Grrl Power #264 – The team receives some bad news -OR- Oh crap is right
Yuuup! Do me a favor and imagine the dramatic music rising as they talk, then the sting right after Dabbler says “…violence” Dunnnnnn! In fact it’s probably best if you read the remainder of the fight while listening to some track from Two Steps From Hell, who are hard to beat when it comes to god damned epic music. Actually, listening to some good Two Steps From Hell tracks makes stuff like shopping for groceries feel a lot more life and death. If the comic was movie or tv show, I’d definitely use that gag. I do have some “audio required” jokes that I’m saving for the movie version. :)
Drawing a 50 person battle royale for my first fight was daunting, but this was a big part of the reason for it. I knew Vehemence would settle for nothing less, and now the team has unwittingly powered him up to the point that he’s capable of trading blows with Maxima. In fact actually trading those blows was quite helpful to him. Like a succubus, it’s good to be near the action, but much better to be directly involved.
As villains go, I think Vehemence’s powers are pretty original, at least to my knowledge. It’s a good part of the reason why genre savvy Sydney didn’t peg him before he gave it away. After I thought him up, I was able to come up with a few other antagonists with similar abilities though. Certainly a few entities from Star Trek fed on conflict or anger. War, from the Incarnations of Immortality books owed his godhood to ongoing wars, and Ares from DC comics is powered by conflict, but I think making it akin to tantric magic is more or less unique, so I’m pretty proud of him. It also makes me think of what other abilities could be derived from a normally intangible source of energy. An angel powered by charity? An Avaristic user, powered by wealth and greed? Straight up good or evil? There’s a lot of potential there, something I’ll probably explore a bit more in the Grrl-verse. :)
Boy that last panel took a lot of work, and I’m sure it’s missing many a scorch mark and crack. I know panels prior to this haven’t really shown the cumulative damage very well, and if I have some time I’d like to go back and fix that, but like I’ve said before, drawing rubble is quite tedious. I also would have liked to have shown everyone laying unconscious where they fell for maximum effect, but I already established that Harem and Sydney were carrying them from the field of battle and sedating them. There should be more flaming bits of Shawn’s car scattered everywhere and stuff like that, but I basically worked on the panel until I ran out of time and had to start coloring. Still, I think it carries the impact I wanted pretty well.
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Who didn’t see this coming ?
*slowly raises hand* …yeah… I’ll admit I did not see that coming was so busy wondering why he’d organized the fight that it never occurred to my that it could have anything to do with his power… that’s pretty clever… its also pretty bad for the girls…
“Hands Gus a bacon cookie for being truthful”
Well, I took 6 years of Latin, and can remember that ‘vehemens’ is Latin for violent…*
So no, I actually pegged this perfectly.
(Well, at least in the sense of “the more he fights, the stronger he gets” — I will admit I didn’t guess the “Vehemic Energy” part; that was a unique twist, DB.)
*Also, from Google Translate, we get the following:
vehemens — violent, vehement, intense, strong, powerful, vigorous
The only thing I don’t get is this bit:
His name is Vehemence. –> Vehemence is an English word, Latin-derived; near-verbatim from its root etymological form.
Now, I sorta thought Sydney might be the first to realize it, on account of her being the comic-book nerd (the realm in which ‘my name is my power’ is everywhere), but I wasn’t betting 100% on that.
However, in retrospect, I realized someone else — at least one other person — should have made the connection (at least, that’s assuming said person was aware of the battle; she is a bit preoccupied):
Gwen.
See comic #208 for why:
Grrl Power #208
For those of you who can’t see it, Gwen’s magic circle has Latin in the spellweave/work/web/code/whateverthefrackDBwantstocallit — if she can cast using Latin (and here I assume that, in trope-fashion, Latin is Power), then shouldn’t she also be sure to know what the words mean before she casts them?
Then again, there’s another possible reason here, I suppose, because she is, (self-admittedly, I believe), ‘in training’.
