This is the question: Inevitability, or innovation?
That is to say, the whole anime/card-game declaration of a super power really does seem an amusingly inevitable innovation of an inevitable and probably overused joke.
Or perhaps it is not a question of innovation per se, but simple jealousy, rationalized and potentially with formed reaction, because I didn’t think of it first.
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Weiner Zach. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. 16 April 2015.