Grrl Power #1132 – Supervillain Unknown’s Battleground
I for one would play a superhero themed battle royale game. Let people chose three powers at the beginning, or let them select from a selection of pre-made heroes like a DOTA style game, and they fight through a big map and pick up tokens that will upgrade their powers. Admittedly, there was a BR game with magic called Spellbreak, but like a lot of trend chasing games that come late to a crowded market already full of juggernauts, its lifespan was less than a year. Still, as I recall, you could superjump or straight up fly if you had wind powers (I think, honestly I played it once for about 45 minutes), and shoot lightning and fireballs. Pretty similar to the kind of stuff you’d find in a superhero themed BR game, but hopefully a superhero game like that would have a more expansive power set, and some destructible environments wouldn’t be out of order either. If you could really program it so that people could hit each other with trees or cars or create rings of fire or create portals or telekinetically whip helicopter blades at each other, the meta-game that would evolve would be pretty out of control, especially if the game was played with a squad of three and powers worked in concert with each other. Honestly, it’d probably be too difficult to manage. Give a guy a portal power useable on others, and he’d start the map at the very edge, then once the curtain of doom or whatever it’s called started closing in, he’d zap people out into the death zone. Sure, you could make portals get disrupted by the death zone, but that’d be missing out on half the fun of powers like that.
So yeah, Just Cause meets Red Faction meets Apex Legends meets Portal, Infamous, Prototype, fire and ice powers, etc. Someone get on that.
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Yes,shoot your superpowers at the guy who is completely indestructible, while you are still a fleshy human. Gotta love the capes flying in the bad guys faces. Unless you’re Superman level,the cape is always the worst costume choice.
I must admit Achilles has the best offense in this entire situation. Literally “I’ve got a gun and you can’t hurt me.”
He can still be moved and restrained.
In the Vehemence fight they simply buried him in rubble these people can do that again.
Also disarmed. His gun can be taken away from him or damaged, (Electro Guy cooking off the ammo?) and then he’s nearly out of offensive options.
(How do you disarm someone with superpowers? By taking their gun away.)
Which raises an interesting question about the use of lethal force for Achilles. Normally lethal force is only legal (outside wartime) when someone is in mortal danger. Achilles is never in mortal danger, so he could only legally use lethal force on someone threatening someone else.
Lethal force is also legal when someone else is in mortal danger. There are situations in which you are allowed to shoot someone who is pointing a gun at someone else and threatening to shoot them, even if you yourself are not in danger.
Using less lethal rounds should cover that difference, if cops can use them on protests that allegedly turn into riots then a superhero with perfect invulnerability can use them on villains who can’t feasibly do anything more than inconvenience him. Having said that, there’s likely some provision in their internal rules regarding enemies *trying* to kill you, or using force that *would* be lethal if they hit someone more vulnerable. Granted, actually killing villains willy nilly like that isn’t a good look so I doubt they’d actually use lethal force unless it was genuinely necessary to stop the villain.
Having said that, I doubt bullets are significantly more lethal than a punch to the face from Super Hiro, and this is ostensibly a military organization, so they could quite easily not be especially worried about enemies who are actively trying to kill them surviving to be arrested. Like, try to bring them in alive if you can, but prioritize stopping an active threat when needed.
“Using less lethal rounds should cover that difference”
I’m not entirely certain since I’m not well versed in this, but I think that all normal rounds of firearms, except stuff like rubber bullets and ‘bean bag rounds,’ are considered lethal rounds.
Believe they were referring to the rubber bullets and ‘beanie-baby bullets’
Lethal Force is not just when you are in danger. It’s also when others are in danger. According to the US DOJ, law enforcement officers and correctional officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force only when necessary, that is, when the officer has a reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer OR TO ANOTHER PERSON. And I’m reasonably certain that the DOD (which I think is the department that has authorization over ARCHON as a military branch of the government) has more lenient rules on the use of lethal force during operations than the DOJ has.
You’re describing an affirmative defense – self-defense. Others include stuff like entrapment (not applicable here), insanity (also not applicable here), necessity (doing something to prevent a greater harm from happening), and respondeat superior (Maxima being responsible for the actions of her people, as she is in charge of this operation, and Maxima already gave them authorization to use lethal force for this mission, given the dangerous nature of these people who had JUST attacked a federal/military building, kidnapped one of their members and engaged in acts of terrorism with intent to kidnap others with the information they stole from ARCHON HQ).
