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In the world of fiction, rocket-propelled weaponry create negligible, if any, backblast. The characters shown using such weapons are thus able to use rocket launchers with their backs to a wall or within an enclosed space, as if the rocket just levitates away instead of being accelerated by the thrust of a strong jet. In Real Life, if you fire a recoilless rifle or rocket launcher in an enclosed space it will create so much pressure that you have a high chance of being killed by it. Additionally, firing them with your back to a wall will result in the hot rocket exhaust being deflected back at you and severely burning or possibly killing you. Not to mention that standing immediately behind them will result in grievous injury or death. And then there's the fact that the huge flash of flame and cloud of smoke coming out of the back of the weapon (and maybe even a big black triangular scorch mark on the ground behind you, pointing directly at you, depending on the weapon and the terrain) will probably be highly visible to anyone looking in your direction, no matter how well camouflaged you were a moment ago, so you will gain the immediate, sincere, and complete attention of everyone on the battlefield. Note however, that this does not apply to all recoilless weapons: there are some rocket launchers which utilize some kind of "soft launch" to eject the rocket from tube before the rocket motor ignites. Others may utilize counterweight or frangible material that counterbalances the effect of recoil and/or reduces the effect of backblast. Nevertheless, many contemporary and most past rocket launchers or recoilless rifles lack these sort of features, and among their number are those that are most often portrayed in media. See the Law of Inverse Recoil for a related weapons trope and Toasted Buns for another trope involving missing rocket exhaust. Real Life aversions may be related to Too Dumb to Live. This trope is so common that only aversions and subversions should be listed. |
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Averted in Gate, where a soldier attacking a dragon with a Panzerfaust actually checks to make sure nobody is behind him before firing. One of the peasants witnessing the fight mistakes his attack for a magic spell: "Bakblast Clir". Later, Itami loans several Panzerfausts to a group of Dark Elves and specifically warns them about the backblast. Unfortunately, they completely forget his warning and as a result, several of their number get killed or maimed by the backblasts. Ironically, it's actually one of the few cases when the trope would've been Truth in Television. The German-designed Panzerfaust 3, just like its smaller cousin Armbrust, mentioned in the Real Life section below, instead of a venturi nozzle uses a load of plastic chips to throw back to compensate the recoil. The chips actually come out as a plastic dust, which loses speed very fast, but you still wouldn't want to stand within 1-2 meters behind it. One of the elves gets barely dazzled after being hit by the dust cloud, after which he promptly gets eaten by the dragon they were fighting. | |
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Touched on hilariously in Company of Heroes, when ordering Panzergrenadiers with Panzerschrecks into a building. | |
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In an episode of Miami Vice, a criminal is seen visibly reacting to recoil from a stinger missile. However, the backblast can be seen from it, and the others present have already moved a safe distance away in preparation for it. | |
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The Barnstormer RPG in Bioshock Infinite takes this to its logical extreme; not only is there no backblast, there is no opening in the back of the launcher for the backblast. This would be fine if the rockets were spring-launched like the PIAT,note and to be fair the Barnstormer is operated via a side-crank in a fashion that could imply compressing a spring but the rockets ignite the second they leave the barrel. In any reasonable situation, Booker would be flung backwards the second he fired it. Nevermind the fact the thing somehow stores two rockets in a single tube. | |
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Averted in Jagged Alliance 2. Don't stand behind the dude with the LAW if you value your face. | |
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Averted in The Enforcer. There is a military demonstration of a LAAW rocket, and rookie Inspector Moore is trying to see what it does by standing behind the shooter. Dirty Harry grabs her by the collar and pulls her back in time; afterwards there is a huge scorch mark on the berm where she would have been in the way, behind the shooter who did not experience any recoil effect. | |
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In Command & Conquer: Generals, not only do rockets not have backblast, you can fill a tiny Humvee up with rocket-carrying infantry, all of whom can fire out of the windows, while the vehicle itself has a mounted TOW missile launcher. | |
