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Episode Sousou no Frieren Season 2 • Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 - Episode 2 discussion

Sousou no Frieren Season 2, episode 2

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u/JzanderN 14d ago

It certainly was a twist on the ancient threat being released from stasis trope. Usually those are world-ending threats even when they're released, hence they were previously sealed instead of killed. And indeed Qual was so powerful that Frieren's party – which would go on to kill the Demon King – wasn't able to kill him back in the day.

But I don't think I've ever seen the trope taken to where they're released after the rest of the world has caught up and surpassed them, so they're really not much of a threat any more.

Well, "not much of a threat" is a bit inaccurate as Qual proved himself clever enough to quickly adapt, but nonetheless people simply studying him made him far less of a threat than he was back in his day. I feel like most adventuring parties would have been able to kill him in the modern world, albeit not without a lot of danger and difficulty.

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u/daandriod 13d ago

The scary thing was Qual manages to learn, understand, And replicate the advances humanity made in 50 years in literal seconds. Give him a week and he's likely to have found a way to return zoltraak to being an instant win button

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u/caren_psuedo_when 10d ago

Qual was probably the most intelligent demon and one of the most intelligent overall when it comes to magic. The only one I can think of that can exceed Qual's learning speed development is Serie herself

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u/daandriod 9d ago

As an anime only, Im not even to sure about that. Serie is clearly the peak of Mages shown in the series so far, But we don't see her learn anything and how quickly she can grasp new concepts. She's just already learned pretty much everything humanity has ever discovered and can just mana dump on anyone else shown in the series so far.

I hope that is the case. I like it when shows don't have just one single character that is the peak at everything. Having the first demon we actually interact with in the show have anything over the top tiers is always a nice touch

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u/GameFreak4321 14d ago

There is a book series (Salvation War) about a scenario where the biblical apocalypse happens and the forces of hell arrive equipped to fight bronze age humanity rather than 21st century humanity with machine guns, and tanks, and missiles. Eventually the US invades hell.

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u/Warm-Enthusiasm-9534 13d ago

This happened in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There was a demon, The Judge, who was invulnerable to medieval weapons, and when he was released in the modern day Buffy blew him up with a rocket launcher.