Grrl Power #1068 – And then it all went south
Their plan wasn’t… bad… but I think a lot of it revolved around getting the rooms secured (and occupants knocked out) before any alarms went off. They just didn’t count on the guy who was still paying attention to his computer screen while his lady wiggled on his lap. Honestly, Krona might have grounds to be a little bit offended.
On the flip side, it sounds like Archon really needs to back off on the drills, or they need to use a fake alarm sound when they’re doing drills, because their response here is real bad. Now I could take some of the sting off by insisting that this page is happening at the same time as the business with Arianna downstairs, and that each page isn’t a purely linear sequential progression, but still it’s obvious that Arc-SWAT needs to review their invasion response protocols.
Oh and please ignore the fact that Hiro is wider than his own door. I mean, he’s pretty buff, but he can fit through most doors without having to go sideways.
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Clearly Archon needs to be doing MORE drills, not fewer. They need to up their response times – and they need to learn to treat EVERY alarm as if it were the real thing, not a drill.
How many fake forced entry teams during drills need medical attention from being hit by a door…
Probably to many.
Yup, the point of a drill is that you react like it’s real, but your inevitable mistakes won’t kill you. If you are treating drills as drills, you are drilling wrong. I don’t know if the response is “verbally flay them to within an inch of their life every time they laugh off drills” or “keep running more and more drills until people take them serioiusly purely out of self defense”, but something clearly needs to change. Maybe this will serve as a wake up call to whoever is actually in charge of the drills.
The more you sweat in times of peace, the less you bleed in times of war. (Train likes its real each time)
The version I learned was: “Train like you fight, fight like you train”.
but how to do get supers to take a drill like this seriously? If someone is invading a building full of supers, they are probably ready to kill, so archon has to be ready to kill back. How do you drill that into them without putting the testers at risk?
I mean… Its not much different from how they already operate. They are marked for death by their enemies in the field, but they try to capture their enemies alive. So, they’re used to operating with this disadvantage.
There’s always the method used in Starship Troopers. 1 in 500 bullets is real. You damn well better treat the drills as real cause you might get hit by that 1 in 500 bullet.
I can guarantee that doing too many drills will both demoralize the troops, and also greatly reduce their responses to alarms. I’ve seen it happen in the military, and the base commander came a fraction of a hairs width from getting busted and shipped back to the US for it.
As to Math and Krona, they’re both multiprocessors, so it’s probably not so bad for them.
(It’s not about getting all their attention, but snagging as many threads of concentration you can ;P )
Three drills a week? Those are rookie numbers, you gotta get those up. I drill twice a day, once in the morning and then after lunch.
My wife laughs at your twice a day drills. She works in a dental office, it’s drill, drill, drill, all day long.
It’s a The Wolf of Wallstreet reference, but I gotta admit your wife doesn’t have rookie numbers.
Those devices for blocking the door while sending in knockout gas are clever.
It’s a shame that most of their targets can break down those doors in their sleep.
They probably wouldn’t work since the doors open inward, not outward. They would need some type of brace to engage on the inside of the room to block the door from opening. Now if they wedged themselves upward, it might work to a degree though…
Exactly so – wedging the door tight against the latch mechanism works (happened in college in the dorms to me), but it’s relatively easy to correct (dislodge a couple of the wedges and it opens easy)
But yeah, a hydraulic/ mechanical pressure upwards would work pretty well against the folks with Normal STR.
It also kind of depends on how sturdy the doors/wall/door frames are, too.
Considering these are interior doors their ability to hold against a reasonable person’s strength is nill. I am not a large person and I accidentally busted my door down once. About that time you understand that the door is merely for privacy and not security.
Even a small child can break through the typical interior door. Source: My childhood.
My older sister had a room where the door was on the far right side, so far that it was in a little nook that she could sit down in and block the door with her feet. After winding me up as only a sibling can. I kicked holes in that door more than once as a tiny little kid (I was so skinny I wore pants called ‘slims’) in the years from ~8-10.
This is a paramilitary facility. At the very least, they would be solid wood doors, not hollow doors, if for no other reason than to meet commercial fire code. I.E. The door would need to resist fire/flame for a specific amount of minutes.
Residential fire codes are different, so they can legally use hollow doors in private residences. Same reason why you have sturdy doors in hospitals, hotels, conference centers, and most every door on a military base or police station.
