Smurph Write-Up
Power: Animal Mimicry
I’ve chosen the power to mimic animal abilities, using Animal Man as a template. I’ve made my choice and based my strategy off of Buddy Baker’s power as per the comics, and because his power is very conceptual, and the way it works is not always intuitive, I’m going to clarify some key points before I get into the meat of my plan.
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[*]Abilities are not always proportionate
I can choose to capitalize on the abilities of insects and smaller animals by mimicking their abilities proportionately. So, I can choose to run as fast as a human-sized ant, or to mimic the pistol shrimp’s clap, at a human size, with even more power behind it.
Conversely, I can copy, say, the strength of an Elephant or a T-Rex, without strength scaling down to my size.
I get to choose whether I get the proportionate abilities, or the actual abilities.
[*]Abilities can be stacked
Pretty simple: I can choose to stack abilities if I want. This includes stacking the same trait, to combine the invulnerabilities of a Rhino and a Stegosaurus, or combining separate traits, to dive with a Peregrine Falcon’s speed and a Triceratop’s weight [1][2].
[*]Distance from animals doesn’t matter
Early in his career, Animal Man’s power worked by mimicking animals nearby. He later lost that limitation, and could mimic the abilities of any animal that lives, or has lived on Earth.
This is why he was able to stack a Stegosaurus’ abilities with a Rhino’s in the scan above, and this is the version of the power that I am using for this fight.
(This point may have been unnecessary, but I won’t get a chance to clarify any misunderstandings in a follow-up post, so I’m trying to catch any judge confusion here).
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Plan: Animal Nation: Attack of the Clones
I’m going to start the match in Calgary, Canada. I’m going to immediately burrow [1][2] deep into the ground, over 50 miles below the earth.
While burrowing, I’m going to grab a few abilities:
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[*]The healing of an earthworm [1][2]. It allowed Buddy to regrow an arm in a single panel.
[*]The damage resistance of a cockroach [1][2][3] that allowed Buddy to shrug off an assault by a pre-crisis Superman clone.
[*]The underground senses of a mole, so I will know if anything comes close to me.
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When I get sufficiently far underground, maybe in a particular cave of sorts, I’m going to copy bacteria’s ability to self-replicate [1][2][3], and I’m going to start cloning myself like crazy.
In the scans, Buddy uses this ability to make dozens of clones in seconds. I’m going to do the same thing, and just not stop. We’re going to communicate with the powers of an ant colony. Every clone will be my worker ant, and I will command them.
Each clone is going to also take up cloning, and I’m going to create a legion.
The plan from this point is pretty simple: build an army of millions, and wipe out everything. At the speed that Buddy clones in the scans, this should be a relatively quick process.
I'm going to dispatch clones to create clone factories in the most hostile environments on earth, including ocean trenches, thermal vents, etc. I can survive there, my opponents cannot.
After my army has reached the size of a small city, I’ll start dispatching strike forces to destroy my opponents.
While they’re searching, we’ll continue to clone, with the intention to create a new global population.
Each member of Animal Nation will have equal powers to the original. They’ll each be able to pick from any of the abilities that I’ve already shown, including:
[list][*]Rapid healing, