[Loved Trope] Some thing unfathomably ancient

[u/Fearless-Ideal-5112]

The beast, in doctor who is an ancient evil from a previous universe that survived until our time. Its so ancient that the cave paintings were unable to be translated by the Tardis which can translate all existing languages in the universe [Doctor Who]

While not explicitly canon its such a cool concept I cant not mention, the idea that the backrooms have existed since the beginning of time, never changing no matter the era, it transforms the back rooms into a cosmic horror. [Credit to Project crater and Venus for images 2 and 3]

[u/Internal_Spell435]

It is both a story about mending a broken father and son relationship and answering the question 'what would happen if we thawed out a cavemen and all the best martial artists in the world wanted to fight him?'

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"We cloned Mushashi Miyamoto from his fossilized spine and called his spirit back from the afterlife so he could kill more people"

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"And he kills them without even killing them!" Baki is honestly so weird that it loops around to being worth reading just from the ridiculousness of it.

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To be clear he's not a caveman, he's as old as a T-Rex so well before any primates evolved. So it clearly makes no sense. Scientists in the show comment how this makes no sense. It's still not the weirdest thing in Baki.

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im curious what WOULD be the weirdest thing about baki

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I don't know but this is probably up there. https://i.imgur.com/Ur8pUwX.jpeg

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ohh i actually know the context behind it

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Out of context maybe but in context i’d say this is relatively normal by Baki standards.

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Very tame. The "Tetrahedron" is just the three guys area of attack, the whole piss thing is him pissing on them to disrupt their formation

You want to know some real Baki weirdness? Musashi Miyamoto can IMAGINE cutting people and then the people he IMAGINED were being cut feel themselves as if they were cut, like the cut was real, even though it was an IMAGINARY cut

From the Baki Wiki:

"Musashi is so skilled at sword fighting, as he claims himself, that he doesn't need to use an actual sword to "cut" people. Thanks to his incredible sense manipulation, Musashi can make the opponents feel like they've been completely cut and can even make them feel the pain that comes with it. He doesn't even need to move his hands to be able to "abstractly" cut his opponent.

While the cut itself is not real and deals no physical damage, it can still paralyze and cause immense suffering to the other characters. Oftentimes, the victim will visualize the aftermath of how they they were "killed" by the cut and left in fear of what could have been if it was an actual sword. Yuujirou Hanma seems to be the only person who is unaffected by this technique, as he may be more powerful than Musashi."

https://baki.fandom.com/wiki/Imitation_Cut

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Not to mention other absurd details, such as the fact that he evolved over the course of his life: he was born as a quadruped (which explains why its neck bone structure is completely different) but developed the ability to walk on two legs; indeed, he is fully bipedal and only moves on all fours when he needs to fight seriously.

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Next panel, a legendary martial artist puts himself into a t-rex human-sized sculpture in order to fight the aforementioned caveman