So those doors should be able to resist a fair amount of force before being damaged
This would all be good and well said if it wasn’t for the fact that non-supers have no effort with these doors. ANY normal door (military base or otherwise) would still be effortless for the supers to just club open. Two steps back… two steps forward as a space shuttle? Lets do a little math… 4,500,000 pounds for a space shuttle moving forward at oh… lets make it 1 inch per second… 51845 Newtons of force.
You’d need a steel door to stop at least one super… if he didn’t throw a punch.
I’m guessing that the bar at the bottom ‘outside’ of the device is a rod of rebar that spans the width of the door frame to frame, and with the shape of said device being a U that would lock the door shut before a normal human could break their way out and into clean air. Not a bad idea all and all.
I see how they’re supposed to work. The flange goes on the inside then it extends bars across the entire width of the door and frame (still trying to figure out how something maybe 4 inches across is extending 38+ inches of bar, though).
But since I’ve seen a 5’4″ guy weighing maybe 110 lbs. go ‘thru’ a locked interior door in maybe 15 seconds… I think they’re overconfident.
The “hut hut hut” also clearly marks these guys as part of the group that attacked Deus and such so it’s an effort to take out Archon and their support. Another government wanting to stop Gaylon maybe? I’m sure Max and company would confirm that idea. Deus is one of Archon’s major suppliers.
Yes, because ‘hut’ isn’t something universally parroted by every military (and US sports teams) around the world, including the US
Dave misspelled it. They are saying “Hutt” to announce that they are here to collect on gambling debts that Sidney incurred on fracture station. She owes them a Corellian freighter.
I mentioned it because no sane para-military group would call out “HUT” during an op. Just Dave making a joke but it also helps ID these guys. Clearly they are willing to use non-lethal force as well Hiro’s door fragment is blocking taser pins fired at him. Even iron hard skin can be zapped with 50,000 volts. Our cow fence has 10,000 believe me that doesn’t feel good.
Where did this “hut hut hut” business come from? I mean, I saw it in The Blues Brothers. Never saw it out of that.
Mind you, I served in a country’s army which wasn’t the US. Different culture. Much more professional.
Linguists trace its origins back to military cadence, particularly of World War II, when drill sergeants would holler “Atten-hut!” Another short, sharp sound, it was perfect for preparing the team for battle.
Robin hood, men in tights. All the nights were “hut hut”ing around the parapets.
Well that is pretty much every other country in the world (besides Russia) then lol
Not only that but complaining of a Drill, getting their overly “American looking” arrogant building attacked and infiltrated after continually boasting how wonderful and powerful they are and “saying come and get us” then being sloppy like this does indeed come across as very American military. I mean I would say they haven’t won a war on their own since the American Revolutionary war but they had assistance from France back then. All fluff no substance.
Please keep in mind that you’re reading a work of fiction, written by someone who has never served. And not only that but who values the comedy aspect vastly more than any attempt at realism.
Don’t kid yourself for a second that the US military acts anything like this.
As for the track record of the US military, while WW1 and WW2 were coalition wins, the map of Europe would look vastly different from today if not for US involvement.
Don’t confuse the efficacy of the soldiers with the political decisions of where and how to deploy them. South America and southeast Asia would look a lot different without US military involvement as well. In some areas they actually look the same in spite of that involvement.
Yes, Pinochet and other butchering dictators thank America for helping keep them in power. The mass murdered families I am sure would be pleased as well from their torture and subsequent execution.
I’m not gonna defend your favorite butchering dictator, but please convince me that you don’t believe that a mass outbreak of peace and justice would have broken out absent US involvement.
Just as a reminder, Pandering is not me. He/she is a different person.
…. Out of genuine curiosity please name one country or power that won all of its wars with out mercs, exports, inports, or loans in or after the year 330 bc. Also the Mexican American War
UK – Falklands War
I was in the US military & I never heard that outside of the movie either. I read that as the joke-reference that it is.
This was last done in the “small soldiers” film I think.
A few films (not many) have shown this being said during runs. (Less serious ones. Probably to keep in step.)
Also a US Army veteran and I never once heard anyone doing the Hut Hut Hut during my time in service.
… That’s because it’s not a military phrase
I used it in marching bad and the ONE time I used it in anything else, I was dropped for pushups.
The trainer who did so told me in a very loud voice – ‘This is NOT a marching bad! We do not ‘Hut’!!’ At which point every Star Wars fan in the formation snickered and got dropped for pushups as well.
