Thread:Redfork2000/@comment-30384301-20180707030921/@comment-26888167-20180912034850

1) Now that's a good idea. In fact, the overall idea of this story wasn't bad. It was just not handled in the best way. But don't worry. I've had mishandled stories as well. We all do.

2) Well, actually, it's kind of a mix here. Sure, Re-Peat Boss might be one of the outclassed villains, but to be fair,  few villains aren't outclassed at all. For example, Bright Spark is completely outclassed by Dr. Zack, and even when Dr. Zack is a big threat, he's just a pest when compared to some of the greater scope villains such as Storm Cloud, Discord, Shogo or Captain Dark Shell.

Also, even though it's true that some of my characters are more powerful, the truth is that for the most part, both of us have powerful characters, average characters and weak characters. Actually, in the entire gang, Red Fork is probably the only character that is on a higher power level than most other characters. Captain Red Shell is outclassed by Kyoji according to our list, and let's not mention characters below Captain Red Shell in power level, such as Blast, Blue Ocean, Alice, Lemon Glass or Tommy. Sure, there's also Ace and Dark Shadow, but there's a reason why I never had them join the gang. They're better as outsider characters that pack a punch of their own. It's the same reason why I like to have Team Hybrids be far away. If they had been with the gang all along, they would have easily solved all of the gang's problems throughout the episodes.

You see, there's just something strange about one of the lower level villains suddenly becoming much powerful. What if suddenly, Blade passed from being one of the weakest villains in existence, to being a villain among the levels of Captain Blowhole or Bright Spark? What if Bright Spark went from being an average villain, to being one as powerful and dangerous as Storm Cloud or Shogo?

Now, to be honest, the idea of Re-Peat Boss being one of the weaker villains actually started with your own villains. Seeing how Akasha used to do whatever she wanted with Re-Peat Boss began to lead to the idea that he was less of a threat. This was in The Shadow Foreshadowing. Simply put, when one villain can get away with picking on another villain, that drops the level of threat the latter is decreased. If I had, say, Miss Bloomina constantly picking on and messing around with Bright Spark's plans and stuff, you'd definitely feel like he's much less of a threat, wouldn't you? That's what I think happened to Re-Peat Boss. After being picked on by Akasha, and later by other villains, Re-Peat Boss has gotten the reputation of being a lower threat villain. That's why he doesn't intimidate the gang nearly as much as other villains. The gang has seen other villains mess with Re-Peat Boss several times, and get away with it.
 * Re-Peat Boss: How does it feel for a small villain like me to be mistreated and tortured by the likes of you? Sure, I may be smaller than most villains, but who gave you the right to pick on me? The first time we met, I didn't know of your identity, and you had the nerve to attack me and my base while I was in the middle of my scheme to destroy Green Shadow, only to take over my scheme for your malicious ways! The second time we met, you were in my way despite the fact that we're both on the same side as villains, only for me to find out that you're pretending to work for the gang just to get to your goal of possessing the Amulet of the Dark Seas! Do you really think I could forgive you for everything you did to me?

You might haven't noticed, but most of the times I don't like to use separate villains of mine in the sme story. You haven't seen Bright Spark and Dr. Zack in the same story, you haven't seen Bright Spark and King Squidmir in the same story, you haven't seen Dr. Zack and Discord in the same story. That's planned this way to prevent one villain to outshine the other and make him look like a wimp. Sure, Dr. Zack is a big threat, but what if he was in the same story as Discord? Result: Dr. Zack would be instantly overshadowed by Discord, and thus, would end up being a weak villain that can't be taken seriously. Same story with Bright Spark and Dr. Zack. I don't mind Bright Spark being overshadowed by high scale villains such as Discord in the Battle Tournament, but I don't want him to be kicked around by another scientist, so that's why seeing him against Dr. Zack is out of the question. Now, although there are a few villains of mine that have been seen up against each other, you'll probably realize that it's always a mutual exchange, where sometimes one is the one who wins and sometimes the other. That wasn't the case with Re-Peat Boss and Akasha, unfortunately. Therefore, this made Akasha seem very powerful, and a serious threat, but it also downplayed Re-Peat Boss a lot. Having a villain mess around with another villain will make him look powerful, but will make the other look weak.

You see, whenever a character is defeated by another, that character begins to be perceived as weaker than previously. That's why I haven't let Ace suffer a complete defeat yet. I want to make sure that the day Ace is truely defeated, it will be surprising, it will be unexpected, it will be impactful. If Ace had been completely been defeated when fighting Shogo, I would have lost that effect. Ace would have suddenly seemed much weaker.