Discussion Favorite and Least Favorite Plot Twists in the Current Arc

[Hermit]

So, seeing that the arc is about to come to a close (It's practically already over), and everything is wrapping up to a conclusion, what have your favorite and least favorite plot twists in this arc been?
I'll kick this off with a few of my own:
Favorite Plot Twists
-Irene being the Queen of Dragons/Mother of Dragon Slayers-I had originally just expected a familial connection, this added more depth to her as a character)
-The truth about Devil Slaying Magic that Invel revealed to Gray, the whole darkness stuff had real potential, shame it never went anywhere in the long term.


Least Favorite Twists
-August being the son of Zeref and Mavis (By far the most disgusting thing Hiro has ever written)
-Anna being a time traveller from 400 years ago (Completely unnecessary, opens a whole can of worms by itself)
-Gray's trump card being Iced Shell (For the third time in the story )

 

[Invel > Zeref]

Does the supposedly threatening Spriggan 12 all turning out to be either fodder or idiots count as a plot twist?
Least favorite:
1.Gray's trump card being iced shell. Gray is my favorite character so I was pissed when he tried to kill himself for like the fourth time. Why would he tell Juvia that he would give her an answer after the war if he intended to kill himself?
2. Irene being Queen of Dragons and Erza's mom. I don't think that Hiro should have reused the 'antagonist is actually one of the main character's parents and secretly still loves their child' plot line from tartorus arc. Her being a dragon seemed to be made up on the spot. Why didn't Acnologia recognize her as one in their first encounter?
3. Anna coming back. There should have been foreshadowing that she time traveled and better explanation as to why she didn't show up way earlier.
Favorite:
I'm conflicted about the August plot twist. I don't like the idea of Zeref and Mavis having a child but I think this plot twist was nicely foreshadowed and enjoyed the Larcade bait and switch.

 

[BluePegasus]

Oh ok let's do this.

Favourite: Dimaria oneshotting Brandish and proving that Age Seal WORKS on Spriggans. What a moment that was.

Least favourite:

Spoiler

Yes, I thought I was dreaming too. It was a nightmare turned to reality.

 

[M3J]

Favorite plot twist:

Acnologia possibly coming back
Irene being the progenitor of dragon slayers
Macron winning
Irene hating Erza
Laxus being out of fights because he'd beat opponents, except for August


Least favorite plot twist:

Natsu coming back
Lucy's ass-pull ability to edit books
Gray's "trump card"
Makarov coming back to life
August and Irene committing seppuku
Brandish's mom knowing Lucy's mom, which in turn kept her out of war and too focused on saving her "friends"
Erza one-shotting a meteor

 

[Nemispelled]

Favorite Plot Twists -

• Gray being able to exorcise people by just using his Devil Slaying powers (Exterminating the demon spreading inside Lucy)
• Mira revealing that she took over Alegria and Sayla - then showcasing her powers with them
• Gray and Mira finally falling in love and marrying

Least Favorite Plot Twists -

• All the fake deaths
• Acnologia becoming fodder tier
• Fairy Heart -- Thought it was Mavis giving somebody the power... not her actual useless body being the damn "Fairy Heart" --
• THE WHOLE ARC - It was a lame plot twist in itself

 

[Reebi]

Fave:
Brandish being Lucy's mom's friend's daughter (although it opened some plot holes)
Irene being badass 400 years ago (but she had Erza for 400 years )
Those girls being swords
Kagura fighting Simon
Wendy using Irene's body
Lucy using Spacial magic on Jacob
Gildarts shows up
Dimaria stabbing Brandish
"Natsu, I am your brother"
Mavis "died" from a kiss... and actually died from a kiss


Least
Erza being in a womb for 400 years
Cana being a virgin
Gray's trump card being some sort of lost magic
Universe One (Although the thought of Acnologia is the ocean makes me laugh)
Gajeel's fake death
Pretch dropping August off like some deadbeat (him involved was interesting but made no sense that he knew Zeref when on Tenrou he didn't know him)
Erza attacking a meteorite
Mest manipulating Brandish
Zeref aborbing Fairy Heart
Anna's timelapse plan
Gray and Natsu fighting over nothing
Anything the other Spriggans did besides the mains

Edit:

Sorano being Yukino's sister was a good twist

 

[Cosmicstar]

Least favorite would be:

-Natsu destroying his Demon and Dragon Seeds. Seem like all the E.N.D build up was for nothing.

