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Originally Posted by kyp275
Meh, ghost Kayaba showing up at the end was enough of a DEM already, having him free Asuna out of nowhere would not only be a even worse DEM, it would also instantly invalidate the entire ALO arc, as he might as well have just done it from the beginning and saved everyone the trouble.
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If you're going to say that, he clearly already had the power to stop Sugou anyway, so why didn't he in the first place? Freeing Asuna wouldn't have been any more hax than him completely overriding all of Sugou's commands.
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IMO, Asuna's character was not diminished one bit by her imprisonment, if anything else, it enhanced it.
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How so?
And if anything was enhanced as you say, where did her awesome rapier skills go?
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How else was Kirito supposed to get his RESOLVE POWER to summon ghost Kayaba? :P
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There a number of other ways the author could have pulled his "RESOLVE POWER" without that.
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It's one thing to be a strong character, it's another to be the proverbial badass all the time, and if you have too many of those running around, it would just make the story seem trite. And in the end, the only thing that really matters is how well is the story put together and its level of execution, as all stories ultimately falls under one trope or another.
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"Too many"? We only had Kirito since Asuna got the shaft.
There's a problem when a trope you pick undermines one of the positive factors of a character in order to pull itself off. Like I said, it would have been one thing if Asuna had just been that type of character from the beginning (I still wouldn't have liked it, but at least it would have been consistent), but even the SAO side stories depict her to be an awesome fighter, and then she's suddenly locked in a cage to essentially do nothing in ALO.