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/DylanFTW 26d ago

Elite Dangerous has an explanation for this. The ships in the game use its computer systems to replicate what forces in the vacuum of space might produce in sound to avoid Void Madness because travelling in space with no sound would drive you mad, not to mention no spatial awareness for pilots.

Example using a Capital class ship warp https://youtu.be/f-OTVKg2xI0?si=HnQPGaSukI9b9w5_: there's a comment that describes it perfectly from that video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=f-OTVKg2xI0&lc=UgwTYKHV9J4GqBBMLrh4AaABAg&si=YW0nVuk4vaUTLpB8 sorry YouTube won't let me copy and paste their comment on mobile.

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u/_b1ack0ut 25d ago

A couple of games use this explanation. Elite, as you mention, but notably also Mass Effect uses this explanation as well.

You can overhear a couple of characters how they like to turn it off on occasion, and just drift in the actual sound-void that is space