to see if Alice could play a part in ensuring Lync survives.
Great video Just need to tone the music just a bit It kinda overlaps with ya voice But more or less great overall edit: i wonder what Alice's attire would be like?
Only partway through, so forgive me if you had the same idea: there could be a point where Alice takes a sort of faustian bargain with the vexos to get Masquerade's influence out of her mind, resulting in them cloning her and equipping him with Hades
Why not make fanfic? It would be fun to see some “what if” video of something that isn’t a super popular ip. Also the music is very loud… can barely hear your voice lmao
I like it so keep doing it please I like to keep doing it and I want to see the original bag you got Powerball please you can be the first bank you got what if channel the original what if thank God Sarah because no one has done what if our bad you guys yet so why not
There's a updated version of the video that's the full thing lower the volume issue has been has been resolved. I might delete this version but I haven't decided yet
If alice got more in touch with masquerade and was able to comfortably use the mask man the show would be so much more hype. Imagine spectra/masq interactions and more importantly HYDRANOID SCREENTIME
The problem is that there shouldn't be any Masquerade influence after the end of season one, just like Masquerade said he IS Alice, and she can do anything he could, he isn't a separate personality of hers anymore he went back into being a part of her that's what the Mask breaking meant Alice no longer needs him and she has to accept him as part of her and use the best from both of them.
Part two is up
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GREAT ALICE WHAT IF VIDEO.
I love this Bakugan "What If...?" story for Alice Gehabich.
"what if alice was a main character" the quality triples by default
Correct
It always bothered me that Alice became irrelevant. Masquerade was so important to the early show and its appeal, and after the reveal I found her struggling with her past and her own self esteem and finding new reasons to fight was genuinely interesting. And they largely just threw away the character who got me and Im sure many others into the show in the first place as Masquerade, likely because they had some new product to sell. And honestly its a big part of why I gradually grew uninterested in the show. There is just so much they could have done with her character, and it is nice to see you tapping into that here.
Not just her, I hated how the show shafted the other two girls.
@@sonicfan2403agreed
If Alice was the main protagonist...every single antagonist would've ended on the Doom Dimension for what they have done to Hydranoid.
Even as an adult, Bakugan never fails to interest me. Great video by the way, not many people make these types of videos
That was actually the main reason I want to start doing these, I'm not super in deep with the Bakugan Community but I noticed a lot of people weren't making that much content or the franchise so I want to jump out the opportunity when I could
@@mikethewarrior2723 thanks for that.
The show wouldn't have gone downhill. Alice is the best character in the show.
I love Alice as a character but I think that she behaved consistently. She didn’t have the same skills and power as Masquerade had. She was always kind and caring. She didn’t want to continue battling anymore because she feared she’d endanger her grandfather.
Nah New vestroia was the last good season of bakugan there wasn’t any saving it after that
@@justsomeguy747 Masquerade got his skills and power from Alice. Alice was always a good Bakugan player, but the reason she struggled was because she lacked confidence. Becoming Masquerade just made her more confident, which is why Masquerade was so strong.
I grew up with Bakugan as a kid and I thought it was strange that half the cast was swapped out after the first season. So this is really a satisfying story. Hope you continue this into the second half of new vestroia and into seasons 3 and 4
I'm working on part 2 as we speak it is a little more difficult cuz Alice already had a story to tell with what little screen time she did have so I'm trying to take everything in perspective instead of just rushing out the next part
Alice was my favorite character in Bakugan. I wish she had appeared in later seasons. For this reason I really appreciate this video
Since Alice Gehabich is my 2nd favorite character from Bakugan, I loved this "What If...?" scenario. Even though I like Ace Grit, this makes me wish that Alice became the Darkus battler of the Bakugan Brawlers' Resistance instead. I really hope you do Part 2 soon.
Thanx a lot for making this video, was much needed. Also, there are signs that Alice was originally planned to have a bigger role in nv.
Spectra originally was planned as more of a masquerade wannabe, a darkus brawler. Helios and hades was forked out from being the same bakugan during the development. It was originally going to be called "viper". So it was spectra who would use the fake hydra and it would be alice who would battle 1v1 with her. Even after the revisions, she was obviously still going to have a bigger role. Like you've mentioned, in s2ep11, she was all confident and ready to teleport vexos back to where they came from like a boss. Then in s2ep32, her character development is reset and she's all scared again. SpinMaster must have ordered more revisions after ep26. I always have felt like sega/japanese writers wanted to have fun and write a good anime, but spinmaster wanted it to be only a toy commercial, hence fewer female characters in later seasons and less relevance of old beloved bakugan.
