Salkafar

I don't get the charm of zombies. And the apparently real-life fear of a 'zombie apocalypse'... it beggars belief. You know what's scary? Living people.

If a Guyver boosts the host's power a hundredfold, in Sho's case he should be able to lift about 5 tons. Remember, Sho's a teenager and not a particularly big one. Tetsuro and Agito are both taller than he is. Even bio-boosted he's, what, 1.75 m tall? (checks) 1.74 m. Even if that's measured from the top of the helmet and not the horn, in human form Sho should be only about 1.65, tops. Reckon he could lift 50 kilos? Maybe. I've never seen him work out. The momentum generators in the Guyver's limbs increase punching impact tenfold, but that doesn't mean a punch's impact equals the amount of weight you can lift. Anyway, the Gigantic: if it boosts the Guyver's power twentyfold and Sho's bio-boosted strength enables him to deadlift five tons, in Gigantic mode he should be able to heft a hundred tons, putting him in the weight class of Marvel Comics' heavyweights. At the low end, mind. The Hulk, when at rest, can lift about 80 tons, but his power escalates when he gets angry. Iron Man is currently in Class 100 and Thor always was - he frequently fights the Hulk and can usually fight him to a standstill. The Abomination, one of the Hulk's oldest and deadliest foes, is far stronger than him, but his power does not increase. My point being: Thor is physically as strong as the Gigantic. I doubt he can survive a Gigasmasher blast, but then he probably wouldn't have to, since it takes time to charge and he is far more manouvreable than the Gigantic. He has more than a thousand years of combat experience, much of it from fighting huge monsters, often stronger than himself (ex. Jormungand, the Mangog, Surtur, the Celestials). All this, plus he wields Mjölnir, one of the most powerful weapons in existence. The Gigantic is the underdog in this fight. And that's against Thor as he normally is! He has surpassed this level in the past several times, by entering a state of warrior madness, by donning his belt of power which doubles his strength, by inheriting his father's cosmic power, or by learning the wisdom of the runs.

That line was from 'Godzilla: Millenium", wasn't it? I loved that. It was classy. Not mocking it, not skipping over it entirely... "The Americans report they were assaulted by Godzilla, but our scientists are not so sure". SPOILERS... About the new one: what was Serizawa's attitude all about? Godzilla and the Mutos feed on radioactivity. Yes, radioactivity - but in the Cretaceous, or whatever, there were no nuclear bombs. There was no reason to assume these monsters would survive a nuclear explosion (and going by the movie, they would not... they weren't that tough). What, his father was in Hiroshima? So? That took the nuclear option off the table entirely? What does he think Godzilla's going to do now? It feeds on radioactivity... and the Mutos are gone. Pretty soon he's going to resort to raiding nuclear power plants, because they are more accessible than ICBMs and don't move as fast as nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. (That would be a pretty good plot for a sequel, though.) Incidentally, what happened with the bomb in the end? It did explode, didn't it? But the military said it was a really powerful bomb. Did it get far enough away to not be a threat anymore? Why did the Mutos have an electromagnetic pulse weapon? Yes, it takes everything that uses electricity off-line... (And by the way... I noticed the power just came back on after the pulse "wore off". But an EMP takes electric power out by overloading systems, causing damage. The damage doesn't magically disappear after the pulse ends.) But what good would that do against predators like Godzilla? They didn't even attempt to use it against him. So why did they even have such organs? And why did they keep using them against humans, which they can't feed on? I think the Japanese will once again feel insulted.

I saw it. Was disappointed. It looked pretty great - even though Godzilla really is fat - but... eh. Finally done it right? The '98 film was better than this one in certain ways. For one thing, in that movie Godzilla actually fought people.

