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Main Law Of Inverse Recoil Discussion
This page is referred to by a link on the Rule of Cool page that says "Of scientific laws that this trope circumvents, the third law of motion is probably the most frequently revoked..."
I just wanted to suggest that "Law Of Inverse Recoil" is not the only place where the third law is ignored. Comic book superheroes who punch or throw things much heavier than themselves just about never show the inverse force. And in video games and comics a strike in the air typically sends the struck character reeling while the attacker's trajectory is very often unchanged or at least not accurately changed.
This of course is not part of the Main Law Of Inverse Recoil. I'm new here and I don't want to mess with other people's articles, but I thought a separate "Newton's third law of motion" page (and the violations of it in the media) would be very interesting.
That might not be an issue...for example wolverine and superman likely have the requisite structure to absorb the force of a punch. For throwing objects it would depend on what they're standing on I'd imagine. When you throw something you use your base to channel the inverse force. If they're standing on firm ground you probably wouldn't see the any effects of the inverse force depending on the mass of the object thrown and the force at which it was thrown.
for a fight in the air where one person is sent reeling and the other continues on, I can see there being an issue as illustrated by this real-life example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwpRHrAh3pk
. 90% of the time it's justified by the ruleofcool :-)
. 90% of the time it's justified by the ruleofcool :-)
I'm not intending to insult anyone but I always find it humorous in tropes like this when a vast majority of the examples are subversions, aversions and inversions. For something that everyone knows they've seen before and seems so very common it's hard us to find actual examples of it in use in fiction.
You know it's common because it's lampshaded and averted so often in comedies and averted with such force in action and drama fiction that did their research.