Grrl Power #1474 – Mega influencer
You know… “RAR” If you know what I mean.
I don’t, actually. I don’t know why it’s in quotes.
I know what you’re all wondering. The symbol on her phone is an eggplant with a bite taken out of it. Admittedly the branding could be a little clearer.
I think Babezilla is clocking in at about 300 feet tall there? The building next to her isn’t 2-story technically, but it’s one of those businesses like an auto repair shop or your basic strip mall structure, so it’s got a false ceiling with all the ductwork and cabling and some HVAC on the roof. So it’s a little shorter than a 2 story house, cause houses have sloped roofs, but it’s about the same height as two stories of an office building, if you ignore the bottom two floors which are usually a high-ceiling lobby and them a mezzanine level. Anyway, that comes up to her ankle, so my back of the napkin my brain calculation puts her at about 300 feet.
Babezilla is 5’5″ normally, so 300 feet means she’s 55x larger, and assuming she starts off at 100 pounds (for easy math,) she’s clocking in at about 8,500 tons now, according to a square cube calculator I found. That’s why the street is cratering under her. The storm drains no likey.
Of course, being 55x larger means the 5,000 mile swim to Senegal (assuming she starts from Galveston) would still be a 90 mile swim for her. She may not have fully realized that. It would be a pretty stupid way to die, getting 3 or 400 miles out and realizing how badly she’d underestimated the distances. Even if she hadn’t gotten past the continental shelf, the water there can be 350-600 feet deep. Though I guess if she started from Galveston, she’d be basically in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and could angle toward an oil derrick. There’s a lot of them out there. It’s not like she’s stuck at 300 feet tall. She could swim up and be all, “Gosh guys, do you have a helicopter to spare? I think I’m lost.”
Oh, look who it is in the vote incentive.
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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Can we keep her? Pleeeeeaaaase!!!
Oh no, she’s a cutie.
Though if she can just shrug off a blow from Hiro or Anvil she really is a legit threat, even if she doesn’t seem malicious, just wanting attention.
I can fix her!
Fix what?
How, exactly? I doubt you can just unscrew the top of her head and do something about whatever’s wrong with her brain.
Yes, we can. With the new SCREWTOP ZIPLOCK top we’ve got easy access to everything in the skull… Not that there is much in there. (Rummaging around sounds) Oh, man like when did she last clean these sinuses… dang gonna need the fusion powered mop for this job. Later guys, you know how it is. A HENCH’S JOB IS NEVER DONE! p.s. This contract is almost done. Need to check Henchsite see if there is a nice quiet opening somewhere.
Has nobody on ARCswat (other than Sydney, obviously) seen “Empire Strikes Back”? Or “Captain America Civil War”? Tangle her legs up and watch her go down.
I think that at some point sometime in the 2040s, there should be a movie making a reference to this calling Civil War “a really old movie”.
At that point it would be about as old as The Matrix is now. Is that “a really old movie”?
Your mileage may vary depending on your age.
2050s, then. Got the maths wrong in my head. And that’s kind of the joke.
Hell, has no one there read “Gulliver’s Travels“?
Or seen any cartoon where the heroes trip a giant by tying its legs together?
Even if this idiot has super strength, ARC-Swat should be able to get some tungsten wire or something.
The vote incentive seems nice and all but I want to see Math singing Giant Woman.
That type of commercial roof is a Mansard Façade.
Not exactly. A Mansard is a short section of steeply sloped roof (near vertical) as a transition between the main front (vertical) wall and a flat or slightly sloped main roof. The building in the comic is just your basic flat roof with a parapet wall.
And a slight nitpick, but the roll-up doors should be about 1.5x taller and a bit wider. The garage is clearly tall enough to fit a full-size commercial tractor (front part of an “18-wheeler”) with room above for lights, HVAC, and maybe a few cranes/lifts. The right half of the building would have a mezzanine (partial width floor) with offices or parts storage, so describing it as “2-story” is accurate.
“I delete data like you on the way to real errors.” – Sheppard VI, Mass Effect 2.
Somehow that came to mind with how Maxima is going to defeat her, before going back to the real battle royale.
When fighting a Kaiju sized person, I always thought the nastiest trick would be to fly up their nose, and start blasting away in there. Or possibly take a few gallons of Tabasco or neat alcohol with you, and just splash it around on those massive mucus membranes. No one can fight when their sinus feels like it is being flambed. It’s not pleasant for anyone involved, but it would be effective.