Oh also there is obviously more to the friendship between hydra and ingram. They must have met between events of s1 and s2, but we don't know what happened as the pilot got revised.
There's also fact that s1 episode "alice gets schooled" was skipped in the original run in japan. It might be because that they might wanted to delete/revise scenes last-minute. Other 5 brawlers were all got their childhoods revealed. Soo I theoritize maybe, just mayybe, Alice would have a traumatic past with her parents dying or smth too, that later got deleted bc too dark.
Alice had so much potential. Unfortunately the og battle brawlers were not all created equally
Really like how in the beggining, you explain that just because you would prefer things to be a certain way, doesn't mean your story is better. It's something very true overall.
I feel the same way about me wanting to keep Mira as the subterra brawler instead of Jake in Gundalia invenders.
I used narrative example cuz it's a conversation I have quite often with friends and colleagues growing up. And I feel like Mira and Jake could have shared the spot seeing that they have double the amount of villains, it be than just having her sit behind a computer doing nothing like the last season
@@mikethewarrior2723 That's true! They could! Thought we can argue that bringing someone that just started to play bakugan into a war wasn't the brightest idea...
Mira would had an interesting relashioship with Fabia. Esp considering that the data phantom, aka the thing that cause her father to die, comes from Neathia. (Seriously, WHY does the data phantom coming from Neathia, a "peacefull" planet, has plans for a DESTRUCTIVE MACHINE?).
With how Mira was sad about her father's death, I can see Mira going throught the stages of grief during season 3. She would also not trust Fabia. This mistrust could have been the cause of them loosing the interspace. Then, their relashioship would start to improve until they become friends.
You know, I like the idea of it all, I honestly would have like to see it as Alice furthering her journey through her ptsd. Because that’s what she went through, after the events of battle brawlers she was still left with the fact that she sent many bakugan to the doom dimension, even if it was a different persona, it was her in the end. Her journey in new vestroia could have been her further healing from that time, and eventually proving she can be as powerful, or more powerful than masquerade.
Great idea. The series would’ve benefited from this tremendously
Can you do a "what if the original team were the main characters in new vestroia" as in Alice, Runo and Julie
I feel percival makes sense as alice's bakugan, like a valiant knight slightly resembling alpha hydranoid like elfin resembles preyas and ingram resembles skyress
Turn you volume up
I just finished all of bakugan last month and all the og girls got done dirty. I like most of Dan’s rivals though the show but the only thing I could think was that it should be Alice and Hydranoid. Also Shun and Marucho were just there idk why they kept coming back they barely did anything significant after new vestroia.
When they brought back Hydranoid during the mechanical Bakugan arc I really thought they were going to have Alice be the Scientist in New Vestroia with Grandpa being mission control on Earth.
Very excited to see arc 2 and 3 covered with this! Its such a fun take on the original story, and while I am a fan of Ace and enjoy his character, I do still enjoy this a lot. Also I´d definitely love going into detail with the battles. Just fun to imagine it going on in my head as you explain it haha.
Like its been said before though, do lower your background music audio next time. It overtakes your own voice sometimes and makes it hard to hear you. Otherwise, good video!
Thank you for the feedback I'm still writing part 2 as we speak and I am having a bit more fun with it probably because Alice doesn't battle as much so I'm focusing more on story
Thank you so much I feel the exact same way about Ace man I feel like he coulda be done better but this hypothetical is super interesting and I always welcome fellow bakugan enjoyers 🔥
Masquerade is my second favourite character in Bakugan (besides Spectra ofc)
I love Bakugan. I like that people talk about it nowadays. When I was like 8 years old I was super into it.
I used to be such a nerd about it. To the point that I remember much later (When I was 11 or so ) watching the original Japanese version to test a long theory of mine out. On which... I was correct about. About there being more to the show and things being cut out.
I highly recommend (if it's even possible nowadays) to watch the Japanese original version because the version that we got over here has a lot of censorship and things being cut out (similar deal like 4kids and Yu-Gi-Oh!) and a lot of details in regards to ability cards and how the game worked as well as the darker story aspects, all of that that were left out, which was and still is a shame.
