Originally (if you watch the time lapse), I just had the cutlass bounce away from Cecil. I figure at a minimum, his new armor suit at least has the same defenses as his old business suit, which means he has that refraction field that deflects high-velocity projectiles. But, then, I though maybe Red Shift should be doing something. If he wasn’t classified as “front line” then that means he should be ready for defense and counter attacks. So he does the Flash thing where he just grabs a Batarang out of the air and looks at it.
How tough is Ironside? Well, he is a Juggernaut homage, which is a Marvel property so I don’t have official canon stats for his power level in Mutants & Masterminds terms. But let me spell it out for you using the original Marvel Superhero RPG. Thor has “Ungodly” strength, which means he can punch for 100 points of damage. With Mjolnir, I think it’s +1 CS which means he does Shift-X damage or 150 points (possibly Shift-Y, or 250 points I think). Juggernaut has a class 1000 forcefield, which means that Thor can never-ever hurt him no matter what he does. Period. Of course the original Marvel FASERIP system (IYKYK) lacked a lot in terms of common sense and play balance. But still, if you don’t have someone with psychic powers to mind blast Juggernaut, you are utterly incapable of hurting him with anything. Just go home.
Does anyone here know if they ever announced how much damage a tactical nuke does in the Marvel RPG?
Oh, plus Ironside has powerful force blasts. I’m thinking like Blastaar-level. Tried like heck to make that blast look like it’s dangerous. It is buckling Grayhawks “cone of defense” and shoving them away.
Lady Crane seems to have some kind of beef with Cecil. We never did explore her backstory. Maybe some of that will come out in the inevitable mid-fight conversations during this battle.
Also, let’s all have a hand for the Return of Banter! This comic has gotten so serious-ish lately.
Not gonna lie. I really hope that Succubus doesn’t make it out of this.
Well, right now the odds are with her team…
“Force blast”, lol, the most generic weapon name possible
So many of the early Marvel characters just had various color beams coming out of whatever orifices or palms or pointy fingers, and they were all called “force blast”, I’m sorry that is just lazy writing.
I like the way “Power Ejaculation” rolls off the tongue. }:)>
And here I thought Cyclops was innovative because his eye beams weren’t heat/lasers.
I’m guessing our heroes are going to get their butts thoroughly kicked. I can’t guess if they escape, get captured, or are killed. Maybe a mix of all three.
We can play the game who would you marry, kill or boink? Except it’s: which hero would you like to see escape, captured or killed? I’ll let the audience decide!
(Full disclosure: the audience totally does not get to decide…)
LOL, I just noticed in panel 4, KM vocalizing his own kick sound effect, put me in the mind of Kung Fu Panda and “Skadoosh!” 😂
And when he sounds out his own effects, you don’t have to wonder what the sound is when a big hulking Jugger-NOT is blocking the background text.
Barring niche tricks like what happened in X3 there are per canon a few ways to handle Juggernaut.
1. psychic attacks; most common because fricking Marvel, the helmet stops them
2. gravity powers; actually used to check Cain into orbit a couple times, limited by his mass
3. momentum manipulation; rare but useful, you just have to be able to keep it up longer than he can (narrator: you can’t)
4. force constructs; because he actually needs a surface to run on, Kyle Rayner GL once used it to put him in a hamster ball one crossover
Frankly, the most efficient way to handle Cain Marko is to actually talk to him. Guy’s lonely.
If Kickman can’t kick Ironside, can he kick what he’s standing on?
Or would the forcefield absorb that too?
Nimrod knocked him out using ultrasonics. Also took out most of the X-Men during the same fight, almost as an afterthought.
What are the odds Angelina’s playing dumb for an up close backstab? Her quick surrender here is so at odds with her statements in Battle Supreme 03.
She could be faking now… she could have been faking then to get more than her contractually-obligated sex quota. Or she may just be schizo.
” Maybe some of that will come out in the inevitable mid-fight conversations during this battle.”
This fight will last long enough to have mid-fight conversations? Team Evil isn’t doing it right.