Grrl Power #889 – The denude bomb
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There are a number of reasons this guy might be trying to explosively de-dress Max. One hopes he’s not in league with paparazzi, though I’d wager a super slow-mo shot of that grenade going off in Max’s golden, invincible cleavage would garner heavy interest. If that’s the case though, I can’t imagine what that guy’s cut must be to trade punches with Maxima.
The word “denude” means to strip something. It seems to me that it should mean to dress something. That word and “inflammable” will cost us points when the aliens come to evaluate us for ascendency.
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I suspect he may be getting help to pull this trick off.
If nothing else, one of his cohorts flew off with a still slightly-functional stasis gun.
I’d say it’s time and past time to hit him harder.
He has declared that he is part of a group, so it is likely that he is getting help.
But being a super we should not too easily discount his own capabilities. He may look like a dumb bruiser, but he is coming across as erudite. Both Peggy and Math have shown that non-supers can be skilled enough to take on supers at their own game. Now contemplate someone with both great talents and useful super powers. Even if it is just the very common super strength and toughness/durability, a supremely skilled person could leverage that to become formidable.
Super powers in this setting tend to kick in during adolescence. So we could envisage someone growing up in impoverished circumstances but, due to great innate talent, gaining great slight of hand and infiltration skills. Then discovering that they have super powers.
The simple technique of bumping into someone on the street, as a distraction for lifting their wallet could easily be super-sized into a combat technique of whacking someone really hard and also leaving them a parting gift, under the cover of that attack. He certainly showed he was capable of blindsiding someone with considerable combat experience.
Finally Halo, Dabbler and Maxima may not be the only characters with diverse power sets. There are innumerable ways powers could assist in such a ruse, from teleportation to having an invisible tail.
Explosives strong enough to break Maxima’s first layer from grenades that fit in your fist aren’t very “improvised” for normal people.
If you are a super mercenary, you expect to be hired to deal with super powered foes. Those with lesser enemies could not afford his price tag. So it is natural that he will equip himself with the best weaponry that Machina industries sells.
Finally if a mercenary knows that their weaponry is inadequate to beat an opponent’s defences then they are unlikely to initiate contact with a foe. And clearly beating Maxima’s outer defences, with a small weapon, would take bleeding edge anti-super weaponry. So I agree that those grenades are not improvised.
However that is not what I was claiming. What he has demonstrated (by means yet to be revealed) is the extraordinary capability of deploying said weapon. Be that by slight of hand, an unseen ally, teleporting it, or otherwise.
Ah.
With that I agree.
he is placing them under the clothes.
Imagine yourself on a runaway train, on an elevated track, way above ground level, and about to crash through the barrier at the end of the line, and facing a terrifying fall! Even worse you do not have Spider Man in the vicinity, to save the day!!
What is the most unlikely way to survive, to tell the tail?
That conductor certainly had himself a whale of a good time.
When the anatomic bomb is wearing weapons of mass distraction, and they EXPLODE, testosterone poisoning vizual effect is sure to power up Dabbler the way Vehemence was powered by violence (and have funny effects on Math).
The entire exposition bit about succubus being powered by lust wasn’t lost on me as “just talk”. It was an AMBUSH! And now the bush is bearing fruit, so to speak. And they won’t fall far from the tree, judging by comments!!
I wouldn’t have worded it the way you did, but I think you make a good point.
Data to help your hypothesis:
When Dabbler came to Tamantha’s rescue she electrified Hiro’s suit with the reasoning: “you know why.”
My explanation for that one is that she can absorb the tantric energy from the people they pass by and she wanted to be well charged when fighting a hunter.
I wouldn’t have worded it the way you did, but I think you make a good point.
Data to help your hypothesis:
When Dabbler came to Tamantha’s rescue she electrified Hiro’s suit with the reasoning: “you know why.”
When Dabbler explained to Sydney that succubi could theoretical live from second hand tantric energy we saw a visual of a succubus absorbing actively produced tantric energy through a wall in some kind of radiation form.
When Tamantha stood close to the girls closet to absorb some lunch and new vocabulary she showed that she could eat from the sexual activity of others.
