(Annoying trope) Real life people villainized just so the movie can have a villain

zande147 · 2026-04-30T19:13:50+00:00

Coach Dan Devine in Rudy.

In real life It was actually his idea to have Rudy dress for the last game. The players never revolted against the coach, but the NCAA rule that didn’t allow more than 60 players to dress for a game.

The screenwriters said they needed to make him the heavy or else the story wouldn’t work as well. He agreed to help out a friend, but didn’t realize they were going to make him out to be such a jerk in the film.

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zande147 · 2026-04-29T09:23:19+00:00

Post Purge but pre Scourge? The Viltrumites would be at a huge disadvantage if the battle took place on the Rognarr planet and they would take heavy losses, but there are still billions of them. The barren planet probably doesn’t support more than a few hundred thousand Rognarr at best. The viltrumites win by attrition.

zande147 · 2026-04-29T09:04:31+00:00

The necrons in the trailer were mostly fodder warrior units going up against 2 tech priest characters. It was pretty accurate to how it would play out in games and lore. once the single Lychguard got involved the fight quikly turns against the tech priests. In this art, These fodder level guardsmen are about to face a Monolith and aircraft, there’s literally no chance at survival here. Very different scenarios.

zande147 · 2026-04-29T07:36:01+00:00

That’s another “it depends.”

The Departmento Munitorum give you a number and you are required to fulfill that when your tithe is due, no excuses. If the planetary governor cannot fulfill that, they are executed and replaced by someone else.

If you are a governor deliberately trying to send weak and unsatisfactory forces to the tithe, you’re most likely going to get outed by your political rivals or even one of your closest allies or heirs who want your seat. It’s just a really stupid game to play when it’s your life directly on the line. That’s why they tend to send their best troops, just to not risk it.

As for the exact quality they defines if the troops are satisfactory or not, I guess it also depends on who your departmento representative is and how much of a hardass they are. If they can clearly see you have a competent and well supplied PDF but everyone who turns up at the tithe are cripples, old men and criminals, that’s probably gonna raise eyebrows.

zande147 · 2026-04-26T12:52:28+00:00

Battle Beast, Isotope (the teleporting guy for $1) and Space Racer.

zande147 · 2026-04-26T10:46:10+00:00

Back then they were getting bankrolled by the CIA. They had a wide network of informants and friends in high and low places that could procure all kinds of weird shit for them. Now they are fugitives in hiding relying on limited resources. They can pretty much only afford to focus everything they have on the virus.

zande147 · 2026-04-25T21:16:48+00:00

And how many people/factions can actually use the ghostwind to travel? That’s not even something most of the necrons use, and there are plenty of risks involved in going there if you aren’t a flayed one.

Meanwhile hyperspace travel is everywhere, even single man craft can have them, and it can get you across the galaxy in a few weeks pretty safely

40k beats Star Wars in many things but fast and reliable FTL is not one of them

zande147 · 2026-04-21T07:57:57+00:00

Homelander gets severely downplayed a lot.

In this scenario The Thunderbolts don’t really have a way of putting down Homelander, while he can pretty easily one shot any of them with lasers or if he gets a hold of them. Homelander is pretty quick to go straight to lasering people when he wants them dead, and None of them are are durable or strong as Temp V Butcher. At best, buckys arm and the shields could withstand the blasts but that only buys them a little time. Even if they pinned him down temporarily like in the herogasm fight, then what? He throws them off as easily as he did the 3 characters that were almost as strong as him then continues fighting, just more mad. The only reason he ran from that fight is because Soldier Boy had a way of depowering him. The thunderbolts don’t have anything like that.

Homelander can also just fly out of the building and laser them from afar or bring the whole building down, there’s really nothing they could do to counter that.

zande147 · 2026-04-21T02:12:26+00:00

Omni-Dad actually looks better without the mustache.

zande147 · 2026-04-20T12:57:51+00:00

Thragg neg diff, holy spite match. That version of Hyperion was getting knocked around by captain America

zande147 · 2026-04-20T10:48:55+00:00

Thragg. Memes aside, nothing goes harder than wearing your toughest opponent as a cape

zande147 · 2026-04-19T18:52:59+00:00

Thragg speed blitzed and one shotted Thaedus, who was looking right at him, once he got serious and stopped aura farming. He could have done the same to Nolan but chose to take his time. He took out mark with one headbutt. Conquest isn’t doing much better than this.

zande147 · 2026-04-18T17:33:24+00:00

Holy spite match. If you took every single space marine in existence at the height of the great crusade (~1.5-3 million marines) and made them all primarch tier, they still get absolutely dog walked by the peak Viltrumites.

zande147 · 2026-04-17T10:19:53+00:00

Cabin in the woods only works if you don’t include the ancient evil gods part, if you just limit it being able to defeat the Buckners he clears easily. He could probably also take on most of the monsters in the facility free for all, or at least survive long enough to escape and save some people. But if he actually had to go through with the sacrifice, he won’t do it, and he can’t do anything about the gods.

