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.”
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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.
Like Spider-Man referring to “Aliens” as a “really old movie”
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.
I’m remembering a Bugs Bunny cartoon where he was going against a version of the Jack And The Beanstalk giant, he hides behind a door and sticks his leg out, which is enough to trip the giant, sending him dramatically falling to the ground face first…
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.
How else could Maxima defeat her in 10 seconds?
If it’s a gizmo and not a metahuman power Max could destroy that and leave her unharmed.
{It’s the phone!}{It’s an App on the phone!}
Were she normal sized could a sharpshooter inflict 6 non-lethal but debilitating 38 cal. slugs?
Not sure how Maxima could do the equivalent without cauterizing the wounds also. That
would, to a degree, defeat the purpose. She needs to give up. Bleeding would be an incentive.
Babezilla would have to unbiggen to receive medical care.
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…
Ever read Worm? Faced with a super super she sent bugs spiders and other things up his nose and into his mouth and lungs. He asphyxiated. Took a while, but basically DRT on delay.
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.
I agree that this is a setup (probably Deus). It’s a not so subtle method of gathering intelligence on just how fast Max is when she maxes out her flight.
Also, if she has a ‘dummy thicc’ alligator/Godzilla style tail, how would a normal style bikini bottom actually fit? I bet Math and Jabber are thinking that too.
Tabasco up the nose. Airhorn in the ear canal. Imperial Walker shoelace tying. Maybe not Sydney’s ‘grab them by the tongue’ or ‘use the uvula as a punching bag’ due to possible atomic breath but there’s a lot of ways of dealing with oversized idiots that shouldn’t require Max and I expect her to give the team a proper chewing out about not being able to handle Lizzie themselves.
I think it’s pretty simple that this is just a bad powers matchup. She seems to have at least decent if not very impressive invulnerability or armor which might be a survival necessity with her size. Dabbler probably can’t incapacitate her without killing her, and I’d imagine similar for Anvil in a different way. Also her size presents challenges if we’re trying to minimize collateral damage. Max can probably handle all of this both quickly and relatively safely which is a big part of ARCs job. It’s not just beating up supers, they’re held accountable and have to at least try to do it right.
“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.
The Niagara thing…
I mentioned THAT on FB yesterday. It was to examine the rockfalls at the bottom.
It was determined to be too expensive to remove them and Niagara was
turned back on.
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.
that hoody with rar on it should have been a zip up,,, so someone could unzip the compressed rar ”files”
I’m guessing she has some weird power like “grows bigger the more followers she has” or “can receive earnest sacrifices for temporary power (donate $5 to grow me 5 inches!)”, and managed to leverage her following to synergize with her power.
As such, try getting her account banned and see whether that cuts off her power supply.
Shouldn’t that be spelled “RAWR”?
Or it’s a pun, she’s offering to *unzip* for her audience
Dave, you should rethink her measurements: if she’s 5’5″ normally and weights 100 pounds, she’s would be severely underweight but she looks anything but. In fact my wild guess would be more like 150 pounds, since she looks rather muscular in bikini and muscle is heavier than fat for the same volume.
Agree. Directly scaled down to 66″, those hips, muscular legs, and bewbs would put her well over 100 lbs. Even ignoring that thicc tail. *Maybe* if it wasn’t a direct scale; say if her hips and legs were disproportionately scaled to support the huge gain in mass and were much smaller when she was 66″.
To clarify, I am not saying she’s too “fat” (quite the opposite, actually). A number on a scale isn’t good or bad; it’s all about proportions. But since a number was mentioned, her number would be more than 100 lb.
Dudes. It was for easy math.
::Ted Knight:: MEANWHILE….
The vote incentive reminds me of Niagara Falls (the Canadian side), but if this little lady were there, her legs would be down in the plunge pool under the falls instead of floating at the top. Niagara Falls itself, from crestline to water level of the Lower Niagara River, is 57 m, but all that falling water has carved out a 52 m deep plunge pool at the base of the falls. As the Falls has slowly receded due to erosion, the plunge pool continues, so the Lower Niagara River is between 30 and 40 meters deep most of the way to Queenston-Lewiston, where the Niagara Falls originally formed after the last ice age.
If she were 300 feet (91 m) tall, she would be just short of the height of the falls if she stood in the Lower Niagara River (up to her waist) and stood near the actual waterfall.
Mind you, if she were there, she would be the Canadian government’s Department H responsibility instead.
Now that I think about it, Niagara Parks Police would try to exercise jurisdiction first. “Ma’am you can’t go swimming in the Niagara River.” If that doesn’t work (yeah right!), they would call on the Niagara Regional Police, then the Ontario Provincial Police, then the RCMP. They might just go to our Navy (Interfering with an International Navigable Waterway) or similar for resolution.
“What cruel deity do you worship?” THAT was a great line.
Hmmm…I was wondering what was calling Max back, but honestly, with what we’ve seen of Arc-Swat, I would wonder why they need her for this, when they have Anvil and Hero, not to mention the others.
Soooo felony Jaywalking?
Noooo! They called Max for this?! Don’t let Max beat her up! She’s the villain we deserve!
A Kaiju influencer… that’s it! Dave, I’m confiscating your drugs!
Gotta say, the concept of “Kaiju Influencer” is legit hilarious.
Now that I type that I realize there are two possible interpretations of “Kaiju Influencer”. ‘Are you tired of getting rubble stuck between your toes every time you stomp on an orphanage? Check out these new shoes from Apocotech! Comfy and stylish!’
Is Babezilla related to Badonkasaurus from Giant Girl Adventures?
Here’s hoping ARC-SWAT continues its tradition of recruiting their villains after the fight. What team doesn’t need a kaiju girl?
So, unless the point is to subdue her without killing her, I don’t see why Arc-Swat is needed at all. A missile launched from afar, rushing at Mach 4, is gonna take her out regardless of her size; unless she’s got invulnerability as part of her power set.
Okay I got some questions now. First one being that I wonder if supers have a compulsion to use their powers? Like Babezilla here, my first thought is why rampage and challenge ARC but honestly what can you really do at this size and weight that isn’t inherently destructive? I’m wondering if the power set can possible lean toward certain actions like say Vehemence always itching to instigate brawls. His powers inherently means he needs regular violence to be healthy. Does Babezilla like, have to rampage? Even simply growing (admittedly not knowing what her limit or control is) is gonna break stuff.
Second does the godzilla traits mean she has other kaiju like powers or is that just an aesthetic choice? Cause the swimming thing would be possible then. Godzilla can breathe underwater. Does she have that? Atomic breath would also be crazy and immediately jump her to like top 10 most powerful supers on the planet. Maybe even top 3. Which would suddenly make even more sense why Max was called in.