Grrl Power #1118 – The grate escape
Bassy harp noise, AKA V’YGR.
I’m not sure solid metal bars would quite make that noise, especially if they were bracketed in a frame like the cell bars are, but eh, I needed some sound effect. Bending prison bars across a hall like that would be pretty loud. Famously, the laser blasts in Star Wars were produced by whacking inch-thick steel cables with a wrench, then speeding them up a bit and probably mixing that sound with some other stuff, so I stick by my bassy harp noise.
Having Varia’s powers would be weird. Constantly changing from being on fire to being a normal if somewhat tall and fit woman to being metal and super heavy and strong to knowing where birds are to having telekinetic control over dairy products. It probably took her a long time to remember to double check herself before she touched something hot or jumped off a balcony or leaned into a punch when she’s not touching someone else. The constant ping-ponging would be frustrating. There is an aspect to her power where she gets a sense of what her gestalt power is, but still, there was definitely an adjustment period where she got hurt a lot because she would get used to a power, then let go of that person and 10 minutes later slam her hand in a door because she forgot she wasn’t crush resistant anymore.
Imagine her dreams. Normal humans have dreams where we try to run but can’t go very fast (I get them where I can’t quite coordinate how far forward to lean so my feet keep slipping out from under me and I can’t build up any speed.) Varia’s dreams probably involve not being able to do anything. Like she’s dreaming that she can control marshmallows only she can’t quite make it work, or she can’t remember how to breathe water or she can fly but all she can do is swim through the air and it’s really inefficient no matter how she cups her hands to pull at the air. Man that would suck. I would start taking anti-Freddy Krueger pills so that I didn’t dream anymore.
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Well it’s good that Doormaker is able to maintain that portal without Varia’s help.
Let’s hope he can get everyone to another universe if Skitter shows up.
This Skitter? He’s introduced during a jailbreak so I’m guessing so, don’t know of any other ‘Skitter’s. Plus that’s one of my favorite comics, so I would think of it first anyways.
I think the Skitter most people would think of first is… quite a bit darker than that comic.
I get the feeling that if these bad guys get on Deus’s radar they’ll deeply regret it. They’ve already cost him some potential time with Max and their pathetic arch villain organisation antics would probably serverly antagonise him
He’s probably already at least vaguely aware they exist, and considers that more than sufficient.
They’re probably referring to Skitter from the web serial, Worm. She controls spiders, insects, worms – any ‘simple’ creature. She does some very icky things to people with creative use of swarms of bugs.
There’s a character in it called Doormaker who can open portals, including into other dimensions.
Look up Worm and be prepared for a wild ride.
There’s a webnovel called ‘Worm’. The protagonist is Taylor Hebert who gains the ability to control bugs. The superhero name she ends up with is ‘Skitter’.
It’s enormously long and super grimdark — the author’s basic attitude was “nothing good is allowed to happen and no one is allowed to be a good person or behave in an intelligent way with the exception of these two characters who I am going to break in various ways”. He does come up with justifications for this as the story goes on but whether or not they are satisfying or simply make everything more annoying is up to the reader. The beginning is tremendous fun, one of the best stories around, but most people I’ve spoken to agree that it drops off at some point. The exact point varies.
Looks like I have a blind spot that’s popular with others here, will have to go give it a try.
I have several online stories I’ve loved that deteriorated significantly over time. Deathworlders being the first that comes to mind, started as an exploration of humans integrating with a galactic community with weaker bodies but superior tech, but eroded into testosterone worship and little else. First 40-50 installations and their spinoff side stories were a lot of fun though.
Yeah, not knowing Worm is definitely a blindspot as a reader of superhero stories. It has it good parts, it has its bad parts, but it’s definitely a must check out. The worldbuilding is quite deep and thought-provoking.
Yeah Deathworlders did go down into muscle worship, but I think I’m on chapter 90. And they just threw a really big curveball that just turned the whole story on its head. Plus they killed off some of the Muscle in a few more chapters passed where you got to.