I’ve to confess we both mostly have data supporting the case that’s open to double interpretation: the part you refer to could equally be interpreted as that she can detect it instead of eat it in that state, Dabbler’s answer about the shirt could also mean she just likes eye candy or wanted his attention, Dabbler’s explanation could also be explained with what decolleté told Sydney over being able to buy it as an ingredient and Sydney having a wide imagination.
Tamatha’s bit isn’t very open to interpretation, but only proves it can be done with highly sexual activities.
The same is true for Vehemence’s bit he shows he can absorb from other people’s fights, but not necessarily from for example other people’s passive agression towards each other
Ipponseoinage?!
Ippon Seoi Nage, it’s a Judo move
Specifically, it’s a shoulder throw. Which means this guy is really, REALLY fast, there’s an invisible martial artist assisting him, or he has an ODD form of telekinesis / teleportation.
It translates to one shoulder throw which is what Max is doing to him. Its a good counter to a punch as you just grab the incoming arm, rotate and slam them to the ground. Doesn’t matter how fast they are.
Thank you. This is precisely why I came to the comments, because I couldn’t make out what was going on in panel 7.
I do question the use of the ‘ass slap’ grenade. Given Max’s sense of personal space, that might well be the quickest way for Knuckles to get torn limb from limb now that she has her hands on him.
Again, he is trying to kill her
Hah. I was trying to figure that out, reading it forward, across, backward, trying to find some pattern in which it made sense.
Originally, thought it was Ippon Seoin, with ‘age’ being added to make it sound like a move (like ‘pummel’ + ‘age’ = ‘pummelage’), until went to look it up and didn’t find anything under that, so tried with the ‘age’ added :D
I’m wondering if he didn’t provoke the throw to get an opportunity to place the butt bomb. His skill is that he absorbs damage while acting as a reverse pickpocket.
Hey, dressing a chicken involves undressing it, just as shelling a shrimp involves taking it out of its shell. I long ago gave up expecting English to make sense.
Me too!
And that’s before we add in the mess that is its pronunciation.
Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité (1870-1946), a Dutch author and teacher captured it well in “The Chaos”, a fine retelling of which is available on YouTube.
It lampshades dozens of words that either look the same, but are pronounced completely differently, or sound identical, but have wildly diverse spellings.
Hey, if other languages can get away with different meaning based on pronounciation, why too not English?
Specially seeing how English stole 95+% of It’s words from other languages in the first place :P
Hardly! It is estimated to have only 77 to 80% foreign words. ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_language_influences_in_English
Depends on what you mean by “foreign”. Them damn Norman foreigners with their French ways, chatting up our good Saxon wenches and teaching them to call cows “boef” and deers “venison” and such.
English stole a lot of words, but nowhere like 95%. Most of English was cobbled together by foreigners invading, taking over, and saying “You VILL learn to speak my language!” William the Conqueror, for example, brought in French.
That’s not stealing, that’s forcible adoption.
Ooh, nice angle! We can play the helpless victims under occupation card, a number of times.
*wags tail in an oppressed manner*
“It’s a common mistake to think English is a language, when it’s really three languages in a trenchcoat, lifting any vocabulary that looks unattended.”
I remember as a kid I bought peanuts. I didn’t want to have to break the shells off, so I bought unshelled peanuts. Unshelled means the shell is gone, right? Nope. I think I got in an argument about why the lable was wrong.
Oh good lord. Someone is in for a world of pain. A really big planets worth.
My bet – someone nearby with a really good camera is taking photographs – and promised to cover medical and legal expenses. And ponied up a metric butt-ton of up front cash.
Re the vote incentive, that shade of blue is “prussian blue”…and it’s one of my favorite colors, but very much out of favor in the fashion industry for the last few decades.
…Sorry I’ve been quiet. *gestures at EVERYTHING* It’s been an overwhelming decade of a year.
It’s a nice color. Google image search results made it look a little more skitzophrenic. I guess most people making Louisiana flag art aren’t running to louisiana.gov to check on the official pantone swatches.
