You leave those Brians alone! Go after the Antons and Adrians, but not the Brians, dammit!ZippyDSMlee said:
Thinking about it, what is the stupidest fictional thing ever?
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A genius robotic engineer that creates robots who have total and complete free will, completely ignoring the law of Robotics - then sends a tiny blue robot to go and kill the rest of the robots who are only violent because of the very free will that is given to them. Note that even while these robots rampage and destroy everything in their path the engineer continues to build robots while ignoring the law of robotics.
A giant fat bird, a hairy hobo, a hairy baby hobo that drew its own house into existence, a hairy elephant hobo,a hairy hobo with an obsession with cookies and a vampire pimp educate children about math, numbers and language with the help of numerous celebrity quests!
A powerful group of mages gather up numerous violent, insane criminals and furry midgets and less violent, still insane 'do gooders' who also have some violent and insane furry midgets and have them repetitively duke it out in a forest infested with dragons, giant worm phallic symbols, ghosts, wolves and ogres.
Also, in Iron man 2 no one thinks of shooting the woman in skin tight pantyhose leather armor but rather tries to get into melee range in which she can decimate them.
Megaman/Rockman
A giant fat bird, a hairy hobo, a hairy baby hobo that drew its own house into existence, a hairy elephant hobo,a hairy hobo with an obsession with cookies and a vampire pimp educate children about math, numbers and language with the help of numerous celebrity quests!
Sesame Street
A powerful group of mages gather up numerous violent, insane criminals and furry midgets and less violent, still insane 'do gooders' who also have some violent and insane furry midgets and have them repetitively duke it out in a forest infested with dragons, giant worm phallic symbols, ghosts, wolves and ogres.
League of Legends
Also, in Iron man 2 no one thinks of shooting the woman in skin tight pantyhose leather armor but rather tries to get into melee range in which she can decimate them.
That Voldemort had been reduced to a spirit and yet still had his wand. Massive plot hole right there!
Flashlights disguised as glorified swords whose beams of light not only behave as if solid, and can cut through just about anything, but also emit no discernible heat until they come in contact with an object. And even then, they only project that heat onto the object.
Fire arms that emit condensed "pulses" of light; pulses that resemble elongated pellets; that seemingly generate more kinetic force and heat upon impact with a target than the pulse initially left the barrel with. And, as with the example above, seemingly generate no heat until contact with an object.
A series of omniscient, omnipresent beings that have supreme knowledge and control over all of existence but leave absolutely zero evidence of their meddling.
A transportation device that "disassembles" an object or creature down to the subatomic level, gathers these subatomic particles, transmits them over vast distances (with no loss of signal), and reassembles them in the exact right position and orientation; leaving no excess particles or energy behind.
A metallic ring that creates an extra-dimensional "tunnel" between two points in space-time, creating a "short cut", yet generates two-dimensional apertures and emits virtually no energy or radiation.
NASA thinking it advisable to both turn a team of oil-drillers into astronauts and to destroy an asteroid "the size of Texas" with a single, low-yield nuke drilled only 800 feet into said asteroid.
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Really, I could go on for hours. Literally hours of typing.
But in the end, who cares? It's fiction. It is, by defintion, unreality. The only time ridiculous "things" in fiction should be of any concern is when they either break the rules of the fictional piece they're in or if the very concept of the "thing" doesn't jive with the logic of the story-verse.
Fire arms that emit condensed "pulses" of light; pulses that resemble elongated pellets; that seemingly generate more kinetic force and heat upon impact with a target than the pulse initially left the barrel with. And, as with the example above, seemingly generate no heat until contact with an object.
A series of omniscient, omnipresent beings that have supreme knowledge and control over all of existence but leave absolutely zero evidence of their meddling.
A transportation device that "disassembles" an object or creature down to the subatomic level, gathers these subatomic particles, transmits them over vast distances (with no loss of signal), and reassembles them in the exact right position and orientation; leaving no excess particles or energy behind.
