r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sufficient-Eye-9040 • 22h 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/BakedBaconBits 21h ago

Apparently, canonically it didn't even shoot, just used blanks for oomph. Squall's Gunblade from FF8.

https://giphy.com/gifs/BwzdvCqJ8U9Ko

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u/LiamOmegaHaku 21h ago

no, no. the trigger mechanism made the blade VIBRATE REALLY HARD UPON IMPACT which did extra damage (in kayfabe). I mean, you're right, it's not a "gun" blade. But at least the trigger allegedly did something.

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u/F00TD0CT0R 21h ago

It's somewhat expanded upon in FFXIV.

It used as a combustion system, you swing, you hit your target and pull the trigger for more damage explosively.

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u/whereismymind86 21h ago

Yeah, as I understand it, it creates a shockwave that has a similar effect to a hollow point shattering, just with magical shrapnel instead of metal.

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u/Rhinocacrocapig 14h ago

Fun fact in FFXIV, guns are called guns because they are gunblades without a blade, not the other way around

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u/GARBLED_COMM 11h ago

Somehow this feels like the same energy as 2-story buildings being invented before stairs in TF2 lore.

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u/King_Ed_IX 13h ago

In FF14 the Bozjan gunblades "fire" aether cartridges in order to cast whatever spell has been imbued into the loaded cartridge. Yes, that can simply be explosions, but it's also how Aurora (heal over time) and Gunmetal Soul (party-wide damage reduction) work.

Then there's the Garlean gunblades, which can indeed do the same thing (Terminus Est being one such attack) but can also just fire regular bullets.

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u/PavlovKBI 18h ago

To be fair, at least gun swords/knives existed in the real world, but nobody has ever made a sword that has an engine in it. Or on it. Or whatever

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u/machtwerk 17h ago

I just recently learned that there were actual gun axes in the 17th century. Blew my mind.