I actually kept reading into the 80s, there were only 2-3 good twists (like the backstory of the Hunters and the Gao) and not enough plot development after that. Was losing interest anyways when a couple character tangents really didn’t work for me and tipped the scales.
I believe he meant Skitter from the web serial Worm.
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If you haven’t read it, or anything else by Wildbow, I can’t recommend it highly enough.
“If you haven’t read it, or anything else by Wildbow, I can’t recommend it highly enough.”
Are you saying that only someone who is high (on whatever) can recommend it, and since you weren’t high enough at the time you were writing your post, you can’t recommend it? :P
So, it’s more like something about Varia’s gestalt triggered something in him, then, that he continues to power or possibly even control – or maybe it’s his own gestalt and Varia had little to do with it except that she thought about wanting to “get out of here” and when “queried” by his power, responded more or less instinctually with Boston(?)
That makes a great amount of sense. Varia felt something go different or wrong as well when she called “Ah” after taking his hand. So Yeah, possibly some kind of feedback on two gestalt type powers trying to draw on each other and his own power was to open a portal where Varia wished to go after taking her hand.
Guessing they’d have to work out the guy’s power and medical experiments done on him to really figure it out. Whatever the case I doubt he could make portals with anyone’s hands, else the prisoners would have portaled out earlier.
Wondering if he’s able to *stop* making the portal if she’s not touching him, if he wasn’t able to control/manifest it until she touched him.
“telekinetic control over dairy products”
Lactokinesis was actually featured as a power on British “teen criminals on Community Service get superpowers” show “Misfits”.
La Grande Fromage!
Get outta Denver, Baby, Go!
Nice punny title.
The bar is low here in the punitentiary.
I’m not even jailous, plenty of room for everyone’s pun escape-ades.
Let’s not cell ourselves short, we’re growing a plentiful guard-en of puns here.
They usually are, that’s why Pander has a delay on ordering ninja-strikes
In fairness, I goaded her into falling victim to the Conservation of Ninjutsu.
She sent literally all the ninjas at once, and so they fell as wheat before the scythe.
…we are in serious trouble, however, if she switches to Pete LaFeet’s Pirate Emporium.
They cutlass corners, but still have plenty of sails that rum up new coastomers.
What about Kevin’s Koala Kompany or Zeke’s Zombies?
In case I want to run the full gamut of ninja/pirate/zombie/koala?
Not the Koala guys! That’s just downright underhanded.
… okay that one was sort of clever.
Business is kind of slow over at Zeke’s Zombies, I blame the brain drain.
Drop bear puns is dropping to a un-bear-able low of punnery.
Damn, Koalas and Zombies? I think we pushed Pander too far, it’s getting downright eucalyptic now. Maybe if we’d kept koala heads, she wouldn’t unite an entire koalition of mercs against us.
Drop bears will avail you naught.
I can buy them off with all the lovely eucalyptus we grow her in Cali.
I’m immune to pirates, actually, owing to my status as the ship’s surgeon’s mate, and the fact that my namesake is the king of the pirates.
…zombies are only problematic if they’re runners, so make sure to specify that in your order. Not that it matters.
By the Rule of Cool, my big truck trumps zombies in every exchange.
My only real vulnerability is ninjas, and now that I’ve bested them once via Conservation of Ninjutsu, they can never actually threaten me again.
Collectively, I mean. If you’re willing to pay the premium for One Boss Ninja, that’s a whole other kettle of shuriken.
Eucalyptus bribery won’t help you with koalas. Because they are a species so dumb (yet so metal) that the only food they eat, eucalyptus leaves, which is one of the least nutritional while incredibly poisonous to most animals, is something they won’t eat if they are pre-plucked. They have evolved to only identify the leaves if they grow on trees. :)
Any Ozzies out there, back me up on this one?
PS – Although I DO find you quite cool and fun (as you are a trucker and, as we ALL know, truckers are by definition cool, especially based on what I know from the movie ‘Over the Top’), if the pun was bad enough, I might splurge on the One Boss Ninja, as I might need to use you as a warning to other punsters who think they can game the hit squad system.
