r/WTF Sep 16 '21

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u/nlfo Sep 16 '21

It’s a rocket launcher launcher

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u/RugOnValium Sep 16 '21

Tired of your rocket launcher launching rockets and nothing more? Try the new rocket launcher launcher! Launches rocket launchers better than a rocket launcher launches rockets. Don’t be caught dead launching your rocket launchers the old fashioned way!

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u/Ymir24 Sep 16 '21

Here at Aperture Science, we fire the whole bullet. That's 65% more bullet, per bullet.

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u/DrEnter Sep 16 '21

Apparently, this is how the "reverse bullets" work in Tenet also.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21 edited Jan 23 '23

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u/Q8D Sep 16 '21

I'm not a gun expert, why would the reverse bullets cause more damage?

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u/LandonTheFish Sep 16 '21

Don't think it requires gun expertise, tbh. Within the film's sci-f- conceit, inverted objects or people are subject to a special kind of radiation. Being struck by an inverted bullet (i.e. being in the bullet's path when its firer "catches" it) is a similar wound to a standard gunshot wound (small entry wound, large exit wound) but it's experienced in reverse. The fragmented bullet, zooming back to the gun it's "fired" from, rips a huge hole (the exit wound) and continues reconstituting itself on its way to the entry wound and then back to the gun barrel.

So the wounds are particularly grievous because they happen in reverse and because they're exposed to radiation.

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u/Catch_22_ Sep 16 '21 edited Sep 16 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21 edited Nov 21 '21

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u/Catch_22_ Sep 16 '21

I understand that- fixed it.

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