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While not in the normal game, the modding community for Operation Flashpoint and ArmA has created a realism modification that adds backblast to all recoilless RPG weapons (along with a whole host of other realistic features). The later parts of the series include backblast, both in the "make sure your back is not to a wall" and the "your squaddies will be yelling at you if you don't warn them to get out of the blast zone" sense. | |
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The RPG-7 in Killing Floor 2 has backblast. It can stumble or knock down enemies who are close behind the user when they fire, and it's just strong enough to kill Clots outright. The effects of backblast in an enclosed space aren't simulated, however, nor is it particularly relevant since you can't harm teammates anyway. | |
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Averted in Men of War in which a mercenary attempting to sneak up behind Dolph Lundgren is killed by the backblast of Lundgren's recoilless rifle. | |
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Partially averted in Commando. Cindy attempts to rescue Matrix by firing an M202 Flash rocket launcher. No recoil at all on the first shot when she fires it backwards, then the Rule of Funny comes to the rescue of physics with the second shot, properly aimed, throwing her backwards into the car. | |
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The rocket launcher in Half-Life uses compressed air to launch the rocket a safe distance away before the propellant ignites, averting this trope. It's still dangerous in confined spaces, though, since the initial launch will make the rocket jump up a foot or so. If you don't have enough height clearance — boom. Which, in turn, leads to a bit of Fridge Logic: such a weapon typically won't arm itself until after the rocket motor ignites, meaning that it should be "klunk" rather than "boom". | |
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Though absent from the actual games, backblast is brought up once in the bonus "Soap's Journal" from the Hardened edition of Modern Warfare 3 - in the entry from the fourth game's Azerbaijan missions, Soap writes that if not for how the FGM-148 Javelin works, he could have accidentally burnt off Price's famed mustache. | |
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Darkest Hour, a Red Orchestra mod set in western Europe, has the very good possibility of teamkilling — friendly fire is always on, and backblast from Bazookas, Panzerfausts, and Panzershrecks is deadly. The PIAT, as historically accurate, has no backblast, but is much slower to reload since there's no way for an Assistant Gunner to help. | |
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In the Ballistic Weapons mod for Unreal Tournament 2004, one of the heavy weapons, the J2329 HAMR, is a massive artillery piece that does not have any backblast. As a result, the recoil is so severe that if you attempt to fire it without deploying it as a turret first, you actually injure yourself. | |
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We Were Soldiers has a North Vietnamese soldier firing a rocket propelled grenade at a group of American troops. Not only does he pop up to fire down over the top of his cover (directing the blast away from the terrain behind him), but he also wears a mask and goggles to protect his face. | |
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Averted in The Dark Knight. When the Joker fires an RPG from the trailer of a semi, you can see that his henchmen are out of the way and the door on the other side of it is open. In fact, if you watch closely, it seems to have been opened first. | |
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Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy feature a handheld missile launcher which is designed to be held like a traditional firearm and expels its backblast in front of the user — though it's at right angles to the rocket launcher, so it can't harm the operator. The barrel also moves away from the rocket, absorbing some of the recoil, which is actually similar to how most tanks dissipate recoil. This is also in noted contrast to an earlier model in the same series from Star Wars: Battlefront, which is designed more like a traditional RPG launcher, sitting over the shoulder and with an opening at the rear to expel the backblast. | |
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In Archer, the title character attempts to use an RPG-7 to blow his way out of a sealed armory. It fails to destroy the door, he's deafened, and his clothes are shredded, but there is a hole in the bulletproof glass directly behind his firing position, continuing the show's record of being rather accurate with its depiction of weapons, aside from lethality. | |
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Halo is a bit funny about this. The rocket launcher has a small puff of flame that emits out the back, but it doesn't actually harm anything. Nonetheless, Halo 3: ODST has any (non-Rookie) player that swaps to a rocket launcher shout a warning about backblast. Halo 3 features an explicit justification with its missile pod, which launches its missiles with compressed air, with their fuel only igniting after they've already left the pod. | |