Learned from another favorite web comic that koalas are not only dumb, but near-universally have serious STD infections, among other seriously messed up characteristics.
Fear the koala.
Koalas have carved out their niche because they can eat what is toxic to others. Their relative the wombat has a much more varied, and less toxic, diet.
The wombat also has a fear of heights, which is why you don’t find them in trees :P
DaveB should be proud to know that we at the Grrlpower comments board have a very eclectic set of skills and knowledge bases.
“ They cutlass corners, but still have plenty of sails that rum up new coastomers”
Sending pirate ninjas to you now for that atrocity of a sentence, Bharda.
I cannon believe you’re already going overboard with the pirate puns, right after reminding Pander that she could send pirates. That could be a serious blunderbuss on your part.
We shanty be deterred by pirate assassins, their skill sets arrre roughly at parroty with the ninjas.
And the reprieve you got from the koala pun is no longer in effect because of that one. Ninja pirate hit squads for you too.
Sending some after you too, Voyager. Plus some Koalas and zombies.
And possibly a zombie koala ninja pirate. Just because of the blunderbuss one.
Be mindful of zombie pirates, the brothers Warner might put one across Yer bow.
I’ll worry more when the Mouse also makes one of them a koala. Monkey isnt close enough.
I’m re-reading this post and have no idea what I was trying to say when I made this post. I have no idea what I was talking about when I said Monkey. I’m relatively sure I was referring to Disney when I used the word Mouse, despite it not being the same as Warner Brothers. Maybe I was thinking that Disney would buy Warner brothers? I have no idea.
See what all these puns are doing to my brain!?!
Not your fault.
I mentioned the Warner Brothers by mistake.
And I imagine you’re thinking of the zombie pirate monkey that hung out with Barbosa.
“And I imagine you’re thinking of the zombie pirate monkey that hung out with Barbosa.”
RIGHT RIGHT! Thank you, this would have bothered me immensely to not remember why I wrote it.
The Warner Brothers thing threw me off and I forgot why I started talking about monkeys because I was trying to think of what monkeys had to do with Warner Bros. :)
you are predicting that our new Disney overlords will buy Warner brothers next. we need some M &A koalas to ‘help’ with that project.
Running away while a stronger enemy is focused on someone else is a perfectly legitimate tactic
Plus, Jiggs told her to
Especially if you have to save civilians and reinforcements are underway.
Also if she’s wrapping the bars around them to separate them from Jigg, herself, and the hostages, this would actually be a pretty smart tactic since it’s not an attack. So there’s nothing to counter with Nemesis.
Actually, she is trapping Jiggs inside with them, you can see her just to the right of Peri, presumably she believes Jiggs would be able to lightning herself out
Yeah i see that now. Still a good strategy
as long as the cage isn’t by Faraday I’m sure Jiggs will do fine.
I’m intrested in what would happen if Varia and a nemasis user touch, would it invert the power? So they get a defensive perk that lets them counter anything, Varia unlocks an offensive power that can adapt to any defence.
Holy crap, he knows how to fight and just kidnapped an officer? Was Death Toll really affected by Big V’s violent aura, or was he going to the clash to test out his powers and limitation, knowing he wouldn’t get arrested? Was he a member of these people in the beginning? This means he’s not just powerful, but he’s really smart, and the two other heroes with him, he learns from his mistake. Is he going to be the main villain of this arc, if so, I’m all for it. Though how are they going to arrest him?
Death Toll was probably immune to Big V. Thus his ability to hold back, thus V pointing him out as a source of concern.
So, Kev didn’t choose to opt-out Peri from the “GTFU” spell, Peri was immune?
Not sure if Kevin excluded PBS deliberately or not, but pointing him out happened before the team even engaged Kevin so I think he just wanted to keep juicing up as long as possible. PBS didn’t appear on-screen again after Kevin activated his aggro aura, so hard to say.
One of the combatants said that they felt they were affected by something long before the brawl even began, which suggests that Kevin has more than one mind-altering power.
Oh good find! Although I think that could still be the aggro aura that persuaded people to come join the fight.
