Blackhoof
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Its much easier to kill murderous psychopaths when they have no superpowers. They're just regular ones then. And if they were well-known or prominent psychopaths or rulers, then they wont be hard to identify. and now I have an image of all the twisted baddies in the world donning disguises to hide their identities "is that.... TIMEPORT? With a fake mustache!?" "what, no, never heard of him..."
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I think a long war would be worse. You have inability to rebuild the world with helpful superheroes combined with a whole heap of destruction caused by having to wipe out Epics all over the world.
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BurnVictim reminds me of this pyrokinetic in Agents of Shield who was fireproof until the bad guys removed the fire-proof platelets in his DNA. He turned evil too by this stage and when he used his powers now he burned himself and cried out in agony. Still used them for a bit though, ended up very charred. I'm leaning no at this stage
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I don't know, worse than what is currently happening, slow death by Epics? Is a long war where the Epics are defeated and killed one by one going to cause less destruction than if they all lost their powers in one hit? It isn't like humanity isn't already broken and endangered. And if the corruption is removed, I'm not sure things would be much better. I mean, could any normal person remain sane after realising what they have done? Maybe this would be the best of the outcomes, but it still leaves a broken world, with an entire caste of damaged, emotionally scarred, horrified and self-loathing super-humans, some of whom might do good with their powers, some of whom would shrug their shoulders and keep being evil (looking at you, Nighthound). Maybe the corruption being removed would be the best of three potential outcomes, but in none does the world end up ok and without massive upheaval. Heck, Prof foreshadowed the consequences of removing tyrants during Steelheart, and accepted it as a necessary evil. The same logic and morality should apply world-wide, one would think. And the inability of humans to fight back (well more importantly, win) on their own has constantly been re-inforced, especially in Firefight.
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Well I've certainly been wrong before, so it isn't out of the question haha
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hahaha then that is a worse than useless power! You could fall out of a plane and the whole way down you know you are going to splat once you get to the bottom and it takes hours to get there. That is horrifying
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not actually a useless or bad power, to be honest well Corvallis needs plenty of minor Epics for Iconoclast and his Ghouls to massacre you can be some of them!
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that's true, I just figured that was due to her direct contact with Calamity.
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I'm just flat-out amazed that meta-powers are canon. That is the last thing I expected.
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For the manipulation or the sensing? No the manipulation, and mostly no to sensing. He needs contact to sense vibrations and other small changes, but not for general sensing. No. His rock form has no oxygen requirement. In fact, his face becomes a sort of featureless rock mass, so he cannot see, smell or speak while in it.
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I still think Epic babies aren't and won't be a thing, nor will they be a possible thing. I think he just wants to be vague to keep up guessing. I'm of the opinion that Calamity will die at the end of Calamity, and all Epics will lose their powers. Therefore making the Epic-baby question irrelevant.
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I've decided on the powerset for Banarang-Bamal, who I am thinking of bringing in from Australia to help fight Astoria. Name: Banarang-Bamal (earth-blood in one aboriginal language, there were/are lots) Primary Power: Earth manipulation: Can manipulate earth in all possible ways. He can harden it, soften it, move it, manipulate it to a fine detail, etc. Earth is defined as dirt, rock, clay and sand, basically all dead or inorganic matter that comprises the earth's crust. He needs to move and gesture to do powerful or quick movements of earth, but he can perform basic attacks relatively slowly without moving or gesturing at all. Secondary Power: Earth Sense: he can sense all earth within a kilometr, its position, its density, its properties, etc. He can even sense the changes in it, and vibrations travelling through dirt. Using this he can 'feel' the positions of moving objects or people, as long as they are touching the ground when they do so. He cannot 'feel' people out to a kilometre, however, only the largest disruptions are felt at that distance. He feels people with growing detail from about 200 metres away (where he can only vaguely tell that someone might be moving there if they are particularly heavy or running) until he can feel the tiniest vibration or movement from people within a few metres of him. Thanks to his earth sense he does not need to see earth that he is manipulating. He does not need to be on the ground or touching earth directly to sense it or feel changes or vibrations. Tertiary: Body of Rock: Perfect Danger Sense linked with a rock-form ability. Whenever any attack is about to hit him, he turns into a statue made out of an impenetrable, indestructible substance that resembles rough, red rock. His movements are severely inhibited while in this form, and his human eyes do not work. He cannot move his feet or legs, and if on bare dirt or rock they fuse with it. He does not need to breath, eat, or sleep in this form, as his vital organs are perfectly preserved by the power. He remains in this form as long as the attack occurs, and transforms back as soon as the damage has passed.
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hahaha delightful or maybe he projects orange spraypaint from his fingertips? or can shatter glass with a touch? or can invert the colours of any object he touches, like put them into negative?
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I think she can control it to some degree.
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Question: does his danger sense count as a PI? so is it powerful enough to basically guarantee his survival from most attacks?
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and also, Brandon confirmed on the Reddit AMA that Epics cannot have weaknesses that render their powers useless (like an Epic that can breathe underwater whose weakness is water). And the way he phrased it sounded like he was thinking and then decided no at that moment. So David being an Epic whose weakness is being an Epic is a busted theory, I'm afraid.
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Ah I see
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haha complex what does that mean, exactly?
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not op at all. Not being able to expand or contract removes the most op part of forcefields (that they can squish people instantly be contracting around them). How fast can he move them? Could he smash people apart with the force of one hitting them or are they just fast enough to bowl them over without causing too much damage?
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hahaha it gets like that XD is it anything like "Mintberryyyy Crunch!"
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Considering he only travels forward there shouldn't be an issue. Backwards time travel probably not.
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Oh interesting! Maybe an Epic like that will appear in Calamity
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OooOOOOOoooooh! XD yay answers!
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Yeah, but the current epic population would correspond to the pre-Calamity vanilla population better than it would correspond to the current vanilla population. Vanillas have died far far more than Epics have. so while Newcago might have only a few tens of thousands (which is what Prof implies in Firefight when he says "tens of thousands of lives will be on your head" to David) or hundreds of thousands, there were roughly 3.6 million (and thus 3600 Epics) in Chicago before Annexation. Therefore, the "thousands of Epics" remark makes sense. So we have little idea how much the human population of Newcago has been reduced/increased by immigrants, but the Epic population should have decreased much, much less (given their protected status, and immigration of Epics to Newcago).
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I think some would, especially people who are already hard-line like Obliteration probably was. But mostly Epics seem too selfish to worry about causes or their nations. Obliteration seems a bit of a special case, although probably not a unique one. Ongoing wars and turbulence would probably devolve into more widespread and chaotic fighting as Epics fight amongst themselves and with human servants. Most causes probably disappear, but I'm picturing some radical ISIS leader getting powers and taking over, leading them on an even more radical and cruel crusade, with Epics and a High Epic at their head. yeah, but it also says that the vast majority of Epics manifested throughout the first year they started appearing. Maybe 1:1000 is off, in fact probably it is. But there are thousands of Epics in Newcago, and dozens of High Epics. With Steelheart taking over it at the end of the Epic rush period, most Epics in the city and state probably went to Newcago, where they were relatively safe and there was little fighting. So the Epic numbers should be similar to pre-Annexation times, as opposed to severely depleted like more war-torn areas. So it just feels right to me.
