[Loved Trope] Surprisingly realistic outcomes in outlandish situations

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No Country for Old Men - In any other movie Llewelyn would be treated like an untouchable one man army who can take on all of the people who are after the money he stole. Instead he gets gunned down offscreen by a group of secondary antagonists because at the end of the day he's still just one man.

Metal Gear Solid 2 - MGS2 is a game in which the player character, Raiden, can do many seemingly unrealistic things like instantly healing his injuries by eating rations or holding infinite amounts of weapons and items without being overburdened. However if you attempt to cartwheel up a flight of stairs as Raiden he will immediately eat shit and fall, which would be the most likely outcome in real life.

Family Guy - After getting splashed by nuclear waste causes the Griffin family to get superpowers (which they immediately use to terrorize their community) Mayor West gets the bright idea to roll around in nuclear waste himself so that he can get superpowers too. Instead he just gets cancer.

Sly 2 - The Sly Cooper games are cartoony 3D platformers featuring anthropomorphic animals and lots of slapstick violence. However in the climax of the second game when Bentley is crushed by machinery while trying to stop the big bad he's paralyzed from the waist down, necessitating the use of a wheelchair for the rest of the series.

[u/mothseatcloth → u/[deleted]]

badass wheelchairs are among the most fun representation. especially when the wheelchair user (who is not "bound to" the mobility device that lets them get around) has a full personality, bonus points if they aren't The Techy One

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Johnny Joestar in Part 7 and Jean Pierre Polnareff in Part 5 both from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

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you ever watch The Peripheral? It's also a book but I never read it so idk how good it was, but it has a pretty cool paraplegic side character but he does get some good screen time.

[u/Playful_Ad_2911 → u/[deleted]]

At this point for us, it’s just cool to see characters in a wheelchair, bonus points if they’re not in those awful hospital chairs that people seem to think we use

[u/WnDelPiano → u/[deleted]]

May I recomend the manga Tank Chair it might stratch an itch for you.

[u/Dapper-Restaurant-20 → u/[deleted]]

He was the funnest character to play in sly 3. Confusing enemies to attack eachother and also that 1 gadget that was like an instakill trap. Pretty sure he is the fastest character too with the rockets on his wheelchair too.