Grrl Power #250 – It’s only overconfidence if he loses
Sydney will explain “Inverse ninja” on the next page, but this is one of those cases where I probably need to scoop her so those of you unfamiliar with the trope are up to speed. Basically it says the more bad guys the heroes face, the less of a threat they are. In other words, 100 Stormtroopers? No sweat. One Darth Vader? Big problem. Weirdly, the way the trope works, 100 Darth Vaders are exactly the same threat as 100 Stormtroopers. It’s only when you get down to the last one that he becomes a threat. It’s like, conservation of action. Normally there’s no way the hero could beat 100 Darth Vaders, and that’s why it makes a good cliffhanger to end on, but when the next episode starts, the hero gets a lucky shot and hits the gravity suck death vortex thingy that 99 of the Vaders were clustering around, but that last one? No way he’s going down in one lucky shot.
Two hundred and fifty pages. Part of me wants to pat myself on the back and part of me wants to kick myself for doing a 50 page fight. I really didn’t intend it to last that long which is especially ridiculous considering how much I cut (ahem, saved for later I mean), and as you can probably guess from this page it’s not quite over yet, but I promise I will make the remainder as concise and entertaining as I know how.
I don’t know why I’m so bad about remembering little details panel to panel, other than there just being a lot of details to remember. But I bring it up because I want to point out that Vehemence’s coat didn’t repair itself in the last panel, I just forgot to draw it all torn up somehow. It’s a fairly minor art repair, I just didn’t have time to fix it as I’m scheduling this post at 1 am.
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When Vehemence loses, will his glowy tattoos turn red? His power is that he’s an Xbox.
Dave, take notes!
There are very few places in that area of the body that make those sounds. He’s either got a Lot of broken ribs or his spine is now busted.
Panel 5: source for hilarity, his eye strips look like tears.
Time for Achilles to start going clubbing!
Strike to the upper front of his torso? I’m thinking ribs.
That’ll still kill him if they’ve punctured a lung, though.
Yeah, I think that was a pretty solid hit Vektor took. Anytime such a sound effect begins with the prefix “ka-” it’s getting serious…And the root word “crunch” is widely used for snapping bones.
Well, since this is a comic written by One of Us, for Us, I don’t have a problem pointing out tropes when I see them.
Here, Dave is making use of “The Worf Effect”; to establish a new threat’s sheer power, she/he/it is shown easily defeating either a highly-powered previous threat, or a high-powered (usually, but not always, the strongest) member of The Team. Sadly, this often has the effect of diminishing the validity of the defeated in the minds of the viewer, as this is often done continually to the same character (i.e., Worf from Star Trek: TNG). That is what is happening here, with the punch, so it is EXTREMELY likely that Dave is actually using that sound for many ribs and/or the spine. And is more likely than or in this case, methinks.
Sorry for the wall…. I need to stop apologizing for that, and start actually trying to CHANGE that.
The mini-comic, canon or not, is entirely too believable.
Is it bad my shipping name for that couple is Lustin?
I know this is a stupid question but why doesn’t anyone, save Catalina and a few other rare examples, just go with the damn straightforward approach?
Wrong WC Could’ve sworrn I typed it over at the EGS forums.
I think you are right. And it looks like both sites use Gravatar to cache comments and this one got stuck in the pipe.
That circular symbol on Vehemence reminds me of a Mopar logo.
1.2.3. on the cool, suave boss!
In regards to the 100 Vader argument: A truly evil boss will simply mentally control 99 high school students to dress and act like a Vader, so that after the heroes finish mopping the floor with them, he can always distract the heroes, if needed, by pointing out that they just busted up 99 kids pretty bad, and they might want to call 99 ambulances whilst the boss makes his get-away. Great for dumping on the heroes’ morale, and causing them to pause at a crucial moment in the future. MWAHAHAHAHA!
Code Geass, an anime series, did something like that. Except on the good side of course. And they weren’t expendables, they were his loyal troops.
A vigilante by the name of Zero agreed to be exiled. But nobody knew what he looked like as he wore a mask. His followers at a demonstration, thousands of them, all wore that same mask.
