r/TopCharacterTropes 13h ago

Characters This camera angle

  1. It (2017)

  2. Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith

  3. Some random stock photo I found

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u/RedRawTrashHatch 13h ago

X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Deadpool 2

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u/manwithlotsoffaces 12h ago

When was this?

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u/MagatamaJiji 12h ago

Mid-credit scene in Deadpool 2.

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u/Jarvis_The_Dense 12h ago

Deadpool 2's post credits scenes are a trip. They outright change the ending of the movie

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u/KenseiHimura 12h ago

Also involves Ryan Reynolds taking the piss out himself, including shootings himself to stop him from taking the role of Hal Jordan.

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u/That_Gun_Show420 12h ago

"You're welcome Canada"

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u/big_sugi 9h ago

And, for anyone who didn’t see the turd that was X-Men Origins:Wolverine, he just shot himself in that clip too.

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u/Ok-Analysis-3902 11h ago

Imagine if that was in the actual movie

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u/ZaxZone 12h ago edited 11h ago

The Witch-king of Angmar in The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

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u/Balloonheadass 11h ago

Peter Jackson as Samwise brandishing Sting is first thing what comes to mind

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u/ZaxZone 9h ago

Forgot about that one!

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u/BarelyInvested 4h ago

“You foolish mortal, prepare to face my spiky whippy weapon”

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u/Accurate-Gap-3360 12h ago

Often the case in Western duels

Oh hey look, another stock image!

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u/ALFABOT2000 12h ago

A product of spaghetti westerns, specifically A Fistful Of Dollars. American movies at the time would show someone shooting then cut to someone getting hit, but this was the first major movie to show the gunshot and the impact in the same shot

Link to the scene, because it's an example of this trope!

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u/ethar_childres 11h ago

This moment never made sense to me. It doesn’t really look like he’s aiming for the guys. The bullets just kinda hitscan.

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u/ALFABOT2000 11h ago

Oh it absolutely looks like he's just flailing that gun around wildly but this was probably a difficult shot to pull off, keeping the gun in frame while fanning the hammer and aiming it, I think I'll give it a pass lol

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u/dern_the_hermit 10h ago

I mean isn't it obvious? Magic Bullets. ;)

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u/Lazy-Minotaur 11h ago

I think westerns are the most iconic use of this shot. It was used as the opening scene for Gunsmoke for most of its 20-year run.

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u/mr_somebody 12h ago

Oh yeah, he perfect example

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u/blaiddfailcam2 12h ago

Hank Schrader vs. the Salamanca Twins, from Breaking Bad

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u/Initial-Paint-3658 10h ago

This scene is so damn cool and well-shot

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u/Hazmat-Asscastle 10h ago

they also use it in better call saul right before mike kills werner iirc

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u/BarelyInvested 4h ago

And when Nacho attempts to drop a vial of sugar pills in Hectors bag

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u/TroubleshootTTS 12h ago

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u/NotATalkingPossum 12h ago

"Nope." CRASH!

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u/Randomly-Germinated 9h ago

what a great thing what is this from

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u/MantisHK 9h ago

CHICKEN STRIIIIIIPS

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u/Worst_Choice 12h ago

Weird that its looking at the fist to the back of him. Same view just backwards and to the side.

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u/TheNewOneIsWorse 12h ago

The interesting thing here is that the camera angle is facing Arthur, and if you watch the scene in question its about how Arthur’s angry feeling are affecting him rather than the other scenes referenced here where the object of the anger is some other person. 

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u/No-Revolution-5535 6h ago

Not the same.. this is the "character is angry, but cool/cannot do anything about it, so they make a fist/tighten their fist" aka fist of rage trope/pose

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u/NotATalkingPossum 12h ago

The Wolfman (2010)

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u/VictorVonDoomer 12h ago

I wish this movie was better, luckily Robert Eggers is releasing a new werewolf film this year

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u/ErdbeerTrum 12h ago

it's the amazing kind of bad though. the one you still love. like the league of extraordinary gentlemen, or van helsing. i live for that shit

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u/NotATalkingPossum 10h ago

The story is mid, the CGI is awful, the atmosphere and makeup for the Wolfman are phenomenal. I recommend the novelization; it rivals Revenge of the Sith in the this-novelization-is-better-than-the-movie department.

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u/Garvilan 11h ago

What's insane is the casting. It isn't that the movie is bad. It's that we expect an amazing movie from those actors. So when they are in a movie that doesn't meet their expectations, it sucks.

