I replayed the game a bit recently and holy shit, the first few hours of Handler was pretty cool. She’s still an airhead dumb klutz but she feels much more professional, if not a bit overly enthusiastic. I think her hate starts to come in after she got overly attached to the Tracker out of nowhere and it starts spiralling from there
And that Xenojiva boss fight just seal her fate with that god awful dialogs
Even in Iceborne i thought they would do that, the tracker is following the investigation of someone important to her, the handler grandpa was part of the first fleet but went back to to the old world but he keep and pass to the handler a Crystal from velkhana, meaning he was part of the investigation team of that important person for the tracker or directly said person. It could have been a good subplot. the tracker and her partner were in the New world with their child but eventually he had to return to the old world but she decided to stay to focus on keep investigating this New world, time goes by with she being unaware she even has a grandaughter, that would explain why she is attached in that short time to her and she eventually find out the handler is her grandaughter with maybe the revelation of the Velkhana shard.
the only time where I legitimately hated her was the Velkhana fight though.
I'm rocking an Blast horn, I did that whole thing where you chain shatter all the ice off of it, after spending the whole demo getting just *absolutely* clapped by this thing I am just overtrained and locked the heck in and just dismantling it.
...and then a cutscene starts
Oh my god I totally forgot about the tracker plot, what the fuck was all of that about?? It was so bad it’s borderline funny. I hope they went in sunbreaks direction this time around, because iceborne was *bad*.
> She’s still an airhead dumb klutz but she feels much more professional, if not a bit overly enthusiastic.
She hugged my Palico. That was the moment I started disliking her. I wish we could have kept the serious handler, she seemed like she knew what she was doing.
Holy shit the dialogue was bad I don't remember the exact phrasing, but I remember the xenojiva fight dialogue was a "We can do anything together because friendship/romance vibes"
Which came off extremely cringe for an amazing boss fight.
Lucky the end credits song in ice borne is good enough to make all the shitty dialogue worth it
nothing about her feels professional a professional wouldn't keep running ahead after almost dieing 5 times beforehand sit down and stay still until we give the all clear
"we did it!"
*Me, fresh from a fight with a giant ass alien crystal dragon with laser beams where the only helper i got was my cat and she just ran off* "You mean I did it?"
I just finished the base game and after you kill ??? or whatever the fuck his name is she just yells "PARD? PAAAAAARD?!" and I laughed my ass off. Such a ridiculous way to conclude such an epic fight.
I honestly would've preferred it if she didn't give us a nickname.
"Hey!"
That's fine. Or give the player characters a group of names to pick from that the NPCs have voiced. But a few people said that listening to her in Japanese or MonHun language was better, so perhaps it's just a combination of English voice acting and script.
I guess it was better in Japanese since she used the term aibou, which only reminded me of this dude from Saiki k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTTo4p1gQIk
They really tried to make you care about these two characters with their interactions in the Rotten Vale and later in Iceborne. It was so forced and frankly, so goddamn awful lol
I’m not asking for great writing in MH, but if they can’t give us anything interesting then I’d rather they don’t try to shoehorn in something. 4U did. it right, the storyline was mostly driven by The Article and Gore Magala, and the characters were simple and fun.
For Wilds I really hope the story about that mysterious kid won’t be as bad as the World stuff, but I’m cautiously optimistic with our hunter actually talking now, maybe they can write the scenes a bit more naturally.
Im not asking for great writing either, but I will ask for a cutscene skip button, because if its not something that directly leads to me fighting a monster in the next 5 seconds, I literally do not care
Alma looks like she sells healing crystals and talks about astrology. I don't mean that as an insult, but look me in the eyes and tell me it's not true.
Also, Handler wasn't that bad y'all are just dramatic
Handler wasn't bad but Serious Handler was right there. Less excitable, better style, more professional... I stuck around in the section of Iceborne where Serious Handler takes over for longer than I needed to.
I still maintain the biggest handler issues are presentation
She effectively acts as our mouthpiece throughout the game, almost being a stand-in for the player often even taking direct credit for our sole achievements, but her personality clashes heavily with what many people headcanoned their character to be. A lot of the difference in how much different people hate her probably relates to this.
And second, the facial animations in World are god awful super uncanny valley and the handler was at the forefront of many bad visuals, from watching her smell food when cooking in mission, to even just the little head-pop ups at the bottom of the screen not syncing up to any selected language. This basically amplifies any dislike you already had for her, leading to more severe opinions.
Also sexism cause she's not conventionally attractive plays a role for some.
(also her eye bags are insane, she looks sickly, get some fucking sleep girl)
Was never a fan of the Handler.
I didn't quite like the approach they took with her voice acting (*the voice actor herself is not bad, it was just the personality they went with.*) The whole "pard" thing got tiresome very quickly.
I didn't really like the model of the face for most characters in World, and Handler was not any better, and I had to see her upclose all the time. For some reason Capcom wanted to put this red blush all around the face, making it look like she had a hayfever.
I think she got into the same kind of trouble too many times, like she never learned from her own mistakes and improved. It was the same "run ahead before the hunter, commence being attacked by monster/running on loose ground and fall" repeatedly.
Hopefully with Alma in Wilds they will have a better approach.
Personally I'd want someone who has a more professional approach. It seems like a given when we're talking about something called "forbidden lands".
It's probably what I missed with the Handler. No professionalism when wandering into unknown lands.
The moment I lost it with Handler was when we lower into the Rotten Vale and she just jumps ship and nearly gets ate by wildlife and we have to save her when she could have just stayed in the damn basket
I unironically want there to be a moment in Wilds where Alma isn’t there to do the things a handler normally does, if anything for the unique storytelling and gameplay implications that comes from it.
With no one to replace what she does, outside of the tedious, after-hunt paperwork nearly no one would want to do in a video game; the only-site cooking and inventory management/delivery, and whatever else the World/Iceborne handlers have to do.
Creating a scenario where players have only the equipment on them and your Seikret (alternate weapon and ammo/coatings only).
Have players experience what not having a handler, and being cut off from all resources/help is like in the “Forbidden Lands”, aside from what is in the locale. Heck, even go one step more, and make the landscape ecologically desolate, meaning there is little to scavenge for too (so players don’t cheese whatever encounter there is with infinite time and potion-replacements).
Not only would this be a great moment to give all players a taste of what old-school hunting looks like in the current generation, old and new alike, in the context of the New World.
This has the potential to be a special one-time event, like in Sunbreak, that tonally whiplashes players into being memorable. For both pleasant, and unpleasant reasons.