And a couple pages later Harem reports that neither Opal or PBS woke up with the rest, and speculated that V can exclude people from his aggro aura. Going to consider that ability canon.
Yeah, his buddies were ‘under the influence’ when they came a’callin, which then dragged him into it
Come to think of it, didn’t Max say they were going to process all the combatants and keep tabs on them? Archon should know PBS’s real identity and have been tracking him for the last couple months.
That’s a really interesting thought! But what kind of power would counter an aura like that, and could he really maintain it and counter other attacks at the same time? There’s also the unanswered question of how automatic his power is, or if he has to use it intentionally. Would he even have been aware of Vehemence’s aura?
It looks like Periwinkle Butt-Sniffer know how to fight this time, not just relying on people attacking him. Of course, this puts his criminal charges this time on a whole other level. “You attacked a known and identified member of law enforcement. Well, at least your cell mate won’t be able to kill you in your sleep, right?”
He did a similar move with Jiggs last time, believe he tossed her at one of her team-mates
The movie Jumper does a great job of depicting what it’s like to be a teleporter. I particularly like one fight scene where two guys wrestle in like twenty different places almost at the same time. You get a sense of how differently they look at the world, like everywhere is all the same space. I imagine Varia would have something like that relationship to her own body: It can be anything, when she wakes up in the morning she knows she might not even imagine the things she’s going to become that day. Maintaining a state of mental readiness and flexibility for these times when she has to touch a bunch of strangers would be as vital as, say, setting up well hidden and equipped spots to live around the world for a jumper.
Just a thought.
Well, there goes the idea of “dumb caped name” of hitting maxima with jiggawattt
Wouldn’t cloth-lining somebody like that normally lead into their hitting the floor with the back of their head, rather than face first? Kinda the point, actually, as it’s a lot harder to cushion your fall in that orientation.
I suppose she grabbed his arm and spun around on the way down…
You have weird dreams. My recurring “supers” dream is flying, but I don’t superman or swim, I just walk on air like it’s a staircase. That or I’m falling and “miss” the ground.
Maybe that’s where gestalt powers come from? Whatever your recurring superpowered dream is….
I have begun to suspect that my occasional flying dreams might be a symptom of an undiagnosed sleep apnea.
I once, while my nose was stuffed due a cold, had a dream where having trouble breathing was a side effect of gaining demonic powers.
They were not corruptive or anything, so I considered the breathing problems an acceptable side effect of getting superpowers.
Occassionally I fly, but it usually feels more like swimming.
My ‘flying’ type dreams would always be basically me using air-jets from my feet. This was before I’d ever seen My Hero Academia
ok so Death Tolls isn’t harmless anymore. But, he still doesn’t have superspeed unless attacked… Jiggawatt can just telebolt away from him then attack his colleagues. Well, as soon as she regains her composure
He never was harmless: remember, it took the entire team (minus Maxi and Anvil) to dogpile on him to put him down
By “harmless” I mean “cannot harm anyone while not being under attack”. Remember back when first met, he was huliminated and still could only try goading others to attack him. If not Max’s insistence on arresting him, they could just ignore him.
Here, Death Toll has got (at least basic) martial training and actually attacks Jiggawatt, knowing any counterattack of her will be just neutered by Nemesis. Freely ignoring him is no longer an option
The trick he used was intercepting an attack aimed at someone else, that’s why he gets to counter Jiggawatt. Back then that wasn’t an option, because he waited until most of his team went down.
You can’t ignore him, but you can still work around him.
It is entirely possible that either (A) something about how she was absorbed reduced her control of her power or disoriented her, specifically to protect Deaf Troll there, or (B) she is somewhat hesitant to jump out of the way because he apparently moved faster than lightning to get attacked instead of her intended target not just a few moments ago, or really, even (C) she might be intentionally trying to pull attention from the bad guys to give Varia, et. al. a little more time to get out of the way
Good possibilities, lets look at every single of them now.
For A, since her attack was in fact stopped by now, any disorientation ongoing effect should have ceased already. And one she would have from damage sustained shouldn’t be so bad a trained person wouldn’t be able to do anything.