From webcomic 'Jack': Doctor Kane. He was a scientist who created biological weapons of mass destruction; lethal germ strains, viruses that could be timed to kill like clockwork, that sort of thing. But it seems in the end he went another way, so he created a machine which could bring the dead back to life. Not just raise them as zombies - no - actually rip their soul from the afterlife and reinstall it back into the body, but 'better' so they would be functionally immortal. And it worked. Unfortunately he didn't get to use it on himself; he died and went to Hell, and there was elevated to the position of embodiment of one of the seven deadly Sins, namely Envy. As such, he commands an ever-growing army of undead monsters, 'Reworks', who are like zombies - except very fast, agile and with razorsharp teeth and claws. He makes them from the dead, it seems, and from living people who are foolish enough to make a deal with him. He uses his sibling Sins in his schemes, and if they refuse to cooperate with him he disposes of them (Greed refused to share his power, so Kane had him killed by Lust; and in this Hell, when you are killed, you 'respawn' in the exact place where you appeared in Hell in the first place. Kane had had the foresight to have small concrete cell with no exit constructed around this location). What's worse is that he also possesses the 'Abaddon', another biological weapon which he may have created while alive, but which he has since collected; this abomination produces airborne spores which stop reproductive functions in anyone who breathes them in, but what is worse, kills weakened people, the elderly and children, and turns them into Reworks. One day, he will set it loose on Earth. Kane, in short, is a blight on all existence, entirely without decency, mercy or anything sympathetic about him at all.

I think he's an agent of another party than the Advents / Uranus / Creators.

Saw it Wednesday - in Paris. Subtitled, thankfully. Amazing.

It occurs to me that Archanfel never slept in a house before. Or in a bed for that matter. I kind of really want to see what is happening with him and the Segawas. Has he ever spoken to a human? A normal ordinary human who then didn't become a Zoanoid? He was created in an environment where it was clear from every angle that he existed for warfare. He and everyone and everything he had ever seen or experienced - Everything on the planet he was born on had been devised by his creators to be a weapon. For him, there has never been a moral aspect: How could there be? For all intents and purposes, he is a gun. What use could he possibly have for love? Or doubt? His entire ancestral line existed only to serve in a war. None of which explains why he protected Earth and its beings after they had been dismissed by their creators. He was sad. So I guess the creators failed even worse than they had realized. They must have felt really bummed out. How did it go again... ARCHANFEL: "Please, tell me what we did wrong. Just tell me what I have to do? What do you want me to do...?!" CREATORS: "Die." If there is any pair of people in the world who could introduce him to another way of thinking it's the Segawas. Who is Apollyon...? Are the Creators aware of humanity, and if so, why didn't they just send another asteroid to destroy Earth? Did they change their mind? Are there factions among them? I have another idea: We know there was a war on. What if the beings who created humanity were the bad guys? Space Nazis. Who else would create an entire ecosystem only to use as weapons? Perhaps they finally lost, and now the Space Allies are assessing the damage. And Apollyon was sent to see whether humanity should be destroyed. "This is a weapon so deadly that when they finished it, they tried to destroy it themselves. And they failed. Your mission is to find out what it is." "You can count on me, sir." That's why he disarmed the Zoalords: They are the most dangerous, most deadly life forms on Earth. Without Archanfel, humanity would never have become Zoanoids again. If he manages to destroy Chronos, perhaps we can eventually join the Galactic Federation or whatever. Apollyon is James Bond. (Or Sterling Archer. James Bond would probably be a little less prepared to say "Acceptable losses".) Of course, the Guyvers are a complicating factor...

Good eye, Cannibal. Sure looks like. Apollyon has no allegiance to the people of Earth at all. So why should he care... and Guyot never cared a jot. Aptom is not in a position to act. So now Sho is the only thing standing between hundreds of unknowing people and a fiery death. So now he has to somehow convince Apollyon not to, or stop him. Defining moment no matter what. We might even find what, if anything, is under the helmet.

We did. He used them to open those warp apertures.

Archanfel - Everything Barcas - Telepathy Guyot - Gravity Prukshutal - Electricity Shin - Light Yentsui - Warping space Caerleon - Withdraw into pocket dimension, project three 'shadow doubles' of himself Kabral - Biology, absorbtion Waferdanos - Biology, expression. Of course, he wasn't meant as a weapon but as a living terraformation unit Imakarum - Gravity, psionics ... Kurumegnik - unknown, but has used those kinetic spheres... Galenos - unknown, but he breathed fire. Jabir - Completely unknown. But Jabir ibn Hayan, from whom he got his name, was an alchemist, the inventor of chemistry. Perhaps he can psionically alter substances?

