The real world tends to get downplayed enormously in just about every thread involving it due to the board's general lack of knowledge of physics, history, and economics, but one of the weirdest trends tends to pop up in threads where morale and psychology are factors. For some reason it is often argued that the mere idea of something fictional (these threads usually act like soldiers never consume fiction and that none already believe in the supernatural) is so scary that hardened soldiers would simply soil themselves at the site and run while the fictional thing will never be scared of, say, a wall of explosions followed by invisible projectiles that instantly tear them in half from the other side of a town. The terror of war itself, whether in its ancient form where you likely witnessed your friend being beaten to death or slowly dying of a gangrenous infection, or in its modern form where you're basically being watched 100% of the time by flying robots that can reduce you to a pile of limbs in your sleep without being seen by either raining hellfire from the clouds or designating you for strikes by guns in another city, are presumed to be nothing in comparison.
What's even stranger is that the thing being favorably compared to the real world in intimidation factor is usually the absolutely most basic bitch stuff like "fantasy chimera animal", "zombie", "ugly humanoid with horns and fangs or something", or "g-g-g-ghost!", and that this argument is near-universally made with franchises targeted primarily at children.
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in a multiversal sense anyways
