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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I’m sure someone else has mentioned it, but there was a villain in Heroes who drew power from the fear of others.
But this is a very unique power! I really like the idea of using surrounding violence or charity or other abstract concepts to give you power. Someone with the ability to draw strength from greed wouldn’t do poorly anywhere, but Vegas seems like a generally good home.
I’mma check the comments later to try and find some ones the other commenters came up with (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧
There was this one idea I saw somewhere on the Internet. Power based on the number of people around you. Superman in the city and a average joe in the countryside.
On Deviantart there was an OC where they had an avarice user. One guy was as strong physically as he was wealthy financially. He got beat after someone stole his cellphone and used it to make a bunch of bad investments.
There was a very minor hero in DC Comics named Joe Public, who could absorb the strength of those around him. He became proportionately stronger when he was in a crowd, and weakend to normal strength when by himself. He had maybe three appearances, including one where he got the brush-off from Batman (who called him an amateur). About the only real notable thing about him was that he was created by Alan Moore.
There was also another very similar character from the Wildstorm comic, Gen13, called (sigh) Tommy Twenty-Man. He was part of the very short-lived “replacement” Gen13 team, after Adam Warren killed off the entire original team. He was retconned out of existence a few issues later, when Adam Warren “revealed” that the new team only existed in an alternate universe, and that the original team was still alive and well in the normal universe (or something to that effect).
Smartest thing for Maxima to do at this point?
Put all your stats into armor and just calmly walk up to him, shake his hand (or even better hug him) and say he’s done a good job. :P
He’s already got too much built up.
You never know, we haven’t seen her put anything to armor yet!
Actually, when Vehemence first punched her, she had put most of her points into armor, and it still broke her nose. And that’s BEFORE Maxima went on her construction site rampage
She wasn’t fully charging it though, she had to put a bit into strength and flight too. Not to mention she wasn’t drawing -against- anything.
speaking of which, why doesn’t she constantly have energy beams at 0 when she isn’t using them. That would give her 3 extra ‘points’ to spend at minimal loss, all things considered, unless drawing against something has some sort of fatigue drawback that makes it impractical over the long term.
She’s only really pulled it out, what, once or twice during this entire fight.
You know what, that actually makes sense. But what if it takes time for a stat that’s been “drawn from” to go back to normal after Its no longer necessary to draw from the power?And what if she needed to use the energy blast at a unexpected moment? Would be a really boring fight if vehemence just kicked maxima into the next city because she put EVERYTHING into defence.
Well, as far as non-love-related counters are concernced:
Divine Power: Monochrome.
Just gonna leave this here.
But yeah, Dave, you need to put that in here one day. ^^
Don’t go Feng Shen Ji on me now :P Smoking Aura could work too just need a seed :P
You have to admit though, Tian (or a relative stand-in) could pull a pretty badass Shanks here (obscure One Piece-reference).
I mean, sure, with his appearance and general demeanour, pretty much everyone still concious would have a blast poking fun at his mopeyness but there is something about a guy walking onto a devastated battlefield, looking at all those powers around him and basically saying:
“Yeeah….I don’t really care about any of that.”
whats lion-o doing on the field?
That’s Anvil…but from this zoom-level, the resemblance IS remarkable.
So he’s like the suit of armor Ares and Hephaestus made in that one episode of Justice League Unlimited? I hope you don’t go with their lame counter of having everybody just stop fighting and stop thinking angry thoughts.
It’s not that simple. That he runs on violence is that he’s absorbing Vehemic energy just as Dabbler absorbs tantric energy. Neither of them require persistent violence to remain powerful – they simply take it in during areas where their respective energies are being employed then use it later.
Added Vehemence doesn’t just run on violence – he’s also sentient, meaning that if he worked like the Annihilator Armour he wouldn’t just stop moving – he’d still be a walking tank of a man capable of making his own decisions.
So, this is either Sydney’s time to shine or Dabbler’s. They’re probably the only one who could fight him while having fun instead of violence, depending on how you define violence. Lets say Max and Halo decide to play a friendly game of monkey in the middle and use live grenades or maybe the little energy gobbler Dabbler had before and let it nuke the idiot.
A thunderstorm will charge him. No violent intent there. Same with Sydney attacking him in any way that could be considered violent, such as tripping him. Intent is just like a flavor for him, it makes the violence taste better…
And that is the Word of God (aka DaveB)
Let me guess…by now, you have this comment copied on your clipboard (or pasted into a text file) & just paste it in when someone mentions “violence without intent” at this point? It’s certainly been mentioned enough times already.
