ITT: Characters who are the Lightnings of their franchise

ITT: Characters who are the Lightnings of their franchise

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>the Lightnings
Explain

Female characters I do not like.

Someone that no one likes but is in every thing?

Yumi.

Still hot tho

There are two factors to a Lightning:
1) Is universally disliked by the fanbase, or is only liked by autists
2) The developer(s) are either oblivious to the hate and genuinely think people like them, or is aware of the hate but likes the character so much that they continue pushing them out of denial

>there are people who unironically like Liara

To be a Lightning is to be a character that nobody likes but for some reason is shoehorned into anything and everything


Some of the characters in the OP are not Lightnings.

Elizabeth is only in one game
Liara is liked by many people

I liked her in ME1, but dropped her for Miranda

Literally. Perfect.

I was just trying to understand op autism... i liked leliana in origins and liara and elizabeth and rosalina and kynsie and lucina....

People like Liara, but Bioware went and gave her a super prominent role in ME3 as well as plot armor to being killed, the Shadow Broker DLC in 2, a comic, etc.

She was just another squad member in ME1.

well.. she was the only one that was fuckable in the first one from your squad... i mean... no one wants to bang ashley, not even in 3 with those implants and shit

Me

Tali is fuckable

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Being a "Lightning" doesn't necessarily mean negative reputation only.
It just means a character that a developer likely has a personal attachment to, thus are put in more media than is deserved, and play a larger, more important role than necessary.
Like for example, Atlus has a BAD habit of putting a character like that in every remake they have. Like Aigis/Metis for P3, and Marie for Persona 4, she even got put into P4AU for some reason. And apprently there's gonna be one in the SMT Strange Journey remake too.

>Miranda

in the first one? really? HOW I HAVE PLAYED THE GAME 8 TIMES AND I BANGED JUST LIARA AND ASHLEY TO GET THE ACHIEVEMENT... is she fuckable or just a romance option?

Whoops, I meant fuckable as a character, not in-game

>Not tali

Another issue is that, while Liara did get character development, it happened off-screen if you didn't buy the DLC and she then refuses to talk about it, which does come off as a middle finger to the player. I like the idea of a more hard Liara. I do not like the idea of the naive scientist becoming a super powerful information broker.

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>Not giving her to your bro, Garrus

>Rosalina is a Lightning
>Only appeared in 2 mainline games and is now being reduced to spinoff hell
>Fanbase consists of mostly waifufags & most (normal) people thinks she's just "cool"
>Popularity has been dwindling down since Sm4sh and was never extremely popular before that

Yeah okay

Don't talk shit about my wife cunt

As an Australian I don't find her attractive at all

You forgot super mario 3d world.


IT WAS DAISY'S TURN

Technically Galaxy 2 wasn't really her so whatever

>Leliana

Name one person that hates Leliana besides contrarian /dag/ posters or obsessive Morrigan fags jealous of the competition

Rosalina, Elizabeth, Lucina and Liara I know don't count, since they are all actually popular for better or worse. Rosalina in-particular only got labeled a 'Lighting' by Daisyfags who were mad that she got more preferential treatment than Daisy. You can tell by how Rosalina hasn't gotten half of the preferential treatment than Yoshi and Wario got back in the day.

>No one wants to bang ashley

Having an actual personality that isn't an exposition dispenser or the embodiment of a TV Tropes page gets you far.

Me

I'd say Liara counts. Being a Lightning can be hard define, but I think the major thing is the devs pushing her really hard and no character has been pushed harder than Liara for a love interest.

If you go strictly by a character being pushed incredibly hard then sure, and so would Lucina. But if it's a character that has middling at best popularity then I dunno, since Liara is fairly popular.

Of course, the term doesn't work that way anyway since Lightning at least used to be popular in Japan.

That is true, and I have still seen Lightningfags. I think Liara is one of the times that pushing her really worked because Samara isn't a viable alternative to the blue babe you can bang. Plus she gets the most content.

Rosalina's extremely popular and only appears in big party spinoffs

In the same way Petey Piranha, Wario, Daisy, ect was when they first appeared. Mario fans are more about gameplay not characters

Actually I take that back Wario was so popular he spawned a new game series. Same with Yoshi. The rest just has overstated popularity though

Really, Yoshi is the Lightning of the Mario Universe.

