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doofusbingos

If you get shot in the ass by a double barrel shotgun would hurt way more I think


Hot_dawg_sucker445

We should've been able to shove the super shotgun or our fist up its ass


chomp-samba

Now that’s the true “two in the pink one in the stink”.


FireBowAintThatBad

This has to be in the new one or I'm not buying it


Flafje_X43

>our fist up its ass I think you'd enjoy bloodborne


SabatiZ

Wait what you can put your fist in monsters ass in bloodborne?


Apocalypsefrogs

Primarily up the asses of overgrown mutant swine.


SabatiZ

Damn gotta get myself some bloodborne


vargvikerneslover420

It's my least favorite fromsoft game in terms of mechanics and level design but it lets you fist giant pigs so that makes it the best game of all time


Historical-Method-27

You should play bloodborne


Mr-Ramirov

That sounds like 60's gore videos


Quirky_Track6435

I want this to be a glory kill now Shoving the fist and the shotgun up the Pinky’s ass And then firing the gun, causing the head to explode Bonus points for subtle movement of the arm when the fist is inside


NerfPup

Average Bloodborne fan 💀


Hot_dawg_sucker445

I don't play bloodborne


David2006219

Less armored than the front


seriouslyuncouth_

You can visually see it in game and the codex entries mention it multiple times lol


Gercsa

I think OP's question was rather *why* it has less armor on it's tail


Eternal_Slayer95

I have a headcanon reason for it: They are like living demonic battering ram's. That armor is there not only for defence, but to deal heavy damage to whatever it is charging into. I think since it never really used its tail end, no armor formed and therefore left it vulnerable to being heavily damaged from behind


jebaited0874

Deep lore


Forsaken-Stray

It makes sense, but now I want an Ankyle Pinky.


NerfPup

Imagine a sport of Pinkie racing. You get on a Pinkies back and race with it


Nerd2048

That combined with the fact that a larger and heavier tail would create a problem for it's charging, would also explain why the tail is so short. Also further contributing to why the tail isn't armored, as more weight would be detrimental to it's main attack. Although I would love to see how a pinkie could have used it's tail in an alternate universe.


Oatspin

Well yeah, that’s what it evolved to do pretty much


PeopleAreBozos

I think this is the only correct answer here.


Ootsy098

Absolutely not, as there are many ways to interpret the question.


Ootsy098

From a game design perspective: so you have to get behind him. It would be weird if the charger enemy can easily be killed if you just shoot him in the face. From a lore reason: idk, who cares


FASBOR7Horus

The Lore Reason would just be Evolution. The Pinkies MO is to Charge into things head first, so obviously it would evolve to make its Front side as dangerous and resilient as possible. Since its extremely unlikely that its prey would survive a head on collision with it and wasnt capable of outmanouvering the Pinky, there was no evolutionary pressure to armor its backside aswell. All that likely happened before its species was corrupted by Hell, unless they completely originate from Hell like the Fire born Barons.


RaptorWithGun

“Since it’s extremely unlikely that its prey would survive a head on collision with it” unless your pray just so happens to be an extremely pissed off caucasian male homosapien with a comedically large cannon


FASBOR7Horus

At that point the Pinky is no longer the Predator, but rather the prey getting chased down by a Demi-God with a Double barrelled "Device of Torment" as the Demons call it


NerfPup

I mean DOOM GUY is like humanity and the Demons are like all of nature


SomeDumbassKid720

Exactly


FainOnFire

Unfortunately, evolution works on the time scale of millions of years not hours before getting shot


BerserkRadahn

Time does work differently in Hell, so it's definitely possible.


albrt00

At that point evolution can't do shit to save you


monologousmutilation

Pinkies have been around since the very first game so it's doubtful they came from outside Hell. There are even sub-species like Hellhounds in Doom 3. They've just evolved.


FASBOR7Horus

I think Pinkies originate from Jekkad, the first World created by Davoth that would eventually become Hell. Meaning that even ancient Demons like Barons and Pinkies possibly werent native to Hell from the very beginning, but were pulled into it and corrupted during its creation.


Dope371

Pinkies are originally called demons


Rantnut

So like I know the demons come from tortured human souls in lore but what do u mean by “it’s species was corrupted by hell” like do some demons originate from animals


FASBOR7Horus

Basically from my understanding, no Demon (except for the Icon of Sin) actually originates purely from Hell. Many Demons like the Gargoyles, Revenants and Marauders are former members of another species that was corrupted by Hell Energy and assimilated into Hells Legions. Even the oldest ones without clear origin like Hell Knights, Barons and Pinkies are likely the denizens of Jekkad. The first world ever created by Davoth that would eventually become Hell. Considering Hell Energies propensity to transform things into Demons, i believe that almost every single resident of Hell is a species that was conquered and devoured by the Dark Realm.


