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What's your pet peeve when it comes to tropes? What bothers you when you see it in a show or a movie? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I'll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter's intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there's the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

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[–] illi@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Cutting or stabbing through full plate armor with a sword. Why would anyone wear an armor that is easily cut or stabbed through?!

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A lot of that sort of armor is more designed to deflect hits off of it. If someone can get a solid hit in, it's possible to cut through it.

Which leads to another pet peeve of mine, which is armor that's clearly designed in a way that it wouldn't be good at deflecting hits. Particularly anything for women that has cups for the breasts.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Chain mail, maybe. Plate armour? Not a chance.

You had to go around the plates.

[–] illi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't think cutting clean through chainmail is realistic - thrusting is very much so though!

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

An axe could presumably split into chainmail. Although I suppose it's just as likely to just break whatever is behind it. It's not a great armour for large blunt impacts.

[–] illi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, axe I can see. I was thinking swords.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just like there were many forms of armour (plate was very expensive), there were many forms of hand weapons. And although the novels (3ven of the time) tended to romanticise the sword, it was mostly a secondary weapon, much like a handgun nowadays.

[–] illi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Well aware :) But since we werr talking movie tropes and swords, my mind was still there.

[–] illi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Would love to see some sources or testing that would supportnyour claim.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In real life it's more like going after a man sized can of tuna, with the bastard child of an axe, a hammer, and a crowbar.

[–] illi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

That, or dagger in the gaps!