Grrl Power #970 – Those names are unfoetunate
Patron Kizik Ucalegon suggested “Redline” for Ren, and think that fits him pretty good. I’m sure Sydney will accidentally call him Renline a few times.
I’m not sure how watching two people fight in a manner that is beyond your capabilities is “training.” Well, other than familiarizing yourself with your teammates’ capabilities. Vehemence is just having fun brawling at this point. Punching an enemy or being knocked into a cliff is all the same to him.
I wonder if there’s a morning star somewhere on Middle Earth called “Antagonist Dagger,” or a two by four called “Disagreeable Party Hunga Munga,” a boot knife called “Opposition Macuahuitl,” or a spiked shield called “Corrival Urumi.” I would like to think so. Part of a set by the guy who made FoeHammer. I’m assuming he huffed mercury fumes in between projects.
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Training? I guess they are taking turns using Kevin as a punching bag, which is cool that he’s into that… wait, that didn’t sound right.
they get combat experience with an opponent that is on par or above them raw power wise and in return the k man gets exercise and some delish vitamin V it’s win-win (not sure if kevin is now somehow contracted to arcswat or its just to ‘feed’ him as a prisoner. who knows maybe arkdark decided they liked the suicide squad idea of having a strike team of morally questionable individuals to pull ops of dubious legality)
I think it’s possible that Kevin feels much less threatened by the whole situation. He described Maxima as too dangerous to let live, which to me seems like it no longer applies because he has learned that Maxima is not going to hurt him provided that he behaves.
That said, he’s clearly very intelligent, so it seems that he’s made a calculation that the best course of action for him is to play the punching bag, as you said, win-win. There’s no way Maxima would allow him to work as part of a Suicide-Squad-like team, because as everyone in-comic has observed, he can quickly become too dangerous to contain if you leave him unchecked and unsupervised. I’m sure Kevin would love that kind of scenario but Maxima won’t allow it to happen.
“he has learned that Maxima is not going to hurt him provided that he behaves.”
And that she will kill him immediately if he does not., because she knows any sort of non-lethal takedown attempt will backfire.
Maxima was too dangerous to let live for a violent criminal on the run who threaten the monopoly of force. Now that he’s apprehended, she has no reason to kill him anymore.
… wait, I set up a S&M joke and no one took the bait? Wow, you guys are classier than I thought!
We’re hella classy here. We got class coming out the wazoo.
*shakes BOTH fists. Much like Dan Vs.*
Meant that for a different thread.
LOL
How about, instead of Foe Hammer, going with plain Hammer? I’m sure Anvil would be thrilled by the idea. :)
Not a terrible idea, but that kind of sets up the idea that they should be a couple, and she is ten years his senior.
I’m sure they could forge some kind of bond.
I see what you did there and you’re walking a slippery slope on getting put on my ninja hit list for puns, buddy…. :)
Pander Bear.
*shakes fist at you*
How cute.
*shakes fist at you harder*
Woo! Shake it!
*shakes BOTH fists. Much like Dan Vs.*
besides, she might have a thing for younger men and he a thing for older women, it’s not our place to judge.
Did anyone notice Ren’s “Liefeld Arm” in the first panel? Geez, I expected better out of you, Dave, haha! All the same, not sure how to do that pose myself without it looking like Liefeld anyway. just wanted to point it out.
I dunno what Liefeld Arm is. I know what Liefeld Foot is. ( )<---Look, I drew a Liefeld Foot!
Yeah, no pouches in sight
I would love to see Halo in Liefeld style.
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There you go.
You did about as well as Liefeld does on drawing feet.
I’s an awtist.
Seriously, Click my name.
Very nice :)
Okay I’m impressed now.
I’m so impressed that I’m not going to make an autism joke from what you wrote in your post.
Yeah, I’m in favor of Hammer, mostly for Anvil’s benefit.
Yeah, get him some sunglasses and funny harem pants…Can’t touch this!
and that reminds me, THIS was a thing.
Hammer-Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QmfE9Tjau0
This seems like an unbelievably ridiculous venture today, until you realize that Fresh Prince premiered the year before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo
No, Captain Hammer has spoiled that name. How about Mallet? No, that’s too close to Malice. Strikeforce?
Impact!
Mr. Sledge
Impact?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impact
Many thing can be impacted… colons for example.
Some superhero name ideas. Given his enhanced perception along with strength and durability,
Overclock,
Fervor,
Verve, (might need to add something to this word),
Strike, Piston Strike,
Clench,
eh…Overclock is the best one I could find trying to bring these two abilities together unless you just go thematic and say, “screw it my name is Tiger Beetle* or something.
