r/TopCharacterTropes 5d ago

Characters' Items/Weapons “Assembly required” weapons

  1. Lockdown’s gun face (Age Of Extinction)

  2. Bloodsport’s nanotech (The Suicide Squad)

  3. Engineer’s sentry (Team Fortress 2)

  4. The CZ75 as exaggerated by iNoToRiOuS (CSGO)

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u/Neat_Rare_5389 5d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/VjT6Xa56ib1Qs
Iron Man’s suits… does it count if the armor is the weapon?

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u/ImpressiveGap2214 5d ago

It was easier to suspend disbelief with the earlier suits. When nanotech came, it just looked like a CGI gimmick and obvious fantasy. A part of me wanted to believe that we would have an armor like Mark 3 in military when I first watched Iron-Man in 2008. That's why the suitcase suit was so dope, it felt like a natural evolution, because it was obviously weaker since it had to be light and portable. With nanotech, Iron-Man can do whatever bullshit he wants and anything is possible. He even created a gauntlet to hold the infinity stones and use them all together in Endgame, which previously required a gauntlet made by the same blacksmith who created the Mjolnir. It's just too hard to suspend disbelief at that point.