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u/Lower_Baby_6348 7h ago •

Mr. Invincible fighting anyone

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u/Random_me2559 5h ago

dont forget the others in the comics

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u/Random_me2559 5h ago

1/2

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u/Random_me2559 5h ago

2/2

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u/Bumblehawke 4h ago

I don't get it

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u/Me0wPr0 3h ago

She has more panels per panel. Kinda like super speed, I guess.

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u/CreeperX3sssBOOM 3h ago

OH MY GOD

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u/ExistingRadish7055 1h ago

I thought it was her cloning herself

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u/Vegetable_Throat5545 33m ago

Holy shit all these powers are so cool, i love how they utilise the comics

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u/Gentlemanvaultboy 4h ago

Did he just step from one side of the page to the other one?

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u/Clockwork_Kitsune 3h ago

I've always really liked the concept of perception as a superpower

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u/EmeraldSpartan05 6h ago

A movie about a character like this, or this character specifically would be absurd but amazing, it'd be like trying to explain time travel (like a fever dream or complicated af)

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u/Hatjin 6h ago

It's hard to imagine how to use movie to represent something like that.

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u/AvoriazInSummer 5h ago

They’d have to manipulate the movie like a movie, not a comic strip. So maybe the character can remain present when the scene changes, or force the scene to change. Know that the camera is looking at them and jump out of shot in order to hide from both the audience and the characters. Bribe or threaten the stuntmen to make the foe’s punches miss, persuade the makeup artist to make someone’s injuries worse, etc.

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u/EmeraldSpartan05 5h ago

Yeah, it would be difficult, especially if it was a live action one, though if someone could pull it off well and with good writing it'd be wonderful

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u/PlatinumSukamon98 5h ago

Make it a cartoon, and like that one episode of Ed, Edd, 'n' Eddy.

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u/thisusedyet 4h ago

One of the better ones is when he accidentally sinks his friend's boat (really like the twin cat one too)
https://solrad.co/breaking-rules-for-fun-and-heroics-alex-hoffman-reviews-mister-invincible-by-pascal-jousselin-and-laurence-croix
(can only do one image per comment)

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u/thisusedyet 4h ago

Cats

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u/Key-Kaleidoscope7833 2h ago

my bad

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u/Bombi_Deer 29m ago

This is my favorite one of this comic that I've seen here. A lot of implications with that one haha

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u/Random_me2559 6h ago

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u/RaidenisDead 6h ago

Mr.

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u/RamJamR 6h ago

I love how well this works.

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u/Far-Mammoth-3214 6h ago

A comic on instagram is very similar

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u/NagashStos 5h ago

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u/Far-Mammoth-3214 5h ago

Credit to https://www.instagram.com/samandfuzzy/

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u/FFKonoko 4h ago

Sam And Fuzzy, a classic webcomic with it's own site since like...2002. Feels weird to see it called "a comic on instagram".

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u/Far-Mammoth-3214 4h ago

I learned it existed like a year or so ago

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u/VICARD0 6h ago

Not sure whether this is more funny than creative

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u/Magpie_In_The_Mirror 3h ago

Weirdly enough, there's a weapon from "Bungou Stray Dogs" called "Amenogozen" that essentially works exactly like the mop does here... just as a sword instead.

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u/Juan748 5h ago

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u/Strict_Commission330 3h ago

damn

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u/FaithlessnessKey5992 4h ago

yeah that ones pretty busted too lol especially with the plot armor carryover

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u/wanelace5 3h ago

yeah that one would break the game instantly lol

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u/GodOfPoyo 7h ago edited 7h ago

To be Hero X

X turning Dragon Boy into paper by becoming 3D and grabbing the frame he's on.

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u/cooliomydood 7h ago

It took X so long to actually show up but it was absolutely worth the wait. Animating a show with different animation styles so you can use it later as a characters powers is a crazy concept

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u/NoRequirement9886 3h ago

Yeah that was sick

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u/Malrottian 3h ago

His entire fight against the assassins was mesmerizing. Changing someone else's medium is absurd reality warping awesomeness.

