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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
The fictional world I’m building is at an interesting point. For decades, a few people have held most of the magical power and control, thus dominating entire battlefields. But firearms have just been refined to precision, meaning a good sniper can take down one of these mages in a surprise shot in one go. No sudden “spider sense” escape buttons.
Pretty sure that's the base of the 1970 movie wizards.
"I'm glad you changed your last name you son of a bitch!" (Wizards spoilers, but it'll probably make you want to watch to whole movie to figure out how it got here)
Wow kudos man of culture I see
I really appreciate that there's one character in Demon Hunter that has a gun. It works, and is incredibly effective... against lower-level demons. The world-ending upper-rank variety need at least a decapitation, and half the time, a secondary decapitation or dismemberment of some kind. Simply asploding demon parts with one or two shotgun slugs is not enough in that case.
As a storytelling device, it really grounds the entire power-system in both the supernatural and super-human. We get periodically reminded that a gun absolutely holds its own in raw firepower, but the situation is just a bit more of a problem than it can handle.
Something about the big bad in the first MHA movie whipping out a gun and shooting somebody just hit hard. Like this is a world where people can whip out black holes and use their skin to create anything they want, yet a pistol made everyone stop immediately and collectively shit themselves.
I cast BULLET!
Expecto parabellum!
You fool, I expected you to expect to prepare for war!
:: dies of gunshot ::
https://outlawstar.fandom.com/wiki/Caster
Outlaw Star had magic and magic bullets.
And a rather unfortunate navigation system
This is a meme where the source of its illustration perfectly portray the meme, even within its own context.
This is one of the most commonly used images on my D&D party’s Discord channel:
AI generated memes are so wild
Especially if there exist loads of versions of the joke that were made pre-AI. Who hasn't seen the gandalf with an AK-47 meme that was made 20 years ago?
I do love when this happens. I could probably think of more examples if I took the time, but the first that immediately springs to mind is Buffy the Vampire Slayer pulling a rocket launcher on a vampire.
I love BtVS, but bruh she just fired an AT4 at a demon inside a mall. Backblast Whedon wtf. The wall is literally right behind her.
My protagonist has the ability to wield a franction (a word for a small amount in my verse) of the vitael energies of potential offspring ("poffspring") they decide not to have, so like if they date someone of the opposite sex and things are going well and they're thinking of moving in together, and then they ghost them my protag gets the power of the potential unborn babies (well some of it). They have made enemies of pretty much everyone in their hammelit (small village in my world), but have grown that much stronger with each jilted partner.
Anyway, they pulled this with the shire riff's (reeve of a shire in my lore) daughter and got shot with a pepper shot blunderbuss and exiled from town, but they are able to carry approx a handful of extra sticks using the strength from their poffspring, which they use to heat the abandoned hut they live in upwind of the hammelit's middens.
Wait, but if they think to adopt a child but not do it then they get a power?
I think so, yes, that feels right. OK, this is powerful... I think I've got the hook for my second book
Maybe you can do that they will get a "bad power" that is more a problem than something useful because the children had that power and so that would explain why no one ever wanted to adopt him
Ooo yeah like a curse and at first you think it's the children's fault, but then at the halfway point you find out they're the victims. Would also provide some good tension since it's the only way for the protag to get more power after the pepper shot removed their ability to make more poffspring.
I mean I was joking in my original comment, but you could tweak it a bit and maybe obscure some of the details to make the story halfway evocative.
I was thinking that this was a relatively bullshit example, but the movie "The One" featuring Jet Li makes this an awesome example. On it's face the impacts of one person likely aren't even enough for one person to notice, but if you had someone with the knowledge and means to take advantage of this they could be incredibly powerful.
Literally a plot point in Dresden Files. MC is a wizard who lives in Chicago doing private eye work. Regularly carries a blasting rod (wand) and a revolver. One big wizard gets taken out by a sniper rifle fired by a demon. He has semi-regular backup from non magical friends who are just well armed.
A regular human mafioso who is just so good at being a conniving and ruthless piece of shit that he can hold his own with the magic folk is a recurring character. Your spells don't mean too much if four goons get the drop on you with a metal pipe when you weren't prepared.
Yeah, this is the first / most widely known instance of this trope that I am aware of, call it the Indiana Jones manuever maybe?
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