Grrl Power #250 – It’s only overconfidence if he loses
Sydney will explain “Inverse ninja” on the next page, but this is one of those cases where I probably need to scoop her so those of you unfamiliar with the trope are up to speed. Basically it says the more bad guys the heroes face, the less of a threat they are. In other words, 100 Stormtroopers? No sweat. One Darth Vader? Big problem. Weirdly, the way the trope works, 100 Darth Vaders are exactly the same threat as 100 Stormtroopers. It’s only when you get down to the last one that he becomes a threat. It’s like, conservation of action. Normally there’s no way the hero could beat 100 Darth Vaders, and that’s why it makes a good cliffhanger to end on, but when the next episode starts, the hero gets a lucky shot and hits the gravity suck death vortex thingy that 99 of the Vaders were clustering around, but that last one? No way he’s going down in one lucky shot.
Two hundred and fifty pages. Part of me wants to pat myself on the back and part of me wants to kick myself for doing a 50 page fight. I really didn’t intend it to last that long which is especially ridiculous considering how much I cut (ahem, saved for later I mean), and as you can probably guess from this page it’s not quite over yet, but I promise I will make the remainder as concise and entertaining as I know how.
I don’t know why I’m so bad about remembering little details panel to panel, other than there just being a lot of details to remember. But I bring it up because I want to point out that Vehemence’s coat didn’t repair itself in the last panel, I just forgot to draw it all torn up somehow. It’s a fairly minor art repair, I just didn’t have time to fix it as I’m scheduling this post at 1 am.
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I don’t know if anybody else has said it and I am entirely unwilling to slog through all the comments to find out. But for the record, I think any good guy that gets to use the line “That was my car” in response to an inferno of shrapnel and hate being released on the world deserves a mention on the cast page.
I like the SEAL.
It is possible that I am biased, however.
Likewise not in the mood to read through 666 posts. Besides which, that is too much of an inauspicious omen. But, as regards:
So what was your “as regards”? You quoted someone but then didn’t make any comment…
That was just an error in not closing the end of quote properly. Which makes it highlight the remainder of the comment, instead of stopping where you wanted it to.
Only “Inverse ninja” should have appeared using the quote format. Thus everything after that is my comment.
Likewise I messed up the bold highlight, by starting it at the beginning of the sentence, whereas my convention is just to highlight the individual’s name.
Ohhh, I see. I understand now. :D Although, your comment still doesn’t make sense given what she meant by “inverse ninja”.
“Inverse baddie” would have been more appropriate for her to say.
One Darth Vader is more dangerous than a hundred stormtroopers. He falls under the category of ‘Baddie’ but not ‘Ninja’. So she is needlessly restricting the term, and doing so inappropriately, as he is not a stealth character. She observed him and was suspicious of his behaviour, because he stood out as not belonging where he was.
Regardless it is still a funny comment to make. But a valid quibble, nonetheless.
Am I the only one who read Vehemence’s lines in Lex Luthors’s voice from justice league unlimited?
I could not hear you the first time. Perhaps if you do your impression a bit louder, I might be able to make you out?
Don’t think I didn’t see this guy leaning through Sydney’s shield earlier. I wonder if Sydney saw it though…
Sydney is under orders to protect the squishy members of the team. Which that guy is, as a non-super. So she has positioned herself in between the obvious bad guy and the person she is protecting.
In other words you are observing an optical illusion. He is standing behind the shield, and is not passing through it. Although he may be leaning on it, the same way as he could with a wall he was hiding behind.
I don’t really feel like reading through all the comments, but it feels pretty clear that Sydney’s use of ninja here is a reference to
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConservationOfNinjutsu
That seems like the principle she’s citing here is.
Dangit I failed some grammar
I should really get an account at some point
I only just noticed this scene’s proximity to Sydney and Maxima’s conversation about not using cars as weapons. XD
To be fair, as a villain Vekter has to worry less about property damage. Also, if he carries around pinballs to use as weapons, it’s probably safe to assume he can’t directly attack with his telekinesis, canceling out Maxima’s other main argument.