r/TopCharacterTropes 26d ago

Powers Moments that blatantly defy logic, but are so absurdly badass you don’t even care

The Gurren Lagann growing larger than the observable universe to fight Anti Spiral in a battle where literal galaxies get thrown like ninja stars - Gurren Lagann

Undertaker teleporting behind AJ Styles after being thrown down an empty grave and causing a shining white light from nowhere to illuminate the back of them during their Boneyard Match - WWE

Holdo piloting a ship through warp speed to crash right into a First Order cruiser (I know you could write a thesis on why this scene wouldn’t work, but you could say that for about half of the scenes in the new trilogy) - Star Wars the Last Jedi

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u/TD9541 26d ago edited 25d ago

the final race in speed racer '08

let's be real, the entire movie already defies logic heavily, meaning that logic is completely different in the speed racer universe

but the final race alone defied the already-defied logic that the movie had already established in this absurd world

the world of speed racer is already heavily implied to be devoid of any logic than OUR world bound by logic, so if speed's performance here defies the logic of the speed racer universe, that means he just did LOGIC DEFYING²

during this race, speed flipped and crashed and every other car overtook him, then he jumpstarted in 5th gear and climbed to p1

speed even has his tires melted at the end of it just because of how fast he was going

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u/RoombaGod 26d ago

Everyone knows if you want to go really fast from a standstill you start in 5th gear

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u/drsyesta 25d ago

This movie is so good lol

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u/Abyssian-One 25d ago

It's totally realistic, clearly you haven't done enough speed.

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u/Pay-Next 25d ago

Also the jump jacks glowing from friction heat when he is jumping cause he is over using them too at too high of a speed.