Oh, and the Pelican image.. it’s supposed to be a mother pelican using her beak to pierce her own breast, so as to provide sustenance to her young after an unfruitful hunt/time of famine.
don’t know how often or if the above phenomenon has been documented, but the imagery made it’s way into Christian myth and parable.
AFAIK, it doesn’t happen at all, but many femaie birds pluck the feathers off part of their breasts so as to be able to provide a heated surface to incubating eggs. Feathers are insulation, and keeping eggs warm is going to be easier with skin to shell contact. It’s possible that the imagery of a pelican in her piety (correct heraldic term) was based on a misinterpretation of that behavior.
Makes sense.
English has shown a remarkable ability to spread around the globe despite all of its contradictions and illogical aspects. Plus we have seen that aliens, in the Grrlverse, have a lot more in common with humans (physiologically for example) than might be expected from random divergent evolution in different environments.
This may have been a fundamental reason behind the Veil. To try and contain the spread of English throughout the Galaxy!
You’ve solved Fermi’s Paradox and it’s the English Language.
….Well, I suppose once you’ve already pissed Max off you might as well get your beating’s worth.
Also, is it just me, or is Max wearing some super impressive grenade proof undergarments? And if so WTF hasn’t Ariana started selling that material to the army as armor?
Maxima has multiple layers of defense(confirmed after she bangs overnuke) and apperantly her undergarments fall under a second layer.
I suggest that Max’s undies are made of the same material as the crotch of Hulk’s pants in the comics, the cloth remaining intact when the guy goes from a skinny 5’8″ to a super muscular 8 feet tall, and survives fire, lightning and gamma bombs. That’s the REAL reason Hulk was so angry and so poor at speaking. YOU put on boy’s small jockstrap when you need a men’s large, and see how calm and erudite YOU are.
that’s some freaking resistant underwear you got there max
I was thinking the same thing. Max should be looking into buying outer clothing that is made out of the same materials or stronger.
We’ve had confirmation before that her “forcefield” extends a minute distance beyond her skin, so her underwear benefits from whatever level she’s set her DEF to at any point in time.
So, Max’s underwear is not damaged at all by the skin contact grenade.
What the hell is it made of?
PG13ium.
Censorite. Typically a dense dark substance in the form of a box that obscures naughty bits or eyes to make it harder for them to be positively identified. Modern science now offers it in a variety of colors and form fitting textures. Not to be confused with Pixelite, a filtering material that only partially obscures faces and naughty bits.
what’s the substance that forms icons and logos over similar areas?
That’s not substance that is a biological process possesed by speaking species.
First there’s an organ known as censorer that creates this effect by beaming an image in a certain way.
Secondary there are the pigment sacks that store pigment for the moment the skin on those pieces doesn’t report the touching of clothing anymore(to protect against radiation of course).
Here must be noted that the pigment in the pigment sacks is actually comparable colored in the infared spectrum as normal skin and that the same species who have those organs see in the infared spectrum.
Adversite.
Comicscodium. It’s very popular among superheroes. Unfortunately it’s only effective when covering crotches and womens nipples.
Don’t forget animenium, which selectively creates overpowering light beams over certain areas. J. J. Abrams misused this in his first Star Trek movie. Animenium when heated in hot springs vaporizes and forms clouds in certain areas which are opaque but immovable.
if i am remembering correctly her armour power projects a little above skin level and with the nade being behind the jacket that wont have been close enough but the underwear is
Yup, Maxima seems to have multiple “layers” to her armour-powers, with inner layers becoming progressively stronger.
See also #240 – Shock and Aw come on!, where Atomic Bombshell did a fairly successful denuding, and Max comments on exactly this effect.
I am missing a subcomic of Sydney asking Max what she’s been eating.
Heh.
+1
Maxima: “Not. The. Time. Sydney.”
I’m surprised that it took this long for someone to make that reference.
The brony segment of the community is probably reveling in this variant on the rainboom.
I don’t know what exactly it is you are referring to, but I can guess at it from context.
Maybe I don’t want that “pile of treasure” at the end of the rainbow after all!
My Little Pony, there are a number of references to it in the comic. For instance General Faulk envisages Sydney unleashing ponies from Tubey, when she does her grand reveal. Sydney reveals herself to be a MLP fan by the trappings in her bedroom. Whilst we had a guest appearance by one of the ponies/unicorns as the DJ in the night club.
