Grrl Power #1126 – Don’t tug on Maxima’s hair…
Salesgirl: Hello and welcome to SuperMart, how can I help you?
Maxima: Yes, I need a hair tie that can withstand at least 300 gravities.
Salesgirl: I see. Can your hair withstand 300 gravities?
Maxima: It can.
Salesgirl: Goodness. I don’t suppose you need a hairbrush that can withstand hair that can withstand 300 gravities?
Maxima: Huh, I hadn’t thought about that. Sure, why not?
Salesgirl: And perhaps some hairspray with similar characteristics?
Maxima: My question is how would you get that out of your hair?
Salesgirl: I… hmm. I have no idea. It’s mostly a mix of epoxy and kevlar. I suppose there might be a solvent?
Maxima: I think that kind of solvent would work equally well on the hair itself.
Salesgirl: Yes, perhaps that would be something you would give as a gift first. To a mortal enemy. Anything else you might need? Perhaps a bra that can withstand 300 gravities?
Maxima: There’s no way a bra like that would be comfortable.
Salesgirl: It is technically a tungsten titanium alloy form-fitted cuirass.
Maxima: Well I suppose you wouldn’t have to worry about casual jiggles* while going down the stairs in that.
Salesgirl: You do not.
Maxima: I also can’t decide if that would be easier or harder for your boyfriend to get off of you while en route to second base.
Salesgirl: That would depend on whether or not he is equipped with metal shears.
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Ironic that the goomba opens with a punch and a stomp.
When Fry takes a break from delivering pillows on a planet with much higher than normal gravity and it starts to rain. But the rain is more like bullets from the sky.
Max, Max, Max, Energy doesn’t have significant mass in the time it reaches the destination –speed of light– in his gravity otherwise it would get dark everytime he used his power. So BLAST HIM.
Pretty sure she fires plasma not lasers since people can see her blasts. I’m pretty sure plasma has mass.
Light is also affected by gravity though. Even though apparently you need general relativity to explain it correctly.
That said, gravity strong enough to bend light enough for it to matter in such a fight would probably rip the whole geographic region apart at least. Just how strong would the gravity need to be to give light a curve radius on the scale of meters? Ould Earth survive?
That said… We have seen that her blasts don’t move instantaneously on planetary length scales, so yes. Not a laser.
you don’t really need general relativity to explain it
all light is is a high energy particle
everything no matter what it is has mass
gravity effects mass
hell pretty sure we’ve theorised that dark matter has mass… we just don’t know what it is to begin with or how to detect it besides an absence
Except that photons specifically do *not* have mass. They’re affected by sufficiently steep gradients of gravity anyway.
(And dark matter having mass is about all we actually know about it – it causes a gravitational attraction.)
Or perhaps photons are unaffected, and gravity is just bending the space they’re travelling through.
There’s a trick astronomers use called “gravity lensing”, they use a large body in space to bend the light coming from a great distance, allowing for better resolution in both the Hubble and the Web telescopes. the gravity well acts as a huge lens, focusing the light in the direction they want. The downside is it only works IF both the target area is passing close to such a well.
If you’re doing general relativity, curved space-time is how gravity works for everything.
As for what sort of effective mass would be needed to noticeably bend light on room level scale, it would indeed be of a highly destructive level. Unless goomba’s abilities allow him to limit the radius of the gravity well in some manner. Which isn’t necessarily that much of a fantastical leap full being able to great fairly arbitrary gravity wells in the first place.
Photons have infinitesimal mass, they are the “lightest” particle known to man. Hence the name? Ok, may not that last bit.
Photons don’t have *rest* mass. They have energy while moving, which is as good as having mass.
“hell pretty sure we’ve theorised that dark matter has mass”
Dark Matter is basically a place holder for ‘stuff we don’t know about because otherwise the equations won’t work.” :) Soooo the only thing we know about dark matter is it has mass, because that’s the place holder in question. It’s basically just matter that is out there in the universe that we cannot detect with our current technology, because it emits no light or energy (and thus cannot be detected by conventional sensors and detectors).
Other than that just going to repeat what DStaal said. :) Photons have no mass but still carry energy — as long as they has momentum.
So of course I had to try to look up what happens when a photon is stationary, and after this and this my head hurts.
“That said, gravity strong enough to bend light enough for it to matter in such a fight would probably rip the whole geographic region apart at least.”
Oh you betcha!
“Just how strong would the gravity need to be to give light a curve radius on the scale of meters?”
