Grrl Power #1475 – Megascorpion
Super Hiro is about 80% as strong as Maxima, but his flight speed is just shy of supersonic. Anvil can theoretically out-strength anyone on the team by absorbing enough kinetic energy (being punched all-out by Hiro doesn’t make her as strong as Hiro, there’s conversion entropy, and a lot of the energy goes to reinforcing her body) and no one is sure what her upper limit is and if she would instantly explode if she exceeds it or develop a full-body hernia or what.
Basically, no one else was quite right to take Babezilla down quickly and nonlethally. Dabbler did some back of the cyber-abacus math and gave Max an idea of how hard and fast Max would need to hit her without exploding her head. I’ve posted about it before, but I’m positive super fights would wind up being extremely lethal. If some guy is robbing a bank wearing, let’s say a tank themed costume, you really have no idea how much punishment he can take. So you give him a tap that would lay out a normal human, or try to, because if your regular punch is measured in megatons, scaling it back down to a 300 lb boxer punch might not be a level of control that’s easy to achieve. Maybe to you, exhaling differently during the punch means the difference between 300 lbs and 3,000. Maybe you lay the guy out, maybe he doesn’t realize he’s being punched, maybe you break his neck. So if he’s still upright and giving you flack about how his grandmother hits harder, you go back in and punch again a little harder, trying to work your way up till you’re hitting him as his level, or just slightly above, but somewhere between 30,000 lbs and 180,000, his skull pulps. And that’s a hero trying to control his strength. A supervillain with eye lasers could walk into a stadium and kill 5,000 people before a hero shows up and decides there’s no time to work his way up to just the right amount of takedown force.
There was a start of a good discussion on the previous page about whether or not Babezilla’s phone would still work when enlarged. I think it comes down to how she grows. If she just summons more molecules to fill in the spaces, then I think the battery would still work, but I don’t know the antenna. I also don’t know if the CPU or the screen would still work, because suddenly regular sized electrons are flying around circuits that are 55x wider and thicker, and data transmitted to the screen (like the LEDs themselves) is traveling through wires that used to be hair-thick but are now finger-thick. I think there’d be some lag at any rate.
If she grows by making her molecules larger, well, then how does she breathe? The phone itself should still work perfectly, but again, not sure about the antenna. I think that would fail, unless the EM waves returned to regular size once they leave her super-domain, then yeah, I guess it’d work.
And if it’s some sort of weird reverse-TARDIS-she’s-bigger-on-the-outside nonsense, then of course it’d work, because she’s just closer than you think she is.
Oh, look who it is in the vote incentive. And a not-quite-yet-but-it’s-coming NSFW version over at Patreon.
Vote incentive and Patreon updated with some shading. Not finished yet, but progress.
I think she would get in trouble for doing this. She’d mess up the… floor of the waterfall? Is that what it’s called? The receiving pool? No, probably not that. Anyway, she’d churn things up and cause a ton of weird erosion.
Since you might be wondering, Niagara Falls is about 165 feet high, so Babezilla obviously doesn’t have to be full sized. I’d say she’s about 175-180 feet tall here?
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Yeah I kinda figured the team doesn’t have the specific power sets to defeat Babezilla without killing her or possibly destroying more of wherever they are than she was. I actually think forcing her to joi-I mean recruiting Babezilla would help fill those gaps in certain situations.
max has time to stop to make witty quips?
I though the same.
She doesnt.
Any smart folks know if time dilation hypothetically works for or against Max here?
If you mean time dilation due to her reaching relativistic speeds it would work against her.
I mean more like how Sydney was stuck in space for a while and for her it was a few days but for everyone on Earth it was almost two months. I don’t know how any of that works but I feel like it could apply here. Max could have time to quip, grab a sandwich, and a shower before her 30 seconds are technically up in who knows where space. Or maybe she’s already disqualified.
Of course, she is a super.
Babezilla is going to have one hell of a headache when she wakes up. How would you do concussion protocols in this situation? Because she’s not severely concussed from the boot, she definitely is from the face-plant.
I hope for her that she shrinks down some; it’ll make it easier to treat any injuries she’s sustained.
The upskirt shot in the last panel feels unnecessary, no matter what Mathias thinks.
But yeah, good thing she wore at least some underwear.
IF you can rail gun her brain stem then you can shoot her phone…
and tell her the next shot will be her brain stem.
And remember Supers, when seconds matter, combat quips don’t.
I mean it’s pretty implicit that the Superion Field and anything influenced by it runs on at least 50% Bullshittium at all times.
On a straight scaling the phone would not work. Digital electronics use clock signals that trigger state changes, so every time the clock ticks millions of things happen in a modern processor. A clock domain is a bunch of circuits synchronised to the same click signal. Modern phone processors run so fast that you can’t have the whole processor synchronised to the same click signal because the speed of the signal moving across the silicon isn’t fast enough, so you have many click domains. Make the phone bigger, and your clock signals timing gets messed up.
