Idiot Ball: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
| Line 102: | Line 102: | ||
** The Idiot Ball is what makes ''[[Mystery Team]]'' possible. |
** The Idiot Ball is what makes ''[[Mystery Team]]'' possible. |
||
* In the film ''[[Cobra]]'', the final confrontation between the titular police officer and the villain (a serial killer named the Night Stalker) begins by the villain pointing out that cops have to play by the rules even when dealing with a man as evil as him and as such couldn't just gun him down. Now this ''would'' be a perfectly logical and interesting argument ''if'' Cobra hadn't gunned down at least ''two dozen'' men in a car chase five minutes beforehand. Not only this, but he's well aware from the news that Cobra is trigger happy and is famous for solving problems with his gun. Why he thought a man with the body count of at least thirty would care if he shot a serial killer guilty of molesting a child in cold blood is, perhaps, best left to himself. |
* In the film ''[[Cobra]]'', the final confrontation between the titular police officer and the villain (a serial killer named the Night Stalker) begins by the villain pointing out that cops have to play by the rules even when dealing with a man as evil as him and as such couldn't just gun him down. Now this ''would'' be a perfectly logical and interesting argument ''if'' Cobra hadn't gunned down at least ''two dozen'' men in a car chase five minutes beforehand. Not only this, but he's well aware from the news that Cobra is trigger happy and is famous for solving problems with his gun. Why he thought a man with the body count of at least thirty would care if he shot a serial killer guilty of molesting a child in cold blood is, perhaps, best left to himself. |
||
** Being fair, Cobra ''is'' a police officer so even though he's killed hundreds of people in legal self-defense you could still possibly believe him unwilling to commit cold-blooded murder. Because generally, cops are assumed to be law-abiding unless proven corrupt, and Cobra isn't corrupt; just hot-headed and brutal. Admittedly, you'd be ''wrong'', but at least there was a sort-of logical train of thought you could follow to come to this conclusion. |
|||
* In ''[[Masters of the Universe (film)|Masters of the Universe]]'', Evil-Lyn tricks Julie into handing her the Cosmic Key by disguising herself as Julie's dead mother. Not once does Julie question how her mother is alive, where her father could be, or why her mother would want the Cosmic Key. |
* In ''[[Masters of the Universe (film)|Masters of the Universe]]'', Evil-Lyn tricks Julie into handing her the Cosmic Key by disguising herself as Julie's dead mother. Not once does Julie question how her mother is alive, where her father could be, or why her mother would want the Cosmic Key. |
||
** Somewhat understandable - grief can make people extremely irrational, and her mother had only recently died. She also felt somewhat responsible for her mother's death. |
** Somewhat understandable - grief can make people extremely irrational, and her mother had only recently died. She also felt somewhat responsible for her mother's death. |
||