Grrl Power #246 – Sydney Scoville Jr, power susser
Sorry for the late start, I just… forgot to schedule the comic. Bluh.
Anyway a lot of you guys nailed Death Toll’s powers right as the team started taking him seriously, which shouldn’t really surprise me, I mean, I drew him countering fire with ice and ice with fire. Maxima probably could have figured him out, but she does have that whole being the most powerful super known, which makes all the villains look like nails to her giant hammer. Also watching one guy thrash her team got her a little angry, which makes her a little punchy. It’s something she’ll have to work on.
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This guy must have a massive ego – the name, the costume and all that are signs, but the biggest would be trying to be a villain in the first place. Imagine being him. How did this guy get in to crime? His power is pretty much uniquely suitable to be a hero, someone who’s job would require them to walk in to super powered confrontations. With a tiny bit of foresight, he would of realized confronting “good guys” with purely defensive abilities is a path to a big fat fail whale. Though these particular good guys did fall for it for a while. Periwinkle Butt Sniffer had no chance in the long run.
you llustrate why I have to like the ambition behind the DC comics superheroine “Infectious” some label her as a lame hero; but she is a character with a power that would more often be labeled as a super-villain power (causes disease) and yet wants to be a superhero despite this.
Some powers are better suited fro crime or being a good guy; but one shouldn’t be defined in a role by their abilities. Its what they are like mentally and emotionally that matters. Although image trying to be a good guy when your power is to Animate Corpses.
I think the name and outfit were deliberately designed to annoy people into attacking him. That’s certainly an effective way to avoid the issue of your power only working when attacked.
A bunch of guns, and maybe a black-market rocket launcher, for the heavy-hitters, and taking pot shots at them would do the trick a lot more effectively!
What they should do, here, is have Sydney put a shield around him, and then Maima can blast a big hole around the shield so he’ll be standing on a pillar with a moat surrounding him.
Sydney is the center of her shield’s diameter.
But Sydney can fly away afterwards. We have no indication that FWTDT can fly.
even with his powers being defensive, and Sydney’s angst attacks, he is still a large man with thick muscles. Also remember if she uses any of her powers to defend herself from him, his power will counter it, so she’d be worse off, plus any normal physical attack as well.
So little bean-pole Sydney would for the duration be trapped defenseless against a very large guy she can’t in anyway attack.
What if she attacked him with her hot sauce?
you forget that is AOE. it would harm everyone but her
He would counter with a tidal wave of milk?
I am thinking the googly eyes may be to point out his weakness.
I mentioned in an earlier post how some Nemesis counter types have a spider-sense like ability. But one thing I noticed in a previous page was that he had his hand aimed at each person; this was when I thought he was Nemesis-Mimic and had to aim his hand at someone to counter-copy their powers…however….it might have been the clue that he has to see the attack coming to counter it. He saw the grenades and that they were flash grenades before they went off. but his eyes were covered, when covered they could put a strap on him and glue googly eyes to his mask.
Just remembered. Achilles would be perfect in taking him down. The only power Achilles has is also defensive, and won’t trigger the counter.
He seems to be able to counter attacks that don’t originate from powers making Achilles unable to punch him.
hmmm…. will the comment system continue throwing my replies to the end of the pile or will this be attached to Berserk Knight like its supposed to be?
Ahh, Death Tolls, I love that googley-faced buffoon. Maybe they can reform him and get him on the team. C’mon let’s see some funsome antihero action!!! I love seeing the bad guys make good! :)
Is it just me that wonders how I coped with just one strip a week?
This is one of 17 or 18 comics I check daily. But that being said, I get sad when strips disappear for a while…
18 is a start, it’s good to start small :P
I clean my list regularly. If its been 3 months since an update with out indication of coming back from the author I assume its a dead comic and delete it. I currently check about 30 but before I started doing that I think I had about 60-70.
I wonder if Sydney’s way to beat him involves the hentorb. She seemed to already have it in hand when she needed to get Max’s attention before.
Tentacle cocoon?
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Ok, I give up: could we have Sydney face in panel 7 in a bigger format please? Each time I read this page I get mesmerized by it.
