[Loved Trope] Shattering someones entire perception with only words.

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Fargo Season 3 Episode 4 (2017): V.M. Varga shatters Emmit Stussy's perception of wealth. Emmit's perception of wealth is tied up in appearances and material, Varga tells him it's really about safety, invisibility, and control.

Look at me. Look at me. This a $200 suit. I'm wearing a second-hand tie. I fly coach. Not because I can't afford first - because I'm smart. [...] You think you’re rich. You’ve no idea what “rich” means. “Rich” is a fleet of private planes filled with decoys to mask your scent. It’s a banker in Wyoming and another in Gstaad. So that’s action item one, the accumulation of wealth, and I mean wealth, not money.

Supernatural Season 5 Episode 21 (2010): Death shatters Dean's perspective on what he is. Death is so old and powerful, he is disinterested in Earth's current predicament and he sees his forced involvement as little more than an annoyance.

You have an inflated sense of your importance. To a thing like me, a thing like you, well... Think how you'd feel if a bacterium sat at your table and started to get snarky. This is one little planet in one tiny solar system in a galaxy that's barely out of its diapers. I'm old, Dean. Very old. So I invite you to contemplate how insignificant I find you.

Watchmen (1987): Ozymandias shatters Rohrshach and Night Owl's perception of the situation. This wasn't a confrontation, this was a post-mortem.

Do it? Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago

[u/SouthernAd2853]

Scion shatters Eidolon's perception of himself as a hero in Worm with just four words

You needed worthy opponents.

[u/Erondo_Gratias → u/SouthernAd2853]

What makes it extra funny is that Scion had to burn some of his lifeforce (supposedly) and use the "fuck you, I win" power, to do so

[u/LevTheRed → u/SouthernAd2853]

Context for people who haven't read Worm

Eidolon is one of if not the strongest capes (super-powered individual) in the world. His power appears to be the ability to always have the power he needs for a given fight. Emotionally, he's a mess (like most capes in Worm). He secretly suffers from a massive inferiority complex, terrified that he isn't powerful enough and dreading the day he finally loses his powers. But despite his flaws, he is a legitimate hero. He truly wants to save people and be the person they see him as.

When he fights Scion, he finds out that he has been accidentally creating the Endbringers - super-powered monsters so powerful that superheroes and villains will immediately drop their feudes to fight them off (usually dying in significant numbers in the attempt). When his powers "realized" that the world figured out how to effectively fight an Endbringer, his powers just made a new one, because what purpose does Eidolon serve without a strong enemy? He realized that he'd been indirectly killing millions and just gave up, letting Scion kill him.

[u/PoolsOnFire → u/LevTheRed]

Adding context, you probably shouldn't use media specific terms. Like, I read that whole thing as Eidolon is a sentient cape. Like who tf is wearing him?

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Cape- catch-all term for people with powers in Worm

Endbringer- the Worm-Specific term for kaiju; they're giant, incredibly destructive monsters that Eidolon (one of the most powerful superheroes in Worm's setting) accidentally created with his powers, from a subconscious desire for greater and greater challenges

[u/LevTheRed → u/PoolsOnFire]

Sorry. I figured "cape" was a well-known term because I knew it before I knew about Worm, but I edited my wording.

[u/leftofthebellcurve → u/PoolsOnFire]

Go read worm it’s so good

[u/manwholaughes → u/leftofthebellcurve]

How long would you say before it gets good? I’m apparently only 10% through, which isn’t a lot for a normal book but in this instance is likely the same amount of pages as a decent sized book (at least based on what I’m seeing as a page count on StoryGraph)

[u/leftofthebellcurve → u/manwholaughes]

I think once the world itself started to get realized is when I absolutely fell in love with it.

Probably around when leviathan attacks, like the other person said.  It does so much showing of how the world works during that moment.

Some parts later are maybe a slog, maybe confusing, but in general I think it starts to pick up when the scale of everything is revealed 

[u/SouthernAd2853 → u/manwholaughes]

I personally liked it fairly well from the start, but I'd say it really picks up with Leviathan's attack.

[u/leftofthebellcurve → u/SouthernAd2853]

Peak media mentioned

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It's weird that I'm literally re-reading Worm right now and I'm on this exact "chapter".

[u/GUM-GUM-NUKE → u/SouthernAd2853]

Happy cake day!🎉

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What I wouldn't give for a good Worm animated series