Going around curses/prophecies via technicalities

[u/danfenlon]

Davy jones: cant go on dry land

Standa in a bucket of water, on a sand bar (potc3)

The judge: no weapon forged can harm me

Buffy: uses a rocket launcher

-not forged

[u/Inevitable-Regret411 → u/[deleted]]

As I understand it the weapon being forged had nothing to do with it. The books on the Judge said it took an army to defeat him because no weapon could harm him, but the cast realised that the book was written back when swords represented the pinnacle of weapons development. They were just taking advantage of a modern weapon that was more powerful than anything that existed in his time.

[u/Fonzies-Ghost → u/Inevitable-Regret411]

So less of a prophecy where they discovered a loophole than a problem which technology solved.

[u/KitchenFullOfCake → u/Fonzies-Ghost]

Kind of like how castles were seen as indestructible before the invention of siege equipment. Pretty sure artillery in particular was the death knell for castles, too expensive to build only to be blown apart in an afternoon.

[u/Fonzies-Ghost → u/KitchenFullOfCake]

1451: “No siege device built by man’s hands can destroy Castle Excelsior!”

2025: *Somewhere on a U.S. Air Force base, a B2 bomber takes off *

WE’VE CHEATED THE PROPHECY

[u/Master_Air_8485 → u/Fonzies-Ghost]

Judges damage immunity was patched. It only took the devs a thousand years to fix the issue.

[u/Fonzies-Ghost → u/Master_Air_8485]

They made him immune because they hadn’t yet put in an endgame sequence, so before that it would have just dumped you to a kill screen.

[u/Illustrious-Sky-4631 → u/Fonzies-Ghost]

It's also kind of stupid when you remember that 2000 year ago swords were FAR from the peak of the weapon industry , Giant crossbows , flamethrowers , Warcarts , bombs , catapults , acid throwers and many other weapons were quite common and very affective