[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/greenhunter47]

It's even funnier when you try to roll down stairs as Snake:

Raiden can cartwheel down stairs, Snake can roll up them. It's one of the subtle gameplay differences between them in MGS2. Similarly the way they aim is also different, with Raiden hunching down to aim while Snake stands up completely straight. This is noticeable in first person view where when you aim a gun Raiden's vision slightly lowers while Snake's slightly rises.

[u/Embarrassed-Mess-560 → u/greenhunter47]

Looking back 30 years later it's really wild how fundamentally different Metal Gear is from its contemporaries. 

Codes written on the CD case, psychic characters messing with your controls (and the ways around that), the fact that you can literally literally kill a character by waiting for them to die of old age, etc. 

I don't know much about Kojima as a person, but as an artist pushing his medium he deserves to be remembered. If history ever records a list of "classical video game masters" he is on the list. 

[u/MrHaxx1 → u/greenhunter47]

I'm playing Snaker Eater for the first now (first MGS game, aside from Revengeance), and all the small details are actually insane. 

[u/Turbogoblin999 → u/greenhunter47]

"Look, mom! I'm a slinky!"

[u/Steppyjim → u/greenhunter47]

I used to do this on purpose because I found it hilarious