“Zero” was exiled.
You mean like in that ‘V For Vigilante’ movie? Or whatever it was called
When Vehemence walked through the TK-whirlwind, rocks broke into dust without damaging his clothes. When he was hit with the car, car exploded but the impact and fireball did not completely shred his clothes.
I am just wondering if Vehemence has aura-hugging forcefield which is “hard” enough to cause the rocks to crush on impact. Another possibility is that he has reactive defense “assault field” which launches telekinetic blast on contact. An assault field with strong enough kinetic pulse could blast the rocks into dust, and compression-ignite explosives and fuel-air vapor in the car gas tank.
Typically referred to as “Defense Aura” and “Invulnerability Aura” much like Superman who has explained that this aura is why his skin tight clothes aren’t damaged bullets and such.
The typical, or perhaps just earlier, explanation for why his uniform isn’t damaged by things is that it was made from the cloth he was swaddled in as a babe during his voyage from Krypton to Earth. And of course the Kryptonian cloth is just as invulnerable as Superman.
Stretchy material then
If that was true though… How did they sew it together into a suit. What needle did they have that could punch through that cloth…?
They didn’t. This description is from the ORIGINAL Superman comic, and is the one I’ve always held on to (well, I hold onto it being invulnerable cloth, not absorbing his aura). The cloth came with Kal’el on the escape pod, already in the form of proper yarn for knitting, and it was so stretchy it grew with him, no problem.
Yes, it’s entirely too convenient and breaks what suspension of disbelief we may have. However, it was the Golden Age of comics, and it still makes more sense than “I have an aura that covers an inch around me.”
Or a PK-Field for those Whateleyites among us. I have theories on how they function (basically tapping into ‘ideal mathematics’ to allow for perfect reflection of force at an absolute distance from the body) but they cause a _ton_ of headaches in universes where superpowers are quantified instead of simply qualified.
That was… scary… and fun… do it again… do it again…
For some reason, when I read your comment, I started playing back a short conversation from a movie I’ve seen.
Bob: “Is everybody okay back there?”
Violet: “Super-duper, dad!”
Dash: “Let’s do that again!”
I LOVE The Incredibles! That was always the ONE Pixar movie I wanted a sequel to, but no. The thought “Cars 2” and “Planes” were better ideas. Maybe next they’ll do “Trains” or “Submarines”.
I can’t convey this reaction in text, so here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbd4t-ua-WQThough it’s unnecessarily long, since it only needs the first few seconds….
This also works well, AND it demonstrates how dated my interests usually are
Lurch Groan
Lurch may not have been the most articulate in the household, but he was the most eloquent…
:D
Apocalypse vibe growing.
Mmmmm similar yet different, seems like something sort of between Apocalypse and Math.
I get the feeling he’s more like Predator.
Apocalypse the super, or the event he’s named for / is named after him?
“Eat Cadillac!” hee hee. Clearly, Vekter is a Blondie fan.
hmmm… i don’t know… i don’t think Guitars are explosive… and they blew up the bar, they didn’t eat it…
I have no idea what he’s doing in panel 6
-S
backhanding Mr. TK in the stomach. Look at panel 5, you see his hand extended before the backswing.
Interesting, and well-spotted.
That’s two people he’s taken down with back-handers, not regular punches …which suggests to me that the source of his power is in the sigil on the back of his hands, and on his forehead, which screams magic-user.
Or hitting that way is his weaker attack and he isn’t serious about killing them. OK with it if it happens due to shock or poor force estimate etc… but not serious about it.
I missed an obvious joke. Vehemence fights at the drop of a hat. And he just dropped his hat.
Eddi … that was bad. Truly. Really. I’m ashamed I didn’t say it!
Also, when a character(whether good OR bad) takes off their Hat, Sunglasses, removes the Ring, the list goes on, you know that Stuff is About To Happen.
Thank you.
I’m partial to characters opening their eyes, or doing something otherwise normally OOC. It’s usually just an amazingly nonchalant way of expressing surprise, but when it’s done well it is AMAZING.
