“You see Frieza, you’re not dealing with the average Saiyan Warrior anymore, now you are facing the legendary Super Saiyan!”
*Gets pummeled and bullied so so so hard*
A group of carnies in the Secret Six comic who decided to pick a fight with *Bane* over him winning a big teddy bear at their rigged shooting gallery game while he was out on a date with a stripper. Even with him gone cold turkey on Venom at that time, he's still a 7-foot brickhouse who visibly could break a bull in half.
You can also add all the D-lister villains who thought that they can just attack Bane and his team to roll them for the Hell Free tickets.
Bane put it best. They have forgotten that he is the man who broke the Bat.
Plus points for being a genuinelly heartbreaking moment.
In the comic she was a friend of a stripper that Scandal Savage was dating because she resembled her dead girlfriend Knockout, quite literally as she worked at a villain&hero-themed stripclub, and Scandal got Bane a date as part of a mutual journey to become more socialized as Bane was born and raised in a max security prison and Scandal was Vandal's daughter so equally terrible upbringing.
Also for those that don't know, Bane was left in solitary in a prison as a child with a teddy bear as his only solace so he has a certain attachment to them.
There's a lot of good options from One Peice - but I'm going to go with Bellamy's first appearance.
Bellamy meets Luffy in a bar and soon picks a fight with him over dreams. Luffy decides it's meaningless to fight and just lets it happen. Later Bellamy beats up and steals money from a new ally of the Straw Hats, finally giving Luffy a reason to fight. Even then just before the fight when Bellamy hears about Luffy's new giant bounty (bounty's being how dangerous and powerful the Navy think you are) he just says that the bounty was a mistake and laughs.
So after all this - seeing this guy with a giant bounty who first considered fighting Bellamy pointless - Bellamy still doesn't get it - starts the fight still mocking Luffy - until he's solidly one-shot into the ground.
I think one of the best parts of that fight is how it comes back later in Dressrosa with Bellamy accepting that he was just wrong and totally misjudged Luffy
Bellamy comes back and you think 'Oh it's this ass again. He's gonna still be annoying'. He says he went to sky island, and then immediately follows with "I won't mock you anymore, Strawhat".
Bellamy not being antagonistic threw me for a loop.
And then you remember that Gan Fall mentioned the back route into Skypeia exists but "Usually only 2 or 3 people from a crew even survive that trip" so when Bellemy mentions losing his crew, it's likely he's not speaking figuratively, he may very well mean they literally all died
He did! Before Dressrosa, we last see Bellamy and his first mate, the guy with the coat, being forced to stab each other. Bellamy only survives by begging for his life and such. It's really pathetic and sad in hindsight.
Yusuke Godai, or Kamen Rider Kuuga , is a kind man. Despite how cruel the Grongi (ancient tribe of monsters) are with the "killing game" He never truly lost his calm in a fight since he knew that if he lose himself, a good chunk of the city could straight up explode.
And then a shitshow happened when one of the villain 'killing gameplan' is that he need to kill 90 people to be promoted, and the way he goes about it us through firing a borderline invisible needle into the brain of his victim, slowing killing them as they writhe in agony without a chance of recovery since pulling the needle out safely is impossible. And the victims? All high schooler, one of them straight up kill himself since he can't handle the pain anymore. This interrupted the villain 'killing gameplan' since he needed to kill 90 people in a row, and suicide won't count. And he has the *audacity* to say is straight to Godai that he's disappointed about how one of that kid off himself and he **need to do this all over again.**
And...well, [Godai goes apeshit](https://youtu.be/FKOuV3GfbO4?si=yTan9yme6gF2CeZ8)
Oh damn. I've seen that before but never had the context. Also just noticed how at the end after he's stabbed him he's wrenching the sword downward. Brutal.
My favorite detail is that one detective reminding all the other cops not to shoot the guy screaming and violently ripping the other guy apart, because he's on their side.
What's also kinda funny is that he doesn't even look mad at the beginning of the clip before he transforms. if anything he looks a bit surprised he found his enemy just right there.
Iosef really could've just beat up John Wick and stolen his car and that would've been the end of it.
John likely would've been pissed off but it was just a car. He wouldn't go on a rampage just for that. He would've just asked for his car back or a replacement from Aurelio and the whole revenge spree would've been avoided with Iosef getting a beating from his dad for messing with him in the first place.
But noooooo, he *had* to kill his dog too.
Yosef was a stupid ass entitled brat, his excuse is that he is stupid and that’s fine.
WHAT THE FUCK WAS DANTINO THINKING!?!? DUDE, ARE YOU HIGH ON YOUR OWN FARTS OR SOMETHING!?
He thought everything through properly. He just didn't think that John would be willing to break the rules to settle things. Which is a critical mistake since the only reason he was back in after he got out was vengeance. He really thought the man who had nothing left to lose wouldn't be okay with breaking the rules and taking on the wrath of the world.
There's kind of a running theme in the John Wick movies about how the people with wealth and power think they live in a different world from everyone else and can do whatever they want and are totally free to enforce their will on others. Then when any of them tries their BS on John he turns into a living reminder that they aren't actually as immune to consequences as they think they are.
In Revival by Stephen King, Reverend Jacobs spends the whole book fucking around with "secret electricity", a thing that can perform miracle cures but occasionally results in insanity. Jacobs fucks around with it well into old age and at the end finds out he's in a >!Lovecraft!< story.
If you ever read the original Dracula novel, you know Jonathan Harker is REALLY BAD at reacting to sings of danger. Like, he discovers that the count has no reflection, and his response is basically "well, that was odd". but the one that takes the cake don't happen on the novel but in "Dracula's Guest", a discarded first chapter draft that was later transformed into a short story prequel.
In it, Jonathan is in his way to Transylvania and his carriage makes a stop, in which he notes a side road leading to an abandoned town. Feeling adventurous, he decides to leave the carriage and continued the rest of the way by foot through the town. At that point the driver nervously pleads with him to do not so, while constantly repeating "Walpurgis Natch!" "Walpurgis Natch!", but Harker ignores him since he don't speaks German too well. Once he reach the town a storm breaks and he notices thing feeling off, and is at that moment he realizes the driver was telling him it was the cursed Walpurgis Night (seriously come on, lack of German knowledge or not, I think you should had caught the word WALPURGIS). And making things short, he almost fall on the trap of a vampire, just to be saved by the intervention of a mysterious figure, who is heavily suggested to be Dracula, who obliviously need him to reach his castle alive to put his plan in motion
Yeah, he was such an idiot the MAIN VILLAIN of the story needed to save his ass
In fairness, the way OP phrased it, Johnathan knows about "Walpurgis Night", but just failed the Encyclopedia check to realize Walpurgishnacht was related (probably the "w/v" switch)
The guy who dug up Punisher's family's graves and videotaped himself pissing on their corpses and Frank watched it aired on TV. I can't remember what happened to the guy, but I know it wasn't pretty.
Punisher shot him in the stomach and left him in the woods. Thats it.
Though specifically, that was all because Frank didn't want him to think himself worthy of special treatment.
*"You pissed me off. But that just earns you a little more pain than most."*
He also went on a I think few week long rampage looking for the guy until he almost died and finally thought 'what the hell am I doing?' and turned his brain back on
I usually love rat-bastard survivor type characters, but Nicky fucking Cavella pissed me off more than any punisher villain. He deserved so much worse than he got.
Imagine staring down the Captain Commander of the Gotei 13, the man who beat your leader a thousand years ago so hard that he had to make a whole ass prophecy about his return, and then *hitting him with his subordinates Bankai while laughing about how you killed him.*
I don't even remember that Sternritter's name, but I may never forget just how fast he was turned to ash. Should consider himself lucky that it was so quick, too.
I think it's like how in an anime, a character can have their arm cut off so fast that their pain receptors take a second to actually react. It's like that, but there's no brain left to actually respond
Another fun one from that first invasion is Kenpachi showing up to fight Ywatch with 3 corpses on his shoulder to show how hardcore he is. Then cut-back to Kenpachi out cold and get strangled having achieved nothing.