For B, he was her intended target – remember she completely forgot he was Death Tolls and just tried to fry him. Here, she knows she wants to avoid anything offensive towards him.
For C, attacking two of his teammates (and maybe goading Death Tolls into trying to “catch” her back) may be better distraction, as this won’t allow those two to actually impede with escapees while Death Tolls busies her.
All in all, still no cons found for evading grasp of Death Tolls using “telebolt” (or something similar non-offensive). But good constructive sight on the situation, I’d say
He wasn’t harmless before either. Dude bashed Hiro’s face into the concrete. But this attack on Jiggawatt doesn’t necessarily demonstrate any special level of super strength, just that he’s a strong dude that knows how to fight, and leveraged the fact that he had just lightninged her into a wall to beat her down unopposed.
I feel bad for Varia’s social life. Kind of like Rogue, it’s hard to date when just touching someone triggers your powers.
It would be convenient if, once she has experienced a power, she could begin to exert control over it. Even if not, she might develop a taste for the novelty.
If she dates just a normal non-super person she should be fine.
She gets powers from everyone. (Except Maxima, who has screwy skin.)
And Sydney, the orbs blocked out from getting anything from her except the orbs “liked” Varia.
OR the orbs can be used by her AND Sydney while she’s holding Sydney, which would mean 3-4 orbs being used at the same time instead of just two, depending on if varia can touch Sydney without losing use of Varia’s hand
In https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-797-bust-a-gestalt/ she gets a power from touching back of the wrist to back of the wrist, so the palms would be free to hold orbs.
I know. I’m just wondering how practical that might be in a fight scenario. I’m thinking maybe if they hooked arms without long sleeves, though?
I was thinking a more major contact that couldn’t be broken easily, like bare backs with a harness like they use for buddy skydiving.But yes, bare arms duct-taped together would work in a pinch, but for a serious op like this, no. For it to work where they could use 4 orbs at once it’s a must.
Presumably they’d both be inside the shield, so any configuration with reliable contact should work. Obviously Sydney should be the one holding the shield in case of accidents, but I’d think something that kept both their arms free (since mobility is covered by the flyball) and has them facing the same direction for easier collaboration. There could be some jostling as we saw with the Squiddies, so just touching elbows isn’t enough…
Hooking arms could work rapidly and fairly reliably, but limits arm movement. Piggy-back or a shoulder ride (Sydney’s feet on Varia’s waist) are probably too unwieldy, but since Varia has some height and strength on Sydney maybe it could work? Maybe they both sit down with Varia as the big spoon, with her legs around Sydney’s waist and ankles on her tummy? Have both kick off their shoes and overlap feet? Maybe have Halo play baby penguin, standing on Varia’s feet? Whatever the solution, probably would want to have a velcro strap keeping them connected, assuming there was time to pre-plan.
In this particular case, it could be quite practical. They’d be standing safe inside the shield bubble and fighting by directing the orbs, so they can afford to remain mostly still. Only the PPO (and maybe mystery orb) even appears to require arm movement to use, the rest can just be held.
My thinking was Sydney would handle the shield and flight orbs while Varia could switch around between the lighthook, PPO, Truesight, and the environmental orbs as needed. That way, say if they were trying to get to someone as backup Varia could cover their backs while Sydney kept them safe and moving with out getting distracted (Squirrel!). The bare-back harness would work quite will in that situation or in a space combat situation. Plus it would give the two a 360 degree view. (Sydney: Bogie at my 4 o’clock! Varia: I see them, thanks! SCORCH…boom…) Combine that with Max and they’d clean up fast.
there are these people who do interesting things with many different materials. though putting an order on the company card may lead to some difficult conversations.
At least, unlike Rogue, the person she’s touching is immune to the effects. Rather than ending up a veggie if she holds on long enough.
Does Varia need to hold an actual living person? Maybe if she had like a piece of surgically removed piece of skin from someone it would also give her X power?
Sydney suggested that way back, but I don’t remember it ever being followed up on.