I still don’t get the ‘inverse ninja’ thing. I thought what you described was called ‘conservation of ninjitsu’. If anything, it should be ‘straight ninja’ for this, since that is really the basic rule of ninjas. ‘inverse ninja’ would seem to indicate that there only being one of him means he should be weak or something…. Maybe she isn’t recovered from that oxygen deprivation?
The word “inverse” comes from the formulation of the idea as “there is an inverse relationship between the number of ninjas and their threat level”. More ninjas = less threat, and fewer ninjas = more threat. One ninja = maximum threat.
No, one ninja = RUN AWAY, YOU FOOLS
I might have missed or forgotten something but why is Duke Nukem there? :P
Go back a couple pages to them posing over Death Cookies’ gushing rectum, and read his “Whos Who” entry
“gushing rectum”…. So much for a desire for a hearty breakfast.
One of his powers seems to be stylish suit regeneration based on panel 6 and 10, which would make him either Stalwarts arch-nemesis or the one he must learn the ways of sustainable business wear from.
His name is Goose he a minor character and had he a more active role on this page, You’d see a tag that says he doesn’t say much, grimaces a lot, and bears and unfortunate resemblance to a certain video game character
Uh? I think you fell in loop :)
Sorry seems like every page of replies someone asks like they didn’t read the other reply pages.
Very true, but I mean that MobyD was talking about Vehemence not Goose :)
So…why wouldn’t he let them escape? I mean, I get wanting to let them warm up. He’s cocky, so yeah. Don’t get the point of the double cross though.
I would think that the villains would serve as a “prize” if they can beat him, maybe even hostages so that ArcSwat doesn’t really have much choice but to fight him or the villains die.
Not that he needed to do that. I may have thought of another reason. He didn’t want to go. Opal was about to pull everyone out him included. He wanted his shot at the heroes and knew Opal and Vektor would be in his way so he knocked them the hell out.
If not being teleported out was his only goal, there was no reason for him to KO Vektor. Sure, Vektor was pissed that Opal was knocked out, but nothing Vektor did had any effect on Vehemence at all. So it was completely unnecessary except perhaps from the standpoint of wanting this to be a “one on many” showdown.
My prediction: He’ll do some damage and then either Sydney will find his weakness and he’ll be taken out, or he’ll run up against heavier firepower than he anticipated and will flee the scene in the old “I’ll be back!” villain style.
I think the Vekter victory was a demonstration of the ‘Worf Effect”. This proves to the viewers that you are a bad-ass by one-shotting the previously toughest and/or most dangerous person on the field of battle.
Note: This easy defeat can not be lethal if the defeated is a recurring character (i.e., Anvil just got back up)
Awesome! Somebody else caught it! I’m ashamed that I posted it a day later, but oh well.
Vektor is supposedly in a relationship with Opal and I doubt he wants Vektor interferring with his fight with the heroes one way or the other. One shotting him gets him out of the way either way and sends a message. Anyone not willing to risk the same should leave. Think Zaraki Kenpachi as a bad guy with nice clothes.
Kenpachi fight (he’s the one with spikey black who shows up after the orange haired hero gets curb stomped) warning almost an hour long
https://youtu.be/hfZVX0I-G8Q
Please note the little girl probably saves the hero from Zaraki when she knocks him way from the action
Still a third reason is, the heroes would need to deal with him rather quickly before any of the bad guys wake up. Not sure if Harem had collared all of them, and it only takes one to start freeing them up to fight again/escape. If the tide starts to turn against Vehement, he can use them as shields, or start releasing/waking them up to create a distraction to escape with.
So – is it just me, or did anybody else hear the soundtrack to “E.T.” in their heads at panel 7?
I was thinking more along the lines of “Somewhere over the
rainbowmoonbeams,bluebirdsVekter flies….When I first read your comment, I couldn’t think of the music. As soon as I looked at the panel again, it came to mind.
I never really liked the movie myself. It just wasn’t my taste. Then again neither was Titanic.
Dave,
You did a 50 page fight because you ROCK! Congrats on 250 pages.
