User blog comment:GotMilk5101520/Top ten best/favorite fight in the Tartarus Arc/@comment-1776824-20150103075220

Well, see, I disagree with a lot of fights on this list, and to make my list even more interesting, I'm going to pick which fights I also found the most annoying, hated, etc. and give reasons as to why. *gets out handy-dandy list* Let's go~! \( ^_^)/


 * Favorite/Liked/Tolerated
 * 5: Sting & Rogue vs. Jiemma (Liked)
 * Reason : This was not a case of nakama power, and I'm not just saying this cuz I'm a Rogue fanboy. I openly admit that the character has flaws and like him regardless, and do not think the sun shines out of his arse. These two were faced with a fear, and they conquered it. It may have come off as a one shot, yes, and the delivery may have needed a tad more work, but cut it some slack. Did you see what they did to the guy? They seriously wounded, if not killed, Jiemma. Do you remember what that technique did to Natsu? Yeah, same thing except it actually pierced his body. The lethality of that spell is unreal, and the fact that they had to resort to actually killing someone, while it may have been in a single move, is pretty alright to me. In case you didn't read the fight, they were going to die. Was it a last-minute plot decision to get Sting and Rogue out of the way for Natsu and Gray? Yeah, probably. But we've all gotta deal with it now.
 * 4: Erza Scarlet vs. Kyouka (Round 1) (Tolerated)
 * Reason : Nothing out of the ordinary, but I liked it because, unlike the rematch, Erza didn't enter God Mode. She attacked Kyouka, put her through an entire fortress, and then the woman got up and gave Erza a run for her money. She abandoned the fight which introduced us to Gilbert Dullindal and Kurama's lovechild: Mard Geer Tartarus. ( ^__^)/
 * 3: Wendy vs. Ezel (Tolerated)
 * Reason : Simply because Wendy got Dragon Force and character development. She was one of the most underrated characters there was in the series, and now she has some spine. It's nice seeing kids grow up, tbh. I found the convenience of sending Wendy to a place where she could gain a power-up a little annoying, but if you look past it, it wasn't a one-shot kill. It was a pretty close fight, and she lost her beautiful hair. ( T_T)
 * 2: Juvia vs. Keith (Liked)
 * Reason : I sort of like how Mashima is giving other characters spotlights in this arc even though it's predominantly Faggot 1 and Faggot 2, and Juvia is no exception to this. Were the utterances about love and friendship reminiscent of the original Yu-Gi-Oh? Hell yeah they were. :D But I didn't really pay much mind. Juvia had to do something terrible to the man she loves or else they would all seriously die. Keith was controlling the chairman, and at the time we thought Sayla to be dead/indefinitely incapacitated, as well as keeping Silver bound to the earth. She killed her love interest's father for his second time, also right in front of him, and then got taken out herself by giving us the revelation that Keith had Devil Particles inside his body. She stepped up and wasn't something for comic relief for a change. Wrath approves.
 * 1: Gajeel vs. Torafusa (Favorite)
 * Reason : Hands down the best fight in this arc thus far. No bullshit, no nakama power. All logic. Gajeel was in a situation where life was going to escape him, and it gave him more depth. Ignore Belno for the entirety of this and focus on Gajeel. It gave him more depth and sort of exemplified who he was versus who he is, and expands more upon the dramatic change that took place in his personality when he joined Fairy Tail. It's nice to see that he was and still is a badass, but is also now a guy with a good heart. He feels bad for everything he's over done wrong to people like Belno, Makarov, etc. and wants to make amends. They haven't hit on this since Tenrou, and seeing him turn his iron into steel was just downright amazing. If only every fight could be this awesome.

