It's almost on cue after I wrote the rant about how can you suck with so much power in the Typemoon universe that HXH decides to top it. In the current arc we're introduced Alluka, Killua's sister (?) who is a portable, reusable dragonballs. She can grant practically any wish (including killing people who are much stronger than herself, unlike the real dragonballs) but you've to give 3 wishes whose content is dependent on what was initially wished for back to use it again, or otherwise potentially a large number of people may die horribly depending on what was initially wished for. Note that large here can mean 'everyone on the planet' and this is the justification for why her power was never mentioned except for a Deus Ex Machina situation, like the one we have right now.
Alluka has been imprisoned in some kind of sci-fi high tech lockdown room for the better part of her life since her ability is too dangerous, and Killua arrives on a white horse to rescue her and use her power for his own Deus Ex Machina purposes. Now, Killua and Alluka are part of the Z family, allegedly a group of unfathomably powerful assassins feared by all. Ignoring the fact that Killua is said to have talent to surpass all the past Zs, since we can handwave that part by noting Killua is only 13, even though he has fought favorably against 2 Royal Guards who are like 10 times more powerful than the most powerful Z ever was.
So against all odds and with great diplomacy Killua convinced his father to let him in at where Alluka is locked at. Alluka is still currently in demand mode, and thanks to his big brother discount he quickly got her back to wish mode. At this point Killua immediately threatens to play hardball with the family since he has, literally, the dragonballs. He asks to let his sister go or he immediately wishes for her to force choke his mother to death. So the Zs get scared and let him go, and then immediately some allgedly stupidly powerful Z members show up to chase Killua down to get Alluka back.
Now, Killua is actually a super nice guy whose goal is to either reform the Z famly into a bunch of law abiding citizens or at least put them behind bars where they can no longer harm anybody. So the fact that he didn't wish for Alluka to immediately force choke every Z besides himself and Alluka is actually totally sensible. Killua also avoids any solution where any potential innocent people can die, so it's also sensible that he didn't wish for stuff like 'make me the strongest character in the world' because he knows that it is very likely he can't pay them back (if you wish to become strongest character the return wishes would be something that is difficult for even such a character to do) and he doesn't want to risk getting humanity wiped out on accident.
But his family doesn't know that! The family thought Killua is a cold blooded assassin like the rest of them and backstabbing family member is apparently pretty common in the Z family. I mean what the heck can they possibly do? One of them could call up Goku for help but Killua can just say, "I wish Goku dies" and Alluka will take care of him. Alluka and Killua's relationship borderlines on incest and she uses her power as favorably as possible for her brother. Yes it's mentioned that there's an obvious weakness to the combo, in that after Alluka leaves wishing mode it takes a nontrivial time for her to return to that, and as much as Alluka likes Killua, she can't artifiically lower the difficulty of the return wishes so you'd at least expect her wishing power to be unavailable for a few minutes after every wish. At the end of part 324, Killua seem to imply that he can also just command Alluka to force choke people or whatever even when not in wishing mode.
So did the rest of the Z family just finish reading Fate/Zero and figured that their son, who is said to be destined to become the greatest assassin of them all, is just mentally retarded and don't know how to use an entity of arbitary power against them? Did any of them thought of 'what if Killua wishes for all of us to be dead'? It's literally like asking someone to keep tabs on someone who is about to wish with the dragonballs and take him out if he wishes for immortality. I mean the whole story works since Killua is like Kenshin reincarinated and swore to never kill another person, and he said if you try to use Alluka's power offensively it invariably just ends up getting a whole ton of people force choked which is not what he wanted to happen. But his opposition doesn't know that and they're fighting against a being that can force choke all of them to death instantly any time!
Not to mention Killua's power is lightning, which is probably the most devastating special ability in HXH thus far not counting Alluka's or Meryem's (absorb any power). I think a lot of people miss the boat that although creativity counts for a lot in HXH, when your special power is lightning, it kind of has a huge advantage compared to a guy whose special power is to form sticky substances. Killua's lightning attacks seems to be instant kill on any human beings (electricity cannot be defended by physical defense) and his lightning speed is incomparable to even nonhuman entities. The only viable weakness is that he needs a source of electricity to reuse the ability but that's why he carries portable tasers and extension cords, and it's implied that one full charge of lightning power is more than enough to defeat just about any human character.
