This is a meme where the source of its illustration perfectly portray the meme, even within its own context.
Something about the big bad in the first MHA movie whipping out a gun and shooting somebody just hit hard. Like this is a world where people can whip out black holes and use their skin to create anything they want, yet a pistol made everyone stop immediately and collectively shit themselves.
I cast BULLET!
Expecto parabellum!
You fool, I expected you to expect to prepare for war!
:: dies of gunshot ::
https://outlawstar.fandom.com/wiki/Caster
Outlaw Star had magic and magic bullets.
And a rather unfortunate navigation system
My protagonist has the ability to wield a franction (a word for a small amount in my verse) of the vitael energies of potential offspring (“poffspring”) they decide not to have, so like if they date someone of the opposite sex and things are going well and they’re thinking of moving in together, and then they ghost them my protag gets the power of the potential unborn babies (well some of it). They have made enemies of pretty much everyone in their hammelit (small village in my world), but have grown that much stronger with each jilted partner.
Anyway, they pulled this with the shire riff’s (reeve of a shire in my lore) daughter and got shot with a pepper shot blunderbuss and exiled from town, but they are able to carry approx a handful of extra sticks using the strength from their poffspring, which they use to heat the abandoned hut they live in upwind of the hammelit’s middens.
Wait, but if they think to adopt a child but not do it then they get a power?
I was thinking that this was a relatively bullshit example, but the movie “The One” featuring Jet Li makes this an awesome example. On it’s face the impacts of one person likely aren’t even enough for one person to notice, but if you had someone with the knowledge and means to take advantage of this they could be incredibly powerful.
This is one of the most commonly used images on my D&D party’s Discord channel:
AI generated memes are so wild
Especially if there exist loads of versions of the joke that were made pre-AI. Who hasn’t seen the gandalf with an AK-47 meme that was made 20 years ago?
why do americans think guns are so powerful? they act like people who haven’t been nuked or genocided
What do you think people use to commit genocide?
Oh that’s right, guns!
The Nazis built the gas chambers because shooting crowds of women and children was giving their low end grunts PTSD, even the hardcore SS. They needed something where you didn’t have to watch them die.
“If you hold a gun and I hold a gun, we can talk about the law. If you hold a knife and I hold a knife, we can talk about rules. If you come empty-handed, and I come empty-handed, we can talk about reason. But if you hold a gun and I only have a knife, then the truth lies in your hand. If you have a gun and I have nothing, then what you hold in your hands isn’t just a weapon, it’s my life."
This is only true for exactly as long as the weapons are held, though. Unless you plan on holding someone at weapons -point for life, the power eventually reverts.
That’s why weaponizing ideas is such an insidious practice. Give a man a gun he carries around in his mind and you have a never sleeping army.
The Rwanda genocide wasn’t carried out with guns as the primary weapon. It was machetes and fire.
It’s only very rarely one-on-one like a movie gunfight.
Now imagine if someone came in there with a gun. That would change things. In which direction, I couldn’t say.
Sometimes they did. It’s not like nobody got shot in the Rwandan genocide. Lots of people did, and when it happened, it went like it almost always does, the people with guns killed a bunch of people with impunity unless the people they were shooting at also happened to have guns.
I’m hearing a lot of things that are true but I’m getting confused as to why they were said. Like what does the Rwandan genocide have to do with the post other than the almost unnerving lack of firearms involved? Ik you aren’t the one who brought it up but just had to ask.
The Rwanda genocide wasn’t carried out with guns as the primary weapon. It was machetes and fire.
It was volumes of people, primarily. An oppressed underclass poisoned with fascist ideology who overwhelmed they’re wealthier tribal neighbors not unlike how the French ended up butchering their aristocracy at the end of the 18th century.
Had the Tutsis been more heavily armed, they might have given as well as they took.
The genocide ended with the victory of the rebels led by Kagame. They were mostly Tutsis.
The armed Tutsis did indeed hit back.
I think it’s the ‘equalizer’ aspect. A knight would have to train for years to be proficient in swordplay, horse riding, and usage of a lance. Longbowman had to train from childhood. A wizard has to study magic for years.
A peasant could pick up a gun and theoretically kill any of them.
Americans in general are also more familiar with guns than swords or bows, so the “effectiveness” is more intuitive for our minds.
that’s what i think is so perplexing
modern war completely negates your individuality, i mean unless you count your individually starved ass, but uhhh the world won’t
maybe if you’re lucky your incineration shadow on a wall will become part of an artistic photograph
there’s nothing to equalize but Americans think a glock and sunglasses mean something other than your suicide or a childhood gun accident
Is this the same America where words controlled the people who controlled the guns on 6January?
