Reality Ensues: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
Massedit0987 (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
|||
Line 173:
* In the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' novel ''On Basilisk Station'', the Bronze Age-tech Medusans manage to brutally kill some Manticorans by swarming them. Then, the Manties bring out the heavy weapons and air support. The aliens die. And die. And die some more.
* The ''[[Discworld]]'' books play this for equal parts comedy and drama. Among other things, characters frequently react realistically to outlandish situations (in ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'', after tricking a banshee into getting killed by a malfunctioning sorting machine, the protagonist is too busy being ill to shoot off a [[Post Mortem One Liner]]), and the narrative often points out that happy endings [[This Is Reality|in "real life"]] are never as simple as they are in stories (at the end of ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'', the protagonist and her companions end up stopping the war between Borogravia and Zlobenia, but some months later in story-time the ruthless ruler of Zlobenia just tries to start another war). Complicating things is the influence that [[Theory of Narrative Causality|narrative causality]] has on the Discworld, making the line between "reality" and "fiction" as blurry as it gets.
* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, there are a number of points where the protagonists forget basic things as a result of their panic at a situation. A prominent example is in the first book, when Hermione is so freaked out at the sight of Harry and Ron being strangled by the Devil's Snare that she forgets that she can use magic to save them. This is given a callback in the last book, when they are trying to get into the Shrieking Shack via the tunnel by the Whomping Willow. Ron panics because there's apparently no way to freeze the tree, prompting Hermione to remind him that they can use magic.
* ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]'':
** Touma might be the main protagonist with an [[Anti-Magic]] fist... but he's still one person without formal combat training. Against multiple opponents, people who actually know how to fight, or people with proper weapons, he's at a clear disadvantage.
** Mikoto tries to take down the Level 6 Shift Experiment on her own, refusing to let anyone else know about it. But even a Level 5 esper with [[Shock and Awe|power over electricity]] can't do much against a project with the resources of an entire city behind it.
| |||