Any numerous, dangerous adversary in episodic/ongoing fiction will be remarkably less dangerous at the end of the fictional arc than at the beginning.
By
Eilonwy
on February 15, 2007
I call this the Velociraptor effect (in Lost World, a teenager can fend off a velociraptor with 133+ gymnastics and Jeff Goldblum can outrun one with a twisted ankle. Any bets on those things working on the Jurassic Park 'raptors?)
Of course, some very sharp episodic fiction may manage to escape this. But the claim was wordy enough already ;)
Perhaps the most egregious example ever to leave me cursing was that of the Ubervamp in Buffy Season 7.
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The Borg did get kinda wussy, didn't they.
Yes! A perfect example, sir.
I call this the "Anime Effect".
I call this the "Anime Effect".