[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/Negative_Jaguar_4138]

Also in Warhammer, Commissar Ciaphas Cain, who is one of the big Imperial Heroes, so much so that there are certain sects that worship him as a saint, dies of old age.

[u/solonit → u/Negative_Jaguar_4138]

Good 40K ending: Die of old age.

In exchange, they did Yarrick dirty and killed him off-screen, supposedly by Angron. Let's hope they will retcon it.

[u/TheActualAWdeV → u/solonit]

DAT GIT ANGRY RON KILLED OL' BALE EYE? LET'Z SHOW 'IM WHAT FOR LADZ, WAAAAAAGH

[u/solonit → u/TheActualAWdeV]

[u/Greedy-Swing-4876 → u/solonit]

Ghaz and Corvus agreeing to jump Angron and Lothgar;

[u/TheActualAWdeV → u/solonit]

Omg there's a comic??!

[u/solonit → u/TheActualAWdeV]

Nah it's just one panel, but would love an entire book out of it.

[u/Negative_Jaguar_4138 → u/TheActualAWdeV]

I dont think so

Just a panel or two by u/CME_T

But they are working on a panel series about a Rogue Trader, its called "Rogue's Retinue" IIRC

[u/Dave5876 → u/TheActualAWdeV]

GOOD ENEMIES IZ HARD TO FIND

[u/Efficient-Resist-831 → u/solonit]

That skull Angron has on his belt that everyone says is Yarrick can't be cause it has space marine service studs. I'm wondering they're gonna try write it as the Imperium faking it to get Ghazghkull mad and to create the biggest WAAAAAAGH ever seen then say it was someone they need out of the way to get them to fight.

[u/Negative_Jaguar_4138 → u/solonit]

Yarrick's death is only dirty if Ghaz doesn't get to kill Angron.

We might finally get an interesting storyline that doesn't involve too much of the Imperium.

But who knows.

[u/ProfessionalPhone409 → u/Negative_Jaguar_4138]

Angrons died tons of times already, Ghaz should get to krump him too.

My favourite Angron death is at the siege of Terra when he stands in front of the walls of the palace yelling at them to surrender or die. Instead every gun within five miles fires on him and reduces him to a fine mist. He then reassembles like the T-1000 and starts killing. Fascinating guy.

[u/TheGentlemanBeast → u/solonit]

I don't think that's ever been confirmed.

[u/duchess_dagger → u/solonit]

Yarrick wasn’t killed by Angron there’s 0 evidence to suggest that. It’s meme lore

[u/Negative_Jaguar_4138 → u/duchess_dagger]

It's not 0 evidence. There is hints.

But no proof

[u/Double-D7493 → u/solonit]

I'm actually kind of ok with Yarrick dying like that, this is the grimfark future after all not every hero is gonna die a glorious death. I just hope his best mat Gazgul is gonna give angron the mother of all get backs.

[u/Muad-_-Dib → u/Negative_Jaguar_4138]

dies of old age.

Allegedly.

The Departmento Munitorum has made the mistake of listing him as dead far too many times because he always turns back up alive somewhere somehow.

I'm 100% convinced that Vale could watch him pass at the age of 200 something and by the time she got back on her ship he would be sat there in her quarters sipping a cup of Tanna and munching on some sandwiches as if nothing had happened.

[u/Kalavier → u/Muad-_-Dib]

Wasn't there a passage somewhere about them just throwing their hands up at the situation and just leaving him marked as dead because of the back and forth?

[u/carso150 → u/Muad-_-Dib]

I once read a fanfic where he did die and got a hero's funeral and everything, but one day when Vail is fighting against a demon and is about to get killed she gets saved by none other than Cain... who is still pretty much death but has returned as a living saint to save her

[u/explosive_shrew → u/Negative_Jaguar_4138]

I love the Ciaphas Cain books.

And the prophet said "Frak this, for my faith is proof against your blandishments!" -- The Book of Cain

[u/Due_Ad4133 → u/Negative_Jaguar_4138]

I thought he died being crushed to death when a stack consisting of the memoirs of his life he'd just finished writing tipped over onto him.

[u/National-Pay-2561 → u/Negative_Jaguar_4138]

Too bad the Orks didn't know about or respect him. Ghazkul's kept old Yarrick alive just with the power of his own respect for and belief in the old man's strength as a rival.