:P
Not a bad idea for multitude of “Have Sydney catch him in her force field (which isn’t one, it’s a shield) and hold him until he runs out of air” comments.
Yep, though I try to vary it a bit now and then…
Wouldn’t want to be Obvious or anything, right? :D
That’s why closed captaining is provided.
Too bad he is leaving out the part where the intent makes it higher quality and more “nutritious”. I think he is confusing people into thinking V is risking himself here for nothing. Pretty sure he gets a much better charge from intent violence. Natural random crap would be like a trickle charge and wouldn’t have gotten him so quickly to the “.50 cal bounces off my eye” level.
With this fight he reaches near god avatar status quickly before any of it can ebb away over how ever long it would take to do it the slow and probably highly visible way.
I cant believe no one has asked this question yet so i will. Is Vehemence’s tattoo’s the same as Dabbler’s markings and a sign of the fact there a user of a external energy of similar principles.
Both of there markings change color due to certain stimuli, both us “normally intangible source of energy” and both have there marking spread out over there entire bodies.
Well, if he gets stronger with violence …..I wonder if he is ticklish then?
His worry of the booby trapped sword has to be a clue…..
He was probably just following the age old theory of ‘don’t mess with anything until you know what it does’. For all he knew, it could’ve atomised him if he touched it. And that was near the beginning, when there wasn’t as much violence happening. He probably was Math or Dabbler tough instead of Maxima tough (as in armour).
*Mammary-trapped.” Dabble said it’s Mammary-trapped…
;)
[insert comments about how one would like to be trapped by Dabbler’s mammaries here]
Stupid spell check recognizes “mammary” but not “mammaries” and suggests “mammies”, “Annamarie”, “summarizes” and “marines” instead. Go figure.
Huh, which OS & Browser?
Standard Firefox spell checker on Windows.
That’s why I don’t even enable spell-checking on any of my browsers or other text-applications. I’ve seen enough of “autocowrecks” (https://failblog.cheezburger.com/autocowrecks?ref=navbar) to know where that leads…
You know, given the choice between V’s power, Maxima’s power or Anvil’s power, I’d probably go with V’s. Sure, flight is nice and lasers are cool, but violence is something you’ll only ever run out of when you no longer need power at all.
With his powers, the more you need superpowers to defend yourself, the stronger you get.
Ok he has portrayed himself as fairly intelligent thus far which implies that he actually has some sort of goal beyond obtaining power for powers sake. If so then what might that be? Well, it is probably not related to using our local superheroes to power up repeatedly because he just revealed his power source (assuming he is not bluffing about that), thus any future combat with arc swat will likely be very short and probably not very useful to him as our heroes would be actively trying to minimize his charge. He said that he is pro violence but if that were his goal then he would probably be better off (in the long term) if he moved to one of the more violent areas of the world instead of picking fights with people who could A. actually hurt him, and B. would try to prevent him gaining power.
Second what is he actually getting out of this fight? Clearly energy of some kind but is he actually a vistro-vore (a succubus would be a tantra-vore) ie he actually consumes violence as a form of nourishment or does it just makes him stronger but it doesn’t actually sustain him? In that case it might be kinda like giving an engine nitrous oxide injection instead of giving it air… Which is to say it goes really fast but pretty much tears itself apart in the process (not a bad analogy given the injuries he has taken thus far).
On another note what is it that actually powers him? If he were powered by destruction it would be fairly straightforward as far as developing countermeasures goes if on the other hand his power works very much like standard succubus powers then he should also get energy from violent thoughts etc which could make it very difficult to defeat him if your strategy is in any way passive aggressive. So because your goal in joining hands and Ohm-ing is to defeat him it axially could backfire in a really weird sort of way. On a related subject if it its”violence he gains energy from could he gain energy by visiting the sites of relatively recent wars or from the death/bloodlust aura of ritual battle grounds?