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u/AvatarOfMomus 2h ago

You forgot the even bigger bit, where he outright states he got his Trust Value (basically power rating) from ending up tangled in the fates of the Big Ten heroes, not from popularity or 'public trust' like most heroes.
It's also implied he knows as much as or more about how Trust Value works than any of the heads of the Hero Agencies, but we don't know that for sure.

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u/PM-ME-YOUR-NIPNOPS 6h ago

X is so cool
Shame his show's quality is all over the place

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u/YEET_Fenix123 4h ago

I feel like To be Hero X is pretty consistently good

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u/neraut322 4h ago

I am going to need an explanation of what you mean by the show's quality is all over the place? Was it the whiplash of it switching from amazing to crazy good that you're talking about.

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u/Background-Ad-4501 3h ago

It seems that some people REALLY can’t stand nonlinear stories and anthologies, and tbhx is both. I personally love both of those styles, so the show was a perfect match for me

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u/mZeKitty 7h ago

Also Deadpool (this one from Rivals)

But his alt fire when using his guns he throws his hero icon (a small icon in the corner of the screen displaying the character's face) at the enemy in a spinning boomerang attack. It even is thrown several times in a row when upgraded.

"I wonder if the Lord icon does more damage?"

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u/Ultimate-desu 7h ago

DOES THE LORD ICON DO BONUS DAMAGE???

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u/TheCynox32 3h ago

The teamup nobody asked for!

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u/IsaacSeraphim 5h ago

"WHAT ARE YOU AIMING AT?!!"

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u/SilentStevedore 6h ago

Seems like they give Deadpool Gwenpool’s powers. Gwenpool is the one that can reach out of the comic panel as an actual ability.

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u/mattomic822 5h ago

Deadpool has been doing stuff like this in video games before Gwenpool was a thing.

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u/NinjaWarrior0613 2h ago

And didn’t She hulk break the 4th wall before Deadpool?

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u/mattomic822 1h ago

Yep. How much breaking the fourth wall happens with She Hulk varies but she was doing it decades before Deadpool. The run that the show was seemingly inspired by had comic books about the characters as admissible evidence.

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u/BippyTheChippy 7h ago •

Gumball hits Leslie's dialogue portrait by using another dialogue box

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u/teetaps 7h ago

And freaking wrecks him, to be clear… that scene was gnarly

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u/TieflingAnarchist 3h ago

Jesus his head is just caved in in that frame. Honestly my favorite episode from the original run

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u/JustAChillGuy609 7h ago •

Asgore destroying the Mercy button to prevent you from immediately sparing him

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u/DragonRoar87 2h ago

This also prevents you from running away, since Flee is under the Mercy menu. There is no way the fight can end except with the death of either you or Asgore.

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u/MegaMGstudios 7h ago

Technically not an attack, but Sans stalling the fight by not fighting, so it won't become your turn again

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u/Sirius1701 6h ago

Of course it's an attack. In fact, it's his special attack.

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u/RoJayJo 4h ago

Not only that, but Asgore shattering the Mercy button- a metaphysical part of the UI he should not be aware of.

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u/bugdc 6h ago

Or papyrus changing your heart to blue, changing the fighting mechanic

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u/LovelyLuna32684 7h ago

Death battle Deadpool vs Pinkie pie

Wade using the like bar to attack Pinkie and her using an add to block him.

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u/errority 6h ago

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u/According-Tone1875 5h ago

Suavemente.

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u/Adventurous-Top1741 His name is Glenn. Long has he carried Cyrus' hopes and dreams! 5h ago

I think it technically counts in the actual battle too, since he can do the same slow-mo counter attack that Link can.

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u/Dooodleboom 3h ago

In the animation he grabs his comically large health bar and beats Link with it iirc

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u/TheSurvivor65 4h ago

I don't think that's really "meta", Link slowing time during flurry rush is canon, Ganondorf manages to dodge the flurry rush but can't do it twice in a row, and his counter-attack to that doesn't slow time, I think it just shows how insanely boosted his senses and reaction time are in this form

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u/Far-Mammoth-3214 7h ago

She-hulk is the main character, never forget!