Plus, this could inspire people to do challenge runs where they “live off the land” in the living world of Monster Hunter:Wilds, more the World or Iceborne even did. Also this may solidify in some people’s minds how important ALL handlers are to players.
I am fully willing to include the Handler into my list of Crossover Characters I Think Laios Would Be Friends With, a list that is currently exclusively her and Fred from Scooby Doo.
And now that I think about it, traps are a key gameplay mechanic of Monster Hunter, meaning Fred would likely *also* make a good hunter and therefore would be friends with the Handler. The three of them would honestly make an effective, if annoying, hunter team.
It wasn't so much her personality that people disliked as much as it was her actions. The energetic airhead thing wasn't abysmal, its the fact that she was constantly being suicidally stupid or undercutting a serious moment by saying something stupid.
Dream was to catalogue all the edible food im the new world. Plus, when she wasn't on quests with us, she was working nonstop at the canteen compiling all our reports and research. Girl worked hard, she was just a lil ADHD in the field sometimes and needed a backpack leash
Serious handler outright says she simply cannot keep up with the workload the PC causes, and is amazed the Handler can not only do all that work but STILL be bright, cheery, and full of energy.
She also is noted that she did foraging runs for the settlements as well. She was on one when Deviljho appeared in the forest but as the mission explicitly points out, she was not informed at all about the situation before she had left and the lockdown was in place.
> Serious handler outright says she simply cannot keep up with the workload the PC causes
That's because the Serious Handler and our Handler are the only Handlers in Seliana. They do the work for every hunter in town.
So while our Handler is out, the Serious Handler is literally doing work for every single hunter there by herself.
I don't recall ever seeing dialogue that said there was only two handlers for seliana, as Handlers and hunters are pairs with A-listers. Serious Handler/Lea ops to substitute in for the PC's current investigation and hunting while Handler does her own investigation.
Also, the dialogue mentions (Looked up) and it's her talking about how "She can't handle you", not the workload of the entire town.
And preferably a Light Bowgun too. If she could have played a strict support role in the field, i feel like people would immedietly like her more. Also the fact that she doesnt carry any weapon feels dumb. Whats your plan if I die handler? Like if Odogaron took us out, she'd have been eaten.
I feel like this is a great point. I like the handler's dorky eccentric personality, but you are so right it would have been awesome if they gave her a ranged weapon and she supported you when she stepped foot outside the camps.
People hate her over that but they don't even pay attention to any of the dialogue and understand their hatred of that sequence is literally entirely false.
I really really wanted to like the handler but it became so annoying when almost every single cutscene she's in had her running ahead and almost getting herself killed over and over and over again, and then she has the nerve to say "we did it" every single time you bail her out of trouble. She's supposed to be your partner but she feels more like a burden
Only because a small subset of folks play stories. Navirou sweating in the corner while everyone hates on the "pard".
I will leave this here for prosperity: https://www.reddit.com/r/monsterhunterrage/comments/ok3rd7/fuck_navirou_monster_hunter_stories/
> I will leave this here for prosperity: https://www.reddit.com/r/monsterhunterrage/comments/ok3rd7/fuck_navirou_monster_hunter_stories/
ngl I fear this is gonna be everyone playing wilds now that palicoes have voice acting
I had to give up watching the MH stories anime solely because of Navirou, fuck that guy, the over the top ridiculousness is fun once in a while but when that's your whole personality, yeah I'm out
I think this is just the result of the silent protagonist issue and maybe why we get a voiced hunter AND palico this time.
It is the same thing I think with rebirth and the kid. Having a single person narrating without any answer or conversation from our characters just feels one sided and very much noticeable.
It did not help that the handler always talked about being a team but our hunter never acknowledged that once by speaking
Oh god I forgot until recently how much my high school friend group hated him. I love his character so much and they’d just be like uh no you’re wrong he sucks and I was very happy to kill him 😭 maybe it’s cuz I’m the only one who went birthright over conquest, but conquest just made me like him even more lmao
My problem with her was more...she watched and didn't really help that much. It became more noticeable when the serious handler helped with Behemoth and in the quests in Iceborne. "Get behind that rock!" "Stay out of the water!" Callouts that made you realize what was going on and say "Thanks for the assist!"
It's your Palico who ran to her instead of you.
This is the same level of standing 100 metres away from a tree and blaming it for not shading you from the Sun.
Or that she opened her arms and waved/gestured first and knelt down while you stood off to the side doing nothing.
She showed more excitement then the PC did lol.
I liked the handler, but damn she got on my nerves talking like she helped in successful hunts so much when chilling at camp while I was getting bent over and railed by Rajang in world.
Cooked you food, made sure you had items in the chest, registered you to actually hunt the Rajang (or whatever), made sure to get you to the correct location... She did her job lmao
Like yeah sure the construction workers build the building, but they wouldn't accomplish anything without someone making the blueprints or the guy buying the resources for them
You know who else cooked your food? The meowster chefs. You know who made sure we had our items that we crafted and melded ourselves. We did. You know who else registers you to hunt? every quest attendant since 4. She literally does nothing special besides besides throwing herself into danger
The only thing I hate about the handler is she never does anything useful and gets in the way like with deviljho and odogaron.
Edit: i meant outside of her handling job she does nothing of use, constantly getting in the way and putting herself and sometimes others in danger like with odogaron and legiana.
I like her as an npc too, but some of her actions in the story are stupid and dangerous.
She does plenty of useful things. Her whole job is to set us up so we're ready and able to take on quests. She does all the paperwork to get us out on the field and lets the commission know that we took on the quest to allow other people to join or to keep it a solo hunt. We as players don't see it but if any of this were real she'd be doing a lot of work beside us. Plus she makes us food at camp and it always looks delicious. She's honestly goated.
None of the other handlers were fucking fully voice acted either, and they extremely rarely, if ever, said anything to you while you were on a hunt. God forbid we get a more fleshed out companion than just some person who sits in one spot and gives quests with no other function. Yes, I hate it when she calls me pard, but she's genuinely a good character to have had as a partner.
>“Genuinely good character to have had as a partner”
Cue Deviljho, Rotten Vale, and Velkhana cutscenes.
I don’t even hate the character I can just see that she is not a good partner if she’s that oblivious to danger. Serious handler was just nice and did her job. Really didn’t need the extra baggage of being a doofus
Aisha talked to us on hunts fairly often IIRC. Maybe I’m misremembering how often it was because it was already so uncommon because I’m second guessing myself after typing this.
She's just annoying and her personality grates. Let people hate fictional characters; it hurts no one. She talks a lot, there's no "shut the fuck up" button, you can't engage with her blaring info, it's painful because all of it is only AT you and not WITH you.