Not THAT strong.
Just 8 1/2 masses of the Earth compressed into the size of that little purple flower in panel 1,2 and 5 and you get an event horizon.
Here is the sticky part.
Unless GG somehow managed to gently wind down his brand new sphere of annihilation the same way he built it up. (Which would be the equivalent of doing a Kamehameha in reverse) then everyone is fucked…
It would then evaporate about a second and a half after Gravity Gombah stopped feeding it.
“Would Earth survive?” Earth? Yes. You? Maybe? If you live between The Continental Divide and Appalachia then No. (unless you were already in an underground fallout shelter at that time).
THe disruption to supply chains and infrastructure for major population centers (and agriculture) would have the remaining humans resorting to mass consumption of seed stocks and agricultural animals after two weeks. Canibalism within a Month. No agricultural output for 3 years.
What’s left of the human race will be the set of the walking dead. Minus the Zombies.
But this is DaveB’s universe. Aliens would step in to see what the fuck just happened.
Maybe there would be a Human diaspora or a reverse of the Terran Exodus.
Who knows?
Sydney would be alive at least. But that would be because she is still in Africa…
All I know is that we need this guy https://xkcd.com/to answer that question.
It does.
Just make sure the blast is large enough that he can’t dodge in time.
Unless he can tie spacetime in knots a-la-Vista (Worm), that’s the sort of thing that will hurt anyway.
I’m not sure if she fires plasma or if the plasma is caused by whatever she is firing, like how the effect of a nuclear bomb is different in atmosphere than it is in space.
She is a miliatary cop. Her duty is to do whatever she can to bring people in alive to face a jury. Executing them goes against that. Yes she could end it quickly by murdering everyone who attempts to fight her, but that’s bad PR for Ariana to deal with, and not as entertaining for readers.
I am pretty sure Maxima has already authorized lethal force for this op. Even if it results in bad PR fallout.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1106-club-sexplosion/
(Panel 1)
“I’m authorizing weapons free, full force contact. As usual, try to minimize egregious collateral damage, but prooritize yourself if it comes to a choice. I’ll back you up and we’ll deal with any public relations fallout afterward.”
Yeah, she won’t hold back but so much for this. That said? She is still figuring this guy out. Getting intel on what he can do and how. He may THINK he is winning, but she has backup. Does ‘he’ have any heavy hitting backup besides Periwinkle? THAT is the question.
But yeah, he is tugging on Superman’s cape, spitting into the wind, trying to pull the mask off the Lone Ranger, all that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPfM-GROsZ8
BAD idea…
Emphasis on ‘military’: her job is to stop whoever they are sent after, if they can be stopped in a condition where they can be interrogated, that’s fine, if not, that’s just as fine (priority is in stopping them, by any means, not capture for trial)
They are military operating on US soil in time of peace though, which was a pretty controversial choice and discussed at the press conference. Civilians, even criminal ones during an engagement, get rights that enemy combatants don’t. Any Archon action is going to be gone over with a fine-tooth comb, officially and in the court of public opinion, to see if they are abusing their charter by using excessive force.
“Civilians, even criminal ones during an engagement, get rights that enemy combatants don’t.”
The standard for police engagement is “one step higher on the violence scale”. You use your hands? They use nightsticks, possibly tasers. You use a knife? They use a gun.
Civilian or not, using lethal-level force means the use of lethal-level force in return. If it kills him, tough cookies. When the threat stops, the force stops, and then they try to help with the injuries inflicted to stop the force.
The only interesting part of this is the super powers. If he uses his powers on Max, *knowing* she is essentially impossible for him to hurt, if that “lethal-level force”? Also, how do you know when he has stopped, as he can use his powers with his mind? *Messy* legal stuff, there, on both sides.
But the basic “Max has grabbed any part of his body, refuses to let go, and ups the pressure applied until complete surrender” is definitely viable (both legally and functionally – one hand around a limb, and this fight is over).
The biggest issue is that it’s been established that she has to aim using her limbs. With his gravity manipulation, she’s probably having difficulty pointing straight, especially if he makes sudden changes, and while she has little issue with lethal force against bad guys, she’s also on the record about the importance of knowing what’s beyond her target, and she probably doesn’t want to punch holes in hostages, cooks, and children who haven’t done anything wrong just because they happened to be two bulkheads beyond the target, a degree or so off.
Would his gravity let him “Bend” her Gold energy rays?