Jiggawatt is looking like she might be knocked out for a while…
Looking forward to seeing how FWTDT handles Varia. Nemesis vs Gestalt should produce some good fireworks!
A good question on Varia is whether she has to be in contact with a person or just a piece of their body that still has cell activity? It’d be a bit odd to have unprotected sex and an hour later still having a bit of that person’s contact power.
Eh, it only carries half the code, so likely there’d be no gestalt at all.
When Sydney suggested Varia carry around blood or skin samples, apparently Varia hadn’t thought about that.
No idea if she’s since attempted it though. Considering that Varia felt even Arianna’s leggings would have stopped her, I’d say its the person themselves, but there’s no certainty.
Lets jump on that and say that Varia is now pregnant. Will she spend months in a state of gestalt?
Quick! Touch mustard boy again and start flinging it into villains faces!!!
I’m glad to see the good guys struggle at least a little bit, the villains thus far have been pretty much a joke.
So a fully trained special ops military super is losing to an idiot with terrible naming sense and worse fashion choices?
That’s the effect of different super powers.
To put it in Maxima’s metaphor.
If someone’s rock beats their scissors even an experienced can have trouble winning.
The human torch is pretty effective against most street level supers, but asbestos man will not be really impressed.
Also she was ambushed, surprised and is achieving most of her objectives.
And idiot with terrible naming and fashion sense, and nemesis powers. Also she’s still a rookie, just graduated basic in the last day or three.
And a super power that explicity hard-counters hers.
What this fight learns us is that having those recognition goggles in standard uniform could probably be beneficial.
Death toll was already registered, but not memorized, so Jiggawatt didn’t recognize him with the goggles she might have had a larger chance of recognizing her foe.
Also I just realized a new reason to not throw around your heaviest supers on smaller tasks. If they meet someone who can use them against you for some reason(mind controllers, blackmailers, power copiers, defensive supers) you don’t want to experience what happens with your stronger supers. The weaker ones are easier to control when they go haywire and less damaging in general.
Good points, although the combat visors a) would’ve blown her disguise immediately, and b) likely don’t work underground with no signal.
That’s pretty much how I figured it would go down, unless Sydney popped in and did her “hyperactive mind powers” thing and tricked him to launch Jiggawatt at her. Then use the litehook to trap all three long enough for Varia to get everyone out. I think portal guy basically used Varia as a battery to open up his power long enough to open and hold that portal for a short while.
I think that is the problem the bad guys are having, they don’t know about the superion energy so they can turn people into supers, but can’t figure out where the power comes from to let them use them.
I wander what Death Toll’s force limit is. We saw way back when in the parkinglot brawl that he has a variety limit on his power *hit by too many different elements at once and he can’t defend*. I might have back then pondered this but we do wander what his point of diminishing returns is on a single force. Like the class system, is he a perfect defense like you could throw him inside the sun and survive or would his radiation, heat, and pressure defense only be able to compensate to a certain point so instead of a quick death he gets a slow agonizing death.
Examples wise I can think of the Viltrimites who have a defense to them but continued exposure to high heat will overpower their defenses eventually, or Darwin from First class who couldn’t defend against a powerful energy blast inside himself.
I forget the series or anime (one of those super gory 1980s ones) but there was a guy with magic defense, but it only worked to a certain level so a matter corruption spell rather than disintegrating him quickly instead resulted in him slowly dissolving as his body tried to defend against it but it was like 10% above his limit so gradually broke down his body rather than instant death.
@DaveB, people usually call those nightmares
The “bassy harp noise” in Star Trek The Motion Picture is Craig Huxley’s blaster beam.
Do we know what happens if Varia touches several people at once? Does she get to decide? First touch stays? Last touch overrides?
Or would she get a totally different power than either one alone?
Enquiring minds want to know. I suspect that we’ll see some actual experimentation on the teams powers down the road, but that it will be a ways out given that Deus’s development arc involves unlocking the secrets of superpowers. Just spelling every rule out in a couple pages leaves little room for story telling.
There is a scene where Varia touches Heatwave then Jiggawatt. That gave Jiggawatt a cold [s]shoulder[/s] neck.
