Salkafar

Burgers. Not hating on hot dogs.

I think this is a bad idea. I hope I am wrong.

Sho is probably looking for the Segawa siblings. While Agito is keeping Chronos occupied so they don't interfere with him, which also happens to coincide with his own goals.

It's not an issue, I am afraid. Nobody's gonna be the first to unilaterally do away with their nuclear weapons.

Just imagine it, though! Damn!

Sho, just to shake things up. Nahh, kidding.

"The beast was invented". Oh crap. Well, that's it for me, really...

That's it. I am calling that combined form 'Malak-al-Maut'. (Or would Azraël be better?) Those spherical attacks: that was Clumegnig. But previously they were not invisible, and a lot less potent (of course, that was before he adapted battle form). Hmmm. Is invisibility a specialty of Jabir? Was he primarily responsible for the design of Gastal?

I was angry once and purposefully hurt my mother's feelings. Never do that. She never brought it up, ever, but I will never forget.

Guyot. He's far and away the most purely villainous of the piece. He has never shown any sympathetic trait at all. But, of course, we know nothing about his background. Maybe he was an angelic child but lost his mommy at a vulnerable age and was raised by an embittered stepmother or something. Although personally I find the villains who have no such motivation much more interesting. Everybody in 'Guyver' has some pretty good motivation, and some emotional stuff to it. Archanfel, well, he's just doing the only thing he knows how to do. Barcas thinks he's hit the ultimate secret of life: the purpose of humanity, and tries to live up to it the best he can. And the same goes for the other Zoalords. I wonder, if Guyot had not rebelled: had the other three dared to? Then again, seeing what happened to Guyot wasn't exactly inspiring. So they were probably already planning it back then. Funny... if there's anyone like Guyot, it's Agito. Once Shizu dies, he really won't have any emotional connection left to anybody.

Another example of a brilliant movie that didn't need a sequel!

Alien was made in an era which, in many ways, I feel was the age when movie making reached its zenith. Not just because of the art itself, but because of the world in which they were made. I mean, the late Seventies. The tail end of the hippie age, right before the great Beast rose in the White House - the children of the flower age, now fully grown and developed, at the height of their ability. What movies were made in those five years? A handful of them: Rocky, Taxi Driver, Carrie, The Omen, Network, Logan's Run, All the president's men, Marathon Man, Star Wars (back before it was called 'A New Hope'), Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Smokey and the Bandit, Annie Hall, Eraserhead, Saturday Night Fever, The Hills Have Eyes, Grease, Halloween, The Deer Hunter, Superman, Midnight Express, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the best version), Dawn of the Dead (mother of all zombie flicks), Watership Down, The Lord of the Rings (the animated one), The Boys from Brazil, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Mad frickin' Max, Apocalypse Now, The Warriors, Caligula, Kramer vs. Kramer, Life of Brian, Star Trek: the Motion Picture, the Amityville Horror and The Black Hole (Thanks, IMDb). Compare it to what's being groaned out by Hollywood today. It's no comparing.

Superior Tony isn't that powerful. But... even earlier versions of the armor had Guyver-level attacks. Full metal holocaust, that's what. A full armored division wiped out in seconds. And an even earlier iteration of the armor was still no slouch:

Prometheus was a great disappointment to me. Alien is as good as it is because it is simple and it doesn't try to explain too much. It implies a lot, but the central part always remains a state of utter panic because you're locked in a room with something that wants to kill you. By comparison, Prometheus was burdened, top-heavy, pretentious and clumsy.

Yeah, but you can't really stop people from just taking it and posting it elsewhere if you make it public. The Advocacy exists to support the Guyver. There's like one tankoubon out every year, and it costs about $10 or so to order it online. It's a massive task you've taken on, Ciaran. Are you going to translate all of it?