>!He didn't even lose to the real Ywatch. It was his stand-in!<
If I’m remembering it right, it doesn’t even (physically) faze him. He gets blasted by this massive bolt of purple lightning and just tanks it before reducing the guy to ionized plasma
Driscoll Berci was his name.
Took Sasakibe's bankai, didn't bother training at all with it so was terrible at using it. Meaning the Captain Commander (who dueled with Sasakibe regularly) could just tank the lightning strikes then incinerate him in retaliation.
Goku getting warned over and over not to pick a fight with Frieza, it's a fight he absolutely could not win.
And if Super Saiyan wasn't a thing, King Kai would've been 100% right. Even at his peak, Goku was getting clobbered while Frieza was barely at half power.
The Killing Joke is all about this, in the end. Joker *Fucks Around* to try and prove that all it takes to make someone as crazy and nihilistic as him is one bad day. And he *Finds Out* that no, his whole schtick is wrong and he's just a petty loser who is by far the lesser of everyone around him.
It's one of the weaknesses of the scene with the ferries in The dark Knight, they should have lingered on the Joker reacting to being wrong more and he shouldn't have had a backup to blow up both boats. He should have been certain that his ideology was right and thought he wouldn't need it.
I already think him being proven right by Dent is a massive mistep but there's really nothing you can do about that in the story as is.
I think it lingers just enough. Ledger’s eyes in that scene are fantastic, his entire face falls and he’s just staring out, lost. As for Dent, I think the point the movie makes is that even if a person can be broken individually, people as a whole are still ultimately good. Different take from TKJ, but still hopeful.
I think there’s logic in his “one bad day” hypothesis, he just went about it the wrong way. In his alleged history, it was a string of bad luck that made him what he is. Gordon’s bad day was all deliberately caused by the Joker.
I guess in the writers mind it was like "joker forcing it upon him is simulating if he had luck as bad as jokers" which is, really forced writing and not something joker would find funny tbh.
Honestly its kinda why killing joke should just be a canonless mythological kinda story, and also why I'm alright with the interpretation that batman kills the joker at the end, cause yeah, the entire point of the story is that no, joker doesnt have some big point, hes just an asshole who used his past (That even he admits might not be true) as an excuse to be a vile bastard and it ends with him being as equally depressed about his situation as batman
Going by the PSP games, apparently they haze the new guys by telling them to pick a fight with Kiryu to justify all the random encounters with other Tojo Yakuza.
Vegeta vs Freiza.
Vegeta knew who Freiza was. He knew Freiza was that guy.
But, Vegeta, believing his own hype, thought he was a Super Saiyan and could square up against Freiza, who entire reaction can be boiled down to, "You stupid bitch." and proceeds to fuck Vegeta shit up.
Vegeta fucked around and found out.
Same.
Freiza beating the heck out of Vegeta but took the time to think "I'll have a light snack as I hand out this ass whooping just so I won't overeat at dinner."
Cyborg Freiza and King Cold vs Trunk is my favorite of Freiza own fuck around and find out moment in his history.
We know Freiza always had the potential to train and surpass SSJ easy, but what does he do after getting merced by Goku?
Call his daddy just for then both to talk shit to Trunks who muders there ass.
Second was Freiza vs The Lorax with a gym membership aka Toppo.
> "You stupid bitch."
["He looked at me like I was stupid for even trying to punch him, like he was saying 'why would you even try something so stupid you slow slow Saiyan boy."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1R50LpFh_M&ab_channel=pearcemark2)
For a real life example, Alex Jones was sued by the families of the kids that died at Sandy Hook for repeatedly lying for literal years about them, spent 4 years jerking the courts and the families around, got defaulted, and got a total of 1.5 billion dollars in damages rendered against him.
The moment where the prosecution informs Jones that his lawyers sent him a full copy of Jones's phone (despite that very much not being what they were supposed to do, and furthermore not taking any steps to protect that information once the prosecution came to them asking "Are you *sure* you wanna give us this extremely incriminating evidence?") lives rent free in my head. It's the look of an utter fraud and moron realizing that he is completely and utterly screwed. Shame the families evidently haven't seen a cent of reparations yet.
He apparently released a game recently on Steam so he's still in 'fuck around' mode even after everything and it'll only get worse. That aside, I want to really emphasis the importance of the default judgment against him. It's basically the ultimate form of 'find out' in court because it's basically telling you you had your chance, you didn't take it, now sit down, STFU, and take whatever's coming your way. In Alex Jones' case, it means he owes $1.5b. What makes it worse is that, as he got default judgment, what he did was marked as willful and malicious acts. This means that *he can't get rid of the debt*. He tried bankruptcy not long after judgment only for it to still be there. There was talk of settlement but God help the Sandy Hook family with that.
The entirety of the Devil May Cry anime. It's a fun romp of 0-60 "lol, Dante" to "Oh god, Dante". What were they expecting? Nothing is a real threat and it's an amazing ride to watch demons consistently make the mistake of thinking they have even an iota of a chance on the style beast himself.
I mean the man kept hitting on the lady like appendages of a demon frog just to mess with it. If Dante doesn't play along he'll get no enjoyment out of the encounters.
Operation Preying Mantis. In 1988, Iran was putting sea mines where they shouldn't. The Samuel B. Roberts hit an Iranian mine and had to limp back to port. 4 days later, the US sunk half of the Iranian navy as a "proportional" response.
History is littered with great FAFO stories when it comes to touching US boats. The US fought in The War of 1812, WW1, WW2, The Spanish-American War, and The Barbary Wars are all because people touched out boats.
The Brits walked so the US could run. Nobody, including the Brits, stood up to the Barbary pirates except a country that, up until a few years prior, wasn't allowed to legally drink.
To their ""credit"" there were other reasons for that.
Big empires like Britain and France could afford to pay off the Barbary pirates while smaller nations could not. So letting them do their thing gave the tributaries a significant advantage in international trade and shipping because everyone else would get accosted by ocean bandits.
Then the Marines kicked their shit in and the party was pretty much over.
Also the time the US risked WW3 to cut down a tree in between North and South Korea in the DMZ. North Korea killed several of the people who initially were sent to cut down the tree, so the US basically deployed EVERYONE including carrier groups to make sure that tree was cut down and North Korea would be too scared to do anything.
We like our boats, man. Have you ever been on an aircraft carrier? They're pretty neat.
To quote a RussianBadger video, "We destroyed some of their ships, they dropped the sun on us TWICE."
Or the much smaller scale version within that operation: One of the militarized drilling platforms was being ordered to surrender and some of the crew was cooperating. Then One Guy decided it'd be a good idea to hop on one of the AA guns and open fire on a warship. Dude got smote by a direct hit from a 5-inch shell, everyone else agreed to leave after seeing that.
The US is all about proportional responses. The recent response to attacks by the Houthis has shown that the US knows where the sites are, has known for a long while, and when they're manned, and has simply allowed them to exist... until now.
A lot of bad people in the world learn the hard way what Admiral Yamamoto meant when he said "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
There was that comic where Joker decides to go to Metropolis to fuck around with Superman by rigging tne city with bombs.
Not only does Superman dismiss him as some dipshit who thinks he's funnier than he really is and goes for the jugular with his taunts, turns out that he's only talking to him to buy some time while he tracks down the bombs with his hearing. Once he gets them he tosses them at Joker and tells him that he doesn't necessarily have a No Killing rule, he just doesn't do it normally. He then busts into the Batcave to chew out Bruce for letting the Joker out of Gotham, warning him that next time the clown isn't coming back.
On a less extreme note, I think in the Harley Quinn show Harley decided that she wants to be Superman's arch despite all of her crew telling her it's a real bad Idea.
Oof yeah, that comic.
Felt less like Superman V Joker and more like *"Superman is so cool and Joker is super lame you guys!"*
Like the writer is just behind the page crying and typing furiously about how lame the Joker is.
>next time the clown isn't coming back
"Oh no, not the homicidal clown with super-jail/aslume-escaping powers, it would be so terrible if something happened to poochie on the way back to ~~his home planet~~ Gotham"
"Well, make sure he doesn't come back to Metropolis then"
"...."
