Kid Icarus: Uprising/Headscratchers


 * Could someone tell me how  gets a Karma Houdini at the end? She didn't get away with any evil schemes, and she did say she would let Pit and Palutena have their happy ending.
 * got away with killing millions of humans with the Reset Bomb upon introduction. Even if Pit destroyed her factories and defeated/killed her followers, Pit never got to face her in battle and get her to stop hating/killing the human race. Even if she helped Pit, Pittoo and Palutena out to defeat, that doesn't stop her from the crime of killing millions of humans. The ending implies that after the "happy ending" she and Palutena would be enemies again because   never changed her views on humans and still consider them evil for destroying nature.
 * Millions? Looked more like thousands.
 * Regardless of the number, she killed a lot of people and didn't repent for it.
 * Maybe Palutena put them in the Rewind Spring.
 * probably already got to them given the time frame of the attack.
 * Eh, she'll stop attacking them anyway. Like Palutena said, gods shouldn't interfere with humans, the worst she'll do is just hold a neverending grudge, but she won't do anything about it.
 * Poseidon got away with sinking an entire kingdom in the backstory without being punished, or even reprimanded by Palutena. Apparently, Gods are allowed to kill humans when they feel the situation calls for it (which they probably think of as a slap on the wrist), but aren't allowed to pull extinction-level events like planned, or mess up the natural order like  was doing. As long as they eventually stop, that's enough for Palutena to forgive them.
 * Nowhere in real-world legends did it say that a giant nature bomb hit us. Since Atlantis was known for having been sunk...well...
 * Did Pyrrhon really  This troper has a hard time believing that he was   given his personality and the need to sprout justice. I mean, his idol only mentions that he's smarter despite his appearance but other than that, there are no indications that he really   Also,
 * Maybe he retreated back to the heart of the sun and hibernated.
 * His  idol states that he wanted to   As for whether he
 * Given Palutena's obsession with the natural order, what happens after the ruler of the Underworld is defeated, leaving a gaping power vacuum? There doesn't seem to be much balance there.
 * Chances are that there will be no more attacks on the humans unless  continues to attack them leaving a peaceful era...but the problem is that dead souls won't be guided with no one in charge of the underworld at the moment...meaning that Palutena might have made things worse until
 * Didn't Palutena say that
 * Was Dark Pit only  for his his own   or did he have a  He is shown to have a conscience at times, but it can be a little vague whether he is genuinely   or not. This troper personally thinks the latter, but isn't completely certain.
 * This troper is certain that he did  because before chapter 21 like in chapter 9, he helps Pit despite of the fact there is no need for him to help him at this point of the game, and this is before   So this troper is certain of the latter than the former. Besides, outside of story mode like Light vs. Dark, the game implies that the two train together, so this troper is certain that he has grown attached to Pit if only a little.
 * This troper thinks  What this troper does know is that
 * Or it could be that the "wish seed" at the Phoenix's nesting place was really the Phoenix's egg, which just happened to look like a seed.
 * You can destroy it, and if you do, Hades will complain that you "broke his toy", and Palutena will say that it was only a bomb.
 * So what was the deal with ? Even if it was destroyed,   still lives, so what was the point of having one in the first place?
 * This troper personally thought that  Check the WMG section on what this troper thought about the   and it being out of place.
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 * At the beginning of the Dual Boss fight in the lategame, Pit starts asking, only to be rebuffed. Even if he's awesome, shouldn't Pit have a more relevant target? Wouldn't that be the more worthwhile story to hear?
 * That would have turned the game into a major Kudzu Plot then.
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 * This is actually referenced in chapter 19.
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