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Averted in the Mass Effect fanfiction Mass Effect: Interregnum. One of the stories Garrus tells Sidonis is about the time C-Sec investigated the murder of an elcor, blown out of a tower by a rocket launcher. As Garrus points out, however, "an elcor weighs an awful lot, and that means you need a big, big gun to launch one out of a window"... leaving only a handful of smoking remains of the killer behind. | |
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Averted in Traveller, a rocket launcher produces a dangerous backblast that damages anyone within 1.5 meters behind the person firing one. | |
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Far Cry 2 has the Carl Gustav rocket launcher, which simulates backblast quite well - it will kill people, start fires, and even destroy vehicles (and promptly kill you) caught within its backblast. Played straight with the RPG-7, however. | |
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Averted in The Familiar of Zero when Saito warns Louise not to stand behind him before firing the "Staff of Destruction" (really a bazooka). | |
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Averted in Rising Storm 2: Vietnam. The backblast of the RPG-7 can and will kill anyone behind the soldier firing it, friendly or enemy. | |
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In an episode of Bugs, a bad guy is killed by standing on the "right" end of a timed missile launching ramp. | |
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Averted in Red Dawn. One scene featured a Wolverine's hat being knocked off when he fired an RPG-7. In the final battle two of the American guerillas fire their RPG-7's at the command trailer used by a Soviet general. An enemy soldier who comes round the corner behind them at that precise moment falls to the ground screaming as he's been scorched by the backblast. | |
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BattleTech averts this trope in the A Time of War RPG book. The combat equipment chapter includes several paragraphs talking about how dangerous it is to fire a recoilless rifle in an enclosed space. | |
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CSI: Miami: Averted in an episode, where a guy gets cooked after firing an RPG from inside a cement mixer. In another, a paramilitary shoots an RPG (a weapon he didn't realize isn't point-and-shoot) from a car, and the exhaust shatters the opposite window. The CSI team, however, knows what to do with broken glass. In the another episode, one of the bad guys gets a black eye from the rocket launcher shoving the sight into his face. |
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Gaunt's Ghosts: Anytime anyone fires a missile launcher, they yell 'Ease!' to tell everyone to open their mouths to prevent the pressure from damaging their eardrums. Also, one soldier did fire a launcher while inside a small room- he got messed up and set part of the wall on fire, though he survived. Also from the Ghosts: in Necropolis, a Vervunhive Wall gun battery fires point-blank at a Chaos war machine, and the backblast fries them. (The gun crew, that is; the regular blast fries the Chaos.) In the same novel, during the generals' observation of the battlefield from a guard tower, its missile launchers are disabled because bulletproof shields hastily installed mess with the backblast. The generals decide to have the shields removed, exposing themselves rather than paralyze the guard tower, as they feel safer with working heavy weapons than cowering behind a shield. |
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Also averted in the Combat Mission series. While the backblast-to-friendly-face never happens (firstly because each little soldier is an abstraction for a full squad spread over a large area, and secondly because they are representing trained soldiers, not morons), firing a bazooka or panzerschreck from inside a building is a good way to pin down your own troops (the British PIAT is immune to this, as per Real Life). Note that the game's tactical AI knows better than to do it — it'll only happen through direct player prompt. Amusingly, these weapons also have a substantial chance of setting the building on fire. An urban panzerschreck nest is, by necessity, temporary. | |
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Averted in The Walking Dead: Season Two. This season takes place when Clementine is only eleven and still pretty small, and in the first episode she's discouraged from picking up a rifle because the kickback would knock her over. Cue her trying to use one in another episode and promptly falling back onto the ground from the recoil. | |
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In Tiberium Wars, the notes on the GDI Hammerhead mention that it had to be engineered to channel the backblast from missile launchers in order to have missile teams fire out of it — which also means that a Hammerhead gunship carrying a missile team that fires out of the compartments on board cannot have anyone else in the passenger compartment of the gunship. At several points in the story characters also have to make sure their backs are clear so they can fire missile launchers. | |