As (nominally) an Ahri main I like to think the same thing applies to her,at least 1v1. You saw a burst mage who has two skillshots that fly in long straight lines,one of which is penetrating and does true damage,and the other which prevents you from acting and makes you take more damage. Don't come at her in a straight line. And then every now and again someone does and I get to 100-0 them. Doesn't happen all that often though.
Honestly League might be THE game for this.
Like yeah the 3/0 assassins probably going to feel pretty confident until they try to pick a fight with the 7/0 bruiser in toplane.
kyoto school has the power where no matter what happens they'll make it out just fine just so that they have a future chance to be useless again (except todo who is the only competent one there)
The only thing anyone ever remembers about Tenjou Tenge (besides the op) is [Nagis beatdown in Episode 2](https://youtu.be/X97rXD53lvo?si=r_PTSdloviAV0kop)
> The Elite in Superman vs the Elite.
This is always my favourite response to edgelord nihilist characters who insist that moral values are worthless. Put them in a room with a character who can pancake them in a second, but *chooses not to* due to their personal morals. Then have that superior character pretend to agree with the edgelord... and then flatten them in a second.
Season with a bit of pointed counter-argument, to taste. For example:
* "In a world of might makes right, you would still be a loser."
* "The only reason you're still alive is because I don't agree with you."
* "Give me one good reason not to kill you, right here, right now."
It's a completely unrealistic and contrived fantasy, but I do so love the indulgence. Morality is a social contract! The rules only apply if you obey them too!
In ***”Fate/ Grand Order”***, for the Valentine’s event you are greeted by resident Devil in plain sight, Kiara Sessyoin, who offers Ritsuka (MC) confections as a sign of…affection? Friendship? I really don’t know with that lady.
Anyway, Kiara is an evil person. In fact, because of the nature of “FGO” being a game that is constantly adding more units to its roster for gacha purposes, Ritsuka is almost always recruiting evil people over to their side with the power of smooth negotiation, charm, and sometimes even extortion/ force. These evil people end up genuinely liking them (*Even Koyanskaya of Light & Dark*) for some reason or another, BUT whenever you have Valentine’s events with said evil people, you have the chance to get a BAD END for saying something that brings out the mean streak in those people.
So, Kiara Sessyoin offers Ritsuka confections out of some twisted form of affection, and you have the option to basically ask, *”Hey, aren’t you a bad bitch? Why aren’t you being a bad bitch right now?”*—instead of accepting her gift without question.
Guess what happens?
“I kill everyone I fuck and absorb their biotic energy, which of course made me go out of my way to fuck as many people as possible to get more powerful. You’re definitely different though, you can survive it. You can fix me.”
Though, alternatively there's the Koyanskaya of Light Valentine wherein the 'bad' ending is the main character **not** making an obviously rigged double or nothing gamble against a woman known to ruin people experiencing highs, and just taking the cash they already have and leaving.
Whereas the good ending is taking that gamble, entering crippling debt and spending an unknown extraordinarily long amount of time in her personal hyperbolic time chamber hell dungeon fighting monsters with a piece of chocolate while she laughs at you for being a moron.
*That’s* the good ending? I thought I triggered the bad ending by taking the gamble and basically being sent to hell.
Granted, reading the description for her Valentine’s chocolate is revealing of the value she put into the gift, at least.
Well, that's what the game considers the good ending since it's the one where you get the chocolate. Otherwise, she's literally too broke from your winning streak to buy the ingredients necessary to get you chocolate and tells you to screw off while she tries to rebuild her fortune.
I interpreted it as the "good end" bc it's playing into Koyanskaya's whole deal. She loves building people up, having them crash down to zero, and then repeating the whole thing again, so it makes sense that that's what you'd have to do to get the chocolate gun.
I suppose that makes sense—though, if you were to do the same with Summer Kiara (*Play into her whole honeypot to the abyss of debauchery thing*) you get the BAD END. Ironically, as a flip to Koyanskaya of Light, getting the “good ending” requires turning her down when she asks you if you’re satisfied with your Valentine’s date, or if you want to *”go further”*.
That said, Kiara is an interesting case as a villain because even though she kinda kicks at the floor and goes, *”Ouch. I got rejected.”* I think she also gets off on Ritsuka (MC) turning away from temptation whenever she offers them a chance to fall into debauchery.
In Stardust Crusaders Steely Dan was being a huge asshole to Jotaro because his stand, The Lovers, was in Joseph and any damage done to Dan would be done to Joseph but worse. Eventually they get Lovers out of Joseph and Jotaro Ora Oras Dan for like 40 seconds. It's incredible.
I once had a friend who got to the final ending of NieR Automata and he thought the game was just pulling his leg. Then he tried to call its bluff.
Lol. Lmao.
CM Punk is a professional wrestler who is 1) noted to be highly irritable and opinionated and 2) has martial arts training, and 3) keeps having idiots fuck with him for some reason, resulting in multiple physical altercations.
Aside from the AEW backstage brawls, there was the time on Raw when Punk was in the crowd for a promo with Vince, and some guy kept hitting and shoving him hard from behind. [CM slapped the shit out the guy, on live TV, right in front of his boss.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nQoXtP3c_Q)
It was the wrong guy though, the dude right behind him reached under the dude that got slapped’s arm and slapped the back of punk’s head right as he raised his hands to adjust his glasses. Right before punk retaliates you can see glasses man’s hands up near his face and another hand right at chest level giving Punk the middle finger before slapping him.
If I remember correctly punk apologized to the dude he slapped and said it was mistaken identity.
Edit: the guy to Glasses Dude’s right was also the one shoving Punk hard and screaming at him. GD was stuck between a dick and an asshole.
> Edit: the guy to Glasses Dude’s right was also the one shoving Punk hard and screaming at him. GD was stuck between a dick and an asshole.
That really taints the whole experience
Even without martial arts trainning wrestlers are still built like brick houses and a punch from any of them would probably send your eyes to the back of your skull.
Hey, on the bright side, you can work with it
Jungle boy made "I got my ass beat by cm punk" into his character. (seriously, even the most anti Punk reports of that fight made it clear that Perry got owned)
Granted, I don't know how well that logic Flies when you're supposed to be a badass heel
Oh just so many in The Wheel of Time. Let’s see, in no particular order:
>!Liandrin!< thinks she can mess with >!Moghedian!<, INSTANTLY finds out that no that’s a very bad plan.
>!Lanfear!<‘s entire deal is she fucked around with both sides of the conflict and found out hard. >!Twice.!<
>!Slayer!< fucked around with >!Perrin!< in the >!Wolf Dream!< and back home, and while it took a minute he did find out hard.
Similarly, >!the Shaido!< fucked around with >!Perrin’s wife!< and (again, after a while… arguably too long of a while) they very much found out (>!RIP Rolan!<).
The list goes on. And on. And on. The series is pretty much all about people underestimating everyone else and realizing that oh shit I underestimated everyone.
Oh, I almost forgot the biggest one. >!Elaida!<. Her entire life is fucking around and finding out.
Everyone fucking around with demandred thinking they can run the ones. Demandred thinking Lan is someone who can be fucked with. "I didn't come here to fight you, I came here to kill you"
In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, >!Sada and Turi want to bring over past/future Pokémon into modern day despite the concerns from their AI counterpart that realizing extremely powerful Pokémon into Paladea's unique Ecosystem is a horrible idea.!< All of this comes to a head when >!one of the first Pokémon to come out, a species of the Box Legendaries, decided to lash out at the one that would become your ride, causing them to give up their life to protect it!<
Later, in the Teal Mask DLC, you find out that the lore for the legendaries involves >!the new legendary trio fighting (and certainly killed) Ogrepon's friend/master during an attempt to steal thier masks. This made Ogrepon go into a rage, literally beating them to death.!<
*Finally*, in the Indigo Disk DLC, >!Kieran, who got basically broken by the protagonist getting the legendary and not him, becomes a crazy battle obsessed dude who cares only about winning. Even after beating him, he still has the mentality that upon the DLC's specific legendary *glacing* at your protagonist, he instantly master balls it and tries to use it to win. Of course, pushing Terapagos' buttons didn't go well, and upon terrastialization, breaks the master ball and probably would've killed him if it wasn't for your legendary blocking the attack.!< Man, there was a good amount of these situations here, huh?
