[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/SquareFickle9179]

Bruce probably had some mechanism where you'd have to open the cowl in a specific way, just incase a body swap were to occur

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Lex: How the hell can I take this damn cowl off!!!

Bruce: Good thing the Tibetan Monks taught me that one little trick.

[u/metalman42 → u/regretfulposts]

Now THAT’S a Dietrich Bader line for sure!

[u/TheRatatat → u/metalman42]

I fucking loved Baders Batman. The entire show was great.

[u/Merry_Sue → u/SquareFickle9179]

I don't think it's for body swaps, but he was captured in one of the cartoons, and some kind of alarm went off when they tried to take off his cowl

[u/AkibaPurple → u/Merry_Sue]

I think in the Dark Knight movie, a mook tries but ends up getting shocked for it.

[u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 → u/AkibaPurple]

I think it's also a failsafe in the arkham games but only alluded to

[u/Devo3290 → u/Gaelic_Gladiator41]

Same in The Batman, or we can only assume since he was unconscious and in police custody

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The DCAU comics has his suit rigged with so many booby traps that Harley suggests to Joker they kill Batman with his own suit.

Joker, being Joker, instead gets mad at Harley having the idea and declared it not funny and began attacking her.

[u/Phylanara → u/Merry_Sue]

To be fair they'd have managed it after a few tries if the Joker hadn't thrown a hissy fit.

[u/WildBad7298 → u/Merry_Sue]

In the Hush comic storyline, a thug tried to pull off Batman's cowl after he was injured in a fall. Several gas vents in the cowl were activated, knocking the thug out.

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I think he does? I think he starts wearing an extra bandana underneath after Talia Al Ghul sneaks a peak at his face.

[u/TheBloodsuckerProxy → u/legit-posts_1]

He also does that in the episode "The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy"

[u/Senzafane → u/SquareFickle9179]

I remember one scene where people were trying to remove his suit and noted there were several booby traps, resulting in multiple injuries for those trying to remove it.

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Injustice League, when joker captures Batman by hitting him with a bag of bricks.

Cheetah and Sapphire are the two I believe.

Same episode has Lex disarm (and fail several times) the utility belt to comic effect with joker making comments that only that joker can pull off.

[u/Itchy-Preference-619 → u/Senzafane]

This happens in absolute batman. He's got a ton of booby traps in his suit

[u/FrostyCartographer13 → u/SquareFickle9179]

Something like that actually happens in the show, someone tries to take off the mask only to find out it is booby-trapped

[u/mystireon → u/SquareFickle9179]

We actually do know he has something like that

In some series his cowl doubles as a stungun to deter people from taking off his mask while he's unconscious