Well... I am going by the comic book version, but even there an innate quality of the Iron Man paradigm is that different armors have vastly different capabilities. But let's say that it's the 'Superior' armor, which, true to its name, is probably the most badass of all Iron Man armors with the possible exception of the two iterations of the 'Iron Destroyer' (which incorporated Asgardian magic into their design). Even in basic mode, 'Superior' has Class 100-level power, which puts him on par - in terms of raw strength - with the Gigantic armor. In this scene, Superior took on all previous iterations of the armor controlled by an artificial intelligence based on Tony Stark's mind (Tony himself had been 'inverted' by a combination of magic and psionics, so he was a villain at this time) and beat them into scrap. Superior is hyper-adaptable, being essentially made of liquid metal; but while Iron Man has had liquid metal armors before, this one is semi-autonomous and connected to Tony Stark's mind in a way that cannot be interfered with electronically. I think we can safely assume it incorporates all abilities ever used by an Iron Man armor - because Tony, at this stage, was much too greedy and arrogant to settle for anything less. This includes invulnerability to a high degree to a broad range of attacks; resistance against telepathic attacks; super-fast reflexes and movement; a very advanced, varied and broad-spectrum sensor cache; an entire arsenal of advanced weapons, including projectiles, radiant energy projection, weaponized force fields and sonic attacks; the capacity for flight at speeds of at least Mach 10; various cloaking abilities; and the ability to interfere with the operations of computers and other electronic devices to the extent of taking control of them. Tony Stark himself has undergone the Extremis process, which in his case means his own biological functions have been boosted; his cardiovascular system is enhanced ("An aorta like a firehose"), his senses have been enhanced and his cellular regeneration is speeded up to a very high degree (ie, he has a healing factor). Much of this, however, is useless against the Guyver, which is invulnerable to conventional electronic warfare. So the question is, can either party muster enough raw power fast enough to take the other out? The Guyver's headbeam and sonic buster can be dismissed, I think. The pressure cannon and the megasmasher both take time - ie, too long - to charge up to be used effectively. Leaves the vibration blades. I think those could be dangerous, unless the semi-liquid armor of Superior automatically counteracts the vibratory effect or Superior erects a force field swiftly enough. In terms of strength the Guyver is very much the underdog, being about as strong as Spider-Man. In Gigantic mode, the Guyver trades manouverability for increased power and abilities. Can Iron Man pierce the Gigantic's force field? Doubtful, but he can't just remain inside a force bubble all the time. The sonic buster and the headbeam may become a problem with their magnified output, of course. For the Gigasmasher and the graviton beam the same problems apply: it takes too long to charge them. There is of course one way in which Iron Man can mount an effective attack: an electric shock to the control medallion.

I think at that point you have to start taking the issue of waste heat into account.

How can something be a 'bad day' unless you allow it to be (barring , accidents, crimes, natural disasters and wars)? Isn't there always something useful you can do?

His version or the Advocacy's?

How about a prequel? Focus on how he got to the point where he is now. Like 'Breaking Bad': he starts out as a complete underdog and quite sympathetic, and everybody roots for him - and gradually he grows more and more powerful and less and less human until he is a complete monster. Say he didn't do all of this alone. Say Prometheus started as an organization that resisted Chronos from within (Kind of fitting, since Prometheus opposed Zeus), like professor Odagiri, and gradually they all sacrificed themselves - until Strigoi betrayed the last of them, using as an excuse that this would gain him enough power to defeat Chronos for good, in a perfect Pyrrhic victory: by now, he was as bad as the thing he was fighting.

Alkanphel, Prukshutal, Kurumegnik, Zankles, Zelbebuth... There appeared to be an emphasis on the 'l'.

....That is an interesting thought. Does Archanfel know the names of all the Zoanoid types? I am gonna say 'yes', he knows all about all of their qualities. After all, he's the one who has to deploy them. In fact that's probably pretty much all he knows. So are all the Zoanoid names originally made up by the Creators?? They are all alien words? Now I feel even more justified in making this thread.

Yeah, I think that's the question. Keeping up now is easy because ten pages a month: no problem. But 184 back-chapters? On your own? Good luck.

It came out months ago, but all I hear is thunderous silence. That does not bode well. I hear they changed Mikasa's character. Who could believe that's a good idea.

I felt kind of cheated by 'Hulk: the end'.