Maybe, but we’re talking about a gravity well greater than Jupiter, maybe greater than the sun to make a noticeable difference in it’s path. A “point” of gravity like that would also tear the building down or at least start it falling in. Not to mention it would yank both of them off their feet towards that point.
It would be safer to just move her arm when she fires. Max showed when she first talked to Sydney so long ago at the bank that she can choose to “flare” herself when she likes as well. As far as Max zapping him? She can do that just by placing her hand on her target, that’s how she took off Kelvin’s arm.
Maybe? If it is strong enough.
Mind you; that much gravity, in that small a space, is where we get black holes from.
Small ones to be sure … but suppose gravity Goombah manages to make an event horizon the size of one of Halo’s balls (assuming it is the size of a baseball) in order to bend/absorb a Maxima blast.
That little ball of annihilation would have the mass of 8.419 entire planet earths.
Yes that will “adjust” the orbit of our planet. In a bad way over sufficient time.
But “lucky” for us that wont happen.
Such a small black hole will evaporate in 1.6 seconds.
And that is where the luck ends.
This evaporation will release energy equivalent to 5 million megatons of TNT.
(within that last second only. the prior half second is a bit more on top of that)
This is the equivalent of the impact on Jupiter by the largest chunk of the Shoemaker Levy comet.
Or the same energy from the last yellowstone super volcano eruption. Times 7.
Or the entire energy output of the Sun for 24 hours.
Or 100 thousand Tsar Bomba detonating at the same time and place.
If you do this another 16 times and you wind up with a new Chicxulub Crater.
Assuming this is located somewhere in the american ohio valley …
Every free standing structure in north america from the Continental Divide to the Appalachian foothills will be flattened by the blast wave. the coastal cities will be leveled by an earthquake never felt by man. ever.
Nor would they ever feel it again unless you count off planet Terran descendants.
If this triggers coastal landslides on the pacific coast then the tsunami will was over most of the pacific rim.
A few times.
Big badaboom.
Can SuperMassive generate a field in front of Maxima’s face? Sucking all the air out of her lungs might be inconvenient for her.
Merely inconvenient. According to the author, Maxima can use her power to “subsidize her oxygen needs for a while”. She still needs to breathe, but she can effectively hold her breath or function without breathing for considerably longer than a normal human.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he used gravity powers to bulk up like that. Moving around under pressure requires a lot of core body strength.
Actually if you drop a coing from one meter on hard concrete the moment it hits the concret it received several thousand g. 300g is like jumping from two meter high on a soft forest floor. Even normal walking produces around 20g at every step.
So I guess Maxima would need a hair tie in the area of one million g.
What’s your source for these numbers? As they don’t sound right.
Given the average human can barely survive 5G (upper limit is around 9G)
Crass, I believe, is talking about the instantaneous accelerations felt when impacting a surface after falling. Although I can’t confirm or refute their numbers.
While these impulses can be measured in g’s, since both are accelerations, it makes it a little confusing.
Let’s not forget that the force of an impact can be spread out over time and various parts of the human body by distribution through muscles, tendons, etc., so that those 20g’s aren’t as impactful as you might think. Drop onto even a soft forest floor from 2m without bending your knees, and you’ll regret it.
The 5-9g limit is for continuous exposure over the entire body as it limits the heart’s ability to get blood to the brain.
It’s the difference between momentary and sustained forces. If you applied the force equally across a human body for a brief moment of time (a few milliseconds for example) you could see people surviving in excess of 75G. It’s only when you up the time to a few seconds that the range shrinks to around 4-10G.
That said, the G forces stated by Crass are incorrect, but the forces are pretty high. The average g-force experienced per step when running is around 11G, and from what I could find from a few calculators a 2M drop onto a soft forest floor (assuming it is similar to sand) is going to hit you at about 50G.
Human survival depends greatly on duration and orientation. 5g is about the limit for sustained head-up force (such as you’d get from standing in a centrifuge). Head-down, the limit is less than 1g sustained (you can kill someone just by hanging them from their feet for long enough).
For brief forces such as you’d get in a crash, 30g applied to the back is survivable for most people (this is why military transport seats face backwards), and if you’re John Stapp, you can survive an eyeballs-out force of at least 46g.
I can’t help but wonder just how advanced his gravity powers are. If they are of sufficiently refined level, and he has enough control, he could potentially create micro singularities. Which would be a game changer.
Um…I think Max just glossed over something concerning. The specifics of her powers aren’t exactly common knowledge, even at Archon. If Supermassive is indeed deliberately exploiting her min-maxing abilities…how did he learn about that?
