Originally posted by Scoobless
meh... scans of what Spider Sense does:this is what you're letting happen if you vote against me:
Leto's prescience is so powerful that SS's precog doesn't work on him, similar to how Venom blocks it. Leto's power comes from the universe itself... 😄
George W. Vader may be scary... But here's what happens to your family for not voting GODLIKE! And yes, that is Rainbow Brite's trusty steed smashing in the skull of your yellow-colored family member.
how long do we have left?
and it's not like Grievous or a Kull is easy to get scans of
short vid featuring Grievous http://media.putfile.com/Set-Me-Free
Kull walking through force field:
everyone knows what Spidey + Clone can do
Kull strolling through C4 explosion:
Kull firing:
Sadly Grievous is a walking monument to Plot Induced Stupidity.
Unlike a Sith Lord, there's nothing he could do to counter a Jedi's telekinisis. That "Master" who got diced could've hurled the General off that catwalk, or simply taken/turned off his sabres.
He's simply not a good enough swordsman to tag GODLIKE. Even if
they were close, I know hat I can sail right through your defense you wont know that until you're sliced in half. Evading the blades I'm not draining won't be a problem for GODLIKE...
Vanth's doing this without GODLIKE's uber-physique, precog, or millennia of constant combat and training.
I've been all "Dreadstar, Dreadstar, Dreadstar" this week, 'cause hey, scans are cool. For late arrivals however, here're some excerpts from books dealing with my other two picks. Leto Atreides II and Benedict of Amber.
First, Benedict. For those of you who weren't around for my first round bout with Jinzin. Here's the skinny.
The Princes of Amber are this family of demigods who can walk between worlds and never age. They've all mastered various different pursuits, and contend with one another for the Throne of Amber, the one true realm of which all others are but Shadows. (Shadow is Amber jargon for "alternate reality." They eventually discover another true realm, the Courts of Chaos, at the opposite end of the multiverse. They fight, of course) They're all mildly superhuman in general physique and mentality, and far moreso in their chosen specialties/obsessions. Benedict has devoted his ageless existence to combat and war.
Back on page 2 I posted some excerpts from the novels where the narrator, Benedict's younger brother Corwyn describes him.
Here's the bio of Benedict from the Amber Diceless RPG from Phage press:
Benedict is a timeless warrior. He spends eons in Shadow, perfecting his craft, to the point where he is no longer challenged by his siblings. ...
He has a reputation as the best warrior in the family. Not just with a sword. with anything. Give him any weapon, any group of fighting men, any tactical or strategic situation, anything
He'll beat the snot out of you.
Let's say the guy is obsessed. For yuks Benedict fights wars. He'll find a place, somewhere out in Shadow, where they're fighting a war. He joins up on the loosing side, and fights until he wins. Then he finds a place, just like the first place, only where the loosers have a smaller army, and he joins up again, wins again. And he'll repeat the process with a tactical disadvantage, bad terrain, different weather, varying weapons and technology. Benedict will try every possable combination.
Face him with a sword and he'll attack until you are beaten, giving no quarter, no edge, and never, ever, making a single error. Take an army against hime, and he'll appear at your weakest front, at your weakest moment, attacking relentlessly, until your soldiers scream and run, and are broken for all time.
He'll win every time.
Don't bother betting on whether Benedict will win or loose. The only interesting question, the only safe bet, is how fast.
Amber diceless Roleplaying: Page 149
Benedict is the immortal badass from whom other immortal badasses run in fear rather than face him.
Here's another selection from the RPG. Since this is a "diceless" game characters statistics are all just relative rankings. The referee keeps track of all the relative scores and decides when circumstances might warrant an upset victory. "Top Rank" for each stat is defined by the feats of a member of Amber's Royal Family. The personafication of the "Warfare" stat is Benedict. Here's the Warfare stat writeup. To be fair, I think a few of these feats are over the top, perhaps consider the ones that border on precognition to be "Fanboy Benedict."
Of course, GODLIKE actually is both precognative and clairavoyant, so between the two even the extreme feats should be right on target. 😈
On to Leto II. For anyone unfamilliar with the setting, Frank Herbert's Dune novels take place in the far future. A secret society of mystics/martial-artists called the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood has spent thousands of years carrying out a careful selective breeding (eugenics) program to create a superbeing through whom they could control humany's destiny. They succeeded in Leto's father, Paul, but he slipped through their fingers and ruled the galaxy himself. Thanks to the Bene Gesserit breeding program, Paul was stronger and faster than a modern peak human. Once his powers of "prescience" awakenned, he was able to see the past, present, and possable futures anywhere in the universe. His precog/clairavoyance was so good that even after being blinded he was able to move around and even fight guided only by his second sight. That is, he could until his children were born.
