- Location
- Australia
If you read it carefully, you can see where Cherie is reining in her more violent impulses before they get her killed.
- Location
- State of Confusion
That's rather blasphemous. There is only one...The One. Or was Will Smith playing Trinity?It couldn't have been Morpheus, because Lawrence Fishburne is always a win.
Yeah, it's gonna take a while for people to realize the truth of that, to see the pattern. Which I imagine is a big part of why she handled Damsel this way. Most are just seeing a violent vigilante who likes killing supervillains; not someone simply smoothing out speed bumps on Brockton Bay's road to success.
- Location
- Australia
Will Smith was actually the first choice to play Neo, but he turned the part down in favour of Wild Wild West.
It couldn't have been Morpheus, because Lawrence Fishburne is always a win.
Yeah, it's gonna take a while for people to realize the truth of that, to see the pattern. Which I imagine is a big part of why she handled Damsel this way. Most are just seeing a violent vigilante who likes killing supervillains; not someone simply smoothing out speed bumps on Brockton Bay's road to success.
She keeps telling people that they have a choice; to either heed her warnings or die. The Damsel of Distress thing was to publicly illustrate the fact that not everyone has to die.
- Location
- California
I know this isn't'It gets Worse,' but I'm seeing a sign for orthodontics in the Teeth's future.
Okibruez
(Verified Mid-Boss)
- Location
- Dreams
Honestly, it's probably for the best. If Will had played Neo, we'd never have gotten all the Keanu Reeves memes, and he might not have become a name-brand.
Sure, Wild Wild West was a trashfire of ridiculous over the top proportion, but it's at least ridiculous enough to be worth watching to laugh at.
Honorguard Ra
(Verified Lizard Dude)
Here we hear the happy squeals of Big Sis/Cousin Aisha. What a joyful sound!
You had me cackling at the fleeing 18-wheelers scene. I just imagined the lead driver hysterically panic sobbing about how he's gonna die and forgot his brown pants.
You had me cackling at the fleeing 18-wheelers scene. I just imagined the lead driver hysterically panic sobbing about how he's gonna die and forgot his brown pants.
- Location
- Somewhere
Thought up a new fate for Heartbreaker. Death's too good for him.
Taylor depowers him via pistol.
He's left with his full mental faculties, no brain damage.
He's powerless and will never gain new powers.
He gets arrested and sentenced to a max security prison. No hope of parole or release before he dies of old age.
A prison guard 'accidentally' blabs about his crimes towards women and children. (Or his reputation makes this unneeded.)
Heartbreaker is now Prison Bitch. Quite a few prisoners tend to hate those who abused women and children, true fact.
Heartbreaker goes from being in perfect control of his life and those around him.
To having very little, if any, control over his life and those around him.
Vicious? Yes. Sadistic? Yes. Deserved? Hell yes.
Also, question for Butcher, would a pistol depowering lead to a new Butcher?
Taylor depowers him via pistol.
He's left with his full mental faculties, no brain damage.
He's powerless and will never gain new powers.
He gets arrested and sentenced to a max security prison. No hope of parole or release before he dies of old age.
A prison guard 'accidentally' blabs about his crimes towards women and children. (Or his reputation makes this unneeded.)
Heartbreaker is now Prison Bitch. Quite a few prisoners tend to hate those who abused women and children, true fact.
Heartbreaker goes from being in perfect control of his life and those around him.
To having very little, if any, control over his life and those around him.
Vicious? Yes. Sadistic? Yes. Deserved? Hell yes.
Also, question for Butcher, would a pistol depowering lead to a new Butcher?
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ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
- Location
- Australia
I can see why Danny came to the Damsel confrontation, to provide transport (she could totally have hotwired a car, but he prefers to handle it for her). But why bring Cherie?
Unless she was the reason that Damsel of Distress didn't quite become angry enough to fight back?
Actually...
Unless she was the reason that Damsel of Distress didn't quite become angry enough to fight back?
Actually...
Looks like it.
Shards are actively turning off the Conflict Drive whenever a JoJo-esque Abbadon Shard starts looking at their host while posing menacingly.
M. H. Fuzzball
Aperture Science-certified Horrible Person
- Location
- Sector 2814
At no point in this story has Taylor done anything as plebeian as hotwiring a car. She always chooses ones that have keys left in. She noted to herself early on that she's sure her power could walk her through it, but she didn't see the reason in causing people to have to fix their cars afterwards.
