Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-158.125.243.29-20150329080244/@comment-4010415-20150329180828

50.187.186.150 wrote: Just a few thoughts. Chainsaws actually are pretty much useless as weapons IRL. They're designed to saw through wood, not chop through flesh. Also, Weiss called her outfit a combat skirt, maybe it's made out of kevlar. Of course IRL if say Shaquille O'Neil grabbed Emma Watson by they face and slammed her into floor as hard as the White Fang Lieutenant did to Weiss, poor Emma would either be dead of have to learn the joys of being a brain damaged quadraplegic. Not that this would ever happen, it's just the best real life examples of the size difference between Weiss & the Lt I could think of. And scythes like Ruby's are extremely impractical weapons in real life.

And katanas (or whatever the hell kind of sword Adam wields) can't cut dozens of robots in half in real life.

And nunchuck guns would be an absolutely horrible idea in real life. I'm not even sure how Sun shoots them while spinning them.

And people can't bash their way straight through multiple trees using nothing but a small shield in real life, but Pyrrha did it as her landing strategy.

And umbrellas/parasols make terrible shields against fiery blasts in real life.

The weapons and such that the characters use are designed to actually be practical and useful for taking down any kind of enemy in their world. We can't exactly apply our logic to their weapons.