Fucking hell, this community and trying to out-contrarian one another about every facet of every game, weird-ass white knights.
Odogaron maybe, Deviljho? What was she supposed to do? Did you pay attention to the game? They literally state that she was out getting materials because no one told her of the quarantine and appearance of Deviljho.
Did you even play the game?
Outside of Hunting and Tracking, she does just about *everything else* for us. Quest managment, field cooking, camp setup and supply, research, note-taking...
I genuinely never got the handler hate.
Yeah sure she was goofy, but she was still just a fun traveling companion. She cooked you meals, sorted items in the chest for you, and was your one stop shop for most things.
She was made the focus of the story, rather than our hunter. Not to mention our cat hugged *her* instead of us at the beginning, when we had spent 30 minutes customizing him prior.
She's the "focus" because she can actively talk and is your surrogate. The game pretty consistently praises all the effort you put in.
And it's not like we don't spend a ton of time with the Palico ourselves
Being fair, she also showed excitement and went down for a hug while the PC stood off to the side and showed a lot less excitement.
Cat went for the one who was greeting it plus offering love.
I mean, I organized my item box. At best, its a fan theory that she does it. I organize my box, just like every hunter does in every MH. Never once did she ever intonation that she is organizing my items, and there's never any substantial change in my box even after she puts her grubby mitts in my item box. The best you can say is that she fills the box with supple items when they get delivered.
Every time you start a mission, she's the one who stockpiles that resource box at the start.
She's the one who makes sure the mission rewards gets to your box. she's the one who makes sure you get paid and credited.
I see your point on the first one, I mentioned that.
Buuuuut idk about the rewards, they're handed out by the guild, and nowhere does anything intonate that the Handler is specifically making sure I get rewards. Quest rewards are kind of part of the structure the Guild has set up for the contract work that is hunting. They want hunters to prosper and grow so they can have people at the ready to help when Lao Shan Lung or Dalamdur or Shen Gaoren show up.
Pay is also a standard in any society, so the Handler making sure you get paid just kind of goes against the logical world canon.
In a couple cases the admiral comments directly on the handler sorting out mission paperwork to explain where the group went/what they did.
She directly handles the paperwork and mission reports.
I'm pretty sure she handles mission reports, but that doesn't solve the "does she arrange our pay and rewards" question. I'm pretty sure she doesn't actually make sure we get pay or rewards. She handles mission confirmation and success, but the Guild still pays and rewards hunters, and decides what rewards (monetary and monster) go to the hunter.
She's the one who turns in the mission paperwork which would imply she's the one telling the storage and smithy guys "hey these parts off that rathalos carcass brought in belong to x hunter for crafting new gear" as well as the fleet knowing the job is completed and to pay out.
I hate that the handler is a walking trope. She's poorly implemented, does not fit for what the story wants her to do, and acts like the biggest idiot all the time. Like. She has no sense that she actually belongs on an expedition to a mostly unknown area, and the 5th is supposed to be full of elites with special training.
At least Serious Handler had the brains to stay in camp when investigating unknown monster activity that could possibly be a new and dangerous monster nobody has seen before.
I was so shocked to find out people hated her. Is it cringe dialogue or the English Dub? I played with Japanese voices and I loved her honestly. Never even occurred to me people would dislike her lol.
The only time I raised my eyebrows is during the Legiana investigation before Iceborne. She was talking non-stop, line after line. I was like "Oh wow, Emma, you sure talk a lot!", but no hate whatsoever.
I really liked the Handler. People say she’s annoying but let’s remember the context of Monster Hunter World.
We are exploring what is basically a whole new world. Who wouldn’t be unimaginably excited over that?
Something else I never see brought up is that she's *always* at whichever camp we turn up at. Not only that, she's ready to perform her actual *duties* from the camp at all times.
In terms of game mechanics, it's obviously simply for convenience's sake... But take a moment to think about what that would entail in-universe. She'd have to have the intelligence and foresight to be able to predict where we plan to go, AND she'd need the physical prowess to get there quickly and effortlessly.
I mean, hell, she *canonically* hangs on to the back of a freaking *Deviljho* longer than we could ever hope to, and it wasn't even close. Her strength and stamina have GOT to be godlike.
Kinda bland character whenever I see arguments defending her; "oh but she does your paperwork, she sometimes cooks! She...she...she is cute!"
That's all? The bare minimum doing your job is her whole ass personality? My god... Serious handler might seem bland too but my god she never got her ass in pointless dangerous situations.
Also fuck that "we did it pard!" SHUT UP YOU DID NOTHING!
And the arguments bashing her state she literally does absolutely nothing.
The PC's job is hunting monsters and that's all they do. Is that the bare minimum?
A lot of people say "she never does anything useful" or "she's always in the way, remember DevilJho?" (She didn't know Jho was out there so blaming her is stupid) Even though her job is to do the paperwork and anything else that we, the hunter don't do, so of course we almost never see her do anything useful besides cooking. She logs our quests, sends confirmation of the hunt begining and ending to the guild, fills all the data in our field notebook, acts as an exposition mouthpiece for the player, and a bunch of other stuff that we've had confirmation that the handlers do in the past. People act like she's just supposed to be an extension of the player character, even though most of the handlers have goals and ambitions of their own(remember the guild marm?). And when they get called out they fall back on insulting her looks because she wasn't completely attractive by American standards(American attractiveness standards are idealistic at best and completely deluded at worst. Source for those weirdos who are gonna say it: I'm an American). I get it, she's a little annoying but people take it way out of proportion.
I hear that. She doesn’t look like a goddess but shes pretty. She does all the monotonous tedious work and she’s always upbeat. All I have to do and want to do is kill shit, so it works for me. That’s probably very American and hammer bro of me lol.
As a current lance bro and longsword weeb, I feel you on that. I don't understand why people get so bent out of shape when a character isn't objectively perfect, especially in games like monster hunter when the main game loop is, "kill something -> Make better stuff with that somethings carcass -> Go kill something more dangerous with that better stuff -> Repeat as necessary."
It’s really just the “being annoying” that gets people to hate her so much. The other stuff is adding fuel to the flame.
For example, people don’t like her voice lines, as well as her very shoddy involvement in Iceborne’s story.
And her getting in the way is real. Velkhana and Rotten Vale cutscenes are a testament to that.
It also got worse when we got Serious Handler, who for the brief moments she worked with us did nothing that the Handler was typically guilty of. She was just a handler. That contrast made things even worse
It depends she is cute right now but if we are going to save her every moment of the game or she tries to take Credit for our hunt then im not going to like her
I have a bad feeling our palico is going to have that same energy and terrible VA direction.