Yes, but also that doesn’t really mean anything in relation to what’s being talked about. Americans have more exposure to firearms on average I’m sure the folks of Svalbard would have a similar thing going on, same with basically any country with mandatory enlistment. Whoopty fucken doo folks can be controlled with words this observation was first made in writing in the fucking early bronze age when mammoths were still extent.
what?
try asking your mom
Like this?
I do love when this happens. I could probably think of more examples if I took the time, but the first that immediately springs to mind is Buffy the Vampire Slayer pulling a rocket launcher on a vampire.
I love BtVS, but bruh she just fired an AT4 at a demon inside a mall. Backblast Whedon wtf. The wall is literally right behind her.
And rockets or their launchers aren’t forged. They’re assembled. 🤓
Well, if it’s a shaped explosion round, aka HEAT, then it ‘forges’ a jet of molten copper upon detonation, that is what ‘cuts’ though armor plate. Pedantic, yes. Technically not forged by human hands, also yes.
Every weapon is assebled, even the forged ones.
Ninja stars.
Check and mate.
kunai knives i guess too
It’s kind of assembled from pig iron?
Literally a plot point in Dresden Files. MC is a wizard who lives in Chicago doing private eye work. Regularly carries a blasting rod (wand) and a revolver. One big wizard gets taken out by a sniper rifle fired by a demon. He has semi-regular backup from non magical friends who are just well armed.
A regular human mafioso who is just so good at being a conniving and ruthless piece of shit that he can hold his own with the magic folk is a recurring character. Your spells don’t mean too much if four goons get the drop on you with a metal pipe when you weren’t prepared.
What makes dresden files so good is that dresden knows this, and he abuses the hell out of that. Time and time again he gets the jump of his enemies because he thinks outside of the box like that haha.
And same for marcone, he knows that with the right bullets and tools, common items can hurt the supernatural. Its also what imo makes the supernatural in the series so real, they are extremely powerful, should be feared but all of them have a weakness. You just need to know it. And like dresden said so much, knowledge is power!I like the scene when he gets accosted by some low skill mages who give the line “prepare to defend yourself, wizard” and he just pulls out his gun.
What if guns are part of the power system.
2 of the strongest sorcerer’s in JJK school vs this guy and his gun lol
I mean, the dude is just efficient. He shot the girl who was basically powerless (being the target host for a godlike being is not a power). Using the right tool for the job really.
Jjk,?
I think it’s Jujutsu Kaisen
Jewy jewy kaisanewy
Yeah, this is the first / most widely known instance of this trope that I am aware of, call it the Indiana Jones manuever maybe?
Wasn’t that supposed to be a big fight scene but Harrison Ford was sick? So they audibled to this?
Yeah, he was sick from drinking the local water, and was trying not to shit his pants from the diarrhea. He was also running an awful fever; Indy looks so sweaty in this scene because Harrison was running like a 103 fever.
That’s the story anyways… That they repeated consistently throughout many, many interviews
He had the shits iirc
Watching that clip he looks sick
*adlibbedAudible is a term for changing from a designed play to a new one on the fly.
Oh, TIL.
If I understood that correctly, a game play, as a specific term for US Football. And gets that name by people screaming the new play.
Audible is something you can hear.
oh right, that would explain why so many people in this thread, including me, had no idea what they were on about.
i should rewatch wizards 1977
Just had the same thought. I don’t think I’ve watched it since I was a kid and saw it in the theater. When I stumble on an old movie like this, I always like to check who was in it. It’s fun to see who was in old stuff who really hit it big.
Wizards came out in February 1977. Three months before Star Wars: A New Hope came out. Mark Hamill actually voiced one of the fairies in Wizards! I’m kind of geeking out a little bit.
love him as luke but he’s always shined as a voice actor. have you seen him in the venture bros? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49P3aj4wbz8
Immediately thought of this because of It’s Just Cinema’s series on weird 70/80/90s animated films.
That’s pretty much the plot of Mashle
Everyone is a magician, except for Mashle who just hits stuff really fucking hard. And most wizards aren’t used to getting hit by a dude who can bench press a house.
Fuck it, I haven’t watched any anime in like a decade and a half. Where can I stream or download this with English subtitles?
Edit: That website links to Crunchyroll which I hear is controversial, but it has the episodes, so I’mma watch it
What are you talking about. Muscles are the most magical thing ever XD.