Well, to be honest I thought his powers was kinda like Rubilax from Wakfu; “The more you hit me, the stronger I get!”
Didn’t think it had anything to do with the fighting around him though.
Agreed. I saw it as a variation to Hulk’s getting stronger the angrier he becomes.
I thought it was going to be that he got more powerful after getting beaten up, dragon ball Z style (not that I’ve ever watched that show… *cough* )
This is close though.
Actually, power is gained through near-death experiences in DB universe, and only by those of Saiyan ancestry.
I saw a lot of people saying things similar to this over the last couple weeks but I thought that DaveB wouldn’t make the “boss” character in this fight have such a strong similarity to Bell Tolls in that fighting him was an important part of his powers. So I over thought it and was well and truly tricked. Well played.
I also misplaced a day somewhere if anyone replying to me in the last updates comments thinks my replies show a lack of current knowledge… ^_^’
This… makes so much sense, and also raises the far more important question of just what the hell the team can do now. There’s always running away, but that would not only undercut the whole point of the team, but also leave a fully powered super being in a civilian area, one who may be more than willing to do anything he can to make them fight him.
This depends on whether once charged he needs to use power or if his power can be drained /countered by another, if the later if dabbler pushes as much tantric love on him as she can that is as close to anti violence as I can imagine and could power him down.
Either that or Sydney picks him up by the ankle with her Light Hook and holds him while they all meditate and chill out.
and hope he doesn’t love the bdsm stuff? but yeah, short of an actual carebear attack, that might be their best shot.
The only answer to this is to use *passive* containment/restraint. I think Dabbler would need to come up with a portal to a Limbo dimension…Someplace where there’s really no one & nothing there for him to get violent with.
Portal to another dimension has popped up a couple of times, but… can Archon actually do that? I don’t doubt Dabbler’s ability, but where would that fall under severity of punishment? While I would agree it might be the best option, I’m wondering how tangled that would get, especially with Dabbler officially being a civilian.
I think you kind of let civilians do what they like in this situation. Is anyone really going to complain that you prevented a superpowered rampage?
Wonder if any of the heroes have a “bell jar” power and can suck the air away from V. Lack of oxygen should cool his jets.
How about Syd dropping Lighthook over him ball-of-yarn style? If he tries to snap a length, it stretches; squeezed, it compresses. Enough air might or might not leak through the spaces between. She holds him till his power charge is used up. I estimate that if she makes Lighthook 1 cm thick it’ll need to be 50 km long.
I wonder if a non-crushing bear hug from Anvil would be unbreakable? She would absorb any attempt to push her arms away or pull away. Also a hug from Anvil could be decidedly pleasant, which would make it non-violent.
The female aspect of my personality are “volunteer to test it, you fool.” The guy aspects are “that worked out oh so well for us last time.”
Wouldn’t it just be beautiful if the ‘winning move’ is Maxima going up and giving him a big, loving hug.
Or a Group Hug! Even better! But best if it starts with Maxima.
Hrm… Can Dabbler do the Cupid thing? Could she supercharge the lust/love between two other people?
I was thinking Dabbler’s lust aura might be key here, myself. Get everyone distracted by a whole other mood… including Vehemence, until he powers down. Her spells as such may not have had enough mojo to them to affect the big V, but this is something of a signature move.
Very cool. This was an appropriately dramatic reveal. I love their dumbfounded looks as well. Oh… I think I guessed correctly oh so many pages ago!
wow
this is a new way to get clustered fuck for sure
for even miss succubus to step back you KNOW this is bad…but question WHERE ARE ALL THE OTHERS? strategic withdrawal?
But there is one question for everyone with any kind of absorbing power:
Can it be overloaded?
Well, Heatwave is stashed somewhere, I’m gonna say on the roof of the strip mall behind them. Achilles is still buried, Mr. Amorphous and Jiggawatt fell outside of this shot, and Goose and Shawn have in fact fallen back since flahbangs and armor piercing bullets don’t affect this guy. They’re still around, but well off shot now, probably guarding the subdued villains.