As a result of which the comic has built up a number of MLP fans (of which male ones tend to refer to themselves as ‘bronies’). The singular aspect of MLP that I have picked up on is that the ponies/unicorns are often depicted with a rainbow trailing behind them. With a common trope subverting that into having a biological cause.
in actuality, a rainbow is the shape of a donut (a torus) and thus makes a spotlight effect at the end that is visible against the ground, and the different light frequencies splash back together into one, thus it’s a ‘spot’ of gold at the end of the rainbow, not a ‘pot’ of gold
“I see you also tried the Grakz boss.”
I feel this page is missing some much needed action scenes. That said, LOVE the last panel :)
My money says he has a teleportation power, and those grenades are not off the shelf. Also the underwear surviving may be due to her defence field being strongest closest to her skin, this skin tight clothing is highly protected… I expect a wtf moment, followed by him learning the “fun” (see masochist), way why you don’t remove a woman’s clothes without her permission… especially one who can throw you into orbit.
He is currently working on be punched into orbit, by being punched straight down, emerging at some point in the Indian Ocean.
I’m guessing the merc is trying to embarrass Maxima into fleeing. But I’m betting Maxima doesn’t embarrass that easily.
Even if she DOES want to cover up, they’re in downtown New York. There are probably a dozen clothing stores in line of sight, and she can leave an IOU for any clothes she “Borrows”
Indeed, Maxima doesn’t embarrass easily, and this is far from the nudest she’s ever been in a combat situation.
Poor Merc :-)
No, he is trying to murderize her, in as brutal a way that will intimidate her colleagues, he’s just not as good at it as he thought he was
Ok, whatever the organization behind this, they really did do a psych file on Maxima apparently, and are utilizing tactics to anger her to make sure she does not react %100 cool…
They already forgot about me…
Everyone forges about you. The alien mercs could have known most about you with one look at your galactic LinkedIn page, but nope, Sconia did calculate in intellect, but not yours, the Demon hunter lost to your mummy missile, Vehemence did not calculate you in and got obliterated and this guy is actively powering you.
Okay, calculating in somebody with basically the power “everything” is a little hard.
Clothing damage. What a crude and cheap form of fan service. Why that is just shameless of Dave and I LOVE him for it!
Because no one else has posted this, and I have knowledge on flags and Heraldry on which flags are based:
The Louisiana Flag is Azuze, a pelican in its piety respectant, when written in Heraldic terms. That means it’s BLUE (of whatever shade of blue you prefer), with a Pelican feeding it’s chicks in their nest. Respectant just means it’s facing the viewer.
In Medieval times, folks seeing a pelican feeding it’s chicks didn’t get good looks at the process, so someone came up with the idea that the pelican chicks were being fed on it’s mother’s blood. A whole religious myth sprang up of the ‘piety’ of the pelican mother, who gave of her own blood to feed her chicks, even as Christ gave up his blood for people’s sins. Yes, we can laugh at it now, but that myth was so prominent that you can find the “Pelican in her Piety” carved on church walls in England and France, and on many Coats of Arms for British and French families.
Which explains why it’s on the flag of a former French colony, now a US State.
This guy is about to impersonate a doomed Fel Carrier if a boosted Dabbler doesn’t get to him first.
What this guy is doing is… actually pretty damned clever. He’s damaging her clothing – and in the process, attacking her psychologically and restricting her effectiveness. He’s banking on her being reluctant to give anyone pantyshots. Her cleavage is on full display, and that’s something she’s not too fond of providing to the general public.
Even if she doesn’t end up covering herself up with one hand and fighting with the other, she’s going to be pissed off – too angry to think clearly.
As someone pointed out, he killed her comm already. Now he just blew off the belt her gun was attached to. This is not random fan service, but PURPOSEFUL fan service.
See, and this guy is exactly the kind of trash that Ray (apparently) isn’t.
Although he isn’t doing the sleazy come-on’s, he’s is deliberately trying to weaponize Max’s sex against her (not in the nut shot sense) in a specifically humiliating way, to attempt to manipulate/control her.