Her minmaxing isn’t known but the fact that her powers fluctuate might be- she visibly became less effected by his gravity a few pages ago. It’s unlikely that SM knows specifically how it works, but he doesn’t need to, Maxima said he was countering her- but its not specifically aimed at her minmaxing, its aimed at just overall countering her standard skillset- she is strong, tough, fast, can fly and shoot beams- if those beams are plasma or have any mass, then SM can mess with ALL of Maxima’s power.
Basically instead of just being so strong and being to power himself up like Vehemence, or being basically impossible to kill like the sand guy- SM is basically applying nerfs to Maxima so she doesn’t instantly beat him, presumably his plan goes farther than this, he probably has some moves he thinks can hurt her, but his power is a good general counter to her, and frankly to anyone that doesn’t have the right powers. He just already had a plan for someone of Maxima’s weight class and probably her specifically.
She can fly at will. That part is a simple known fact about her. It’s not hard to speculate even on limited knowledge of her abilities that her mechanism for defying gravity could defy his gravity control.
Changing gravity direction and strength would literally throw a person’s balance sideways, constantly shifting it so your opponent has to constantly readjust is just good tactics. She’s only just figuring that out now because it’s probably only been about 30 seconds since she learnt about him having gravity powers in comic time, and only at this moment witnessed the level of precision he can create gravity wells at.
Even if he believed Maxima was a regular flying speedy brick with energy blasts, pretty much all of those would be heavily nerfed by gravity. A speedster -if they could stand- couldn’t run as fast, a brick couldn’t lift as much or punch as hard (except down). He doesn’t need to be exploiting her minmaxing to apply a nerf to her as he would to a regular brick.
Um, the Ascenders(?) have quite a lot of inside information on ARCHON. ARCLight should be looking into that.
Wonder who else Harem has dealings with. But another mole is possible, or just Deus trading info. But it’s also possible they’ve just been really good about making inferences from public footage of multiple super engagements.
Given the situation and this group’s resources, likely it’s some rich idiot politician or someone else who knows a guy who knows a guy type situation wanting to find a way to make the powerful stay powerful in a world where superpowers are becoming a thing and thinking they can treat the military like their own personal toy box.
It is downright amazing and a bit scary to be honest what a trained analyst can discern from a mess of publicly available facts. Especially in the modern world of smart phones and Google.
It is always funny (at least to me) when various politicos start saying things and fact checkers call out their BS before their speech is halfway done. Data analysis is not glamorous, sexy or pretty, but it is incredibly powerful in the right hands. Or the wrong ones depending on the situation.
oooo… Crazy thought…
What if this whole BASE is a test for Max? To see how she reacts to such things? The portal maker’s powers have not been defined. PWS has not been seen since Varia caged him, but he may be able to get out of that or have someone else get him out. (Hell, the shockwave from the jacknife/cannonball/whatever might have thrown the cage!)
I wouldn’t put it past villains to want to know EXACTLY how far Max can be pushed. Dangerous for them, to be sure, but information is what wins battle and wars, not heroics.
this “what if its a test” thing was floated around during the Parkinglot fight as well, and we blame the bank set up for people thinking its still possible.
however big things working against this, they attacked Archon while Maxima was in Africa. They attacked other Archon members and attempted lethal force against Arianna, tried to abduct multiple members and not only believed they had abducted Zeph also were torturing their captive for information.
Also the same group had previously abducted Sidney and nearly killed her while holding Concretia captive and forcing her to help them via threatening to kill her body if she refused. Cora splattered one of them.
So going to say, not a test.
“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country, he won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”
Also supply chain logistics, for any engagement longer than a few days. “An army marches on its stomach,” and you can’t fire ammo you don’t have in hand.
Eh, usually super powers are pretty realistic in the Grrlverse, Suck Hole here is way off in left field. Based on the last couple of pages Maxima’s flight is due to localized personal gravity control. This would suggest he would need to overcome her personal gravity fired to deflect her punch in this manner or mover her hair around.
While he may be able to do those things, gravity doesn’t happen in isolation. To create a localized gravity well with enough force to pull Maxima’s punch off course he should have sucked in a good chunk of the surrounding scenery.
Same with her hair, her flight is counteracting his gravity manipulation around her person, in order to manipulate her hair he needs to overcome her personal gravity manipulation. Maybe he has the power to do that, but both he and Max should have gotten a face full of sod.
