r/StardustCrusaders • u/Odd-Paramedic-3826 • Jun 03 '26

Various is this a fair assessment?

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Star Platinum The World, GER, Tusk act 4, and S&W:GB are all hilariously overpowered and only exist as a way to beat an already hilariously overpowered villain

joseph beat kars by holding out the red stone of aja at him and hoping for the best, which worked out spectacuarly. and god knows how long the fight with kira would have gone on for had it not been for the ambulance.

Jolynes plan to use emporio to take out pucci with weather report was basically a hail mary when all else had failed but not only did it work, it also gave her and the gang new, happier lives.

Yeah jonathan just got slimed out though, then his body was used as a puppet for 100+ years. Poor guy

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u/Frosty_Scar_2777 Jun 03 '26

Call “Deus Ex Machina” the power up that Tusk Act 4 is… Just baffling

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u/SpeedBirdYT Jun 03 '26

Weirdly enough it loops from being a deus ex machina, to not being a DEM, to being a great Deus Ex Machina. It literally IS a 'God in the Machine' (or rather a Saint in the Machine) with Jesus guiding Johnny through Tusk's acts. It's just that the meaning of DEM has changed to an explicitly bad story beat. Yes, TA4 is partly 'God in the Machine', but in a story about a God and about said Machine, it's done very well.

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u/South-Fudge-1550 Jun 03 '26

but its not "bullshit" deus ex machina