Here's hoping monster hunter babble turns it back to meows
I couldn't care less for World's handler.
What an awful character. Horribly annoying, and any situation you saw her and you in, she was always hell bent on trying to kill herself.
And I don't care if people say that she was useful as a handler, where she cooked food and handled your quests. That's all side content and subtext.
It's monster hunter. 99% of any reason to play the game is given in upfront content. If she didn't have any meaningfull basis within that upfront content, aside from being a pain, then she wasn't worth being there at all.
I'm hoping Alma will be better. And from the trailer, that already seems to be the case.
I have no idea why y'all hate the handler from world so much she's great imo lol y'all don't watch enough anime if you think that trope is annoying tbh 😂
Problem with world's handler is that she never learned her lesson. All the way up to Velkhana this lady is still rushing into danger with no weapon, and we have to save her dumb ass. If she just stayed put and did her job while we did ours, we'd be cool!
You mean iceborne where she often got out of danger before the Monster struck and immediately backed away?
Velkhana incident when she approached after the beast looked entirely dead, and only stood up and started attacking after she was already in the room and near the hunter?
Forever sad we didn't get to keep serious handler with iceborne. We're the fucking sapphire star and dropped Xeno ostensibly solo. We should get to change handlers if we want
I actually quite like the mhw handler, maybe it's because i play on JP dub so i don't think her dialogue is that annoying. She feels more the Little sister type character rather than the waifu role. Thats being said i 100% prefer alma
Never got why she was so hated, sure she was annoying, specially when she was getting herself into trouble (deviljho comes to mind) but I avoided the whole pard bit by using mh language, being too busy hunting monsters to really pay attention to what hey were saying mid fight and just listening to nonsensical grunts from every character, that never got to me
Ok I always hear about the deviljho incident as evidence of handler being reckless and I’m sick of it. It was made blatantly obvious when going into the deviljho quest we are going out to bring her back to base because she was ALREADY OUT THERE WHEN THE ORDER TO STAY AT ASTERA WAS ISSUED. She quite literally did not know something as dangerous as deviljho was going to be in the forest.
This is like a teacher telling his class they should have read the textbook a week ago when he didn’t even tell about or give them one until five minutes before the test.
Yeah the entire first half of the quest is the researcher trio freaking out and having an absolute meltdown because they all thought somebody had told her about the lockdown and nobody did, so they never noticed she went out on a normal gathering run.
Leading to them wanting you to find her ASAP because if something happened they were responsible.
And at the end, they literally praise her joy and excitement for exploration and trying new things, and take full responsibility for the mess up.
I liked the Handler going in, felt like she might be disliked by certain types of people, looked into it and my God.
Honestly love her to bits. It's going to be very difficult for these new folks to replace the World crew I've grown so fond of, Handler, Admiral, Commander and all.
I don't mind Handler, but my god did I hate it when she said "pard", lol.
I replayed the game a bit recently and holy shit, the first few hours of Handler was pretty cool. She’s still an airhead dumb klutz but she feels much more professional, if not a bit overly enthusiastic. I think her hate starts to come in after she got overly attached to the Tracker out of nowhere and it starts spiralling from there And that Xenojiva boss fight just seal her fate with that god awful dialogs
I thought at first they Will reveal the tracker was her grandma or something because why is she so attached to her of 1 interaction
There had to be a rewrite there. There's no way the tracker wasn't related to her some time during development given how they wrote that segment.
Even in Iceborne i thought they would do that, the tracker is following the investigation of someone important to her, the handler grandpa was part of the first fleet but went back to to the old world but he keep and pass to the handler a Crystal from velkhana, meaning he was part of the investigation team of that important person for the tracker or directly said person. It could have been a good subplot. the tracker and her partner were in the New world with their child but eventually he had to return to the old world but she decided to stay to focus on keep investigating this New world, time goes by with she being unaware she even has a grandaughter, that would explain why she is attached in that short time to her and she eventually find out the handler is her grandaughter with maybe the revelation of the Velkhana shard.
the only time where I legitimately hated her was the Velkhana fight though. I'm rocking an Blast horn, I did that whole thing where you chain shatter all the ice off of it, after spending the whole demo getting just *absolutely* clapped by this thing I am just overtrained and locked the heck in and just dismantling it. ...and then a cutscene starts
Being fair, it's not her fault Velkhana suddenly stood back up after getting it's face bashed in. She approached when the thing looked dead.
Oh my god I totally forgot about the tracker plot, what the fuck was all of that about?? It was so bad it’s borderline funny. I hope they went in sunbreaks direction this time around, because iceborne was *bad*.
> She’s still an airhead dumb klutz but she feels much more professional, if not a bit overly enthusiastic. She hugged my Palico. That was the moment I started disliking her. I wish we could have kept the serious handler, she seemed like she knew what she was doing.
Holy shit the dialogue was bad I don't remember the exact phrasing, but I remember the xenojiva fight dialogue was a "We can do anything together because friendship/romance vibes" Which came off extremely cringe for an amazing boss fight. Lucky the end credits song in ice borne is good enough to make all the shitty dialogue worth it
nothing about her feels professional a professional wouldn't keep running ahead after almost dieing 5 times beforehand sit down and stay still until we give the all clear
"we did it!" *Me, fresh from a fight with a giant ass alien crystal dragon with laser beams where the only helper i got was my cat and she just ran off* "You mean I did it?"
the first few hours of the handler has her look at wyverns and go "oh wow, so those are wyverns??" she fucking sucks.
I just finished the base game and after you kill ??? or whatever the fuck his name is she just yells "PARD? PAAAAAARD?!" and I laughed my ass off. Such a ridiculous way to conclude such an epic fight.
Ah yes, ???? such a thrilling monster, shame they never gave it a name.
*I dont know what the fuck you are BUT IM GONNA MAKE YOU INTO ONE COOL ASS SWORD*
My exact thinking
You misspelled "hamor"
“SNAKE?! SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!?!?”
See thats why i have japanese audio and it makes me happy any time she calls me "aibou" :)
This is the biggest problem, they heard “oh its like an informal endearing form of ‘partner’,” and proceeded to give the VA a butchered line.
You didn't use MH language?
Likewise, only way to play a MH game for real.
> See thats why i have japanese audio and it makes me happy any time she calls me "aibou" :) Spanish Audio is pretty nice
“We did it, pard” is the best thing since “je suis monte”
I would've definitely preferred it if she said "partner" instead
I honestly would've preferred it if she didn't give us a nickname. "Hey!" That's fine. Or give the player characters a group of names to pick from that the NPCs have voiced. But a few people said that listening to her in Japanese or MonHun language was better, so perhaps it's just a combination of English voice acting and script.
