Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181229081856/@comment-4136655-20190104165623

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

2) So, Marcus was All For One. And yet he died like a moron off-screen. Absolutely Pathetic. He was an assassin and I assume he had years of experience, he should've been stealing Semblances left and right to become the ultimate predator or some shit.

Now, as a "design idea" it confirms that Semblances that rip-off (literally) Semblances are a thing, which is cool. But as a writing decision I can only feel that it was done so they didn't have to think up a Semblance for Merc.

I mean, first we got Tock, who was given a lazily-Cheat Semblance for no reason other than to needlessly excuse her kicking Maria's ass. Then there's Maria herself who was just given "better reflexes" as a Semblance, which is the most boring and dull Semblance idea this show could've ever had. I just have this feeling they don't give a damn about Semblances anymore.

Which likely annoys me more because I've been playing JPDE recently, and there people give twice the fucks about Semblances, and as OP as some of them are (outright or potentially) they at least aren't boring shit like Maria's or lazy like Tock's "Invincible for 60 secs" bullshit. To be fair, Merc hasn't stated whether or not that Marcus could use the Semblance(s) he's stolen. It could be more that it's similar to the Erasure Quirk, and he merely suppresses a person's Semblance.