The only way this can turn out well is if next week, Pariston jumps down from a plane and instantly takes out all the Zs chasing Killua, and say that Alluka's power is the only thing that can stop his world dominating plan, and therefore he must ensure it can be used to stop him rather than have the Zs lock her up in a vault again, because conquering the world without a fight would be a rather disappointing.
Alluka has been imprisoned in some kind of sci-fi high tech lockdown room for the better part of her life since her ability is too dangerous, and Killua arrives on a white horse to rescue her and use her power for his own Deus Ex Machina purposes. Now, Killua and Alluka are part of the Z family, allegedly a group of unfathomably powerful assassins feared by all. Ignoring the fact that Killua is said to have talent to surpass all the past Zs, since we can handwave that part by noting Killua is only 13, even though he has fought favorably against 2 Royal Guards who are like 10 times more powerful than the most powerful Z ever was.
So against all odds and with great diplomacy Killua convinced his father to let him in at where Alluka is locked at. Alluka is still currently in demand mode, and thanks to his big brother discount he quickly got her back to wish mode. At this point Killua immediately threatens to play hardball with the family since he has, literally, the dragonballs. He asks to let his sister go or he immediately wishes for her to force choke his mother to death. So the Zs get scared and let him go, and then immediately some allgedly stupidly powerful Z members show up to chase Killua down to get Alluka back.
Now, Killua is actually a super nice guy whose goal is to either reform the Z famly into a bunch of law abiding citizens or at least put them behind bars where they can no longer harm anybody. So the fact that he didn't wish for Alluka to immediately force choke every Z besides himself and Alluka is actually totally sensible. Killua also avoids any solution where any potential innocent people can die, so it's also sensible that he didn't wish for stuff like 'make me the strongest character in the world' because he knows that it is very likely he can't pay them back (if you wish to become strongest character the return wishes would be something that is difficult for even such a character to do) and he doesn't want to risk getting humanity wiped out on accident.
But his family doesn't know that! The family thought Killua is a cold blooded assassin like the rest of them and backstabbing family member is apparently pretty common in the Z family. I mean what the heck can they possibly do? One of them could call up Goku for help but Killua can just say, "I wish Goku dies" and Alluka will take care of him. Alluka and Killua's relationship borderlines on incest and she uses her power as favorably as possible for her brother. Yes it's mentioned that there's an obvious weakness to the combo, in that after Alluka leaves wishing mode it takes a nontrivial time for her to return to that, and as much as Alluka likes Killua, she can't artifiically lower the difficulty of the return wishes so you'd at least expect her wishing power to be unavailable for a few minutes after every wish. At the end of part 324, Killua seem to imply that he can also just command Alluka to force choke people or whatever even when not in wishing mode.
So did the rest of the Z family just finish reading Fate/Zero and figured that their son, who is said to be destined to become the greatest assassin of them all, is just mentally retarded and don't know how to use an entity of arbitary power against them? Did any of them thought of 'what if Killua wishes for all of us to be dead'? It's literally like asking someone to keep tabs on someone who is about to wish with the dragonballs and take him out if he wishes for immortality. I mean the whole story works since Killua is like Kenshin reincarinated and swore to never kill another person, and he said if you try to use Alluka's power offensively it invariably just ends up getting a whole ton of people force choked which is not what he wanted to happen. But his opposition doesn't know that and they're fighting against a being that can force choke all of them to death instantly any time!
Not to mention Killua's power is lightning, which is probably the most devastating special ability in HXH thus far not counting Alluka's or Meryem's (absorb any power). I think a lot of people miss the boat that although creativity counts for a lot in HXH, when your special power is lightning, it kind of has a huge advantage compared to a guy whose special power is to form sticky substances. Killua's lightning attacks seems to be instant kill on any human beings (electricity cannot be defended by physical defense) and his lightning speed is incomparable to even nonhuman entities. The only viable weakness is that he needs a source of electricity to reuse the ability but that's why he carries portable tasers and extension cords, and it's implied that one full charge of lightning power is more than enough to defeat just about any human character.
The only way this can turn out well is if next week, Pariston jumps down from a plane and instantly takes out all the Zs chasing Killua, and say that Alluka's power is the only thing that can stop his world dominating plan, and therefore he must ensure it can be used to stop him rather than have the Zs lock her up in a vault again, because conquering the world without a fight would be a rather disappointing.
