Acceleration like that to Cricket, who has only a normal human's toughness? If Taylornaut punched her at the speed required to do that, Cricket would just splash. Poor Taylor would be traumatized beyond belief by having that happen, including when she had to wash what remained of Cricket off her fist.
My Life as a Teenage Juggernaut... (Worm AU x Marvel)
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Acceleration like that to Cricket, who has only a normal human's toughness? If Taylornaut punched her at the speed required to do that, Cricket would just splash. Poor Taylor would be traumatized beyond belief by having that happen, including when she had to wash what remained of Cricket off her fist.
Somehow I think it would be more of a throw: Taylor has been taking classes in control after all. Hookwolf can take a hit, Cricket can't.
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Taylornaught power memory: "We know someone who can fly by screaming. Time to see if you can."
Cricket's shard: [Arbitrary limit says no, next host or bud will]
Cricket's shard: [Arbitrary limit says no, next host or bud will]
She can't take a throw like that, either. Cricket VS Juggernaut is such a mismatch, Taylor would have to use all her brains to keep from killing Cricket.
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Vista: (Cracks knuckles.) How many you got?
Taylor gets fed up of her dodging and evading her grabs, stomps the floor, grabs the now floating cricket, and slam dunks her into a trashcan before bending a metal bar over the lid.
Alternatively, she could just yeet her into the ocean.
An NCIS reference! Hinky!
And here we see the Stabbypuppy in its natural habitat. Note the inability to learn from its past mistakes.
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Yes, there were different instances in Canon that popped Sibby (Clock and Lily, I know for sure). The real question is would Jugg's power actually behave as something that could pop her. Also, in Clockblocker's example, it also immediately unfroze what he had tagged so would Taylor also lose her powers until they reasserted?
As far as Cricket, she could actually cause loss of balance plus Cricket has enhanced reflexes (she has dodged bullets, i just checked) so she's actually a pretty good match up as long as she doesn't showboat. However, as something that they are testing without going immediately for the kill, then Melody's kinda majorly screwed unless she escalates (potentially in defense of her life). Put Cricket with Fog and Taylor is having a not-fun time.
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I think Max is forgetting that big explosions tend to make big noises, and that Taylor walked off the sound of a several ton boom as easily as she walked off the force of it.
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This is possibly the best description of a facepalm that I have seen ANYWHERE. Thank you for it!
I admit that my first thought was that it was a reference to Moira MacTaggert, from the mutant franchises.
Heh. Nice.
Especially when I saw the name "Sciuto" there... And I admit, I squee'd a little when she introduced herself as Abigail Sciuto. Granted, as an actual Naval officer here on Bet she probably doesn't dress like her outworld counterpart on Earth NCIS...
Especially when I saw the name "Sciuto" there... And I admit, I squee'd a little when she introduced herself as Abigail Sciuto. Granted, as an actual Naval officer here on Bet she probably doesn't dress like her outworld counterpart on Earth NCIS...
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I always thought that the actress did one of the best Lois Lane voices for any of the DCAU movies. (Superman vs. The Elite, which reminds the world of how dangerous Superman can ACTUALLY be, and why you DON'T want him to take the brakes off his morals.)
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QA sits back in her deckchair, and folds her copy of the 'Daily Shard', to read the report again.
[NOT A TRUMP]
[HA!]
[BEST HOST]
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You know that trick where you throw stones, so they skip along the surface of, say, a lake, and you try and get the biggest number of skips, before they sink?
Do you think Taylor could try that with Nazis? Is Cricket volunteering???
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Actually, no. From all accounts, the colonists on Mauritius didn't like the taste of the dodo at all. The animals they brought on the other hand, liked the taste of their eggs. That's how they died.
As an aside, it was basically a flightless large pigeon
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Some sailors quite liked the taste, although apparently dodo gizzard was more widely considered palatable than the rest of the bird.
It's true, rather less pithily, that invasive species were responsible for the dodo's extinction (ground-bound nesting presents certain challenges when a number of predators are suddenly introduced) but I was having trouble making a cane toad joke and the prion one was right there.
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As a kid, we used to run over aluminum cans right down the center to get them to wrap around the tire where they'd stay to make noise when they get caught by the bike frame.
I couldn't help but think of that at the idea of Hookwolf getting in front of a moving Juggernaut.
I couldn't help but think of that at the idea of Hookwolf getting in front of a moving Juggernaut.
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That Taylor was thrown by the explosion, though, means that the noise would have been Doppler-shifted in the process, which may have lessened the effect.
Not to mention that the sound would have struck more like a physical blow, anyway, than as vibrations.
There's enough ambiguity there, overall, that Max would at least go "not sure, needs more data" first, before discarding it outright.
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Throw in Assault showing up and having fun with the capture, and it sounds like a Done Deal. Seems to be a running gag where Taylor captures a Villain (or Shadow Stalker), and Assault shows up asking to have said Villain (or Shadow Stalker).
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My prediction: Cricket tries to disorient Juggernaut via sound, which won't work because Taylor will immediately lock onto her the same way she did with Sophia, which will negate any potential disorientation effect that might otherwise have worked...
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Taylornaut has the Brute trick of clapping to create a shockwave, and can funnel the effect to only hit what she wants. I doubt Cricket can handle that.
The effectiveness of parahuman powers are not always congruent with what physics suggest, but even with pure physics, the explosion had a really high magnitude but really low frequency; Cricket's power presumably can't reach the same magnitude*, but by using the right frequency could still affect Taylor. We know it won't, but Max doesn't know what we know.
*Unless the Shard calibrates the amount of force exerted based on the ears of the person she's trying to disorient.
A webcomic brought this up, when the villain has revealed his evil plan to a captured hero, whereupon said hero laughed and said he'd never seen anybody try that hard for a Darwin award, because 'convincing the hero he should be willing to kill/maim by killing off their love interest' has the obvious next step of said hero deciding to see if they could pull somebody's nervous system out of their body without tearing (the nerves. Other stuff will definitely be tearing).
It's much simpler than that. All Taylor has to do is decide ahead of time that Cricket's echolocation won't stop her from apprehending her. If Taylor simply decides it has no effect, it won't have an effect.
I'm not too sure about that. Juggernaut canonically has a force field, Cricket might just drip off her fist, naturally.