-Acnologia being the able to eat all Magic. Was no point in making him that powerful. Hiro put himself in a corner with this one.

-August being Mavis and Zeref Kid. Honestly it didn't amount to anything and was absolutely stupid. It made more sense for Larcade to be their son.

-Laxus having Anti Magical particles. There was absolutely no point in doing that.

-Brandish mom and Lucy mom connection. Was absolutely a waste of chapters pointless. Simply a tool to bring Brandish to Fairy tail side.


On the Fence:

-Anna reveal. Unlike some people claim Anna was foreshadowed in chapter 464/465 and officially showed up in chapter 529 which would have been about 65 chapter later. Yet people claim August being Zeref son was foreshadowed as Zeref even having a son didn't show up until 490. It had the best foreshadowing of all the plot twist.

-Irene being a Dragon. Acnologia should he recognized her during their battle. Seem like Hiro decided this at the last minute.

Had zero favorites

 

[Demon Hunter]

nothing.

plain and simple.

 

[Raven]

Favorite plot twist.

-August is the real son of Zervis (It was so unpredictable, One of the strongest plot twist in the entire manga)

-Ignatsu (I'm so fine with it since Natsu took 10 months to unlock it)

-Marin's attemption to kill Brandish. (His reasoning was strong and realistic)

-Mest mind manipulating Brandish to kill August. (The drama that ensued was splendid)

-E.N.D. has nothing to do with Tartarous (A forced plot line that made no sense in tartarous and Mashima fixed it in Alverz)

-Brandish enlarging the demon inside Natsu (It lead to Brandish vs Lucy, Lucy was forced to fight Brandish inorder to save Natsu)

-Irene is Erza's mother (I was from those who supported the theory of Irene being her mother not sister or clone, Although being predictable i still love it because it
was justice. Gray got relevance in tartarous and Mashima gave her the same treatment that what i call balance in roles regarding secondary characters)

-Mavis outsmarting Irene and Zeref (For the first time she actually proved that she is smart)

-Natsu choosing to be human (That clearly shows how Natsu is a good character by refusing the demonizing or dragonizing process, I expected him to choose the dragon seed because that what the Mc would do to get power ups to protect his friends instead he refused and thought of his future and what he wanted to do after)

-Natsu's scarf is made by Anna. (That is very cool device that connects Natsu and Lucy)

-Makarov is not dead yet (I didn't like his death because it was so forced hence i'm okay with his return plus his return was actually impactable more than his death)

I don't really want to add the least favorite now but i will when the manga is over, I have some.

 

[Brandish μ]

Generally, favourite and least favourite would operate on different ends of the emotive spectrum for me, ie "what I loved vs what I hated". But this is a special case - my favouite plot twist would register barely a 5/10, my least favourite is at 0/10.

Favourite - Brandish being a former slave of Aquarius

Least favourite
- Larcade being a Dragneel then Zervis kid... but wait no Etherious.
- Irene having anything to do with DSM totally unnecessary
- August not loved as Zervis kid

 

[Takuan]

-Natsu choosing to be human

Holy shit now i remember that moment. When Natsu says "I chose to be human!" and just like that both the dragon and demon seeds crumble.

My god, this arc was garbage.

 

[Reebi]

Favorite plot twist.