I heard a story later from a good friend who joined the US Marines about someone else who did that on the very first day of boot camp and NEVER again.
No, it is not a military thing.
It’s just a short, loud grunt that basically means “MOVE!” I wouldn’t be surprised if Swiss pikemen and Greek hoplites used it to coordinate moving a wall of shields forward.
I heard it every Sunday in the 1970s for the football games “Hut, one! Hut 2, Hut, Hut!”
Then “SWAT” the TV show happened, with the team members sometimes calling it out, especially while rappelling.
Then “The Blues Brothers” made fun of that show in their movie and everyone ran with the joke after that…
Always thought the football term was ‘Hup’…
It doesn’t seem like needs to stop drills, but to actually distinguish when drills will be happening. It might sound counter-intuitive but an alarm sound preceeded, or followed, by a “THIS IS A DRILL. THIS IS A DRILL” really helps to differentiate between ‘hide in your rack times’ and fight off intruders in your birthday-suit times.
The point of a drill is that you respond like you need to fight off intruders in your birthday suit, even if you are pretty sure it’s a drill. If you aren’t treating it as a real emergency, why the fuck are you running drills in the first place?
I feel like our resident team of supers are all professional enough to treat drills just like the real thing, because professional soldiers know that training how you fight is how you win. Maxima would certainly demand only their best, even with the ‘this is a drill’ announcement. Because there is a certain change in mentality when it’s a drill versus the real thing. There would be less griping while jiggling a door handle, for one.
I’m just going to assume that the (chunk of) door Hiro is wielding is 2/3 of its original width (because breakage) & leave that as the explanation, because there are no hinges & the knob is otherwise too big. Must be a flaw in the wood that caused it to break so straight & clean. (There, @DaveB, that should cover it.)
+1
Except that the door should be at least a fireproof door (assuming building regulations I’ve seen elsewhere apply) or better given its a super teams base. Which might explain why they use narrower doors, to be more resistant to certain effects. If the door is destroyed lesser effects will pass through the smaller opening.
Going for the no prize huh?
You’ve just placed Hiro’s right shoulder too far out. It should be behind the door.
These dum-dums better hope Ashley isn’t around. Or things are about to get a lot more… constricted around here.
I feel the attackers were denied critical, need-to-know information. Somebody bake at their center of operations is going to get fired. With extreme prejudice.
Yeah, they are well-trained, but under-informed
They need MORE drills. No soldier’s response should EVER be “are you guys seriously running a drill?” It should be to immediately react in the appropriate manner to whatever the alarm is for. Heatwave needs to get sent back to basic.
Heatwave is an outlier; it took her quite a long time to realize Harem had been messing with her boyfriend in the ambulance; she’s not quite stupid, she just processes things differently
Dude, I served in the US Army in West Germany, near the end of the Cold War, in a front line unit, and we said that for EVERY SINGLE DAMNED DRILL (with adjustments for actual time, of course). Not to the officers and senior NCOs, obviously, but we sure as hell said it to each other!
A true “Wilhelm” scream. Others pointed it out but it makes me laugh.
Hiro shirtless from the start. When Halo gets back k Krona better have video ready for the A-Team night. Then again there’s precedence for hero using building parts to cover nudity.
The guy yelling Wilhelm as he gets blown away has to be a reference I am missing. It’s familiar but not clicking in brain thingee.
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No no, that’s the Goofy Holler (Or Goofy Yell). The Wilhelm Scream is a fairly simple but distinctive “Aaiiaaugh!”
Wilhelm means “resolute protector” (from Old High German “willio” = will/desire + “helm” = protection/helmet).
He desires protection?
The “Wilhelm Scream” is a stock sound effect in movies that’s very distinctive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio
It’s a reference to a stock scream that gets used in movies a lot. It was originally screamed by an actor playing a character called Private Wilhelm. It shows up when guys get blown up or sent flying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio
Always thought he took the arrow to his arse, not his thigh (at least it wasn’t his fucking knee!)
There is one early reference they did’t use, around the time of “Feather River” that is sometimes thought to be the actual origin of the scream (“Feather River” is where it got the name), it was a black and white Civil War-era film, with people attempting to escape through a Florida swamp and someone gets tagged by a gator
After reading the comments on that clip, someone mentions the name of the film: “Distant Drums” from 1951
its a trope:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream
and for your listening pleasure…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio
It’s this – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio
Google ‘Wilhelm scream.’ It’s a famous sound bite used in dozens or hundreds of movies.