I mean heck, go total nutty with it, imagine a super hero dropping down on some criminals robbing a warehouse and someone says, “Prepare to get wrecked by Render Rex* (or Render Wrecks), Wrecker Ren,
Do a search for “redline”. DDG found me a boutique jeweller in Paris; and then we get Redline Bikes (BMXs of course), in the good ole USA.
Baggage? What baggage?
“I’m Redline. Where YOU stop.”
i just think of the anime movie redline
OH anime theres a thought
What about calling him PLUS ULTRA
Again redline sounds like a speedster better to just file those away not aloy of good names for them
just no …. not “Clench”, never “Clench” …… first three A ok, last three …. last ….. althoe i am partial to “Reflex” i must admit Overclock is good ……
“I am the amazing Clench! Behold my mighty flex!”
Adamantium Wingnut!
I saw a name suggestion in the comments on the last page(#969) that his name be “Rush” because his powers are based on adrenaline.
Overclock gets my vote…
Overclock does work as well admittedly. Plus it doesnt really give away Ren’s superpower right away.
Some unfortunate fantasy weapon names I recall in my D&D group;
The great mace Ass Smasher
Mr. Pointy
The Eye Gouger 900 (A.D.)
The Thingy
Elven Blades of Mincing
“Duhhhhh…” (when you ask a half-orc with 6 Int to name his great club)
Huh. When we asked a dwarf with 6 int to name a great club we got the mighty weapon “Thud.”
He was sort of a pacifist though; he’d Thud them once or twice, then ask whether they wanted to give up before continuing. Not all that effective as a pacifist though; a lot of things could only really take one or two Thuds, so they’d die, and then he’d apologize to them – while carrying on with Thudding the next.
makes a great board game though
I think Zypper (zipper) could be an interesting pick for Arianna’s suggestion. Nice and generic, brand theming is easy to design and marketable, has a ‘trendy’ (dated) “replace a vowel with a y” going on, already a household word, etc.
You’re kidding right? Anyone named Zipper (whether spelt with ‘i’ or ‘y’) is going to be the subject of so many smutty jokes and sexual innuendos that Max would have an aneurysm, and Arianna would NEVER get past the racial stereotyping most of those jokes would involve.
OHO NO…. Zypper is down ….. ya, i see a LOT of problems with that one ….. Dabbler would like it thoe …..
Rescue Rangers’ Zipper the Fly
C’mon, Kevin has got to have some pride. Being beaten on may be a tasty meal for him, but so is doing the beating, and there’s got to be some satisfaction in delivering the beating rather than being the punching bag.
To use a Dabbler Analogy. Some people Top, some people Bottom, and some people Switch…
Khorne cares not from whence the blood flows.
Khorn is a chaos deity. Kevin is a human being and should share human traits such as pride.
Case in point, he took out the last couple members of his own team so that he could fight the heroes alone. If violence was “just a meal” to him, he’d have no reason to do that since his team mates were contributing to his feast.
Yeah, nah: Kev took out Opal and Vektor to stop them from leaving and taking away his fuel
He used his AggroAura to not only cause allies to fight allies, but to revive the fallen and continue the feeding
he woke up people rendered unconscious, not exactly the same thing as revive the fallen.
Aren’t you thinking about “resurrect”? And I will make the case that “unconscious”==”fallen” (in almost every instance).
“revive the fallen” has a pretty much (raise the dead) usage in media.
Which media?
They fell in battle, they were sedated, Kev revived them from their sedation to resume his feeding
Games, hell it is litterely the name of a card to return a card from the graveyard to the players hand or deck
What game? Haven’t played card games in years!
It was Magic the Gathering. actually the card is the first thing to come up in a google search for “revive the fallen”.
But, this is subjective. and I don’t care to really argue it. But come on, say those words out loud, “Revive the Fallen” if a mental image like a heavy metal album cover with the dead rising up doesn’t pop into your head than you’ve had a very different experience with people using terms like “the fallen” than I have.
Why does that bring memories of Cradle of Filth?
In my head I am hearing someone with a harsh metal or thrash voice singing/screaming, “revive the fallen ones!”
Wow.
Naming a Superhuman of Color is an unenviable task in the 21st century.
Just choose something from African mythology.
What if their heritage isn’t African? Not only are plenty of people “of color” not “black”, there are plenty of “black” people whose ancestors are from some other country. Most of the world isn’t white.