Even if you’re just talking civilian charges, very often police and military have qualified immunity if you’re talking about them being sued for liability, especially in these sorts of sanctioned actions.
I think you’ll have to look into that. At least for the (US) military it depends quite a lot on what Rules Of Engagement are in force. Or (says wikipedia) on the mainland US the “Rules for the Use of Force”.
Right? I love how Achilles is just casually catching lightning and wielding that Glock.
I can’t believe I’m the first person to respond with this. Edna Mode would be disappointed with so many people here.
NO CAPES!
Ice-cream power superhero goes to Edna for a costume…
He is Edna’s brother and shall be known as Al A. Mode.
Oh, you made a punny!
Dammit I’ve been infected. Undergoing quarantine and decontamination procedures.
The pundemic spares no one.
for some bizarre reason the decontamination chamber is reciting high rated posts from r/dadjokes
Yay! I got You to say it!!! I feel like a true superhero/villain now!
Villain. Definitely villain!!!
*shakes fist*
“I’m here to stop you with the power of invulnerability and this gun my CO issued me.”
THE POWER OF GUN!
I think that chainmail bikini might be WORSE than cape. That said, sane superhero should have neither. Unless the cape is actually camouflaged wings.
Yes, fight like a Spartan: naked and swinging-free
If a few hundred naked guys who were swinging freely, and had a reputation for being gay came charging at me, I’d be inclined to flee as well!
IT’S TIME FOR SOME ROUGH LOVIN’!!!
I think the hooded capes are just to look menacing and spooky, combined with the glowing masks they get a +1 on that. They have no real power other than what their money can buy…
Vehemence would totally hate to have missed out on this if someone tells him about it later.
No, Achilles is using the team 5.7mm pistol? With his invulnerability, why isn’t he using a .500 S&W Magnum or a BFR (from Magnum Research) chambered for one of the rifle cartridges?
Because he’s not any stronger than a normal human. Sure, a massive caliber pistol wouldn’t snap his wrist, but he’s not gonna hold onto either. Any setup to keep the monster pistol in his grip would eliminate the advantages of it being a pistol.
He’s actually about 50% stronger than a normal human because his tendons/bones/muscles won’t break or tear from the additional strain.
From the cast page:
“Also he is about 50% stronger than a normal human since he doesn’t have to worry about tearing muscles or breaking bones by straining too hard.”
Please believe me when I say that rupturing a tendon hurts
I believe you. It even SOUNDS like it hurts just from reading those words.
The doctor fixed it by drilling a hole through the radial, drawing the tendon through the hole, and sewing a button on the tendon. The button was made from cadaver bone. When mom told me to make something of mysylf I don’t think she meant ‘a collage’.
Please …. Go back to puns. They’re SLIGHTLY less painful for me to read. You poor guy.
Ouch.
There is a bright side to all of this, I can no longer juggle, so my days of clowning around are over. I had already lost a digit practicing with knives. I am happy there was not an audience for that, but it was really thumbthing. At least with the puns people know that I am not completely armless
Out of sheer pity I have to let you get away with all that.
Well, technically, you did ask for more puns.
you know why boxers wear gloves? because they can break their fingers. The gloves actually let them punch harder without injuring THEMSELVES.
Now here’s Achilles, who doesn’t have to worry about breaking finger bones, and has around 150% normal human strength. (His punches can be LETHAL because he literally doesn’t need to hold back.)
Because he doesn’t have “super” super strength and the weight of the ammo would be a problem. His power is invulnerability, that’s all. He’s only slightly stronger than a normal because he doesn’t hurt himself by over straining his muscles or ligaments. Which is also why he’s using a gun, someone like Max or Heatwave doesn’t need one other than to shock someone that isn’t carrying. Much less than Sydney…
His real power is rocking that 80’s hair style. :D
Jack Burton’s says…
It’s all in the wrist.
Just remember what ol’ Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol’ storm right square in the eye, and he says, ‘Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it.’
Jack Burton and Chuck Norris walk out towards the storm, the storm turns on itself, grabs it’s tail, and runs away like a kicked puppy
being invulnerable doesn’t mean he can manage recoil enough to be more effective with the big guns than with standard, plus it might just be Sydney who has the baby-arms gun and he’s just got a 9 or 10mm
He is invulnerable and not super strong. At a guess, he does that in order to be able to carry more ammo, or to keep his aim tighter, probably both.
Someone able to raise strength for other people to even a times ten on human baseline might be worth having on retainer if only for the utility Achilles and Sydney would get out of it.
