Jenny Sparks vs Storm

Originally posted by DigiMark007
You mean like "summoning" electricity from power lines, TVs, human brains, lightbulbs, etc.?? A healthy "check" to all of those. Heck, I remember her remotely flattening a building with a giant lightning bolt and it wasn't even during a storm. I'll see if I can dig up the scan, but you're acting like she can't tap into electricity, which is the definition of her powerset.

What does it matter that it can be knocked down by a tornado? Your original point was that she couldn't stay electrical for more than a few pages, which I refuted by citing the cross-country trip.

And TV wires can go underground, she's even traveled via radio waves at one point and jumped out of a car stereo.

Besides, she's flown through the air in electrical form as well....saying that Strom could knock down some wires doesn't mean much.

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I'll give you the power outage thing. She's not immune to having no source for her power. But she has a wide array of places to draw from.

Originally posted by DigiMark007
You mean like "summoning" electricity from power lines, TVs, human brains, lightbulbs, etc.?? A healthy "check" to all of those. Heck, I remember her remotely flattening a building with a giant lightning bolt and it wasn't even during a storm. I'll see if I can dig up the scan, but you're acting like she can't tap into electricity, which is the definition of her powerset.

You talking about the white house scene in Authority when she summoned up the remains of a lightning storm to blow it up (something Storm could likely dispell)? And my whole argument is that she needs a electrical source to tap into and couldn't even tap into the leftover discharge from her own electricity.

What does it matter that it can be knocked down by a tornado? Your original point was that she couldn't stay electrical for more than a few pages, which I refuted by citing the cross-country trip.

I meant on her own, like in a fighting scenario. The only time I can think of her using it for a prolonged period was against the Asian guys flying goons in the first arc of Authority and the spaceship thing and both of those were for only a few pages/panels.

And TV wires can go underground, she's even traveled via radio waves at one point and jumped out of a car stereo.

She has?

Besides, she's flown through the air in electrical form as well....saying that Strom could knock down some wires doesn't mean much.

In her mini with which she had to have someone carry her because she quickly ran out of power. The same mini that had the same Sparks who can easily regen get shot damn near dead about 10x's.

Here's the car feat where she accesses it via the radio. She has a ton of options for travel in any sort of civilized place....more than Storm could take out. TV, electrical wires, radios, etc. But the point was always that she could exist for as long as she needed in various forms. The whole thing is kind of a moot argument.

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...and as for the fight, staying electrical for any prolonged time won't be an issue anyway. The fight, one way or another, will likely be over quickly.

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Here's the remote lightning bolt. It's her initiating the bolt on the page before it (this particular scan just has the lightning, not Jenny). But I don't have that page scanned into my cpu, and don't really feel like doing it.
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...please note there isn't a storm. It's just ambient electricity from the atmosphere, and she didn't even have to become electricity herself to send the bolt.

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And the gun thing was her in human form I think....at least when she's convincing the Doctor to join the Authority. But there's no way a bullet would hurt her in "living electricity" mode.

Oh wait. Holy hell. She does go through the radio...I just read the scan again.

{edit} edited the post to describe it better.

Oh she traveled through the TV first, I thought you meant she was just outside instinctively, found a radio wave and then rode it. :/ Not likely an applicable use of the power, like you said.

I'm saying that since her electrical form instantly heals her and she could have easily switched to it (this is what I'm arguing against, switching to electrical form is not an effortless feat, it saps her power unless she rides something ||), she shouldn't have been shot so many times (against the Nazi's and at her wedding).

Oh and I recall her doing the same thing in Authority and described it as re-using a storm that happened earlier, something that Storm could dispell :/

Oh and for her exerting her power, you don't remember her gettin pissy in Authority because she was quickly running out of power to work with after only a few minutes of battle?

- Yes, Jenny has always needed some sort of source to power her beyond regular levels. I've never tried to state otherwise. But the point has always been that between the brain-drain and the fact that there has never been evidence to suggest she has a limit to how long she can stay as electricity, it's a stalemate at best or a win for Jenny if Storm can't stop the brain shutdown.

- And as for the feats, her saying that she channeled a storm in the Authority feat doesn't mean that she did the same in the Stormwatch scan I posted.

- As for shooting her, it's only a possibility if she's in human form. I think your point is that she couldn't turn into electricity easily after being shot. Fair enough. But if she makes the transfer first as soon as the fight starts, there's no reason to think any conventional means will hurt her, nor any reason to think she'll need to leave electrical form until the fight's over.

- Also, you were saying Storm could easily dismiss the electricity from the storm that Jenny might channel. I'd actually see it as the reverse. Storm's more versatile, but I still have yet to see anything that suggests Storm's control over electricity would supercede Jenny's. It might just be that Jenny could turn the storm against Storm (the electricity at least) and that any lightning she brings to bear would just strengthen Jenny.

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So we're probably about to start going in circles. I honestly don't think I've disagreed with a lot of what you've said...we're just seeing the fight two different ways, and interpreting Jenny's showings differently.

Yeah probably, I personally see it as a 5.5/10 for Storm. She just brings too much to the table and has the distance, speed and theoretical endurance advantage (depending on if Sparks paces herself instead of doing the hot head thing she normally).

The only thing I really have a problem with is electrical form and why she didn't use it so much when it's so powerful and how the rest of the posters in the board seem to think it's a curbstomp for Sparks.

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Originally posted by xmarksthespot
Jenny is electricity. Jenny owns electricity. She has a hundred years of experience using her powers. Storm dies.

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At least it's not Jenny Quantum that Storm is fighting. You think Sparks is bad news, Quantum is alot scarier. 😛