So, point A, that was just incredibly awesome. Love the face in panel 2. Point B. He looked so much better with the hat on. If he could snag a replacement hat somewhere that’d be good. What can I say? I just enjoy a good fedora.
Of course you do. Fedoras are sophisticated, attractive hats that nonetheless only look truly great when the wearer is worthy. Or, in the case of Indiana Jones, they are concentrated pieces of awesomeness that are handed down from one badass to another, constantly growing in power until the hat turns into Chuck Norris.
DaveB, does the inclusion of Shawn’s car in today’s comic have anything to do with my comment on page 26? Because this is acceptable.
I mean, I can’t imagine you weren’t already working on or done with the comic before I posted that; but the the first half of todays double-high page is about the car.
Maybe it is a response to all the threads we already had arguing about the throw-a-car-attack :)
Maybe Vektor should have tried throwing Vehemence at the ground, instead of hitting him with a thrown car. But then again he doesn’t have Maxima giving him advice.
As a “powerful telekinetic” Vektor should be capable of realizing that a brick can’t get the needed traction necessary to throw a hay-maker if he is being held 5′ above the ground. Upside down. His first reflex action should be to lift an enemy brick into the air, not to throw a car at him.
That has been discussed already. He did not grab Stalwart despise the urgency, nor Jabberwokky either. The proposed theory is that his powers do not work on living things.
BTW this could also be a meta argument, maybe DaveB is responding at the objection he voiced thru Max, kinda:
“Ok, but what if I am strong enough to lift a car but not a human?”
“What? How could that ever be?”
“I know a guy.”
So far, Vektor hasn’t used his PK directly on his enemies. If we assume that he can’t, Maxima’s argument about attacking with your own power or body instead of throwing an object doesn’t really account for a power that is the abbility to throw things.
“You’ll never get through my shiel-“? Sydney probably could have told Vekter that the easiest way to make sure that something that a person doesn’t want to happen happens is to say that it could never happen.
Then again, this opens up a whole lot of questions about Vehemence:
1) Is he human? Extradimensional, alien, or something else?
2) If not, then what is his origin and are there more like him?
3) Also, is this his true/original form?
4) Would Sydney’s truesight orb allow her to detect his original form if he’s a shapeshifter as opposed to being covered by an illusion (I’m assuming that the latter applied to Dazzler since she still had all four arms)?
When Sydney snuck up on V she was using the Truesight orb. If he was using an illusion of any sort she would have seen right through it like she did Dabbler and X. What we see is what Vehemence is.
Not exactly. Tele-her can’t see through illusions. So unless she was looking at him with her actual eyes the illusion would have held.
She pretty much had to be looking at Vehemence with her actual eyes in order to see him and send her tele-presence over to chat with him.
no, looking thru the eyes of the telepresence inner orb will also show Sydney what she needs to see, it happens here in the ballroom where she has Max throw up the Spocker, and such…
True, but I am with Oberon here, the truesight activate at the very moment she take the orb (see #103) and she needs to guide the small holo-orb to the place she wants to put the illusion first (see #89) so she should looked at Vehemence with the truesight activated, like she did with Arianna, at least for a moment.
It could have been from too far to realize anything though.
The truesight ability appears to be a field type effect from the orb’s actual position, not the double’s position.
Maybe his powers come from the Mystic Gem of Cyttorak.
(FYI, according to Marvel the ‘Achilles Heel’ of this invulnerability is that it only protects from the outside. In a special horror issue, Wolverine once defeated a zombified Juggernaut by shoving his hand into his mouth and cutting his head off from the inside.)
I’d love that to be a Patreon bonus! Maybe email us High Res versions of the comic.
I thought this guy was some kind of sleeper agent for Arc-Dark… no such luck.
Seeing as hitting him with a car does nothing, Achilles would be very hand right about now – Max could swing him like a club.
That…. that would actually be useful, lol.
Love Vehemence.