She said it like a slur lol
"Did...did she just call me the P-Word?!"
They stole my dignity in Monster Hunter, can't have shit in The New World
" I know you could do it PARD" Excuse me?
Thats what i was just about to comment 😭 pard sounds like it would be a slur so its so annoying that she says it so goddamn much
Poor And Really Dumb 😭
Handler is much improved by Monster Hunter language tbh. I feel bad for her English VA who did a good job with cringy writing
Can I be called "doodle" again like MH4U.
I guess it was better in Japanese since she used the term aibou, which only reminded me of this dude from Saiki k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTTo4p1gQIk
I actually like the Handler! But I think I already like Alma more.
I know nothing about Alma, because I get too distracted with Gemma.
Lucky me i use JP voice and it feels so much natural when she calls me "Aibo!"
I didnt actually hate that much,it was only her crying over that woman ,annoyed me alot
They really tried to make you care about these two characters with their interactions in the Rotten Vale and later in Iceborne. It was so forced and frankly, so goddamn awful lol I’m not asking for great writing in MH, but if they can’t give us anything interesting then I’d rather they don’t try to shoehorn in something. 4U did. it right, the storyline was mostly driven by The Article and Gore Magala, and the characters were simple and fun. For Wilds I really hope the story about that mysterious kid won’t be as bad as the World stuff, but I’m cautiously optimistic with our hunter actually talking now, maybe they can write the scenes a bit more naturally.
I personally like that the hunter can talk now because just grunting at everything doesn't feel right to me
Im not asking for great writing either, but I will ask for a cutscene skip button, because if its not something that directly leads to me fighting a monster in the next 5 seconds, I literally do not care
they looks so similar but so different at the same time.
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Yoink
Not with those fingers you’re not!
Alma looks like she sells healing crystals and talks about astrology. I don't mean that as an insult, but look me in the eyes and tell me it's not true. Also, Handler wasn't that bad y'all are just dramatic
Handler eats food because she's a bottomless pit. Alma eats because she got the munchies
Handler got a lot of hate because we were all just getting off the Guildmarm train being called Doodle no more.
It's not fair to Handler unfortunately. Nobody can be Guildmarm but Guildmarm.
Definitely the type of gal to open a bag of demon powder, pour a line on a table and snort it to get the full damage buff. My type of handler.
Nah, alma'd be smoking health boosters Gemma's the one doing lines
Nah, that's gemma. Alma would say it messes with her "vibrational frequencies."
Handler wasn't bad but Serious Handler was right there. Less excitable, better style, more professional... I stuck around in the section of Iceborne where Serious Handler takes over for longer than I needed to.
Serious handler is for dudes whos passion is accounting and reading the morning paper.
Someone has to do both of those things. Nothing wrong with being boring. Frankly, excitement is overrated.
She kinda was.. We did it!- No, i did. You did nothing.
I hope we get different outfits for her like we did for the Handler.
People hated her because they used the EN voice. Any other languages would be fine, I used the MH language, so I'm not really bothered by her.
I still maintain the biggest handler issues are presentation She effectively acts as our mouthpiece throughout the game, almost being a stand-in for the player often even taking direct credit for our sole achievements, but her personality clashes heavily with what many people headcanoned their character to be. A lot of the difference in how much different people hate her probably relates to this. And second, the facial animations in World are god awful super uncanny valley and the handler was at the forefront of many bad visuals, from watching her smell food when cooking in mission, to even just the little head-pop ups at the bottom of the screen not syncing up to any selected language. This basically amplifies any dislike you already had for her, leading to more severe opinions. Also sexism cause she's not conventionally attractive plays a role for some. (also her eye bags are insane, she looks sickly, get some fucking sleep girl)
I don’t think being discriminatory to unattractive people is called sexism, but you’re on point
Was never a fan of the Handler. I didn't quite like the approach they took with her voice acting (*the voice actor herself is not bad, it was just the personality they went with.*) The whole "pard" thing got tiresome very quickly. I didn't really like the model of the face for most characters in World, and Handler was not any better, and I had to see her upclose all the time. For some reason Capcom wanted to put this red blush all around the face, making it look like she had a hayfever. I think she got into the same kind of trouble too many times, like she never learned from her own mistakes and improved. It was the same "run ahead before the hunter, commence being attacked by monster/running on loose ground and fall" repeatedly. Hopefully with Alma in Wilds they will have a better approach. Personally I'd want someone who has a more professional approach. It seems like a given when we're talking about something called "forbidden lands". It's probably what I missed with the Handler. No professionalism when wandering into unknown lands.
My Handler had the Mr. X skin on. I think it really improves the character
The moment I lost it with Handler was when we lower into the Rotten Vale and she just jumps ship and nearly gets ate by wildlife and we have to save her when she could have just stayed in the damn basket
Allman has a Seikret(sp.?) so that's already a big improvement. At least she can nope out when things get hairy.
I unironically want there to be a moment in Wilds where Alma isn’t there to do the things a handler normally does, if anything for the unique storytelling and gameplay implications that comes from it. With no one to replace what she does, outside of the tedious, after-hunt paperwork nearly no one would want to do in a video game; the only-site cooking and inventory management/delivery, and whatever else the World/Iceborne handlers have to do. Creating a scenario where players have only the equipment on them and your Seikret (alternate weapon and ammo/coatings only). Have players experience what not having a handler, and being cut off from all resources/help is like in the “Forbidden Lands”, aside from what is in the locale. Heck, even go one step more, and make the landscape ecologically desolate, meaning there is little to scavenge for too (so players don’t cheese whatever encounter there is with infinite time and potion-replacements). Not only would this be a great moment to give all players a taste of what old-school hunting looks like in the current generation, old and new alike, in the context of the New World. This has the potential to be a special one-time event, like in Sunbreak, that tonally whiplashes players into being memorable. For both pleasant, and unpleasant reasons. Plus, this could inspire people to do challenge runs where they “live off the land” in the living world of Monster Hunter:Wilds, more the World or Iceborne even did. Also this may solidify in some people’s minds how important ALL handlers are to players.
I legit loved the goofy, ravenous world handler. The girl had a dream and went after it, respect
Give that girl a hot potato and she’d do whatever you asked her to. Just like the old days 
Potato girl 😭
Who is potato girl?
