Pick
Take down
Take down verb - To reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes.
Both terms in one sentence
- Pick any Super Hero movie and chances are, that one hero will be the only character in that universe with the powers/gadgets to take down the many supervillains that pop up.
Source: The Only One - Later, Doc uses that rifle to pick off an alien that's about to take down Colonel Dolarhyde.
- One of the easiest ways to take down any Big Daddy is the so-called DoomCan method: find any sufficiently large object (usually a trash can, hence the name), stick lots and lots of proximity mines on it, pick it up with the Telekinesis plasmid, and toss it at a Big Daddy.
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