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>Rosalina
>Lightning
t. salty Daisy-fag

>Not being your bro's waifu
It's like you aren't even his bro

I do.
>Carefree stupid cunt in Origins
>Super edgy spy with ravens in Cisquisition

>Leliana
I agree, can't stand her in inquisition.

>Being a cuck

>thinking everyone who says this is a daisyfag
>trying to start up autistic mario waifufag wars

Seriously though, if you unironically waifu a Mario girl you should neck yourself

I don't. It's just constant incessant whining about Rosalina coming from the Daisy-fag camp

A Mary Sue

>Not taking Garrus to myself

Turned an entire generation of kids into autistic furries. Poor souls never stood a chance.

The problem with Miranda is that she's basically your fucking mom.
>Brought you into the world
>Knows all your medical info like blood type and allergies
>Nags you constantly
>Disapproves when you start hanging out with a promiscuous tattoo'd chick
>She starts off being very controlling, but then slowly realizes she needs to let you be yourself

Best girl is Jack. My-faire-Lady'ing is literally a patrician fetish by definition. 10/10 face aesthetic, will probably get some tattoo removal once she starts hitting 40 and realizes that punk bitch stops working when you're twice the age of the average rebellious kid.

To be fair, girlfriends are just Moms you can fuck

Replaying ME has made me realize what a gay little twat I once was.
>used to pretty much agree with Paragon Shep
>tells Garrus that he was a little harsh with Harkin
>Harkin, who just tried to murder us with a small army of mercs and mechs
>Harkin, who made a career out of helping serial killers and other scum escape justice with intel gained from being a corrupt cop
>shooting this guy in the leg so he MIGHT not be able to escape the law is too harsh

forgot marie and yumi in your bait

Zero is actually pretty cool but there's no denying it.

That's what separates the criminals from the cops, bud.

Letting him escape would literally be aiding and abetting.
Shooting him was inappropriate, but it's hard to believe they had no means of binding him for C-Sec.

Shit's called a fucking omnitool but can't figure out rope?

I think the last straw was Smash bros honestly coupled by the fact that she has a cancerous playstyle to boot and a ton of waifufags white knighting a fictional character coupled with their weak justifications of her inclusion. Some poor autist got so mad he bought a ton of Rosalina Amiibos they the waifu fags couldn't

metro.co.uk/2015/01/12/man-buys-hundreds-of-rosalina-amiibos-so-you-cant-5018787/

It also turned an entire generation of kids off of pokemon for good. Gen 4 and Gen 6 have the worst designs.

I feel the same.
But I like Fang. She doesn't even have to be one of my waifus.

You can't really complain about her 'cancerous playstyle' being part of the problem when people were already hating on her before the game even came out.

As for the 'weak' justification, the only justification needed was that Nintendo wanted another female from Mario. That's it.

>Lucina is a lightning
Kill yourself

Lucina was part of the big popularity poll for Fire Emblem protags in which the winner would get a special variant in Fire Emblem Heroes. She didn't win (lost out to Lyn, who doesn't even have Smash cred to back her up), but got the variant anyway. That's pretty Lightningy.

I was waiting at a bus stop in Kyoto and what do I see in a storefront across the street? A window-filling ad for this ludicrous shit. I mean, it's kind of neat that the nips are willing to do this sort of thing, but why Lightning, of all fucking characters?

woah hold up, mckinsey is my waifu

>a ton of waifufags white knighting a fictional character coupled with their weak justifications of her inclusion

But I had her on my predicted roster from day one.

And everything in Smash 4 is cancerous. It's a bad game

>le Rosalina is Lightning meme is back

Butthurt Daisyfags never change.

>There are people in this thread who unironically dislikes Liara.

How is that fucking possible? I don't think I've encountered ANY other vidya waifu more wife potential/material than Liara.

