|•Eli Prince•|

Rinsagi - risk

Kaisagi - uno

NagiReo - 5 dimensional chess with time travel

RyuSae - strip poker

Tabiori - connect four

EgoNoa - battleship

Kunigiri - Candy Land

Edmond's father being a major motivator for his revenge. Films, for brevity, mainly seem to focus on Mercedes and his ruined marriage. Thanks Hollywood.

Villefort having no connection to the other people who betrayed Edmond. One of the most tragic elements is that Villefort is actually about to save Dantes, right before he sacrifices him to save himself. I'm aware of at least one musical that has Villefort conspire together with Danglars and Fernand. I love the songs but that bothers me.

Caderousse. I can imagine some versions cut him out as superfluous. The musical seems to replace him with Villefort. But he's the fourth conspirator! And the first to fall.

A whole bunch of the subplots. Do the films need all the stuff with Monsieur Noirtier? Maybe not. Is Monsieur Noirtier the best character in the book? I think so. He's the most magnificent bastard in the plot.

The Morrels. Again, is it strictly necessary? I don't know. But, again, is there the scene where they reveal Monsieur Morrel's last words were to remember Edmond Dantes, making it my favourite scene in the book? You bet your ass!

Seriously, so many subplots I can see them cutting, but each one pays off in some way. Vampa, Franz, Eugenie Danglars, the Abbey Fariah's book

That scene at the end where The Count goes back to the Château d'If is beautiful

Adaptations will try to give it a happy ending, getting him back with Mercedes or something. But that isn't the point of the book.

Only a handful of characters get out of the book happy. And most of them have gone through hell first.

Also, The Count never actually fights anyone with a sword. He could, he's apparently lethal, but he never does. He's about to once, but then Fernand fucking panics when The Count puts on a sailor suit.

He literally leaves the room, gets changed, and then comes back in a sailor's uniform. It's so extra and I love it. And Fernand loses his shit! Understandably.

The whole revenge plan is so extra, so complex, so convoluted, there is no way you could adapt it all into a film.

And all because Edmond knows the Abbey Fariah wouldn't want him just killing them. Because that would be against God.

So instead he unleashes hell on them!

It's classic "No, I didn't kill them. They're just trapped in never ending misery for the rest of their days. So it's fine."

Bleed them dry of money, out them as a criminal, introduce poisons to his wife and introduce his illegitimate bastard to society.

I can see why you could never truly adapt this book.

They interacted only during one arc and

One chose the other SPECIFICALLY out of many others, in the middle of match asked for number and wasn't denied just put under conditions, asked to move in together, innuendos while playing soccer, nicknames (PET NAMES *COUGH COUGH*), Sae's double standard of physical touch between Shidou and the rest of the Team, and the fact that Sae accepted Shidou's weird ass logic of his Hat Trick to give his fucking number-

BachiSagi = Bachira looking fondly at Isagi in that one panel and him saying “I love you/aishiteru” to Isagi in his head

NagiReo = these two have their own shoujo manga

RyuSae = the whole u-20 arc is them flirting with each other

And the latest pair to the list, KaiNess = Ness being the one who did Kaiser’s hair and calling the dye a beautiful blue (similar to how “The moon is beautiful, isn’t it?/Tsuki ga kirei desu ne?” is a poetic way of saying “I love you” in Japanese)

Like yeah, I like seeing stuff with the CoD just doing silly stuff, and I don’t need them to be super dark and serious 100% of the time, but like, of the Cookies of Darkness, the only characters that are consistently treated like an actual threat are Dark Enchantress Cookie and Pomegranate Cookie, though even then sometimes she’s part of the gag. And sure, some of the characters in the main story may be treated like a threat, like Red Velvet (despite his one appearance) and Affogato, but then also you’ll have them in a boy band or chilling at the rock festival, totally incognito

And again, it’s not that I don’t enjoy this stuff, but it’s just, how am I supposed to take the Cookies of Darkness as a serious threat when you’re putting them in boy bands and school AUs? Especially when more often than not, it’s the jokey route they use with them?

It’s part of the reason I don’t really see why we need all these Legendaries and Dragons and armies to fight Dark Enchantress, because 80% of the CoD are a bunch of silly little guys. I know realistically DE is powerful and has her Cake Army, hence why they need all that power, but that impression that they’re actually a threat doesn’t typically come to mind for me. But maybe that’s a me thing

And like, honestly I’d say Ovenbreak does it better when it comes to having the CoD seem like a threat. Sure I haven’t seen every event with them involved and I know they only show up like, once in a blue moon, but they usually cause actual problems, and if anything the fact that we see them so little makes them feel more significant, and like Dark Enchantress is more of a looming threat

A hand instantly goes to cup Bachira's cheek and he apologizes, assuring him he doesn't have to answer if it brings back bad memories. When he doesn't say anything, staring into the other's gentle blue eyes, Isagi begins planting soft kisses all over his face.

Like why does this grown ass man who is already world famous have a grudge on a up and coming superstar who's a minor... Like sir, he's just a kid... Leave him be...

And Noel noa isn't any better... Like isagi says that he wants to destroy Micheal... Someone that noa knew much longer than isagi and he's just like okay... That's your answer... Like sir... He's your student... Both of them are... And like...

Noel: Yeah we were in the same team a decade ago and we use to be rivals

it's been 84 years i feel like im the only loser who still remembers this game in this harry potter related mobile game fandom

keep in mind there are SO MANY but these came to mind first. feel free to reply with your other favorites:

the protagonist has caused not one but TWO breakups

character a calls character b “his treasure” repeatedly

authors have a running gag that character a is like a housewife for character b

someone gets referred to as “princess” almost as frequently as his name

someone basically murdered an unknown amount of people in soccer but like it’s basically murder he like comes out of it extremely traumatized

someone draws parallels to pregnancy and soccer

same someone begs his enemy’s brother for his number

same someone gets his enemy’s brother’s number

enemy’s brother calls same someone “horny demon” “my little demon” and other variants

same someone is at one point put in a STRAITJACKET for ATTACKING OTHERS UNPROVOKED

protagonist makes someone cry and thinks to himself “holy shit this feels good”

someone thinks to himself “i love you, partner” in regards to the protagonist

protagonist, person a, and person b re-enact a romance drama wherein protagonist says “person a, i’m here to steal you back from person b”. authors confirmed this was supposed to feel like a romance drama moment