Hard to replicate in print…
This is another good Wilhelm Scream gag. https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/whilelm_scream.jpg
I get the visual isn’t fully accurate, but have to wonder how they fit that device under the door. There isn’t enough room to turn the L shape.
I agree, it should have been a flat hinged protrusion with a pull cord that would slide it into L shaped placement after it was shoved under the door.
depends on the thickness of the pad and plushness of the carpet, there can be alot of ”play” between the bottom of the door and a solid stopping point under a door. See videos of kittens/cats squeezing under doors into a bedroom.
I’m not sure that’s a good example, given that cats are actually a fluid.
Cats can be directly related to Krakens, as well. You can’t keep them out of anywhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbB7zINfjkU
Points for the Wilhelm Scream.
maybe it’s a different door? like a cupboard door? as it’s broken completly different between panels 7 & 8
I mean, you drew the door realllllly tiny. No door is that small. That’s, what, maybe 3 feet wide?
A standard door is 950mm (3 feet) wide, that little piece of “door” Hiro is holding can’t be much wider than about half a metre (2 feet). If it was a section out of the middle of a room door, it would be a lot wider than his shoulders.
You are under-estimating how wide Hiro is…
3 feet is 36 inches. that would be an ADA door. its also a yard.
I kind of figured he’d broke the door in half basically when he grabbed part of it to block with.
The real question here is why would Hiro bother? When you’re bullet proof a flimsy piece of door is just a waste of time.
Bullet resistant.
Especially damage resistant supers should never assume that they are safe from a prepared enemy’s shots. They could use special ammunition. Also, what Hiro blocks here is a taser. Bullet resistant does not mean immune to electricity.
Bullet proof. To a level where a door isn’t adding anything. The taser leads stuck in the door rather than blowing right through. So they weren’t going to stick in Hiro.
They don’t have to stick, a couple milliseconds of contact is enough to screw with the nervous system. I don’t think he “bothered grabbing the door” so much as held onto a convenient piece of it that was already pressed against his chest after he burst through it.
He didn’t know what they were going to shoot him with and he still had the door handy.
There are other supers, alien tech, mad science tech. Invulnerability will probably work but not getting shot before you know what will happen is still the better choice.
And outside dabbler’s door is a whole stack of zonked out soldiers
Except, she is half the world, away! :)
I still can’t get over that whomever these people are they felt confident enough to attack a military facility like this.
Either they are an over equipped and confident cult, a foreign military operation prepared to start a war, or are backed by someone or some *secret organization type who think they run the world* or some such thing.
but what is their end goal? To massacre in order to “send a message” not to interfere with them (which again, vibes of the hooded guys and the swan boat). Or are they actually trying to steal information, kidnap someone…maybe some old Genosha nonsense of “they should be our slaves”…although send a message and demoralize makes more sense, especially if that whole hood guys thing was from some group that viewed themselves as above the law and nations and want to send a message and remove the “threat” to them.
the type of situation where later some “you can’t touch me” rich idiot whispers hints to the members of the government that backed Archon forming like, “what a shame that happened, just goes to show what happens when someone tries to play superhero and interfere with more trusted methods for controlling and utilizing these abnormalities*..
Other valid questions are (just a little sample, not anywhere near a complete list):
– How’d they get on top of the building?
– Why no alarm when they broke in?
– Why no sentries?
But there’s really no point in pondering these questions. No thoughts were harmed in the making, so why bother when reading?
Better or mission specific technology?
Anything you can think of to justify the logical lapses, I can shoot down with ease. This ‘assault’ is self-demonstrating it’s flaws with every new comic.
I’ll do just one as a demonstration:
Why did they cut the internet? Doing so was what triggered the earliest alarm. What was the point? Who do a pile of supes and military personnel call for help?
Any team member off base or in the next building? Buying an extra 2-3 minutes of delayed response time during an assault is well worth the effort, which could easily be enough time to be the difference between achieving their objective, escaping cleanly, or complete failure.
Except the results make that goal idiotic. Instead of preventing calls for help they triggered a base wide alarm.
They were shutting the Archon’s entire communication network, including Archon’s Wifi’s. That would have it impossible for the team members throughout the building to coordinate. Also, no calling Maxima for help. They were also trying to take out the IT personal. Had they succeeded, there wouldn’t have been an alarm.
But the real question is, how many pages of showing the bad guys prepping for an assault so that all details are explained do you want in a superhero story? In a heist story I’m with you, but superheroes never worked when you look sat it too closely.
