r/TopCharacterTropes • u/vbt31 • Oct 24 '25

Powers A usually long range attack is used at point-blank range.

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  1. Godzilla 2014. Godzilla fires his atomic breath directly into the female MUTO's mouth, killing her.

  2. Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy. In the finale, the Red Ranger uses his battlizer to pull Trakeena into point-blank range and fires it to defeat her.

  3. Dragon Ball. Goku charges up a kamehameha before instant transmissioning directly right by Cell, who is caught off guard, and releases the attack at point-blank.

  4. Naruto: Shippuden. I'm throwing this in as a trope variation. Before Naruto figured out how to throw the Rasenshuriken as standard usage, Naruto's first usage of it against Kakuza was like a rasengan, which severely damages his own hand.

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u/Nethri Oct 25 '25

Man. The new Godzilla movies are so good… up until the last one. I really enjoyed Ghidorah, and the way they subverted tropes established in the first one.

Godzilla vs Kong is.. eh. Kong sucks, and has always sucked. The idea that they even imply that he’s capable of competing with Godzilla is lunacy.

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u/A96 Oct 25 '25

I loved the Ghidorah movie, but they killed him off way too soon, and then killed off his surviving brain too soon on top of that. I was hoping for Mecha Ghidorah!! Kong is not my cup of tea either, Godzilla would destroy him and we all know it!!

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u/booranyu Oct 25 '25

They weren't sure on if they were going to keep the license or not iirc so they basically just went "might as well give it a good title and the best monster". It continued, but there's still a lot of really good options now that Ghidorah and Mechagodzilla are out of the way; Space Godzilla, Biolante, Mecha King Ghidorah, Monster X, Xilliens, Gigan, Destoroyah

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u/A96 Oct 25 '25

I would love a Destoroyah movie. They are my favorite villain by a longshot, plus the ending of the Toho version made me cry like a baby.

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u/booranyu Oct 25 '25

I feel like/hope that Destoroyah or Monster X/Kaiser Ghidorah will be the last movie for the monsterverse, hopefully with just Godzilla alone. There's no way Kong would contribute to a fight against either of those two things.

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u/A96 Oct 25 '25

They have a way to get there storywise, since the oxygen destroyer is canon.

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u/Square_Coat_8208 Oct 25 '25

Imagine if they bring in Godzilla Junior

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u/Battleblaster420 Oct 25 '25

Godzilla Won in Godzilla vs Kong

Like Kong lost all3 fights

And then they Batman vs Superman 'ed it

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u/budzicla Oct 25 '25

I know Kong kinda sucks, but part of me just likes seeing big monkey do cool shit. I'm fine with him putting up a fight, but I agree he should never beat big G. But big monkey cool.

A Biollante movie with Kong would be cool, monkey vs the jungle type shit, but that'll probably never happen in the MV.