And not all African’s are black
Only the… Oops.
A-a-annndddd I should have picked up the grammar:
So not all “which” African’s “whats” are black?
Oops! Typo :(
“I’m not sure how watching two people fight in a manner that is beyond your capabilities is “training.” ”
The difference in capabilities is the reason:
“If all you got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
Back in Young Justice, Superboy was abysmal at martial arts because he “he has superstrenght”. And then he fought Amazo, who had coppied supermans superior superstrenght. So his strenght meant nothing.
Watching how someone like Robin fights a physically stronger thug, helps SB fight enemies that are only slightly stronger then him.
Hmmm…if he needs adrenaline to activate his powers…maybe “Thrill-Seeker”, “Rush”, “Crash”, “Frenzy”? Not so easy…”Adrenospike”? Maybe too on the nose. :-/
“Squeal” because it’s his childhood nickname. His origin story is that he is easily startled and screams like a little girl.
He keeps trying to convince everyone that the name is a referral to the sound of squealing tires and the torque of muscle cars, because of his combined speed and strength, but can’t pull it off because too many of his old friends posted about him on social media back in high school.
Maybe he should just be given a surrealist call sign like “Mr. Spoon.”
Let all the people who are prone to overthinking things tie their brains in knots looking for a meaning, forming bizarre theories, wasting their energy trying to avoid powers he doesn’t have, and getting their asses kicked by a character whose main power is, after all, kicking asses.
Oh, the immortal words of the Tick…
‘SPOOOOOOON!’
Or… Maybe Dabbler would have way too much fun with that oen too?
Ren-Egade would work for his name or Renegade, almost as fun as Ren-Grenade…
“Superhero landing… so bad for the knees!”
In fairness, so is getting kicked off a cliff.
thats more a back problem
On the Ren has gotten a lot stronger,
when we first saw him wasn’t he on the super strength scale like F or D class? I thought his power was as the sidebar says, “super adrenaline” like he is pushing his body at the max adrenaline could push it, but not really up into what we consider (super hero) levels. Like those guys in real life who don’t get lactic acid build up or their muscles are more efficient or use more of them at once so can do things a person with their build normally couldn’t like bend a hammer or frying pan, rip a phone book in half ect…
and now he is tossing a man twice his size at least dozens of feet through the air into a cliff side *if this is a quarry then that is most likely granite* hard enough to crack it and release a dust wall…unless this is just a dirt quarry…but still his strength level has spiked considerably from what was said before.
Well, he kinda suggests he starts out at “can lift 10 cars”, and “goes up from there”. How do you think his feat here compares to lifting 10 cars?
Hmm, while he is implied stronger than I remembered, its not lifting ten cars, its ten times that of a woman lifting a car off her kid; which happens, massive adrenaline boost and she can lift the car up a few inches to a few feet, or knock it over to get the kid out from under it. Not exactly the same implication as lifting ten cars. But yeah, a bit stronger than I remembered.
Guess it would have helped if we had, had more time with this character doing stuff before the statement of him getting stronger.
All what I said, said, even ten times the requirement to tip up a car, is likely still low compared to tossing someone dozens of feet through the air hard enough to leave such massive cracks and impact damage on a stone cliff face, even with Vehemence’s durability. If I were like Death Battle I could probably do the math and the amount of energy in those reports of adrenaline rushes and the implied multiplication of that and what could be done with it.
I dunno… could it not be that V charged him at very high speed, and Ren merely used his extraordinary reaction time to *redirect* his momentum, rather than imparting it?
It’s what it looks like to me, and doesn’t really require all that much strength boosting.
Yups, he did one of them martial arts moves, where he simply redirected Kev’s momentum, it’s how the little guys can survive longer than five seconds against big idiots
Foe Hammer isn’t a sword, it’s a ship (Halo). Wait, was that the joke?
when I google “foe hammer” the first thing that comes up is a sword, Gandalf’s sword
Foehammer wasn’t a ship, she was the pilot of the ship (if you can call a Pelican that).
But also, Foehammer was a great character even if we never saw her, and that would be a great name.
Hang on… Vehemence’s color stripes aren’t changing in the right way. He went from dull blue to purple a few pages ago, then green, then yellow last page, and now he’s back to green.
Considering it took him 50 pages and a monster battle to get to yellow a while ago, something’s… off…
Probably gets more food from the violence being directly connected to him rather than him being nearby
I think it’s tied to him having to ‘expend energy’ the more he expends the less he has. Ren’s tactic of parrying is a redirection of energy should be the perfect strategy for dealing with Kevin.