Maybe there is a delay? Or the first one touched takes precedence (is that the correct word?)
Precedence makes sense, if the first one activates a power that should lock in a pathway. Otherwise she might get conflicting powers and lose protection from one of them, or the donors might get zapped by the other donor’s power.
OK, so can “Portal Projection Man” go through his own portals? If the size of the portal is based on a cone of portal energy projected from his eyes, wouldn’t it shrink as he approached the wall, shrinking to nothing as his face approaches the wall?
I’m worried about the head-trauma right now – Having bounced off of concrete, I can tell you that’s no-joke and can kill someone quick-as-shit…
Naw, she’s a super and has the innate strength and toughness that comes with it. Maybe some bruising, but as a recurring secondary character she has some plot immunity as well so I doubt there will be lasting repercussions.
I don’t think every super has inherent strength and toughness beyond having a peak fitness body.
For example, we know that standard Harem is only as strong a a regular fit girl: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-dabblers-science-corner-2/
Er, that depends entirely on how many of her dupes are out. Her strength and toughness go up VERY quickly if she depops them.
Notice how I said standard Harem.
Death Toll is doing is what anyone trained hand to hand combat against an opponent that is more powerful, stun, and follow up with strong, constant attacks, not letting up until they are either dead or unconscious. Since he’s attacking, he’s no stronger than a normal, fit man would be. He’s easily got 60 lbs on Jiggawatt so it’s very brutal.
Yeah, once you start an attack, you don’t stop until your target is unable to continue, usually easier done with just one opponent, a lot of people tend to ‘bounce’ between targets giving them the opportunity to rally and smack you from behind
Also depends on if you want to just put them out or put them down for good
To carry off a “gang attack” you have to deliver serious blows to each one to give you time to start over. I found myself in a bar fight with 2 guys, I kicked one across the face, flat-footed the other in the sternum, by then the first one got back up and rushed me so I drop kicked him I was going to follow up with a knee to the other guys jaw using the bar for balance, but once I got my feet under me the bartender put an end to the fight by sapping me in the back of the head. Threw me out and told me to never return…
I was no Bruce Lee. Plus I was half drunk and in a bad mood since my girlfriend had just broke up with me so I wasn’t very clear headed. Pity, I liked that bar…
It is possible but it takes far more training than I had at the time. Those two were bored I guess and wanted to “have some fun” at my expense. Never bothered me again though…
Anvil and…oh lord, I can’t remember her name. The cute were-jaguar with the pink hair, in human mode, together. Would make for an amazing picture.
Pixel. Seems like most people can remember her name, but they think it’s Krona’s name instead.
Tubular Bells: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv_4sZCLlr0
I remember seeing an interview with the Star Wars people talking about how they did various things.
Yes, they did use a steel cable, it was one of those on a power pole/tower, so it was under tension when they hit it, then they reversed the sound and overlaid (something else) to get the blaster shots.
Sometimes you can get a very similar sound from sheets of ice on ponds.
I’ve heard large pieces of steel give way several different times, with or without concrete, and though it’s god awful loud, it’s different depending on what is being abused. The door to a certain military building that was made of thick steel had a horrible screech that seemed to be base and treble at the same time it was trying to rip your soul from your body. You could hear it in the entire bomb dump. I guess the concrete room behind the door acted as a resonator. We had to put up with that one for around an hour, and double hearing protection (plugs and over the ear muffs) didn’t even seem to help as it rippled through your entire body, especially the chest/lungs.
Some other large pieces of steel just had a snap with a short ringing type metallic pip with it like hitting a bell that’s got a hand on it.
Ah yes, so many things you aren’t supposed to experience when in the military, but seem to happen anyway.
You’d think after the first time she got completely owned during her ‘turn into electricity’ attack she’d figure out that perhaps using that attack against unidentified possible supers is a bad idea…
The “bassy harp sounds” that can be heard in Star Trek: The Motion Picture is really the blaster beam used by Craig Huxley.
Would make for an amazing picture. Anyway, I like all
Need a smart and agile exit