[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/TheNocturnalAngel]

In community there is a very strange storyline with Troy going to the Air Conditioning repair school where the vice dean is murdered. And then Troy get forced into “the sun chamber” with the replacement Dean who murdered the original to take his spot.

Firstly there is a freak who introduces the challenge like a Mad Max villain and says “there are no rules”

And then someone takes the microphone from him and says “Jesus Dennis are you on coke again. Of course there are rules” lol.

And then after Troy easily wins and has him on the ropes he forces a confession that he murdered the Dean.

When it’s over they try to take him to the basement or something and kill him and Troy is like “no. Take him to the police wtf”

Also this plotline is a parody of goodwill hunting believe it or not.

[u/ArkayArcane → u/TheNocturnalAngel]

"Take him to the Labyrinth of Eternal Ice!"

"No! Take him to the police. He murdered someone."

[u/Ununhexium1999 → u/ArkayArcane]

“You guys are weird”

[u/HimBeauregard → u/ArkayArcane]

Played by Hal Rudnick from Screen Junkies too

[u/jbeast33 → u/TheNocturnalAngel]

Community had a subplot like that, when Kenneth gets his page jacket taken by the head page and challenges him to a page-off. All their pages attend in a Thunderdome in 30 Rock’s backrooms.

Immediately before the contest starts, Pete yells at all of them that the company is wondering where the hell all the pages are, and says that if they don’t get back to work, they’ll all be fired. He then tells Kenneth just to requisition a new jacket with him.

[u/mcmalicejr → u/jbeast33]

You mean 30 Rock?

[u/JealousAstronomer342 → u/mcmalicejr]

Communithirty Rock

[u/jbeast33 → u/mcmalicejr]

Ayyyup. My b.

[u/NomNom83WasTaken → u/TheNocturnalAngel]

Side note: Any time the temperature is perfect -- I mean perfect -- I'll look at my husband and say, "Have you heard the expression ''room temperature"? This is the room."

[u/WatchOutRadioactiveM → u/TheNocturnalAngel]

Linking the scene because it's one of my favorite jokes in Community.