I used to be very interested in Masquerade and Alice... for some reason. I could relate to her innocence and insightful view of the game. However, when the big reveal happened, I loved the character so much more. Because in a weird way I could still relate to her. Due to my mixed boyish and girlish elements as a person XD
I remember being so upset when Masquerade lost to Dan. All due to the fact that I was super into the details of the show, so when "Final Destruction" didn't negate gate cards anymore, I was super annoyed and confused and angry (Because my prediction was on Masquerade being the winner after seeing both his and Dan's respective ability cards). The reason for me being so angry though was that (heck I remember it even now) Destruction Buster and Destruction Impact, both fusion ability cards had the same effect. So why in the heck did the last evolution of Hydranoid not have the same effect and why did it only give 100g and that being it?
Like I remember being 8-9 years old (watching ever so intently on every single thing) and I made so many predictions about battles that turned out to be correct and I had my eyes on Alice being linked with Masquerade but damn...
Oh and about Masquerade, I could relate to his skilled and creative strategies and his overall mindset. Basically the "boyish" side of me XD
You aren't wrong about stuffing censored and taken out. Some ability cards worst straight removed from the show due to censorship for some reason.
I heard Ace and Portgas/Gol D. Ace came up to my mind
Alice is my favorite character!!!😊🔥🔥
thanks for the video. not a lot of long form content about bakugan anime is made these days. but could you tune down a music a little bit in your next videos? it's hard to hear you sometimes.
Will do
2 words, Alpha Hydranoid 😢
we're fixing what they did to my boy
Amazing job
Thank you!
@@mikethewarrior2723 no problem
I can barely hear your voice because of the music. I was wondering if you could upload it against but turn the volume of the music down?
I would have maybe done it a bit differently I feel like Alice could have taken the role of Shun and made maybe Ace play with wind. But Alice is truly under used character that would have deserved a spot of a main character in new vestroia
Not to even mention how it would have been infinatly cooler if Dan saw climpse of the mask of masqurade at the first match against Spectra and Gus
This guy gets it
You should make one about Julie being the main subterra in Gundalian invaders and runo and Julie in Mecthanium surge
That's actually makes sense
Plus she would have more development and it would have put more drama like With marucho and preyas or shun and skyrus😊
8:00 or more, perhaps?
Someone said the original design was hydranoid was evolved to hades but later on change to helios
Could you do what ifs on Runo and Julie going to New Vestroia?
Can you do a part 2? Because I really want to see how this plays out. besides unlike in canon, I really want to see if Alice could play a part in ensuring Lync survives.
Great video
Just need to tone the music just a bit
It kinda overlaps with ya voice
But more or less great overall
edit: i wonder what Alice's attire would be like?
2:34 part 2 S02 100% Alice join the team
Only partway through, so forgive me if you had the same idea: there could be a point where Alice takes a sort of faustian bargain with the vexos to get Masquerade's influence out of her mind, resulting in them cloning her and equipping him with Hades
What's the music in the background
The way i imagined it is Alice replaces Marucho (i hope that i spelled that right) and Ace is the aquas user instead.
Why not make fanfic? It would be fun to see some “what if” video of something that isn’t a super popular ip. Also the music is very loud… can barely hear your voice lmao
Great job but can you lower the music in future vidoes
Got it
Moar! Moaaar!!!!
I like it so keep doing it please I like to keep doing it and I want to see the original bag you got Powerball please you can be the first bank you got what if channel the original what if thank God Sarah because no one has done what if our bad you guys yet so why not
Good job but you could work on line delivery and I want masquerade vs spectra
I definitely will
I liked the video but I physically could not hear you at some parts because the music was so loud please tune down the music
Voice volume too low, song volume too high. Great video btw.
Ok so big thing about the video, please increase your volume and lower the music because its a little hard to hear you.
There's a updated version of the video that's the full thing lower the volume issue has been has been resolved. I might delete this version but I haven't decided yet
@@mikethewarrior2723 Oh alright cool thanks for telling me.
bruh... i live in a dorm i have to blast up your mic's voice to 80 out of 100 then your intro music blasted louder than cs go intro music
If alice got more in touch with masquerade and was able to comfortably use the mask man the show would be so much more hype. Imagine spectra/masq interactions and more importantly HYDRANOID SCREENTIME
The problem is that there shouldn't be any Masquerade influence after the end of season one, just like Masquerade said he IS Alice, and she can do anything he could, he isn't a separate personality of hers anymore he went back into being a part of her that's what the Mask breaking meant Alice no longer needs him and she has to accept him as part of her and use the best from both of them.