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So I was watching a bit of Star Wars again and even without the context of what preceded it. The Battle of Yavin 4 or the Battle of the Death Star must have been insane from the point of view of the Rebel troopers on the ground. Like they may have lived their lives fighting a gritty guerilla space warfare but for that one day where their world would have ended, less than 20 Star Fighters against the super laser of Planet destruction, listening to the comms of the battle plays out like a slow apocalypse record as everyone quickly dies.

Suddenly a whiny blonde religious man, some douchebag smuggler, a bigfoot and the lone survivor of their fighter crews, swunh around changing their fates and that of the galaxy forevermore.

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https://x.com/nekoranten/status/2056828278606803220

I remember Commander Shroob from the Mario & Luigi Partners in Time game, to have been an surpsingly tense yet fun boss fight.

Basically the two bros are up against an army of the purple mushroom grey aliens, The Shroobs, as the Commander guides their attack while setting up a like kamikaze bomb.

It's basically Kirby but humans? Ish? The kids cartoon version vs the kind of edgy battle anime version

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I know wierd specifics, but I feel like it's easier to find generally beloved mom characters if they're closer to protagonistic roles. So I wanted to give a try to the side characters.

Sorry for forgetting to post this on International Womans day. My pick is Suzi the Q from Jojos Bizarre Adventure, Holy Kujos mom.

A kind of clumsy but so loyal and nice lady, was fun in the action moments while also very much not being a fighter and she's very charmingly silly. Joseph deserves far worse for cheating on her.

Like Chairman Rose who basically almost blows up Pokemon Britain, Galar, when he unleashes Eternatus so it doesn't lose it's Macro Cosmos power reserve and enter an energy crisis.

1000 YEARS IN THE FUTURE!?

Like yeah he's supposed to be a villain regardless of how friendly he is. But that just seems like way overdoing it and inevitably losing his position of power because of it. Well I suppose if it was more realistic not only would the running out of energy crisis be like a 50 year in the futuee thing, but a corporate high level Chairman like Rose would get away with such a catastrophy without even having to make up for it.

Tho he might have to go into hiding, like canon Rose does so that part's kind of realistic.

But yeah, what are some fun characters that really jumped the gun and acted way before it was time to, which made them miss the problem in the present?

Sometimes as strong, nasty and dangerous the villain is. They do have weaknesses and are aware they could get caught and defeated so to a last line they set up a mighty Bodyguard.

Started watching the Secret Saturdays and Munja, the Butler Spider almost like a Frankensteins Monster, is great he always has like this hulking out sequence and for being a silent brute is always coming in clutch for Argost.

When characters that used to be on the same or similar, but turned enemies or opposing forces, become allies again.

Big spoilers for Zuko and Iroh who are like the recurring kind of funny antagonists of Avatar the Last Airbender by Season 3 >!Zuko has been having a whole very internal struggling redemption arc, culminating with him going back on it and betraying team Avatar!<

Doing this gets Iroh >!captured by the Fire Nation as a traitor, by Season 4 Zuko has finally turned against it and his father, so he goes to free Iroh and they talk, Zuko being very regretful and Iroy revealing that more than dissapointed or angry, he was sad and afraid that Zuko had finally lost himself and was very happy that wasn't the case!<

Good scary bat by Beast Boy though or is he Changeling by now?

And how did he already get a new girlfriend, wasn't he dead? >!I'm joking of course that's not Paul, just sort of looks similar, hairs blacker where as Pauls is browner!<

Some would say actions speak louder than words, so it would make sense after a particularly harsh sentence to just forgoe trying to one up someone with words, rather just beat them down. But there's some conversations I would've liked to hear where it goes if it doesn't end there or with fisticuffs. What's some character dialogue like that for you?

In Invincible VS, at that start of a fight there's one liners, insults and just normal conversations. Cecil Stedman is one of the sassiest characters in these dialogues, so it's funny to hear the sass get turned back on him with Lucan the serious Strong Fat Viltrumite and makes me wonder what he would've said in turn.

Cecil: "God, the mustaches are getting old. You people ever think about getting a new style?"

Lucan: "How hypocritical. Hair like yours is out of fashion galaxy wide!"

Wonder if it'd be like 3d or 2d, maybe like most or all of the cast would have Installs because going on for so long almost all of them have transformed at some point.

Homer would be a grappler obviously, grabbing peoples neck and shaking them. Him and Barney would probably have a beer meter. Who'd you like in the cast?

Because it's normally not that combat heavy an ability in fiction, unless you're like an assassin type. So it's pretty interesting to see how it goea being a fighters power and how it won't turn out super overpowered.

So my selection is Morph from the X-Men, they're a shapeshifter whose base form kind of reminds me of Chameleon also from Marvel. However Morph is a mutant that can both change their shape into other people, but can also copy their physical abilities, even copy things like fire, energy generation and even swords, though this maybe be them just copy that actual matter and energy and using them as weapons.

Because they can't copy the internal powers of people, like Psylockes psionics and skills, Quicksilvers super slowed time perception and extreme reaction ability, Juggernauts unstoppability in motion and Hulk strength increasing through rage. And can only change shape to one other person at a time.

That you previously didn't. Tho honestly this pick is not mine, but I have seen many people in the interent express that the more serious tone of Cecil in the Invincible cartoon vs his more comedic early role in the comic made them actually like him. Maybe it's on peoples internal biases like how he has a in line with the base character model fairly thin man look with cool face scar, rather than tall face with slightly pudgier look in the comics. Also maybe in Season 1 >!him knowing Omnimans betrayal all along and having something of a foils rivalry thing going on early on with him, might've given him a cooler reception!<

Writing all this out I guess it's not that slight, but rather many different slight differences leading to a different reception.

Like comparatively in these fictional worlds of monsters, the characters don't have any particularly outstanding strength or "stat" but they're so well versed in fighting or being willy they make it way farther than their "stat sheet" would seem to let them do.

My pick is Sokka from Avatar the Last Airbender who starts off as a fairly weak jerk and while he grows in extremes as a person, he's still fairly weak when compared to his allies and enemies, even being easily bested by Zuko in one of his few strengths, swordsmanship, Zuko didn't even use any bending showing even without it what the gap of power is between Sokka and benders. Yet he's one of those that most often managed to make the Gaang survive some of their deadliest encounters by thinking ahead and being street smart, well I guess ice smart, skilled in dodging, the boomerang, the sword and being resourceful.

They need it

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I really liked what I've seen of Kizaru Borsalino, the Light Admiral of the Marines of One Piece. He's been a really fun, like nigh-unstoppable antagonist.

Sancho and Nicolina, found something cute so sharing and arts source:

https://x.com/MeurLover2/status/2050251648803512630

I'm sorry for double posts of Invincible, but they found a DLC leak for Invincible VS and Immortals victory animation is the "Everyone is so mean to me" meme about his odd animation when flying away in space, probably for saving money which I kind of respect. I had to share this it made me laugh.

And this art is the Viltrumites straight posed up geeking by Ryan Ottley. So I can't really call it fanart.

"Mister Argall, what went on in your head?"

"Oh Mister Argall, did you conquer the dead?"