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Originally Posted by AdAstra2009
That right there negates the BFG on IMFDB, even the film version.
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But the thing is,
Doom is a movie
full of real weapons with extremely heavy visual modifications, including an M1919 turned into a portable gatling gun. The idea that the BFG prop is another one is hardly left-field given what it's surrounded by. And, as I said before, what a movie weapon is shown firing is no indicator of whether it's real or not, just whether it's really firing.
The point is, the BFG article elborates on the history of the prop and the things it's based on, in a manner that wouldn't be appropriate in the main article. It can't be argued that it's potentially misleading, since the others are clearly not real weapons nor based on real weapons, and it says the BFG is fictional in the opening paragraph. It is perhaps a unique case of an utterly fictional videogame weapon ending up as a semi-believable prop [I can't offhandedly think of another, certainly] but that's all the more reason to include such information.
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Originally Posted by AdAstra2009
The Eraser EM-1 fired off aluminum bullets or something along those lines according to what i've read so some people could conceivably think it was a real gun.
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What it actually fired was an obviously fake trail of swirly...stuff. See here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHoIMBXKSos
Worth watching just for Arnie's 'well, who needs physics anyway' moment at the end.
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Originally Posted by MT2008
Anyway, we can't set the precedent that we allow these kinds of pages just because somebody put work into them.
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But according to MPM, that
is the precident as per
Einhander, and such a change in precident would also require the deletion of some extremely interesting movie trivia not directly related to real firearms, such as the bonus section on non-weapon special effects in the
Terminator 2 article.