A metallic ring that creates an extra-dimensional "tunnel" between two points in space-time, creating a "short cut", yet generates two-dimensional apertures and emits virtually no energy or radiation.
NASA thinking it advisable to both turn a team of oil-drillers into astronauts and to destroy an asteroid "the size of Texas" with a single, low-yield nuke drilled only 800 feet into said asteroid.
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Really, I could go on for hours. Literally hours of typing.
But in the end, who cares? It's fiction. It is, by defintion, unreality. The only time ridiculous "things" in fiction should be of any concern is when they either break the rules of the fictional piece they're in or if the very concept of the "thing" doesn't jive with the logic of the story-verse.
A demon that takes the form of a eight-to-ten foot man with a extremely pale complexion and no face, wears a suit, and rumored to appear around abandoned buildings, kidnap children that are all alone, and kill those who look for him.
...I get it, you hate children and nosy people. Not like you could have just said that outright, you know?
...I get it, you hate children and nosy people. Not like you could have just said that outright, you know?
Everything in Battlefield Earth. An entire military base full of working harriers and weaponry, with a flight simulator that still has power, a thousand years after the apocalypse. Cavemen then learn to fly and dogfight in it perfectly in less than a day. Humans who are ordered to mine gold by their alien overlords who believe that humans are too stupid to know how to pilot machinery and believe that dogs were the superior species on the planet and built everything. When the humans just go to Fort Knox, which the gold-seeking aliens completely overlooked during their conquest of the planet, and return with smelted bars at the end of the first day, the aliens do not question any of this. John Travolta still has a career somehow.
If that's the worst you've seen I'd recommend checking out the animated Titanic kids movies (all three of them) or Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny.Big_Willie_Styles said:
I have a slightly elongated one, all these examples are from the same fiction piece.
Within the context of this universe, there's a one in a million chance that some random doctor will be able to stop time during a procedure if he throws a tantrum because he's descended from some Greek god who thought that was funny. I bet Zeus is laughing his ass off
There exists people who think disease is good for no discernible reason other than they themselves are infected with it but aren't dying horribly for some reason. The leader of said organisation also creates an army of clones who sound like circus performers because he was bored or something.
Also, some guy accidentally creates a species of strangely macroscopic pathogens because he was screwing around with some genetic nonsense and artificial blood. When asked why he did this, his answer amounts to "lol I dunno". And everyone is suddenly cool with being around the person who directly caused hundreds of excruciating deaths. Said person then thinks cowering in Alaska is the best course of action after this
A scientist affiliated with doctor dingus decides the best way to research this virulent pathogen is to infect himself with it then act surprised when he nearly dies
Mind control is possible by sticking a processor attached to a receiver in someone's brain
When confronting the leader of a terrorist organisation, the best way to placate him is to rant at him about morals until the disease he is very obviously infected with snuffs him out despite your best efforts to save him
Can anyone guess?
Within the context of this universe, there's a one in a million chance that some random doctor will be able to stop time during a procedure if he throws a tantrum because he's descended from some Greek god who thought that was funny. I bet Zeus is laughing his ass off
There exists people who think disease is good for no discernible reason other than they themselves are infected with it but aren't dying horribly for some reason. The leader of said organisation also creates an army of clones who sound like circus performers because he was bored or something.
Also, some guy accidentally creates a species of strangely macroscopic pathogens because he was screwing around with some genetic nonsense and artificial blood. When asked why he did this, his answer amounts to "lol I dunno". And everyone is suddenly cool with being around the person who directly caused hundreds of excruciating deaths. Said person then thinks cowering in Alaska is the best course of action after this
A scientist affiliated with doctor dingus decides the best way to research this virulent pathogen is to infect himself with it then act surprised when he nearly dies
Mind control is possible by sticking a processor attached to a receiver in someone's brain
When confronting the leader of a terrorist organisation, the best way to placate him is to rant at him about morals until the disease he is very obviously infected with snuffs him out despite your best efforts to save him
Can anyone guess?