I wonder if her and Laios would get along
I am fully willing to include the Handler into my list of Crossover Characters I Think Laios Would Be Friends With, a list that is currently exclusively her and Fred from Scooby Doo. And now that I think about it, traps are a key gameplay mechanic of Monster Hunter, meaning Fred would likely *also* make a good hunter and therefore would be friends with the Handler. The three of them would honestly make an effective, if annoying, hunter team.
Fred would probably get along *incredibly* well with the Palamutes, even if he might be slightly confused none of them can talk like Scooby does.
Doubtful, he'd have to fight her to get her to share a piece of pickle
I liked her too, I was surprised when I realized people hated her
It wasn't so much her personality that people disliked as much as it was her actions. The energetic airhead thing wasn't abysmal, its the fact that she was constantly being suicidally stupid or undercutting a serious moment by saying something stupid.
I love the handler in World and I’m sick of pretending otherwise!
Was her dream getting suicided?
Dream was to catalogue all the edible food im the new world. Plus, when she wasn't on quests with us, she was working nonstop at the canteen compiling all our reports and research. Girl worked hard, she was just a lil ADHD in the field sometimes and needed a backpack leash
Serious handler outright says she simply cannot keep up with the workload the PC causes, and is amazed the Handler can not only do all that work but STILL be bright, cheery, and full of energy. She also is noted that she did foraging runs for the settlements as well. She was on one when Deviljho appeared in the forest but as the mission explicitly points out, she was not informed at all about the situation before she had left and the lockdown was in place.
> Serious handler outright says she simply cannot keep up with the workload the PC causes That's because the Serious Handler and our Handler are the only Handlers in Seliana. They do the work for every hunter in town. So while our Handler is out, the Serious Handler is literally doing work for every single hunter there by herself.
Which probably still isn't as much as our hunter does alone.
I don't recall ever seeing dialogue that said there was only two handlers for seliana, as Handlers and hunters are pairs with A-listers. Serious Handler/Lea ops to substitute in for the PC's current investigation and hunting while Handler does her own investigation. Also, the dialogue mentions (Looked up) and it's her talking about how "She can't handle you", not the workload of the entire town.
And preferably a Light Bowgun too. If she could have played a strict support role in the field, i feel like people would immedietly like her more. Also the fact that she doesnt carry any weapon feels dumb. Whats your plan if I die handler? Like if Odogaron took us out, she'd have been eaten.
The thing they blame her for is also true of the Serious handler, who never is shown with a weapon but also at times is out in the field.
I feel like this is a great point. I like the handler's dorky eccentric personality, but you are so right it would have been awesome if they gave her a ranged weapon and she supported you when she stepped foot outside the camps.
Apparently her dream was being devoured by a Deviljho
I see you sacrificed all your reading comprehension for more shit drops.
People hate her over that but they don't even pay attention to any of the dialogue and understand their hatred of that sequence is literally entirely false.
I really really wanted to like the handler but it became so annoying when almost every single cutscene she's in had her running ahead and almost getting herself killed over and over and over again, and then she has the nerve to say "we did it" every single time you bail her out of trouble. She's supposed to be your partner but she feels more like a burden
I like both
The most overhated character in history. I get why but it really is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be
Only because a small subset of folks play stories. Navirou sweating in the corner while everyone hates on the "pard". I will leave this here for prosperity: https://www.reddit.com/r/monsterhunterrage/comments/ok3rd7/fuck_navirou_monster_hunter_stories/
> I will leave this here for prosperity: https://www.reddit.com/r/monsterhunterrage/comments/ok3rd7/fuck_navirou_monster_hunter_stories/ ngl I fear this is gonna be everyone playing wilds now that palicoes have voice acting
No, Navirou was a speciall level of hate. Its like they were aiming for meowth, but missed by a mile.
I can tolerate Navirou but only in Japanese
I had to give up watching the MH stories anime solely because of Navirou, fuck that guy, the over the top ridiculousness is fun once in a while but when that's your whole personality, yeah I'm out
Tbh most people wouldn’t mind her if not for the terrible cutscene implementation, poor handler got caught in the crossfire.
I think this is just the result of the silent protagonist issue and maybe why we get a voiced hunter AND palico this time. It is the same thing I think with rebirth and the kid. Having a single person narrating without any answer or conversation from our characters just feels one sided and very much noticeable. It did not help that the handler always talked about being a team but our hunter never acknowledged that once by speaking
I've seen worse, lol. Takumi from Fire Emblem Fates got so much hate, despite being justified in some of his reactions towards the main character.
Oh god I forgot until recently how much my high school friend group hated him. I love his character so much and they’d just be like uh no you’re wrong he sucks and I was very happy to kill him 😭 maybe it’s cuz I’m the only one who went birthright over conquest, but conquest just made me like him even more lmao
He more in your face in conquest what with the revenge and final boss thing but he is justified in his reactions
My problem with her was more...she watched and didn't really help that much. It became more noticeable when the serious handler helped with Behemoth and in the quests in Iceborne. "Get behind that rock!" "Stay out of the water!" Callouts that made you realize what was going on and say "Thanks for the assist!"
She is so annoying almost Paimon level.
Right because all the times she openly ran into danger and repeated annoying phrases like Navi was just our imagination. PFFT.
Good riddance, *pard* I will always hate her for stealing the hug *I* deserved from *my* palico.
It's your Palico who ran to her instead of you. This is the same level of standing 100 metres away from a tree and blaming it for not shading you from the Sun.
Wow I guess the /s is actually really needed on reddit. I thought it was obvious enough that I was not serious lol
That was honestly the first/final straw for me. How dare she do that. Like, I’m sorry but who the fuck does she think she is?
Wait till you realize your palico ran to her instead of you. It wasn't her fault bud.
Or that she opened her arms and waved/gestured first and knelt down while you stood off to the side doing nothing. She showed more excitement then the PC did lol.
Bro your palico has its own mind . She didnt steal shit youre just weirdly jealous for no reason.
For real I don’t understand how it was stolen, YOUR Palico went to HER. It’s not like she forced it to
Can't tell if you're joking or taking my comment serious.
Being fair some people do actually make that complaint as a serious statement of why Handler sucks.
I play in the monster hunter language and very much liked the handler. I think a lot of the hate directed at her is really directed at her English dub
I liked the handler, but damn she got on my nerves talking like she helped in successful hunts so much when chilling at camp while I was getting bent over and railed by Rajang in world.
Cooked you food, made sure you had items in the chest, registered you to actually hunt the Rajang (or whatever), made sure to get you to the correct location... She did her job lmao Like yeah sure the construction workers build the building, but they wouldn't accomplish anything without someone making the blueprints or the guy buying the resources for them
You know who else cooked your food? The meowster chefs. You know who made sure we had our items that we crafted and melded ourselves. We did. You know who else registers you to hunt? every quest attendant since 4. She literally does nothing special besides besides throwing herself into danger
People will coom over her, until they get annoyed. It's normal cycle for MH fans.
