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[phishface]

Everything Corypheus does goes hilariously wrong. The first time we meet him, he and his dragon are defeated by a long conversation and some snow.

 

Then he manages to blow himself up at the temple of Mythal. Then his useless dragon gets to the bridge too late to stop the Inquisitor slamming the temple door shut. What was it even doing in the meantime  - snoozing in a tree somewhere?

 

And then Corypheus literally faceplants into the Eluvian and lands in a puddle. This is the most Scooby Doo event of this or any other game, and that includes Scooby Doo Mystery Mayhem.

[LightningPoodle]

I remember making this comparison before.

 

I did feel that The Inquisitor and companions were like the Scooby Doo gang. They don't have to do much to foil his plans, and always succeed no matter what.

[Donk]

He would've got away with it too, if it weren't for those pesky kids!!

[htisscrimbliv]

All that's left would be a talking mabari companion

[Eudaemonium]

I think one of the game's biggest flaws narrative-wise is that until the end it still insists that Cory is a massive threat despite the game repeatedly showing him doing nothing but fail. I think it would have been far more effective (assuming current levels of failure) if the Inquisition itself had started underestimating him after the middle act (Wicked Hearts and Here Lies) and you ended up with an interesting dynamic.

[Reznore57]

Also remember that time a grandma kicked the Ball of Doom from his hand , and then the thing rolled on the floor and he went "argh!"...

[Urzon]

Obviously not. He's missing the key component that all Scooby Doo villains have... The mask reveal at the end.

 

Inquisitor: After spending their entire life working to better an organization that was falling to corruption and decay, they finally decided that the only way to truly make the system better was to strike at its very heart and to give the people an enemy to rally against. Isn't that right--

 

~Inquisitor pulls off Cory's mask~

 

Inquisitor Gang: *GASP*

 

Inquisitor: --Mother Giselle! 

 

Mother Giselle: And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!

[phishface]

Obviously not. He's missing the key component that all Scooby Doo villains have... The mask reveal at the end.

 

Inquisitor: After spending their entire life working to better an organization that was falling to corruption and decay, they finally decided that the only way to truly make the system better was to strike at its very heart and to give the people an enemy to rally against. Isn't that right--

 

~Inquisitor pulls off Cory's mask~

 

Inquisitor Gang: *GASP*

 

Inquisitor: --Mother Giselle! 

 

Mother Giselle: And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!

 

OK, this is now canon for me. And I'm gonna develop a complicated theory about it, illustrated with screenshots, bits of codex, and something Cole once said

[Donk]

OK, this is now canon for me. And I'm gonna develop a complicated theory about it, illustrated with screenshots, bits of codex, and something Cole once said

And a graph. Don't forget the graph.

[Cute Nug]

I wish the Inquisitor and companions were like the Scooby Doo gang (cartoon or Buffy version). Cory gave us so much to work with and the Quizzy was just lame in DAI especially the final anti-climatic battle. Although a Scooby unmasking of mother G as Cory at the end would still have made it an awesome ending.

 

Quizzy dialogue is pretty lame until DLC it gets okay IMO.

 

I didn't see a need for a talking mabari in this DA but now I see the potential missed. Too bad Samson was busy. We needed a lyrium strung out templar companion for the mabari.

[In Exile]

Yeah, but Corypheus, as much as he is the "villain", isn't actually the antagonist in DA:I. That's Solas. Who is quite the opposite, and apart from his one screw up with Corypheus, orchestrates everything brilliantly, and ends up winning in the end. That's part of the reason why Solas is such a parallel to Corypheus - working in the shadows, wanting to re-create an old world, metaphors of godhood, etc. 

 

The only difference is that Solas is the reconstruction of the type of villain Corypheus is a deconstruction. Whether Bioware inteded it or not, it's actually a clever story idea that wasn't well executed. 

[Arshei]

I would have gotten away with it if weren't for those meddling inquisition and its stupid mabari

[myahele]

[Dai Grepher]

The Inquisitor is Shaggy. Leliana is Daphne. Josephine is Velma. Cullen is Fred.

 

The eluvians are the Scooby-Doo doors.

[CoM Solaufein]

Cory was all show and no go.

[Arshei]

[themikefest]

Scooby Doo?

 

Spoiler

[Vit246]

Yeah, but Corypheus, as much as he is the "villain", isn't actually the antagonist in DA:I. That's Solas. Who is quite the opposite, and apart from his one screw up with Corypheus, orchestrates everything brilliantly, and ends up winning in the end. That's part of the reason why Solas is such a parallel to Corypheus - working in the shadows, wanting to re-create an old world, metaphors of godhood, etc. 

 

The only difference is that Solas is the reconstruction of the type of villain Corypheus is a deconstruction. Whether Bioware inteded it or not, it's actually a clever story idea that wasn't well executed. 

 

You give Bioware too much credit.

[vbibbi]

I would love to see this in comic form. I picture Cole as the Scooby...except he just says an unsettling non sequitur and everyone looks away awkwardly.

 

It's such a shame because Cory must have been plotting since his prison break, so he was capable of subterfuge and craftiness. I also think it would've been cooler if he had remained "masked" in a body suit (Larius or Janeka, or else another Warden to give even more surprise) so that would make his true form reveal even more surprising. Before the game came out I thought he was going to be hidden in Warden leadership and be the reason for their disappearance.

[thats1evildude]

I wouldn't look at him getting blown up at the Temple of Mythal as an error on his part. Rather, he knew that the temple's defences would prevent anyone from entering, so he set them off knowing he woykd not die. Considering it got his forces inside the temple and within spitting distance of the Well of Sorrows, the gamble very nearly worked.

Also, he does technically win the battle of Haven, which is a smoking ruin at the end. There's no way he coukd know that a member of the Inquisition could pull an ancient elven fortress out of his ass.

[Dai Grepher]

 

Okay, the Freddie Prince Jr. thing with Bull I can understand, but why the heck would...

 

...

 

Ah, because he's into fashion. Nevermind.
 

[AnUnculturedLittlePotato]

I wouldn't look at him getting blown up at the Temple of Mythal as an error on his part. Rather, he knew that the temple's defences would prevent anyone from entering, so he set them off knowing he woykd not die. Considering it got his forces inside the temple and within spitting distance of the Well of Sorrows, the gamble very nearly worked.

Also, he does technically win the battle of Haven, which is a smoking ruin at the end. There's no way he coukd know that a member of the Inquisition could pull an ancient elven fortress out of his ass.

An elven ruin AND a dragon.

[BSpud]

Reading this thread felt like being the one teenager made to sit at the kids' table.

[AnUnculturedLittlePotato]

Reading this thread felt like being the one teenager made to sit at the kids' table.

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

[Statare]

Corypheus getting splashed by the water of the Well and breaking a mirror was close, but just barely can't beat the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz dying because of some water, but it is pretty close in lameness/slapstick comedy levels.

 

Edit: that scene was bizarre. When Cory like rage flies across the courtyard at first I was like "oh my! this is like in Harry Potter when the evil characters can fly! This has never been seen before in DA, he's going to catch me and we'll battle in the Cross Roads!" But then he just gets splashed and breaks everything. What was that?