Yes, it’s a fight, but that just steps this up to – and I’m not sure this term has ever been used more appropriately – sexual assault.
F**k this guy, and the train he rode in on. He’s not clever, he’s a super powered sex offender, and I hope he gets stuck in the deepest hole the Vault has, until he finally shuffles off this mortal coil.
No, he’s not, he is deliberately attempting to kill Maxi, it’s just unfortunate for him she is much stronger than his little bangers
Stop viewing the ‘result’ as the ‘intent’, when the ‘intent’ is clearly ‘death’ (he already said there was a bounty on her death)
I think you are missing his naughty schoolboy expression and tittering in panel 1. That is much more evocative of Bharda‘s interpretation. Plus the bum is not a vulnerable spot on humans. Attaching an explosive there is not maximising the chances of killing her.
The results are sexually humiliating, and the intent was clearly to put the explosive where they went off, as the grenade is actually tucked into her belt. So it is not like a thrown grenade that happened to bounce there by chance. Combine that with the immediately preceding attack exposing her cleavage are showing a pattern.
Most importantly though your summary of his quote is lacking the most telling final part:
Mercenaries are in the job for the payday. Killing Maxima will not earn him the highest payout. But something else will. We are now getting clues as to what that something else is.
I disagree with this being proof it’s intentionally sexual, but I agree that this is proof he isn’t trying to kill her.
The “naughty schoolboy” expression is also the “yeah, I got you, but you don’t knoww” expression for some people and while you might find it unrelatable some people really enjoy those moments even/especially in a fight.
It’s clipped to her belt so it won’t fall off
And the bum is just as vulnerable a spot on hyu-mons to grenades as anywhere else, he placed it there because it was the only place he could reach when he was being hip-tossed
If he knew she could survive a booby-trap explosion, then he would know there is nothing he can do to hurt her, which means he can’t beat her to collect on the bounty, any of the bounties
That is not a naughty schoolboy grin, that is, as Smoutwortel said an “i got you now, and you don’t even know how” grin
First one took out the throat mike, second one took out the gun belt.
Not arbitrary or random or sexual at all. mostly.
I think y’all make fair points. The underlying motivations of the attacker have not yet been fully revealed, as such this scene is subjective and thereby open to reader interpretation.
Still motivations aside it has still denuded Maxima of her clothing, so the sexual interpretation is a very fair one to make and should not be derided (although making counter-points is all good too).
Fully correct. I intentionally said not proofed instead of something like implausible.
If he keeps this up… he’s going to make her angry.
One Question… What’s her bra made of, gawdamn!
Probably reinforced with her second layer of defence like she confirms in the Vehemence fight.
Hmm, the fact that Max isn’t even seeing him move means that it’s probably that there’s either teleportation or some sort of mental attack that causes momentary paralysis being used against her.
She’s not seeing him move, because she is being distracted by hitting him so she doesn’t see the sleight of hand trickery (it wouldn’t be sleight of hand if she could see it)
Max has fast enough reactions to snatch a bullet out of midair from a gun she’s fired. That means she also has to have the visual acuity needed to see it. You can’t beat that with just slight of hand, you need something extra.
Only if she is paying attention, remember the fear-vomit attack and what it did to her boots?
But she is paying attention, she’s in fucking combat. The fear vomit worked because she didn’t expect any attack at all and therefore saw no need to put points in speed.
And seeing how little time she had to react to his attack, she’s likely faster than he is moving right now. So unless he’s really toying with her, which seems unlikely, given that, well, Maxima, sleight of hand seems to be very hard in combat with a faster opponent.
So he has a power to help him. Although it could possibly be a super-sleight-of-hand power.
Even in combat, she can’t focus on everything, Blulk she’s not
If Maxi put too much into speed, she wouldn’t be able to survive another punch from him, so she is sacrificing speed for strength and durability
But she’s still faster than him.
And sleight-of-hands are gonna be really hard against someone moving in combat-speed, while getting punched and thrown around.