As for poor Vektor, (Despicable Me jokes incoming) he failed to activate his wing suit, and should have brought his squid gun. ;)
Anyone who has truly studied World War the 2nd would know that small groups can do far more than huge armies, and those on ‘suicide missions’ are more likely to return alive than someone going on a ‘milk run’
I tell you it’s an overconfidence thing. If you know you the mission is so important that they are sending you knowing you are damn likely you die then you are a hell of a lot more careful too get it done properly and once you do, you want to get back safe if only to say “‘F’ you I lived through your suicide mission.”
Conversely on a “milk run” you think people do it all the time what’s the worst that can happen, you let down your guard just a little too much, and then you find out the hard way.
I refer to Capt. Ronald Speirs specifically the portrayal of him in Band of Brothers. He states the warriors’ credos that a soldier who fears for his life and wants to live will hold back and hesitate probably resulting in a wasted demise.
If a soldier who steps into a uniform and believes himself already dead that leaves behind the hangups of survival and leaves a man(Or Woman) to commit dumbfoundably insane acts of stupidity(Heroism) and survive to be made as an example by his peers. Like performing this clips brave act not once but Twice and making it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7TuCSnWlJk it sounds like I’m repeating your statement but I was just trying to expand on it.
Zack Tilly on both counts
Pretty much like the code a samurai follows.
He’s going to wipe the floor with them, all of them. It’s the cliche thing.
Well we know Halo Max and Anvil survive, Dave averts tropes and/or uses them in unexpected ways on a fairly regular basis, injuries (especially hilariously painful and humiliating ones) are Dave’s preferred method of taking out of action, and he prefers to avoid killing characters because it sets the wrong mood for a comedic, slice of life, action comic.
Why every time this comes up everybody neglects poor Stalwart standing there? Does everybody secretly want him dead?
Nah, he’s just hard to recognize because he atrophied.
Just because they survive does not mean they win
True but I have a feeling the main reasons he holds back is to prolong the fight or leave them alive so they may potentially present a challenge later. He doesn’t strike me the sort of guy who’d get broken up if accidents happened.
Not true. Many great generals (or at least great military minds; my head’s too screwy to remember any specifically atm) would have, and DID, say that any battle you can come home from and see your family again is a victory. Sorry, I paraphrased. Also, most soldiers would agree with that statement.
Hell, just because they WIN doesn’t mean they win. See Pyhrric Victory (did I spell that correctly?).
Not to mention all the nastiness of PTSD, injuries, all kinds of things.
I get the feeling that that he will, but only until Halo figures him out like FWTDT.
One can win, but ended up being “behind”. One can also lose but end up “ahead”.
It all depends on the resulting “price” of the victory or defeat.
Imagine beating a villain in the superhero genre but you level City Hall in the process. Sure, you won … but not what I’d call a Good Victory. This is what you’d call a Win/Lose.
Conversely, you lose and the villain gets away, but you thwarted his plans and kept everyone alive. I’d refer to an event like this as a Good Loss. This of course is what you’d call a Lose/Win.
That’s true to a certain extent, but in practically every victory, there’s at least some loss. Furthermore, a victory can still be considered a good one despite a heavy loss if the loss sustained is less than what would have been lost if the hero(s) had done nothing.
Alright, I have to say it:
Why the hell didn’t Vekter at least TRY something smarter than the brute-force approach first? (I know, I know; 50-page fight, conservation of time, n’ all that.)
Had I been in Vekter’s place, I would’ve just tried to rip all the air from Vehemence’s lungs while also throwing myself into the air, using chunks of rubble as a platform.
Would it have worked? Probably not. Would it at least give me chance a at a breather? Maybe.
Better a breather than a header.
(Or he could’ve tried to chuck Maxima at him. THAT would’ve been funny.)
We already know he’s not the brightest guy there, not stupid per se, but his girlfriend Opal had to remind him prisoners which can be questioned are bad for eluding capture, Then of course, V just hurt her so he’s not thinking straight.
Theoretically but I suspect even if he could do so, he’d have issues doing so at that particular moment. Fine control requires more effort and mental stability and being upset, he would have lacked the latter. He’d also be be less likely to think of using such techniques.
Ehna … this really depends on how fine of control he has. The fact he’s shown as not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer means its entirely possible he relies on brute force TK as opposed to fine control TK. IE he hasn’t taken the time to actually learn how to do razor sharp movements with his TK. There is also the possibility than his TK is brute force level and he can’t do fine manipulation.