Maybe because you can re-acquire your target faster with a 5.7?
Or because most 5.7 ammo doesn’t go through 1 bad guy, 4 walls, and 3 civilians/friends before it stops?
Or because smaller bullets mean you can carry more bullets?
Or because 5.7 ammo is designed to punch through armor better than 9mm?
I mean, I’m no expert but bigger bullets aren’t always better.
For the most part .50 caliber pistols are a two handed affair. I’ve seen somebody one hand a .500 S&W but as already noted time to get back on target is a mess. Maxima can get away with her hog leg with her super strength and speed. I enjoy shooting big fat bullets and you can load them down to prevent overpenetration but big bullets usually require big guns and they can be a pain to drag around all of the time. As I recall there was quite a discussion of this when Sydney was in the police station a few months back. Given the relative size and specialization of the organization I would bet that Achilles could carry whatever was his personal favorite.
I saw a video of someone shooting a 12 gauge pistol (legal, single shot). He was firing 1 oz slugs at a metal target and the recoil about took his arm off. I don’t remember who made the pistol, just that it was lightweight for easy carry and break action to reload, and had regular pistol sights on the barrel.
This reminds me of the other problem with really big handguns. Normally my preference for dealing with intrusive wildlife is to live trap and relocate (even skunks). But, this particular armadillo was trap avoidant and particularly destructive so I went after him with an old single shot 12 gauge. Circumstances were such that I fired it one handed like a pistol. The recoil was enough to push the gun back, my hand slid over the break lever and the hammer bit me right at the base of my thumb. The cut from the hammer was bad enough to consider getting stitches. I suppose the lesson is, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
Maybe he just likes the 5.7.
This feels like it should be a pretty short fight, since I can’t imagine the villains trained team-work very much. Just a few unexpected mix-ups with the heroes trading opponents, or momentarily focusing down one, seems like it’d rather quickly thin out the villain side. Especially since Achilles has, like, a gun, and I can’t imagine ALL the villains are bullet proof.
There are so many lost shirts…
There are still more to be lost…
One of Hiro’s weaknesses is when he “powers up” his shirt explodes.
I have a feeling that his shirt exploding when he powers up is also the major weakness of his fangirls.
You call that weakness?
Countless shirts have been sacrificed on the altar of fanservice.
For all we know the suits are actually made out of bullet resistant material. Maybe they have other properties. However, exposed areas like faces below the masks, or the lady’s legs are not covered by the fabric and thus vulnerable.
Switching out foes should happen all the time. For example, Heatwave could use the steam cover to try setting a suit on fire (are they fire resistant?)
I think the more important question is the villain fire resistant, I think Heatwave could set just about anything on fire. There are some interesting outcomes possible in burning suit scenario ranging from embarrassing, suddenly naked villain, to horrific, third degree burns wrapped in melted synthetic fabric. Since teh bad guys seem to have a corporate uniform i think I would go for a nice Nomex fabric.
Not a bad selection at the snack bar. Prices are fairly reasonable too.
Shame the featured movie sucks
Seems like a reasonable supervillain who cares for his minions. Like for example Deus…
The only exception of that comparison being these people are actual villains, while Deus is the savior of humanity and hope for a brighter tomorrow, unsung hero.
*snorts*
Look at Hiro’s fist in panel 3! It’s almost bigger than his head!
He didn’t quite knock the bad guy’s socks off but one shoe is a good start…
That’s, uh, localized gravitational lensing amplifying the perspective foreshortening? If you squint and decide the debris is small and flying past the POV, it kinda works.
This needs a Deadpool joke.
Deadpool.
okay, there you go, that’s the Deadpool joke. Move along.
given all the crap falling I dount you could find an undisturbed body of water in the place right now.
Love the subtle use of handgun in a super fight. It really grounds the story.
Can’t wait for Sydney to learn what happened and be like “why didn’t you just….”
That would be nice to see reactions xD
That pause will also be fully included because she will link the sneeze to it.
Actually I’d be very surprised if the team doesn’t do some what-if workshopping as part of their after action reviews. Approaching it as a team is way different than just launching criticism as a know-it-all, and Sydney respects her teammates and is getting (slightly) more mature and self-aware. I give it 50-50.
That’s what happened after the Battle of the (now) Empty Parking Lot. They did equipment and tactics review/critique.