Oh, no, not vastly. Even big guys like Bonga or Bresnel are only about 2.5 metres tall.

But Skynet isn't really evil, I don't think. It didn't build all those nukes. Humanity did.

The Ark is more than twice as long and more than four times as wide as the island of Manhattan, and higher than Mount Everest. From what we have seen, it must have several decks - the inside shots we got of it when Imakarum travelled through it suggests those decks are no more than perhaps a hundred meters high. That means you could comfortably stack at least twenty of those. Also I found the relevant page... A million seems needlessly conservative. If we are talking about twenty habitable decks, each, say, twenty kilometers long (less than 40% of the total length of the ship) and, say, three kilometers wide, that's 1200 square kilometers - a little larger than Hong Kong, which has over seven million citizens.

This really is ridiculous. Really, two actions constitute a chapter now? Two actions that have very little drama to them at that.

It's not really a blast. Exactly how this ability works has never been clarified, but for it to operate over such a large area means it can't just be internally-produced super-cooled gas or something.

Thanks. ...Hmmm. Why would he do that?

Actually, considering humans are insanely strong when bio-boosted, I think you are probably right. We might well be giants by their standards. Colossal, muscular, long-limbed, hairy brutes with tiny heads.

On a more human level, Herr Starr from 'Preacher' is a real bastard. He was a policeman, but was recruited into a secret organization which exists to preserve the bloodline of Jesus Christ on Earth. As it turns out, Jesus and Mary Magdalene were actually married and had children before he was crucified, and their descendants survive until this day. Sounds all right, doesn't it? Well... no. The organization does it only because they believe that, sooner or later, Jesus' descendants will develop the same powers he had, and they want to control him to change the world to their ends. As absurd as this is - even a very orthodox believer will realize Jesus' abilities certainly didn't stem from his genetics - the way they ensure the holy bloodline is not 'tainted' is downright insane: they simply don't allow the descendants to breed with anyone outside their family. Needless to say, the current generation is completely degenerate, barely capable of speech - and nothing like a Messiah. Starr, realizing this, instead decides to simply utilize the organization itself, eliminating anyone in his way to get where he wants to be. At first, he seemed like a clinical type - he fought for order, because he wished to organize the world, to save it from chaos. But gradually, his goals degenerate - along with his body, as he gets mutilated worse and worse in his struggle with the Preacher - until all he wants is revenge, and sacrifices even his most loyal followers to this end. He is a total turd, and for a guy who does not possess any super powers at all, he certainly makes the grade in my book.

If we're talking about comic book villains, in terms of body count the Anti-Monitor has no equals. But while he was evil, he was pretty clinical about it. He wasn't twisted - he'd always been evil. He would kill you and everyone you loved, but not for fun - just because he wanted you dead. Pure evil, pure evil... hmmm...

Goose bumps. That doesn't happen often anymore.

It's like that meme. GUY 1: "I'm a Christian." GUY 2: "I'm an atheist." GUY 3: "I'm with the Westboro Baptist Church." And then Guy 1 and Guy 2 beat up Guy 3 together.

Guyot running like a little b!tch, ha ha. Man, he must be feeling bad. He really thought he was back and badder than ever, and then this happens. It's Freeza syndrome.

I saw that movie when it was originally on TV. That all Time Lords have 13 lives is an old, established fact; they can regenerate 12 times each. However, the Master was once offered a new cycle of regenerations and apparently he actually got them when they drafted him to fight in the Time War - and apparently they also did it for the Doctor. The 'half human' thing is mostly ignored, and is apparently dismissed as meaningless rambling as a result of him still being delirious due to his almost-failed regeneration. Sources say the female Timelord who covered her face with her hands in 'The end of time' was meant to be his mother. But we're not even sure whether Timelords have babies like humans do. There was talk of a 'genetic loom' which produces children without involving the usual messy stuff.

Got mine. Thanks.