All that brings to my mind some interesting questions about how his powers might relate to time. (bare with me a minute) Succubi (the plural of succubus) gain energy from lust and sex so since anticipation and foreplay is a large part of sex it seems pretty reasonable to assume that they would be able to gain quite a bit of energy as pole dancers etc. Now if that sort of logic holds true for V then it is very possible that he could feed off of say the energy given off by a suicide bomber before detonation (now that would be an odd method of bomb detection). It would seem as though he doesn’t consume violence but i would bet that Dabbler knows something or someone who actually eats (metaphorically anyway) vistric energy and metabolizes it into something else, rainbows or happiness or something…
Also worth mentioning is that it is possible, perhaps even likely that adding a lust effect to an active violence aura would probably end up with a very bdsm feeling rather than canceling. In any case not something i would be particularly keen on trying as a solution for dealing with V. Although I will admit that some of the NSFW solutions intrigue me but they wouldn’t be in keeping with the tone of the comic… Unfortunately.
Now on to how to deal with the problem he poses. Some have proposed launching him into orbit (I think we average about 3 Per page), singing Koombiya (that probably isn’t spelled right) the giving of hugs/kittens etc, the removal of his remaining eye, or overload. Of those, eye removal is probably the most probable because it produces a minimum of violence (what there is is carefully controlled). I say minimum because going passive on his ass just isn’t an option as it allows him to simply generate violence by going on a rampage. Lets face it when the press asks why our heroes powered up a super villain and then just stood by and watched as he razed the city “Well we figured he would have to run out of power eventually…” Just isn’t going to cut it, especially after that press conference. Among other things Maxima is probably going to get torn a new one as it is for not handling things better… Come to think of it Sydney has actually been the best at minimizing violence and collateral damage over the course of the fight. I wonder how that will play out with the press and the team in general during post fight wrap up. It really is a shame that Sydney actually got a bite of baked potato before this all went down I would still love to see the “spicy kiss of death” play out. Seeing V’s face go from -surprise/shock- as Sydney gives him a quick kiss on the lips to -confusion- as he tries to figure out her motives, followed by the -oh i get it- and -Oh holy crap!- would be just perfect. I can just hear Dabbler’s “you go girl” at the beginning too, oh well….
“It would seem as though he doesn’t consume violence but i would bet that Dabbler knows something or someone who actually eats (metaphorically anyway) vistric energy and metabolizes it into something else, rainbows or happiness or something…”
Well, For Whom the Death Tolls, with his Nemesis power, might accomplish that…But he’s pretty preoccupied with unconsciousness right now. There have already been a few suggestions posted about that particular tactic.
Lots and lots of thoughts here.
Does joyfully beating someone up count as violence? Or does bear hugs that end in serious spinal injuries and asphyxiation count as violent? Does a child joyfully playing with telekinesis, pounding vehemence into the dirt repeatedly, count as a violent action if it is with playful intent? Is the intent of a action directly related to the amount of power that Vehemence absorbs? Just a thought.
Somehow, I doubt Vehemence actually wants to kill anyone.
He even let them take care of Vekter, he’s probably not a ruthless killer.
So if one of the squishy, normal people tries to apprehend him, what is he going to do? He’s way too powerful now, so by resisting arrest, he could easily kill anyone who’s not particularly well protected, like Maxima or Sidney.
His entire ploy is based on the assumption that Maxima and her team are trying to keep collateral damage to a minimum and avoid being hit, but what is he going to do if they intentionally put themselves in harm’s way? If I’m right, then Harem could easily incapacitate him by teleporting around him, so he can’t do anything without hitting her.
It’s theoretically possible, but after his treatment of Vekter – like, the part where he punched him in the first place – I doubt anyone’s willing to risk a life on “I bet he’s not willing to kill us.”
In a way, Vehemence is avoiding the possibility of getting charged with Attempted Murder if he happens to get defused, contained & brought to a court trial. By openly showing consideration for another’s injuries, he’s keeping indictments down to “no lethal intent” status.
Pretty smart, definitely…
Worm had a villain who started out as a low level brute/regenerator, but the longer he was in a fight the bigger, tougher, and more on fire he got. Culminating in a massive winged form that could go one-on-one with an Endbringer (after like half an hour of mortal combat).
Hmmm. It’s quite possible that I’m dead wrong, but why do I get this feeling that one of Halo’s unknown orbs will be key to beating this guy?
Closest match I can think of is the Incredible Hulk.
I think it’s interesting that the four heroes left facing him are all women.
Best way I can think of dealing with him is for maxima to carry him into orbit and leave him there. Or have Dabbler stick him in some other dimension.
