My Life as a Teenage Juggernaut... (Worm AU x Marvel)

Theory: Skidmark's redirect zones don't move Taylor. Rather, the bit of ground the mark is on shoots off in the opposite direction.
 
Remember, the juggernaut can't be stopped, but that is not the same as not being redirected.

I would estimate that if Taylor walks against the direction of the zones, she can just ignore them, but when they are pushing her more or less into the direction she's going? Different matter.
 
Yeah, I would think it would depend on how old Skiddy tries to use his fields. If he tries to massively redirect her (say more than 90 degrees) it's likely to fail but if he only tries to redirect her enough to just make her miss him he might well succeed. Fortunately even this version of Skidmark is likely not going to be smart enough to be overly sneaky with his power so Taylor should be fine.
 
Yeah, I would think it would depend on how old Skiddy tries to use his fields. If he tries to massively redirect her (say more than 90 degrees) it's likely to fail but if he only tries to redirect her enough to just make her miss him he might well succeed. Fortunately even this version of Skidmark is likely not going to be smart enough to be overly sneaky with his power so Taylor should be fine.

Especially considering his usual defensive/railgun method of employing his power.
 
If Taylor decides that Skidmark is her destination, no amount of redirecting is going to stop her.

As for his railgun tactics? She's protected by a field of negation. Anything launched at her will simply stop or bounce off. She shrugged off a squealermobile without moving a mm, why would projectiles be an issue for her?
 
Hmm, good to see Danny has been able to knock off some of the nonsense in Taylor's contract. They try to slip in so many ridiculous clauses in government contracts...

Also, yay! Looks like she gets to keep the name after all!

*edit* If possible, could someone save me from my OCD and give me a 1, 2, or 3? :confused:
 
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I wonder if Void Cowboy were to write something particularly annoying, followed by Juggernaut deciding her goal is to "speak with" VC. Would her Thinker ability allow her to start heading directly towards Greg/Cowboy?
 
would think Marvel would happy to have the free PR with Taylor being the Jugg
The Wards and Assault are totally going to give Taylor the nickname Juggs, aren't they? At least we they get brave enough to realize Taylor is not going to make pancakes of them for doing so.
 
The Wards and Assault are totally going to give Taylor the nickname Juggs, aren't they? At least we they get brave enough to realize Taylor is not going to make pancakes of them for doing so.

Who says she wont make pancakes of them? Maybe not crepes, but I'd imagine whoever tries to call her Juggs is gonna get flattened.
 
I feel like for the story of Worm to work, Marvel and DC can't really be around because otherwise more people would model themselves after those heroes and would be better at being heroes.

On the other hand, Image can't exist even though that would be a potential source for people to be modeling themself on. Namely because Image was formed by disgruntled Marvel and DC artists and writers.

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I say that Image can't exist, because for Worm to work as written, comics would have to have never truly recovered in popularity after the book Seduction of Innocence created moral panic and caused the decline of comics in the 50's and 60's. And Image wasn't founded by disgruntled writers and artists until the 90's. With real life superheroes and villains taking the shine even further off the genre, there's no way Marvel or DC would have survived into the 90's.
 
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Also, as commented on, Marvel and DC did not survive Behemoth. Both companies main offices were in NYC at the time Behemoth hit there.
 
I say that Image can't exist, because for Worm to work as written, comics would have to have never truly recovered in popularity after the book Seduction of Innocence created moral panic and caused the decline of comics in the 50's and 60's.
If that were the case, then it's unlikely that comic book heroics and villainy would be the pattern that various parahumans build their image (self or projected) upon. Instead, Worm feels like the sort of world where The Dark Knight Returns or The Watchmen (both from the 1980's) is the inspiration behind the costumed antics of various Parahumans.

Mind you, even if Behemoth didn't destroy the major comic publishers, I doubt superhero comics would fair any better in Worm then Watchmen, which had a b-story about the sorts of comics that do exist in their world. (Supernatural Pirate Horror as it happens.) After all, who cares about fictional heroes when the nightly news is all about real world superheroes? So, Image likely does not exist, or if it does it was created by new graduates wanting to fill the void after the big two bit the dust, and makes comics entirely unlike any that exist in our world...
 
Shows like the Adam West Batman series and Green Hornet helped to pull superheroes comics back from the brink, as did cartoons such as Challenge of the Superfriends or the New Scoobie Doo Movies crossovers with Batman and Robin. But even at the lowest point there were still comics being released. I could see superhero comics still being around in the early 80's when Scion first showed up, thus providing a template for those with powers to act upon. By the late 70's the Comic Code Authority was starting to lose it's grip on the industry, in large part due to them being severely understaffed and the growing resurgence of the medium.

It's possible that still happened in Worm to some degree. It wasn't until the 80's that the comic industry truly recovered, although it started the mid 60's with the first appearances of Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four. But with actual super powered men and women showing up, yeah I can see that killing any growing momentum for the industry. Especially once the all too brief "golden age" of real heroes came to an abrupt end with the ignoble death of a hero.

Keep in mind though, that The Watchmen was written in the late 80's, after heroes had already appeared and the Slaughterhouse Nine first made their appearance. So it probably didn't exist, because even if comics were still around it's doubtful Alan Moore would have wanted to do a story that dark when there's unstoppable murder hobos roaming the nation.
 
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