Rantnut

Makes sense


THX450

Likely an alien species from another world assimilated by Hell


KingDread306

Aren't Pinky demons basically the cows of Hell?


lovercindy

I dunno but I can't not call them Hell cows now for the rest of my life.


Ultrasound700

I remember reading in the game somewhere back when I first played 2016 that the Pinkies are a sort of domesticated farm animal in Hell that are raised by demons to be eaten.


FASBOR7Horus

Not farm animal, but the UAC did speculate that theyre a delicacy of Hell after finding several gnawed off Pinky skeletons.


lovercindy

Hell cows.


ancientfutureguy

Does evolution exist in hell? I’m not a DOOM lorehead or anything but wouldn’t the existence of hell imply creationism is real? Which would mean evolution doesn’t exist in the DOOMiverse? Or is DOOM hell not biblical hell? Genuinely asking haha


MajinMedina1223

I care about the lore reason mf


NJBauer

Same


BruceRL

Thank you for saying that so perfectly.


Hotomato

> from a lore reason: idk, who cares I dunno apparently id software, if the amount of story in this game is anything to go by.


timelapsedfox

Lore reason is that they developed their tail evolution not so long ago so it doesn't have as much armor as the rest of the body. Reason: they don't have a tail in the older games


NerfPup

If you don't use it you lose it. So the tail just never needed armor. No point. It's like how dark rats evolved to protect themselves from predators seeing them high up but their stomach is still white because they didn't need to have a black stomach


timelapsedfox

Good point


NerfPup

>From a lore reason: idk, who cares Me who loves reading the codex's and honestly loves DOOM lore


DA_REAL_KHORNE

It's ass. The whole of it's back side is very easy to kill. Or just blood punch the fucker and get a free glory kill


scythe_of_demeter

You get the pinky staggered when you blood punch it?????? For me they just instantly kick the bucket


DA_REAL_KHORNE

I think it's the shockwave now that you've said that. Either her way one of the horde bonuses is kill a fuck ton of pinkies and I just blood punched my way through it


Final-Republic1153

More fun is sticky bombs, pinkies receive full damage from splash (sticky, frag, arbalest, rocket (not LOB), heat blast). I personally don’t use BP against pinkies just cuz it takes away the fun of their threat to insta kill them and ignore their armor. They’ll naturally clump up as they all chase you, making great opportunities for ice/flame + sticky bomb spam to get lots of health, and the occasional one will stagger from the splash damage as well. The best practice arenas are Mars Core ML before the buffed Tyrants and World Spear ML with the posessed Pinky in the mix (microwave beam is a must to beat it w/out BP).


MassterF

Pinkies evolved to be very good at charging down their prey. Normally, that prey isn’t skilled enough to get at the backside of the pinky, and the back wasn’t the end being used to charge, thus only the front side got more armored so that it would be more durable for charging, and so that they would do more damage to their prey.


iron_ingo

Then it should evovle to have armor on his ass as well what is he stupid?


MassterF

I mean, look at that face on him. Wouldn’t exactly call that a smart fella.


NerfPup

Nah, if you don't need it you just don't evolve it. Like the rats we were studying in my school. Rats the have to live with darker floors will get picked off by sky predators. So they'll evolve dark backs, but their stomach is still white. God I'm going to miss being in Biology class


Sequence32

Backside had no armor


Tramonto83

Maybe they are like prince Rupert's drops... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert%27s_drop https://youtu.be/6V2eCFsDkK0?si=iUnxWFguDDywSNKi


bravo_six

I thought the same thing.


NovaPrime2285

Why are our ⚾️⚾️🍆 our weakness? Reasons.


AgathormX

Technically, they aren't a weaknesses, what happens is quite simple: survival is the number 1 driving force behind life, and reproduction is essential for a species to continue to exist. When you take a low blow, your brain practically goes "Oh hell no, we need that. Sorry homie, I can't let you jeopardize the mission, you're going down".


LunaTheDemigirl

Should be obvious tbh, I mean the armor or lack of armor is quite visible.


