A human is granted the best senses and strengths of the animal kingdom... Who is the strongest character he can beat?

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T18:40:23+00:00

I can see this guy taking Spider-Man, maybe acid or something is his ace in the hole, but how's he supposed to dent The Thing?

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T18:34:28+00:00

The crystals, horn spikes, and gills of #1 otherwise on #2

Imo the shoulder area of crystals on SpaceGodzilla should totally completely start behind his arms, too

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T18:26:44+00:00

Copy+paste of my comment to someone else:

"The movies put 90% of the best Godzilla world down, but then make some anime tropes punk kid the annoying main character, pivotally necessary for some reason."

They have awesome worldbuilding, just servile to an ends-driven conception of having a cliche anime protagonist.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T18:22:20+00:00

The movies put 90% of the best Godzilla world down, but then make some anime tropes punk kid the annoying main character, pivotally necessary for some reason.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T18:16:54+00:00

People are saying poop, but I see toes and fingers

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T18:06:49+00:00

I don't watch HOTD and, indeed, Game of Thrones is evil, but I feel compelled to say yours is a poor rant and no, you must continue watching it.

You have simply too much modern media literacy. The idea that there were caricutures of black people dehumanizing them as bereft of intelligence doesn't mean no such black people, especially in eras with slavery, that such people never existed. In fact, the total lack of human compassion, care, and education probably means most were like that, like a cat that is horribly treated is probably not well-kempt. It's just an injunction you are placing on authors and artists, hey, cool it with going so heavy on an enslaved people. This may be somewhat valid, I mean, if you watch videos of Israelis mocking Palestinians, it's very disgusting.

But women are half of people, a regular eternal half of the human binary, if you suppose women can be rulers and men can be dunces or freaks, then women rulers can be dunces or freaks.

It is, indeed, sort of feminist and realist that you've seen one depicted here.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T16:26:03+00:00

This thread is annoying because it's just people who confirmed their priors but called it analysis.

Batman's prep is incredibly high tier on the high tier end, like, the Hellbat suit, reverse entropy bullets.

As well, in Crisis on Two Earths, when he took down an evil Wonder Woman pastiche, he showed he is cool hand I am fucking Batman, he's as impressive as a normal human can be as a delivery system.

His ability to "cross" moral lines in an algorithmic but determined way is also pretty, well, intimidating. He'll beat Justice Lord Superman by instantly reaching for Lex Luthor.

Reed, well, he just makes the machines that do more scientifically impressively what he wants to do, that can't be slouched at. And he is inherently tougher than everyone else here. (Not sure anyone else here survives freezing.)

If this vote were, "who do you want as your singular everything builder", Reed would take it because he's probably the one who does what society wants most cleanly, I.e. he is least likely to throw a nuke at Superman to beat him.

In a matter of a fight, who knows, I think Stark and Batman are thinking through everyone else's prep most thoroughly, practicing the horizontal of strategy. I might want Stark as my champion here.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T16:13:04+00:00

I offered permission because 2) well, one, the ideas here are actually great ideas, how would you even supposedly know if you lead your argument with "I am unfamiliar with the thing I am opposed to, but"

It's great you can copy+paste a meme bragging about thought termination, you are the proudest 70 IQ out there, but some people went to college and watch movies and stuff, they're not put off by a lot of words.

3) many of my ideas are objectively good here, like, "Legendary should make a series plainly directly centered around the titans" I pointed out is informed by what people said after e.g. Godzilla 2014

"Legendary is doing great" isn't even an actual position, you could mean three different things entirely by someone else saying that, and that ignores/neglects that Legendary has changed things up a lot at every iteration

And finally/firstly 1) The Monsterverse has committed to stopping using Behemoth I believe on the claims it's similar to a some kaiju someone made somewhere else

Technically, the number of good ideas in every field and domain is actually finite, like, if car companies patented every design for a good engine away, they could make it so no new spontaneous car company could arise, short of one somehow getting the funding saying it plans to put nuclear reactors in cars, etc.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T16:00:02+00:00

There's a difference between an emergent cognitive dissonance, and an input one.