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Starfist has simulator training on rocket launchers at one point; when the Mariness move into the field to do live training, one of them fires prone and straight; he sets his legs and butt on fire, and it would have been worse if he hadn't flinched from the recoil. Later on in the same novel, when firing from a building interior, the same Marine has to be reassured by his comrades that they've considered backblast by opening the door to the apartment they were in and making sure the rear end of the launcher was pointed at the open door. It still sets the doorframe on fire. | |
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Averted in Reborn! when Tsuna finds that firing his X-Burner without firing a blast of equal force backwards at the right angle produces a very violent recoil. He even gets computerized contact lenses to help him do the math for balancing the forces. | |
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In The Incredibles, Dash and Violet are sent scampering from their hiding spot due to a very large-scale aversion of this trope. The Big Bad is firing an intercontinental ballistic missile and its exhaust has to go somewhere since the silo is inside a volcano... mainly through the "cave" that was actually intended to channel the missile's backblast (presumably one of many). | |
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Col. Volgin in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater averts this by firing a recoilless nuclear warhead from a helicopter gunship, but makes sure to open the doors of the helicopter on both sides before firing. | |
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In the Doctor Who story "Remembrance of the Daleks", keep an eye on the wall behind Ace when she fires an RPG at a Dalek. The scorch mark is clear proof that these were the days before CGI. Or, you know, decent budget. | |
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In Men in Black, when Agent J first uses the Noisy Cricket, it fires a colossal beam of energy, but he gets flung back at least several feet. When firing it backed up against a wall doesn't work, he attaches a silencer to it. The silencer severely reduces the firepower of the Noisy Cricket, but J no longer injures himself whenever he uses it. | |
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Call of Duty: Though absent from the actual games, backblast is brought up once in the bonus "Soap's Journal" from the Hardened edition of Modern Warfare 3 - in the entry from the fourth game's Azerbaijan missions, Soap writes that if not for how the FGM-148 Javelin works, he could have accidentally burnt off Price's famed mustache. Also parodied in this depiction of the same game's final level, where Soap tries to fire an RPG-7 at an enemy helicopter, as in the game itself, and promptly pastes everyone else in the truck with the backblast. |
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An alternate ending to Die Hard with a Vengeance includes John McClane playing a variant of Russian Roulette with Simon Gruber using a Chinese rocket launcher with the sights removed, so they can't tell which end is the muzzle. He asks Simon a series of questions, and eventually asks a question that Simon gets wrong. Turns out that the answer to the question is that he forgot to bring a flak jacket, which is what McClane is wearing and this would have protected Simon from the blast of the rocket, and the rocket fires on Simon, killing him instantly. | |
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True Lies has a brief moment of realism when one of the terrorists fires a Stinger shoulder-fired anti-air missile from a moving panel truck, causing the terrorist behind him to fly out of the front windshield thanks to the backblast. The terrorist that was launched out the windshield is then accidentally run over by the truck. The moment of reality can be doubted: Stingers are launched out of their tubes by a relatively small ejector motor before the rocket engine ignites. That's not to say they have no backblast, however — it's still generating enough force to eject a twenty-pound missile to a safe ignition distance. | |
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It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958). A crewmember fires a bazooka at the alien monster, even though he's inside the control cabin of a spacecraft, with the venturi pointed at a panel of instruments which had just been demonstrated to have dials that monitored crucial life support functions. Not that there's much effect on the other end of the bazooka either. | |
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Monster Hunter International averts this, as you would expect in a series written by gun aficionados. In one particular incident, a Hunter who definitely believes in heavy firepower is about to launch a rocket-propelled grenade at a Master vampire when she's standing right in front of a wall. Another Hunter shouts "Backblast!" at her, and she reluctantly drops the RPG and grabs her rifle instead. | |
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Averted in Ice Station. When Renshaw fires a rocket in a hovercraft, the backblast destroys the windows behind him. | |
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Averted in Squad: not clearing the blackbast is a good way to get your teammates hurt. | |