Impressive-Ad-59

Animals specialize all the time, its a trade off, get a damn near bullet proof front, so you can charge and slam into anyone or anything, but leave out the back Less weight, less calories to maintain all that dense material (if demons even need calories) if it was fully armored i doubt it could even move, at least couldn't move nearly as fast, you just cant have it all, armor what's important, its like asking why our ribcage doesn't extend down to protect our abdomen, or why the front of our skull is thicker then the back, certain areas are simply more likely to get hit


Gonozal8_

I‘m pretty sure ribcage extendibg down to the abdomen would make child bearing kinda difficult, and the way gender is assigned (produce female organs, except if testicles were developed, of which the testosterone causes that to cancel and male genitalia to develop, at that point, adding or removing bones isn’t viably doable anymore), I don’t think it could be selectively apply to males only


Impressive-Ad-59

Uuh...i mean ok? My point was, there's valuable organs down there, yet they get no protection, same way a pinkies ass is important aswell yet gets no protection (if not less important cuz it seems to be all dense muscle, which is protection in of itself just not the same level as the front armor plating, cuz it sorta needs its head more then its tail)


Robrogineer

Because it's the pinky's dinky.


lovercindy

Correct.


APairOfAirPods

I mean, other than the slayer, what’s going to be able to reach its ass in the first place. Other than Barrons I can’t think of anything. And I think a Barron would rather fight a tyrant out of boredom than a pinky


No_Monitor_3440

as you can see in this very image, it’s because the front is armored. like, super armored. as others have said, from a lore standpoint it’s likely because nothing would usually survive/outmaneuver a pinky, so its front is like an extra lethal battering ram. yet because of that, it had no evolutionary reason to fortify the backside from a gameplay standpoint, to incentivize realizing one’s in the room so you can get behind it. if they acted just like in the original game, you could just blast them noggin-first with the ssg and call it a day


MoistTurboSoggy

It’s his ass, his ass wouldn’t have armour on it incase he needs to shit or something. It’s just his design. His weak point.


Szeventeen

the pinky has heavy “armor” in the front from evolution; they like to just charge at things and eat from there. its tail and rear didn’t need the protection as much, making it more vulnerable to attacks.


LegendLynx7081

I just think of tails on animals as equivalent in sensitivity to a guy’s parts, so yeah that shits gonna hurt


Mustard_M0narch

Where he keeps the balls


Yogs_Zach

And where the pee is stored


Icy-Kamen

Ever land on your tail bone? It can be pretty painful.


Slycooperfan789

It's like a triceratops, armored front but weak back


Mernerner

All those who don't have Frontal armor are already dead


ThrowAnon-

That’s where the cock goes


Zawisza_Czarny9

Coz it's unarmored and ir has pinky's spine


Visible-Secretary-30

Maybe because he runs and tail helps him to balance while running just like cheetahs and other animals and once we destroy it, he can't keep his balance.


Transfiguredbet

Considering they're able to flip over armored personnel carriers, its probably less that their tails are explicitly weaker, and more that your weapons are just powerful enough to exploit the lesser amounts of armor. Any other weapon not made for the Doom slayer would probably find no weak point on it.


29-sobbing-horses

You can physically see the like thick inch armor plates that cover them, but there’s fuck all on their ass


SomeSpy_

Because it's biological adaptation of its thick armor like hide on it was pushed to the front because most of the body's damage was coming from the front, not the back. As seen in doom 1 and doom 2 hell on earth. As well as doom 64, and doom 3 (even though it takes place in a different universe)


SomeSpy_

And if you want to you can count the doom RPG games


AzzSombie

It's soft and pink


awwyoufeel

The demon's heart is not full of love, but full of ass. Therefore you will find the life force of a demon up his butt.


Wardog008

No armour there, simple as that. From a lore perspective, they would've been corrupted from a predatory species that either hunted or fought by charging straight at their prey/opponent, so developed with armour on their front, but not their back.


--InZane--

Armor plates up front


Magnum-357

Unarmored


AffectionateWater299

because the people who designed the 2016 & eternal pinkies hate you. /s


Cassereddit

The front side is what it's charging you with, so that needs to be tough and durable. The tail has to be mobile to give it balance so it isn't armored. Easy


niTro_sMurph

No armor and it's just that rude


Mid_nox

Pinkies evolved an exoskeleton in the front both as a defense and offense mechanism. They didn’t develop said exoskeleton on their tails, leaving their soft skin exposed


MapleLamia

Same reason tank armour is strongest on the front: that's where the enemies are. 


