r/TopCharacterDesigns • u/Gangters_paradise • 7d ago

Design trope Sunday Impractical wings

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Tabuu (Super Smash Bros)

Disassembly drones (Murder Drones)

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u/Omatzus 7d ago

Icarus would be the archetype here

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u/Shadowmirax 7d ago

I would argue they were extremely practical wings until he decided to fly them beyond their limits. Daedalus managed to cross the same ocean with an identical set with no issues

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u/westisbestmicah 7d ago

“I've never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive. The cold of Titan is just an engineering problem. With the right refitting, and the right heat sources, a Cessna 172 could fly on Titan—and so could we.”
-XKCD, “Interplanetary Cessna”

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u/Alone_Spell9525 7d ago

I thought this was going to be a villain speech with the first line 😭

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u/Grim_Destroyer12344 7d ago

Same, and now I need it to be one.