>>36335727>Moving the goalpostIt's not goalpost moving you evolutionary cul-de-sac. It's fucking nothing because it doesn't advance or do anything besides show "how cool" he is. If you thought I meant the literal definition of nothing you have the reading comprehension of a 5th grade special ed student.
>It tells the audience that he's working his ass off to fulfill his stated mission of protecting his loved ones. Telling them that he's really fucking strong is character buildingYou just confirmed what I was saying of that it's to show off the directors oc, accept you said it in a faggy way. Just because a character "does" something doesn't mean it is actually something. If that's the case that SM pancake race really showed off how the party is growing in moving fucking pancakes from one place to the next.
>Yet still has more substance than Ash's motivation, which is "I want to win." Ash doesn't grow as a character in the slightest. He gets a bit uppity for five minutes of one episode then goes right back to being the same bland Gary Stu he was from start to finish of XY.Ashe's interactions with his friends, especially the one with him stuck in the cave during the blizzard had more character and growth than all of Alain's screen time combined. Also just in case you aren't following, he only lost and reset again because the director wanted his oc to win so he could stop feeling like a cuck for two seconds.
>hurr durr>if I copy him it will look like I actually have an argument>oh wait it just shows that even when I try and make Ash look bad Alain still sounds 10 times edgier than Ash>Better smash my face on the keyboard that will show him. 