A Certain Magical Index (light novel)
| So I was watching Index for the 10th time, and after watching the Sisters arc, I was wondering. Is it really that hard to defeat Accelerator? They make it out like he is basically invincible and can do anything, but he is only really strong against direct attacks towards him. For example, couldn't a teleporter defeat him? If Kuroko were to teleport something inside him, shouldn't that kill him? He can change vectors, sure, but he wouldn't be able to do that until it's already been teleported in him. I imagine he should also be susceptible to things like Shokuhou's mind control, right? Then there are indirect forms of attacks like Misaka Imouto's attempt to rob him of the oxygen around him. She is only a level 3, so surely a Level 5 like Misaka could do a better job here right? Don't get me wrong, I know he is strong, and gets stronger later, but I feel like his strength is a bit overexaggerated. Changing vectors shouldn't mean you can do literally anything. |
| Thanks for the reply. I still think Kuroko, or a higher level teleporter would have an easier time defeating him though. Being able to teleport yourself and other things should make it easy to avoid Accelerator's attacks. It should also be easy to assassinate him or something right? For example, teleporting some flavourless, odourless poison into one of his cans of coffee or something. |
SawsyMikey said: Saku_k said: Thanks for the reply. I still think Kuroko, or a higher level teleporter would have an easier time defeating him though. Being able to teleport yourself and other things should make it easy to avoid Accelerator's attacks. It should also be easy to assassinate him or something right? For example, teleporting some flavourless, odourless poison into one of his cans of coffee or something. his power automatically filters anything harmful to him so poisoning him is another miss. Accelerator is super smart so there's very few way to get to him lol If his power is just to change vectors, why would his body automatically be able to discern whether something is poison or not before it enters? |
SawsyMikey said: Saku_k said: If his power is just to change vectors, why would his body automatically be able to discern whether something is poison or not before it enters? His subconscious brain automatically determines what's good and whats bad so that means his power is always on. Let's say an esper teleports lethal amounts of cyanide into his drink without him knowing it wouldn't do anything cuz it would filter out imagine an air conditioner filter. it only allowing certain stuff to pass through like air or water but stuff like dust and other junk can't go through. Thats also why he was able to help that pregnant lady in that one scene I understand that he can change vectors of things, like, if he was poisoned and he knew he was poisoned, and the poison was slow acting enough, he could change the vector of the poison to send it out of his body. I also understand that he is able to deflect attacks automatically basically by reacting to incoming vectors. I'll also accept the teleportation argument, because the objects are just moving through a different dimension and thus still have vectors. But the ability to detect and filter poison in your drink in the first place sounds like a power unrelated to vectors, and I thought espers only had 1 power. Also unrelated, how does he let himself get his ass kicked by Kihara? I understand Kihara is using some dumb trick (which I really don't think should be humanly possible) to land punches on Accelerator, but couldn't Accelerator just use ranged attacks? |
SawsyMikey said: Saku_k said: I understand that he can change vectors of things, like, if he was poisoned and he knew he was poisoned, and the poison was slow acting enough, he could change the vector of the poison to send it out of his body. I also understand that he is able to deflect attacks automatically basically by reacting to incoming vectors. I'll also accept the teleportation argument, because the objects are just moving through a different dimension and thus still have vectors. But the ability to detect and filter poison in your drink in the first place sounds like a power unrelated to vectors, and I thought espers only had 1 power. Also unrelated, how does he let himself get his ass kicked by Kihara? I understand Kihara is using some dumb trick (which I really don't think should be humanly possible) to land punches on Accelerator, but couldn't Accelerator just use ranged attacks? eh it just how it is really since it's fiction but I'm sure he would be able to know. And yes espers only have 1 power just different applications since vector manipulation can pretty much do almost anything And kihara beating him up. ima try to explain how I can xD throw punch shield ready to deflect pull back fist just before coming into contact shield down throw punch smooth hit He just does this super fast It just seems like some of Accelerator's powers are inconsistent, like they don't really have anything to do with vectors. Well I know how Kihara does it, I just don't really believe a human could possibly move their fists fast enough for that to work lol |
Bluagrana33 said: Saku_k said: So I was watching Index for the 10th time, and after watching the Sisters arc, I was wondering. Is it really that hard to defeat Accelerator? They make it out like he is basically invincible and can do anything, but he is only really strong against direct attacks towards him. For example, couldn't a teleporter defeat him? If Kuroko were to teleport something inside him, shouldn't that kill him? He can change vectors, sure, but he wouldn't be able to do that until it's already been teleported in him. I imagine he should also be susceptible to things like Shokuhou's mind control, right? Then there are indirect forms of attacks like Misaka Imouto's attempt to rob him of the oxygen around him. She is only a level 3, so surely a Level 5 like Misaka could do a better job here right? Don't get me wrong, I know he is strong, and gets stronger later, but I feel like his strength is a bit overexaggerated. Changing vectors shouldn't mean you can do literally anything. he's ability isn't changing vectors go rewatch index s3 to learn how he defeats teleporters and go learn how his ability works he is that strong Accelerator says himself though that his ability is to change vectors. I understand he gets stronger later on and can do more things, but at the time of the Sisters arc he isn't quite there yet. But I guess you are just not supposed to think about it too much, the series seems to add new crazier stuff as it goes on anyway. |
| Well Kihara Amata proved that you you can beat up Accelerator by just pulling your punches at the right moment...and it's not like he's a level 5 Esper or something. He's literally just some dude with no special abilities so...yeh |
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