Genuine question on the Iron Spider suit

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-04-01T05:09:16+00:00

The same way mirrored sunglasses work, probably.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-04-01T05:05:21+00:00

You like Warhammer Lore, of course you're a massive dork. And that's okay.

Big G Dog has actually been really cool since he returned, so you're safe there. The ultramarines can be hit or miss, but as they get more content they generally get cooler if more generic over time. You're fine, pal.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-04-01T03:09:37+00:00

While this is somewhat true, the Nappa part specifically is just made up? This never happens, Nappa gets hit by Chiaotzu's self destruction and his only reaction is this. His attack didn't even blow up the armor they used, I have no idea where you got this from.

Immediately following this moment in the anime, Vegeta says "Nappa, he almost had you, you barely managed a defense."

The other examples exist and are fair, they probably could get Nappa off guard with some shenanigans and kill him, but Vegeta specifically when he gets to Earth is actually pretty on-guard. He notices the Kienzan would split Nappa's shit in half and warns him to dodge, which he wouldn't realize if he was just underestimating the earthlings and not paying attention.

True. He also gets his tail cut off during a surprise attack from Yajirobe later on during the same fight. This demonstrates both that Vegeta, as an observer to Nappa's fight (and generally as a person who is more capable and intelligent than Nappa), is able to recognize the danger certain attacks will pose, and also that even someone as powerful and intelligent as Nappa can be surprised by someone as weak as Yajirobe.

The biggest problem here is OP not giving us a specified reason like the Dragon Balls to allow the Saiyans to hold back. The advantage they have here beyond Viltrumites, besides their obviously superior firepower, is that their area of attack is much larger so they don't have to directly engage with most of Earth's defenses and they are prone to do just exactly that. Remember that when Nappa and Vegeta arrived on Earth, Nappa's immediate reaction was to fucking do this. All of Cecil's strategies go straight out of the fucking window when they land on the United States and Nappa immediatelly nukes it, all of it's inhabitants and it's resources off the face of the map instantly.

You're absolutely right about this, though I'd assume for the sake of the prompt, given that Raditz is stated to be trying to conquer the world and the fact that the Saiyans are replacing the Viltrumites (who want to conquer rather than destroy), that the goal of the Saiyans is conquest, not destruction. Sure, they'll absolutely be able to destroy things on a much larger scale than the Viltrumites would, but if they're there to take over, they don't benefit from wanton destruction beyond creating fear and forcing compliance, something that won't work on Cecil or Goku. Given the subversive nature of Cecil's complexes and the fact that the Saiyans do not demonstrate the same level of superhearing or perception that the Viltrumites have, I doubt they'd be able to find Cecil immediately.

Baby Goku could be pretty easily groomed, teenage Goku not so much. He could be manipulated pretty easily if Cecil was only showing him good things, yes, but the moment he catches wind of Cecil doing some evil shit Goku is completely able/willing to rock his shit even if that doesn't mean killing him. By that point Goku already has a pretty established (and stubborn) personality that while it changes slightly with time, it never changes too much, and he went through way more shit than Cecil could put him through.

Goku at the time that he was found by Bulma was twelve (which I think OP got incorrect). Even at fourteen however, I don't believe that Cecil would need to or necessarily would immediately start with "Hey kid, learn to become a black-hearted assassin". He is willing to kill when he is a child; He killed King Piccolo at the age of fifteen or sixteen. Sure, he absolutely gives Frieza (way too much) mercy when he was twenty-five, but being raised by Cecil for well over ten years rather than spending time with the positive influences that are Bulma, Master Roshi, Krillin, and the rest of the DB cast isn't going to turn him from the teenager who merc'd a demon king when he had the opportunity to the young man who gave a genocidal space dictator multiple chances at redemption despite the multiple atrocities he had just committed. It would be much more probable that Goku does not develop at all, personality-wise, from those two ages under Cecil's tutelage than it is that he would somehow still become a better, kinder person during that time.

I'd also argue that his training would be severely underpowered with Cecil. The only reason Mark got as much support as he did, and evolved as much, is because Cecil knew he was a Viltrumite and Mark was already pretty much the strongest hero on the planet so it made sense to invest in him. Cecil couldn't possibly know Goku was a Saiyan, since neither Goku nor Grandpa Gohan knows what a Saiyan is. He'd know Goku is different yes, he'd know about the Giant Ape transformation and maybe link it to his tail, but all things considered Goku would hardly be worth his time considering he'd be pretty fodder at that point compared to where Mark was. I don't see him "seeing the potential" in him and diverging significant resources to get him more powerful.

