Bigger Stick: Difference between revisions

** Poor, poor [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|Viral.]] He's [[Weak but Skilled]] in a ''[[Super Robot]]'' show, which dooms him to [[Villain Decay]] when the protagonists (unwittingly) discover Spiral Power.

** Possible [[Lampshade Hanging]]:

'''Simon''': [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|You mean we're gonna need to use an even bigger]] [[This Is a Drill|drill]]? }}

* ''[[Code Geass]]'': [[The Empire|Britannia]] initially has this advantage over any resistance groups in spades, via their [[Humongous Mecha|Knightmares]], particularly [[Super Prototype|the Lancelot]]. That is, until [[La Résistance|the Black Knights]] acquire their own [[Super Prototype]], the Guren, and later, the inventor of said machine into their ranks, [[Bollywood Nerd|Rakshata Chawla]]. From then on, the show becomes one giant [[Lensman Arms Race]].

* ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'' series

** ''Iron Man'': Tony Stark literally makes reference to [[Bigger Stick|Bigger Sticks]], although it is {{spoiler|Obadiah Stane}} who gets the larger and supposedly more advanced suit. Too bad he [[Did Not Do the Research]]:

'''Iron Man:''' Might wanna look into it! BONK! }}

*** Plus as Christine Everhart points out, it's an interesting philosophy for the man whose selling the sticks.

* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' has been locked in what can only be described as an escalating Arms Race between its 9 classes. However, the Engineer, the most recent recipient of an update, has a ''smaller'' stick: the combat mini-sentry that deploys faster and having a higher rate of fire than a level 1 sentry at the cost of having less firepower and un-repairable.

** Special note for the Engineer:

* In the ''[[Naval Ops]]'' series, the player's Bigger Stick comes in two flavours: Bigger guns for your ship, or a bigger ship.

* Welcome to ''[[Star Ruler]]'', where when your opponent outclasses your ship with a bigger ship, you build one to planetary scale. When your opponent decides, "Well gee, that's a big ship, let's build a STAR-sized ship," there's always the option of building a ship on the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJJEMmzKzR4 galatic scale.]

* In a ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' episode, Darkwing is turned into [[Evil Twin]] Negaduck, then goes out to kill him. When they meet, they start on this with melee weapons, with dialogue escalating as well. Cut to Gosalyn and Launchpad trying to find them. Back to Darkwing and Negaduck ... and one has just flown in on a fighter plane, the other counters with an aircraft carrier, and the first flies out and returns with a missile. Presumably nuclear.

* ''[[Iron Man (animation)|Iron Man]]'': In the second-seson finale, after his plan to destroy all advanced technology has fallen, Mandarin reveals his backup plan to be this - armor bigger, stronger, faster and generally better than Tony's and [[Magitech|increasing the power of his rings]].

* [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] in a [[Halloween]] episode of [[The Simpsons]]. [[Jackass Genie|Lisa wishes for world peace from a Monkey's paw]] causing everybody to throw away their guns, but then [[Alien Invasion|Aliens invade]]. Ned Flanders then obtains the Monkey paw and wishes the aliens away. Moe Cizlak chases them off with a board with a nail in it.

Both: "[[Evil Laughter|Hahahahahahah!]] }}