“Or possibly take a few gallons of Tabasco or neat alcohol with you, and just splash it around on those massive mucus membranes.”
Or borrow Sydney’s hip flask…
Dear God, don’t try to kill the girl.
Given she’s a “Zilla”, we can’t discount the possibility that she can exhale fire or something similarly nasty. If she can, then her tubes are probably pretty robust…
Prediction: Max slams in at about Mach Twelve, *through* the phone, then does horrible things to *both* kneecaps…
Honestly, Dave B.? Are you really that tired of the tournament arc?
Oh well, I guess you needed a convincingly big reason to show off Maxima’s emergency plan!
To think, the world threat is a bored high school girl!
I am very curious why Anvil or Dabbler can’t beat her, or why Halo couldn’t instead of Maxima.
It seems like they would counter her pretty well by turning the kinetic force of her steps or movements against her, random space adventurer bullshit, or obscenely overwhelming firepower.
Also how close is this to the portal exit? As far as I remember Maxima’s limited flight speed (at least in atmosphere) is one of the biggest areas where even her super speed can’t trivialixe the problem of getting to where she is needed in seconds rather minutes, often double digit minutes.
Or maybe it just seemed like exactly the kind of challenge that could show off that Maxima totes is still on earth, establishing an alibi.
Or maybe Babezilla was actually hired or manipulated to do this now for the specific purpose mentioned above.
Or maybe it is Dabbler with some kind of giant hologram/illusion with forcefield projectors.
For anyone on earth watching the stream, this is not alibi, this is direct proof that it’s her in the arena. I think PR action is off the table.
Agreed with rest. Unless she has some other superpower outside of size, several team members should be able to counter her without breaking a sweat, no need to call off Max from having fun. And if she’s on the level that they really DO need Max, chances are she wouldn’t be able to solve it in time to return to arena either.
If it was an alibi setup, it would be when there wasn’t a fight in progress and time wasn’t a pressing issue.
Most people don’t know that Max has access to arbitrary-distance instantaneous travel. There’s no reason for them to think that a tournament fighter far away leaving the ring for a few seconds has anything to do with Max here on Earth.
“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?”
Fun fact: The Niagara Falls were turned off for 5 months in 1969, for maintenance.
Ruining their work could become expensive.
This is Sydney’s new best friend
Take her mac adress and ban her from the web, she will do anything for her instagram account.
“Who’s *really* the most powerful member of this team?”
Agreed, no need to summon Max for this. Leon should be able to deal with this “threat” on his own.
I think it was Kevin / Vehemence who pointed out that supers all tend to solve their problems with their fists.
ARC-Swat does seem to be falling into that trap in this case, and forget it was Ariana who saved the day when they were tangling with Hench Wench.
175-180 feet -> 53-54 meters
New York to Dakar 6 142.07 km. (3816,5 miles)
Its like she’s the improbable child of Giant Girl and Badonkasaurus from Giant Girl Adventures….
If you want more detailed info on Babezilla’s stats at various sizes, look up Giantess Calculator.
She needs a pedicure.
Where did this blithering idiot come from, and do we have a big enough cell to put her in? =_=
….. Sir, Godzillia is on the call. Something about ruining her branding and image with gross groonery from us mammals.
And suddenly I’m remembering that Merryweather cartoon of Godzilla and King Kong as giant waifus, who want to fight but get interrupted by a policeman telling them they’re causing a disturbance, then get creeped out by the fact that there’s a crowd taking their pictures.
“RAR” is in quotes because that is exactly how the type of person would (mis)use quotes.
And Max is about to clothesline the girl at multiple times the speed of sound and probably not even stop to say hi. I hope Babezilla’s durability scales up with her size because this is going to *hurt*.
I mean… superion field shenanigans aside, increasing the size of the phone by whatever factor that is would actually reduce its speed considerably and potentially render its radio incapable of broadcasting at or receiving the necessary frequencies. Not to mention the cpu, ram, etc would all slow down. Heck, being that large would slow the brain down too.
But of course, the superion field is likely rejecting real physics and substituting its own
Oh, this is actually real? I thought it was a joke interlude page, and maybe this was Sydney daydreaming about herself being gigantic and causing trouble.
I don’t see how Max solves this problem in the available time without killing or maiming Babezilla. Sure, flying through her knees and/or head at Mach whatever will finish the fight quickly enough that she could get back in time, but that doesn’t seem to be how she prefers to work.