I knew it. Sydney should have just started out the fight by giving him a hug.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisIsGonnaSuck
Panel 13: I love V’s expression there, as he KNOWS that Dabbler caught her moment of full realization in panel 12. It’s the very self-same grin that everyone has come to know & loathe.
Levitation / anti-gravity is a good place to start, here.
Is Hiro still lying at the feet of Toll House Cookies? o_O
Yes that entity that fed off of fear as it tortured and murdered over eons from that Robert Bloch story used in Star Trek. This guy must be super powered all of the time. And he must come up against the Alien Predators that are attracted to heat and violence. What a battle that would be.
Ah yes…Star Trek episode “Wolf in the Fold.” The entity’s name was Red Jac.
Actually it was just one of many names, also “Jack the Ripper” and others lost in antiquity of Earth and on other worlds. Robert Bloch finishing what he started with “Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper” in 1943. I still wish someone would make a film today. Both the “Night Stalker” and more closely “Night Strangler” had the right tone.
Hit him with a serenity spell, even if it does not take him out, should weaken him.
Next page, cue emotional whiplash: “Well, that was fun, going to go now, let me know the next time you are having a group meal out and we can do this again.”
Everyone is just standing there with their mouths open going “Whaaa?” and Sydney saying “He can’t just do that, can he?”
Well, I’m sure ARC-SWAT will come up with something clever, but here’s a synopsis of a possible next page I came up with:
SCENE: Break room, ARCHON HQ. A NEW RECRUIT is looking awed as she talks with SYDNEY.
NR: “… oh man, you guys were screwed. What happened next?”
S: (shrugs modestly) “Ah, Dabbler opened a portal to the Dimension of Hippies and we threw him in there.”
NR: “There’s a Dimension of Hippies??”
S: (smirks) “Yup, and he’s still there. For him, it’s worse than jail.
(pause)
… and THAT’S how I made Corporal.”
Actualy, that sorta gave me an idea. Sydney forcefield + Veh + 2 kilos of burning pot = quite quick mellow-out. Let´s hope they are in a state that legalized. :D
If Dabbles opened the portal, why did Sydney get promoted? Simply for coming up with the idea? o_O
Do you really want a stoned Sydney? Because, you know, she can’t form the bubble without being inside it
Beats getting stoned (litteraly) by Veh. :)
As far as an Averistic user (User of greed) wouldn’t that technically be an orange lantern? You might want to brush up on your lantern corp. They have so many (red for violence and hate, blue for hope), might give you some ideas as well.
I never read the darkest night stuff, but I’m aware of the general color/emotions scheme, but isn’t it the rings that are powered by the emotions of the user? Or I guess the rings are powered by their respective lanterns, but are controlled by the emotions of user, so the green laterns have to exert their will over their rings, and the red lanterns channel their rage. I guess I’m a little confused as to what the yellow lanterns do. Are they super afraid of everything in order to utilize their rings? Or do they have to make people afraid of them to better use their rings? That one doesn’t make sense to me. Really neither does the orange lantern. I guess they can make their rings do things because they really want stuff?
In any case, I don’t think the rings are powered by those emotions slash nebulous concepts. Will isn’t really an emotion, I wouldn’t classify greed as an emotion either. They’re powered by their big element rocks via the lanterns, then controlled with the emotions.
Always figured the rings were powered by the Lantern-batteries, but the user controlled them with what ever element slash emotion associated with the Ring
Bats got one of the Yellow rings because he strikes fear in many peoples’ hearts (or something)
I thought you were going for a “7 deadly sins” [Lust (Dabbler), Wrath (Vehemence), Greed (Deus), Pride, Gluttony, Sloth, Envy] type characters. I put Deus for greed because, what corporate mogul doesn’t use avarice (-tic) energies?
The Sinestro Corps (Yellow Ring users) power their rings by inspiring fear in others. You are right about willpower & avarice being quasi-emotions at best but their a hell of a lot closer than black (death) and white (life) were/are.
Side note: The only current White Lantern is Swamp Thing
There is absolutely nothing ARC can do to this guy where they win. They may beat him down (he *does* take damage), but then what? Send him to Hyper-Max jail with all the other super violent prisoners? He’ll just sit around and absorb the violent thoughts from both guards and inmates. Strand him on an uninhabited island? The planet is literally permeated with violence; everything that eats commits some sort of violence on another living thing (slow going absorption wise, but doable). Even the best idea I’ve heard (send him to the Hippie Zone (cue Twilight Zone theme song played on a sitar)) would presumably not work since he seems to be able to force a violent feedback loop – eg he feeds off the violence he causes.
