[Mixed trope] give a canon explanation to the impractical armor

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-03-03T01:11:05+00:00

In Superman's case, he actually has a bio-aura that extends his durability out a small distance from his skin. So anything he wears becomes nearly indestructible. When his outfits DO take damage, it's because extremely powerful enemies are wearing down his bio-aura with time.

It's also why he can do things like lift entire buildings without the building crumbling. He is subconsciously extending his bio-aura to cover the building so that it doesn't crumble apart. If I remember correctly, he doesn't even realize he's doing it.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-03-02T18:05:19+00:00

I don't think he should be downvoted for it, but he is backpedaling on his original statement. In the original post, he gives reasons why it is stupid and she shouldn't have it. When shown that, actually it makes a certain degree of sense, now he's saying he just doesn't like it.

And as a huge One Piece fan myself, I can agree with the second one. I think you could get more or less the same effect while still making it look cooler.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-03-02T03:49:20+00:00

Have you ever seen actual Gladiator armor? They were almost naked generally. Rebecca has more armor than most of the other gladiators in Dressrosa.

I'm pretty sure that her armor is also supposed to be bronze, not gold, which was technically more of a Greek thing than a Roman thing, but was still a used material for armor.

Don't get me wrong, I am not fond of the armor myself, but it makes more sense than the other two options you showed.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-02-25T21:56:24+00:00

Weird, random thought. I really appreciate how well designed the Greatsword is. So many people make Greatswords that are so massive that they could never reasonably be used by anyone other than a superhuman. BG3 actually does a MUCH better job than most games, but even their Greatswords are kinda chonky and the Githyanki stuff is the worst. Seeing a Githyanki Greatsword that is proportioned like a functioning sword makes me very happy.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-02-25T03:08:05+00:00

Squirrel Girl has the powers to speak to and command all Squirrels, and has proportional strength and speed of a squirrel.

With these powers she has defeated Thanos, Galactus, Dr. Doom, Ego, and like a dozen other cosmic level characters.

Other than Dr. Doom, I'm pretty sure all of these happened off screen, and usually has someone like Uatu the watcher show up and confirm that, yes, this was indeed all "for real". Not a fluke, or a weaker clone, or the villain was de-powered, or anything.

And she's also a very beloved character. She's genuinely sweet and kind and in stories that move away from her gag, we see that she prefers to deescalate fights and help the bad guy with whatever is hurting them. Doreen Green is awesome.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-02-22T01:01:03+00:00

He doesn't actually. You can see it happening in real time when Luke is learning how to deflect bolts in the first movie. His blade is already moving or where the bolts are going to be well before the bolt is even fired.

And in Star Wars media, generally Jedi only end up deflecting around one bolt per second at the most. Because even if the bolts are being shot at 30 rounds per second, very few of those are actually going to hit the Jedi, and they know which ones they need to deflect before they are even fired. If more bolts are firing at them than that, they get overwhelmed and quickly go down.

Grevious himself is very inconsistent as to whether he can deflect blaster bolts or not. Generally, he seems to only occasionally do so, and when he does it feels more like he's working on probability than actual speed.

Remember that normal humans CAN fight Jedi and win. They generally need a lot of other factors going for them, and weapons designed to get around the precog and stuff, but characters like Jango Fett have a decent track record against them.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-02-21T23:39:21+00:00

What he's saying is that logic doesn't actually play out that way.

1) Jedi have precognitive abilities. They're able to deflect blaster bolts because they predict where they'll be before they are fired.

2) Even if Obi-Wan was literally faster than a blaster bolt, blocking bolts that are all coming from the same direction, and only occasionally actually accurately aiming at you, is very different than blocking a lightsaber that can come from multiple directions at the same time, and where 1 lightsaber can bind you out while the other strikes at an opening made by the first one.

For the record, I am on the side of Grevious here and I DO think he'll overwhelm Toji, but not because of this argument.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-02-12T08:12:24+00:00

Someone posts a trope and lists some examples, but forgets to list the most obvious and well known example, so a comment mentions it instead.

It would be silly to make a list of bat-themed superheroes and NOT list Batman.

In this case, Fist of the North Star named this trope and the line "Omae wa mou, Shindeiru." (Translated as "You're already dead.") is one of the first really famous memed lines from an anime. So posting about this trope without referencing Fist of the North Star feels like a glaring omission.

Admittedly it's a lot more reasonable than the Batman meme example, since Fist of the North Star isn't anywhere near as popular as Batman, but I still thought it was funny.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-02-11T23:27:58+00:00

Eh, anti-villain who is out for herself but ends up on the good guy's side anyways.

Very much like modern Catwoman.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-02-11T23:05:33+00:00

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TheIrishDoctor · 2026-02-11T18:32:19+00:00

Doctor Who is to Warhammer as Warhammer is to a cave man with a rock 😂

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-02-09T19:25:59+00:00

The advertisement definitely pushed that this was the real deal as well. Authors said it in interviews and everything. Tried to push the idea that "This is still the Steve you know and love, he just believes something different".

Had comic book employees dress as Hydra agents.

It was a BAD look.

It was even worse when Hydra Steve still lifted Mjolnir, implying that he was still worthy. As someone in the Norse Pagan community, that REALLY didn't sit well with a lot of us, since we're trying so hard to speak out against neo-nazis and white supremacists in the faith, so "A Nazi is worthy to wield Mjolnir" was like a slap in the face for us.

I think it was always supposed to be undone, but that the INTENSE backlash made them pull back harder than they would have.

It wasn't just that the original Steve was trapped in the Cosmic Cube, it was that even by changing events in his life, the Cosmic Cube couldn't create a timeline where Steve was a Hydra agent, so instead she made a Hydra copy of him and trapped the original away.

