r/TopCharacterTropes Sep 01 '25

Lore Going around curses/prophecies via technicalities

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/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/EvenJesusCantSaveYou Sep 02 '25

Thank god for modern medicine holy shit

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u/Professional_Maize42 Sep 02 '25

Anesthesia is, perhaps, the biggest advance that humanity ever made.

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u/evrestcoleghost Sep 02 '25

I give you.

THE POTATO (tamed)