Best idea (and it is in no way perfect) that I can come up with is to tranq him and then medically induce a permanent coma (his skin can be broken; how fast he would metabolize the drugs is another matter. Perhaps sever his cord at the 5th vertebra?)
That is an option if he’s truly evil … which I’m not convinced about. He abstained from a brawl that would have significantly powered him (assuming, that like succubi, he can absorb ambient emotional energy; but it is far more effective when aimed at him); he pulled his punches when engaging the ARC team (I mean, c’mon, he can stand toe to toe with Maxima and hold his ground; they wouldn’t have had a chance if he wanted them six feet under); and, despite knowing that monologue-ing is a bad idea (he seems to be up on most of Halo’s pop culture refs) he still does it; Why?!
Perhaps this is his strange way of applying for the team?
I don’t think he was even capable of going toe-to-toe with most of the team members until he’d been around while all his little pawns and they had been going toe-to-toe with each other. He’s been getting stronger the more violence goes on around him. He wasn’t nearly that strong when the fight started.
Going toe-to-toe with Max was just icing on the cake. She could have wiped up the floor with him except the more she did to him the stronger he kept getting.
You may be right, but I’m still leaning towards him being an incredibly intelligent, strongman type. I don’t think he would have gone to that little fracas underpowered. What if ARCSwat had rounded up the stragglers first, viewing them as either noncoms, lesser powereds that could get seriously hurt later, or out of fear that these guys on the fringe could conduct ranged harassment actions at the most inopportune time? No, he wouldn’t risk it. He had to be prepared for the worst that could be thrown at him (as best as he could gauge, at least).
Also, he took down the tp’er and villain leader when it started to look like they were going to bamph out; yet still showed concern about the well being of said lead baddie. He doesn’t even sucker punch Max when she shifts her attention to see that it is done. So, in summary, he single handedly ensured that none of the villains caught escaped *and* took down a tank type that would certainly have given much of ARCSwat fits (not Max though, no, not Max). Note that he never used lethal force against anyone who he thought couldn’t handle it regardless of how they hurt him (note sniper. He got hurt there, but has made no move to neutralize her. He has had time to deal with her, albeit a short amount).
There is something more to Vehemence than just a brawl to test his strength against the best ARC has to offer.
Oh, good. Harem is keeping Vektor from drowning, down at the bottom of the last panel, but where is the line of unconscious bad guys?
I’mma leave this here…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_spectrum
Here ya go:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_spectrum
Thank goodness he doesn’t draw power from dramatic pauses. He’d be near unstoppable
I think you mean…He’d be nearly…Unstoppable!
I think that… particular person… is ….William Shatner.
And they all lose, yay.
Easiest way to beat him? Offer him a violent, although less destructive, alternative, such as making him a sparring partner. Or put him in demolition work, beating up on things that need to be destroyed.
Totally makes sense. And, incidentally, called it three pages ago with this guy wanting to get kicked around just as hard as he was actually getting kicked around because he has some kind of twisted power he’s going for a power-up on.
The reason it totally makes sense is that that is also exactly the power he needed to rapidly get the most capable dealers of violence available (that is, all the other supers he tricked into this fight and then double crossed), decided to commit violence that they stood to gain exactly nothing from in this stupid attack in the first place. The same way a succubus can quickly find the potentially lustful sexy people and turn nearly any gathering into an orgy, this guy can quickly find the potentially violent powerful people and turn nearly any gathering into a fight.
It made sense to me that he’d be an absorber of some kind as soon as he called out Anvil’s power. It seriously wasn’t obvious, and as folks in the comments section pointed out then even less so because leaning into enemy attacks is a valid martial arts move – putting the point of impact somewhere unexpected.
But her trick was obvious to him, because it’s pretty much his trick too. Reminds me of The Prestige, in that way.
Sydney’s hand looks like she’s holding Dabbler’s right breast in the 6th panel. Heheheh…
Great comic. It is the last one I read because I like to end with a treat. ;)
How about Sidney wrap him up with her shield and just hold him until he passes out or powers down? Kinda like how a TK should be able to lift a Brick, like Stalwart, and let him punch air. Or in this case, a shield that is Maxima-Proof©.