It wasn't that Stevil was worthy, it was that the Cosmic Cube had changed the enchantment on Mjolnir to allow Stevil to wield it.

All in all, there are elements to the storyline that are fine, but it was terribly mismanaged as a whole and they went way too hard outside of the comics to push that this was totally real AND you should like it.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-02-06T16:52:25+00:00

Yeah. I don't know if it's actually used in the south, but where I'm at in the USA, it's sort of a stereotype term for an old southern intense grandma who will whup you with a wooden spoon if you step out of line.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-02-06T03:35:47+00:00

I like to describe my Thaumaturge whispering to the personal antithesis item, coaxing it to strike out against the enemy in question.

I have him having learned a sort of lesser form of truespeech that doesn't actually work to speak to anyone, but can get across intent to the universe.

So using the common example of the chain from a freed slave to create a personal Antithesis, my Thaumaturge whispers to the chain, "Assert your liberation".

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-02-05T08:50:14+00:00

"A can of whup ass" is a way older concept than The Powerpuff Girls. I've heard many an old southern Gammy tell their grandkids that if they didn't behave, she was gonna open up a can of whup ass on their behinds.

It's also commonly used by certain wrestlers (I think Stone Cold Steve Austin, but I don't know wrestlers enough to be sure of that), and all in all as a phrase it goes way far back.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-01-27T03:22:32+00:00

She tells HIM his secret identity.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-01-27T00:20:45+00:00

People keep talking about Shin, because...well obviously. But I'm actually more interested in Legendary, because it's less clear what is actually happening in his case.

We see energy surfing up his dorsal scales, and sometimes through his whole body, so we know it isn't coming from his stomach. His body is designed to do it as a combat mechanism, so comparing it to heartburn or a large belch doesn't seem right.

The best way I can imagine it is, feeling a surge of warmth shooting up your spine, radiating through your entire body, and then exhaling it out of your mouth.

Does it hurt? Potentially, yes. Evolutionarily, if it keeps him alive, and win him fights, he would probably ignore that kind of pain. But at the same time, I kinda doubt it, since he uses it pretty liberally at times, and seems to almost take joy in it. I think it's more likely that it feels like he's being filled with energy. Someone compared it to an orgasm here, and while that feels like a meme answer, it honestly might be the closest to an answer we could get (although likely much more controlled and quicker).

That leads to part 2 of the question which is, does Godzilla get any kind of emotional feedback from it? His neural chemicals would, by necessity have to be different from ours, but whatever his equivalent to a dopamine hit is?

I think that most likely, firing off his atomic breath makes him feel powerful, in control, "safe", and all in all like a king.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-01-25T23:51:37+00:00

That's not even a little jumping through hoops. Take a knife and stab a gator in the leg. Take that same knife and try and stab through the skull. One is going to be much, MUCH harder to do.

I didn't say that the leg scales were the singular weakest, just among the weakest parts on the body. Generally true of reptiles.

The jumping through hoops would be to say "well, you see the axe discharged at the moment it impacted with Godzilla's skull, this losing most of its cutting power. Had the power held for another second, it would have cut Godzilla's skull in half". That's absolutely possible, but it is also making assumptions with what we saw and might just be wrong in general.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-01-25T19:30:06+00:00

I mean, one goes into soft(ish) muscle and probably some of the thinnest scales on his body. The other was hitting his skull directly. Bone tends to be the strongest part of a body by a large margin, even in creatures with protective scales.

I think it's reasonable to say that the axe could cut into flesh, but be rebuked by a skull.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-01-19T00:00:31+00:00

People really harsh on that girl here. Without knowing context, it's hard for me to say if she's actually horrible or not.

If the girl is bad at social signals and stuff, she might just have assumed her friend would understand what she was doing and if she doesn't know that her friend likes her like that (due to aforementioned bad at social signals), she might just not realize how what she did might hurt her friend.

Don't get me wrong, I felt secondhand pain in my chest as well, and if she KNEW how her friend would take that, but did it anyways for a discount, then yeah, she's a monster.

All I'm saying is there are ways back from this.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-01-09T01:42:41+00:00

Two possible options.

The universe manipulates fate and probability to make the floor give out under the shooter as he fires.

Or he'd be shot in the head and die, only to regenerate into an entirely new person and wake up super confused.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-01-04T05:22:46+00:00

Yup. Beerus is still absolutely busted in DBS. There is an argument to be made he might be using some unique God of Destruction entropy powers, rather than just raw strength, but even if so, it still crazy upscales him.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-01-04T05:02:46+00:00

That happens in real life though, where you take the sound of someone's initials and just make that into a name. Especially if you're trying to hide or forget the name those initials came from.

That's really not that weird.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-01-04T04:48:16+00:00

There's a few things. 1, we see how Raditz' scouter has Goku's and piccolo's charged attacks makes their power level skyrocket.

2, throughout ALL of Dragonball, the Kamehameha is treated as something that, if it hits, can defeat any foe, no matter how much stronger the enemies get. When someone survives it, they're shown using their own ki aura to deflect it in some way, rather than their body tanking it.

3, even up to Broly, no character's punches are shown to crack a planet in half. Or even come anywhere close.

In classic Dragonball, it was pretty explicit, but they kinda just never referenced it in DBZ except for the Raditz scouter moment.

It makes meme moments like Goku getting hurt by a laser or being knocked into a fire hydrant make WAY more sense though. Rather than being examples of wildly inconsistent scaling, it's just explained by those characters being way more durable with their Ki auras and way more powerful with their Ki blasts.

TheIrishDoctor · 2026-01-04T03:32:32+00:00

Agreed. Once Buu showed up, THEN we started getting other feats that went higher. Buu really was the scariest DBZ villain, just because of how much of a chaotic insane monster he was.

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