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[davros]

Yeah. This is a thread for things that surprised you via being much more dwarven then expected.
For me, it was when I was watching Neon Genesis Evangelion and realized that NERV was going through a tantrum spiral.

[Naryar]

Rei Ayanami, Emotionless Girl has been absorbed.
The Spectacled Manipulator pushes the First Angel in the body, but the attack passes right through !
Gendo Ikari, Spectacled Manipulator has been absorbed.
The spinning steel bullet hits the Hot Scientist in the lower body, bruising the muscle, shattering the left second rib and tearing the heart !
A major artery in the heart has been ruptured !
Ritsuko Akagi, Hot Scientist has bled to death.
Misato Katsuragi, Militia Commander has bled to death.
Asuka Souryuu Langley, Fiery Redhead has gone berserk !
Shinjii Ikari, Meek Ace Pilot is stricken by melancholy !

[Loud Whispers]

Salt mines and every horror movie in existence.

[Shawarma]

I once saw someone steal the shoes from a body at an accident scene.

That was pretty dwarfish. And sad.

[MiniMacker]

Dwarven or Bay12en?

If the latter, then the Human Centipede, surprisingly.

[Uthric]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieliczka_Salt_Mine


dwarfest place ever

[Ferozstein]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieliczka_Salt_Mine


dwarfest place ever

This, totally. When I went there on a tour I was like, WTF, this is a dwarf fortress, pure and simple. Complete with smoothed walls carved out of natural rock, rock salt statues, underground temple, underground lake and even the mine floodings (though we didn't get to see those, of course). The only thing that's missing is magma.

[NW_Kohaku]

Dwarven or Bay12en?

If the latter, then the Human Centipede, surprisingly.

100% Medically Accurate. 

My chief medical dwarf told me so, and he's got plenty of experience with "Serjury". He once treated a sore throat by removing the dwarf's liver, which was surprising, since I didn't think the throat was in the liver.

[davros]

Silly NW_Otaku. Everyone knows your throat is in your liver.

[RadHazard]

Huh.  And here I thought it just sort of hung off the side of your head or something.  Silly me

[NW_Kohaku]

I like all the creative misspellings of my nick that I keep running into...

Actually, I just thought of something else that's really dwarfy...

One of the game series that I play when I'm not playing DF are the games from Gust Corporation.  They have very alchemy/crafting heavy games, and their flagship series, the Atelier series, is all about playing as an alchemist who has to solve their problems by collecting rare forms of shrub or something and combining them into explosives and medicines and weapons.

They always have absolutely bizarre item combinations, however, and one thing that I was reminded of was Atelier Iris (1)'s "Eattle Brand" (portmanteau of "eat" and "battle"), made by the baker who decided that she should help the main character out by baking weapons-grade bread. This included the likes of "bread pants" and "cake armor". 

They'd go well on a dwarf trying to defend the artifact kitten skull floodgates from invading titans.

There's also Atelier Rorona, whose main character, Rorona, loved baking increasingly bizarre and useless pies with alchemy, including a "living pie" (which attacked her for trying to eat it), "meteor pie" (made from a magic item that causes shooting stars to fall, and which causes pies to fall from the sky), "elixir pie" (a pie made of sacred medicine - it's actually good for you, but it tastes like medicine so nobody wants to eat it), and "gold pie" (it's filling is solid gold).

[Garath]

made by the baker who decided that she should help the main character out by baking weapons-grade bread.

This strongly reminds me of Pratchetts battle bread
"we were stranded on a flotsam in the middle of the ocean. We wouldn't have survived without the dwarf bread."
"Otherwise you'd never have been able to beat the sharks to death, right."
"yeah."

Or something like that. I think from "the last continent"

[Mekboy]

made by the baker who decided that she should help the main character out by baking weapons-grade bread.

This strongly reminds me of Pratchetts battle bread
"we were stranded on a flotsam in the middle of the ocean. We wouldn't have survived without the dwarf bread."
"Otherwise you'd never have been able to beat the sharks to death, right."
"yeah."

Or something like that. I think from "the last continent"

"If I'm honest, I think the cat's pissed on it."
"Hot damn!"

[davros]

This is an artifact from the Elder Days! We don't have the baking technology to make this kind of thing anymore!

[NW_Kohaku]

Also, there was stuff like Ar Tonelico 2 had... one of the synthesis was a restaurant, but they kept making absurd food-related weapons, like "Pushe Me", the chocolate cake shaped like a giant self-destruct button with a whipped cream skull on the button.  It caused insane damage when throw at an enemy.  There were all sorts of baked bombs in that game, as well as things like "candy ribbons".

One that really stood out, though, was that one of the characters used metal discs as a weapon, so they made him some large crackers baked to weapons-grade hardness.  The chef then said that "they also function as emergency rations - you can soften them up by dunking them in your enemy's blood!" 

Killing someone to dunk your weapon in their blood so you can eat said weapon is true dwarf behavior.