-August is the real son of Zervis (It was so unpredictable, One of the strongest plot twist in the entire manga)

-Ignatsu (I'm so fine with it since Natsu took 10 months to unlock it)

-Marin's attemption to kill Brandish. (His reasoning was strong and realistic)

-Mest mind manipulating Brandish to kill August. (The drama that ensued was splendid)

-E.N.D. has nothing to do with Tartarous (A forced plot line that made no sense in tartarous and Mashima fixed it in Alverz)

-Brandish enlarging the demon inside Natsu (It lead to Brandish vs Lucy, Lucy was forced to fight Brandish inorder to save Natsu)

-Irene is Erza's mother (I was from those who supported the theory of Irene being her mother not sister or clone, Although being predictable i still love it because it
was justice. Gray got relevance in tartarous and Mashima gave her the same treatment that what i call balance in roles regarding secondary characters)

-Mavis outsmarting Irene and Zeref (For the first time she actually proved that she is smart)

-Natsu choosing to be human (That clearly shows how Natsu is a good character by refusing the demonizing or dragonizing process, I expected him to choose the dragon seed because that what the Mc would do to get power ups to protect his friends instead he refused and thought of his future and what he wanted to do after)

-Natsu's scarf is made by Anna. (That is very cool device that connects Natsu and Lucy)

-Makarov is not dead yet (I didn't like his death because it was so forced hence i'm okay with his return plus his return was actually impactable more than his death)

I don't really want to add the least favorite now but i will when the manga is over, I have some.

Natsu' scarf made by Anna was cute and it makes sense she help raised them. I'm sure their claws can't change diapers very well. I didn't like how it's kinda an Oedipus complex

 

[Kiki]

Least favorite plot twist: Neinhart being oneshot material. Just look at that silhouette. I was like

 

[M3J]

Was gonna mention August being Mavis and Zeref's son as least favorite plot twist, but it wasn't a twist at all. I'm sure most of us saw that coming.

 

[MonkeyD-Dragon]

I don't think I have a favorite plot twist, but I guess the best of my least favorite ones are :
-God Serena being a DS(Hybrid Theory, while its a good concept ,it was wasted potential that served as a hype tool for Acno).
-Mest being realistic and making Brandish stab August.
-Dimaria being from Milidia (this went nowhere too, wasted potential)
-I guess Invel revealing the Darkness was good, too bad DeS isn't so relevant to get that kind of importance.

I think the rest are bad/forced/unneeded.

 

[Delta3000]

No favourites.
Least favourite: 1) Irene being a dragon slayer and actually inventing the magic since it was just crammed in to give Erza some connection to 400 years ago. a better backstory would be making her a devil slayer that fell to the 'darkness' Invel mentioned.
2) the plot hole, especially since it was also unnecessary - Acno could have been killed with a durability bypassing curse
3) Anna showing up despite having done all she was needed for
4) the Zervis ship having a kid - it was creepy enough as is

 

[SleipnirX]

For it to have plot twists it would have to have a plot but I guess it was kind of cool getting the explanation of Irene and the origins of DS magic, not what I'd expected, but one of the better things to come out of this arc. As for least favourites, the dragon-demon seeds thing was pretty random, Anna was too out of the blue, and the Spriggans actually being so incredibly weak was a bit of a shock I must say!

 

[Crescent Jinx]

Best plot twist......

The Cancer stardress being a mini Lucy as a blonde Erza with two twin scissor swords.......


Who da fack saw that coming?????

The worst plot twist was.....

Saying fairy tail would have a war arc....

 

[Reebi]

Best plot twist......

The Cancer stardress being a mini Lucy as a blonde Erza with two twin scissor swords.......


Who da fack saw that coming?????

The worst plot twist was.....

Saying fairy tail would have a war arc....

She totally does!! Now I want a filler episode of Erza teachig Lucy sword skills It would be funny

 

[Crescent Jinx]

She totally does!! Now I want a filler episode of Erza teachig Lucy sword skills It would be funny

I thought this too!!!! I had this image of Erza training Lucy in that kimono from Gmg (which looks the same).

The filler could be Lucy using multiple Star dresses that Erza tests(?) while Mira, Natsu, Gajeel, Levy. Wendy, Gray, and Juvia secretly watch from the bushes and have to dodge Erza's swords and Lucy large scale attacks like earth wave and aqua metria while maintains their covert hiding positions. Plus their normal shenanigans like Mira channeling her old self by making snide comments about "Erza teaching Lucy? Please. Why didn't Lucy ask me?" And Juvia wondering why Gray went alone. Plus everyone holding Natsu down cuz he wants to fight both of them.

This would be cute ^_^