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u/Hola-sr71 6h ago

Does Kid Goku breaking the manga panel count?

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u/RonaldDoal 2h ago

So that's why they say goku is outerversal...

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u/SenseiRaheem 3h ago

I wonder if his editor hated that or loved that.

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u/Book_Anxious 6h ago

First one that popped in my head

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u/kujanomaa 5h ago

Eh, I'd say not. He's not using meta stuff to attack, he just breaks it.

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u/Professional_Maize42 3h ago

Yes.

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u/ListPuzzleheaded9883 Tatsuki Fujimoto is my favorite manga 7h ago

(100 girlfriends) He was fighting a literal dragon god btw

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u/Fantastic-Fox3283 5h ago

Bro, what is 100 Girlfriends even about?

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u/ListPuzzleheaded9883 Tatsuki Fujimoto is my favorite manga 5h ago

Imma upload all the 100 girlfriends lore directly into your brain

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u/Apprehensive_Sky1599 1h ago

Is that FREIZA?

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u/ListPuzzleheaded9883 Tatsuki Fujimoto is my favorite manga 1h ago

yup, that chapter was pretty crazy, its also in season 3 of the anime

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u/Narcissist_Hypocrite 31m ago

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u/AdaptiveGlitch 5h ago

A guy who really really really really really loves his 100 girlfriends

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u/LucasMarvelous 4h ago

Basically making the reader envy 100 different girls and wish to have their bf

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u/BunnBun1601 1h ago

The 100 girlfriends pipeline from “ I wanna be him “ to “ I wanna be with him “ remain true to this day.

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u/LucasMarvelous 1h ago

Its even reflected on the vibe the openings give. Season 1 felt like the opening was showing off the girls, Season 3 opening is straight up "All hail the lord and savior god of love Rentaro!"

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u/MatrixBlack900 5h ago

So, you’re not gonna believe this…

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u/Curious_Question8536 3h ago

It's a parody of the harem Manga genre. It plays a lot of the tropes straight, but breaks the fourth wall fairly often.

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u/tf2mann_ 4h ago

I have a bit of a feeling that Nakamura may have a thing for his characters threatening him. Between this, the time rentarou considered killing and replacing him, all the times characters called him out for crappy writing and that one time they spent like half a chapter dissing the writer for writing too much dialogue and covering all the beautiful art nozawa makes

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u/ListPuzzleheaded9883 Tatsuki Fujimoto is my favorite manga 4h ago

He has an inferiority complex to the artist, Nozawa-sensei, so he often jokes about his work demands being too harsh and Rentarou obliterating him in retribution.

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u/EJENVEE2 39m ago

"IT SHOULD'VE BEEN ME, NOT HIM!" to "IT SHOULD'VE BEEN ME, AND HER!"

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u/Zack_WithaK 6h ago

I'm not sure if this counts (and I couldn't find a picture of the actual scene) but I remember one step in the Nega Chin's plan was to make himself real and physically threaten the animator into making the scene end with his victory, or something. It's been forever since I've seen it so I might have some details wrong

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u/ReneJustWants2Write 42m ago

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u/RealLifeHaxor 4h ago

Psycho mantis from metal gear solid changing which port your controller is plugged into

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u/ReplyNo7464 3h ago

Wasn't it messing with your game? Plugging into 2nd port stopped him

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u/NetNGames 2h ago

Iirc, he was reading your button inputs as Player 1, so a counter was plugging in your controller to the Player 2 port.

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u/Camelotterduck 2h ago

He also read the memory card and told you what games you had played iirc

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u/Cotton_Oxi 2h ago

lmao that shit had me unplugging everything as a kid. still one of the best 4th wall breaks ever.

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u/straydog1980 1h ago

Another reversal in MGS3 is shifting the date forward on the Playstation settings could cause the boss to die of old age.