Leto II was like Paul squared. He was fully concious in the womb, and posessed all the memories of his ancestors dating back in to prehistory. (He once recalled the Trojan War) His mother was from a society of deasert warriors called Fremen. They were so badassed that their "non-combattants" (mothers with small children, those selfsame children, and the elderly) completely routed the previous Imperial Regime's elite-shock-troopers-who-crush-all-other-armies-beneath-their-heels.
On top of the rest of history, Leto II carries the memories of hundreds of generations of these Fremen warriors on his mother's side, and countless Bene Gesserit martial artists (like Paul's mother who once reversed a lock on a Fremen so quickly that his fellow tribesmen thought it was magic) on his father's side.
His prescience is so strong that even before it awakenned it blotted out his father's, and none of the other types of oracles and visionaries could scry him from afar. Once his own power awoke however, Leto II could see/forsee all of them just fine.
Eventually, at the age of ten (the actor in the Sci-Fi channel miniseries was older than the character in the book) he symbiotically bonded with creatures called Sandtrout, the larval form of the giant sandworms that dominated Dune's deasert landscape. They formed a carapace that covered his body (he could even cover his face for short periods), protected him from harm, and greatly amplified his movements in both speed and power.
I'm going to post some excerpts from Children of Dune now, but I'll start a new post for easier reading.
Here are Leto's first attemptes to move in his new skin. It takes him a while to grow accustomed to his newfound strength and speed. Simply attempting to get to his feet he flings himself into the air:
He got to his feet, turned to run back toward the hut and, as he moved, found his feet moving too fast for him to ballance. He plunged into the sand, rolled and leaped to his feet. The leap took him two meters off the sand and, when he fell back, trying to walk, he again moved too fast. ...The membrane worked precisely as the vision had predicted.
---Children of Dune, Frank Herbert, p330, 1987 Ace Edition
He had to crawl before he could walk:
Leto stretched flat and turned onto his face. He began to crawl, rasping the membrane against the sand. He could feel the sand distinctly, but nothing abraided his own flesh. With only a few swimming motions he traversed fifty meters of sand. The physical reaaction was a friction-induced warming sensation.
---ibid, pp 330-331
This is what I meant pages ago when I said that in Leto's case, his strength and speed were intertwined. Here again, when he tries to stand up he goes flying:
Leto leaped to his feet, intending to stand and wait, but the amplified movement sent him sprawling twenty meters farther into the canion. Controlling his reactions with terrible effort, he sat back onto his haunches, straightened.
---ibid, p331
Shortly therafter, he begins to grow accustommed to his movements:
Gaining experience with his new skin, he found he could run with only the lightest flexing of his muscles. it was almost effortless. When he put effort into running, he raced over the sand with the wind burning the exposed circle of his face. At the canion's dead end instead of stopping, he leaped up a full fifteen meters, clawed at the cliff, scrabbled, climbing like an insect, and came out on a crest above the ......He peered down from the butte, estimated the desert floor lay two hundred meters below. The moon picked out ledges and cracks on the steep face but no connecting pathway. Leto stood, inhaled a deep breath, glanced at the approaching men, then stepped to the cliff's edge and launched himself into space. Some thirty meters down his flexed legs encountered a narrow ledge. Amplified muscles absorbed the shock and rebounded in a leap sideways to another ledge, where he caught a narrow outcropping with his hands, dropped twenty meters, leaped to another handhold and once more went down, bouncing, leaping, grasping tiny ledges. He took the final fourty meters in one jump..
...At the bottom he scrambled to his feet, launched himself to the nearest dunecrest in one jump. He could hear hoarse shouts from atop the cliff but ignored them to concentrate on the leaping strides from dunetop to dunetop.---
ibid, pp332-333
How about that! Eat your heart out Spidey clones. Note again that this is with a "future peak" 10 year old's body at the amplifier's input. Benedict's body is a far superior host.
Later, once he's controlling his movements effectively, the whoopass begins:
Leto launched himself off the dunetop, hearing his father scream in protest. But the aweful impetus of Leto's amplified muscules threw his body like a missile. One outflung hand caught the neck of Tariq's stillsuit, the other slapped around to grip the doomed youth's robe at the waist. There came a single snap as the neck broke.---
ibid, p345
More badassery ensues. Note that these guys aren't some random Hand ninjas or HYDRA goons. These are those same nigh-unstoppable Fremen deasert commandos mentioned above. I love how he echewes weapons and just fans his hand through a man.
With his bare hands Leto had breached the Shuloch qanat (aquaduct or canal -LamX), hurling large stones more than fifty meters. When the Cast Out had tried to intervene, Leto had decapitated the first to reach him, using no more than a blurred speep of his arm. He hurled others back into their companions and had laughed at their weapons. In a demon-voice he roared at them: "Fire will not touch me! Your knives will not harm me! I wear the skin of Shai-Hulud! (The Sandworm/God -LamX)
---ibid, p369
How to have the last word:
And when a few of the Fremen had started to argue, Leto had torn a corner of rock from the passage wall beside the room's exit and crumbled it in his bare hands, smiling all the while.
---ibid, p375