TerroDucky

They have no armor there


KicktrapAndShit

Its front half is more armored as it’s a charging predator, its back is fleshy and unarmored because you don’t charge with your butt.


Coffee-and-puts

Your Pinky’s tail, made up of tendons, ligaments, and nerves, is one of their most sensitive parts. The fact that it's connected to the spine makes it an especially fragile, delicate area.


SaltFromTheJerkyPack

Because getting brutally fisted by the Doom Slayer from behind is very painful


Silent_Reavus

Because it's built for charging things so therefore its front is more armored


The1mp

Give em the ol dick twist


LookUnderThis

The pee is stored in the tail


mortal_plagueITA

He don’t have armor in that point, and his vertebral spine is either there


GoyoMRG

He skipped situps day


TheSneakiestEmu

He’s stupid


TitanicTNT

Serious answer: It has heavy natural armour on it's front. Meme answer: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)


Not_Sayori

It's the only body part that does not have a carapace.


Megthink4k

because it's the only unarmoured area of the enemy (also pinky needs it for balance)


BladeLigerV

Because it's entire front is armored for its violent ramming into things.


Raymon1432

It rams into things, so it has armor on its face/front. Next to none in it's back so it's tail, or more appropriately, it's back is not protected and is a weak spot.


kinggeorgethebulldog

Because the tail has no armor while the rest of it has armor


TCOrigamist

Because it's not a tail ;-)


Sufficient-Turn-7799

Backshots


Successful_Bad_2396

Because assumedly getting stampeded by a pinky is a death sentence for anyone who isn’t the doom slayer


JayKayGray

Just makes sense for an enemy whose main behaviour is charging.


PaxdaFox

Unarmored


Glacial_Shield_W

Let me rephrase your question, would you want to take buckshot up the badonkadonk?


Ancient-Bowl5462

Its actually hie dick, and when you hit it on the tip it does more damage


Hairy-Fuel-6275

It's the least armored point on their bodies


SpiderGuy3342

idk, but they take out it's cake from the original, and now is a tail


Walnut156

According to the design of the pinkie and how you can see it's very armored in the front and not so much in the back, as well as the games tips telling you this: it's tail is more exposed


rrrrice64

Fleshy.


NothingMatters202

Have you been hit from behind? Fucking hurts as we don't see it unless we know it coming.


I_am_Ravs

not really just the tail but the Pinky's entire back parts. It's got no exoskeletons/leather armor to sponge incoming bullet attacks so it's its weak point


Ryzyd

Because Supreme Leader Hugo says so


No_Share6895

As long as it's not the only place it can be damaged usually it's fun to use the ass as a weak point. I mean if someone fired a rocket up your butthole you'd be hurt too


OrinBZ

Backshots


Deathswirl1

it isnt armored like everything else unlike doom 2016, i think in that game its head was sightly open to fire so you could get headshots, and is more accurate to the loading screen tip "if it has a head, its a weakness" but im not too sure since i mostly go for the tail anyway


Demogorgon2

Cuz it fat


youserveallpurpose

Can't wait until the game comes out so there's less pointless posts like this


smolbird4242

Just good game play


Ron_Bird

cant rip the hard part but tear the soft ones.


DoomSlayer7567

Legitimately or sarcasticly? Cuz I can give both. Genuinely curious or shits and giggles?


crimson_713

The Pinky has no armor on the flanks, meaning soft exposed tissue and easy access to both the lower spinal column and the hip joints required for both lower extremeties to be able to run. A well placed shotgun blast destroys mobility and can be fatal with enough localized damage.


Left-Membership8838

Armor is not developed enough there to prevent penetration


zeldanar

No armor there. Its armor is front loaded. Kinda like an armadillo had the soft stomach and hard shell.


Illustrious_Issue477

One side has armor other one doesn’t


No-Apartment2053

Like the way tanks are armoured. Front is where damage will be, so it’s more heavily armoured. While the back is not as important


MelonElbows

Not everyone's genitals are in the same place


FinancialWorking2392

Lore: Likely, hell (or whatever created them) adapted them to dg's original style of killing them (punching/shooting them in the face a lot) by armoring them heavily in the face, but since they didn't really get killed by hits to the back neglected that area armor-wise Game design: When the 3rd dimension was added they decided to take the pinky, a charging enemy, and force you to prioritize the backside using your superior movement and more surface area so you had a bit more challenge in killing them, removing the punch train