Looks like she is flirting with Maxi (goes with one of the panels from the last page, believe it was when Maxi *snrrk*ed)
Anyone still thinking that the mask is a power item? I’d intersested to see how Sydney removes it without it (the act of removal) being precieved as a threat.
Tell him nonchalante style that there are google eyes on his mask
I wonder if he’d be immune to the hentai leanings of the Molestorb?
It’s not resisting arrest if there was no legal probable cause to arrest in the first place, but that has to be determined in court.
If DT spent the entire battle royal defensive only, then the court would find in his favor and afterwards he could sue in civil court for false arrest and possibly federal civil rights violations.
BUT, by arriving and being a part of the group who did attack and commit multiple crimes, there are many accessory to the criminal actions of the others in the group that he can be charged with, so there is probable cause to arrest, and therefore DT is resisting arrest.
By showing up with the others he showed previous knowledge, and conspiracy to commit. Even if he did nothing after arriving, just being involved in the plan enough to show up would be multiple counts of felony conspiracy to assault of federal agents, CtC felony vandalism (the restaurant roof, felony due to extreme cost), and there are probably numerous other possible charges.
As Vimes said in the Diskworld series a guard can always find something to arrest somebody for even if it’s just malicious lingering, or loitering with intent.
Just have Peggy shoot him with rubber bullets…no super power to counter
He appears to be able to counter grenades as well, not just powers.
Have achilles wander over and arrest Death Toll.
He’ll just be countered into neutrality.
I think the counter for this pretty straightforward. They do have Dabbler.
Just off topic but has anyone noticed that Sydney’s orb powers fit into some of the main categories of super powers? The laser orb is a main attack power, the shield is a defensive power, the flight is a transportation power, the light hook is a utility power, and the yellow orb is a illusions power. That leaves the two other orbs to be in a main category each. Maybe one is a mind manipulation type orb and the other is a regeneration orb? It would make sense.
Edit: since Sydney hasn’t had need of or tried to use the orbs for anything relating to health problems or mind altering affects I’m willing to bet this will come up at a later date. But God help us if Sydney ever gets mind control or any physcic powers.
Edit: since Sydney hasn’t had need of or tried to use the orbs for anything relating to health problems or mind altering affects. I’m willing to bet this will come up at a later date. But God help us if Sydney ever gets mind control or any physcic powers.
There are other main stream powers than mind and healing. Categories not covered, energy absorbtion and freezing, i.e. supe’s freezing breath, time manipulation and super speed, DaveB would probably call these over the line though. Immovability, think the blob from marvel, but knockback resistance is a regular thing. Techno/magical manipulation, spacial dimensional manipulation, size/mass/density manipulation. Daveb has a long list of potential obvious power trees. For the record energy absorbtion could balance the ppo, and has a nice range of effects that are not over powered. Healing would not be bad, but would make the shield redundant, I think the last orb should be for information gathering or storage. Fairly useless in a fight, but indespensible as true sight in certain situations.
Sydney: “Okay the simple answer is to grab this light pole, bend it in the middle like so and so and then from waaaay over here drop it around him like a pair of crab claw breaker thingees .” Groaning sound of metal as hentorb accomplishes this. “Then you gently apply pressure until Mr. Google there decides to play nice or passes out from lack of breathing room.” … “All yours Max.”
Wow time traveled back to insert behind the last reply I had read….
Could threaten to call his mom and have her evict him from her basement if he doesn’t behave.
The key is to restrain him without attacking him. I assume he can counter any personal restraints, such as handcuffs, so doing something like passively blocking his path would work. Dabbler could erect ice walls at some distance from him, for example, to force him to move in a given direction. This guys worst nightmare would be a crowd of pacifists.
That sounds possible…
That bruise looks kind of serious. I’m expecting it to spawn a frowny face any second now.
Hmmm. What would happen if you threw a healing spell his way?
Argh! His Nemesis power saw the defeat comic as an attack and countered it!
Solution: Chinese finger puzzle. easy, huh?
DaveB: This bears saying, I LOVE the faces you do. Panel 7 is awesome and the upcoming “check your target” is my favorite one of Anvil.
Thanks! I spend a lot of time on them.