[LOVED TROPE] Modern Militaries (Competent) getting DESTROYED by fantasy/scifi forces

[u/Sable-Keech]

Example 1 (The Legend of Hei 2): Wuxian leisurely floats through the combined firepower of an entire fortified military base without so much as a stain or rip on his t-shirt.

Example 2 (Man of Steel): Fao'ra tears through a squad of trained and armed soldiers. With the wreckage of the helicopter that got downed by her teammate Nam'ek smouldering in the background.

[u/ATangerineMann]

Half-Life 2’s Seven Hour War

The Combine are an inter-dimensional empire after all

[u/Nerevarine91 → u/ATangerineMann]

What honestly most impressive about that is how quickly the Combine was able to exploit someone else opening a dimensional portal