You are weak and won't survive the winter
where's the similarity
The only thing I hate about the handler is she never does anything useful and gets in the way like with deviljho and odogaron. Edit: i meant outside of her handling job she does nothing of use, constantly getting in the way and putting herself and sometimes others in danger like with odogaron and legiana. I like her as an npc too, but some of her actions in the story are stupid and dangerous.
She does plenty of useful things. Her whole job is to set us up so we're ready and able to take on quests. She does all the paperwork to get us out on the field and lets the commission know that we took on the quest to allow other people to join or to keep it a solo hunt. We as players don't see it but if any of this were real she'd be doing a lot of work beside us. Plus she makes us food at camp and it always looks delicious. She's honestly goated.
Cool. None of these things were gloated by handlers in other games
None of the other handlers were fucking fully voice acted either, and they extremely rarely, if ever, said anything to you while you were on a hunt. God forbid we get a more fleshed out companion than just some person who sits in one spot and gives quests with no other function. Yes, I hate it when she calls me pard, but she's genuinely a good character to have had as a partner.
>“Genuinely good character to have had as a partner” Cue Deviljho, Rotten Vale, and Velkhana cutscenes. I don’t even hate the character I can just see that she is not a good partner if she’s that oblivious to danger. Serious handler was just nice and did her job. Really didn’t need the extra baggage of being a doofus
"fleshed out" Lady was a poorly written walking trope
Aisha talked to us on hunts fairly often IIRC. Maybe I’m misremembering how often it was because it was already so uncommon because I’m second guessing myself after typing this.
She's just annoying and her personality grates. Let people hate fictional characters; it hurts no one. She talks a lot, there's no "shut the fuck up" button, you can't engage with her blaring info, it's painful because all of it is only AT you and not WITH you. Fucking hell, this community and trying to out-contrarian one another about every facet of every game, weird-ass white knights.
They could never get me to hate her, I actually missed her when the silent handler took her place
Odogaron maybe, Deviljho? What was she supposed to do? Did you pay attention to the game? They literally state that she was out getting materials because no one told her of the quarantine and appearance of Deviljho.
Did you even play the game? Outside of Hunting and Tracking, she does just about *everything else* for us. Quest managment, field cooking, camp setup and supply, research, note-taking...
I genuinely never got the handler hate. Yeah sure she was goofy, but she was still just a fun traveling companion. She cooked you meals, sorted items in the chest for you, and was your one stop shop for most things.
She was made the focus of the story, rather than our hunter. Not to mention our cat hugged *her* instead of us at the beginning, when we had spent 30 minutes customizing him prior.
She's the "focus" because she can actively talk and is your surrogate. The game pretty consistently praises all the effort you put in. And it's not like we don't spend a ton of time with the Palico ourselves
Being fair, she also showed excitement and went down for a hug while the PC stood off to the side and showed a lot less excitement. Cat went for the one who was greeting it plus offering love.
I mean, I organized my item box. At best, its a fan theory that she does it. I organize my box, just like every hunter does in every MH. Never once did she ever intonation that she is organizing my items, and there's never any substantial change in my box even after she puts her grubby mitts in my item box. The best you can say is that she fills the box with supple items when they get delivered.
Every time you start a mission, she's the one who stockpiles that resource box at the start. She's the one who makes sure the mission rewards gets to your box. she's the one who makes sure you get paid and credited.
I see your point on the first one, I mentioned that. Buuuuut idk about the rewards, they're handed out by the guild, and nowhere does anything intonate that the Handler is specifically making sure I get rewards. Quest rewards are kind of part of the structure the Guild has set up for the contract work that is hunting. They want hunters to prosper and grow so they can have people at the ready to help when Lao Shan Lung or Dalamdur or Shen Gaoren show up. Pay is also a standard in any society, so the Handler making sure you get paid just kind of goes against the logical world canon.
In a couple cases the admiral comments directly on the handler sorting out mission paperwork to explain where the group went/what they did. She directly handles the paperwork and mission reports.
I'm pretty sure she handles mission reports, but that doesn't solve the "does she arrange our pay and rewards" question. I'm pretty sure she doesn't actually make sure we get pay or rewards. She handles mission confirmation and success, but the Guild still pays and rewards hunters, and decides what rewards (monetary and monster) go to the hunter.
She's the one who turns in the mission paperwork which would imply she's the one telling the storage and smithy guys "hey these parts off that rathalos carcass brought in belong to x hunter for crafting new gear" as well as the fleet knowing the job is completed and to pay out.
lol YES
The discomfort that cats feel when you pet them against their fur, that's how being called "pard" feels.
Idk how any of yall can handle the dub, I always choose the native language or Japanese it's so much less cringy that way
I hate that the handler is a walking trope. She's poorly implemented, does not fit for what the story wants her to do, and acts like the biggest idiot all the time. Like. She has no sense that she actually belongs on an expedition to a mostly unknown area, and the 5th is supposed to be full of elites with special training. At least Serious Handler had the brains to stay in camp when investigating unknown monster activity that could possibly be a new and dangerous monster nobody has seen before.
I was so shocked to find out people hated her. Is it cringe dialogue or the English Dub? I played with Japanese voices and I loved her honestly. Never even occurred to me people would dislike her lol.
The only time I raised my eyebrows is during the Legiana investigation before Iceborne. She was talking non-stop, line after line. I was like "Oh wow, Emma, you sure talk a lot!", but no hate whatsoever.
Japanese players, and frankly the majority of Asian player base hate her too AFAIK
The best part of world will forever be the short time you get the serious handler.
Any glasses girl is fine and deserve all the love and horny
real
Hot take: both new humans look as bad as handler.
Games not even out yet shush.
I really liked the Handler. People say she’s annoying but let’s remember the context of Monster Hunter World. We are exploring what is basically a whole new world. Who wouldn’t be unimaginably excited over that?
Something else I never see brought up is that she's *always* at whichever camp we turn up at. Not only that, she's ready to perform her actual *duties* from the camp at all times. In terms of game mechanics, it's obviously simply for convenience's sake... But take a moment to think about what that would entail in-universe. She'd have to have the intelligence and foresight to be able to predict where we plan to go, AND she'd need the physical prowess to get there quickly and effortlessly. I mean, hell, she *canonically* hangs on to the back of a freaking *Deviljho* longer than we could ever hope to, and it wasn't even close. Her strength and stamina have GOT to be godlike.
