Most messed up piece of canon from your childhood interests

[CandiCame]

So I can't sleep and I'm doing that thing where I'm just thinking of fucked up shit, and my brain just went, "Hey isn't it fucked up how everybody in Star Fox cuts their legs off?"

So when I was a kid I had this video game, Star Fox 64. The game is about a team of military fighter pilots in the Andross system, a star system full of alien planets inhabited by various aliens that look like anthropomorphic animals. You fly your airplane/spaceship around shooting stuff.

In this game it is explicitly stated that amputating your legs makes you better at doing this. Like there's something about blood pressure or something, but it is explicitly stated, in-game that if you want to be a fighter pilot, part of that is when you go into the army they cut your legs off. This is considered, within the canon of the games, to be common and nobody is weirded out by it.

Idk I just go to thinking how fuckin weird that is. That can't possibly be true in the real world because pilots don't... I mean I don't think pilots cut their legs off? Is that a thing?

And it's not just that one game. In the whole starfox series, that's a thing. You wanna be a pilot, you cut off your legs.

So my question is: What are some things from your childhood that you realize at 4am are kinda messed up?

And also, does cutting your legs off make you a better pilot?

Pictures of Star Fox:

https://www.justpushstart.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/star-fox-64.jpg

It was remade for the WiiU, and in the better graphics you get a much better look at the robot legs:

https://img.fireden.net/v/image/1538/82/1538824718798.png

Cover art of the SNES game:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/52/Star_Fox_SNES.jpg/220px-Star_Fox_SNES.jpg

Character mode from the most recent game:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Fox_Mccloud.png/220px-Fox_Mccloud.png

The game explicitly states that this is because it makes you a better fighter pilot to not have legs. Like that's the in-game reason for this. I just can't imagine that's true.

Now because it's a prosthetic, in some of the costumes he will wear normal pants, like he's not always got his pants tucked INTO the robot leg, but those are always alternate costumes, so the default costume is always robot legs on full display which is also weird. Like real people with robot legs just wear normal pants. and when the characters wear normal pants you can't tell that they're not flesh and blood legs.

https://en.wikifur.com/w/images/8/86/FoxAssault.jpg

Idk. I just don't know why this is a thing and why nobody thought, "That's kinda fucked up."

 

[Jada59]

That's kind of messed up.

I used to light candles. In those days, the wicks had a metal wire inside and as the wick burned down, it would release little metal balls.

I would watch the wax melt, then when enough had melted, I would stick my fingers in it, slightly burning them, then let cool and peel off to see my fingerprints. I would also use a toothpick to pick out the metal balls; I just thought that was kind of cool. The odd thing is, my parents never noticed me doing this or at least never stopped me from doing it.

 

[Kantarii]

Can’t sleep? That sucks. Here’s something for you to watch for a laugh.

https://youtu.be/fXsOqt2aRNw

Kant

 

[CandiCame]

That's kind of messed up.

I used to light candles. In those days, the wicks had a metal wire inside and as the wick burned down, it would release little metal balls.

I would watch the wax melt, then when enough had melted, I would stick my fingers in it, slightly burning them, then let cool and peel off to see my fingerprints. I would also use a toothpick to pick out the metal balls; I just thought that was kind of cool. The odd thing is, my parents never noticed me doing this or at least never stopped me from doing it.

They still make metal wicks. I make candles and those are for the big-ass candles. It helps them stay upright when most of the candle is liquid, in situations where pure cotton would be more likely to sink into the wax.

 

[CleanScrota]

I started at 4 frying pollywogs with a magnifying glass.