Yeah! Anvil’s getting up. You are in so much trouble. Go ahead. Punch her. See what happens. And the so-called Big Boss goes BOOM!
Am I the only on who imagines Gamagoori Ira’s Shackle/Scourge Regalia in regards to this statement?
Flip side to that that’s not often played. Imagine what happens if you overload someone who can Absorb something. What will happen to all that energy they Can’t Absorb?
In marvel, that’s what happened to strong guy. He got severely misproportioned because he absorbed a huge amount of kinetic energy but didn’t release it fast enough. If he had continued to hold onto it for longer, he’d die/explode.
IIRC Guido/Strong Guy’s problem is the power didn’t effect his HEART so if he absorbed too much his heart would (Pretty much DID) explode from the stress. [Regular Human-sized heart working to support a 2500lb body]
Interesting landing noise… sounds like it’s come from a cheese 80s horror film.
Gotta say, if Vekter becomes a more prominent character in the future, I might consider cosplaying him. Perhaps I’d get one of my friends to do Opal. :P
Post pics!!!
Daphne dear do everyone a favor wake up Mathias and Hiro and port back to get some some BFGs for Shawn and Goose. Oh and Goose seems to have lost his vest somewhere between 227 and 247. Could you wrangle up another one for Shawn and him.
I will bet that Shawn do not need a vest.
I think he’s technically a squishy human specialist and likely was transfered to ARCHON because a badass by Navy Seal standards. I could be wrong but Dave left him off the cast page and it has all the obvious supers and oft seen specialists.
I agree, it is just a wild bet, or maybe a hope, somehow I’m fond of him being some kind of super.
Only clue in that direction is that he was at the super corner of the table before things blew up.
True, but I think that means little, it took a while for some supers to have their own profiles, and we know of at least one already seen super that DaveB is “keeping for later”.
I will keep my fingers crossed :)
Sir Barrack, I actually enjoyed this 50 page fight sequence. Write how you like ’cause your making a kickass comic!
I mean come on. “Eat Cadillac!” is awesome.
Well for everyone but the guy who own said Cadillac.
Please note, I know his name is Shawn; I was speaking in general.
yep, that’s one more thing that can get added to the bill these guys are gonna have to pay off… “loss of victims primary mode of transport to and from location of employment”… “you gotta buy him a new caddy guys…” said their defense lawyer after the trial…
Except that Shawn is a member of ARC, so….. workman’s comp?
POV in most military outfits is an “at your own risk” situation. Damage might be covered by insurance, but the military has no responsibility toward private property. Not to say they’re completely heartless. The Navy allows transport overseas or home on space available basis. There’s a picture of an aircraft carrier flight deck full of cars from when the bases in the Philippines closed.
Again Archon may be different.
I think that and the lawsuit Arrianna is planning are both civil suit as opposed to criminal suits. Different charges, court, and cases. Basically suing them for trashing Shawn’s car and causing the waitress to lose income. Call it adding insult to injury legally. Not only lose the fight but get billed for the clean up.
Yeah, I think the semi-official term is Conservation of Ninjutsu (not just TVTropes calls it this). Ironically, DrMcNinja (probably the prime example of the effect) calls it the Inverse Ninja Law while Uncyclopedia calls it The Law of Inverse Ninja Strength, which is probably where Sydney got it from.
Either way, like a few other commentators it would be cool if Vehemence was an upgraded version of Death Toll, but more SCP-056 with the adapt and improve powers.
I don’t get what shield Vekter was referring to. What did he put up and what with?
Invisible wall of telekinetic force, It kept Opal and him from getting flash fried by the caddy bomb but he underestimated how strong V was.
If his telekinetic powers can’t latch on to organics like some people have been putting forth then how was he expecting to use a purely telekinetic shield to stop a guy who hits you with his bare fists? I could see it stopping the fire which is not alive… I guess he isn’t so professional yet as to not panic when a big leaguer takes out his girlfriend right before his eyes.