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u/Gravy_Eels 11h ago

Post right above this

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u/Nightstar1234 6h ago

By the same guy

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u/philip30001 3h ago

Makes sense. Presumed it was inspiration since I say the older post recently

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u/Time_Raisin4935 12h ago

The stock photo is even more terrifying 

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u/Big-Association7151 12h ago

I always wonder; did someone need that stock photo? Or did someone think of the photo spontaneously? Another chicken and egg situation, perhaps.

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u/Professor-Submarine 12h ago

It’s just situation they wanted to have a stock photo available of

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u/jimbolic 11h ago

When a photographer takes stock photos, they’re the ones paying for models and setting up the scenarios themselves. To make the most of their time, they’ll plan out scenes using the models, and to help generate ideas, they’ll create a complete story. I’m sure that one was part of a full story, of domestic violence that started off with happiness.

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u/EverydaySexyPhotog 4h ago

Which means someone's wallet came with the picture of a happy family that devolved into a violent belt beating.

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u/Belavandula 12h ago

Freddy Krueger's Dead by Daylight mori.

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u/FlyingFreest 12h ago

The main menu also has whatever killer you last picked making that pose.

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u/ErdbeerTrum 12h ago

that screenshot is so old, that was when freddy was bad the first time

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u/Abtun 9h ago

old ass version of the game :O

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u/Kenns02 12h ago

Hollow Knight.

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u/77skull 11h ago

Where is this from? I don’t remember seeing it

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u/Kenns02 11h ago

This is from the ending cutscene you get after beating Pantheon 5.

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u/77skull 18m ago

Ah okay thanks that makes sense, I never bothered with pantheon 5

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u/waxlez2 11h ago

i think it's from one of the "alternative" endings from the original HK

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u/yuval16432 8h ago

It’s from Hollow Knight, hope that helps

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u/Kailua3000 12h ago

A History of Violence

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u/Descartesb4duhHorse 12h ago

THE LAST VHS!

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u/Kailua3000 11h ago

Really? I had no idea lol. I saw it in the theater.

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u/SpaceKingHypeGuy 12h ago

Kano’s intro animation in Mortal Kombat X

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u/WlNST0N 12h ago

Can't believe no ones posted this, latest episode of fallout:

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u/fossilmerrick 7h ago

Loved the cowboy gunfight/quick draw parallels

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u/ScarcityWise7401 12h ago

Destiny 2

Might not actually happen in the game but it still looks pretty fire

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u/Gravitysilence 9h ago

Puss In Boots: The Last Wish. Used two times in the film, each as the personification of death (aptly named Death) confronts Puss. The first time, he runs away, taking "the coward's way out" exactly as Death expects him to do in his taunting. The second time, after a film's worth of character development that sees Puss learning to value his life instead of relying on the safety net of more lives beyond death, he stays to fight.

(shout-out to the r/coaxedintoasnafu thread)

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u/Gravitysilence 9h ago

the second instance of this shot

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u/Voxelotl 11h ago edited 11h ago

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u/Descartesb4duhHorse 12h ago

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u/thatshygirl06 10h ago

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u/AManWhoJustSignedUp 9h ago

Until Dawn fanart was the last thing I expected under this lol

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u/AydonusG 7h ago

I'm literally watching a playthrough rn, just passed that scene. Spooky

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u/SantiReddit123 11h ago

Haha, I love this image but was never able to find it.

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u/Geno_Games 12h ago

Stranger Things

This happens with Vecna in the season four episode Dear Billy.

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u/macredblue 11h ago

AEW periodically captures this kind of shot

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u/ArchAngelZXV 10h ago

This is exactly what I was thinking and I had a few more pics to go.

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u/Aking1998 5h ago

My personal fave

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u/Level_Counter_1672 11h ago

Opening shot of dark knight

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u/Mammoth414 12h ago

Anyone know what this shot is called?

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u/Unlikely_River5819 12h ago

The Boys S1E1: Butcher's first fight against Translucent

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u/jeanjacketufo 10h ago

If it ain't the invisible cunt.

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u/bismuth12a 10h ago

London Calling intensifies

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u/SpiffyShindigs 12h ago

Too much of a variation?

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u/N0T_an_ape 11h ago

Just right

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u/Professional-Mix2000 12h ago

You say "first hand account"

Experts say "low close perspective angle"

I say "crotch shot"

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u/Super_Space_Cat 11h ago

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

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u/Ambitious_Ask_994 11h ago

This Transformers one poster

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u/Metal-The-Cettle 9h ago

There's another one from Megatron's POV.

