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

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Largely because the current take is that Batman can win against God himself if you give him some lead time to plan, because Batman is the Baddest BADASS in the multiverse. Mind you, the people who posit that Batman can win against ANYONE are now making the mistake that DC made in requiring that Superman can't lose thing they had for a while. If you have a character who can't lose because reasons, he or she stops being interesting.
 
The whole reason The Question exists is because the writers needed somewhere to put the Adam West Batman logic because it was too funny to get rid of.
 
Taylornaut vs. Supes would go something like this:

Taylor : "Hey, you're THE Superman! Can I have your autograph?" <hands over autograph book>

Superman : "Err, sure." Uses tightly controlled heat vision to sign name. "Here you go."

"Thanks!" <Taylornaut walks away>

"What just happened?" <Superman Wins by forfeit!>

Sometimes the best move is not to play. :)
 
BlazeStryker said:
I wouldn't put it past Taylor to suggest a nice game of chess the next time they met, come to that. And I can see Clark being enough of a Matthew Broderick fan to get the reference.
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Probably better than playing Nuclear War? :)
(I knew people who claimed this was best played while slightly drunk - stopped you thinking about what it meant, too much...)
 
One of my favorite wallpapers has Superman being asked, "So you're not scared of bullets?" "The ones that hit me, no. The ones I fear are the ones that miss." To me, that encapsulates Supes attitude perfectly. That interaction with Taylor and Supes is how it likely would happen, but he'd be pleased rather than confused, unless he'd been told that it was going to be a fight when they met.
 
Kinsfire said:
unless he'd been told that it was going to be a fight when they met
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It'd be a fight, sure. But it'd be a one-sided fight.

It's a fight for Taylornaut to try and stop her inner superhero fangirl from coming out.

... And isn't that a sentence that I, for one, never expected to write/type, much less think.
 
Kinsfire said:
One of my favorite wallpapers has Superman being asked, "So you're not scared of bullets?" "The ones that hit me, no. The ones I fear are the ones that miss." To me, that encapsulates Supes attitude perfectly. That interaction with Taylor and Supes is how it likely would happen, but he'd be pleased rather than confused, unless he'd been told that it was going to be a fight when they met.
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Would she ask for an Arm wrestle? that could be amusing, since she would win. Imagine Supermans face when he loses.
 
jmcdavid said:
Superman: "Impressive. What's your secret?"

Taylornaut: "My power literally makes me unstoppable. If I want to go somewhere or do something, it's impossible to stop me."
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Taylor wants to buy Jelly Belly brand jellybeans, but they are all sold out in the entire city. Maybe because some villain destroyed the factory that makes them. How exactly would being unstoppable allow her to accomplish this goal?
 
Also, are the jellybeans sold out in every city in every Earth? Because that's... quite the number. And if the answer is no, she can get there.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
Taylor wants to buy Jelly Belly brand jellybeans, but they are all sold out in the entire city. Maybe because some villain destroyed the factory that makes them. How exactly would being unstoppable allow her to accomplish this goal?
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Prince Charon said:
By giving her a path to walk to the nearest place outside the city that did have them. A potentially quite direct path.
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cloakable said:
Also, are the jellybeans sold out in every city in every Earth? Because that's... quite the number. And if the answer is no, she can get there.
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This is all technically correct. However...

A tear in space time opens, and a mysterious, meddling, fedora wearing woman steps out. "Here's your jellybeans." She hands Taylor a plastic grocery bag containing the jellybean flavors she was looking for.

"Uhm, thank you?"

"You're welcome. The villain who stole the contents of the factory's warehouse and destroyed it has been turned over to the PRT, and it was deemed easier for me to just deliver the ones Clairavoyant thought you'd like from the recovered stock. The results if you had to go looking for them were not pretty, since the villain's base was in Toronto."

"Ah. What do I owe you?"

"Six US dollars."
 
Ah yes. In a world with precogs, having Taylor use her power to create unparalleled amounts of collateral damage would set off alarms across the continent. I can see many times when something like Kryslin just described happens to prevent such damage.
 
Path to Avoiding Excessive Juggernaut-ing?

Dunno. Maybe there's a more elegant term? :)

Does Clairvoyant get a cut of the six dollars? Someone must have sorted the sweets so Taylor gets the varieties she wants...
 
forklifter16 said:
Ah yes. In a world with precogs, having Taylor use her power to create unparalleled amounts of collateral damage would set off alarms across the continent. I can see many times when something like Kryslin just described happens to prevent such damage.
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For all that Wildbow claims Contessa is constantly stopping emergencies, she hasn't gone after Heartbreaker, Mama Mathers, or the Siberian. Taylor destroying some streets to get a snack is less threatening than those.
 
arromdee said:
For all that Wildbow claims Contessa is constantly stopping emergencies, she hasn't gone after Heartbreaker, Mama Mathers, or the Siberian. Taylor destroying some streets to get a snack is less threatening than those.
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In reverse order:
The Siberian they want to keep around in case she's useful against the Gold Idiot. No idea if any method of controlling Manton would have an effect on her.
Mama Mathers' powers allow her to fuck with Thinkers who try to focus on her, just like they allow her to fuck with the other five senses of people who perceive her.
And even I wouldn't dare send Contessa after Heartbreaker, 'I Win' button or not. My personal choice of weapon to use on Nikos Vasil is brought to you by the letters A, G and M, and the number 109.
 
M. H. Fuzzball said:
And even I wouldn't dare send Contessa after Heartbreaker, 'I Win' button or not. My personal choice of weapon to use on Nikos Vasil is brought to you by the letters A, G and M, and the number 109.
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Mine is named Cameron. Not only does she have any emotional impulses in a format he cannot manipulate, but she also lacks the glands for hormonally based emotional sentiment. Of course, recruitment would be a fun conversation...
 
BlazeStryker said:
Mine is named Cameron. Not only does she have any emotional impulses in a format he cannot manipulate, but she also lacks the glands for hormonally based emotional sentiment. Of course, recruitment would be a fun conversation...
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The two main problems I have with employing Cameron in this venture are 1) I've only seen one fic where Cameron shows up on Earth Bet (which is at the moment just chapters in a snippet collection), and 2) that dumbass Pellick.
Whereas T-LAMs are likely a lot easier to come by (by preference, with the anti-runway payload).
 
My counter for Heartbreaker is named E-123 Omega.

As a robot, he is immune to Mastering, and he is more than capable of turning Nikos Vasil into a fine red mist.
 
BlazeStryker said:
Mine is named Cameron. Not only does she have any emotional impulses in a format he cannot manipulate, but she also lacks the glands for hormonally based emotional sentiment. Of course, recruitment would be a fun conversation...
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I'm not sure she'd be immune... Heartbreaker seems pretty absolute. Might even be able to grab Dragon? Personally, I'd say send in a knife missile, about 4am. Neither he nor his kids should pick up up, and if they notice it, not much they can do to it. Your choice of deadly location/death method.

(I'm pretty sure many Tinkers could build one, if pressed.)
 
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Doesn't he have, like politicians and celebrities with "dead man switches."
Otherwise I would use a Barrett M82A1 .50 cal from at least 1 mile or 1.6 kilometers away.
 
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