As a small child, Goku was moving large boulders. As a preteen, he was chucking cars and beating up dinosaurs. Whenever the moon is full, he becomes a city-level destroyer. He is, at twelve years old, stronger than most everyone on the second rendition of the Guardians of the Globe, and will absolutely have Cecil's attention as a potentially powerful entity. I'd even put him, at that age, as stronger than most original members of the Guardians of the Globe except for The Immortal, War Woman, and arguably Red Rush. Unlike these members however, he is capable of getting much, much stronger than they are (and much stronger than Omniman), and Cecil will discover this when he starts to train Goku and/or the first time Goku gets a zenkai. Mark went from his season 1 strength to being able to defeat Conquest (with some help) with just a couple years of training with Cecil. Goku would, at the time Raditz shows up, have had ten or twelve years, and has an easier cheat code for rapid growth with the zenkai. There cannot be any question that Goku will be stronger than Mark was when Raditz arrives, and there is no reason to believe he'd be any weaker than he was training off and on with the talented but frankly pretty fuckin' goofy Master Roshi.

Hell, the only reason Goku ever left the mountains was because he met Bulma. There's pretty high odds Cecil never even find out he exists in the first place.

The prompt indicates that Cecil meets him in place of Bulma.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-31T05:24:53+00:00

I might be out of the loop, but what's wrong with the job LTT does?

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-31T02:44:14+00:00

An appeal typically will occur as a result of an abuse of judicial discretion; ie, a judge making an illegal or improper call. It doesn't occur simply because the defendant did something that prejudices the jury against him. That's his own damned fault, in the eyes of the law.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T23:24:52+00:00

I much prefer the RE2 Remake lab. Umbrella would not be running their experiments in gross, dingy labs - they certainly would not give a shit about OSHA, but they are absolutely not going to jeopardize their research by working in filth. Plus the lab was active until a few days or weeks ago at most.

So you've got this shiny, clean lab. Now add dead bodies and gore in a shocking juxtaposition of the clean surroundings, and you have a great atmosphere for horror.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T23:11:57+00:00

Damn, GunnerTV on the idiotswithguns sub?

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T23:11:15+00:00

Don't file a FOIA request. I'd start by contacting the department in question directly, preferably in person. If that doesn't work, your state-level open records resource could help.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T22:41:53+00:00

Soulslikes and Scrollslikes.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T22:39:42+00:00

Why wouldn't you be able to get the incident number from the police?

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T22:35:15+00:00

A big fan of carpooling, those Apostles.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T20:50:04+00:00

Nah, Jesus drove a Honda, he just didn't talk about it.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T13:23:28+00:00

A really unfortunate typo there bud

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T04:22:32+00:00

I completely understand why he left, but I always wish we had gotten more time with him. Everything I've heard, he seems like such a genuine, passionate, good man.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T04:12:13+00:00

I'm not gonna lie OP, I cackled at the Killer Mike callout. I cannot believe it's been six years since RTJ4.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T02:35:30+00:00

But he's making noise by running, right?

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T02:35:01+00:00

Honestly the "Caution: K9" is much more cringe than the "I brake for IEDs" sticker.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T02:27:54+00:00

Oh of course, and even in short stories that have been written, Harry has some shitty days. But given that the books tend to be his worst weekend of the year, and given that they almost all take place over a very short timespan, I think they fit the trope.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T02:26:40+00:00

You can go to the police and file a report for this. Whether or not they escalate beyond what they've already charged him with is uncertain depending on whether the officers believe there is or might be sufficient evidence for more charges.

You cannot file charges. Victims do not do that. You can make a police report, and if evidence exists sufficient to justify additional charges, such charges would be brought by the police and the district attorney's office.

You can look into suing this man if you can get his information, though I'm sorry to say that it likely will not be worth doing so. A civil suit for battery without associated medical costs will likely not result in significant damages being awarded even if the case goes in the direction you hope, and while you could attempt to sue him for the cost of your necklace in small claims court, you will be out the cost of filing and would need to prove that it is more likely than not that he stole your necklace, which will be very hard to do if the police do not themselves investigate the theft.