More importantly Dave…where’s the squirrel? I expected the real mastermind to this whole plan to be in the last shot, somewhere. Did I miss it?!
Awesome page, great reveal. Thanks for all your work.
You mean you can’t see hir rubbing hir little evil paws together cackling in Squirrelese at all the carnage? Shi’s right there, in that tree!
I’m pretty sure I see Stalwart (center), Math (left), and Hiro (right by the angry muppet) in the shot. Between that and the ones already listed, that’s pretty much all of them.
Ghhhhhhhhhhhhhh, boy. That aint good.
Where the heck’s Mahatma Ghandi when you REALLY need him?
Why would you want him? If the Civ series taught me anything Ghandi is a nuke happy psychopath.
Which Ghandi? Mohandas Ghandi, called Mahatma or “Great Soul,” was a confirmed pacifist. Watch the movie Ghandi, it’s a fairly accurate portrayal.
Ghandi in the Civilization series is just one of the computer AIs (the one representing the “Indian” people group, obviously), and it plays the game like any other, meaning that it engaging in war, etc, etc.
Of course, that makes him a bad choice for the representation, but he’s the best-known person from India, so they didn’t care.
There was a glitch in civilization that made Ghandi have an affinity for nuclear weapons of 255, on a 10 point scale.
It was funny enough that they kept it in.
The reason is that Ghandi had such a low aggression, that giving him diplomacy (which lowers aggression iirc) caused an overflow (because they used unsigned integer, and not a signed long integer) giving him max_int aggression (which is 255).
Actually, his pacifism came much later in his life than most people would think.
Yea, first he was a british regemental sergent-major, then he was a lawyer. THEN he became pacifist terrorist.
He’s dead, Jim. Has been for a long, long time.
Wait, so Vehemence is actually powered up by the violence around him, or was he powered up by all the ass-kicking he got from Stalwart, Anvil and Maxima?
Both.
EDIT: Oh, I see… both, actually.
Well I think it is both but with different rate of effects lets say indirect violence around him powers him like %1 compared to violence he is involved with (both receiving and dealing) or at least that is how it looked like to me. It is easy to fight against him though just call………gulps………………..Sailor Moon. :P
Ha, Super Gandhi. rofl! :D
…umm,where is Goose?…
As a squishy normal, he stepped FAR back when Maxima started getting involved
I think the last panel works very well, Dave. And I wouldn’t worry about changing the old pages, kinda makes the wide shot reveal work even better. My fave today though, is panel 5, Big V looks so disappointed that they don’t know what he’s talking about at first after his big reveal. But he gets his mojo back in panel 12. :D
Yea, the big pannel really underlines the ‘voilence’ thingy, I love it
Now I wanna know what those Aeton Thrones are that Vehemence talks about…
That’s where Dabbler got half of Soul Reaver from. I believe she called the material auracite, said it was “incredibly good at channelling magic”, and she used it to freeze Heavenly Sword.
Could you link it please?
Haha, “pics or it didn’t happen” style?
But sure, the comic is this one. (I hope this linking works).
Thanks a bunch, I’m just lazy to search for it myself when I could be smooching Harley Q.
(Does best Harley Quinn impression–including wearing of the hat):
Puddin’ ain’t gonna like that buddy, now step back or the babies will getcha(they get a better dinner when it’s still running)!
(/end Harley Quinn impression)
Then again, she can always dip into her bag o tricks and pull out the Banhammer.
Okay, for those who didn’t see my post on the last page. Last night “Too Much Information” Gained about 3000 votes in an hour with someone voting 2 to 4 times a second. You can check the traffic report and still see their voting. So come on or Dave will be behind really quickly once this person starts up this again. They went from 9th to 2nd.
So Death Toll was sort of a “budget Vehemence”, to use Max’s words?
No, Vehemence is still dangerous if left alone
That’s what I meant with “budget”. Death Toll worked with violence in order to retaliate, but he was limited with what he could do (as enough violence could beat him). Vehemence also thrives on violence, but he cannot be beaten by it.
