Bigger Stick: Difference between revisions

** The events of ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' are touched off by the Earth Alliance's attempt at building a [[Bigger Stick]] with which to fight the more physically-abled Coordinators of ZAFT, and ZAFT's theft of all but one of those [[Bigger Stick|Bigger Sticks]]. Then the protagonist and [[The Rival]] get even ''bigger'' sticks halfway through the series, which only the [[Big Bad]] in the Biggest Stick yet succeeds in being an actual threat to... The only exception is [[Ace Pilot]] Mu La Flaga, who manages to hold his own against Coordinators in cutting-edge [[Humongous Mecha]] while he is piloting a much less powerful mobile armor and, in some cases, only a fighter jet. Nevertheless, in ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]],'' even Mu gets a [[Bigger Stick]]. And then there's cases where you want your [[Bigger Stick]] to literally be much bigger. Cue [[Oh Crap|Destroy Gundam.]]

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'': This appears to be Seto Kaiba's strategy for much of the series. Even after getting the his Egyptian God Card, it doesn't seem to work. He actually does display tactics, and a great deal of strategy - though it primarily centers around bringing out his Bigger Sticks quickly, protecting his Bigger Sticks, reviving his Bigger Sticks, using his Bigger Sticks to power up Still Bigger Sticks, and [[Oh Crap|gaping]] [[The Worf Effect|when the opponent brings out a Bigger Stick Than The Bigger Stick He Has.]]<br /><br />Many, many [[Monster of the Week|one-shot antagonists]] use this tactic, as well as the game's creator, Pegasus, and his totally invincible one-of-a-kind Toon Deck. [[The Hero]] [[Death by Irony|inevitably brings them down]] [[Cherry Tapping|with their weakest Monster.]]

** Averted. Despite their mecha being superior in every way to those possessed by the major world powers, Mithril is shown to be a force that depends heavily on small-scale and well-planned surgical interventions and hit-and-run attacks, because ultimately they cannot hope to fight protracted battles and come out the victors. Also, those piloting the near-[[Super Robot]] lambda driver-equipped arm slaves are given that privilege ''because'' they're already highly skilled pilots.

** The trope is subverted in the ''Second Raid'' season when Belfangen Clouseaux neatly bowls over Sousuke, lambda driver or no, in a training match using an inferior mecha. While Clouseaux is a skilled mecha pilot, the primary explanation given for how handily he beat Sousuke was that Sousuke, on the verge of a [[Heroic BSOD]], was stuck piloting a mech he ''hated''.

== Fan Fic ==

* New!Chaos in ''[[The Open Door]]'' owes a lot of their [[Curb Stomp Battle|Curb Stomping]] to the [[Warhammer 40000|canon!40k]] technology they inherited. If there is one thing those who criticize them as being [[God Mode Sue|God Mode Sues]] tend to miss, it is that they win easily also because they are deliberately avoiding the universes with ''even [[Bigger Stick|Bigger Sticks]]'', such as ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''.