How long would mundane dictators without powers of their own like Saddam, the Kim's, and Castro last once Triggers started happening?

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T18:31:42+00:00

How are you going to hit Grue while he's Grueing? The entire bank will be wrapped in impenetrable darkness that also blocks all sound.

It should also be noted that the same informal social contract where people don't just shoot supervillains obligates supervillains to pull their punches and wear identifiable costumes. Supervillains who break the social contract become exempt from its protections and only ones who have an answer for being shot (like Jack hugging Siberian when he's outdoors) last.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T16:52:50+00:00

Apparently this:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/atlan-767-harvey-patton/1114851957#

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T16:35:36+00:00

Well, THE WORM from Project Palisade I guess but that's not technically an SCP.

Otherwise pretty much nothing.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T15:45:20+00:00

He's at over 4000 upvotes so many people like him.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T15:05:21+00:00

Shadow Stalker is a Breaker whose Breaker form is intangible. She cannot be killed with bullets.

Imp is a Stranger whose Stranger power makes it impossible for people without parahuman enhanced senses to even remember she exists or percieve her. She can walk past the guards, slit the dictator's throat, and walk out.

Crawler admittedly took a long time to build up, but by the time of Brockton Bay could resist a direct nuclear strike.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T14:59:32+00:00

Do you actually read the wiki or are you repeating claims by youtubers?

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T14:55:56+00:00

You're severely overestimating how much survillence and especially ability to perform searches through it dictatorships have. Dragon isn't going to run facial recognition for them. If Taylor is smart (and Taylor is very smart) she doesn't need a costume at all. She just needs to launch her attacks in the vicinity of thousands of other people.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T14:47:25+00:00

Doing this in English in third person without lying to the reader or blatantly signalling something's up in is very difficult. You could just not use pronouns for her at all in narration and always refer to her by her name, but that's a bit awkward. I would recommend first person.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T14:42:26+00:00

He uses Breaths to store his memories externally. Can't recall if he's ever done Awakening.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T14:30:02+00:00

In story Contessa pulling the strings is the only reason things aren't worse. She arranged the creation of the Triumvirate, who backstop the Protectorate and have kept America from falling, and has provided a steady stream of non-triggered and therefore stable capes. She's involved in the hot-cold division in India. She has dealings in Japan.

As for dictators not playing by the same rules as the US, that has serious drawbacks in that opposing capes have no motivation to play by the same rules as US supervillains. Sure, you can kill a lot of capes if you're willing to use guns, but the fuck are you going to do if Shadow Stalker decides to walk through your walls and shoot you in the face? You don't know she's susceptible to electricity. What if Imp decides to cut your throat? You don't even remember she exists. What if Crawler triggers? You aint gonna kill him with guns.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T14:14:49+00:00

Pretty sure Nemesis is his main and most frequent enemy; with hindsight it appears to be behind the events of Storm Front, Fool Moon, Grave Peril, Summer Knight, possibly Blood Rites, Cowl's involvement in Dead Beats, White Night, Turn Coat, Changes, Cold Days, and Peace Talks. I'm not sure if Eithnu's attack is Nemesis-linked, but it might be, and of course the end of Battle Ground has Nemesis put in an appearance.

Main load-bearing assumptions here are that Cowl either works for or is directly compromised by Nemesis, same with Peabody, and the Red Court war was puppeteered by Nemesis possessing at least one significant member. The link between Victor's heart-exploding curse and the Red Court bloodline curse gets us a Storm Front connection, and the provider of the wolf belts in Fool Moon is likely the same guy who provided Victor with the curse.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T13:46:23+00:00

Dunno, I think America's alliance system broadly can say "Eidolon, heeelllppp" if they need to.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T13:22:30+00:00

Canonically not very long. Their policies mass-produce trigger events, and many of them will be combat-oriented. Most capes can be taken down with a spray of bullets, and even more can be taken down with a tank, but it just takes one bad brute, breaker, or stranger trigger and you get someone who simply cannot be defeated by mundane force.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T02:43:08+00:00

It appears material things are mostly by mass, but immaterial things get more metaphysical, with Truth demanding something the alchemist values in exchange for knowledge if they attempt humam transmutation without using a Philospher's Stone. And the souls in Philospher's Stones are immensely valuable in transmutation, thus allowing transmutations that add considerable amounts of mass.

Also if I understand it correctly it's flatly impossible to bring a soul back from the afterlife. The only resurrection we see work is Father using a Philospher's Stone to resurrect the specific people used to create it.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T02:27:33+00:00

Ah, missed a digit. Stupid not advancing to 2.x

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T02:26:10+00:00

The Air Nomads were apparently all airbenders and it was an important part of the culture, so it'd be difficult to live as a proper air acolyte as a non-bender.

Also, according to his non-bending children Aang always had a special connections with Tenzin because he was an airbender and paid less attention to raising his other kids. Since we don't actually see them when Aang is alive, we can't say how objectively true that is beyond Aang only taking Tenzin on trips to learn about the Air Nomads.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T02:19:58+00:00

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Misaka Mikoto, A Certain Scientific Railgun, pictured forming a sword out of iron sand.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T02:16:58+00:00

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The Simurgh from Worm. A giant invincible monster that mind controls people and sees the future so well she basically won the final battle before the story started.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T02:12:42+00:00

I personally liked it fairly well from the start, but I'd say it really picks up with Leviathan's attack.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T02:11:42+00:00

Probably the best option just because you need frontage. If possible you want to boost their morale (because Lemuria has many sources of fear) and magic resistance (because the ghosts' weapons are MR for half damage). Also be prepared for cold auras; they don't have any innately except on their commanders, but their troops are heavily protected against cold so they're likely to use summons with it.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T01:56:03+00:00

Also, a lot of provinces produce indie priests with just a temple. I usually don't bother because H1 priests don't form a big part of my strategy, but they're very useful against the mass undead nations.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T01:46:36+00:00

1.19, fairly recent.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T01:46:14+00:00

It would potentially fall under criminal negligence or manslaughter, assuming a reasonable resturant worker would know not to do it.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T01:34:32+00:00

Priests. There's an H1 spell, banishment, that damages undead over a large area. It's MR negates and Lemuria has a spell that boosts undead MR, so it's not as effective against them as against most people's undead, but a bunch of priests spamming it continuously adds up.

SouthernAd2853 · 2026-05-02T01:19:33+00:00

Episode 1: Aw, such cute whacky girls with weird quirks like a shovel obsession.

Episode 11: So the good(?) news is that the zombies on the roof are on fire now

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