Just like Hex was dubbed “budget Halo” by Maxima due to Hex having similar but more limited powers than Sydney, I dubbed Death Toll “budget Vehemence”.
Considering that his eye appears to be unusable at the moment, a 50 cal to the other eye, and he’s effectively beaten with violence.
He’s not immune to it (he CAN be hurt), it just helps him in other ways.
Simple solution is still Max using her speed and flight to punch him into orbit. Problem solved.
That makes the assumption his power progression as he gains energy is strictly linear, what if at certain levels new powers become available? It’s possible at some point he gains regen, or flight? He did seem to get a pretty big boost from Max hitting him with that column if we look at just how hard he hit her and how completely he took her by surprise so it wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume his speed and strength have gone up considerably.
Not to be “that guy,” but called it.
No, no you didn’t, not about Vehemic slash Vistric Energy
From violence? That’s okay! All Dabbler needs to do is use her Lust powers! Then everyone would be in love and *poof* goes our enemy!
That being said, I wonder if anyone has tried using laughing gas on Mr. V.
Dabbler’s Lust Aura might be good enough to initially subdue V, but what then? How can Vehemence be kept contained & away from human society without Dabbler *always* being right there using it on him?
Dabbler’s not the *only* one in Archon with magical ability. So they need to find someway to transport V somewhere out of the Earth dimension, where he can’t commit violence…As I suggested above.
If you did manage to transport him out of the Earth dimension, would you really care if he was committing violence or not? Assuming he had no way back of course.
As for caring about the potential inhabitants of another dimension, I’m not the kind of mind that relishes the idea of “passing off my problem to someone else.” Any comic book hero would feel the same way. “Passing the buck” is not really makes a good rep for any hero, super-powered or not.
I’m only considering something along the lines of how Dr. Strange dealt with the Hulk when he’d lost all of Banner’s influence & went totally off the edge. Strange transported Hulk to a “Crossroads” dimension where he could find a world that could neither harm or be harmed by the Hulk, yet allow him to be happy there.
He’s already really strong, I doubt his stored energy will decay that quickly.
AND, he’s proven to be capable of shrugging off her sleep spell already, saying she’d need 3 orders of magnitude more power (I asume that’s what it translates to). I doubt he’d be as effected by the lust aura as the rest, so that’d only help him
Well, this reminds me of one episode from the series “Hercules, the legendary journeys”, where Hercules could only beat his stepbrother Ares in stopping him fighting, because Ares got stronger, the more Hercules was fighting. I think it was one of the first encounters between these two characters in the series, because later on they LOVED to beat the living crap out of them (Hercules obviously usually winning…:-).
But I don’t think, you need a super Ghandi to beat vehemence. You’d need a super-experienced guy in internal martial arts and super composure, who acts and reacts non-violently, letting vehemence power turn against himself.
Or Sidney has to find a way to seal him in a bubble of her shield, where he can outrage himself…
To bad our super martial arts guy is knocked out
Just loudly anounce to Harem and Anvil that the only way to win is to power up Dabbler via “teamwork exercises”.
He’ll pop straight up, grinning like a loon again
Complete with cheesy anime stylings? I’m terrified in that I can pretty much picture this…and that I have the strongest urge to get out my hammers(for smiting lecherous men).
I thought Jerry took away the Hammer Spell?
Dan never stated that two persons can’t have the same spells and Susans “[I]s basically the hammers”
Except now she can use them on ANYONE.
???
El Goonish Shive. Jerry was an immortal who created magic hammers women could pull out of thin air and clobber offensive men with. The artifact that powered the spell depowered when he died/reset himself. Shortly before he did, Susan a semi-major character had an angst induced awakening of magic that allowed her to summon said hammers herself without restriction or need for said artifact powering the spell.
That’s the philosophy behind Aikido. using the opponents strength against them. Most of the throws in Aikido us only about as much strength as a 2 year old has, to redirect the force being directed against you.
