I'm of the opinion that normal creatures shouldn't be elementally aligned at all, with some exceptions of course, fish live in water, of course that we fight monstrous crabs ... Following the theroy of electricity a bird hit by lightning in midflight would actually be unaffected by the electricity itself as it's not actually grounded and therefore provides no path for electricity to follow to ground. It's the heat generated by the strike that causes that damage, not unlike the squirell running down the high voltage lines running down the road.

Vaymathias your absolutely right, it's not that we are after realism as the above examples point out. It's that we want something that can be believed, where what we know of reality isn't demolished but rather enhanced to become the fantastic.

Everywhere I say we I mean I, and anyone else that chooses to agree with me.