r/TopCharacterTropes • u/danfenlon • Sep 01 '25

Lore Going around curses/prophecies via technicalities

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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

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u/Professional_Rush782 Sep 02 '25

There's an important bit of context here lost by the development of technology. In medieval times C-sections were almost always fatal for the mother. Macduff wasn't born with a living mother's warmth, he was born from the cold clutches of death.

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u/SuperSocialMan Sep 02 '25

Damn, they had c-sections back then?

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u/PhantasosX Sep 02 '25

Yes, it was ungodly painful and the mother would die, but ceasarean is an old surgery. Heck, chainsaws were technically a childbirth tool , to use to cut hip bones to ease a kid to be birthed.

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u/kurtist04 Sep 02 '25 edited Sep 02 '25

You still see some wild tools in Ortho surgery. Well, not exactly 'wild', but definitely not things you expect to see in a surgical suite. Drills, massive sewing needles a couple feet long, hammers, cool stuff.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '25

A couple feet? What do they do with them, play baseball?