Dramatic bell or tone? No, definitely the classic “whaa-whaa”. Nice to know I got the hint the first time he mentioned his name….talk about a give away.
Well, Dabbler’s exclamation of “Oh crap” sounds about right, but my first thought was, “Dayyyyy–uuuum!”
QUICK, somebody give him a hug!
Oh, and you might want to call some backup:
https://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/20500000/Fluttershy-my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-20524085-570-402.jpg
No, you can’t do that. His energy store would plumit so fast he would simply die, violently.
thank you, now I picture Vehemence repeatedly powering up and dieing
I rather think V would be more likely implode, like a star collapsing into a singularity. Let’s just hope no one else gets caught in the vacuum left as he shrinks…That would *really* suck.
They should get their doctor there,i think healing energy would chancels out the violence energy.
He’s way too tall to be a Nilbog, though. And not green enough.
+1
How many people would even recognize the reference, though?
gamer of 35+ years hated those buggers
Cept when I was the Dm
Pretty much the same here. Maybe only for about 30+ years though…I got started with AD&D 1st Edition (I’ve still got the original Deities & Demigods, 1st printing…BEFORE those “Affirmative Action” jerkwads forced their censorship on TSI), after the Box Editions of D&D were already pretty popular.
Ooops! I meant “TSR” not “TSI.” My bad.
Lol. First time I ever pitted one against my group, it was a high level thief. He teleported behind the Nilbog and backstabbed it for 52 points of damage. I’ll never forget how his jaw dropped when it turned and swung at him.
Then he tried it again. ROFL
Having a CEO whose charisma is powered by greed would be amazing. He’d play various other executives against each other, each one giving him more power to coax others into bad decisions. Probably using something like Dabbler’s lust aura.
Looks in in the Direction of Deus .. Hmmmmmmmmm
How about a user powered by apathy? He’d become a straight-up god at election time.
Mahaha. Allways shitty when you have to realize that you have been planning into the villains plan all along.
And how to you beat someone without beating someone.
Question now is how long can he store that energie? Is packing him into a energie shield enough?
Can he power himself up by distroying stuff?
And, well, he still hasn’t told what his goal is? If power is all he wants then a third world war is probably on top of his chrismas list.
Another viable question might be, “Can Vehemence be overloaded with violence enough to burn him out?” The problem with trying to find that particular threshold is that there might not be any city left (excepting the ruins & rubble) in order to find out.
He lost two teeth and an eye (or at least is blinded for a while in it) already so in theory he could be further pumelled into submission. But with him literally getting stronger with each blow that wouldn’t be the best strategy.
Locking Vehemence up inside something where he can’t get out of is I think the best strategy now and just leaving him in there till the violent energies have faded. With him fully powered up it will be hard to find something that can hold him though.
I would be very interested in finding V’s upper limit. I’m willing to bet if Max stopped grandstanding and started fighting smart, she could beat him.
Hmm, lets weigh our options;
– Contain
– Distract
– Confuse
– ??
And we’d need to be able to hold one or more of those options for as long as needed until he’s powered down.
This sounds like a job for Sydney!
Super speed plus flight plus just enough strength = punching into orbit.
Or, knock him up into the air and blast him with Max’s big nasty kaboom. Considering what a 50 cal did to him, she could easily kill him that way.
You’re right, I guess “Remove” is also an option.
I just can’t help but recollect a pokemon that could hypnotize people? Or put them to sleep? Some cutesy pink one? (It was years ago.. and I never actively watched it)
I think that’s the way to go here, somehow confuse/distract in such a way you change his state of mind completely. Once he loses his violent intent, he’s as harmless as a kitten!
So possibly Dabbler or Gwen? (I’ll assume magic will need to be involved)
Or sleeping gas. That should work..
That was Jigglypuff. It would sing because it loved to sing, but it would get angry when everyone fell asleep and turn it’s microphone into a marker and draw all over everyone.
Called it!