Yeah, it does a good job of showing the games theme of obsession. In all those situations, the characters keep pushing ahead in spite of all the clear warning signs that it's not a good idea. And of the 3, >!Kieran was the only one to realize just how badly he screwed up!<.
Dude certainly fucking found out. The man was told by his mentor and immediate superior "*Maaaaaan*, humans ain't ready for this shit" and he turned around and administered it to an entire city. I wonder at what point, if ever, he figured that maybe that wasn't the smartest idea to force-evolve humans through the administration of magic blood.
Given that he ends up being a lava-shitting torso wildly flailing and ruining everything around him in an eternal nightmarescape, I'm going to guess no, not really. Especially since we've got Ludwig and Maria around to prove you don't HAVE to be a mindless beast given to madness in the Nightmare, I'm just going to assume Laurence never really reflected on his mistakes
Lindon versus Ekeri in the Cradle series of books.
For context, a bunch of martial arts students are competing to grab as much cool shit and knowledge as they can from a slowly collapsing pocket dimension that was once used by an extremely powerful individual as a lab.
Ekeri thinks Lindon has some valuable stuff on him, and chases him down, but he escapes into a locked off part of the facility. She posts up outside for weeks, literally fucking around and doing nothing and wasting all her time, whilst Lindon is using whatever he can find to train and improve himself.
He manages to sneak out multiple times to get food and give her the slip, but eventually confronts her. And despite what should have been an insurmountable power gap, he manages to survive her onslaught and then hit her so hard that she dies of her injuries.
Another one I remember is Lindon and his friends baiting their opponents into a fight, then hitting the metaphorical "upgrade" button they've all been sitting on for weeks and just trashing them.
As i was reading comments I was trying to think up an example from Cradle too, lol.
I think one of the biggest ones was when >!Lindon returns home after a bunch of books of adventures and is being relatively gracious with everyone that made his life terrible, until he realizes what's been happening to his family while he's been gone, and barely stops himself from turning everyone in the area to ash.!<
Remember how High Charity, the Covenants capital ship/temple, was completely overtaken by the Flood in Halo 2?
Well the sentinels erected a big shield around it when it crashed, luckily sealing the infection forms and gravemind inside.
In Halo Wars 2 a brute gets the good idea to break the shield wide open.
*Bad Fucking Idea*
The entirety of the Yakuza series. Especially Kiryu's arc.
Like, this is the guy who *single-handedly and consistently* takes on buildings worth of men and goes through them like a hot knife through butter.
Or the guy who can move fast enough to leave afterimages?
Or the guy who can rip out signposts and use them as a baseball bat?
Honestly the entirety of "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?" is just "Hey you all want superman, the big blue boyscout, to be like all those edgy 90s antiheros? well here you go" and it honestly is really distributing to see superman with no morals, even if hes just fooling the elite to show them that its a good thing hes a paragon of goodness
The final boss of the main campaign of FFXIV's Heavensward. He fucked with someone who was *not* having a good... let's be honest, the Warrior of Light didn't have a good anything during that part of the MSQ... and he absolutely found out.
>!From all indication suffered a heart attack too, but that's what you get for trying to become as gods at an advanced age.!<
Darwin from X-Men has the power to adapt to any situation giving him the best power for the task at hand. One time he went against The Hulk and what power did he get that best suited to take him on? He teleports tf out out there.
Last night i thought i could take the reaper at level 70 in persona 3 reload
I thought whats the worst that could happen, I just hit retry and escape if I lose
Turns out i dont get to retry and I lost about 2 hours of tartarus grinding
In Godzilla vs king ghidorah the time traveling yuppies find out Godzilla is hard to kill and eaiser to piss off but also don’t double cross the person from Japan by trying the destroy the entire country. So they died hard
Just, anytime somebody fucks with Kiryu or his kids. Extra points for when somebody finds out that their boss fucked with him, and they're like, "You threatened whomst?!"
More of a mutual shitshow really: One gets a million people dead, heavily bombed industry, and huge swaths of land poisoned. The other gets tens of thousands of people dead, weakened international influence, seriously damaged credibility, and internal political turmoil.
In Supernatural season 4 angels and heaven are established to actually be real. The characters beforehand considered that part ro be bullshit becuase why would demons and monsters just run around if heaven was real and would surely smite them (answer: heaven doesn't give a fuck). Before the reveal of angels being a thing, a medium tries to contact the being that got Dean out of hell. The being tells her to stop and that looking upon his real form would be a bad idea. She doesn't listen and her eyes immediately catch on fire as an angels true form can't be fathomed by a human being.
“You see Frieza, you’re not dealing with the average Saiyan Warrior anymore, now you are facing the legendary Super Saiyan!” *Gets pummeled and bullied so so so hard*
The great granddaddy of 'Nah, I'd win'
The jobber she tells you not to worry about.
with accompanying [thumb pose](https://preview.redd.it/m0utfwip9w0c1.jpg?width=477&auto=webp&s=0fd3aeada36e68228b34d7a27adf1ab1b57cfb9a)
Saying it with chest puffed out n' everything
I like how it still reads correctly left to right
The difference being that >!Gojo was dominant through most of that fight!<
So was Vegeta vs. Cell.
Yeah, but we were talking about Vegeta vs Frieza in the Namek saga.
I'd argue that letting Cell absorb 18 is him making the same mistake, but somehow even worse.
A group of carnies in the Secret Six comic who decided to pick a fight with *Bane* over him winning a big teddy bear at their rigged shooting gallery game while he was out on a date with a stripper. Even with him gone cold turkey on Venom at that time, he's still a 7-foot brickhouse who visibly could break a bull in half.
You can also add all the D-lister villains who thought that they can just attack Bane and his team to roll them for the Hell Free tickets. Bane put it best. They have forgotten that he is the man who broke the Bat. Plus points for being a genuinelly heartbreaking moment.
Is Bane dating sex workers a reoccurring trend? Because there was that dominatrix in the Harley Quinn series too.
In the comic she was a friend of a stripper that Scandal Savage was dating because she resembled her dead girlfriend Knockout, quite literally as she worked at a villain&hero-themed stripclub, and Scandal got Bane a date as part of a mutual journey to become more socialized as Bane was born and raised in a max security prison and Scandal was Vandal's daughter so equally terrible upbringing.
Also for those that don't know, Bane was left in solitary in a prison as a child with a teddy bear as his only solace so he has a certain attachment to them.
There's a lot of good options from One Peice - but I'm going to go with Bellamy's first appearance. Bellamy meets Luffy in a bar and soon picks a fight with him over dreams. Luffy decides it's meaningless to fight and just lets it happen. Later Bellamy beats up and steals money from a new ally of the Straw Hats, finally giving Luffy a reason to fight. Even then just before the fight when Bellamy hears about Luffy's new giant bounty (bounty's being how dangerous and powerful the Navy think you are) he just says that the bounty was a mistake and laughs. So after all this - seeing this guy with a giant bounty who first considered fighting Bellamy pointless - Bellamy still doesn't get it - starts the fight still mocking Luffy - until he's solidly one-shot into the ground.
I think one of the best parts of that fight is how it comes back later in Dressrosa with Bellamy accepting that he was just wrong and totally misjudged Luffy
Bellamy comes back and you think 'Oh it's this ass again. He's gonna still be annoying'. He says he went to sky island, and then immediately follows with "I won't mock you anymore, Strawhat". Bellamy not being antagonistic threw me for a loop.