>Liara
>Not waifu material
>The chick who didn't move-on with her life like everyone else did when you disappeared and died in ME2.
>The chick who deliberately went searching for your body and tipped Cerberus the location of your corpse because she knew they could bring you back.
>Specifically became the Shadow Broker because she thought it would help you.
>Made it her purpose in ME3 to help humanity for your sake.
>Makes a time capsule about you to imprint your legacy forever in time.
>Was a shy and timid girl in ME1 with social awkwardness, but because she was so enamored by you she went to lengths to compete, even against Ashley.

wew lad, find better taste in women or else you're going to be a cuck for life fag. Nobody in the series can compare to the shit she's done for Shepard, not even Tali. All she is, is a fucking damsel in distress who constantly needs Shepard to save the day. Save my planet! Please help me get the flotilla councilor's approval! Help daddy! You always come to the rescue Shepard-boo! Liara was all give.

When you say she didn't win but got it anyway, are you saying she stole the variant from Lyn or that she got one of her own alongside Lyn?

Either way it negates the whole point of a contest.

>pick a popular girl from a Vidya
>say it's a lightning
>a shitty forced meme nobody even knows the name of
>instant reply

Marie
>can literally ignore her and play P4G like P4
>Is DLC for Arena Ultimax and Dancing
>Is barely in Q

Saying everyone is a Daisyfag if they're responsible for a "Rosalina is Lightning" post is false signaling. All it does it feeds onto the waifufag wars that was started by Rosalina's inclusion in Sm4sh.


Exhibit A:

Rosalina boys keep saying it's "Daisyfags" that detested her inclusion in Sm4sh, but many of those "Daisyfags" was just memoryman and that one guy shitposting on Gamefaqs and the Sm4sh fandom like the cancerous children they are blew it out of proportion.

It's just unfunny and adds an autistic dimension to the Mario fandom that it doesn't deserve. "Best girl" and all those weeb memes don't belong in the series.

Besides your brain must be on the lowest functioning level if you're going to waifu ANY of the mario girls with their bland and elementary designs

>innocent scientist in ME1, specifically states that she dislikes Noveria because of all the dark secrets
>turns into the largest information broker in the galaxy, becomes violent and emotionally jaded
>bitches about the Alliance not helping Thessia when the Asari refused to help Earth
>Javick takes a fat shit in her mouth and abysmal failure as a species and she actually tries to argue with him
>implying Liarafags aren't all cucks when she spies on them 24/7, goes through all correspondence, and watches political blackmail porn vids with her drell "friend" and sole companion on that ship

If you romance Liara past ME1 I'm sorry for you man.
It's fucking tragic that she acts like her arrogant mom and not like her cool dad.

How can this bitch be so fucking twiggy and still have a frontbutt

Then find me another seven-foot-tall space Amazon I can waifu

Ashley

>Liberty Prime
>Not Dogmeat

>All these people saying Lighting is universally disliked
I dislike Lightning but Sup Forums has gone contrarian in on itself again. Lightning is insanely popular despite meme opinions that will tell you otherwise.

The only valid criteria is to be unnecessarily shoehorned into everything.

Johnny Gat is the Lightning of Saints Row....

Pokemons Lightning.

delet this

Lucario was already posted twice. Cynthia isn't really disliked.

She is very pretty

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Cynthia needs a major role in every mainline Pokemon game.

The latter, initially only the most voted male and female character would get an exclusive variant, but when they tallied the results and announced the winners (Ike and Lyn) they also happened to announce that the second place units (Roy and Lucina) would also get variant costumes for some reason.

Anybody who says Rosalina is lightning needs to be beheaded

Every major Mario character joins a spin off

Lightning is perfect.
None of you have any taste.

>no one
Now you're just being retarded, user.

Aloy, but in terms of waifu faggotry. It might just be anons false flagging the obsession with her to trigger Sup Forums.

You forgot Ruby Rose or whatever her name is.

That's like real poetry.
The saga started wither hijacking a train, and the ending has her stepping out of a train peacefully.

She also changes a lot throughout the game. Starts out as a headstrong "Don't get in my way!" type, but gradually grows into a "I love my friends and family" type.

>weak justifications of her inclusion
It's not really that hard.
>fuck we need another mario character so our flagship series doesn't get outshined by fire emblem
But Mario doesn't actually have that many characters, so everyone worth mentioning is already in the game. Rosalina and Bowser Jr. are genuinely the best options; besides them and Captain Toad, what else even is there? Toadette? Birdo? Pauline? Daisy is barely even canon, and Waluigi practically isn't.
It's not like you were ever getting side-franchise characters like Fawful or Geno, you know.