The biggest issue with a super fight is figuring out your opponents abilities, not that you can’t hurt them, but how to hurt them without hurting everything and everyone in the area! That’s what Max was doing with suckhole, figuring him out, but the fight was getting irritating and Stalwart wanted to end this fast since they were mainly there to retrieve the “list” and Chimy.
And of course take out the organization. “Weapons free” means they can use deadly force if necessary, not blast everyone they meet. I have little doubt all of these super villains have some kind of augment that has a short timer, sooner or later they’ll tire out and be much easier to subdue.
If you really want a simple Battle Royale feel, look for copy of a game called Strange Synergy. It’s a quick ride to exactly this sort of thing.
Definitely a fun game. Each play completely random. Players learn to be very creative combining powers and abilities. Sydney would rule at this game.
Yes. I was thinking of looking on my game shelf and reminding myself of the title; I’m glad you got it in. I’ve found it a lot of fun.
Great start of fight scene… But how has Hiro already lost his shirt? Has he just said to hell with it and takes his shirt off before wading in to save on replacing them?
You miss the part where he used a Caped Jabrony as a battering ram?
Perhaps he went shirtless to feed Dabbler.
Who has the shortest shirt retention time, Hiro, Bear Grylls, or Putin?
You left out Hulk Hogan.
*looks at the portrait of Captain James Tiberius Kirk on the wall*
True true!!!
How DARE you forget Sulu and his mighty… sword skills
Oh my!
…
Fuggit, It Is Time.
https://youtu.be/hGtbr-ZvdT0
I loved that
Looks like someone didn’t get the memo “Female Fliers & Bearded Beavers: Why That’s a Bad Combo!”, unless she’s into that sort of thing…
It would almost certainly neutralize Mathias as an opponent ;)
She is rocking “Business Dom” office style. I wouldn’t be surprised if that includes a pair of spanx.
Problem with a super powered BR game like that: someone will find a good loadout, and soon that’s all people will be playing
Heatwave’s hair looks SO different from before that I did not recognize her. Medusa hair is not a good look.
For me, it’s the face that looks ‘off’, but that’s just what happens with art (even some of the ‘Legends’ had ‘off-days’ where their characters looked wrong from time to time)
Pretty sure she’s doing a flying kick and melting through the window, so her hair actually should be flying everywhere from the momentum shift. Does look kinda snaky, but that’s hard to avoid without feathering/omitting the lines which doesn’t blend will with the rest of the style.
Yeah, the hair is fine for me, under the situation
Anvil vs. watergirl is bad match up.She still needs to breath
Anvil is still in Africa…
That’s Heatwave. Anvil is in Senegal.
Water is a decent counter to Heatwave actually, takes a lot of energy to heat water. Especially through the boiling point… wonder if the water villain can handle steam as well or just the liquid form. Although on the way there, she’d be wielding boiling water which is not great for the rest of the combatants.
Also, I’m dubbing this character Abyssia since she appears to need contact with the water tentacle, and propose the eponymous solution of cutting her off from her element.
Wet Wipe, because she’s about to… wipe out :P and she’s not made of water herself
And most people wouldn’t get the connection to that movie
Well I imagine like most people her body mostly consists of water. ;)
Hopefully she is just a waterbender and not a bloodbender.
That’s Heatwave, not Anvil (Anvil is in Senegal with the Lionesses and Sydney and Dabbler).
So it’s a pretty good matchup. Fire vs Water.
Rag on Suckhole’s breakaway suit, but how many of the male supers have lost their shirts at this point (and yet their pants survive unscathed)?
Whatever your pants are made from? Maybe make your shirts out of the same material.
Hulkspantsium is invunerable but only effective when placed in the waist and crotch area of male supers.
And it only comes in purple
Hmmmm… The back of Achilles pants and jacket during the first press conference (still cracked me up when Sydney hid behind Achilles and touched his bare butt, she hissed like a vampire), both Max’s and Hiro’s clothes because of an explosion between them, and so on. Achilles doesn’t get hurt and while this is a cheesecake/beefcake comic, there’s no real nudity just the suggestion of it for humor. When there is pants for guys and tops for the gals it’s strictly for the joke of it, it’s not real life. Just plot convenience.
Kinda hoping Suckhole gets a chance to comment on it.
SM: “See, it’s a good idea!”
Hiro: “So are t-shirts, bet I’ve spent less on a couple hundred of those than you spent on your suit. And way comfier.”
I need pants like that. Everytime I power up they tear apart. It’s probably because I use doughknots in place of power rings…
Burger Rings taste betterer than Power Rings
Mmm, now I want onion rings and a bagel burger…
with a slice of pineapple?