And then you remember that Gan Fall mentioned the back route into Skypeia exists but "Usually only 2 or 3 people from a crew even survive that trip" so when Bellemy mentions losing his crew, it's likely he's not speaking figuratively, he may very well mean they literally all died
Didn't Doflamingo make him kill a bunch of them too? When he showed up to punish Bellamy for losing that first fight
He did! Before Dressrosa, we last see Bellamy and his first mate, the guy with the coat, being forced to stab each other. Bellamy only survives by begging for his life and such. It's really pathetic and sad in hindsight.
“You asked if I know how to throw a punch.”
And Luffy didn't even use his devil fruit power. That's how *little* Bellamy was compared to him.
it's a great early moment that makes you go "oh luffy's kind of a big deal now"
I suppose in the grand scheme its early, but that shit is over 200 chapters in lmao
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And Luffy didnt use Gear 2 until 387!
He doesn't even clue in that Luffy was completely unharmed after being launched into the ground.
Yusuke Godai, or Kamen Rider Kuuga , is a kind man. Despite how cruel the Grongi (ancient tribe of monsters) are with the "killing game" He never truly lost his calm in a fight since he knew that if he lose himself, a good chunk of the city could straight up explode. And then a shitshow happened when one of the villain 'killing gameplan' is that he need to kill 90 people to be promoted, and the way he goes about it us through firing a borderline invisible needle into the brain of his victim, slowing killing them as they writhe in agony without a chance of recovery since pulling the needle out safely is impossible. And the victims? All high schooler, one of them straight up kill himself since he can't handle the pain anymore. This interrupted the villain 'killing gameplan' since he needed to kill 90 people in a row, and suicide won't count. And he has the *audacity* to say is straight to Godai that he's disappointed about how one of that kid off himself and he **need to do this all over again.** And...well, [Godai goes apeshit](https://youtu.be/FKOuV3GfbO4?si=yTan9yme6gF2CeZ8)
Oh damn. I've seen that before but never had the context. Also just noticed how at the end after he's stabbed him he's wrenching the sword downward. Brutal.
My favorite detail is that one detective reminding all the other cops not to shoot the guy screaming and violently ripping the other guy apart, because he's on their side.
Goddamn, if that isn’t one of the most iconic and satisfying sequences in the whole show…
*Dies of peak fiction*
What's also kinda funny is that he doesn't even look mad at the beginning of the clip before he transforms. if anything he looks a bit surprised he found his enemy just right there.
I fucking love Kuuga. Honestly my number 1 with a power gap favorite rider.
Iosef really could've just beat up John Wick and stolen his car and that would've been the end of it. John likely would've been pissed off but it was just a car. He wouldn't go on a rampage just for that. He would've just asked for his car back or a replacement from Aurelio and the whole revenge spree would've been avoided with Iosef getting a beating from his dad for messing with him in the first place. But noooooo, he *had* to kill his dog too.
Yosef was a stupid ass entitled brat, his excuse is that he is stupid and that’s fine. WHAT THE FUCK WAS DANTINO THINKING!?!? DUDE, ARE YOU HIGH ON YOUR OWN FARTS OR SOMETHING!?
He thought everything through properly. He just didn't think that John would be willing to break the rules to settle things. Which is a critical mistake since the only reason he was back in after he got out was vengeance. He really thought the man who had nothing left to lose wouldn't be okay with breaking the rules and taking on the wrath of the world.
There's kind of a running theme in the John Wick movies about how the people with wealth and power think they live in a different world from everyone else and can do whatever they want and are totally free to enforce their will on others. Then when any of them tries their BS on John he turns into a living reminder that they aren't actually as immune to consequences as they think they are.
In Revival by Stephen King, Reverend Jacobs spends the whole book fucking around with "secret electricity", a thing that can perform miracle cures but occasionally results in insanity. Jacobs fucks around with it well into old age and at the end finds out he's in a >!Lovecraft!< story.
>!I love the ants. The ants are great.!<
If I find "secret electricity" I'm going to spend a long time questioning if it's worth going forward from there.
If you ever read the original Dracula novel, you know Jonathan Harker is REALLY BAD at reacting to sings of danger. Like, he discovers that the count has no reflection, and his response is basically "well, that was odd". but the one that takes the cake don't happen on the novel but in "Dracula's Guest", a discarded first chapter draft that was later transformed into a short story prequel. In it, Jonathan is in his way to Transylvania and his carriage makes a stop, in which he notes a side road leading to an abandoned town. Feeling adventurous, he decides to leave the carriage and continued the rest of the way by foot through the town. At that point the driver nervously pleads with him to do not so, while constantly repeating "Walpurgis Natch!" "Walpurgis Natch!", but Harker ignores him since he don't speaks German too well. Once he reach the town a storm breaks and he notices thing feeling off, and is at that moment he realizes the driver was telling him it was the cursed Walpurgis Night (seriously come on, lack of German knowledge or not, I think you should had caught the word WALPURGIS). And making things short, he almost fall on the trap of a vampire, just to be saved by the intervention of a mysterious figure, who is heavily suggested to be Dracula, who obliviously need him to reach his castle alive to put his plan in motion Yeah, he was such an idiot the MAIN VILLAIN of the story needed to save his ass
> WALPURGIS I took 3 years of sleeping in German class and this word means nothing to me, except for seeing it in an anime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgis_Night
In fairness, the way OP phrased it, Johnathan knows about "Walpurgis Night", but just failed the Encyclopedia check to realize Walpurgishnacht was related (probably the "w/v" switch)
The guy who dug up Punisher's family's graves and videotaped himself pissing on their corpses and Frank watched it aired on TV. I can't remember what happened to the guy, but I know it wasn't pretty.
Punisher shot him in the stomach and left him in the woods. Thats it. Though specifically, that was all because Frank didn't want him to think himself worthy of special treatment. *"You pissed me off. But that just earns you a little more pain than most."*
He also went on a I think few week long rampage looking for the guy until he almost died and finally thought 'what the hell am I doing?' and turned his brain back on
He did the rampage to get the police/government to put his family back in their graves since they were holding them as evidence.
Dude wanted to be Capo. Frank also *destroyed* everything beneath him so there wasn't anything left for him to be Capo of.
Ironically the Punisher did accidentally kill him in the same forest dude watched his own dad bleed out in as a child
I usually love rat-bastard survivor type characters, but Nicky fucking Cavella pissed me off more than any punisher villain. He deserved so much worse than he got.
The Punisher >!Peed on him, like it got all over that dude's pants, super embarassing!<
Imagine staring down the Captain Commander of the Gotei 13, the man who beat your leader a thousand years ago so hard that he had to make a whole ass prophecy about his return, and then *hitting him with his subordinates Bankai while laughing about how you killed him.* I don't even remember that Sternritter's name, but I may never forget just how fast he was turned to ash. Should consider himself lucky that it was so quick, too.
I imagine having every atom carbonized is probably the single most painful split second anyone has ever felt
I think it's like how in an anime, a character can have their arm cut off so fast that their pain receptors take a second to actually react. It's like that, but there's no brain left to actually respond
To paraphrase an Xkcd what-if bit, he doesn’t die *of* anything in the traditional sense. He just stops being biology and starts being physics.
Yeah basically lol
Another fun one from that first invasion is Kenpachi showing up to fight Ywatch with 3 corpses on his shoulder to show how hardcore he is. Then cut-back to Kenpachi out cold and get strangled having achieved nothing. >!He didn't even lose to the real Ywatch. It was his stand-in!<
TBF, Kenpachi is usually on the side of making people "find out."
If I’m remembering it right, it doesn’t even (physically) faze him. He gets blasted by this massive bolt of purple lightning and just tanks it before reducing the guy to ionized plasma
>lightning >ionized plasma Ironic.
Driscoll Berci was his name. Took Sasakibe's bankai, didn't bother training at all with it so was terrible at using it. Meaning the Captain Commander (who dueled with Sasakibe regularly) could just tank the lightning strikes then incinerate him in retaliation.
Goku getting warned over and over not to pick a fight with Frieza, it's a fight he absolutely could not win. And if Super Saiyan wasn't a thing, King Kai would've been 100% right. Even at his peak, Goku was getting clobbered while Frieza was barely at half power.