Well, even if a TK power doesn’t work on the living, you could still use it to “solidify” the air into a shield. In this particular case, some of the solid debris (pebbles, dust, etc.) that was in Vektor’s rockstorm may be suspended in with the air too.
But if we go that far, give him the telekinetic strength to hold onto a decent amount of something as slippery as air and hold it against a strong armed tank (or expect to anyway), we are right back to a guy who aught to be able to just use that air (dust or whatever) to almost directly manipulate organics… Eh… I think I’ll stick with the he choked due to smackied girl thing. It causes less headaches.
Observer, TK tends to fall into the suspension of disbelief category more than others.
Telekinetic Force Fields, Body Shaped Force Fields, Tactile Telekinesis, moving physical objects around are all considered par for the course and normal. Actually molecular control is something you don’t see in TK users, well save for the ones who’ve seriously gone off the deep end. Then all bets are off.
At that point, you can start getting into the Horror genre, or run into limits on what the artist/author can get past the radar due to ratings.
Ergo, Suspension of Disbelief.
“…save for the ones who’ve seriously gone off the deep end.”
Like, Phoenix of the X-Men, for example?
:P
I’m also working on a supergenre story where there are characters who could literally touch you and die due to something akin to telekinetic interference. Such abilities are “banned”, and people who have it are placed in special “Towns” for everyone’s safety(including their own).
Imagine being able to do that but not knowing how to control it. Fluffy cute kitty, you touch it, wanting to cuddle, and the poor cat’s dies because you don’t know how to control your power.
Yes, three back to back. But it makes it easier to read.
So yes, while TK could technically do the things everything mentioned here, a lot of it boils down to what the artist/writer is willing to bring into play. There of course are always ways to get around why such fine control is never used. This also helps to preserve the ratings.
Of course if you’re doing a story where characters are often maimed or killed, then body slicing level of TK is acceptable. An anime series called Elfen Lied had that as a major premise. And yes, body parts did fly in bloody fashion.
Well, that wasn’t technically telekinesis; it was multiple extraneous “arms” that let them do all that wackiness.
Great show, crappy ending (to my mind), but a show like that isn’t going to have a happy ending, even if all you want is the couple to be together.
I understood telekinesis to mean he could manipulate stuff. Now he can use ‘telekinetic force’ like a green lantern too?
Well, the Lanterns (Greens, anyway; I don’t really understand the difference between them all other than the emotions, but I never really was big into western comics due to life circumstances. I enjoy them, but I wasn’t ever able to follow them like I do novels and manga) don’t use TK; they use what are essentially hard-light constructs, only constructed from the wielder’s will. Or the space-whale’s will, in very rare, VERY dire circumstances.
I just realized, if Vekter had a British accent, he would have been a decent ripoff of Manchester Black.
Who? o_O
Superman character from a movie. Led a team of vigilante antiheroes who flat out kill villains for a while, superman ends up beating them all up and taking away their powers.
He had mind reading, telepathy, and absurd telekinesis though, actually managed to genuinely hurt Superman a little bit with his hardest hitting attack.
Which movie? Have seen all the live action (except for the ones after “Superman Returns”) and quite a few of the animated
Superman vs. The Elite. It’s one of the animated movies. It was adapted from the comic book story line, “What’s so Funny about Truth, Justice, and The American Way?”
OK big, walks through stuff, doesn’t flinch when a car hits him, impeccably dressed…Stalwart’s family member or Stalwart from Bizzaro World…I mean heck we have Dabbler so why not. if someone else said something similar, oh well, wasn’t going to go through all the comments just to get this thought out.
This. Will. Be. AWESOME!
And he thinks Sid is a good kid- and, I quote, “Hope she doesn’t get killed tonight.”
Hold on- did V’s Tatoos just change color?
Same color just stronger now cause the are glowing and overpowering the background color where as before they were just light pigment over pinky skin.
Calling Sydney’s plan for dealing with this one: Have Maxima fight him, and have the rest of ArcSWAT fight Maxima alongside him. Conservation of Ninjitsu works both ways, after all.
Well, he’s polite, at least.