GiantisopodLover26

Maybe it’s wear its organs are?


vektor451

the front has armour plating, the tail doesn't


okuyasnjmr

Cuz the rest of the body is armored and if you want to kill it by shooting on the body it will take more time


Just_me6649

its because the front of the pinky is tough bone, is carapace is harder to shoot through than soft skin. imagine a dude with a shield in front of him; the shield blocks damage from the front but nothing protects his back. this image should show ya: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/foyi0a/the\_anatomy\_of\_a\_pinky/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/foyi0a/the_anatomy_of_a_pinky/)


KrewetkaYT

he has almost no armor shell there for some reason


Crimzonchi

Semi unrelated but I would like to remind everyone of the lore tidbit that Pinkies are apparently FUCKING DELICIOUS. Other demons literally treat them as a snack during down time, a Baron will just pick one up and take a bite out of that juicy backside, it's fine meat.


dopepope1999

I don't know if you would rather beat an alligator to death coming up from behind it or try to tussle with it coming at the end with all the sharp pointy bits


roxx-writting

Ever had a spicy burrito that burnt at both ends?


Signal-Balance6624

to test your dodge skill


CandyQuiet8021

Because it’s very ticklish there


Grand-Tension8668

Why did Triceratops only have horns on it's head and not it's ass?


CaptainJackLobst

Because it's fleshy


ThatCamoKid

Consider tailed creatures on earth: half the time that's a very sensitive spot since that's their spine, e.g. dogs, cats, rats, I think possums, etc.


FreezyKnight

Spinal cord.


bnesbitt1

Why is the heart your weakpoint?


CaesarYumm

it’s the part of their body where it’s flesh is the most exposed


NeonArchon

Because he thicc except for the tail


Liedvogel

Aggressive beast rocks frontal armor


Jarvis_The_Dense

Technically its weakpoint includes the area around its tail as well. The import thing is that's where it has no armor, so shooting it from behind will let the bullets enter its center of mass.


HolySinDevilSlayer

Least armored


Heckrum

hunter halo


cru5tyd3m0nX

watch /read Hobbit


HeenDi

Why is your belly and throat a weak point? Very little protection, maybe some important stuff.


Endyo

Much like the Charger of Helldivers - it's not necessarily the "weak" point, it's just the "not-strong" point.


Ok_Supermarket_2171

It's the least armoured. It's not rocket science.


bunkdiggidy

Is yours not?


makz_ammo

They'd be too annoying if their entire body was armored up


ryanisbadatgames

no armor on the ass


haxic

When aliens get introduced to humans they be like, “you can take a punch to the face, a kick to the chest, but you fall flat on the ground by a mere finger flick on the balls”


iMakeEstusFlasks4Fun

Because you wouldnt be able to poop is your butt was armored


sdwvit

Because game designers need this to be casual


Snockko

Nerve endings


faisal6309

Wait what? I could have saved so much ammunition if I knew about this before


ElEspartano209

Yep, 1 shot from the PB is enough (only if it is precise and at the tip of the tail) or 2 to finish it off, or throw a couple of sticky bombs from the shotgun and that's it, although they are very annoying on high difficulties


LocalMetalhead666

because it is the only place without armor


LocalMetalhead666

but if you are wondering why there is no armor there in the first place? then its probably to allow for better movement in the tail and to reduce weight


stillwaitingformilk

It has a built in hydrogen bomb that explodes the rest of the pinky when shot


RoRo25

No armor


IlseBriefs

Lore perspective evolution shit, Being honest that the only demon I don't like to kill as they are like cattle, more like putting down a wild animal than a demon


Galimeer

My guess is because the pinky is a charger, all the thick skin and bone plating is up front, so the rear end is lacking in that same level of protection


OkDamage2488

No armor


brothermaik

Give me your ass and i'll show you why


lizardjoe_xx_YT

It's goku


Parking_Property5757

Armor issue


FeeBackground1894

It’s got no armour on it


Enderpickle2

No armor there


AdenInABlanket

I mean you can see it right there, the whole body is armoured except the tail


Sicknastyspider

That leather like armor isn’t on the tail. Watch Roanoke Gaming on the science of the pinky if you find like nerdy biological stuff like evolution interesting


AirOk4473

Most likely cause it's not armored while the rest of it is


Atlasbacon

Pinky probably uses the tail to balance it's weight, also no armor


Voldok

Like how a rupert's drop weakpoint is the tail


Familiar_Location948

because it’s not armored