Then there is the small problem of singularities. We know roughly how strong Max is, and it’s ridiculous. If her Purple gravity manipulation is on par with her Purple strength (as demonstrated when fighting Vehemence fully juiced) Suck Hole is throwing around pin head sized black holes to even have a chance of making this stuff happen.
Translation, Max needs to end this now before he gets really stupid and wrecks the planet. First grab his ankles and burn his legs off, then while he is distracted by that, reduce the rest of him to fine ash.
ehhhhhh, gravity falls off with distance, so if something has a high density, it has a higher surface gravity. even a 1 solar mass black hole would have a surface gravity in the trillions of g’s, and Dave’s comments seem to indicate that SM’s manipulation is more around 300 g’s.
Secondly, gravity is a divot in space. While normal gravity would have a normal slope, SM’s manipulations might have more of right angles to the divots in space he creates. Afterall, while the simplest way to do gravity manipulation would be to directly mimic the effect that supermassive objects have on space, there is nothing saying that his ability can’t do it by directly manipulating the fold of space instead.
If we’re bringing realism into it, he’s not going to wreck the planet even if he does generate black holes. Very small black holes aren’t stable – they bleed off energy (in the form of Hawking radiation) much faster than they can possibly absorb mass. You need a *starting* mass on the order of billions of tonnes before a black hole tips over into self-sustaining territory; failing that, as soon as he stops actively sustaining it, our hypothetical micro black hole just evaporates in a puff of X-rays.
It’s not a matter of “just”, though; A micro black hole evaporating starts out slow, and towards the end is pouring out as much energy as a star, albeit for just an instant at the end.
Of course, that’s a consequence of natural black holes having extremely rapidly changing gravity, not just intense gravity. Basically, the TIDE is so intense that virtual particle pairs in vacuum get torn apart, one (Negative mass!) half of the pair falling into the black hole, the other positive mass half getting promoted to a real particle in the process.
That doesn’t just happen from strong gravity, it requires gravity that’s changing so fast that one half of the pair is subjected to significantly stronger gravity than the other half, that’s the tidal effect that rips the pair apart.
Suck Hole could be producing strong gravity fields that don’t have that steep gradient, (Which only exists in a microscopic region around the hole anyway.) and so don’t cause Hawking radiation.
Remember, he’s not creating gravity by moving around ridiculous amounts of mass, he’s doing it by manipulating the laws of physics directly through the Superion field.
It’s a super power.
Just like how someone with Heat Manipulation can control how far heat emanates.
Suckhole can probably control how far the effects of gravity extend and where. (With some obvious limitations)
I think “gravity” is used quite loosely here: considering the finesse required to pull off what Maxima and Supermassive do, and the complete lack of repercussions outside of the intended target, both of their power are more akin to some sort of telekinesis, rather than gravitic in nature
Time to make the Suck Hole drink from the plasma-fire hose.
Max, just quickly reach back, grab a leg, and start Hulking out of his ass! I’d love to see her bash this guy onto the ground a few times! Rag-doll slam…
I hope to see the guy pull out a Singularity Fist, basically a Black hole Powered Punch!
And obliterate the planet?
Singularity just means you compress all the mass into a 0-dimensional spot. It implies nothing about mass.
While the natural stable black holes would be around stellar masses, primordial Black holes that still survive would need to only have like 10^11 kg of Mass (100000 tonnes).
We can potentially turn atoms into black holes with Particle Accelerators. Very short lived ones that will evaporate before they have any chance to even eat. But if we can, the Cosmic Rays hitting the atmosphere have been doing so since earth had a atmosphere.
Those are microscopic black holes that last for an almost imperceptibly small period of time before that basically evaporate, if I remember what I read correctly.
Only if it hits the Earth itself.
Yeeessssss……. fight… Fight… FIGht… FIGHT!!! Hahahahahahaha….!!! I love it when the opposition isn’t filled with chumps.
I am a bit confused about that last panel.
Is he actually doing a Harem/Anvil acceleration drop?
Because then he better have some way to reinforce his bones to survive any fall that could hurt max.
I think it is more likely he does a “normal human” drop, but being close and/or in physical contact increases his effective power output on her body.
Stalwart increases his density to ridiculous levels, so the impact stress is proportionately distributed over a much larger mass. This is no worse for him from a physics perspective than a baseline human falling onto a giant marshmallow.
I have a strategy for max:
1. Grab him.
2. Shift points from flight into Armor and STR.
Because then he can’t do anything to her, he would not also be doing to himself.
