Goddammit I should have known those, I'm a massive fan of all three!bartholen said:The ones left out were in order:Trivun said:Soooo... what are those from then? I can guess some (in bold above) but I'm stumped on the others...bartholen said:The sun's radiation causing the Earth's core to collapse or some shit. 2012? The Core?
A man who's had his heart removed has to constantly electrocute himself to stay alive. Crank, which was awesome...
When giant monsters attack we spend untold trillions of dollars to create gigantic robots to fight them in hand-to-hand combat (and get angst-ridden borderline psychotic teenagers to pilot them). First thought was Pacific Rim until I read 'teenagers'. Neon Genesis Evangelion.
A group of survivors get stranded on an island and after 6 seasons it turns out they were called there to stop Satan. Lost, which again was awesome...
The entire galaxy's greatest protector of peace is an ancient order of warrior monks who abduct children to their services at a very young age to forever live a life of unquestioning servitude, devoid of free will, emotion or sex. If you do any of those things, you get labeled as a heretic and a traitor.
Aliens whose only weakness is water attacking a planet that is 70% water inhabited by creatures whose bodies are 65-something % water. Signs.
When a ghost civilization has grown tired of existing only as a memory they bring a sports celebrity alive from themselves to kill the planet-terrorizing ancient monster that's serving as their life support.
A time traveler fights every monster you dreamed up when you were 10 years old, including ghosts that are actually aliens who create zombies to make their civilization survive.
As for me, anything where the characters break the laws established within the franchise itself in order to do something. I'm fine with crazy shit happening if the universe allows it, but as soon as those established laws are broken within the plot and no valid explanation (even just a one-liner) is given then everything goes flying out of the window as far as I'm concerned.
1. The Jedi order in the Star Wars prequels
2. Final Fantasy X
3. Doctor Who
I put the mention of teenagers in brackets because it was supposed to refer to giant mecha stories in general, with Evangelion being a special case. And I like most of the things I mentioned, it's just that most of the stories in entertainment in general are pretty stupid if you really think about them.