Maybe on a grilled pork patty with peppers and onions.
Waaaay back in the day, there was a superhero quake mod that I recall really enjoying along those lines…
Didn’t Maxima give a speech at one point about how using a car to hit someone is pointless, because if you’re strong enough to hit someone with a car, you’re strong enough to do more damage than the car is going to do or something along those lines? I feel like a tree falls in the same category. Poor tree, it just wanted to create Oxygen with its photosynthesis power.
The tree extends her range, and she has difficulties getting close to him. That seems tactically reasonable.
Also there is no collateral damage issue there. A car belongs to a civilian who will be miffed if it gets destroyed. The tree belongs to the bad guys (and has already been destroyed anyway.)
I think it’s more of a shock value that hitting power, suckhole won’t let her get close to him so she’s using something that can. Besides, suckhole knocked her into that tree to start with. And hitting someone with a car is more of a distraction if they are strong enough to take it unfazed. Besides, if you’re fighting someone that can make you hit yourself (stop hitting yourself! stop hitting yourself!) I think I’d use something that wouldn’t hurt as much if he succeeded.
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It’s legible if you go to the Patreon, and right click on the image and select Open In New Tab, the click on the image to expand it to full size. Otherwise there aren’t enough pixels per letter. Honestly it’s worth the buck a month just to be able to see all the small fun stuff in the comic.
Heatwave hates using her freeze powers, but maybe she might use them on Wet Wipe, and see if she can do more than make waterslides…
True, she can “suck in” the heat from anything, but I think it’s a bit slow plus water that’s moving takes more effort to freeze. Look at any stream in the north, there’s ice on the edges but the main flow is still moving. And she hates doing that because it’s “ookie”. Whatever Heatwave, trying reaching in to drag a stuck calf out of it’s mother…. I still gag a bit!
If it is slow, and she can continue fighting while she does it, it might come as a surprise for Wet Wipe to suddenly find her liquid is now a solid
HA! Nice one, if nothing else she could get a job as a back up in fancy restaurants or a choice other than toilet paper!
“Wet Wipe” 1,000,000 Internet Points for you!
is it better than Super Soaker, tho?
I would go the easy route and just call her Flow.
Only if she shows up once a month
City of Heroes with some GTA/Just Cause physics and world map run aroundness would be so friggen cool. I miss CoH
I think you need to investigate Saints Row. Dabbler would be proud of it.
CoH still exists, I’ve been told, although I think it’s mostly on private servers now. Someone on a video game discord I frequent mentioned it.
I also think there used to be a game called Freedom Force which was sort of like that.
Haha, that’s why they have a swimming pool.
Is Hiro now just leaning into the whole shirtless thing now?
He have accepted his fate.
Not intentionally, you can still see scraps of it tucked in (and that’s possibly why he’s looking so pissed off, and why he used that other guy as a wall-breaker)
SHH! SHHH! Don’t say anything that might change that! :)
That game is called HeroClix, lots of powers, you can mess around with terrain, and a huge number of different heroes
https://wizkids.com/heroclix/
Honestly I’ve had a battle royale game design in my head for years that I don’t have the experience or studio to make. It’s not specifically superhero, but it comes with most of the tropes, including (in my personal opinion) a boss idea for dynamic cinematics opening the round. Pity I’m nobody in nowheresville, I think it would be fun.
Don’t feel bad, I had an idea for a JRPG style RPG and even went as far as getting the RPGmaker for it, the coding wasn’t hard it’s the writing and the art work that bogged it down. Plus real life of course…
Oof. Must be an interesting experience for Heatwave, fighting a super battle AND getting a sauna session. And frankly Hiro just looks flat pissed lol.
I can see Arianna watching this with distaste at the “flapping clam” in panel 1 LOL. (yeah yeah, bad joke and there isn’t one, but someone had to bring it up!)
You can pick up and use vehicles as weapons in DCUO (tend to do that when they try and run me over!)
Somewhere at the periphery of the fight, a Ted is kneeling amidst his scattered gardening tools and weeping over the tree he’s been keeping alive underground for the last few years.
I’ve lost all respect for that one Ascender that has a huge hole in his sock.
Looks like a reinforced toe on the sock to me, with Mr. Amorphous’ shoe right above it… i.e., no hole.
Maybe not reinforced sock, more like one of them fancy ones with the padded sole for extra comfort
You are correct about that being Morph’s shoe above their toe
Ah okay. Looked like a foot with a toe because of Amorphous’s shoe.
