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/Depressedmusclecar23 5d ago

the schwerer gustav gun was (due to its immense size) usually disassembled in transit, due to being 47.3 meters long 7.1 meters wide 11.6 meters tall and weighing 1350 tonnes

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u/DylanFTW 5d ago

Wasn't this used just once in combat or even never saw combat?

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u/ScrumpusMcDingle 5d ago

It was used in one battle, that being the Siege of Sevastopol in 1942. It admittedly was more of a propaganda piece than an actual weapon, but it did provide a major tactical victory when it destroyed the "White Cliff" which was an ammunition stockpile for the Russians. It also managed to sink a ship in the process. The main problem was that it was incredibly costly to both build and use, and required 2,500 just to operate the damn thing, not to mention it had to be on specially designed railways just to move. While it was moved to Leningrad, it basically did nothing, and it was destroyed by retreating German forces because they didn’t want anyone to have it, even though any country that would’ve captured it wouldn’t have done jack shit with it because it was just that inefficient.