The first time she got punched by him, she had all her points in speed, not defense, but the stasis field was still negating her speed, AND distorting the world around her, so her speed didn’t let her dodge the punch.
If she diverted points to speed now, she could probably step around his punches, take those grenades, and stuff them down his open mouth.
The question is, how long does it take her to move points around? Apparently long enough she get get hit while in the process of doing it.
if he pushes it too far maxima might “accidentally” twist his head (or his limbs) clean off his body after all everything is so fragile to her
now that last panel, if taken out of context makes nice fart image
I think it is in context, given that the attacker appeared to be intending to manipulate Maxima, into assuming a suitable pose, for just such an effect.
Someone from Louisiana is a Louisianian, and our flag is a dark almost navy blue. Shirts with the flag on it tend to be whatever blue the wearer likes.
Louisiander just sounds weird to me… :)
Where are the over-the-top sound effects describing what’s happening because the panels weren’t planned out for people who haven’t read the script?
first he blew up her Leather, then her jeans. I think this guy is going to wake up in a body cast and cuffs, if he wakes up at all.
I honestly don’t know why maxima doesn’t simply pick the prick up and fly him to the stratosphere for a slight cool down.
I feel that would be my answer to most conflicts, tho…
First: getting a grapple is generally the problem, not keeping it.
Second: most supers don’t survive such a trip including(according to Maxima’s and Sydney’s high altitude adventures) Maxima.
Third: the amount of super powers that would cause it to be just mildly irritating is a little high. Examples: nemesis, density control(Stalward), flight, energy emission in general, teleportation and ground lock.
Yet, I agree that punching supers with proven super durability opwards sounds like a smart idea even if it was just, so you don’t do too much collateral damage.
It’s hard to figure out exactly what happened because we don’t know when she zipped up her jacket. It was open after she got punched out of the stasis field – When Ray went face first into her it was unzipped. Then when we start this page it’s zipped up again and got a load in it.
So… Did the guy stick a grenade into her breast pocket while punching her out of the stasis field? Did he somehow use Ray’s face to deliver it? The second seems particularly implausible without Ray’s active cooperation; either one has the problem of Maxima zipping up her jacket without noticing the extra bulge. We suppose he didn’t somehow zip up Max’s jacket for her as part of the process of delivering this toy, but we really don’t know when Max’s jacket zipped up. Seems like she’d definitely have noticed that though.
Attaching one to her belt loop while getting thrown over her back is impressive but comparatively simple. But the logistics of that first one are pretty hard to figure out.
Clothing damage seems like a poor choice of tactics against Maxima. There’s no indication that she’s ever taken so much as a moment to be embarrassed or flustered by unexpected clothing damage in combat. Nor has she failed to prioritize targets or deploy assets appropriately on account of assigning it too much importance. For all that she’s vocally upset by eye-candy status, there’s no indication that she has any kind of fear or trigger to take advantage of.
It’s low-stakes though; I don’t think we’ve even seen any kind of lasting irritation or vindictiveness on Maxi’s part against people who’ve attempted it. It seems mostly like a waste of time, if anything.
Check the previous pages carefully and you will see nothing attached to Max her behind and a smooth closing of her Jacket showing no Bombbulges. So it must have been sleight of hand or a secondary super.
She zipped it up right after Ray’s ‘landing’.
Because Juggernot isn’t trying to embarrass Maxi, he’s trying to kill her!!!
I hope the next bomb is up front and obliterates the rest of Maxima’s pants, you just know Ray is going to say something he shouldn’t! My next hope is that this guy becomes a recurring Villian he’s so much fun!
There’s nothing wrong with the word “inflammable.” After all, to inflame something is to set it on fire either literally or metaphorically. If something can’t be burned, it is UNflammable.
I always had trouble with inflammable as an annoyingly precocious kid too. :-)
The problem goes away once you realize it ought to be a misspelling.
A thing that can be ‘en-flamed’ is ‘in-flammable.’ It just settled on tails instead of heads when spelling conventions got decided.
