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Author: arbiter099

Sep 9th 2013 at 12:19:36 AM

All of these restrictions make no sense to me. Isn't the basic convention of fiction here "specialized force deployed and dedicated to fighting giant monsters?" Why impose so many limits and nit-picking?

Bullet point 2 is especially naggling. By those rules, a work where Japan's best defense was an array of giant laser cannons designed to blast concentrated phlebotinium manned by teams of super Sentai anti-monster swat ninjas because [[{{Phelous}} they're the best]] is disqualified on grounds of letting Godzilla get to them before they fight back. As I see it, mobility has nothing to do with this.

Why does the equipment matter? That's splitting hairs. I have 2 visions for the forms the groups that would fall under this trope most commonly appear in: the RedShirtArmies that get crushed after a FiveRoundsRapid sequence (to demonstrate that this MonsterOfTheWeek is bad enough to take on [=NERVE=] and come out on top, what hope does our hero have?) and the more successful ones that the hero is probably a big part of.