One thing thing bugged me in Watchmen (book, not the film). So Laurie and Dan decide that shooting Adrian is the right course of action. And then he miraculously catches the bullet.
So shoot him again! Two in rapid succession.
They don’t address it in these types of cartoons, but I did think it was neat that in Star Wars the force users are able to deflect blaster beams with their light sabers.
In The Strain the villain power flexs by dodging a gun aimed at his head. How about aiming at his feet? How about a machine gun?
So, I’m guessing that Gibbs and company (NCIS) have some stable wormhole that allows them to go from Quantico to Norfolk – and back, several times in a day – in about 20 minutes?
Heh! I’ve been watching past episodes of The Blacklist on Netflix, and it seems like the team members based in D.C. can get to NYC in about twenty minutes and fly across the Atlantic in two or three hours.
The amount of heroes who can survive a SWAT sniper are actually very very low. Also…
Also 1:27
To expand beyond movies and TV into literature/mythology: Sisyphus, the person condemned to have to roll a boulder uphill in Hades forever, only to always lose his grip on it just before reaching the top and have it roll all the way back downhill. But why “have to”? What’s making him try? What if he just went on strike and said “F-No, I’m not gonnna’ do it!”
This is Coyote logic. The Coyote, once a trick fails, never tries it again (with one exception).
He’s there for all eternity. Eventually, he’d get bored and start pushing the rock again, just to have something to do.
Flattening the hill by hand isn’t an option?
I still think there must be either an unspoken punishment for refusing to try (worse than the task??) or else an unspoken promise of something if he ever could (but never will) succeed.
Simo Häyhä did.
Will Charlie and Rose from The African Queen really have a happy marriage? She’s a missionary and he’s a drunk mechanic. Once they get back to civilization, their options are pretty limited. He gave up drinking for her, but only because there was no gin left. I predict that as soon as they get to a town, he’s off to the gin mill.
I can think of a couple. He tried an entire episode to use the giant mechanical coyote without success; and the catapult with a large boulder somehow found a new and different failure mode over five attempts to make it work.
I’m generally not a fan of Batman but there was a recent comic where a (supposedly) totally average guy plans to kill Batman by shooting him while he’s busy or distracted or not paying attention…
With today’s material technology, I’d be surprised if Batman doesn’t incorporate the best non-Newtonian liquid armor available into his cowl.
A recent comic had Bruce Wayne claim he was a trillionaire. He’d have to be to afford all those lost batarangs shown in the video game.
[Batman voice]
I’m never not paying attention.
Commissioner Gordon, you’re wearing the same cologne your mother-in-law gave you for Christmas, 2019. I assume she’s in town and staying with you…
[/Batman voice]
Doubtless Bruce Wayne has insider knowledge of when to sell short on Gotham real estate.
Was the (presumably in Hawaii) radio station the castaways of Gilligan’s Island listened to ever identified?