The One Who Fights Monsters
Straight Plays Only?
I tend to see a lot of aversions on this page, especially in the whole Anime and Manga segment which lists almost entirely aversions.
Maybe it should be restricted to keep out aversions, which, admittedly, are surprisingly common.
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The whole page from the description to most of the examples is a giant mess. The description is overly wordy and full of cruft. Many of examples have assorted problems. I saw several shoehorned examples, way too many improperly used aversions, generally improper format, and a few other issues.
This needs the help of the TRS pretty badly.
Who watches the watchmen?
There was this text in the first paragraph all about gun sights and their adjustments.
For a trope about archery and arrow arcs, we spent a lot of time in the beginning talking about gun sights. The information is still useful since the issue of sniper rifle portrayals can also come under this so I put it at the end but they are not the primary focus.
At the beginning of this page you don't need to know any more than "You should aim up" before we explain that on screen this is often ignored. That is the actual point of this page so it's best to get to that quickly.
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Is the stuff on gun-sights even accurate? I understood that the iron sights on rifles were adjustable for elevation, and therefore distance, not just telescopic sights.
Can we apply this trope to knife-throwing in "Naruto"? Because whenever they throw a knife, it doesn't do the end-over-end thing (SEE: "V for Vendetta"). Instead, the knives fly straight, like darts. And I mean *straight*—no arc, no nothing.
Turn it off, man, turn it off! It's sucking my will to live! Oh, the humanity! :)
Eh, I think that would be a different trope.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Alas, the Custer thing shouldn't even be in this trope. Custer was not defeated by bows and arrows, but by superior quality rifles. He was equipped with standard issue single shot Springfield carbines, where the Indians had purchased Henry and Spencer repeating rifles from civilian trading posts.
It was NOT "bows vs guns"
This seems like shoehorning: we really need to know it's flatline paths explicitly in the work rather than go for theorizing.
- Although not mentioned explicitly, it would explain why archers in Warhammer can only fire if in the front rank.
- No longer the case in 8th edition.
I just want to offer a Made Of Win to whoever came up with this trope title. Immediately clear description of the trope, clever, funny, and even fits in a splash of Added Alliterative Appeal.
I'd like to have some context about the Custer thing. I mean who know more about Custer than that he got his unit killed at the little big horn? besides people from the states i mean...
Green Arrow The boxing glove arrow does work by inflating at the last second, as shown in the Secret Files and Origins one-shot, anyway. Additionally, it's only speculated that he's a meta-human, and I've only seen it mentioned once(same place as above). If there is a source that confirms that, my apologies. Considering he's a Batman-type, though, I doubt they would take away his "Just a man" status.
"...it makes sense to shoot horizontally at point blank range (which is the literal meaning of "point blank")..."?
So the definition of point blank is point blank? That doesn't explain anything.
The parenthesis here is totally redundant. It hurts me a little inside.