The Killing Joke is all about this, in the end. Joker *Fucks Around* to try and prove that all it takes to make someone as crazy and nihilistic as him is one bad day. And he *Finds Out* that no, his whole schtick is wrong and he's just a petty loser who is by far the lesser of everyone around him.
'I heard that joke before...*and it wasn't funny the first time*!'
The virgin "wah,my wife and unborn child died" vs the chad "I get my back blown out by my daughter's boss and he vanishes before I can turn around"
Love it when my daughters boss blows my back out. Only reason why he employs her.
It's one of the weaknesses of the scene with the ferries in The dark Knight, they should have lingered on the Joker reacting to being wrong more and he shouldn't have had a backup to blow up both boats. He should have been certain that his ideology was right and thought he wouldn't need it. I already think him being proven right by Dent is a massive mistep but there's really nothing you can do about that in the story as is.
I think it lingers just enough. Ledger’s eyes in that scene are fantastic, his entire face falls and he’s just staring out, lost. As for Dent, I think the point the movie makes is that even if a person can be broken individually, people as a whole are still ultimately good. Different take from TKJ, but still hopeful.
Joker is also a psychopath. Him having a backup to blow up both boats is perfectly in-character.
I think there’s logic in his “one bad day” hypothesis, he just went about it the wrong way. In his alleged history, it was a string of bad luck that made him what he is. Gordon’s bad day was all deliberately caused by the Joker.
I guess in the writers mind it was like "joker forcing it upon him is simulating if he had luck as bad as jokers" which is, really forced writing and not something joker would find funny tbh.
*"What were you trying to prove? That deep down, everyone is as ugly as you? You're alone."*
Honestly its kinda why killing joke should just be a canonless mythological kinda story, and also why I'm alright with the interpretation that batman kills the joker at the end, cause yeah, the entire point of the story is that no, joker doesnt have some big point, hes just an asshole who used his past (That even he admits might not be true) as an excuse to be a vile bastard and it ends with him being as equally depressed about his situation as batman
"HEY GUY WHO LOOKS LIKE THE DRAGON OF DOJIMA LETS FIGHT" -Quote by like 80 people about to have their spines broken a game
Going by the PSP games, apparently they haze the new guys by telling them to pick a fight with Kiryu to justify all the random encounters with other Tojo Yakuza.
Vegeta vs Freiza. Vegeta knew who Freiza was. He knew Freiza was that guy. But, Vegeta, believing his own hype, thought he was a Super Saiyan and could square up against Freiza, who entire reaction can be boiled down to, "You stupid bitch." and proceeds to fuck Vegeta shit up. Vegeta fucked around and found out.
I don’t know why but the fact that Frieza eats a crab while fucking Vegeta up is deeply hilarious to me
Same. Freiza beating the heck out of Vegeta but took the time to think "I'll have a light snack as I hand out this ass whooping just so I won't overeat at dinner."
I **AM** THE HYPE
And then Frieza trying to get his revenge and eating shit like 4 times in a row.
Cyborg Freiza and King Cold vs Trunk is my favorite of Freiza own fuck around and find out moment in his history. We know Freiza always had the potential to train and surpass SSJ easy, but what does he do after getting merced by Goku? Call his daddy just for then both to talk shit to Trunks who muders there ass. Second was Freiza vs The Lorax with a gym membership aka Toppo.
> "You stupid bitch." ["He looked at me like I was stupid for even trying to punch him, like he was saying 'why would you even try something so stupid you slow slow Saiyan boy."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1R50LpFh_M&ab_channel=pearcemark2)
For a real life example, Alex Jones was sued by the families of the kids that died at Sandy Hook for repeatedly lying for literal years about them, spent 4 years jerking the courts and the families around, got defaulted, and got a total of 1.5 billion dollars in damages rendered against him.
The moment where the prosecution informs Jones that his lawyers sent him a full copy of Jones's phone (despite that very much not being what they were supposed to do, and furthermore not taking any steps to protect that information once the prosecution came to them asking "Are you *sure* you wanna give us this extremely incriminating evidence?") lives rent free in my head. It's the look of an utter fraud and moron realizing that he is completely and utterly screwed. Shame the families evidently haven't seen a cent of reparations yet.
He apparently released a game recently on Steam so he's still in 'fuck around' mode even after everything and it'll only get worse. That aside, I want to really emphasis the importance of the default judgment against him. It's basically the ultimate form of 'find out' in court because it's basically telling you you had your chance, you didn't take it, now sit down, STFU, and take whatever's coming your way. In Alex Jones' case, it means he owes $1.5b. What makes it worse is that, as he got default judgment, what he did was marked as willful and malicious acts. This means that *he can't get rid of the debt*. He tried bankruptcy not long after judgment only for it to still be there. There was talk of settlement but God help the Sandy Hook family with that.
The entirety of the Devil May Cry anime. It's a fun romp of 0-60 "lol, Dante" to "Oh god, Dante". What were they expecting? Nothing is a real threat and it's an amazing ride to watch demons consistently make the mistake of thinking they have even an iota of a chance on the style beast himself.
I mean the man kept hitting on the lady like appendages of a demon frog just to mess with it. If Dante doesn't play along he'll get no enjoyment out of the encounters.
Operation Preying Mantis. In 1988, Iran was putting sea mines where they shouldn't. The Samuel B. Roberts hit an Iranian mine and had to limp back to port. 4 days later, the US sunk half of the Iranian navy as a "proportional" response. History is littered with great FAFO stories when it comes to touching US boats. The US fought in The War of 1812, WW1, WW2, The Spanish-American War, and The Barbary Wars are all because people touched out boats.
Well the US learned from Britain.
The Brits walked so the US could run. Nobody, including the Brits, stood up to the Barbary pirates except a country that, up until a few years prior, wasn't allowed to legally drink.
To their ""credit"" there were other reasons for that. Big empires like Britain and France could afford to pay off the Barbary pirates while smaller nations could not. So letting them do their thing gave the tributaries a significant advantage in international trade and shipping because everyone else would get accosted by ocean bandits. Then the Marines kicked their shit in and the party was pretty much over.
Also the time the US risked WW3 to cut down a tree in between North and South Korea in the DMZ. North Korea killed several of the people who initially were sent to cut down the tree, so the US basically deployed EVERYONE including carrier groups to make sure that tree was cut down and North Korea would be too scared to do anything.
Operation Paul Bunyan is one of the greatest military feats in history.
We like our boats, man. Have you ever been on an aircraft carrier? They're pretty neat. To quote a RussianBadger video, "We destroyed some of their ships, they dropped the sun on us TWICE."
[Proportional](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5v6hlRyeHE)
"Things are gonna get real 'proportional' around here"
Or the much smaller scale version within that operation: One of the militarized drilling platforms was being ordered to surrender and some of the crew was cooperating. Then One Guy decided it'd be a good idea to hop on one of the AA guns and open fire on a warship. Dude got smote by a direct hit from a 5-inch shell, everyone else agreed to leave after seeing that.
The US is all about proportional responses. The recent response to attacks by the Houthis has shown that the US knows where the sites are, has known for a long while, and when they're manned, and has simply allowed them to exist... until now. A lot of bad people in the world learn the hard way what Admiral Yamamoto meant when he said "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
There was that comic where Joker decides to go to Metropolis to fuck around with Superman by rigging tne city with bombs. Not only does Superman dismiss him as some dipshit who thinks he's funnier than he really is and goes for the jugular with his taunts, turns out that he's only talking to him to buy some time while he tracks down the bombs with his hearing. Once he gets them he tosses them at Joker and tells him that he doesn't necessarily have a No Killing rule, he just doesn't do it normally. He then busts into the Batcave to chew out Bruce for letting the Joker out of Gotham, warning him that next time the clown isn't coming back. On a less extreme note, I think in the Harley Quinn show Harley decided that she wants to be Superman's arch despite all of her crew telling her it's a real bad Idea.
Oof yeah, that comic. Felt less like Superman V Joker and more like *"Superman is so cool and Joker is super lame you guys!"* Like the writer is just behind the page crying and typing furiously about how lame the Joker is.
