I don't know; I think we could do with MORE butterfly dragons. And maybe centaurs that are actually half BULL, instead of half horse.
But what springs to mind for me is more vampiric diversity. The vampire as Hollywood knows it today is the product of four books that spanned the nineteenth century: Pollodori's "Vampyre", Varney the Vampire, Carmilla, and Dracula. Dracula was the last and best-known (and, frankly, best; it was a VERY good book), but most of the common elements are in all four, and not only do they work from the same attributes-and-mechanics angle, they're pretty much all the same "foreign noble" cliche, too; it almost reads like something ripped straight from the fears of a stereotypical 1950's Conservative.
Abhartach would've torn all four of them apart.
Frankly, I'd like to see less of Tolkien's influence in the usual crowd of fantasy creatures. You don't even have to make a huge jump; Wagner's dwarves against his would be WAY more interesting. Or Loge vs Sauron, or even Gandalf V. Gandalf, if you go a little further afield.
Totally understand that. No one is that interesting when they are too powerful to really have threats.
Why invisible people though? Just because no one ever uses them very well?
As for time travel, I assume you mean the logical problems with time travel, right? And the fact that it probably is entirely impossible and therefore cannot make sense no matter how hard we try to make it make sense?
1. The physics of invisible characters is horseshit which is why I don't like them. For instance, to be able to see, light has to impinge on the retina... the light has to stop! But, if the character is invisible, then the light bypasses the retina and the invisible person is blind and freaking out.
2. There are no logical problems with time travel that sci-fi wants us all to believe. For instance, suppose I am on Earth. Then, I instantly transport to Mars. At minimum, light takes over 4 minutes to travel from Earth to Mars. On Mars, I look through a telescope aimed at where I just was on Earth. 4 minutes later, I see myself in the scope. Did the universe explode? No. All I did was see the image of me on Earth as I was 4 minutes ago. In other words, in these time travel stories, you never actually interact with beings from the past or future. Also, time travel is really problematic because even if I just travel back in time ten minutes, I am dead. Why? Because the Earth hasn't yet moved 18000 km to where I was and isn't there! So, I float in space and die. But, more than all of that, it is just pure bullshit that violates the basic principles of all physics.
Exactly. Sp for invisibility, it'd have to be close to our real scienxe since we have invisibility cloaks. And then they would have to sense with sound or heat or something since we regular sight isn't an option.
And time travel is a mess, agreed. Teleportation is tied in with the problems you mentioned. Unless someone can get arpund the issues you mentioned, I agree.
I love seeing dragons, phoenix, Pegasus, werewolves, vampires and mermaids. But i could totally do without sirens, centaurs, banshees, chimeras, hydra, goblins, leprachauns, giants, cerbarus, ogre, yeti, and dwarfs
Shapeshifters piss me off because they can do almost anything. I dont like being easily tricked. Banshees annoy me with the screaming. Sirens are just evil. The chimera thing from teen wolf still makes no sense. He looked like the lizard on amazing spiderman lmao. Hydra annoys me growing back the heads. Im afraid of dogs so cerbarus was outta luck. Goblins and leprachahns scare me period! Warlocks too unless theyre hot like the ones on The Covenant. Giants are too tall. Dwarfs are too short and neither really belong in films. Yeti and Ogre is just a dumb thing tbh. Centaurs creep tf out. Yes no coming back from those 😂
Lol I don't exactly disagree with you, but why does it sound like you only dislike these creatures because you can't imagone dating/ducking them? Are you okay? haha
Creatures can be scary or gross or whatever and still be good characters haha
It has nothing to do with dating them tf. Why would i want to date a pegasus, werewolf, Phoenix, dragon or mermaid? Vampire was the only dateable one i listed anyways. I just see nothing cool or likeable about the ones i dislike
Tail? Interesting. Never really seen trolls except in LotR, so I'll take your word for it. I do wish more accurate trolls wrre used though, so I get it!
Zombies. So many violent video games are being made with all the enemies as zombies for the nonsense excuse of “they’re already dead”. I want more creativity in video games, not more graphic mindless violence.
Still, even mindless violence can be great if executed well. You are correct that not a lot of innovation has happened lately. Hell, even Fortnite has done better at innovating than most other games! And the violence in Fortnite is really fine. Yes, Nintendo does pretty well. Most of the MarioKart and other games are pretty good.
Well, they're definitely over done to a point where none of the new iterations are unique--just ripoffs or amalgamations of past iterations. Staying true to the Norse myths might fix your complaint.
Aw yeah most definitely.. Really I'm not much into the European myth type of fantasy.. It always seemed kinda "meh" to me, but maybe it was just the way it was presented, cause I think God of War handles it pretty well..
I like the more crazy myths like the Pantheons and the lore behind all that.. But the Middle Aged stuff with Knights, Orcs, Dwarfs, Goblins, and the like.. It's usually hit or miss.. One of my favorite myths is Journey to the West..
Yes sir, it started off as a parody of it, and became it's own thing from there.. Which lead to the Shonen main character trope of the lovable, and physically talented idiot.. LOL..
Agreed! Is it because of how they don't make sense or how clichè they are or both?
Cuz I know zombies would realiistically rot and be unable to move in a couple weeks or less. And Bigfoot would have been caught by now unless it were a hyper-intelligent being with cloaking technology lmao
Pretty much. Hollywood zombies and big foot come across as a reach.
Mind you New Orleans zombies through voodoo are a different beast. They have a stronger place in reality. As even if they are based off belief one has been marked with magic it has more bit than a stumbling, rotten, often brain-eating, being.
Sadly, I don't think writing more of those in my fiction will make my novels more popular or change anything about the world lol I suppose it wouldn't hurt to try, however
Even though there are so many poorly done version of zombies, vampires, werewolves, etc. out there? Do you just like them period, or do you want more as long as they are well-executed?
More is only good if well executed. Some creatures need a LOT more than others, and common ones need more versions that aren't crap. Zombies are the worst executed mythology creature in my opinion, almost no one does them in a way thats not boring or stupid. By that logic there is a deficit even in the most commonly seen creatures.
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