Ludicrous Gibs: Difference between revisions

** [[The Dragon|The Cyberdemon]] requires ''a lot'' of damage to be killed, 45 rocket hits, 55 shotgun blasts, or 400 handgun shots. No matter how much damage he's taken, he never shows so much as a dent until he is killed, but his only death animation is him exploding and leaving behind a pair of bloodied hooves. You can shoot him in the face with a shotgun 54 times, and he still has no visible damage, but he would vaporize when next hit by ''[[Critical Existence Failure|one bullet]]''.

*** Quick note, those numbers are averages, as the game has a random number generator for damage.

*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLKZhu_dgxA&feature=related Brutal Doom] does this to such levels that the room you're in is ''literally'' painted with blood. Not to mention the facts that you can perform a [[Fatality]] while in berserk mode in the same gore-happy fashion as ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', that mouth monsters can literally bite your torso off, and that the chainsaw can actually hack away at body parts with impressive results.

** In ''Doom 3'' the shotgun packs enough punch that if you hit a zombie with it at point blank range you'll ''tear all the flesh off its bones,'' reducing it to a bloodied skeleton.

*** A new gametype was recently introduced in ''Left 4 Dead 2'': [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Gib-Fest.]] All players have [[BFG|M60 machine guns]] with [[More Dakka|unlimited ammo]]. It's...spectacular.

*** The Explosive/Frag Ammo bumps up the gibbing to new levels. A stray bullet from this ammo type will SHRED common infected to pieces.

* In ''[[Red Faction]] 2'' there is a that makes all shots on infantry a one hit kill, with lots of ''gibs'' and if you shot a friendly NPC with a LMG, you get lots and lots of gibs, and there is no friendly fire.... Priceless!!

* ''[[Strife]]'', being the last game using the Doom engine, makes use of this trope. In addition, it provided special, gib-like animations for enemies that were immolated by your flame weapons or disintegrated by your [[Disintegrator Ray]].

* An add-on for ''[[Garry's Mod|Garrys Mod]]'' combines this with [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank]] to produce outstanding results. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeHfNcleaOo A sample.]

 

 

 

 

* Two quests in ''[[World of Warcraft]]: Wrath of the Lich King'' involve collecting meat. One requires throwing high explosives at mammoths, the other requires throwing them [[Feed It a Bomb|into]] giant worms.

** Even ''more'' ludicrously, Death Knights who specialize in the Unholy aspect of their class receive the gruesome attack "Corpse Explosion", which does [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|exactly what you'd expect.]] Not only does this result in ''weaponized ludicrous gibs'', you can enhance the ability so that if it kills an enemy it makes ''them explode'' in a chain reaction.

 

== Non-video game examples ==

* Late in ''[[Shikabane Hime]]'', [[Big Bad|Hokuto]] punches someone so hard they turn into red mist and leave nothing but their kimono floating off in the wind. Noteworthy for being a case of "slapping into a red mist" not being hyperbole.

* Full-body explosion is the fate of more than a few of Kenshiro's enemies in ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''. [[You Are Already Dead]], indeed.