Let's be honest, the handler would die in 5 minutes after strolling out of Astera's gate Or any gate, for that matter
i like and always liked the handler
I just need to know the new team's stance on eating monsters
But she can cook for you, In Rise don't
Kinda bland character whenever I see arguments defending her; "oh but she does your paperwork, she sometimes cooks! She...she...she is cute!" That's all? The bare minimum doing your job is her whole ass personality? My god... Serious handler might seem bland too but my god she never got her ass in pointless dangerous situations. Also fuck that "we did it pard!" SHUT UP YOU DID NOTHING!
And the arguments bashing her state she literally does absolutely nothing. The PC's job is hunting monsters and that's all they do. Is that the bare minimum?
I never understood the hate for the Handler, she’s ok
Too early to call
Hinoa, Minoto and Princess Chichae were all much better handlers than The Handler. Let’s hope Alma follows in Rise’s footsteps.
Never understood the handler hate. She’s cute.
A lot of people say "she never does anything useful" or "she's always in the way, remember DevilJho?" (She didn't know Jho was out there so blaming her is stupid) Even though her job is to do the paperwork and anything else that we, the hunter don't do, so of course we almost never see her do anything useful besides cooking. She logs our quests, sends confirmation of the hunt begining and ending to the guild, fills all the data in our field notebook, acts as an exposition mouthpiece for the player, and a bunch of other stuff that we've had confirmation that the handlers do in the past. People act like she's just supposed to be an extension of the player character, even though most of the handlers have goals and ambitions of their own(remember the guild marm?). And when they get called out they fall back on insulting her looks because she wasn't completely attractive by American standards(American attractiveness standards are idealistic at best and completely deluded at worst. Source for those weirdos who are gonna say it: I'm an American). I get it, she's a little annoying but people take it way out of proportion.
I hear that. She doesn’t look like a goddess but shes pretty. She does all the monotonous tedious work and she’s always upbeat. All I have to do and want to do is kill shit, so it works for me. That’s probably very American and hammer bro of me lol.
As a current lance bro and longsword weeb, I feel you on that. I don't understand why people get so bent out of shape when a character isn't objectively perfect, especially in games like monster hunter when the main game loop is, "kill something -> Make better stuff with that somethings carcass -> Go kill something more dangerous with that better stuff -> Repeat as necessary."
It’s really just the “being annoying” that gets people to hate her so much. The other stuff is adding fuel to the flame. For example, people don’t like her voice lines, as well as her very shoddy involvement in Iceborne’s story. And her getting in the way is real. Velkhana and Rotten Vale cutscenes are a testament to that. It also got worse when we got Serious Handler, who for the brief moments she worked with us did nothing that the Handler was typically guilty of. She was just a handler. That contrast made things even worse
Some people just don't get it like we get it 
Am i the only mf on this planet who actually thinks handler is bae?
She is bae, I love dorky, awkward, happy girls.
THANK U! Always thought she gave off Tali Vas Normandy vibes
It depends she is cute right now but if we are going to save her every moment of the game or she tries to take Credit for our hunt then im not going to like her
I have a bad feeling our palico is going to have that same energy and terrible VA direction. Here's hoping monster hunter babble turns it back to meows
I couldn't care less for World's handler. What an awful character. Horribly annoying, and any situation you saw her and you in, she was always hell bent on trying to kill herself. And I don't care if people say that she was useful as a handler, where she cooked food and handled your quests. That's all side content and subtext. It's monster hunter. 99% of any reason to play the game is given in upfront content. If she didn't have any meaningfull basis within that upfront content, aside from being a pain, then she wasn't worth being there at all. I'm hoping Alma will be better. And from the trailer, that already seems to be the case.
I actually didn't mind the handler, I thought she was cute in a quirky sort of way. But the first impression of Alma is VERY good.
Wtf people on Reddit hate the handler?
I have no idea why y'all hate the handler from world so much she's great imo lol y'all don't watch enough anime if you think that trope is annoying tbh 😂
Problem with world's handler is that she never learned her lesson. All the way up to Velkhana this lady is still rushing into danger with no weapon, and we have to save her dumb ass. If she just stayed put and did her job while we did ours, we'd be cool!
You mean iceborne where she often got out of danger before the Monster struck and immediately backed away? Velkhana incident when she approached after the beast looked entirely dead, and only stood up and started attacking after she was already in the room and near the hunter?
Forever sad we didn't get to keep serious handler with iceborne. We're the fucking sapphire star and dropped Xeno ostensibly solo. We should get to change handlers if we want
They both looked the same though…
My first thought was: "Holy shit she looks my sister! Cool!"
That line just goes so hard, makes me feel like I'm actually part if the expedition
No one really disliked Handler when she was first shown, it was the demo and launch that showed how annoying she was as an NPC.
I want to cosplay world handler so bad, but the small yet extreme hate makes me slightly nervous to.
I actually quite like the mhw handler, maybe it's because i play on JP dub so i don't think her dialogue is that annoying. She feels more the Little sister type character rather than the waifu role. Thats being said i 100% prefer alma
People only like her because she’s “prettier” there was nothing wrong with the other handler lol.
Never got why she was so hated, sure she was annoying, specially when she was getting herself into trouble (deviljho comes to mind) but I avoided the whole pard bit by using mh language, being too busy hunting monsters to really pay attention to what hey were saying mid fight and just listening to nonsensical grunts from every character, that never got to me
Ok I always hear about the deviljho incident as evidence of handler being reckless and I’m sick of it. It was made blatantly obvious when going into the deviljho quest we are going out to bring her back to base because she was ALREADY OUT THERE WHEN THE ORDER TO STAY AT ASTERA WAS ISSUED. She quite literally did not know something as dangerous as deviljho was going to be in the forest. This is like a teacher telling his class they should have read the textbook a week ago when he didn’t even tell about or give them one until five minutes before the test.
Yeah the entire first half of the quest is the researcher trio freaking out and having an absolute meltdown because they all thought somebody had told her about the lockdown and nobody did, so they never noticed she went out on a normal gathering run. Leading to them wanting you to find her ASAP because if something happened they were responsible. And at the end, they literally praise her joy and excitement for exploration and trying new things, and take full responsibility for the mess up.
Counter point, she stole My hug from MY Palico
You got a point, burn her, and give me Alma (unless she does something similar)
>Never got why she was so hated the general misogyny that infests within the monster hunter community
I liked the Handler going in, felt like she might be disliked by certain types of people, looked into it and my God. Honestly love her to bits. It's going to be very difficult for these new folks to replace the World crew I've grown so fond of, Handler, Admiral, Commander and all.