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Averted in Pokémon: The Series of all places. An early Johto episode had Jessie and James steal the Mon of the Week (Donphan) with what appeared to be a shoulder-fired net. It had a backblast. | |
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Inverted to a ridiculous degree in Act of War, where the player can have infantry occupy buildings for added protection. Attempting this with rocket-armed troops will result in the death of the rocket guy, some or all of any other infantry in the building, and considerable damage to the building itself the instant something hostile comes within range of the garrisoned building and those rocket guys open fire on it. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In the second season episode "Innocence", Buffy uses a shoulder-fired rocket launcher to great effect, and hilarity. She experiences no recoil, which is not surprising, physics be damned, given her super-strength. But notably, she fires from a position where there is nobody or nothing behind her to be fried by the rocket's ignition. Note that Xander have military knowledge, due to a spell, and is one the one who instructed her on how to use it, and presumably included that no-one should be behind her when she fires it. | |
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Rocket launchers in GURPS create a fairly dangerous backblast when fired. If you use a reactionless missile however, there is no backblast, thanks to superscience. | |
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Rifts has a single aversion to this. A particular heavy missile launcher is specifically stated to inflict damage to not only anyone standing close behind the firer, but the firer themself if they're not wearing armor. In fact, the backblast will destroy the launcher, which is in of itself a disposable weapon. | |
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Dead Winter: Note the window behind the shooter before and after he fires. As for why he's firing so close to a window in the first place, he's not very smart. | |
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Averted in Mobile Suit Gundam when, Miharu, a civilian helping to fire malfunctioning missiles from an aircraft, doesn't realize she needs to get out of the way after setting them off. The impact either kills her immediately or knocks her out, causing her to fall out of the plane. | |
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Averted in Ghost Recon, wherein the backblast can kill friendlies directly behind the soldier who fires an anti-tank weapon. However, the backblast physics in the game don't seem to take into account walls, since said weapon is still safe enough to fire from enclosed areas. | |
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Saints Row IV has an interesting variation on this trope with the Alien Rocket Launcher. Weapons of its type in the series normally lack backblast of any kind, but the ultimate upgrade of the weapon adds backblast that damages any enemies that happen to be behind you when you fire it. | |
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Averted in the first issue of Transmetropolitan, Spider destroys his local bar with an RPG, then complains bitterly about how cold the inside of his car is since crude rocketry took out the passenger side window. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: In "Future's End", Captain Janeway has to crawl into a launch tube and fire a photon torpedo manually. She's knocked down and scorched by the exhaust gasses. Knowing this, her Number One made sure the Doctor would be on hand to treat her. | |
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In Kingdom of Loathing, the "Great Wolf's Rocket Launcher" gives you a special "Fire Rocket" combat ability. This does quite a lot of damage, but also hits you for about 1/3rd of your HP, because "the rocket part of the rocket burned your face pretty badly on its way out." | |
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In the Battle of Mogadishu, US troops were aware that the Somalians knew this trope didn't apply to real life, and they didn't expect the Somalis to kill themselves to take a crack at a US helicopter. That said, the Americans didn't think the RPG-7s used by the Somalis were suitable for taking out helicopters that stayed above the rooftops; anyone trying it would be badly burned by the backblast bouncing off the asphalt. The US troops did not count on the Somalis placing shields to deflect the backblast onto the RPG-7, resulting in a weapon that could be fired up at the helicopters. The result is chronicled, infamously, in Black Hawk Down. | |
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A variant in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen has Optimus brace himself then, using the donated parts of Jetfire as flying Powered Armor, uses the backblast of his thrusters to blast Megatron through a wall in some Egyptian ruins. Megatron is effectively out of the fight after this in combination with getting his face shot off and arm torn off. | |
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America's Army, known for trying to portray military weapons accurately, makes a point of averting this trope. As seen in this machinima. | |
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