Put to
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In Half-Life, the Tau Cannon has enough recoil to send a player across the map and is put to good use in the fastest speedruns.
Source: Recoil Boost - Occasionally, though, it was put to very good effect, such as Renet's unexpected appearance in Juliet's Revenge or Splinter being able to send a devastating psychic strike at the bad guy from several miles away in the last part of the River trilogy.
Source: Deus Ex Machina / Comic Books - In every FIFA World Cup, any team for a sincerely passionate soccer nation who gets eliminated (especially if they lose in a shameful way) will send its entire trusting nation into the abyss of grieving, given how much trust they have put to this very team that fails to bring home their glory.
Source: Downer Ending / Other
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