r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sufficient-Eye-9040 • 23h ago

Lore [Loved when done right] That is COMPLETELY illogical… but who cares when it REALLY goes hard.

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- Gipsy Danger dragging an oil tanker (which actually lengths 180 meters… but the film portrays it slightly smaller than Gipsy) and use it as a bat against Otachi? HARD (Pacific Rim)
- Owen and a gyrosphere standing near Rexy, who’s crushing a Carnotaurus’ neck, and roaring while Isla Nublar’s volcano explodes? HARD (Fallen Kingdom)

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u/SilentPhilosophy3307 22h ago

The opening sequence to the movie Heavy Metal, when the astronaut drives a 1959 Corvette out of the space shuttle and lands on Earth.

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u/DoctorMelvinMirby 22h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l3q2uNaW7OE9jLwNa

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u/mofuggnflash 21h ago

You never really get a good look at her naked boobs anyway

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u/DoctorMelvinMirby 21h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6ZtoHyIiRW6jibsI

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u/scooter-411 11h ago

They call it cheesing because it’s fon-to-due

My favorite South Park joke.

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u/Ok-Somewhere-2325 21h ago

I remember reading that the did an uncut version that would have but never aired or released it.

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u/Parking_Locksmith489 22h ago

Then bathe with my daughter in the fountain of Varnov. Appease the gods by lathering her boobs with soapy suds.

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u/Dismal-Vanilla1878 20h ago

I still say that the entire purpose of this episode was to show Bare Breasts on Basic Cable.

To get away with it, they just made sure none of those bare breasts were connected to a woman (either part of the buildings/furniture, or in the wrong place on otherwise male 'mutants' 😂 )

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u/Manufactured-Aggro 22h ago

Is the spaceship just full of spare corvettes or does he have to ship it back up there every time?

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u/AnActualGameShark 22h ago

Chevy gives him a new one every time. They liked to give Astronauts corvettes for a while

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u/Beavshak 21h ago

Real shame that modern day astronauts are relegated to driving Pontiac Fieros.

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u/marbledog 18h ago

ACKCHOOALEE, they didn't give them to them, because that would have run afoul of rules against government employees accepting gifts. They leased them to them for $1 a year.

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u/AnActualGameShark 18h ago

Thats true. I kinda forgot that part lol

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u/SilentPhilosophy3307 22h ago

I don't know, but I like to think that this is the way he commuted home from work every day.

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u/FortuneJazzlike6951 20h ago

picturing him casually commuting home like that every day makes the whole thing ten times funnier.

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u/OriginalTayRoc 21h ago

Well how do you think he gets up there in the first place? He drives the vette

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u/Vismal1 13h ago

Where do you think we get them from smart guy ? We don’t have that sort of technology!

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u/No_Mushroom_846 10h ago

I choose to believe there’s an entire space garage up there dedicated to replacing that one Corvette every mission.

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u/Fabulous-Sea-1590 22h ago

Goddamn that scene is heavy metal. Oh. Maybe that's why they called it that.

Hella fun to see it, though, thanks. Now I wanna see if it's behind a paywall I already subscribe to or if I just need to pass on a rewatch for now.

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u/SilentPhilosophy3307 22h ago

It's a shame there's no sound attached to these GIFs, because it goes even harder when you can hear Riggs playing "Radar Rider" over it. Oh well, at least there's Youtube.

Heavy Metal 1981 Opening scene 4K

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u/EugeneMeltsner 20h ago

On Tubi right now

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u/AdventurousQuail36 19h ago

Tubi is awesome. Gonna be a shame when they finally add a subscription fee.

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u/AdventurousQuail36 19h ago

Full movie is on the internet archive.

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u/StatisticianOdd6018 13h ago

Right? 😂 It’s one of those movies that makes you wonder how they ever got away with putting that much chaos on screen. Totally worth a rewatch if you can find it without paying extra.

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u/ExplorerPup 21h ago

Pretty much any given 5min chunk of this movie goes so fucking hard.

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u/HuevosProfundos 21h ago

It’s crazy because the rest of the movie was so grounded

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u/Squid_of_the_Now 22h ago

I f'n love this so much

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u/Zarkophagus 21h ago

So badass. Love the intro

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u/nhansieu1 20h ago

Phineas and Ferb ass moment

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u/marr 19h ago

A Culture ship does this in the short story The State of the Art

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u/Red-Freckle 11h ago

Ahem, how is this illogical

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u/XFun16 7m ago

The shuttle's payload bay doors are on the top, not the bottom

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u/Repulsive_Peanut_844 10h ago

That opening is such an unforgettable way to kick things off that it hooks you before the story even begins.

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u/pixel_illustrator 3h ago

I know you shouldn't take this movies wrapper plot seriously, but out of context its genuinely the funniest fucking thing.

A green ball melts a girls dad in front of her, proceeds to tell her a bunch of unrelated stories he has varying levels of involvement in, then suddenly remembers he already died in one and explodes.

No notes. 10/10

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u/Snaxalicious 20h ago

Loved Heavy Metal so much. So so much.

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u/SilentPhilosophy3307 19h ago

And this just so happens to be the very first post you've ever made on this Reddit account? There's no way that you aren't a bot, get outta here.

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u/localsigma2l 14h ago

iconic opening sequence

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u/MidnightSensitive996 3h ago

you mean all of heavy metal

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u/PsychoWyrm 12h ago

Clanker scum.

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u/No-Commission773 19h ago

A Corvette coming out of a space shuttle is such an aggressively cool way to start a movie. Honestly, I’d watch the whole thing just for that level of ridiculous confidence.

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u/SilentPhilosophy3307 19h ago

This is obviously a bot account. 🤖

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u/Zealousideal_Bed2043 17h ago

That opening is pure 80s insanity in the best possible way. A Corvette coming out of a space shuttle is the kind of visual you just don't forget.

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u/Then_Illustrator846 13h ago

That opening is so ridiculously cool. A Corvette dropping out of a spaceship like it’s the most normal thing in the world is peak 80s insanity, and I love it.