And well, “Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in Space.”
Conversely, grab his ankles now that he has moved himself in like this and crush his ankles into pulp. This will do a lot of very painful damage especially if she pinches the tendons apart and makes his calf muscles roll up like window shades. With her pressure and heat she can even do this without causing him to bleed out, although there will be internal pooling so get him to base and sedate while in agony and less able to resist to question after he is secured.
Limb him, inch by inch if necessary, along the same lines as Kevin’s amputated arm. Unless GG has regeneration, he’ll be out of the fight sooner than later.
Nothing in the physical universe can be motionless except relative to another particle (there is no absolute reference frame) and even then it will be vibrating or spinning, and in most cases, composed of component particles also vibrating or spinning. So really, talking about anything in the physical universe as being “motionless” is meaningless.
In the real world, gravity is the result of mass. Even if tiny (very tiny) amounts of mass are created when particles are accelerated to near light speed, the idea of just “creating gravity” is totally comic book. It only seems to make sense because we can string words together that way. So talking about “how Supermassive’s powers work” is just sophistry. That being said, I love comics and Grrlpower in particular; so I’m not worrying about it.
It should also be noted, as I did note to someone last page, that discussing how these powers in this setting work within the constraints of real world physics is a moot point as this setting has established the source of superpowers is of a non-reality source.
This setting for instance already set up that magic and psychic powers come from two additional quantum fields not fdound in the real world *yes including hypothetical fields that may account for some “strange/spooky” quantum scale or even cosmic scale behavior* they are still not the fields of this comic.
additionally super powers as in those used by these supers are coming from a synthetic quantum field. As in a quantum field created by a type 4 (Type minus-omega on scale control), or above type 4 depending on how you scale civilizations.
in other words some crazy advanced aliens were able to directly manipulate space/time and artificially write their rules and likely also interactions with existing natural quantum fields (even if that is trial and error they still did it).
So calling anything supers are doing as “real world physics” in this sense could be handwaved as the closest representation or identifiable effect to what is actually occurring as the “Superion field” and how its expressions interact with known natural mass and energy could be completely alien to how we know physics to work.
In short we call it gravity because it most closely resembles how we think gravity to work *attract, pressure, all mass etc..* but a closer examination can reveal its not acting as a warp in space/time caused by mass, and its resemblance to actual gravity is only cosmetic but rather it is a force we don’t have a name for as it originates from said “Superion field”.
Pretty sure he’s going to regret this fight when she starts grappling with super strength. Especially if he’s annoyed her to the point that she is speedbagging his sack.
i love the kerbal refrence
I want people to note that gravity powers don’t need to work like actual gravity. If he is able to manually manipulate the fabric of space time, then it wouldn’t need to do anything special to avoid threatening the planet, just don’t make the curvature widespread and instead make the slope steeper than normal.
Sure, *normal* gravity requires planetary or stellar masses to make a significant curve in space time, and normally that would make it rather widespread with a pretty shallow slope, but he doesn’t need to do that. he could just make a 90 degree pit fall effectively, and the boundary wouldn’t spread beyond the edges of the pit.
Isn’t he just… shattering his own feet and legs with that attack rather than actually injuring Max?
He’s probably strong & durable (along the lines of Stalwart), in order to be able to survive his own primary superpower.
Maxima does not need superspeed for this, nor the other thingy.
She needs just enough flight that with strength maxed out she can resist his gravity and just enough armour to take his gravity assisted hits.
Then she can be ‘the sloth of inescapable doom’ and ever so slowly moves closer to him. As soon as she is in grabbing distance she just gets hold of his arm, slow enough so she can compensate for his gravity trying to pull her hand away.
As soon as she has hold of him she can just use her strength (which should be max or close to it) to just squeeze. She would be easily strong enough to snap his arm off …
If he moves away she can superspeed to catch up to his sphere of influence and repeat. He can never escape her unless she decides to give up chasing him. Or he gives up.
Of course she only needs to stall him long enough for a mage to show up. Or somebody with access to technology that negates gravity.
if his attacks don’t really pack a “punch” then Max needs to take the hit, grapple (or whatever her style is to hold) , then place her power shot point blank. hand melee types are always making contact and unless they can strike and get beyond reach faster than you can react it just a matter of a hold and fire point blank. There is a reason so many martial arts are contest only (and are not seen in MMA) because it’s the rules that allow them to work. AKA be the tank
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