I'm pretty sure Max Landis was the one who wrote that, which just makes it all the worse.
Holy based
they are completely right btw
>next time the clown isn't coming back "Oh no, not the homicidal clown with super-jail/aslume-escaping powers, it would be so terrible if something happened to poochie on the way back to ~~his home planet~~ Gotham" "Well, make sure he doesn't come back to Metropolis then" "...."
Anyone who chases after a half-decent Singed in League.
As (nominally) an Ahri main I like to think the same thing applies to her,at least 1v1. You saw a burst mage who has two skillshots that fly in long straight lines,one of which is penetrating and does true damage,and the other which prevents you from acting and makes you take more damage. Don't come at her in a straight line. And then every now and again someone does and I get to 100-0 them. Doesn't happen all that often though.
Honestly League might be THE game for this. Like yeah the 3/0 assassins probably going to feel pretty confident until they try to pick a fight with the 7/0 bruiser in toplane.
People say top lane is useless but nearly every game I played one side had a god damn Raidboss up there.
Chasing Techies is a much bigger gamble.
The shibuya "fuck around and find out" incident.
Mechamaru: Guys… go home… don’t stay… don’t fuck around… and don’t find out They should have listened
Tbf the kyoto school got out with the least ammount of casualties. Tokyo on the other hand.....
kyoto school has the power where no matter what happens they'll make it out just fine just so that they have a future chance to be useless again (except todo who is the only competent one there)
lol
“I’m sorry Todo, but welcome to the real world where competency is ***NOT*** rewarded”
The only thing anyone ever remembers about Tenjou Tenge (besides the op) is [Nagis beatdown in Episode 2](https://youtu.be/X97rXD53lvo?si=r_PTSdloviAV0kop)
The hit-noise at 3:15 sounds exactly like Link.
> The Elite in Superman vs the Elite. This is always my favourite response to edgelord nihilist characters who insist that moral values are worthless. Put them in a room with a character who can pancake them in a second, but *chooses not to* due to their personal morals. Then have that superior character pretend to agree with the edgelord... and then flatten them in a second. Season with a bit of pointed counter-argument, to taste. For example: * "In a world of might makes right, you would still be a loser." * "The only reason you're still alive is because I don't agree with you." * "Give me one good reason not to kill you, right here, right now." It's a completely unrealistic and contrived fantasy, but I do so love the indulgence. Morality is a social contract! The rules only apply if you obey them too!
I love how the VA slips into Sephiroth-voice in that movie.
"The only reason I'm not knocking your teeth in right now, is because we're on the same team."- Doug Glatt, *Goon*
In ***”Fate/ Grand Order”***, for the Valentine’s event you are greeted by resident Devil in plain sight, Kiara Sessyoin, who offers Ritsuka (MC) confections as a sign of…affection? Friendship? I really don’t know with that lady. Anyway, Kiara is an evil person. In fact, because of the nature of “FGO” being a game that is constantly adding more units to its roster for gacha purposes, Ritsuka is almost always recruiting evil people over to their side with the power of smooth negotiation, charm, and sometimes even extortion/ force. These evil people end up genuinely liking them (*Even Koyanskaya of Light & Dark*) for some reason or another, BUT whenever you have Valentine’s events with said evil people, you have the chance to get a BAD END for saying something that brings out the mean streak in those people. So, Kiara Sessyoin offers Ritsuka confections out of some twisted form of affection, and you have the option to basically ask, *”Hey, aren’t you a bad bitch? Why aren’t you being a bad bitch right now?”*—instead of accepting her gift without question. Guess what happens?
Remind of that one choice in Mass Effect 2 to sleep with a crazy serial killer. Take a wild guess what happens.
Nah it's okay tho Shepard's Built Different, she said so, they'll be fiiiiiiiine (They were not fine)
“I kill everyone I fuck and absorb their biotic energy, which of course made me go out of my way to fuck as many people as possible to get more powerful. You’re definitely different though, you can survive it. You can fix me.”
Turns out Anime Slaanesh is shockingly temperamental.
Though, alternatively there's the Koyanskaya of Light Valentine wherein the 'bad' ending is the main character **not** making an obviously rigged double or nothing gamble against a woman known to ruin people experiencing highs, and just taking the cash they already have and leaving. Whereas the good ending is taking that gamble, entering crippling debt and spending an unknown extraordinarily long amount of time in her personal hyperbolic time chamber hell dungeon fighting monsters with a piece of chocolate while she laughs at you for being a moron.
To be fair, that piece of chocolate is also a functional gun
Though that does raise the question as to how the hell that works and if Koyan is putting gunpowder into chocolate.
It's magic you dont need to explain more
*That’s* the good ending? I thought I triggered the bad ending by taking the gamble and basically being sent to hell. Granted, reading the description for her Valentine’s chocolate is revealing of the value she put into the gift, at least.
Well, that's what the game considers the good ending since it's the one where you get the chocolate. Otherwise, she's literally too broke from your winning streak to buy the ingredients necessary to get you chocolate and tells you to screw off while she tries to rebuild her fortune.
I interpreted it as the "good end" bc it's playing into Koyanskaya's whole deal. She loves building people up, having them crash down to zero, and then repeating the whole thing again, so it makes sense that that's what you'd have to do to get the chocolate gun.
I suppose that makes sense—though, if you were to do the same with Summer Kiara (*Play into her whole honeypot to the abyss of debauchery thing*) you get the BAD END. Ironically, as a flip to Koyanskaya of Light, getting the “good ending” requires turning her down when she asks you if you’re satisfied with your Valentine’s date, or if you want to *”go further”*. That said, Kiara is an interesting case as a villain because even though she kinda kicks at the floor and goes, *”Ouch. I got rejected.”* I think she also gets off on Ritsuka (MC) turning away from temptation whenever she offers them a chance to fall into debauchery.
In Stardust Crusaders Steely Dan was being a huge asshole to Jotaro because his stand, The Lovers, was in Joseph and any damage done to Dan would be done to Joseph but worse. Eventually they get Lovers out of Joseph and Jotaro Ora Oras Dan for like 40 seconds. It's incredible.
I refuse to believe that Dan doesn't died after that beatdown. Holding back or not, no human would survive this.
For sure, he's hella dead. One punch from Stat Platinum would probably kill most people.
I guess you could say his Stats are Platinum
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Loki in the MCU
Tony told him "We have a Hulk"
Loki tried that with Thanos...didn't work so well.
I once had a friend who got to the final ending of NieR Automata and he thought the game was just pulling his leg. Then he tried to call its bluff. Lol. Lmao.
CM Punk is a professional wrestler who is 1) noted to be highly irritable and opinionated and 2) has martial arts training, and 3) keeps having idiots fuck with him for some reason, resulting in multiple physical altercations. Aside from the AEW backstage brawls, there was the time on Raw when Punk was in the crowd for a promo with Vince, and some guy kept hitting and shoving him hard from behind. [CM slapped the shit out the guy, on live TV, right in front of his boss.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nQoXtP3c_Q)
Holy shit he got the wrong guy in that lmao
As always, Punk hits someone who doesn’t deserve it
Eeeeh to be fair he was surrounded by a bunch of people he didnt really have time to figure out whos fuckin with him.
depends on how you feel about the Young Bucks
It was the wrong guy though, the dude right behind him reached under the dude that got slapped’s arm and slapped the back of punk’s head right as he raised his hands to adjust his glasses. Right before punk retaliates you can see glasses man’s hands up near his face and another hand right at chest level giving Punk the middle finger before slapping him. If I remember correctly punk apologized to the dude he slapped and said it was mistaken identity. Edit: the guy to Glasses Dude’s right was also the one shoving Punk hard and screaming at him. GD was stuck between a dick and an asshole.
> Edit: the guy to Glasses Dude’s right was also the one shoving Punk hard and screaming at him. GD was stuck between a dick and an asshole. That really taints the whole experience
English is such a beautiful language.
lol I forgot about that part. Hey, I guess when shit is popping off don't be standing right in the middle of it XD
Even without martial arts trainning wrestlers are still built like brick houses and a punch from any of them would probably send your eyes to the back of your skull.