- Pronouns
- She/They
I'm pretty sure that the lovely white paste Taylor cooked up in the basement will be used on either Heartbreaker or the Butcher, or both, if she waits for Nikos to off Quarrel first. PtE is more than capable of exactly calibrating a dose of pure whatever-it-is (cocaine, probably?) to cause a coma and/or serious brain damage without a lethal OD, which will put a lovely bow on the influences to be ended; Butcher's as a katamari shard, and Nikos' on his harem of suicide bombs.
- Location
- Australia
Wow, all this hate for Heartbreaker. No, I'm not going to make him a prison bitch.
Can't really do 9mm surgery on Butcher without first depowering her. She's bulletproof.
No, that was actually Cherie reining in Damsel's violent impulses every time they nearly got her killed.
So many wrong guesses. Love it.
Honorguard Ra
(Verified Lizard Dude)
Mind controlling serial rapists make "normal" people kinda murder happy. Who knew?Wow, all this hate for Heartbreaker. No, I'm not going to make him a prison bitch.
Can't really do 9mm surgery on Butcher without first depowering her. She's bulletproof.
No, that was actually Cherie reining in Damsel's violent impulses every time they nearly got her killed.
So many wrong guesses. Love it.
We love you too, Ack. Thank you for continuing to give us a happy Taylor who's able to get done what needs to be done.
SanguisAnima
Σ Series Z10/0 Group A 4A-GELU Mk1
- Location
- nowhere important
I mean, I get it.
I wouldn't want to get pounded into the dirt by a shiny Shard using a road roller to drive me deeper and closer into oblivion.
Doesn't Animos have a temporary power nullifying roar?
ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
- Location
- Australia
I wonder how long it will take before some large corporation gets the idea of hiring Atropos to do security penetration testing? She would charge a lot, I'd imagine, but one phone call and they could get a comprehensive set of instructions for getting rid of their security holes.
- Location
- Australia
Why yes; yes, he does.
Also, some mildly traumatised guards.
Why? She could describe the exact steps she'd use to break in over the phone, without actually doing it.
Sandy River DL
(Verified Destroyer Leader)
- Location
- Lake Michigan
- Pronouns
- Her/She
But where's the fun and dramatic flare in that?
- Location
- Somewhere
As Honorguard said, he's a serial rapist. His powers, not bad, just him. An alternate version of him could have been an amazing therapist or hostage negotiator. Here he's just the rapist.
Hey, his thralls will obey his voice, right?
What's to stop Taylor from rigging up a voice changer to have 'him' deprogram his thralls? Or just undo the 'kill yourselves if you hear about my death' thing.
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ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
- Location
- Australia
That sounds possible. IIUC his power is based on "anyone who sees him falls desperately in love with him and wants to do anything he says," but his voice is not magical like Valefor's. So a sufficiently convincing fake might work. It's all about what his thralls believe he wants.
Security Check, Atropos Style
- Location
- Australia
Company CEO (on phone): "Hello? Am I speaking to Atropos?"
Atropos: "That's me."
CEO: "I'd like to hire you for a comprehensive security check on my firm. I'm offering two million."
Atropos: "Well, that certainly gets you a comprehensive check. How soon can you pay?"
CEO: "Well, once you've completed it, of course."
Atropos (opens his office door and steps through, still on phone): "How about now?" (pulls open his desk drawer, lifts out a massive folder, and drops it on his desk) "Here's an itemised list of every security leak in your business, all the way down to who your guards gossip with when they're off duty and what they talk about. Also, a bunch of selfies of me in your secure areas, and how I got there. Finally, my recommendations for tightening up your security so an anorexic mouse couldn't sneak through."
CEO (blinks): "Um ..."
Atropos: "I've included the banking details for the Brockton Bay Revitalisation Fund. Next three to five working days, yeah?"
CEO: "Um ..."
Atropos: "Great! Toodles." (strolls out the door again)
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- Location
- California
Did she ask her power: "Path to end all of this guys secuirty problems" or something? Damn that's some easy money.
Path to end corporate espionage
- Location
- USA
Dismantle all corporations; install worker-owned cooperatives. Done.