I will instead have no respect for him because of the undignified way he’s falling backwards.
Why are you even thinking of affording them respect at all?
He is part of a murderous bunch of psychopaths that make SmugD look saintly in comparison
“Why are you even thinking of affording them respect at all?”
Mainly because Ted amuses me a lot.
Ted’s not one of them, so feel free to like him :)
If you want to do a super hero game (you eventually can get to Battle Royale) check out City of Heroes – Homecoming (https://forums.homecomingservers.com/) or (https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/53-getting-started/). It is the best of the reboots that I’ve checked out.
That would be an interesting game.
Imagine the effects you could have: Telepathy might give you more info on the minimap, Precog could give you a level of “free hits” on a cool down, Get Rogue/Varia type thing where the game plan is to go in powerless but try and rack up other player’s powers.
And could do it on a sort of point buy / tiered ability thing. So basic telepathy gives you pings on your minimap, but can get leveled up to stunning attacks or illusion control. The pants shitting moment when you’re down to 1v1 and you see 10 copies of the same dude running at you.
I hope, but don’t think that some of the Archon non-supers are going to look for the list or at least surround the building, so less people can escape with it.
The list has already been secured
*whistling Las the graveyard*
I must say for the record, the Cloaks are *perfect* supervillains.
Private citizens? Who want to use their power for material gain? Who basically treat it like a corporation, with fancy suits and business meetings, but wear masks and cloaks to preserve their identity in a practical way that also makes a nod to the theatrical nature of their work? It’s perfect.
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Did DaveB mess up and put FWTDT in panels 1 and 4? I can’t make out a face on my screen.
There is more than just two Caped Creepers, and Toll House can’t fly
With the purple cape, I’m pretty sure that’s the Telekinetic guy who invaded their base.
DaveB, what kind of battle royale game do you have in mind? Heroclix is a simple mini’s game, while the classic Champions is a more elaborate rpg. But if you’re looking for a video/computer game, it’s been done: look up Freedom Force and its’ sequel, a 1990’s PC game.
And the walls come tumbling down
Unless Watergirl can create water as well, I don’t see her lasting long against Heatwave… Unless she can control the steam.
Whatever the case, Heatwave’s powers don’t need to rely on sight to target so she can target Watergirl’s shoes if she wants.
Maybe she draws moisture out of the air to create water? Sort of like Iceman… but with water instead of ice.
Oh better analogy. Like Luke Skywalker’s aunt and uncle.
So, she never needs to pick up power convertors because she is one?
Just as well since it might be difficult for her to get to Tosche Station.
Hey, it took even Hamill 43 years to get there but he finally did it.
Supermassive: “GRAVITY! ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF THE UNIVERSE! I AM UNSTOPPABLE!”
*Gets shot by electromagnetic waves powerful enough to disrupt the electrical synapse discharges of his neurons in his brain. Turns into a vegetable.*
Varia: “You know another fundamental force of the universe? Electromagnetism.”
I’d be very curious if Varia could do that.
I’m generally figuring that Jigga had her lightning/electrical power and has done a lot of research into lightning and electricity together with practice and testing since thats her particular power area.
Varia, however, likely hasn’t done a lot of research into magnetism and electromagnetism to work out her full set of capabilities… Never-the-less, I’m willing to bet Suck Hole’s helmet and belt buckle are metallic.
Varia seems to have done a lot more practice that Jiggawatt has bothered to do though.
Dabbler had to tell her how to use her power in a specific way against the Fel, she did not realize that her Darkening could have killed a lot of people from radiation poisoning when it annihilated lightning, and she mentioned she wasnt that good at fine tuning her blasts like her brother is (her powers are more … direct).
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1112-operation-white-chicks/
(Panel 4)
Cartoon~style hero: Gravity? doesn’t work on me unless I look down. But, don’t look up, either.
SM: why not? {looks up}
*clang* [random piano/anvil lands on SM’s head]
This guy cartoons.
Did Hiro just preemptively lose his shirt? “It’s going to go anyway – it always does – so I might as well not wear it into combat.”
No, he was already in a fight (with the one he used as a wall-breaker), you can see shreds still tucked in
Yeah Hiro has no shield like Max has so his clothes take a beating. Plus his skin is very tough, he took a bridge tension cable snap to the cheek and only got a small cut, if it’d hit a human they’d been cut in half! So anything as soft as cloth is getting torn up, like using a hammer on a t-shirt on concrete.
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