![]() ![]() For sadly for all you would-be action heroes out there, rendering someone unconscious is a far more complicated – and dangerous – business than Hollywood would have you believe. More likely they would wake up with an incapacitating headache, a severe concussion, or not even wake up at all. …only no, no they wouldn’t – at least not in real life. And so in the course of the battle our hero is struck over the head and knocked unconscious, only to come to a few hours later – a bit dazed, but otherwise fully alert and ready to make their daring escape and finally defeat the villain. He would rather capture our hero alive and subject them to a more elaborate and exotic death involving giant lasers or a tank full of sharks. ![]() Equally fortunate for our hero, the villain also doesn’t like to kill – at least not right away. Or if all else fails, there’s always the good old-fashioned knockout blow to the head. They could shoot them with a tranquilizer dart, or come in closer to administer chloroform or knock-out gas. Whatever the case, thankfully they have plenty of options for simply knocking out the henchmen. Or perhaps like MacGyver or Batman our hero has an aversion to guns or tries to avoid killing as much as possible. Perhaps this is a stealth mission, and gunfire would attract too much attention. But despite being gifted with the obligatory perfect aim and bottomless magazines, for one reason or another our hero can’t simply charge in guns blazing. At the climax of the story, our hero must infiltrate the villain’s lair, which is guarded by a small army of gun-wielding henchmen. ![]()
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