User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 472: Laxus vs. Wahl, Review/@comment-1153699-20160208202815/@comment-7418318-20160208234125

"Natsu beating Gajeel during Phantom Lord arc? Because he's Natsu"

I think you are misunderstanding what I mean. Either that or you chose a really poor example to put it mildly.

Natsu was stronger than Gajeel from the get go and only almost lost due to having several situational disadvantages in the fight. Even before the fight between them started, Natsu was hit pretty hard by Totomaru a few times and basically got beaten to a pulp along with having part of his magic drained by Aria. Even after all that he came out equal with Gajeel until Gajeel ate iron.

But the biggest point why this example sucks is because ultimately Natsu only won thanks to Lucy's help via Sagittarius. Without her he would have lost.

Each of those two points (though especially the 2nd) make the example completely invalid for the "Because s/he's insertName".

And Laxus vs. Jura in comparison? Laxus was on the ropes the entire time. Yes he wasn't chanceless and got a punch or two in, but Jura clearly had the upper hand. The only fights Laxus had prior to facing off against Jura was him dishing out one-shots and neither had he disadvantages nor Jura advantages like wounds, buffs, exhaustion, terrain advantages or anything really. And then out of nowhere Laxus wins - and with a rather simplistic attack to boot - without anyone else interfering.

And I won't get you started on any other series because they are completely irrelevant for this Fairy Tail discussion. If it's a different story by Hiro Mashima like RAVE it might have limited relevance, but other authors? Not any.

It's not that I hate that Laxus won, but having him in a constant disadvantage and then just "I have to win so I win"... that sucked. And here it'll most likely be the same, only 10 times worse, because Laxus isn't just at a slight to medium disadvantage, but up against almost insurmountable odds.

I really hope he'll need help/saving to deal with Wahl... and I hope that the red lightning will not turn out to be Natsu in LFDM mode suddenly risen from his sick-bed and immediately rushing into battle... that'd be even worse than Laxus winning by himself, though not by much.