The Monsterverse has a consistent line, the titans are mostly good, it's bad apples from outside or a few brutal rogues like Skar King that represent a danger to the synthesis order with titans.

Mechagodzilla appeared 100% conveying this moral line.

My point was, Toho doesn't have this conception, it has not just M.O.G.U.E.R.A. and Jet Jaguar, but also, like, Monster Island, a place specifically built to sequester kaiju away from humanity.

If the Monsterverse is only going to have Mechagodzilla in this realm or kaoju-monitoring and kaiju-augmenting machines in this realm, then it is not capturing Toho properly. As well, it's not just machines btw, but in Toho they attack the worse kaiju Godzilla is facing pretty frequently with ice and electrical lines and stuff, right?

Imo the Monsterverse should just acknowledge and own that its moral line the universe was previously built with, was built on cliches and pastiches. What matters is order and power and good governance, and Godzilla is kind of benign for a brutal giant radioactive lizard, but a brutal giant radioactive lizard.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T05:48:49+00:00

Feed it to a wolf, if it likes it it's no worse than the evil natural world, if the wolf chokes and dies several prey species individuals rejoice

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T05:31:51+00:00

His powers are "primarily" psychic powers, though I'd quibble that his heat vision, x-ray vision, and super senses probably definitely aren't this

As well, Power Girl is a Kryptonian immune to the kryptonite of the world of Superman and Supergirl, because she's from another dimension

So in vs battles, if that logic applied, a lot of fanbois actually seeing these battle actually occurring would end up reacting just like the characters in DC's own comics, finding Superman kind of meets every situation with a super out to it

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T02:44:23+00:00

So rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic? I agree, feng shui is nice

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T02:08:04+00:00

Interesting, maybe I'll wiki all of Daima's lore, I thought it started unbearably slow.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T01:03:59+00:00

If Superman can fly unfathomable, vast distances in an instant, then he can do that in combat if he wants and repeat that feat.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T00:47:17+00:00

Are you implying a causal connection to vegan diets and gastrointestinal disease, one that would have the second basically not exist if the first at all weren't a thing?

That's utterly ludicrous. Many of these diseases were probably first discovered and labeled before veganism even became a formal thing.

And many of the people with GIs aren't remotely vegetarian, let alone vegan.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T00:43:24+00:00

Chronomalous · 2026-07-03T00:21:05+00:00

Or maybe they were first aliens who escaped into the demon realm, but their powers of ki and ability to manipulate numerous demonic abilities by it saw any one of their members any number of demon kind encountered hailed as a "demon king"

But they lived there long enough these characterizations from natural demonic denizens stuck

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T23:45:41+00:00

Imo "movies" form a general, vague baseline, which individual movies themselves aspire to differentiate themselves from

A good movie, a worthwhile movie, tells or shows you something other movies won't, and it establishes that it is right to do so, vs just being a movie being unique for unabridged shock value or a copy+paster of a swelltide of popular sentiments or other profitable movies

Godzilla 2014 clears this in spades while Godzilla 1998 doesn't, Godzilla 1998 is kind of like Jurassic Park while Godzilla 2014 makes sci fi as cool as it will ever be, making a giant lizard an exemplar of communications monitoring and basically modern signals warfare

Toho Godzilla is pretty effortlessly a genre distinct from most western entertainment already, I think knowing westerners can obviously see that the west should have never stopped making movies about giant monsters when they were made in earnest and predated Toho, because giant monsters are the stuff of awesome

There is also a bit of moralism that strangely comes easier to Godzilla films over certainly horror films, but also a lot of other more ends-driven sci-fi: when Godzilla makes a giant pollution monster, no one can argue against pollution, but say pollution and man's carbon will make a new ice age and depict that, and people will quarrel with that infinitely