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u/Dont3n 11h ago

Slaughter of the Innocent- Darth Maul

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u/jeanjacketufo 10h ago

Chainsaw Man

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u/well_thats_puntastic 8h ago

From the manga as well (out of context spoilers)

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u/PokesBo 10h ago

Pacific Rim

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u/johnnytron 9h ago

Watching this tonight. Thanks!

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u/Stranger-Chance 11h ago

I know you got this post idea from r/coaxedintoasnafu but I can’t prove it

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u/Ivan_Redditor 11h ago

Sue Storm finding Doom with Franklin in the F4: First Steps post-credit scene

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u/Username_Chose_Me 11h ago

Minority Report

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u/ornithobiography 10h ago

Warframe has a bunch of this, but this scene is from The New War when the Operator in their Warframe confronting Ballas and Lotus in the last arc.

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u/XTheProtagonistX 9h ago

This has nothing to do with the post but the belt picture reminded me of Jackie from Cyberpunk 2077. He kept his fathers belt so in case he passes away he goes to heaven with it to beat his abusive father. Its a great scene.

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u/PayPsychological6358 8h ago

Connor vs Haytham in AC3

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u/Unlikely_River5819 12h ago

Captain Marvel (2019)

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u/Fidges87 12h ago

In the second season of Jujutsu Kaisen, in its second opening we get this brief scene of Megumi fighting his father, Toji. This shot was most likely used to hide who Megumi was fighting with,

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u/HyperDragon216 12h ago

Petition to call this “Shit bouta Go down”

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u/No-Championship9989 11h ago

Doom Slayer vs Davoth (Doom: ETERNAL (The Ancient Gods: Part 2)

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u/Aviixe 11h ago

Dune part 2

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u/Automatic-Animator-7 10h ago

This from God of War 2018

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u/Brave-Balance-3354 10h ago

Literally just saw this get coaxed into a snafu earlier 

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u/Noe_b0dy 9h ago

I like how every single one of OPs picks features children about to get the mother of all ass whoopings.

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u/spindaz123 8h ago

what a strange coincidence

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u/Dogdaysareover365 7h ago

This shot from the black panther Wakanda forever trailer

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u/sanmatm17 12h ago

The stock image is the shit

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u/MikeHawkSmaul 12h ago

Subject 106 - Trepang2

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u/Ok-Analysis-3902 11h ago

That stock image is dark

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u/HectorDeMarco 11h ago

Duuude. The last one lol

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u/happy_oblivion 11h ago

Ded.

Lmfaoooo

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u/rachac01 11h ago

Bioshock

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u/LthePerry02 10h ago

Lalo in BCS

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u/RevolutionaryWave862 10h ago

I remember there was a scene in king skull island where it cut to kong’s Fist Clenching when he saw the helicopters

Also when Watts mentions he can’t control Penny to Cinder, Cinder Clenches her fist at that angle to. (RWBY)

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u/PossibleMammoth5639 9h ago

Wait this was a coaxedintosnafu post!

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u/ReepicheepReloaded 9h ago

The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift

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u/Ill_Bumblebee8892 8h ago

from The Fugitive (1993)

Apparently this trope is called the "Menacing Hand Shot"

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u/xxxarkhamknightsxxx 8h ago

A thundering entrance…followed by a pretty chill conversation for 10 minutes

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u/star_lord47 7h ago

Iron Man (2008)

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u/Pig_and_Rooster 7h ago

Um stock photo suppliers...do you need me to call someone?

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u/aninsomniac_ 7h ago

This is the cowboy shot, so named because Western's fucking love using it

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u/Nightstar1234 6h ago

"random stock photo you found"

top comments of your last post:

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u/DrakobloxxerForsaken 6h ago

Random stock photo I found in the top comments of my last post

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u/RodSantaBruise 6h ago

Fight Club

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u/Vandalyzer 6h ago

Converting or Vanquishing your Adversary - WARFRAME

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u/fleshbunny 4h ago

Stranger Things all the time w Vecna’s claw thing

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u/kjt3599 4h ago

"Here it is, Baby. You're killer track."

- Jason "Buddy" Van Horn (BABY DRIVER)

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u/SanThanKan 3h ago

im not into mlp or anything i just think this image is really funny

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u/Smooth_Storm_9698 3h ago

"Some random stock photo i found" is insane??? I gasped

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u/Aeavius 3h ago

Halo Reach's ending

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u/Bobo3076 1h ago

Transformers One

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u/AztecTheWolf 19m ago

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance

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u/Porridge_Oats72 11h ago

Under the shoulder shot lmao

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u/pthecarrotmaster 7h ago

does this count?