i feel like the tmc community (including myself until last night) doesn't understand how ridiculously powerful a desert eagle is so i'm rambling about it under the cut (tw: a lot of talk about mark's death/su*c*de, guns, and gore)
okay so first off i've seen a LOT of people talk about how these are way bigger than your typical handgun shell:
and they're right! these are the shells of a .50ae caliber bullet, the largest a handgun can have (legally, at least) and these are what desert eagles use.
(.50 cal bullet on the far right)
i could ramble on about calibers and number and shit but basically its just a very big, very powerful bullet.
the reason i'm talking about this is because wanted to know what mark's body would actually look like, and since his head is censored in canon i had to do my own research.
and i found this! this is a video by a bulletproof vest company, and the part that's important to this post is at 58 seconds in, when they shoot a ballistic dummy (meant to simulate human bones, flesh, and organs) with a desert eagle in the head.
((there's more videos out there about what a deagle can do (watermelons, FRIDGES, pork ribs, etc.) but this one is the most relevant.))
and the head fucking explodes. the entire top half of the skull is reduced to shrapnel and chunks. the brain just falls out. i was expecting a big hole in the head, not half of it getting completely obliterated. one thing to note is that mark probably had the gun against his temple at point-blank, and in the video the bullet seems to enter at where the nose would be and is from several feet away, and since i'm not an expert i don't know if that changes anything (bullet holes are bigger at exit than at entry) but its still impressively ludicrous how powerful this gun is.
which is why i think its scarier that mark had a fucking deagle, one of the most overpowered handguns to exist, and he STILL couldn't kill an alternate. and if you count the bullet shells on his bed in vol 333, there are more than seven (i counted 11, but its hard to see clearly). either way its fucked up that alternates can withstand one .50cal shot, let alone multiple. imagine having a weapon that powerful and it does jackshit. tmc is about hopelessness at its core and this shit really is just the cherry on top.
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