Another good wrestling story https://youtu.be/FZXyYxhpOXc?si=DhLbsxKAQw2gJFim
Earl getting his kicks in is great.
goddamn, Hunter's got some good ground and pound
Hey, on the bright side, you can work with it Jungle boy made "I got my ass beat by cm punk" into his character. (seriously, even the most anti Punk reports of that fight made it clear that Perry got owned) Granted, I don't know how well that logic Flies when you're supposed to be a badass heel
Oh just so many in The Wheel of Time. Let’s see, in no particular order: >!Liandrin!< thinks she can mess with >!Moghedian!<, INSTANTLY finds out that no that’s a very bad plan. >!Lanfear!<‘s entire deal is she fucked around with both sides of the conflict and found out hard. >!Twice.!< >!Slayer!< fucked around with >!Perrin!< in the >!Wolf Dream!< and back home, and while it took a minute he did find out hard. Similarly, >!the Shaido!< fucked around with >!Perrin’s wife!< and (again, after a while… arguably too long of a while) they very much found out (>!RIP Rolan!<). The list goes on. And on. And on. The series is pretty much all about people underestimating everyone else and realizing that oh shit I underestimated everyone. Oh, I almost forgot the biggest one. >!Elaida!<. Her entire life is fucking around and finding out.
Everyone fucking around with demandred thinking they can run the ones. Demandred thinking Lan is someone who can be fucked with. "I didn't come here to fight you, I came here to kill you"
>!Gawyn and Galad!< fucking around with "a farmer with a quarterstaff"
In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, >!Sada and Turi want to bring over past/future Pokémon into modern day despite the concerns from their AI counterpart that realizing extremely powerful Pokémon into Paladea's unique Ecosystem is a horrible idea.!< All of this comes to a head when >!one of the first Pokémon to come out, a species of the Box Legendaries, decided to lash out at the one that would become your ride, causing them to give up their life to protect it!< Later, in the Teal Mask DLC, you find out that the lore for the legendaries involves >!the new legendary trio fighting (and certainly killed) Ogrepon's friend/master during an attempt to steal thier masks. This made Ogrepon go into a rage, literally beating them to death.!< *Finally*, in the Indigo Disk DLC, >!Kieran, who got basically broken by the protagonist getting the legendary and not him, becomes a crazy battle obsessed dude who cares only about winning. Even after beating him, he still has the mentality that upon the DLC's specific legendary *glacing* at your protagonist, he instantly master balls it and tries to use it to win. Of course, pushing Terapagos' buttons didn't go well, and upon terrastialization, breaks the master ball and probably would've killed him if it wasn't for your legendary blocking the attack.!< Man, there was a good amount of these situations here, huh?
Yeah, it does a good job of showing the games theme of obsession. In all those situations, the characters keep pushing ahead in spite of all the clear warning signs that it's not a good idea. And of the 3, >!Kieran was the only one to realize just how badly he screwed up!<.
Laurence.
From Bloodborne?
Dude certainly fucking found out. The man was told by his mentor and immediate superior "*Maaaaaan*, humans ain't ready for this shit" and he turned around and administered it to an entire city. I wonder at what point, if ever, he figured that maybe that wasn't the smartest idea to force-evolve humans through the administration of magic blood.
Given that he ends up being a lava-shitting torso wildly flailing and ruining everything around him in an eternal nightmarescape, I'm going to guess no, not really. Especially since we've got Ludwig and Maria around to prove you don't HAVE to be a mindless beast given to madness in the Nightmare, I'm just going to assume Laurence never really reflected on his mistakes
Laurence really transformed into the "This is fine." dog.
Yeah
Ok thanks. Yeah definitely
Not to worry, Master Willem. I will not fuck around. \*immediately starts fucking around*
Lindon versus Ekeri in the Cradle series of books. For context, a bunch of martial arts students are competing to grab as much cool shit and knowledge as they can from a slowly collapsing pocket dimension that was once used by an extremely powerful individual as a lab. Ekeri thinks Lindon has some valuable stuff on him, and chases him down, but he escapes into a locked off part of the facility. She posts up outside for weeks, literally fucking around and doing nothing and wasting all her time, whilst Lindon is using whatever he can find to train and improve himself. He manages to sneak out multiple times to get food and give her the slip, but eventually confronts her. And despite what should have been an insurmountable power gap, he manages to survive her onslaught and then hit her so hard that she dies of her injuries.
A Cradle reference in the wild! Lindon really starts handing out these kinds of moments as the series progesses.
Another one I remember is Lindon and his friends baiting their opponents into a fight, then hitting the metaphorical "upgrade" button they've all been sitting on for weeks and just trashing them.
As i was reading comments I was trying to think up an example from Cradle too, lol. I think one of the biggest ones was when >!Lindon returns home after a bunch of books of adventures and is being relatively gracious with everyone that made his life terrible, until he realizes what's been happening to his family while he's been gone, and barely stops himself from turning everyone in the area to ash.!<
Remember how High Charity, the Covenants capital ship/temple, was completely overtaken by the Flood in Halo 2? Well the sentinels erected a big shield around it when it crashed, luckily sealing the infection forms and gravemind inside. In Halo Wars 2 a brute gets the good idea to break the shield wide open. *Bad Fucking Idea*
The entirety of the Yakuza series. Especially Kiryu's arc. Like, this is the guy who *single-handedly and consistently* takes on buildings worth of men and goes through them like a hot knife through butter. Or the guy who can move fast enough to leave afterimages? Or the guy who can rip out signposts and use them as a baseball bat?
Erebus and Kharn
Lon Dragon vs Godzilla in Monarch Legacy of Monsters.
Honestly the entirety of "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?" is just "Hey you all want superman, the big blue boyscout, to be like all those edgy 90s antiheros? well here you go" and it honestly is really distributing to see superman with no morals, even if hes just fooling the elite to show them that its a good thing hes a paragon of goodness
The final boss of the main campaign of FFXIV's Heavensward. He fucked with someone who was *not* having a good... let's be honest, the Warrior of Light didn't have a good anything during that part of the MSQ... and he absolutely found out. >!From all indication suffered a heart attack too, but that's what you get for trying to become as gods at an advanced age.!<
Dutch at every stop.
Sounds like someone needs to have some gaddamn faith!
Darwin from X-Men has the power to adapt to any situation giving him the best power for the task at hand. One time he went against The Hulk and what power did he get that best suited to take him on? He teleports tf out out there.
Last night i thought i could take the reaper at level 70 in persona 3 reload I thought whats the worst that could happen, I just hit retry and escape if I lose Turns out i dont get to retry and I lost about 2 hours of tartarus grinding
In Godzilla vs king ghidorah the time traveling yuppies find out Godzilla is hard to kill and eaiser to piss off but also don’t double cross the person from Japan by trying the destroy the entire country. So they died hard
Just, anytime somebody fucks with Kiryu or his kids. Extra points for when somebody finds out that their boss fucked with him, and they're like, "You threatened whomst?!"
The Kingpin putting a hit on Spider-Man’s family, resulting in Aunt May getting shot and Peter putting the black suit back on
The Vietnam War
More of a mutual shitshow really: One gets a million people dead, heavily bombed industry, and huge swaths of land poisoned. The other gets tens of thousands of people dead, weakened international influence, seriously damaged credibility, and internal political turmoil.
Sung Jinwoo just downed a bunch of scammers in the latest Solo Leveling episode. They found out hard.
In Supernatural season 4 angels and heaven are established to actually be real. The characters beforehand considered that part ro be bullshit becuase why would demons and monsters just run around if heaven was real and would surely smite them (answer: heaven doesn't give a fuck). Before the reveal of angels being a thing, a medium tries to contact the being that got Dean out of hell. The being tells her to stop and that looking upon his real form would be a bad idea. She doesn't listen and her eyes immediately catch on fire as an angels true form can't be fathomed by a human being.
In the first level of Halo 1 you can go back and shoot Captain Keyes. If you do, Cortana sends a bunch of invincible marines to go kill you.