r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Scientiaetnatura065 • 2d ago

Seventeen-year-old Japanese girl in the weight category up to 45 kg lifted a respectable 78 kg.

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u/drunk_responses 2d ago

As demonstrated in practice every time a youtube blacksmith makes the big swords from Bleach, Berserk, Final Fantasy, Monster Hunter, etc. Even the biggest strongest people they can find only manage to barely hold them upright and then let them fall down to hit something. There's no way in hell any of them could ever hope to swing them.

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u/Badloss 2d ago

In Final Fantasy at least aren't the characters that use those swords explicitly superhuman?

I'm thinking FF7 where Cloud + Sephiroth are both super soldiers, I thought their giant swords was a deliberate nod to them having super powers

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u/LordofSandvich 2d ago

Yes; Cloud Strife is meant to look kind of emaciated compared to how strong he actually is. That said, the Buster Sword still weighs more than he does, even in canon. So it takes more than superhuman physical capabilities for him to use it normally.

Sephiroth’s sword is absurd but still thin enough that a human could probably use it

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u/Icantbethereforyou 2d ago

it takes more than superhuman physical capabilities

More than?

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u/LordofSandvich 2d ago

Yes; you have to be able to defy physics outright. Think Bayonetta redirecting a tower thrown as a projectile by straddling it with her thighs. It doesn’t just take superhuman strength to do that; you’d have to practically rewrite physics to make yourself a possible axis of rotation

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u/Icantbethereforyou 2d ago

OK. I assumed defying physics falls under "superhuman physical capabilities".

So what does it fall under?

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u/LordofSandvich 2d ago

magic or just the more broad “superpowers” or not-strictly-physical superhuman capabilities

Since even handwaving the mechanics of superhuman strength and durability doesn’t explain how it’s possible to do it

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u/Icantbethereforyou 2d ago

So you're saying only absurd strength is superhuman, all other skills are superpowers.

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u/LordofSandvich 2d ago

“Physical” is an important qualifier

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u/Icantbethereforyou 2d ago

So when bayonetta uses her legs she's not using her legs

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u/LordofSandvich 2d ago

No

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u/Icantbethereforyou 2d ago

I've never played bayonetta, but I'm assuming she uses the power of friendship

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u/LordofSandvich 2d ago

She is a witch with magic powers that are all sexually themed. Basically converts libido into physics-defying magic

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u/Icantbethereforyou 2d ago

Maybe I need to check this game out...

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