Evil villan shoots a blast of energy

>Evil villan shoots a blast of energy

>the hero holds up a mirror and it deflects back.

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It's how we won WWII.

Its even more amazing when the energy blast destorys all other objects yet the reflective object isnt even a mirror, its just the bottom of a metallic relective food tray

regarding mirrors
even a highly efficient mirror will shatter upon being struck by a powerful laser, even 1% of the energy delivered by a laser with the power of a .45 ACP will be sufficient to shatter a standard mirror, especially since it is all concentrated on one spot

Yea but they hold the mirror at an angle!

You see thats how they do it.

>villain shooting at his own reflection shows how self-destructive their evil is

wow

Well yes but a lot of the time the writers are simply trying to kill the villain while maintaining the heroes purity

Like when the villain from Tarzan hung himself from the vines he was cutting accidentally

When Scar from Lion King didn't die from the impact of the Fall from Simba throwing him off but the hyenas killed scar.

Just like in real life.

Most of the time, I'm fine with that. It's usually more entertaining than the alternative.

But Quasimodo should have directly killed Frollo, like he did in the book. That scene was dumb.

whut

laser guy here, can confirm Devil knows his shit.

kek

A lot of weird shit like that has to do with broadcast standards and practices, where the writers have to find a way for the hero to hurt the villain without himself acting aggressively because censors don't want kids to go around beating people up pretending to be the hero.

It's a lot more innocuous to have the hero's finishing move be "hold up a mirror" instead of "pick up gun and shoot it". No kid is going to get hurt holding up mirrors at each other. It's the same shit that had 90's Spider-Man shoulder tackling people when socking them in the jaw would be way more practical.

>like he did in the book
If there's one Disney film that should stay FAR away from the source material, it's Sleeping Beauty

But Notre Dame is top 10 easily.

>the amount of times spiderman tackled someone in that series is ridiculous

No wonder he used to be a wrestler he's part luchador

Which is a really ridiculous well considering that even if superheroes punch and shoot villains kids are not going to do that anyway and it's just a bunch of soccer moms and corporate executives with no spines.

Yeah, but we're talking magic energy bolts here and as everyone knows, silver reflects magic.

>Medusa hasn't seen her reflection once even by accident since becoming a Gorgon

Well canonical Medusa lived with her two sisters on a deserted island so...yeah that's completely feasible.

OH SHIT reflecting energy blasts with a mirror actully makes sense!

>Mirrors are actully made of painted silver

Damn good
How

>hero uses a sword but it's only ever used to block or to cut down ropes holding up chandeliers.

>Evil villan shoots a blast of energy
>Hero deflects it with a bottle

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvering

Why would you hit someone with a sword when you could hit them with a chandelier?

To be fair, the inside of that shit was covered in fairy dust and blue potion residue

>Villain throws a punch
>Hero grabs it

silver is for modern pansies

the original mirrors are made by floating the molten glass on top of a bed of mercury, causing the mercury to adhere to the molten glass, creating a perfectly mirrored finish

Worng monster. It was the cockatrice that was killed by it's own reflection. You can look at Medusa reflection with no ill effects, that's how Perseus was able to aim his blade for her neck by using the mirror shield he was given by the gods. He even stated that she looked interesting for a wicked monster.

>THE HERO REFLECTS A LAZER ENERGY BLAST WITH THEIR SWORD

>villain shoots energy blast
>hero backhands it

it wasnt medusas gaze per se, but rather she was so ugly it caused you to turn to stone
perseus was able to see medusa by using a distorted image reflected of the convex surface of a shield
the cockatrice directly turned you to stone with its gaze, rather than a by-product of its ugliness

So just Mercury sheened on glass

1. I'm aware Medusa is killed by blade, not reflection, in the original story, but it's not an uncommon trope to see a gorgon turned to stone by her reflection
2. I'm not aware of any particular lore for cockatrice reflection with any age to it. I've heard of them abhorring sunlight and dragons though.

you cant just pour the mercury, you had to obtain a small lake of mercury, then pour the molten glass on top of it
predictably, this killed many workers

Wouldn't those mirrors kill you if you touched them?

I remember fighting thoes Cocks in Castlevania

Kinda weird when a big chicken shoots a lazer eye beam that can turn your character to stone so you have to mash attack to break out and kill it.

thanks for clearing that up.

only if you were dumb enough to touch the broken glass
but it was a trade secret, so it is not known how many people died due to improper handling

It's like in that old He-man cartoon where he was actually a lot more tactical because standards and practices wouldn't let him solve all his problems with violence.

And whenever he did punch someone, he would punch towards the camera and then a reverse shot would show the villain flying backwards

I thought they were supposed to be like, half chicken half lizard.

It wasn't her ugliness per se, but you are correct that simply looking at her head was the trigger for petrifaction, whereas you actually had to meet eyes with a cockatrice to be turned to stone/killed. It just looking at you does jack shit (but watch out for the toxic breath).

Technically half chicken half dragon or snake. And the "half" varies from dragon with the head of a chicken to chicken with the tail of a snake.

Well I'm pretty sure that the model in Castlevania had some Dragon Parts on it very accurate

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