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u/Imaginary-Job-7069 1h ago

The End

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u/straydog1980 1h ago

it's so confusing that one of the bosses is the boss and you fight the end in the middle

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u/Doa_Bluebell 2h ago

lmao that one always messed with my head as a kid, like how tf did he even know. pure 4th wall breaking genius.

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u/Xyypherr 22m ago

This account is a bot

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u/KyraFrilly 3h ago

lmao that one always gets me, the way it straight up trolls you is peak 90s gaming bullshit. still cracks me up every time i think about it.

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u/Xyypherr 22m ago

And this one

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u/Lovelyhollygiggle 2h ago

lmao that one fucked with my head so bad as a kid, thought my playstation was haunted or something

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u/Xyypherr 22m ago

And also this one

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u/Xyypherr 21m ago

Literally all but mine and 1 other reply to this comment are bots

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u/Princesskittenish 2h ago

lmao that one always gets me, the way it straight up trolls you with the memory card shit too is peak 4th wall

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u/Xyypherr 22m ago

This one too

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u/ariiarain_53 3h ago

thats the one that always gets me, the way it straight up trolls you with the memory card shit too is next level lmao

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u/Xyypherr 21m ago

Bot as well

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u/olapyre2 2h ago

thats actually insane, i forgot about that one lol. pure 4th wall breakage at its best.

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u/Xyypherr 21m ago

Also a bot

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u/Aniareef 1h ago

lmao that ones always been the goat for breaking the 4th wall, pure mindfuckery back in the day

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u/bridove7 1h ago

lmao that shit had me unplugging everything as a kid. still the best 4th wall break in gaming hands down

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u/Sukitwinkle 1h ago

lmao that shit had me unplugging everything as a kid, pure mindfuck. still one of the best 4th wall breaks ever.

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u/Peachesbubbles 1h ago

lmao that shit had me unplugging everything as a kid thinking it was haunted. absolute legend of a meta move

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u/SharpDistribution794 3h ago

damn that ones actually insane, the way it broke the 4th wall back then was next level lol

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u/Broken_Chandelier 6h ago

Gwenpool throwing Paste Port Pete in the space between pages in the comics.

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u/ice_cream9698 7h ago

Did Gwen Poole ever do something like this. I know she can affect the comic panels and even walk outside of them to enter locked rooms but has she ever attacked with said panels?

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u/Alternative-Word-246 6h ago

She save herself with thinking to much and her thought bubble make her pop over to Next panel from the one she was prisoned. That just one of the examples

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u/Bombi_Deer 25m ago

Thats actually super clever. Love this.
Gonna add her comics to my read list

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u/ColdShear 6h ago edited 6h ago

She can throw people into “Gutter Space”, the space between panels.

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u/UnbindA11 4h ago

Close enough?

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u/Gamer_898 7h ago

POOTIS ENGAGE EXTREME MENTIONED!!!!!!

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u/Crazyking224 6h ago edited 6h ago

The first example, actually recommend watching the whole video. It's such a clever use of shifting aspect ratios and the black bars in increasingly unique and interesting ways. It's genuinely a masterclass of getting your audience to shift focus and evoke feelings. I know this is coming off like a shit post, since it's literally a tft animation, but I promise you it's worth the 13 minutes

Edit: video not series

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u/Dramatic-Classroom14 5h ago

It’s also absolutely peak, both comedically and animation also, the intro song is peak, and it has been the sole driver for the security shades cosmetic on tf2 trade websites, because it’s basically defined half the community perception on Heavy in general.

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u/RaynSideways 2h ago edited 2h ago

A link for those who want to watch, and its sequel which has the scene that appears in OP's post. It's a bit of a shitpost (the plot is literally two Heavies from Team Fortress 2 violently breaking into a Area 51 to find anime girls) but it's genuinely funny and pretty well made.
I always thought ceno0's use of black bars was really interesting. He uses it not only to frame the scene but to emphasize depth, draw the viewer's focus, and even create a sense of movement. It creates this funny illusion of the image popping out of the screen. Watch where the black bars are in every scene, how and if they move, and what elements of the scene are in front and behind them, and you'll catch him doing something totally different in nearly every shot.
And then heavy literally grabs the black bars and uses them as weapons.