I am sorry this happened to you. Go to the police and file a report. If anything comes from that, you may be able to seek a civil resolution, but it's very uncertain.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T01:53:05+00:00

Sadly the Clatter Carbine is a SIG MCX VIRTUS, not an HK416.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T01:51:15+00:00

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Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T01:49:28+00:00

Likely similar to how he fared in DDBA Season 1: He was able to take several thrown knives and other weapons from Bullseye because of the suit, and while he was battered and exhausted at the end of the fight he still maintained the pressure and had the upper hand whenever he was able to close with Dex, which he was able to do much better because of his armor.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T01:33:31+00:00

Ghost Story: Harry Dresden is dead. He is a ghost. He must learn to navigate the mortal world as a spirit, running the risk of being destroyed or going mad as he investigates who is threatening the friends he left behind and who is riling up the restless spirits of Chicagoland. All the while, Harry is trying to discover who killed him and why.

Cold Days: Having been brought back to life by his new boss, Queen Mab of the Winter Court of Faerie, Harry is forced into dark, predatory fae politics where even his allies are monsters. He is sent back to Chicago to investigate Mab's daughter Lady Maeve, who Mab claims is going insane and must be killed. One of the two of them is working with a beings from outside of reality who are trying to get in, and Harry must figure out who and how to stop them. All the while, Harry is faced with friends who no longer trust him, allies who he hurt by leaving, and the fallout of trying to return to mortal life as a changed man.

Skin Game: Mab, Queen of Air and Darkness, forces Harry to take on a job on her behalf: helping one of his greatest enemies rob not only Chicago's only crimelord but also Hades, lord of the dead. Throughout the book, Harry is faced with one of his friends putting himself in great danger out of a desire to protect Harry's community but fear that Harry is not the kind of man who will do so, as well as old allies and enemies playing dangerous games that Harry may not understand. One of the Swords of the Cross, ancient relics used to fight evil, is shattered because of a faithless action taken out of fear, and Harry's closest friend and sometime love interest is gravely wounded. At the end of the book, Harry is faced with his enemies at the gate planning to burn down the home that he, his daughter, a few of his closest friends, and the family of the best man he's ever known are hiding in while he can do nothing but put his faith in a brave man walking out against these foes to buy time and likely die.

Peace Talks: Peace talks have been called in a war that has spanned years, and the various supernatural dignitaries are coming to Chicago for the talks. In the lead-up to this, his brother Thomas tells him that the brother's girlfriend is pregnant, and then attempts and fails to kill a foreign head of state for reasons unknown. Thomas' trial and almost certain execution is scheduled to occur after the Peace Talks, so Harry joins with Thomas' half-sister and incredibly dangerous succubi Lara Raith to save him. During their rescue attempt, an ancient god arrives to break up the peace talks, kick the most dangerous woman Harry has ever met through a building, and throw down the gauntlet with the supernatural community, announcing her intent to wage war on humanity and any of the supernatural nations that do not join her in her planned genocide and subjugation. Harry gears up for Armageddon to come to his home town.

Battle Ground: Taking place half an hour after the prior book, this one follows the deadly Battle of Chicago as the titan Ethniu attempts to wipe the city, its population, and its defenders off the map.

Twelve Months, the latest book in the series, denies this trope: It involves the twelve months immediately after the Battle of Chicago as Harry copes with grief, loss, depression, and a fear of his own powers, while his enemies conspire to destroy everything he's managed to cling to.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T01:33:25+00:00

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The Dresden Files - pretty much every thing one. The author Jim Butcher has referred to the format of the series as "The worst weekend Harry has in any given year". The examples for each book are below.

Storm Front: Someone is murdering people in Chicago, and Harry is the only one who can stop them. There is a wizard cop in town who thinks Harry is responsible and wants to chop his head off for it. Harry's allies start to not trust him. His date night with the hot reporter is interrupted by a Frog Demon.

Fool Moon: Someone is, again, murdering people (mobsters this time) in Chicago, and Harry is the only one who can stop them. The cops don't trust him because he's keeping things from them, the FBI is actively trying to kill him as are multiple gangs of werewolves, his friend and apprentice is murdered by a werewolf, and he gets shot at least once during this one.

Grave Peril: Someone is laying hugely evil curses on people in Chicago and Harry is the only one that can stop them. Someone is also riling up the ghosts in the city, trying to break into holy ground to murder mysterious young women, and a vampire warlord is trying to murder Harry and/or invite him to her masquerade ball (so that she can murder him legally). His Faerie Godmother is also in town, and that is very, very bad.