So that leaves a very important question:
Is Vehemence human? I’m starting to doubt it
He’s a superhuman. Just like Maxima, Harem, Heatwave etc. I think the only non-humans in the comic so far are Dabbler and her demon nemesis who needs to see the urologist.
He use the same kind of energy if Dabble and she is a succubus so I the not that he is human
Not the same kind- it’s a different category.
Think of it like languages. Dabbler was born ‘speaking’ Tantric, and has learned a bunch of other ‘languages’ over the years (can tap into other types of energy). But Vehemence only knows one ‘language’- “Venric”. He could maybe learn others, but right now he can only ‘speak’ the one.
And the reason they know different ‘languages’ is because they’re from different ‘countries’, not because they’re from the same ‘country’ where more than one ‘language’ is spoken.
Yeah, it’s a pretty out-there metaphor, but it was the best I could come up with.
Since his markings are clearly not tattoos and are linked to his abilities, I’d say its fair to say he was born with it. That makes me think he’s an Alien.
But then again, a blue-blooded, golden creature with purple hair named Maxima is supposedly human..
You know… this would be very good point to suddenly put in a cut and take a break for two weeks while you sort out a publisher for the comic while the rest of us stew over this cliffhanger.
Also that last shot totally needs some serendipitous tumble weed.
Ooohhh, I did NOT see that coming! Yup, they’re pretty much boned now.
Also, does that mean succubi and vehemic users are basically equivalent to the Star Sapphires and Red Lanterns, respectively?
damn, why did I not see that connection. I am losing my inner geek.
Sapphires were Love,supposedly
Yep. Indigo are compassion, Orange are greed, Yellow are fear, blue is hope. Emotional Electromagnetic Specturm ftw.
It’s all Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey… stuff
Another important question: Will the stored energy decay after time? Probably, otherwise he’d be able to charge up to godlike levels simply by visiting a few wars
cuddletime for anvil and kissing time for dabbler.. dont tell me that you are turning this into one big love scene DaveB
on a sidenot: with V caring about the health of Vektor, did that reduce his power? woulda been a stupid action in my opinion in that case.
Violence doesn’t necessarily mean being evil, or even just mean, It’s entirely possible that having powered up he now goes on to rescue a family of kittens that are stuck in a tree provided he does it violently. So caring about Vektor health is irrelevant the violence has already been done.
The other point that needs to be made is that there may be a distinction between physical violence and emotional violence. Are violent thoughts all that is necessary, or just violent actions or does it have to be both? Of course this applies equally to Dabbler and I don’t think there is any strong evidence with regards to her either.
Oh jeeze. That just put me in mind of an “If Vehemence wanted to be a Hero!” AU thing.
“I shall now go rescue those kittens! VIOLENTLY!” *tears down tree crushing someone’s car but kittens are safe*.
“Building on fire? I WILL BEAT THAT FIRE INTO SUBMISSION, VIOLENTLY!”. *building collapses, but the fire’s out!
why did i suddenly think of Vehemence as one of the Ripping Friends?
I tild that sinve V is bald, Anvil can’t use her Hair Ruffle technique… :(
Dave, seems you made a little typo:
You wrote “to late” instead of “too late”.
Whoops, yup, I’ll get it fixed.
He clearly meant “to blave.”
So I am reminded of the Justice League unlimited episode where Ares unleashes the demolisher on an ethnic cleansing civil war and it had the exact power set as Big V. The secret was for everybody who was fighting to just stop. Lay down their weapons and walk away. The demolisher would still attack but with it being the sole source of violence and no one attacking back it quickly lost all power.
Damn, I thought of this to, but I guess you beat me to it.
I think they later dubbed it “The Annihilator”, and it’s weakness was intentionally built in.
Utter bong-snuggles! Ethic cleansing doesn’t stop because someone comes along and pulls out a comfy chair and a jumbo bag of popcorn, or even starts smashing up both sides: they want the other side extinct and don’t care how it happens, or who does it!!
That’s exactly what I thought of after reading this page. However, Vehemence almost certainly doesn’t have the same weakness. If he did, it would be WAY too simple to beat him.
