[ SECRET POST #4031 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4031 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

01. https://i.imgur.com/gnm6jag.png

[kaijinscendre]

Well, for Wonder Woman she is super powered so not so unrealistic unless the sword is super magic.

For regular people, it would totally fuck them up. The only realistic version of this (with someone trying to grab a knife with bare hands) was in Fargo.

[(Anonymous)]

I always think about it when Buffy does it in BtVS.

[mishey22]

This sort of things always cracks me up. Where the line is for suspension of belief, I mean. Goddess? Cool. Warrior who doesn't age? Cool. all those actors trying to copy her weird accent. Still good. (sorry, that's my lol point at the movie) The Walk of Awesomness? Also good. Stopping a blade with her hands? That doesn't happen in real life!

I'm not knocking you anon, everyone has their deals. It just makes me laugh.

[anarchicq]

I have a friend who didn't like WW because physics.

[ozaline]

To each their own, you gotta figure they'd have some accent when speaking English and why not use the star's so she doesn't have to conform to them?

The boatride from the Aegean to London, in the time it took them? That's the hardest thing to believe.

[(Anonymous)]

she did it with magic, OP

[thewakokid]

Someone wanna shoop a dick up in that?

[(Anonymous)]

It's such an awkward angle that I'm not sure how it would work even with a 2 feet long noodle dong.

[(Anonymous)]

No. It's fine the way it is. No incongruous genitals needed.

[soldatsasha]

ON IT!!!




It's dick cheney, I hope that's close enough to what you were looking for.

[thewakokid]

Outstanding!

[(Anonymous)]

She's super-strong and she's wearing thick leather gloves of some kind. In a normal person, this would be called "defensive wounds" when they find your body.

[(Anonymous)]

wtf she's actually doing it wrong in that cap. if you're going to "catch a sword" (old action trope, live-action and animated both) you use the flats of your palms. You don't wrap your fingers around the edges of the blade! she would in fact lose her fingers at the knuckle if that were a real blade.

[(Anonymous)]

or if she wasn't magic

[(Anonymous)]

Catching a blade with the flats of your palms will still slice your palms open, which means no more tendons for bending any fingers.

[(Anonymous)]

I know, I know. it's all dumb and I always roll my eyes but still. seeing her fingers curled around that obviously blunted prop just makes them roll harder.

[nightscale]

For a regular person it would be a pretty stupid move and they'd slice their hands open for sure, nevermind that the swords look blunt as fuck because they're props.

But for characters like Wonder Woman who are invulnerable it doesn't bug me at all, unless it's a super-magic sword(and we find out this one isn't) it's not gonna do shit to her.

[erinptah]

Yeah, this. She's a magical goddess! And it's not even a surprising reveal, since she's been discovering various superhuman abilities since the start of the movie (punching holes in rock walls without even scraping her knuckles, anyone?). She can grab all the sharp things she wants.

[(Anonymous)]

It's cool when Wonder Woman does it because she's got superpowers. I don't even care that she caught the blade wrong (i.e. with her fingers around the blade), because again: superpowers. Big ones.

I also didn't mind when Buffy stopped the blade in that one episode of BtVS (the S2 finale maybe?). She stopped it with the palms of her hands, which is good, IMO, because I don't think her superpowers are on the level of Wonder Woman's, and if she'd stopped the blade the way WW did that would've seemed unbelievable. But she does still have superpowers enough that it seems realistic to me that she could stop it.

Now if a normal person did it, then I would not be buying it.

I think this is possible.

[(Anonymous)]

Take butter knife, pinch the blade really tightly between your index and thumb and try to push it forward with your other hand. It's kind of difficult, isn't it? Friction is an interesting thing. If the person with the sword had a bad angle and the person holding the sword had enough surface contact, I think it would work. Would the person stopping the sword get cut? Maybe, but it really depends on your contact with the sword. If you use the flats of your hands and don't actually make contact with the edge, you shouldn't. If you curve your hands around it, then yeah, you'll probably get cut. But both blood and sweat can actually be tacky and add to the friction, though if there's a lot of either, they would be slippery, at first. Her palms look covered to me, and the material could also add to the friction. But all of that aside, she's not exactly human, so I'm not really sure what rules apply regarding her strength and imperviousness.

Re: I think this is possible.

[(Anonymous)]

Ehhh, I don't know if it's quite the same. When you're pinching a butter knife between two fingers, you're exerting a lot more force in pounds per square inch on a much smaller amount of surface area, so it's going to be more effective. In addition, most swords aren't as flat as a butter knife. They're going to be beveled - just like the one WW is holding - so it'd be harder to get an even pressure on both sides with the flat of your palms. WW could do it because her palms are protected and she's a demi-god, but I don't think this move would work in real life with human beings.

OP here

[(Anonymous)]

I regret using this image because I only meant it as an example of this particular move (the sword catching thing) and not because I thought it was unrealistic of Wonder Woman specifically, per se. It was just a good close up example image of that I felt people would recognize.

oh, shit

[(Anonymous)]

So I just went back and reread the secret and realized that you said you hated this move and not that you hated this movie

that's a much more reasonable thing to think, and I apologize for being snarky about how Wonder Woman is magic

Re: OP here

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, in that case yeah, I agree with you. If it's just a normal human stopping the blade, they'd better at least have protective hand-wear and have trained like a mofo if I'm going to believe they can do that kind of thing. And their opponent would have to be shown to have not thrust the sword with their full strength, for some reason - like maybe they're injured or something. Barring all of that, yeah, I'm not buying it.

Also, does this move even make sense? I mean, if you can get even one of your hands up in time to catch the blade, wouldn't it make more sense (unless one is invulnerable) to knock the blade to the side? IDK, I have zero fight strategy experience, but catching the blade just doesn't seem like the best tactic to me, even if you can manage to do it successfully.