r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Crashoutbop • Jul 04 '26

Powers Funny anti feats

Gallery image

Gallery image

Sailor moon -usagi tsukino door level even tho she’s a powerful character

Spider-Man 2 - Peter is fridge level even tho we seen him take down powerful villains

10.2k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

677 comments sorted by

View all comments

216

u/Carnificus Jul 04 '26

The enterprise's head of security and resident badass Worf has his spin shattered by a seemingly empty plastic barrel falling on him.

108

u/editeddruid620 Jul 04 '26

Just from the gif I feel like we’re meant to assume that the barrel is really heavy and they just used an empty one to avoid actually hurting the actor. It still does look pretty goofy though

36

u/[deleted] Jul 04 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

23

u/betazoid_cuck Jul 04 '26

no, no. it was goofy back then too, but star trek being a little goofy is ok it was just a little laugh in an otherwise good episode.

1

u/AthenaOwls Jul 06 '26

Also you would not be watching this on a much worse screen. Tvs in 1990 were 480i, which is significantly worse than even 1080p.

Stuff you could get away with in old tv looks much worse in HD.

33

u/AggressiveCoffee990 Jul 04 '26

That barrel had no honor!

11

u/MukorosuFace Jul 04 '26

Holy shit, it's John Worf Effect

5

u/SlowCapitalistDeath Jul 04 '26

Then to be like sorry son, I have dishonor, I need to ask a friend to help me end it all.

3

u/Youutternincompoop Jul 04 '26

don't forget he was literally suicidal afterwards.

3

u/Sum1nne Jul 05 '26

Understandable enough in context. Big warrior culture, probably a lot of pressure to have a glorious death in battle. Instead, he just eats shit at random one day in an industrial accident that leaves him paralysed. The cultural humiliation is an extra layer on top.

2

u/TerryWhiteHomeOwner Jul 04 '26

My fave part is after the gif cuts off the actors run to the barrels and it's obvious they were way lighter than expected so they really overract on moving it after first lightly knudging it out of the way. 

1

u/apdhumansacrifice Jul 05 '26

He spends the rest of the episode begging for death in a hospital bed too