Now...the bad. ( -___-) There will only be Disliked/Hate. No in between. =P


 * 5: Gray vs. Silver (Disliked)
 * Reason : Silver was supposed to be Deliora. That's the bottom line. Kyouka in Chapter 357 said, "Silver, I'm surprised to see you here in your 'human' form." That right there should be your first clue. Also, what sort of dad who is clearly stronger than his son would actually go to kill him? Gray was impaled, ffs. "I have no right to call myself your father"; damn right you don't. Also, let's just go with the fact that the fight would've been a lot better. Imagine if Silver was Deliora. It could've paved the way for someone like Lyon to show up, and then since Hell's Core is gone, Lyon could've used Iced Shell, and Gray, now having lost his father twice with his best friend, would've had a lot more reason to become a total prick than he has now. Still, I feel bad that he lost his dad, but the revelation existed only because: A) Mashima got told last second that Silver being Deliora wasn't cool and it would be better if it was really his dad; or B) Mashima did it himself and it was only so Gray could be on par with Erza and Natsu, because as it stood, he made Mard Geer too powerful. Either way, it sucked.
 * 4: Mirajane vs. Sayla (Disliked)
 * Reason This is clearly as simple as, "I can't take her over!" and then "I've managed to take over part of you despite not having the ability to do so at all, before!" It was just a bs way for Mashima to make Sayla lose and to make Mirajane look more powerful. =/ And whatever she takes over, she keeps. So now she has Macro for herself, which I'll admit is cool, but in my head it was only to even her up with Erza, even if just a little, because they were constantly regarded as being equals in strength, but Erza has consistently gotten more and more ridiculous in power levels.
 * 3: Jellal vs. OS (Hate)
 * Reason (and please actually read this one >__>) : Let me start of by saying I have nothing against Jellal. In fact, I like Jellal and defended him when my girlfriend was reading Fairy Tail, because she just couldn't stand him. That clear? Good, okay. The problem with this is that there was too much hype involved. I was expecting Jellal to give them a good run for their money and then die in the process, because let's face it, they overwhelmed him. He couldn't keep up. Now, had he won regardless of that, I would've probably put it up in my like list as #5 in place of Sting and Rogue, or maybe #4 in place of Erza vs. Kyouka: Round 1, but I didn't because Jellal was killed by Zero. Yes, that's honestly it. Jellal is Sieg's clone done horribly wrong. He put up a good fight, and then one of the strongest villain's this series has ever seen wakes up and just totally decimates him by pure surprise. Then next chapter, it's revealed to be Midnight's illusion and that Jellal is otherwise unharmed, minus his eyes, which will eventually heal. He can obviously see, just terribly. He then decides to actually fight and wipes the floor with them. It was too much one way, and then automatically switched to the other. The hype was Jellal's death after a really difficult, interesting fight, and then it got destroyed, much like everything else. Do I hate Jellal because of the fight? No, I do not like him any less than I did before. I was just annoyed as all get-out and the fight left a bad taste in my mouth.
 * 2: Natsu vs. Jackal (Hate)
 * Reason : As simple as Jackal found a way to get past Natsu's fire absorption, and then Natsu still absorbs the fire even though he takes damage from the explosions regardless, and then even though Jackal enters his later-named Etherious Form, Natsu still wipes the floor with him and one-shots with his Lightning Flames. Also, Happy survived a nuke. Fuck that cat.
 * 1: Erza vs. Kyouka (Round 2) (Hate x1,000,000)
 * Reason : Erza was god-modded, in the words of Prime. She had all 5 senses of perception taken away, still somehow manages to talk and know where Kyouka is during the whole fight, moves around very nimbly even though her sense of pain has been inflated so that a mere step should feel like she's being broken into pieces (in one instance, Kyouka actually increased her pain to the point where a little while felt like her torso was ripped right in half), and yet still won. She totally beat her under the pretense that, "She's Erza!" Are you fucking kidding me? No, sorry, it doesn't work like that. This was hands down the worst fight in Fairy Tail thus far and just set the bar so high for Erza that her character can only get worse and worse.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. If you didn't see a fight mentioned, it probably means I was either indifferent, or it was just lower on the list than 5. Wrath out. \(^__^ )/