Isn’t there a ST:TNG episode like that as well? I believe it features an Ultimate Weapon that was rendered useless when people around it failed to use or even consider violence.
He he. Nice power. Group hug time. He has to be kissed into submission. Flower power time. Find some cute puppies and kittens to make him go “awww, how cute”.
The only way to defeat the anti-Hulk!
Here let me give it a try. *grabs Yorp in a bear hug and gives him a smooch* Did it work? Are you feeling less violent and powerful? I have to admit you’re not as nice to kiss or hug as my Lil Harley Q
Welcome back puppy we have missed you.
Thanks. I have been around, to make sure I put in the daily vote. But just have not had the time to keep up with the comments, sadly. Fear the next time I get snowed in though. The commenting bug might bite me again! And the and the Cabin Fever Bug is notorious.
Well they are both better than the Ebola or politics bugs
Violence? I don’t see any violence around here!
My first thought: “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”
And I (sort of) apologise for thinking that :P
Fling him into space, halo or maxima could
I rather like the exchange between V & Halo there:
Syd: “She’s from Jersey”
V: “Pull the other one.” (As in, “Trying pulling on my other leg.”)
Syd: “Old Jersey.” (I see an old reference to the Jersey Devil there…)
If that’s what DaveB was trying to pull there, I claim first on cutting through his subtlety. :D
“Old Jersey” is one of the channel isles belonging to Britain
Ok, so I’ve never heard of it before now. It’s not like I have a world map hung up on my wall or anything like that, because I don’t.
As the late, great Will Rogers has said, “Everybody’s ignorant, just in different subjects.”
Go Netflix episodes of “Bergerac” :D
Quick someone send him into the Phantom zone!!!! That would fix EM… Lol
….dear god no… you know how violent that place gets?
He would be able to tear holes in reality within the day!
Hmm… although he does power up, still seems like a bruiser. Seeing that it seems his powering up is slightly magical, he probably has a better set of resistances than most bruisers.
To stop him you need containment or a non violent takedown, most likely either magical or chemical based, and he’s likely going to have pretty good resistances to both. If Sydney could project her shield, I’d call at least an attempted chokeout on him, but it’d be kinda suicidal if she cannot project it or put it on her projection of herself. A chokehold from Anvil or Maxima might work, but would be hard to pull off. Other than spamming magic/gas weapons at him, I’m having a hard time coming up with solutions.
Max can fly, and she’s MUCH faster than him. Knock him into orbit. Problem solved.
Well, he did say he was pro-violence…
I would have to agree with everyone else, paralyzing him is the way to go. Of course, unless he’s gained flight, they could just throw him in the space. Maxima is likely still faster than him, so she could grab and toss then juggle him in the air to get him into space.
Option two is to have Sydney trap and her bubble, which will cut him off from all energy. Of course, we have no idea if she has to be inside the bubble or not…
Nice cliffhanger. Hope the next page is a double.
Hate to correct you Deltarno, about every page the bubble trap has been suggested and sadly we have to tell you that DaveB made clear that sydney her shield has to be centered around her.
Yes, we DO know that Sydney has to be inside her force field.
Another call for Capt. Obvious!
And another award for him
Thank you! It was kind of close this time. Three posts later and this had been on page 2…
If people continue to add their comments as replies to other comments above there, it may yet wind up on page 2 anyway…
:P
Nope, replies doesn’t work that way. Each page contains a maximum of 40 comments, but each of these comment can have a huge number of replies. The comment we’re dangling off right now is number 38 on page 1. When I’m writing this there are a total of 127 posts on this page. That number will increase by one as I press post and no post or reply will be pushed to page 2, so my trophy for this page is safe! ;-D
That’s good to know. At least keeping track of all of your trophies won’t be any more difficult than it already has to be.
This looks like a job for… throwing him into space because he hasn’t shown any flight powers that I can recall!
Of course. His markings are much like Dabbler’s. Not in the same places, but they have of the same shapes and the glow… I should have seen that.