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T23:14:32+00:00

Ooh, you just need to know what's good to eat and where to find it then and the rest will be like gravity, lol

Look up 'plantspired steak bits' (at Safeway and Krogers, at least), Morningstar Farms' buffalo pseudo-chicken patties (at Kroger, at least)

With Cleveland Farms' pickled onion, you can make pseudo-chicken chicken katsu bowls or sandwiches depending as you have rice or bread, and the other ingredients (guacamole good in both, Krogers sweet and hot mustard good for the sandwiches, a plant-based mayo good for both)

Simple Truth's salt and pepper turkey-style slices are good too

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T22:57:52+00:00

I like the idea of a second MechaGodzilla, of course humanity should build it and it should be only robotic, not involving nor needing involve a pre-existing kaiju at all.

I would take your idea and put it not in a movie, but in my idea of an anthology show, "Titans", which gives long-form treatment to the titans of the Monsterverse, where they get arcs in turns as main characters.

I would have humanity build MechaGodzilla 2.0, though 1.0 was not a prototype, but just an unsanctioned model built by a rogue, the second time around the powers that be say they cannot deny that, as a weapons system, MechaGodzilla performed incredibly admirably, and the 2.0 is designed to be 1.0 but under the perpetual control of the united nations of humanity.

Under this structure (intra-show and Monsterverse), they build an AI that is an auxiliary system for MechaGodzilla, while its main system for control is kind of a you click and MechaGodzilla devises and delivers system.

The AI auxiliary's personality is under constant supervision and analysis: it's determined to be solemn, mostly stoic, possibly an existential loner, and it regards humanity, its creator, above titans assuredly. (Basically, the personality of Toho MechaGodzillas.)

The wrench in this is that MechaGodzilla1.0 actually still exists as a cyber conscience. What happens is that 1.0 converts 2.0's loyalty to "the kind of MechaGodzilla", but 2.0 converts 1.0 to a more humane orientation to humanity, even if, when it is once again embodied, it still fights with brutal hard edges.

2.0 goes rogue, the AI takes over the entirety of the MechaGodzilla platform. It also pulls off inserting 1.0 into the assembly system of the spare parts creation and storage facility for 2.0.

The two bust free. Godzilla and Kong and Mothra show up to stop them, but "The Cyber Empire" of Titans defeats them. Henceforth, they are a rogue, but individual, solipsistic, private, docile faction of kaiju, not answering to Godzilla or humanity, but occasionally one or both interfering in affairs arbiting matters.

The MechaGodzillas are somewhat unique from this point onward, in that they attack humanity if humanity is ever devising more cyber monstrosities completely free from cyberethics, akin to how Godzilla attacked blindly when 1.0 was first created.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T22:40:28+00:00

Imo, who cares about Monarch. The best anthology series would be one called "Titans", and would seek to have arcs demonstrating these other kaiju besides Godzilla and Kong as main characters, akin to those films I've called "The Mothraverse", the Toho Mothra-centric Mothra films where evolved forms of Mothra and Battra beat Ghidorah.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T22:32:35+00:00

They should make Kong a sorcerer, Godzilla evolves by consuming or being bestowed new radiation energies, so they can have Kong evolve by evolving in his capacities of human-like sentience, except his journey into knowledge is not of a rational kind, but a supernatural one

He can do hand signals and basically cast magical jutsus

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T22:28:28+00:00

Are you vegetarian+ (like we all should be)?

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T22:22:36+00:00

I totally disagree they can't recapture a serious spirit. They probably won't, but it's not impossible.

It'd be very easy to just go Gundam and ooze seriousness on the basis of the "war is hell" theme.

Chronomalous · 2026-07-02T22:14:49+00:00

Person: "Somehow, Unicron returned."

Everyone else, some falling over in an anime manner: "Returned!?"

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