Weird plot armor isekai protags have

Agentt

Thighs
Joined
Oct 8, 2020
Messages
3,533
Points
183
Isekai protags can:
Kiss anyone. Even if they kiss a man it is later revealed it was a cosplaying woman.
Kill anyone. Literally anyone. It is later revealed that the person they killed was a criminal anyways so it doesn't matter.
 

Tempokai

The Overworked One
Joined
Nov 16, 2021
Messages
1,396
Points
153
Protagonist goes to take a wrong turn in a place they don't know anything about and this somehow leads to fortitude encounter with a thing that makes protag strong long run
 

Mystic_Grasshopper

Well-known member
Joined
May 19, 2021
Messages
78
Points
73
Isekai either exists as a wish fulfillment gary stu story, or a grimdark torture porn series. There are very few stories that go in between those extremes. And even then there might be something else in them that ends up being off putting or not as favorable to a wider audience. Such is life.
 

Daitengu

Well-known member
Joined
Mar 11, 2019
Messages
917
Points
133
There's always been weird things in isekai that is some form of plot armor. Here's the main two obvious ones to me.

Magically know the language, and there's a convenient common language shared by all the species the MC is allowed to talk with.

The second is systems always increase the MC's strength instead of representing it.
 

great_sloth

a sloth that wants to be great
Joined
May 28, 2024
Messages
133
Points
78
Ah.

The fucking bullshit.

I have this as my alarm tone before.
Isekai protags can:
Kiss anyone. Even if they kiss a man it is later revealed it was a cosplaying woman.
Kill anyone. Literally anyone. It is later revealed that the person they killed was a criminal anyways so it doesn't matter.
Dies, but not.
 

LillyWhite

Active member
Joined
Mar 13, 2024
Messages
52
Points
33
My isekai protag (who is isekai'd into a torture porn world) says this once: "Even if you kill me, I can't die."

Which is commendable considering this isn't a wish fulfillment isekai at all (it's just a very realistic world). It's just impossible to kill her or anyone she puts a tattoo on because it uses oxygen and hydrogen and very efficient transmutation to heal (it also makes your body adapt to any environment), they could only be killed in the space of void and even then if they land on a planet where there is either oxygen or hydrogen then they would live. If you threw them into the sun they would live in perpetual agony, constantly burning and choking but never able to die.

So I think it is possible to write something in-between wish fulfillment and torture isekai.
 

Representing_Tromba

Sleep deprived mess of an author begging for feedb
Joined
Jan 29, 2020
Messages
5,976
Points
233
Anything and everything can be an overpowered weapon if the MC deems it so. It's stupid.

Going against the norm and pride, literally the two things that would get most people killed in a fight to the death, are what drive most protagonists to win.

Stupid, out of nowhere, macguffins. Usually held by the MC and with no explanation of how they got it or why they haven't used it yet. If there is a reason, it usually doesn't make logical sense to anyone except the characters.

Near omniscient knowledge about situations for no reason.
 

BetterNickPending

Brain loading. Please wait...
Joined
Mar 21, 2024
Messages
185
Points
43
Nothing is actually a threat to isekai MC. Even the strongest god is strong enough to rough the MC but weak enough to be beaten when MC reveals secret ability that was not telegraphed in story in any way.
(and than we see flashback training or something... )

Hey, I happen to like re;zero :mad_s:
is it good? What it is about?
My isekai protag (who is isekai'd into a torture porn world) says this once: "Even if you kill me, I can't die."

Which is commendable considering this isn't a wish fulfillment isekai at all (it's just a very realistic world). It's just impossible to kill her or anyone she puts a tattoo on because it uses oxygen and hydrogen and very efficient transmutation to heal (it also makes your body adapt to any environment), they could only be killed in the space of void and even then if they land on a planet where there is either oxygen or hydrogen then they would live. If you threw them into the sun they would live in perpetual agony, constantly burning and choking but never able to die.

So I think it is possible to write something in-between wish fulfillment and torture isekai.
does it have a title?
asking for a friend ...
 

LillyWhite

Active member
Joined
Mar 13, 2024
Messages
52
Points
33
Nothing is actually a threat to isekai MC. Even the strongest god is strong enough to rough the MC but weak enough to be beaten when MC reveals secret ability that was not telegraphed in story in any way.
(and than we see flashback training or something... )


is it good? What it is about?

does it have a title?
asking for a friend ...

It's called Sunshine and Rainbows, you can find it here: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1055024/sunshine-and-rainbows-stubbing-/.

We didn't get to 'that' part yet, but we will eventually in volume 2.

MC can fly and use psychokinetic hands. Empathy/emotion based power system.
 
Top