Awesome Yet Practical: Difference between revisions

 

Compare [[Simple Yet Awesome]], which is less impressive to see but just as awesome anyway.

 

== Anime ==

* ''[[Vanquish]]'' turned this trope into a video game. Everything Sam Gideon is capable of doing in battle looks frickin' sweet but also serves a greater purpose ([[Bullet Time|AR Mode]] attaches target identifiers to all available targets so you can pick them apart while you're still slowed down, boosting is like doing a rock and roll power slide but at 50 mph in the heat of battle, the list goes on).

* The Medi-Gun in [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]. [[The Medic]] is absolutely the rock of the team, supplying everyone with heals. This is accomplished by a real sweet backpack hooked up to a gun that shoots people with [[Power Glows|glowing tendrils of light]]. The Uber-Charge only makes it more awesome; for seven seconds both the medic and his patient are glowing, invulnerable metallic demons of death.

* Most of the weapon-mods in ''[[Borderlands (Video Game)|Borderlands]]'' fall into this category. [[Shock and Awe|Electric]] guns laugh in the face of shields and can very briefly stun enemies; [[Kill It With Fire|fire]] guns do a good burst and damage over time; [[Hollywood Acid|acid]] guns do less damage over time than fire but also lower armor value so the target takes more damage; and finally [[Stuff Blowing Up|explosive]] guns do fairly good damage with an area of effect. And then there's the named [[Shotguns Are Just Better|shotgun]] that shoots missiles [[Macross Missile Massacre|an entire magazine at a time]], which are two rare mods stuffed into one weapon. About the only reason you'd ever pick up a non-elemental weapon over an elemental one is if it's got [[Disc One Nuke|disproportionately high damage]] or you just haven't found an elemental of that type of weapon yet.

* In the first ''[[The Godfather (Video Game)|The Godfather]]'' the automatic weapon wasn't much good unupgraded. In the sequel, however, the increased focused on mobility makes methodical headshotting with handguns hard to pull off, turning the automatic weapon into this. Large ammo capacity, [[More Dakka]] and better accuracy than the first game's version, what's not to like?

** Sadly (for Americans anyway), the F-35 is turning into [[Awesome but Impractical]]. Much lower price? Not anymore (F-22 unit cost per plane $150 million, F-35 now at $122M to $184M). The stealth was in 2006 downgraded from "very low observable" to "low observable". In November 2011, a Pentagon study team identified 13 areas of concern that remained to be addressed in the F-35.

** The F-22 itself went from [[Awesome Yet Practical]] to [[Awesome but Impractical]], as the entire fleet has been grounded multiple times for suspected oxygen system problems. The F-22 has the highest accident rate of any USAF fighter aircraft in service.

** And on land, wolverines. These things aren't much bigger than a medium-size dog -- they'd come up to a man's knee fully grown -- but ''they can and do take down moose.''

* The USAF's A-10 Thunderbolt. A truly awe inspiring machine that fulfills its function very well.