Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-28702329-20190430105108/@comment-39592321-20190623070711

Barack Obeezy wrote: They wouldn't. GER is essentially the same as any asspull "Deus Ex Machina" in other mediums of fiction, it's just that it got a conveniently overpowered ability to quite literally undo the actions of other characters. It's basically a poetic representation of the fact that Araki had given up on being creative with the abilities they had in the first place, many of which he had forgotten, and just gave the protagonist the power of God to end the fight. This is factually incorrect, the arrow is a Macguffin not a Dues ex machina, a Dues ex machina is when something completely previously unexplained suddenly intervenes and solves the plot. The secret of the arrow was presented as something that can defeat the boss very well, while the exact way it would do that is unspecified, it is presented as such.