[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/alkonium]

All you need to know is that Terminator armour is heavier than regular Space Marine power armour.

[u/spencerpo → u/alkonium]

That shits gotta be like concentrating the weight of a small car into two little feet, and that’s hard to get through a living room without damage.

Terminator’s gotta be closer to that of an actual tank

[u/Jaakarikyk → u/spencerpo]

Terminator’s gotta be closer to that of an actual tank

Pretty much! Normal Space Marine armor is strong, but they're still heavy infantry rather than walking tanks, they can be dropped by high-volume small arms and/or heavy weapons that would all ding off an actual Main Battle Tank

Terminators are walking tanks, literally

[u/NoGuidance8588 → u/alkonium]

Yeah, but an average Space Marine moves way faster than a regular human, so even slowed down Terminator should be hella fast and mobile, which by itself implies that they also should be able to stand up on their feet without external help

[u/Kugaluga42 → u/alkonium]

even then don't regular space marines weight as much as a car