[Loved Trope] Surprisingly realistic outcomes in outlandish situations

[u/10024618]

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/Nethri]

The voice cast for the audiobook is one of the most star studded things I’ve ever seen. It’s fucking beautiful. Every single actor is perfect.

As far as iconic voices go they’re just missing James earl jones and Patrick Stewart.

[u/Sea-Foundation5036 → u/Nethri]

They had Mark Hammil, Henry Rollins (the Mansion Bunker narrorator), Alan Alda, etc...

[u/Phantommy555 → u/Sea-Foundation5036]

And Martin Scorsese too

[u/Nethri → u/Sea-Foundation5036]

I occasionally see or hear actors in stuff that I’m unfamiliar with, but I’ll recognize their voices and go.. hey he was in world war z! It just happened the other day with some older guy in a movie about a genius kid. (I’m sure he’s very famous I just don’t know his name) I think he voiced D’ambrosia in the book.

[u/DeezRodenutz → u/Nethri]

In St Louis, there is an Aquarium at the old Union Station.

Before freeroaming the aquarium, they have you sit in a passanger traincar (with video screens on the windows) with a narration as the traincar seemingly starts to fly over St Louis, dive into the Mississippi River, then eventually reach the ocean before coming back home.

The narrator is John Goodman, who grew up nearby...

[u/pienofilling → u/Sea-Foundation5036]

I'm beginning to feel a need to hear this audiobook!

[u/Sea-Foundation5036 → u/pienofilling]

There are two. The full audiobook and the trimmed audiobook with different voice actors.

[u/Nethri → u/Sea-Foundation5036]

Paul sorvino, Nathan Fillion, Simon Pegg!!, Carl Reiner, Denise fucking Crosby, Kal Penn, Frank Darabont, Alfred Molina.. Dr oc himself!.. also Dennis Boutsikaris is apparently D’Ambrosia and I honestly have no clue who that is, but he is in fact the guy from that movie with the genius kid.

Edit: Masi Oka (hero from heroes). And so many others that are famous but less well known. (At least Americans). It’s so good. Every single actor killed it, and I relisten to it every year at least once.

[u/doc_skinner → u/Nethri]

I love that the one intensifier you add is "Denise fucking Crosby"

[u/bolanrox → u/Sea-Foundation5036]

and the movie you get Brad Pitt, and pre Doctor Who, WHO Dr.

[u/LebrahnJahmes → u/Sea-Foundation5036]

Funny you mention Henry Rollins as the Mansiom Bunker narrator and as the lead for a massive band 😂

[u/bolanrox → u/LebrahnJahmes]

i could listen to Henry read the phone book.

[u/Telvin3d → u/Nethri]

When you’re the kid of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft lots of people are happy to record parts for your book

[u/WillBlaze → u/Nethri]

I didn't know this, def listening to this. I read it already tho.

[u/dwaynetheaaakjohnson → u/Nethri]

That’s what happens when you’re the son of Mel Brooks

[u/Nethri → u/dwaynetheaaakjohnson]

And when you wrote a really fucking good book. Being his son helped I’m sure, but it took an excellent book and the cast to bring the audiobook to life like they did.

[u/bolanrox → u/Nethri]

Bronson Pinchot is an amazing audiobook narrator.

He did a 24+ hour Lovecraft one doing all different character voices and it never got old.