Just as an example, in Marvel Comics Earth should have a much larger stellar and interstellar presence with the technology and the superpowers available. Since the 80’s.
Well frankly ‘all redundant trunk lines go out at once ‘ should not require a human to signal an alarm. It should be an automated response. A redundant human is a good idea, of course.
As a military run facility there should have been guards at all the entrances to the lot at all hours, night guards, and we know the facility isn’t just some X-men mansion or Avengers mansion scenario where its a live in space with some training areas. Its military first and some sleep on site if you want rooms. There is also Arc Light and Arc Dark at the same site. So this large group should have been seen coming a mile away if this is not some staged event *given the lethal force used by the fire guy, unlikely at this point* so either security was somehow stealthy dealt with without raising an alarm, or this is an inside job; see someone with money, power, and connections, basically drawing them a map. Without this even breaching the perimeter should have been near impossible without being spotted.
You think the US military coordinates via cell phones? How quaint.
Ah, the “Wihelm” scream.
Funny, I didn’t think Hiro had the ability to broaden his physique intentionally. Or was it a subconscious superpower side effect?
Hiro was only late getting out because he was looking for a shirt… Except Harem had already stolen them earlier
I’m hoping Iron Cloth shows up with his Fashion Ninja. The Ninja then slice off some of the outfits of the invaders and scamper away. The invader mooks growl at Iron Cloth, going “What, you think we can’t fight without your clothes?” and Iron Cloth smirks before going “No. But let’s see how you fight with your clothes…” At which point the clothing leaps into the air and starts binding the mooks up.
Iron Cloth: *as he’s tying them up with their own shirts and pants* “Technically, I didn’t need to have my assistants remove your clothing, but this was more fun…”
hut hut hut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atks5rRqQkg
Oh man, maintenance is going to be PISSED.
Holy crap. Sydney is still a Private! We are still in the flashback that started in 2010!
Umm, yeah, when did you think we left the flashback?
I hadn’t been around for a while, life stuff, so I thought maybe I had missed the flashback ending.
It wasn’t a flashback. The non-private stuff was a flash forward.
THANK you. The sheer volume of material makes the main storyline the actual timeline, and the dozen-page intro only a literary device. Writing enough to turn it into the ‘main’ timeline would take the next decade.
IRL, when there’s a drill it’s always announces on the PA. It always starts out, “THIS IS A DRILL! THIS IS A DRILL! THIS IS A DRILL!” and then whatever the scenario your responding to. I don’t know how they do it in settings where there is no PA, but that doesn’t apply here. You never, ever, EVER use the word “drill” when it’s a real emergency.
If you actually read this and want me to explain why it’s done this way, or want to explain it yourself, hit reply.
But what do you do when this guy attacks your base?
boring
For the same reason I managed to come as close to chewing out a sergeant as a fairly raw recruit?
He was leading us through a live fire exercise and had carefully instructed us to stop firing and to yell out ‘cease fire!’ if we heard him say it. Then while we’re all firing away I hear him yell ‘cease fire ‘so I do as instructed and stop firing and start yelling cease fire.
After we all stop firing he asks me why I called the cease fire. I said ‘Because you did, Sargent.’ He says ‘I said fire it up ‘ I said ‘Sargent, after carefully instructing us about how to respond if you yell ‘cease fire,’ why would you yell out anything with either ‘cease ‘or ‘fire ‘ in it?’ And although he never said I was right he also didn’t rip my head off. Which is why we all knew I was right.
Something similar… When they get on the radio and say things they should never say over the radio. Words like “repeat” for example…
You go say something like “we are under attack, I repeat, we are under attack” and then some artillery fires off another volley at the previously assigned coordinates… Hollywood really grates my nerve on this… also the whole guns going off when dropped thing… Sure maybe if it’s a cocked revolver, but guns don’t really go off when dropped…
An M-16 can, if chambered and then dropped on the butt. Not me, some idiot in my company.
Yeah it’s always ALWAYS “say again” in english, especially on military channels.
I wonder what the germans do, considering “wieder” is “again” and “wiederholen” is “repeat” but then I see that “say again” is apparently “wie bitte?” which I always thought was “please, what?”. Context I suppose.
Can anyone make out what is reflected in the helmet in panel seven?