[quote]The word “denude” means to strip something. It seems to me that it should mean to dress something. That word and “inflammable” will cost us points when the aliens come to evaluate us for ascendency.[/quote]
Both words derive from Latin (probably via French as opposed to directly as a lot of scientificy words as Greek and Latin was considered the “language of the educated/literate” SO…)
You can blame Latin and those Romans for having conflicting prefix meanings. But, really, the evolution of its meaning makes perfect sense.
You’re thinking of “de-” as the definition of “against, undo, or opposite of”. The way it’s being used in “denude” is “de-” means “down to the bottom, completely”, basically a more extreme form of its typical “down from, off, away”. So if we use “completely” then “denude” to be “completely nude” makes perfect sense. And its evolution of the prefix of “de-” as “down” originally and migrating to encompass “completely down” or “opposite of” makes sense. The opposite of “up” and “more of” would be “down” and “less of” or “opposite of” (aka a negative).
Same regarding “in-” double meanings as a prefix:
Source:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/de-
https://www.etymonline.com/word/in-
I will estimate the power recquired to blast Maxima’s jacked of or break “through her outer layer” to say it with Maxima.
The cast page tells us Maxima is 6’1”
We can measure that her throat and her bra-explosive are have the same length and perspective.
When she was talking with Ray about the battle her throat measured around 1/18th or 1/19th of her body.
We can measure the bra-explosive to be around 60% of the length of her bra-explosive.
I’m a metric-user, so I will first convert my units to metric before crunching them.
With this information we can calculate the volume of the explosive with l*pi*r²=v, l*proportion=diameter, diameter/2=r and lmaxima/18=explosive
(6’1”/3,2808/18)*pi*(((6’1”/3,2808/18)*0,6)/2)² is around 3,116*10^-4
3,116*10^-4 m³=3,116*10² cm³
If we assume he has filled them with liquid nitroglycerin(very explosion sensitive, in most cases it’s stored as dynamite in porous stone) we can calculate their explosive energy by combustion.
According to Wikipedia nitroglycerin has a Std enthalpy of combustion of 3,116MJ/mol, a density of 3, a molar mass of 227,085g/mol and a density of 1,6g/cm³.
The difference between cm³ an m³ is still a factor 10^6.
(6’1”/3,2808/18)*pi*(((6’1”/3,2808/18)*0,6)/2)²*10^6*1,6/227,085*3,116 is around 6,8
this reaction would be 6,8MJ, which is according to wikipedia around 1,2 tons of tnt or around 3/4th of the adviced daily intake of a healthy woman.
If one of you knows a by volume more energetic chemical reaction(we still can’t make nukes that size or antimatter containment devices that size) feel free to inform me.
The combustion of nitroglycerin has a volume to energy ratio of around 2,2MJ/cm³
Oops nitroglycerin’s entalpy of combustion is 1.529 MJ/mol, so
(6’1”/3,2808/18)*pi*(((6’1”/3,2808/18)*0,6)/2)²*10^6*1,6/227,085*1,529=3,4
3,4MJ or a little less than one kWh.
The combustion of nitroglycerin has a volume to energy ratio of around 0,011MJ/cm³
“1,2 tons of tnt or around 3/4th of the advised daily intake of a healthy woman.” There’s a wikipedia unit conversion error there someplace. ‘pound’ is more likely than kilogram for the advised caloric intake.
It was in joules.
I was measuring energy, not weight.
The actual page is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(energy)
Plot twist the bad guy was hire by Dabber to blow Max clothes off
WOAH! D8 There are easier ways to commit suicide, buddy, or he’s so invulnerable he’s doing the ultimate “Suicide by Cop!” There’s no way she’s letting him walk away from what he just did!
which underwear brand use maxima?
DaveB: “The word “denude” means to strip something.”
That seems a bit strange to me too, since there was an old movie back in 2008 based on the even older TV show, Get Smart. The name of the film was The Nude Bomb…Basically, a bomb that destroys only clothing. They didn’t call it The Denude Bomb…
This page rises a question: what is Maxima’s hairbrush made of or does she use her power to empower her hairbrush.
Why would she need to do that? o_O
Because this fight will result in much too many knits in her hair with all the hair waving and shock waving with explosions, hairbrushes tend to take some hair with them, but with hair of Maxima level the hair would destroy any normal hairbrush.