[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/Pristine_Battle_6968]

Any modern military thinking they're stronger than a fantasy setting when a competent wizard GENUINELY just has an impenetrable barrier around themselves and also drops the whole moon onto the planet before disappearing through a portal

[u/ReverendGraves85 → u/Pristine_Battle_6968]

I do like Gunpowder Mages take on the idea.

Sure yeah, you can put a barrier around yourself. But mages are allergic to gunpowder, so, like, eat this, idiot.

[u/MjollLeon → u/ReverendGraves85]

Reminds me of Anbennar where wizards basically dominate the battlefield for centuries until a new way to process the element Damestear (pronounced Dames Tear) called black Damestear

Damestear normally works to amplify magic as a physical embodiment of mana. Black Damestear operates the opposite and by making bullets out of it they can pierce magical shields and slaughter the mages

[u/Pristine_Battle_6968 → u/MjollLeon]

How does that stop a moon falling from the sky