The obvious problem with that is that so far in the story Sydney has always formed the shield around herself, never around someone or something else, so she’d end up inside the shield with Vehemence. Doesn’t really sound like a good survival strategy.
Another point is that the shield has not been tested enough to be called Maxima-Proof©. The problem with such a test is that when Maxima goes full out she delivers so much damage that if the shield failed the likely hood of Sydney ending up as a red mist approaches 100%.
And that’s another reason we know Sydney can’t project the shield around some thing besides herself. If she could do that Maxima would certainly have tried to find it’s breaking point.
The shield testing was conducted on the following pages:
Grrl Power #93 – Sydney is the only person to get away with this
Grrl Power #159 – Safety is job one. Well, maybe two or three
Grrl Power #160 – Explodiest beam vs. the shieldiest shield
Grrl Power #161 – Cooldown
Can’t. Always around Sydney. Blah, blah, blah…
Go copy and paste CptObvious’ post for such as this. :-P
How is it violent to encase someone? Even if it powers him up, how can he use it? Anifreik, ya got a point. Haven’t seen her use the shield on others, but have seen it not centered on her. Also, blah does cover any other bases, lol.
I was replying to anifreik. CptObvious has been going around on the last several pages responding to those who say for Sydney to just put a shield up around him, but she has to be inside of it. That was my point, mokudox, you just got kinda caught up, sorry, it was nothing personal.
Waiting patiently with his trophy .
I think it is funny some people don’t read the comments enough to find some of us have running gags in them. :-)
That’s why they are still running.
That gag ain’t just been running, but getting the full calisthenics workout.
And I think there’s enough of the “massive orgy to defuse V’s power” comments to start adding Squat thrusts to the workout…
Midnight you can have that one. I don’t think Cpt can handle that many more trophies. :-)
At the rate that these multiple “running jokes” keep going, the good Capt. will soon have trouble preventing all those trophies collapsing into a singularity…
He will at least need a planet to hold them all.
As a mere Captain I’d settle for a mere continent…
@Cpt. Obvious: How about Atlantis?
I don’t think a continent would be large enough. Probably should try one of the gas giants.
@Deof Movestofca: It’s already sunken so… Yes definitely workable!
I think I’ll go on record as saying that for Dabbler to try a Lust aura on the guy right now would be a Very Bad Idea.
There is absolutely no antinomy between sexual desire and the will to violence. We don’t tend to remember it if we are psychologically “normal”, but the two can and often do coexist in the same person at the same time with respect to the same object. As someone who has worked in emergency rooms I have too often seen the aftermath. It ain’t pretty.
(Referencing to my reply just above)
See what I mean?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Referencing my reply above…here is your trophy. :-)
I admit, I’m curious whether he can heal.
Like, shoot his other eye already.
Definitely a unique take on a power up motif Dave. I had been thinking that it was something akin to a melding of Anvil’s power and the Hulk (the madder he gets, etc, etc). Kudos on a well done villain.
Now I’m just left to wonder how the gang is going to stop his angry, buffed up ass.
Considering he just revealed his power source, and they did manage to put out one of his eyes. If they can put out his other eye, all the power in the world won’t help him. They can then just chill and keep their distance while he rages and flails about doing no real harm and drains his power reserve.
Least thats the plan I’d go with, his eyes don’t seem to be quite as invulnerable, if they can either drive Maxima’s finger through the other eye, or get another 50 cal shot into it…
i know how to win! it might be inappropriate for most of them but dabbler might agree its time for FLOWER POWER! The second option is a spicy food contest looser surrenders, the winner and looser go to hospital for stomach pains. I’m sure halo will volunteer for the latter and dabbler will volunteer for the former.
wait what no no no max am not hugging him I don’t care if your going to rebuild my restaurant and make it indestruckable am not hugging the sicko I don’t care how magical and anti violent my hugs are there is no way on earth your making me OH CRAP!
Not sure if its been mentioned, but one thing you could do is bring in someone whose powers increase as their opponent gets more enraged, their attitude in battle could be similar to Math’s, where they purposely annoy the hell out of their opponent just to make them more angry, leading them to become stronger.
And lo, it came to pass that ARC’s salvation was assured by the arrival of “Nyah, Nyah, Can’t Hit Me Man”. He could just stand around annoying V into attacking him until he burned off all his accumulated energy.