Close
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Too Powerful to Live: Chaos 2 flipped its way to become Champion in Series 3 and 4 with often minimal damage and effort, and came close to repeating the feat in Series 5.
Source: Series / Robot Wars - There's even a flashbang grenade that does minimal damage but stuns enemies/allies (or the player who throws it too close to themself) with this effect.
Source: Shell-Shock Silence -
He correctly deduces that by getting close to the torpedoes shortly after they've fired, he can catch them while their safeties are still on and ram them with minimal damage.
Source: Film / The Hunt for Red October
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