Okay, why does a super have to have a supernym in the first place? Worser, one that relates to their (primary) power?
Look at all the ones without a power-related name: Professor X, Jean Grey (unless you believe she gets her powers rom grey jeans), Luke Cage, Doctor Doom, Moebius, Doctor Strange
So you can’t find them in phone book?
What’s a ‘phone book’?
Wait, believe have one of those propping up a table leg
Jean Grey’s supranym is Phoenix. It used to be Marvel Girl.
I think Jean Grey’s super name was only Phoenix after she became an avatar of the Phoenix.
First she was Marvel Girl. Then Phoenix. Then Dark Phoenix. Then after she lost the Phoenix power, she was just known as Jean Grey, even though she still had the same powers she had when she was Marvel Girl.
Or Ren could go with the Runaways view of super names. With the exception of Molly Hayes (Princess Powerful/Bruiser) and Old Lace (the dinosaur), the rest of them think superhero names are lame and dropped theirs, and just go with their given names – Chase, Nico, Karolina, Xavin, Gert, and Alex. Although Gert died and Alex turned evil.
well…to be precise, when the Phoenix powers manifested in her she started to call herself that…but originally it was just her own power evolving further; but a little but later they retconned that to be a cosmic entity possessing her body *the Phoenix Force*….so yes, but actually no, qualifies here.
to add to what YukiAkuma typed, and Luke Cage used to be called “Power Man”
“Doctor Strange”
Peter: “Oh, we’re using our made up names, okay. I’m Spider-Man.”
“MERCHANDISING! Where the REAL money is made.” I mean, nobody expects the program to be a revenue-generator but that’s just leaving cash on the table.
“Having a supranym in the first place” is useful to distinguish between acting in an official or private capacity. You’d invite Superman to contribute to a national policy debate, whereas you’d invite your neighbour Clark Kent round for a barbecue. If Sydney Scoville says she likes the food at Fusion it’s an opinion; if The Mighty Halo says the same thing it’s an endorsement.
One reason for fitting the supranym to the abilities would be making it easy for allies and press to keep track of who’s who in the thick of the action (or the crowd of publicity). Any secrecy value for a given ability would probably be lost the first time it’s used in public, so you might as well run with it and make it easy for onlookers to remember who you are.
I still think “Buzz” is a good one
He did just look like he could send Vehemence to infinity and beyond.
Detla: “He who punches his foes.”
Syd: [Thinks about how to explain that “One Punch Man” is taken even though no actual super is using the name…]
Detla: “It doesn’t sound good in English, admittedly.”
Syd: [Thinks, we gotta get this girl up to speed on anime. I bet she’d make a great series of reaction videos.]
Umm, was that shit-show even around ten years ago?
…You clearly have no idea what constitutes good entertainment… But then you’re well-known for being an ass.
Where is the Hentorb? I see five orbs around Sydney’s head, she’s holding the Flyball, but the Hentorb is MIA.
In her right hand, it doesn’t glow as much as Florbie, but you can just make out the glow in the last panel
B-b-but where is it in panel 9? She has her left cupped in her right…
Periwinkle butt sniffer!
It looks like just Max and Hiro in Panel 4. Panel 5 shows Hiro between Max and Dabbler. Last panel, Hiro is nowhere to be seen despite Max leaning over to say something to Dabbler.
IF I had a morningstar, it’s name would be “Ouch”, like my junior size cricket bat. Which would need to be rechristened (let’s just run with this one, OK?) “Ouchie”.
The problem with training, for Ren, is that if he gets used to these high-stress combat situations, so he can face an intimidating foe calmly … then he’s facing them calmly. If he’s calm, there’s no adrenaline surge.
In fact, if you want to maximize the guy’s power, you don’t train him at all. Take him straight from watching re-runs of Hawaii 5-0 or something to the middle of combat with no training and no warning, and you’ll see an adrenal spike to beat everything.
But that’s probably not the way to maximize his effectiveness. Gotta walk a line with this.
Hmm, I don’t suppose ‘Riot’ would be appropriate. How about ‘Tantrum’, or ‘Fiste E. Cuffs’, or ‘Gun Show’?
Honestly, Sydney probably won’t call him Renline. But being an anime nerd, she would probably call him Sweet JB to get under his skin. Provided he hasn’t seen the movie Redline, that is
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