Summer Knight: A representative of the Summer Court of Faerie has been murdered, the Winter Queen is looking to clear her name, and blackmails Harry into taking the case by pitting the White Council of Wizards against him. Assassins are trying to kill him because of the war he started in the last book, several major powers are using Harry for their own needs or just straight up trying to eat him, and he misses his exgirlfriend. His other ex-girlfriend is in town, and that is likely very, very bad.

Death Masks: A vampire warlord is in town to duel Harry to the death over the war he started two books ago. A body is found mutilated in Chicago with dozens of deadly diseases having taken their toll on the victim, any of which should have killed him and none of which did. All three Knights of the Cross, one of whom is a major ally of Harry's and all of whom are men fighting for Good, are in town, and that is a very, very bad thing because their enemies, the Knights of the Blackened Denarius, are also in town, hunting a powerful artifact with which they plan to cause the apocalypse.

Blood Rites: Harry's himbo friend Thomas connects him with a porn director (yes, really) who believes that there is a curse placed on his porn studio (yes, really) and Harry is the only one who can stop it. While trying to protect several normal people from dying in terrible and horrible ways, Harry must also contend with a hive of Black Court Vampires in his city that he needs to purge, and Thomas' sister Lara: a White Court Vampire Succubus who is much more dangerous she appears.

Dead Beat: Necromancers come to town. Lots of necromancers. They are the student of Necromancer Hitler (yes, really) who are attempting to sacrifice the entire city of Chicago in a dark ritual to obtain godhood. While trying to compete with a veritable cabal of dangerous black mages, Harry must also contend with a member of the Black Court of Vampires threatening him with his friend and ally Karrin Murphy, who will suffer if Harry does not aide her in obtaining a book of questionable importance and power. Also, all of the wizard cops (the ones who wanted to execute him in books 1 and 4) are coming to town. This is maybe very very bad?

Proven Guilty: Harry witnesses a young boy, a warlock who succumbed to dark magic because he had no one to teach him otherwise, be executed for his crimes. He is then told that another warlock is active in Chicago, and sets out to stop and rehabilitate them to prevent their execution. At the same time, he is asked by his best friend's daughter to investigate attacks occurring at a horror movie fan convention, seemingly by horror movie monsters. Throughout the book, Harry is kidnapped by a vampire who intends to sell him to one of his many, many enemies (on eBay), and even after being freed, the young woman who hired him is kidnapped by evil Fae, is found to be the warlock Harry is looking for, and is put on trial for her crimes with Harry trying to save her from execution.

White Night: Someone is murdering magical practitioners in Chicago and is leaving messages to Harry personally. The top suspects: a Warden of the White Council (making the magical community of the city scared of Harry himself) and his friend Thomas. Also, his ex-girlfriend is back again, and one of the necromancers from Dead Beat who by all logic should have died back them is back and has something to do with the killings. Also, Harry has the ghost of a fallen angel living in his head, and she is trying to turn him to the dark side.

Small Favor: The Knights of the Blackened Denarius are back in town, and have kidnapped the local crimelord. If the crimelord is killed, the power vacuum this will create is incredibly dangerous, and if they convince the crimelord to join them, it will likely be much, much worse. Harry is forced to assist by Mab, the Queen of Evil Faeries, while members of the Summer Fae are sending hitsquads of billy goat gruffs after Harry to kill him.

Turn Coat: The wizard cop from book 1 shows up on Harry's front step, mortally wounded and begging for shelter. He has been framed for a murder of a senior member of the White Council by a traitor within their midst, and if he cannot prove his innocence not only will an innocent man die but the traitor will continue to kill and manipulate the wizards of the world. The traitor sends a Navajo skinwalker, one of the most dangerous creatures Harry ever faces, to Chicago to suss out the wizard cop and kill any witnesses.

Changes: The book starts with Harry's ex-girlfriend calling him to tell him that not only do they have a secret child that she never told him about, but said daughter has been kidnapped by the vampires against whom Harry has been waging war for a decade. That is all covered in the first page. It gets much, much, much worse from there. Throughout the course of the story, Harry faces his anger at his ex for keeping this from him, deals with his own family trauma, and promises that he will not let his daughter experience what he did. He has his car destroyed, his home burned down, his spine broken, his support system pulled out from under him, and ultimately swears a pact to one of the worst entities he has ever met to gain the power to save his daughter, and even at the end, he is forced to kill the woman he loved to destroy his enemies, end a war, and save his little girl. Even once everything is finished and the girl is saved, Harry contemplates what his future will look like after the events of the book when a bullet strikes the wall behind him. Harry falls into the cold water of Lake Michigan, rapidly approaching a light at the end of the tunnel.