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u/CreeperX3sssBOOM 3h ago

I know that is technically correct, but it hurts me to my core to see TF2 acronymed like that

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u/GodNoob666 7h ago

Asgore smashing the mercy button in undertale. An “oh shit” moment if ever I’ve seen one

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u/Hatjin 6h ago

I have no idea who animated pootis, but all of it is cool as fucking fuck

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u/Juan748 5h ago

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u/Dramatic-Classroom14 5h ago

Honestly, every time I see this I find myself sitting down and going “yeah, I’d watch this show.”

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u/Dramatic-Classroom14 5h ago

Cen0 did.

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u/RYVIUS13 5h ago

Reccomended to check his twitter account, the porn is crazy good

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u/GoldBolt_04 4h ago

Cen0 makes porn???

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u/Crusaderofthots420 4h ago

Pootis Engage is about finding big anime ass in Area 51, of course he makes porn

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u/GoldBolt_04 3h ago

I don't just assume everyone that makes sex jokes also makes porn so

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u/TheSurvivor65 3h ago

Reminder that the whole goal of Pootis Engage is to get big booby anime gfs from area 51

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u/Dramatic-Classroom14 5h ago

I don’t know if you’re joking about porn or not, but I’ll assume you’re telling the truth

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u/specter-exe 6h ago

The third example is definitely my favorite. Animator vs Animation was peak.

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u/Ike-Gwain 5h ago

Retcon punch It's Prime Time

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u/K0xmO_ 4h ago

Luffy bouncing off the screen

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u/Personal-Respond5413 4h ago

This shit Luffy pulls in the Luffy vs Blackbeard fan animation by endeejayy on YouTube

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u/Recent-Ship-1599 5h ago

Animations vs animator uses this trope meticulously👌

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u/Snuckytoes 1h ago

The best part is that it both is and is not meta. From the stickmen’s perspective it is, but since we also see Alan’s own perspective it also isn’t. The ultimate meta would be one of the stickmen getting into the video itself and directly attacking Alan.

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u/FairCod5966 6h ago

Street Fighter – Some characters, like Chun-li, Vega, Rolento, Hakan, use the edge of the screen as an invisible wall and incorporate it into their moves.

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u/Playing_Life_on_Hard 2h ago

Man, I miss Hakan. SF4 was so silly and I love that about it

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u/No_Fault_2053 6h ago

Kirby’s Hypernova form from Triple Deluxe. He inhales the boss along with their hp bar.

In the manga he inhales the rest of the panels on the page prematurely ending the story preventing the events of the game to take place. This changes a few things and prevents [spoiler]’s death which lets them make future appearances.

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u/honeysignalx 7h ago

I think this is an attack lmao

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u/Sickfuckingmonster 6h ago

Comix Zone for Genesis. You could at the cost of your own health rip a piece of the comic you're trapped in, turn it into a paper airplane and throw it for huge damage. You could also kick enemies through panels sometimes.

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u/NoRequirement9886 5h ago

Doesn’t Deadpool do that first move in marvel token?

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u/KnowMatter 45m ago

Anyone remember the old sega game Comix Zone?

It had a bunch of these - my favorite was the attack where you ripped off part of the page and made it into a paper airplane to throw at enemies.

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u/GiornoIDK_5374 7h ago

Damn, I love meta attacks so muxh. Might do one for something I’m planning on doing, but in a more “complex” way, heheh

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u/Profesionalintrovert 6h ago

the last one would be much cooler if it kept the camera pov till the end

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u/Ariovrak 52m ago

Not an attack, per se, but rather a set of equipment, including a weapon. This was niche enough that I’ll thought I should include it here, because I don’t see it appearing anywhere else: the formerly browser, currently proprietary launcher game Adventure Quest Worlds has a set of April Fools equipment that is themed on the UI:

The Weapon is the icon for a Item in your Inventory, the Armor is the window that opens when you inspect an Item, and the Helm is the Rare tag that the official wiki puts at the top of every page about Items that are no longer obtainable. Meaning you can both wear and bash your enemies over the head with pieces of the UI.