Kinda looks like maybe the flashbang that didn’t go off inside the server room
Good catch, yeah it does look like they are still on the balcony overlooking the common area (Page 1062 panel 5) and that guy is facing the right way to reflect the flash off of his visor.
So, real talk. That door would not stop anything the bad guys are shooting if they’re standard wooden interior doors.
Even if the door is a solid chunk of wood, it would be concealment, not cover.
I feel like Hiro would know that, or at least feel the two bullets hit him after they went through the door.
I’m happy to apply the rule of cool here, and say that ARC added some kevlar into all their doors. But just wanted to point that out.
Still enjoying the comic. I’d be happy to give more guidance on guns and ballistics if asked.
And you could always say Hiro is standing bladed (slightly sideways) to present a smaller target behind the door chunk.
It’s doing what he wanted it to do: stop tazer-prongs, he’s still vulnerable to the zappy-zap
Forget Hiro being wider than his door. The door Anvil is punching through can’t even fill the door frame it was in… Who built this place?
Adric using Block transfer computation.
Way old Doctor Who reference, excellent.
That can’t be Anvil, she is in Galtyn, so guess would be Stalwart if not someone else.
Or… it’s just Hiro punching through his door in that frame? Yes, I know the door fragments don’t match up, but the skin tone does, and we don’t see anyone else in the next panel.
did you seriously add a TEXT FORM WILHELM SCREAM?!?!.. I hate that scream so much but you reached a level of determination that I can actually respect. so you are forgiven >_>
Care to spell out the scream?
aueiah
Wow. So many replies… I just came by to see if I was the only dork to catch the “Wilhelm Scream” reference…
To quote the hotdog street vendor from Robocop 2.
“Somebody about to get they ass KICKED!”
Yessss! The Huts Continue. Now just need a short one of them to be named Leomund for the circle to be complete.
Totally love the comic version of the Wilhelm Scream.
Isn’t Hiro bulletproof? Not sure what holding a wooden door in front of him would really do for additional protection.
I know he once did get hurt a bit from non-super stuff when that bridge cable hit him with the crack of the end like a whip, but considering it would havetorn anyone else in half, I’ve been assuming he’s extremely high levels of invulnerable, which would include bulletproof unless we’re talking maybe howitzers.
Or am I missing something? I couldnt find anything specifically in the links saying he’s bulletproof so I might be missing something.
On the Cast page, it says his powers are: “Hiro is sometimes jokingly referred to as “Superman lite” as he has super strength, toughness and can fly.” So I figured toughness involved bulletproof, and superman lite definitely seemed to imply bulletproof.
My main guess is he’s doing the thing with the door mostly for ‘Rule of Cool.’
It makes all the sense in the world to use any kind of additional ablative shielding at the start of a fight like this. Bulletproof doesn’t mean your skin resists, say, paintballs full of DMSO-based knockout drugs instead of biodegradable (even edible. [yes, I’ve done it, it’s like eating a liquid crayon. why did I? because paintball kids are a special kind of dumb, and I was one once.]) paint – just ask any Shadowrun player how effective DMSO is, both in their hands and against them – and it might make the goons assume he’s vulnerable to things he’s actually not vulnerable to.
“Bulletproof doesn’t mean your skin resists, say, paintballs full of DMSO-based knockout drugs instead of biodegradable”
I was originally going to respond with this by asking where you were getting paintballs from when all we’ve seen so far are bullets. Then I read Guesticules’ post, and realized the two ‘bullets’ that are hitting the door are not bullets. and the lines were not ‘speed lines’ – they’re taser prongs and wires.
For which a wooden door, even a weak one made of balsa wood, would be a very good defense.
Can’t believe I didn’t notice that the ‘speed lines’ were all jagged like taser wires that are uncoiling.
He’s not invulnerable against the zappy’s
I feel foolish that it took me a day to realize that those are not bullets that he’s using the door to block, they’re taser prongs.
Okay that does explain why he’s using the door as a shield. Thanks :)
And as someone else pointed out further up in another chat-line, he doesn’t know what they might be throwing around (either self-created or via a weapon) so it’s better to be safe then crispy
That wasn’t even Hiro’s door.
If you look, Hiro’s door broke at the height of the door knob, while the one he’s holding, the knob is in the center.
Is that a wilheim scream reference with a typo?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream
“Oh and please ignore the fact that Hiro is wider than his own door. I mean, he’s pretty buff, but he can fit through most doors without having to go sideways.”
OBVIOUSLY it is a door-fragment, not an error by the illustrious author!!!