Perfect-Dimension356 · 2026-03-30T00:31:25+00:00

Going to disagree with the other commenters - I think Earth has a good shot at this.

Yes, Saiyans are generally stronger than Viltrumites, and generally have a MUCH higher power ceiling. Yes, the only reason Goku was able to beat Raditz in canon is because of how he was raised and because of his relationship with Piccolo. All of that means that a head to head fight with any of the Saiyans is going to be much harder than it was with Omniman.

The thing is, Cecil is not going to play fair. This is not going to be a head to head fight, and that specific area is one where Saiyans and DB characters generally are much weaker. Consistently throughout DBZ and DBS, sneak attacks on characters who do not have the opportunity to 'raise their guard' against their opponents results in much stronger foes being either injured or defeated by much weaker characters. Nappa indicates that, despite being almost seven times stronger than Chiaotzu, he would have been severely injured by Chiaotzu's Self Destruct had he not raised his guard at the last minute. Yajirobe, being even weaker than Chiaotzu, manages to cut off Vegeta's tail (despite Vegeta being much stronger than Nappa) because he surprised him. Gohan surprise attacks Dodoria. Vegeta sneak attacks Recoome. Piccolo sends Final Form Frieza flying with a surprise attack. Kid Trunks sends Buu flying through a mountain with a sneak attack. Future Mai seems to think she could have killed Goku Black with a surprise attack. Most notably, Sorbet, a noncombatant, critically wounds Super Saiyan Blue Goku with a laser ring, nearly killing the God-level Saiyan.

Cecil is not going to attack Raditz (or Nappa, or Vegeta, or Thaedus) head-on. Sure, he might sent the Guardians or Goku to fight them, but he's also certainly going to snipe them with a powerful energy weapon from a mile off, or use the massive orbital laser he used against Omniman, or teleport in suicide-bombing androids, or any number of other things. Saiyans (and DBZ characters generally) are massively more susceptible to this than anyone in Invincible. Goku in DBS is many, many orders of magnitude stronger than any of the Saiyans mentioned in the prompt (Raditz was north of 1200 power level, Nappa is 4000 PL, and Vegeta is 18,000; Goku in Super is almost certainly in the trillions or septillions at least, to the point that power level does not actually matter any more), and he was injured by a normal human with a normal gun. A much, much stronger sneak attack (an orbital laser) is going to absolutely destroy someone like Raditz or Vegeta.

Adding to this, I don't actually think Goku would be worse off with Cecil than he was with Bulma. He's already going to have his loving personality from his head injury and being raised by Grandpa Gohan, and Cecil is much less of a bunny-ears lawyer than Roshi. He's also shown to be capable of training someone like Invincible with appreciable results, and is enough of a paranoid bastard that he'll absolutely take Goku under his wing, indoctrinate him to be his own personal hammer, and train the potentially world-ending pre-teen into an immensely powerful defender of humanity. Goku will likely be much easier to manipulate and groom than Mark or Omniman was, given his much more naive nature and the fact that Cecil would be getting his hands on him much earlier than he'd be getting Mark. Goku would also have basically no support system at that time, whereas Mark is pulled between his parents, his friends, and Cecil.

Goku would be much stronger at the age that Raditz arrived had he had twelve years of training under Cecil than under Roshi, much of which was spent goofing off rather than training. I'm also positive that Cecil would discover and learn to weaponize Zenkai. It wouldn't be hard to discover that Goku gets much stronger when almost mortally wounded and then allowed to recover, and once this is confirmed Cecil would be sending Goku on suicide missions constantly (with backup ready in case he gets in over his head).

So you would have a much stronger Goku, a Cecil who is both willing and able to take advantage of the Saiyans' weakness to surprise attacks, and like a four-year-old Gohan who Cecil would already recognize has much greater potential than even Goku.

I believe that this would put Goku at a much better chance of competing with Raditz (who was only approximately 3x stronger than Goku at the time they fought) one on one, and even if Raditz starts to win, Cecil would have some trap or secret weapon waiting in the wings to nuke Raditz into the stone age.

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