User blog comment:Ultraprime2/My 10 Most Disappointing Characters in Fairy Tail/@comment-4449950-20131124120838/@comment-3987368-20131124123745


 * When it comes to Zeref, I wouldn't say he's done anything disappointing, but rather, his lack of action is what is disappointing. Is it nice to have a villain who is not all-powerful and the epitome of evil? Yes, I would say it is but when it comes to Zeref, that is exactly what he was built up as. Why would you build up expectations for a character, depict him as something of the ultimate evil who is responsible for countless atrocities and suffering only to completely twist him around when you finally introduce him into a sullen, emo teenager? Simply put, I think Mashima was't thinking it through when he introduced Zeref when he did. While his Magic is fitting as far as I'm concerned, his drastic change in personality to what we saw was not. He claimed that it was done during the wars when he learned the value of life but in my opinion, that makes no sense to me. Saying it took countless lives ending to teach him the value of life doesn't work with me. If he could bare anything short of that, he was already too far gone.
 * In the case of Yukino, I do like her as a character and I feel her personality was well written. However, her spirits share the blame for her loss. Spirits are dependent on their summoner for strength and Yukino simply paled in comparison to Kagura. Libra ad Pisces are one matter but hyping Ophiuchus was a mistake that bites Mashima in the ass as far as I'm concerned. Not only did it get taken down far too easily by Kagura to be a believable powerhouse as it was meant to be, but it never appeared again, thus depriving us of the chance to see its abilities.
 * On Juvia, we'll be differing here because it's been nearly 150 chapters or so since Juvia beat Meredy on Tenrou Island and in my opinion, she's degraded as a character more than most, perhaps almost any depending on how you see it. Gray fanservice is one thing but at this point, she's just a gag toy for Mashima to add humor where it's not needed. I liked Juvia before all this. Several hundred chapters ago, she was this girl who cared for her guildmates and was highly competent in a fight. These days, she can't even keep her head in the game because Gray is the only thing on her mind. When this idiocy cost him his life back in the GMG arc, regardless of whether or not it was to be permanent, that was it for me.
 * Kagura's fighting ability in the 3-way was awesome and so was her initial 1-vs-1 against Erza but that was also part of the reason her OHKO loss against Erza was as disappointing as it was. The badly written backstory was really just adding insult to injury for me, but the injury was there regardless.
 * As disappointing as guys like Bacchus were, at least they didn't just give up and flop on their knees, unlike Sting here >_>

As to your Lisanna rant, feel free cause I'd like to read it. You've probably got it saved in notepad or something, eh? :D