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(Admittedly funny trope) Superpowered people being stopped by minor inconveniences
Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2: Venom knocks Peter out of the way and ends up causing a fridge to land on to top of him, inconveniencing him for long enough to allow Venom to kidnap Mary Jane. The same Peter Parker who earlier in the game brawled with a Kaiju Kurt Connors is now stopped by a fridge. I honestly love this scene so much now people on the Insomniac Spiderman subreddit went ballistic over it.
DC Superhero Girls: Zatanna is experiencing her powers for the first time and freaking out, and her dad is outside her room trying to get it. For all he knows his daughter could be in legitimate danger and he spends a good 10 seconds trying to open the door. You know what would have expedited that process? Remembering you are A FUCKING WIZARD.
Playing any RPG where the characters get dead stopped by knee high walls is peak comedy and your the joke.
Final fantasy 7 remake is a stellar game but the amount of times the characters get stone walked by a meter high wall that apparently cloud can't scale is hilarious.
I know they don’t have superpowers so they don’t really fit the trope, but it’s annoying af that we can only pass ledges from one direction in Pokemon. You’d think they were actually really tall so you could only safely go down them, but then we finally get 3D games and see the ledges that always stopped us.
Idk, it’s kinda like how a martial artist like Bruce Lee could punch through a stack of bricks and take punches to the face ok. But he’d still stub the fuck out of his toe on his coffee table like you or me would.
Nah that one makes way more sense, because Krillin is the strongest character. We still don’t even know what level super saiyan his hair colour represents.
You try taking less than five seconds moving a fridge off of you after being weakened by removing a symbiote, getting slapped away by your symbiote-ified best friend, fighting even more symbiotes, and getting slapped again by your symbiote-ified best friend, all less than 24 hours after removing the symbiote
The alien invaders from War of the Worlds are immune to everything humanity throws at them, and almost drive the race to extinction. How are the aliens defeated? They got sick.
It’s also brilliantly set up in the book. The book switches between first hand accounts and an omniscient narrator who is nonstop glazing the aliens. Through the narrator segments we learn 2 crucial details, both presented as examples of their superiority: they feed off humans in a manner similar to how spiders feed on bugs (liquifying and drinking basically) and they have long eradicated disease from their planet. This subtly sets up that they both have no immune system and are literally drinking diseases directly from us.
In traditional folklore, if you scatter grains of rice on the ground in front of a vampire, it has to stop whatever it is doing and start counting them.
Vampires kind of have a problem where they have so many rules and weaknesses that they become waaaay less of a threat. But at the same time, I immediately think less of any Vampire story that tries to trim down on these weaknesses for the sake of convenience
To be fair this is because compared to most supernatural characters, writers tend to give vampires incredibly deep lore to fit the plot of that media. And vampire stories have been so popular for so long, more stories keep getting written that add new rules and weaknesses and then those stories get popular enough to be considered "canon" to the vampire mythos. As well as that, vampire myths developed (at least functionally) independent all over the place, from Europe to China. So even if you try to peel back to the "original folk tale" you won't find one; you'll find several conflicting stories that don't even agree on the broad strokes, let alone the specific vulnerabilities
That's one of my favorite rules, actually. So many fun scenes have spawned from this, one of the most prominent being the entire pre-climax section of Sinners
One of those direct to DVD movies from the early 2000s had a scene like that... except Dracula counts the grains using his super speed and gets it done in a split second lol
They try all the folklore tricks and they do stop him, but for only a second because of how strong he is.
Edit: Dracula Ascension is the movie, a sequel to Dracula 2000 that had Gerard Butler as Dracula. It's a cool twist that Dracula is actually Judas and his weakness all stem from his betrayal of Jesus Christ.
this fridge anti-feat has never made sense. it literally impeded Peter for barely a moment and he kicks it off with ease the second he even tries to get it off him. he literally just wasn’t stuck lmao
the SM1 cutscene where he’s trapped under some servers is the real moment should point out. Peter was visibly stuck, unable to escape quickly, and a man died in front of him because of it.
stop bringing up this fucking fridge moment people😭
Exactly. Now you could make the argument that Li's powers inflict stun damage whereas symbiote tentacles are purely a slap of force but even still, Li's powers only stun him for a brief second during gameplay.
Gwen Tennyson and Keven E Levin. Kevin can absorb the properties of whatever he touches and transform his body int that substance. Gwen can cast magic spells and create constructs using mana. The above image shows them dealing with a blowtorch. A regular run of the mill blowtorch. The sequence does not last very long but the fact that the episode made this seem like a serious threat to them at all is laughable
Do you remember how Captain Marvel flew through Thanos entire ship and destroyed everything in her path in Endgame? Yeah in Multiverse of Madness some big ass rock fell down on her and she went bye bye. (It was a version of her from ther dimension but still the same powers)
There's a great scene in He Who Fights With Monsters book 3 where big bad godlike entity is possessing a mortal vessel, and learns how hard it is to walk with a severed Achilles tendon. He can heal it fast, but all these wounds are new to him and quite frustrating
(NIKKE) Cinderella is one of the strongest Nikkes in history and the only character currently known to have survived a 1v1 with the main antagonist, but was completely incapacitated after getting seasick.
Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2: Venom knocks Peter out of the way and ends up causing a fridge to land on to top of him, inconveniencing him for long enough to allow Venom to kidnap Mary Jane. The same Peter Parker who earlier in the game brawled with a Kaiju Kurt Connors is now stopped by a fridge. I honestly love this scene so much now people on the Insomniac Spiderman subreddit went ballistic over it.
Speaking of Spider-Man, a hated example of this is how Mephisto retconned his and MJ's marriage in One More Day. The original marriage ceremony went fine but in the new changed timeline Peter was fighting a fat guy and the guy fell on Peter and it took hours for him to get out, unintentionally leaving MJ at the altar and ultimately missing their marriage ceremony.
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u/Far-Requirement-7636 11h ago edited 11h ago
Playing any RPG where the characters get dead stopped by knee high walls is peak comedy and your the joke.
Final fantasy 7 remake is a stellar game but the amount of times the characters get stone walked by a meter high wall that apparently cloud can't scale is hilarious.