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Prince Rupert's Drop Gameplay vs Cutscenes Meme

This meme uses the well-known physical properties of a Prince Rupert's drop (a shaped piece of toughened glass created by dropping molten glass into cold water) to mock a common video game trope. The thick, extremely durable bulbous head of the glass drop is labeled as 'Main Character during gameplay', representing how player characters can survive massive amounts of damage and countless fights during interactive gameplay. The extremely thin, fragile tail of the drop is labeled 'Main Character during cutscenes', joking that main characters become inexplicably weak and easily captured or injured during non-interactive cutscenes immediately after surviving impossible odds during gameplay.
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Overview

This meme uses the well-known physical properties of a Prince Rupert's drop (a shaped piece of toughened glass created by dropping molten glass into cold water) to mock a common video game trope. The thick, extremely durable bulbous head of the glass drop is labeled as 'Main Character during gameplay', representing how player characters can survive massive amounts of damage and countless fights during interactive gameplay. The extremely thin, fragile tail of the drop is labeled 'Main Character during cutscenes', joking that main characters become inexplicably weak and easily captured or injured during non-interactive cutscenes immediately after surviving impossible odds during gameplay.

Origin notes

This meme originated from a Reddit post with the original title 'Prince Rupert's drops? Anyone?'. It is an original user-created meme that repurposes the famous physics demonstration of Prince Rupert's drops to create gaming-related humor about a common video game storytelling trope.

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