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Originally posted by Sado22
dude, mcclane isn't half as good a shooter as Mariachi. you're going anal over him getting one good shot with the element of surprise on his side in DH but you're ignoring Mariachi killing every single gunmen in a fortress where they were waiting for him with a submachine guns and had their guns pointed at him. Mariachi killed ALL of them in a straight up gun fight. he did that again in the beginning of once upon a time in mexico. not to mention the bar scene in Desperado where he killed every one with on his own despite them carrying submachine guns like Mach10. more ofthen than not, Mariachi is the one single handedly taking down entire fortresses by himself but without the element of surprise unlike some crispie cream lucky shooter from new york.but yeah, given mcclane's luck....mariachi's bullet jams on him at the perfect time while, Lulu from Fifth Element comes from out of nowhere and breaks his neck. and we're obviously counting that given that its mac's most potent weapon.
~Sado
Its an asset, true, but every example you can pick with McClane being lucky, the luck is only another ingredient, as aI said in another thread, what you you think would have happened to Mcclane on that roof, if he hadnt wrapped a hose round himself and dived off of the side...? Would his luck have saved him against that massive c4 explosion if he just sat there on the roof just rubbing a four leaf clover and praying...?
Nope.
McClane makes a lot of his own luck.
Heh. His movies are replete with killings that werent ambushes and where there are no surprise atctics, so thats just wrongfully dismissive.
And McClane has wasted rooms full of better trained people than a half cut buncha thugs and sub-lackeys.