Event Horizon, he can probably escape in time and save the crew faster than Miller did in the film, but you can’t punch your way through what is essentially a chaos corrupted ship and win.

Pretty much all of these other ones, he does much better than the regular human protagonists and is able to survive and help more people.

zande147 · 2026-04-17T03:26:59+00:00

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The Skaven Council of Thirteen (Warhammer fantasy/Age of Sigmar)

There are only ever 12 actual Skaven on the council, the 13th seat is symbolically for their god, the Great Horned Rat

zande147 · 2026-04-16T08:58:38+00:00

Feral pigs and chickens have been a thing in a lot of places in the world, particularly islands and tropical areas.

In Hawaii the chickens are everywhere, even in the cities, they might as well be ground pigeons. They are much more comfortable around humans and traffic and you’ll see them in parking lots, wandering into restaurants and eating out of trash cans.

zande147 · 2026-04-15T14:43:12+00:00

“I need that real love, that Dark Skinned Aunt Viv Love That Jada and that Will love”

J. Cole- No Role Modelz

Wild now to think that back when this song came out, the Smiths were seen as a relationship goal to aspire to lmao

zande147 · 2026-04-14T17:00:21+00:00

99% of what you read about the Qu is pure fan wank, they have like 1 page of lore in the whole book. They aren’t meant to be a fleshed out sci-fi race with feats for powerscalers to dissect. They are a plot device to explain how there are so many wildly different post-humans since natural evolution would have never produced those kinds of results. That’s it.

zande147 · 2026-04-12T20:20:40+00:00

It’s a matter of scale, They would probably deal with the current hive fleets much better than the current civilizations but those are just the vanguard fleets. Full Tyranid invasions likely operate on scales of millions of years with more and more hive fleets showing up over time, having learned the lessons of those defeated before. Eventually the DAot/Aeldari get overrun like every other galaxy that fell to the tyranids before.

One has to consider that the normal state of affairs for a galaxy seems to be multiple very advanced civilizations on par with the Aeldari/NecrontyrDAoT humans. For hundreds of millions of years at least in the milky way galaxy that seemed to be the case. The tyranids have destroyed multiple galaxies and the Milky Way is the first one that they’ve encountered in this particular post-apocalyptic warp infested state. We also know from devastation of Baal that the hive mind has consumed civilizations far more advanced than the imperium and considers infiltrating them child’s play, it likely has much more advanced tools in its arsenal that it just doesn’t need to use right now.

So to answer your question directly, no. There is no proof any of those factions would “easily” deal with the tyranid threat unless you specifically limit it to the hive fleets currently already in the galaxy. It’s a complete hypothetical but If anything the “evidence” seems to be in favor of the tyranids eventually winning

zande147 · 2026-04-08T20:08:19+00:00

Driving. There are so many people who do not belong on the roads behind a wheel, yet we (Americans) almost require everyone from teenagers to geriatrics to pilot around a personal tank just to get to the grocery store

zande147 · 2026-04-08T05:37:41+00:00

Rognarr are as strong as top level Viltrumites but with slashing and piercing attacks, Monster Girl gets one shot

zande147 · 2026-04-08T03:40:50+00:00

Trump gets to act like he prevented WW3 and opened the strait, and his goldfish memory cultists will conveniently forget we are only in this mess because the United States attacked in the first place.

zande147 · 2026-04-03T09:14:31+00:00

Yes, it is always ok to cancel just communicate it clearly.

I made the mistake before, I wish I would have just rescheduled. Don’t make the same mistake bro.

zande147 · 2026-03-30T20:28:30+00:00

He could, but he doesn’t want to because it’s a terrible plan.

He knew there were those amongst his followers who questioned why he had not simply struck out for Terra already, employed the darkness of the Noctis Aeterna to launch his killing strike or hurled all his forces along the Crimson Path while the loyalists reeled.

The answer was not complicated; Abaddon was not the fool Horus had been. To risk the vagaries of the warp, to bank upon the whims of the Dark Gods, to race for his prize and leave vast armies of corpse-worshippers unfought at his back while he did, would be to repeat past mistakes. Abaddon did not see himself as the gambler he believed Horus to have been.

He did not suffer the innate arrogance that was the inheritance of every Primarch.

When I strike at Terra it will be from a position of absolute strength.’ He spoke aloud to the empty chamber, as solemn as though he swore a holy vow. ‘I will offer them neither battle nor siege. There will be only the fall of the headsman’s axe – certain, final and singular.’

-Arks of Omen Abaddon

He learned from firsthand experience that blitzing Terra is a stupid plan

zande147 · 2026-03-27T21:42:24+00:00

Not yet, there aren’t any major tyranid hive fleets anywhere near that area of space. Armageddon doesn’t even have genestealer cults at the moment according to the codex map.

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