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[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

one of my favorite tropes in any story is when some realistic villain or organization that has terrorized normal/regular people with impunity since always inadvertently (through random chance, law of averages) draws the ire of someone or something that is operating on a truly different playing field with much higher stakes, and generally drawing upon a capacity or competency that is multiple orders of magnitude greater than anything they have ever conceived of existing.

like say a crooked cop tries to victimize a possible witness to his corruption who turns out to literally be a demon that was busy with something else, but has decided to give the cop its full attention.

it's all over the place in media, to varying degrees. Man on Fire is a non-supernatural example. very heavy "now you have fucked up" vibes.

I don't care how many times it is used. I want to see it used more. I especially like it when we, as the audience, are observing the much more dangerous character in a story, and this fool comes along thinking they've found easy prey.

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