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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We shall not mention the square-cube law.
Nor how ungodly strong her bones have to be.
oh … drat … I just did, did I?
I am a bit worried though that Maxima is coming in with maximum ultra-violence (to take this girl down in less than 5 seconds). And then we find out that this really is just a young girl doing young girl things, only kaiju sized, who really really did not deserve to be treated like a clear and present danger to the global population…
Antagonizing a special response team is the best way to win a Darwin award, girl or not girl…
Of all the things I thought of that Max could be needed to deal with, this was not anywhere near my short list.
I find it very amusing that she gave herself a belted on, plush tail for her costume (assuming that’s what those belts are for). I was also thinking the felt dino spikes were part of her hoodies, but there a gap for them, so maybe not?
The belts seem to be just for decoration, and the skirt goes over the tail. I’m guessing all the reptilian parts are her, including the tail, unless it is another kind of ‘tail’.
Uh oh. Maxima is going to fly Through this one isn’t she?
Math and Jabberwocky seem ideally unsuited for this fight. I guess they’re just there for the banter.
Couldn’t Jabberwocky just do Babezilla-style?
I really expected the emergency to be something nefariously released by either the obnoxious X-face, or by Dabbler’s master, in order to test whether or not they are seeing Maxima in the tournament.
Anyway, whether or not they released Babezilla, given how the announcer announced the departure, they will be able to match up the timetables. Instead of an alibi, Maxima is giving them a confirmation.
Probably gonna get deleted, but I bet Math and Jaberwocky want to pull an Ant-man/Thanos maneuver.
Why would a dated reference get deleted? That’s no crime.
So this young woman thinks that fighting police officers is fun? In this case, I can think of several federal felonies that could apply, mostly under 18 U.S. Code § 111 – Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees. That is often applied to FBI agents or U.S. Marshals as the officer, but it would apply to Arc-Swat as well, even without Maxima. She is looking at 8 years, maybe up to 20, in federal incarceration.
Does ARC have super power dampeners? I don’t remember if they do. I feel like there’s a lot of logistical questions about super incarceration that need to be answered to address Babezilla. Mostly like how? Imprisoning someone that can manipulate their size creates unique challenges. Just how would you enforce a prison sentence on her specifically without violating human rights or devoting tons of resources that would be impractical?
No (p363). Arc-AEGIS has to come up with individualized solutions (elevated air pressure for Opal so she’d get the bends if she tried to portal out, cutesy cartoons and pot smoke for Vehemence to squelch his vehemic energy).
Do Not Make Three Mouth At Us
If she’s 55x larger than normal and “standard” 28mm scale is 1:56, you are about as small to her as your D&D miniatures are to you, if that helps.
(In the case of miniatures, “standard” means “Whatever the heck the sculptor feels like at the time.”)
If she can change size at will and objects change with her, she could make a heck of a lot of money…
This hardly seems a threat worthy of bringing Max back.
Reading Dave’s note about the height of the two-ish story building makes me think Sydney Scoville Junior is just barely not a self-insert. If she were a lesbian, I’d have no doubts in my mind.