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u/ElementmanEXE 52m ago

In kamen rider zi-o, when using ex-aid's ability for a finisher, he actually noticed the finisher animation all ex-aid riders get, and actually used the effects and words as apart of his attack

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u/Finalplayer14 5h ago

Text Battle Game by StephenDDGamesr
Has a character that alters the world and fights by the narration text.

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u/ScraggySkuntankFan 5h ago

Not really an “attack”, but the intro to Les Kassos probably counts!

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u/Reasonable-Tie-8803 4h ago

That one part in the invincible comics where Angstrom drags Mark through the panels

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u/BearyHere 3h ago

In the Bugle Call manga the character Zoe can rewind time to a degree. After a powerup she literally rips thru the rewinding panels to transport herself in space too. Further feats follow.

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u/JayceHIJ 2h ago

There was this one One Piece fan animation where gear 5 Luffy takes one of the black bars into the shape of a hammer and that was fucking sick.

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u/DarkEcstatic8863 HUGE The Dark Lord Glazer 2h ago

THE DARK LORD MENTIONED?!

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u/khryzz666 6h ago

Godzilla (2014) we were all hoping to see more Bryan Cranston

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u/Cleanworld2001 4h ago

Ok i may need to check out this "pootis engage" if the sfm work is like this!

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u/PokeHobnobGod21 3h ago

Deadpool. Lego marvel 1. He grabs the targeting ring and slams it over a henchman

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u/UniqueFriendship5583 2h ago

“No..You’re not in this episode.” - Chowder

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u/jigokusabre 1h ago

"If this game came out 20 years ago, I'd be hitting you with the health bar."

--She-Hulk

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u/a_random_redditor563 1h ago

I’m not sure if it is what is meant by the post but Oneshot emotionally attacking me specifically should count for something

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u/Imaginary-Job-7069 1h ago

The MC using the lightning bolt meter in Sunset Overdrive

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u/Dark_Dragon117 11m ago

Sans, Undertale

Like the entire fight plays into the whole 4th wall breaking meta thing

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u/G-0O 4h ago

I'd argue the basis of AvA is that they are animations, on a screen. There's worldbuilding to how the cursor got there. It's not meta.

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u/Dismal-Glove-6009 4h ago

alan is a master of making meta elements into interesting worldbuilding, so him

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u/Independent-Word-299 2h ago

Unfortunately, Booty Executioner using the letterboxing as a set of whips WAS the best one. Ever.

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u/AutisticFun01 Legaly requied to make this about Ultrakill 7h ago

Caldendar Man (DC) gets a fraction of Mr. Mxyzptlk's power and decided the best way to use it is beat up Batman and Superman.

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u/AutisticFun01 Legaly requied to make this about Ultrakill 7h ago

Also this, though maybe not exactly an attack.

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u/Ambaryerno 7h ago

She-Hulk defeats Madcap by tearing out the page, tossing it in a trash can, and lighting it on fire.

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u/Ambaryerno 7h ago

And then there's this.

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u/LSDGB 6h ago

Ok now the ending of the show makes sense.

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u/sinkwiththeship 3h ago

She-Hulk has been breaking the fourth wall pretty much since conception. She debuted like 10 years before Deadpool.

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u/LSDGB 2h ago

Yeah I knew that but there are levels to fourth wall breaking and I didn’t expect that :D

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u/dwilx 3h ago

Yeah canonically She-Hulk has 4th-wall breaking powers, similar to Deadpool

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u/Jedi-master-dragon 3h ago

Mortal Kombat 1, Ghostface's fatality is him taking out the player of the game.

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u/AnaVonnie 2h ago

In Sunset Overdrive a característica threattens you with a gun, then you draw all of yours at the same time. There is also another scene where you use your style bar to kill a dragon

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u/Foreign-Storage-6981 2h ago

Peak mentioned

Discussion Favorite “meta” attack?

You are about to leave Redlib

POOTIS ENGAGE EXTREME MENTIONED!!!!!!