#go figure i had time to whip up the trivia before work afterall

[thewapolls]

I'm not sure if it was intentional or not but I always thought the Disasters' design looked like it was based on Lord Blazer from WA2, which felt like a neat nod when his epithet has been The Blaze of Disaster. The wings are centered on the torso rather than the head, and what was a crown is more of just a hat now, but the general silhouette feels similar.

They do also sort of remind me just a little bit of kachina dolls. Where as Lord Blazer had his 90s sword&sorcery fantasy anime regalia, the disasters wear what looks like a more south western native attire, at least under the fantasy armor chest plate. Shame they were all just recolors of each other. It would have been neat if they each had a unique pattern on their cloth, or a unique headpiece to set them apart, even while reusing all the same animation.

I also just love the idea of there being anti-guardians, and them being manifestations of natural disasters. Earthquakes, tsunamis and floods, wild fires and hurricanes, etc... has kind of a dark shenron in Dragonball GT thing going for it. The innate negative energy of a planet abused that the benevolent guardians don't embody in their own. Like a reservoir of karma building up against humanity as the planet and the guardians' power slips away.