Salkafar

Comparing Iron Man to Doctor Doom is a common trope, especially lately. It used to be Reed Richards, like how basically the only thing that saved him from being like Doctor Doom was his family. But since Civil War, it's sort of a given that he really likes to control people. And that he has problems with opening up to other people.

Everything he suffers, he brings on himself. If he were less arrogant and selfish, why, he could be the leader - the Iron Man - of a European Avengers.

Moondragon is powerful, but compared to Archanfel? Is he even susceptible to mental attacks? Odd to think of this so late in the 'game' but it seems unlikely his creators would not have thought of this, given they themselves are telepaths.

Just read 'Zenith', by Grant Morrison, and I think Peter St.John may be a good candidate. He was a created superhuman; in his world, the so-called 'Lloigor', 4-dimensional entities from outside the normal universe, have sought entry, but they can only exist in host bodies in the threedimensional world; and no ordinary human body can endure their presence. So they sent instructions for the creation of superhumans; the first of these, 'Master Man', was created by the Nazis and possesses by a Lloigor. The allied forces created their own superhumans; but Master Man was not defeated by one of them but by a nuclear bomb. After the war, the UK used cell samples obtained from Master Man to retro-engineer the serum that gave him his powers, and injected it into human fetuses in the womb. The ones that survived developed superhuman abilities when they hit puberty; and one of those was Peter St.John, also known as Mandala. His power was specifically psychic, and while he possessed immense psionic abilities, his greatest talent lay in mind-control, illusion and hypnosis - powers not favored by the Zoalord Council, let alone Archanfel himself. I would be very surprised if he were unable to co-opt the telepathic control the Zoalords exert over other Zoaforms, as he was able to even hypnotize the Lloigor themselves. He is somewhat of a benevolent despot, who uses his power to effectively rule the UK and possibly more.

Fully disagreed.

Watching Tokyo Ghoul and Aggretsuko now.

I thought it was very tragic how a young teenage girl plus her clones with zero life experience were viewed and treated as nothing more than control modules for killing machines, losing their mind and their life in the process. And - in case you didn't know - Elpy's name is derived from 'Lemon People', a magazine unabashadly aimed at hebephiles. Ah, Japan. Hence "Elpeo Ple" - "L-people".

Actually, I was mistaken. Elpy is in Gundam Double Zeta. Zeta 2?

Poor Elpy.

If the Creators could wait millions of years for their ultimate biological weapon to finish baking... I just hope we won't be as gypped as they were.

Already? That's 39 episodes! Damn.

Ideon?? Good luck, anon.

Just stick with the Universal Century continuity. And definitely start with the original series.

Wow. This really died down. The movie made over a billion two. It's amazing to me. And even suspicious.

It's a horror movie and I don't see the point of it.

All I know about it is that created a lot of memes involving the tanuki girl.

We had two whole movies about that. I heard a very sweet rumour, way back when, that 'Pacific Rim' had a post-credits scene where there's a huge wave near Hong Kong, we hear The Roar and Hannibal Chau looks up at something offscreen and whispers: "Welcome back." Bummer. 'Jet Jaguar' would have made for a good name for the Japanese Yaeger. (...) I wasn't the only one who thought that.

I suspect this is still tied in with time shenanigans. Some force from the outside - a 'Meta-Skynet'? - sent an agent, played by Matthew Smith, to stop the resistance in the future, and throwing time on its ass. But if this a follow-up tp T2, ignoring the rest of the sequels, Arnold may well be the guy they based all the Terminators on. As you know, the organic shell of a T-800 is based on cloned tissue from a real person.

I secretly hope the conflict is ultimately resolved not with the total destruction of either side, but mutual understanding. Like in 'The Matrix', which could very nearly have been a Terminator sequel anyway.

Just saw it.

I'll just leave this here. Anyone of us who wants can go there and spend a few minutes fiddling with whatever they deem worthwhile. https://guyver.fandom.com/wiki/Guyver_Wiki

He wasn't really being mean, he was commenting on the abysmal state of Doom's characterization in the movies.

Ouch.

Maybe the aggressive nanomachines that make up Technovore? Technovore was created when a team of scientists working aboard the orbiting Stark space station accidentally created a microscopic artificial life form. Their company had 'rented rooms' as it were, but when months of research yielded no results, an attempt at forced natural selection had indeed produced an autonomous nanomachine - a self-replicating micro-mechanism which voraciously consumed anything it encountered and partially replicated its macro--structure, learning at tremendous speed along the way. It devoured the staff, learning to build humanoid forms, then consumed machinery and the ability to form itself into weapons; but its most dangerous quality remained the fact that any contact with it was lethal, since its microscopic components were still parts of the whole and would quickly consume and assimilate anything they touched. Iron Man did what he could to contain the Technovore to the space station and send it out into deep space, so far away from Earth it could not return under its own power, but in the end the creature devoured the entire station; ultimately, it was destroyed when Stark managed to activate the station's auto-destruct and it was consumed in a fusion blast. While Technovore was an amoral, infant life form, driven only by voracious hunger for a form of fulfillment which was hopeless since it did not know what it was looking for (namely, an identity of its own), it was insanely dangerous; it proved capable of assimilating anything and it would most assuredly turn on the Guyver, a Zoanoid or a Zoalord. Biology being the basis of all their abilities, it remains to be seen whether they could resist its onslaught; unlike Aptom, Technovore did not bother with infiltrating and rewriting DNA, it gobbled cells right up, analyzing them as it went; and it did so in seconds.

That is probably true - But -