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#55: Eye for an Eye
Nominator: @Snake5555555555 (4/5 remaining)
Character: Deathstroke
Source Material: Injustice: Gods Among Us

Scores:
Aesthetics: 4
Dominance: 4
Damn: 4
Total Score: 12/30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eexBJ0eHTtM

This move gets up here for one part and one part alone: the backflip into kicking the sword into the other guy's chest. That is awesome.

The guns actually detract from the move! If you're going to do something acrobatic and badass like "backflip kick a sword into another guy," don't surround it with mediocre gunshots we've seen a million other times. The guns are distractions from the reason we're here. Now, I know this is Deathstroke, and we can't very well fail to include guns in his arsenal, but they should be as inspired and performative as his sword work. Some ideas off the top of my head:

• Use the pistols to shoot his enemy in the foot, staggering them in a more intuitive manner for him to aim his sword backflip.
• Shoot the sword with the SMGs to drive it through the enemy.
• Hit the enemy in the kneecaps after the sword is in them, then calmly walk over to yank the sword out.

Speaking of which, where the hell does that sword go when the move is over? The answer appears to be "it gets out of the enemy's chest and back in Deathstroke's possession somehow and please don't pay attention to this," but it's a real immersion killer to see such a flagrant flaw in choreography.

With a few concept changes and idiot-proofing, this could have been a top contender. Alas, it is doomed to mediocrity.

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