Characters
Characters have a certain ritual or technique that is unconventional for someone of their profession
Examples:
Odysseus (Christopher Nolan's Odyssey) - In the climax of the poem, Odysseus plucks his bow to create a musical note that signifies exactly who he is. The movie expands on this by making it a ritual that Odysseus does, where he plucks his bow before drawing it so that his target is aware of where he is, so that it's a fair fight/chase. He does this because he has a stern sense of honor. This is considered bizarre to many of his peers, as it typically defeats the purpose of hunting.
L Lawliet (Death Note) - L is the world's greatest detective. Because of how secretive he is, he seldom goes to a crime scene or actively hunts the criminal himself, instead opting to gather evidence with a small team and compile his notes. Often he'll just be weirdly sitting in a chair, scarfing down sweets while going over findings. This is mostly to avoid any possible risks of being murdered, which comes in handy especially if your opponent is a secret wizard who can kill people by writing their names down.
John Wick (John Wick) - Typically, an assassin would use rifles and snipers, but John often uses a pistol in the Center Axis Lock or CAR, which is basically where you treat a handgun like a melee weapon. This is because what makes him successful is how he is able to rampage brutally through waves of enemies.
Miyamoto Musashi (IRL) - Miyamoto's entire thing was being unconventional; he lived during the Edo Period when Samurai transitioned from warriors to nobility and when honor codes started to take root. This meant that many Samurai were more interested in order and discipline, while Miyamoto was all about getting victory by any means. One ritual he had was arriving late to a battle to anger his enemy and make them reckless.
To be fair, I believe what makes John wick successful is having bullet proof suits on while rampaging. Which is what allows him to treat a gun like a melee weapon without dying 100 times before he gets close enough to be effective
First one he uses cover effectively, properly positions himself and carefully uses his opponents attacks and weaknesses to his advantage. The only time he switches his methods is the only time he gets taken down in a fight. Plus he needed to be saved by his ally when the other assassin broke the rules to kill him.
Then bullet proof suits and whisper quiet pistols just kinda made it so he can walk into automatic weapons fire and bonk opponents. Can pretty much just accept he's a superhero after the colosseum fight since that's the last time he fights smart.
Adding to the Musashi thing: on top of showing up late to the duel, he just proceeded to beat his opponent with a long oar instead of his sword. The disrespect lol
We should clone that guy and have him use invisible swords to beat up the world's strongest men, and get into a fight with a Schizophrenic High School Student.
Naked Snake often carved a notch out of his standard handguns' grips to make it easier to hold and switch to his knife for CQC (close quarters combat).
we don’t see him in court too often, but the way he defends himself or his clients is far more laid back and theatrical than you’d expect for a lawyer. this fits his character well though
Hated, Factually Inaccurate Example: Rolland Emmerich's Anonymous portrays several famous poets (Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, and Thomas Nashe) being SHOCKED that Shakespeare composes his plays in Verse. This is absolute fucking nonsense to anyone who's read a play by any playwright of the era, including the works of Nashe, Marlowe, or Jonson.
This is just one of many, many, MANY things Anonymous lies about or gets completely wrong about Shakespeare and that era of history.
To add to Oddyseus bow technique, releasing the string without an arrow is something that an archer would NEVER do, since it can seriously damage the bow.
When you knock and arrow with your bow, you're putting a whole lotta kinetic energy into the arrow that makes it fly real fast.
When you don't have that arrow, all that kinetic energy meant to make the arrow go fast, has to go somewhere else, in this case, into the bow and string itself, distressing the wood and wearing down the string.
All the energy from the string reverberates through the bow instead of being placed on the arrow. The bow isn’t designed to handle that kind of stress and it can fuck up the bow’s body/where the string is attached
When you draw a bow, it stores massive potential energy. Normally, that energy transfers into the arrow as kinetic energy. Without an arrow to absorb it, all that force snaps straight back into the bow's limbs
Just…damn near everything Dricus du Plessis does in a fight. This man genuinely attained a 24-3 record and became the UFC middleweight champion fighting like a Looney Tunes character.
It’s why people say, “Nothing Dricus does should work on paper, but fortunately he can’t read.”
If I remember correctly, plucking the bow is also seen as odd because it can put unnecessary tension on the string and wear it out faster, similar to dry firing a gun a buncha times. Idk though I was just told that by a friend
Both of the main characters of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series.
Captain John "Lucky Jack" Aubrey of the Royal Navy is everything we expect an epic age-of-sail Captain to be: a ferocious combatant, a capable navigator, a seaman of tremendous powers of observation and intuition. However, he's also a late-blooming maths enthusiast, a dedicated astronomer, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a lifelong musician. In fact, in later books it's briefly revealed that in middle age Jack becomes a profoundly skilled violinist, who turns to his instrument in times of depression and emotional turmoil. In today's world, Captain Aubrey would be a bluesman of shining parts indeed.
His best friend and frequent sailing companion, Dr. Stephen Maturin, is likewise the very best one could hope for in a physician of his age. Stephen is exquisitely trained, having attended the finest medical schools in Europe before going to sea in his mid-twenties. He is a devoted naturalist and anatomist, and keeps abreast of the latest developments in science and medicine. He can rouse out a man's brains and set them to rights easy as kiss my hand, or whip off a shattered leg in less time than it takes to boil an egg. He cares deeply for the health and welfare of the sailors, at one point threatening Captain Aubrey that unless a severe lack of suitable medical supplies and facilities is remedied immediately and at once he will refuse to join the mission, and damn the consequences. He is also short, skinny, sallow-skinned (until he gets into the sun), a hesitant public speaker, a terrible singer, and indifferent to personal hygene. However, as well as a couple of other minor and unimportant sides of himself, Stephen is also astonishingly deadly. Despite the partial crippling of his hands by French torture, Stephen is shown (or implied, in one case) dispatching his enemies with rifle, pistol, smallsword, surgical instruments, and a carved obsidian penis. Moreover, apart from a single long-provoked fight in Australia, Stephen is shown to be singularly cold-blooded when he kills, unlike Jack, who is a bipolar warrior: hot-blooded and jubilant in battle, depressive and umotivated in the aftermath. His eyes are frequently described as "reptilian," and the snakelike aspect is enhanced when he's shown or described with sword in hand. Before even meeting Jack or the reader, Stephen "went out" somewhere around twenty times, and speaking of duels as fairly common among the mostly-Irish student body at Trinity College. We don't see much of his martial prowess in action, but it's clear that Stephen is a thoroughly nasty customer.
He is very into tarot, mysticism, and the occult. Typically, in tarot reading, whenever you draw your cards the idea is that the fate depicted on those cards is set in stone, and that trying to defy that fate is folly. For this reason, attempting to get a second reading is basically seen as heresy.
Kinzo, on the other hand, believes that if you get a bad draw from a tarot deck, you should just shuffle the deck and try again until you get the result you wanted.
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u/scrimspirals 1h ago
House (House M.D.). regularly has his team break into patients homes to look for environmental causes instead of just asking them what might be there.