Also there are components like inductors printed on the silicon that wouldn’t work the same if they changed size.
You’re right that the antenna wouldn’t work either.
If I thought about it, I could probably come up with plenty of other reasons, but what’s the point, that phone’s a brick, unless there’s some sufficiently-advanced-technology/magic involved in the scaling.
I’m surprised Max stopped to say anything. Doesn’t she need to get back into the ring in less than… ten seconds? fifteen? Definitely not enough time to have a beam battle with Zilla which is something I would love to see.
Dave, don’t stress too much about her phone that couldn’t possibly work when enlargened: it is obviously affected by the same “superion field magic” she is. Scaling a human, or any other creature to that size would not only cause all kinds of issues, but also make it impossible for them to stay alive as-is.
They could all go inside her and see how big she is, but they’d all feel like pricks doing it.
What’s Math like on a speedbag?
World’s punches vibe…
As others have said, I am VERY surprised that Max even bothered to stop and make a quip before jetting off to try and make it back through Sydney’s portal to rejoin the fight. Or has she figured she won’t make it back in time to continue the fight?
Talking is a free action.
I love the sound effects conveying the sound of her boobs and the rest of her separately.
“I’m the silliest Zilla of them all!” Anyone else read it like this first?
> I’m positive super fights would wind up being extremely lethal.
Go read Worm already. Yes, super fights should be stupidly lethal unless superpowers come with enhanced durability as standard.
RE: the voting incentive:
I Figure it’s actually a post-recruitment-by-ARC photoshoot against a scale model and Babezilla is actually ‘normal human’-sized. No harm to the actual ecology beyond what humanity has already done to keep the falls picturesque.
No the phone would no longer work, for numerous reasons.
Assuming everything has been “simply” upscaled”
1) Software wise: your electrons need to travel a whole longer distance, ruining the whole timing in your SW
2) Resistance wise, your PCB tracks are suddenly much bigger in diameter, offsetting your whole Voltage, Amper resistor values.
3) Flipping a transistor will require entirely different values.
and even assuming all that works:
4) your sensors will no longer function as the motion sensors and pressure sensors are all very precisly defined thicknesses/widths based on material properties. Take a rule, place it at the edge of your table, sticking out and let it vibrate by pulling it down a bit.. now do the same with a plastic bar :)
5) your camera pixels would get massively saturated due to light intake, the other way around: your Screen would be pixelmania. Or you get a factor 55 more pixels which again your SW and HW cannot handle :)
Sorry, just my 2 cents :D
If her brain’s electro-chemistry is still properly working, than the Superion field would take care of her phone too; it is probably due to the high concentration of handwavion particles you find in the proximity of all supers…
Shouldn’t that have been “BOOM” “BAP BAP”? Was the “BOOM” for her pelvis hitting or did her head did not hit the ground first?
Interesting observation here. She didn’t shrink down. I know the reality of sequential art means you can only convey so much passage of time in the frame of one page so it’s very possible it just hasn’t happened yet. With that said I assume Max knocked her out so if Babezilla doesn’t shrink back to normal size while unconscious that raises a lot more questions in the seemingly endless suite of questions about the logistics of her growth. I’m sure the science is all under superion field rules but I kinda really want her to join ARC now just to test what she can get away with. Just growing stuff on demand would be insanely useful by itself. So would hypothetically shrinking stuff, possibly even people. If she snatched one of those helicopters at kaiju size then shrunk down to 5’5 valley girl size do you then have a toy helicopter and very tiny human pilots? What happens if Varia touches her? There’s tons of potentially insane shit possible with Babezilla. ARC would be fools to let her escape from them.
Ohh, that phone’s going to be cracked dropping it like that without a case on. Bet it hit just wrong when it fell/landed. ;)
26 seconds really isn’t long when you start running your mouth. If Max is going to get back to the arena in time she needs to shut up and fly.
If her brain electro-chemistry is still working, than the Superion field would take care of her phone too; it is probably due to the high concentration of handwavion particles you find in the proximity of all supers…
Miss Zilla should have read the evil overlord list.
“I will never say, ‘I am invincible,’ because no one ever is. After that, defeat is usually instantaneous.”
*gasp!* A guaranteed loss! (p134).
Maxima should/should’ve caught the phone.
There’s an app controlling her size.
Slide the slider down to 1x.
Might have to use Babezilla’s finger with the phone in her hand.
That thing in the middle of the panty-shot has no business being there. Also I disagree with the camera focus.
Btw. whatever happened to sleeping gas and the like?
A Maxima sized boot traveling supersonic would be like a bullet hitting someone Babezilla sized. Guess she also has kaiju durability as well as size.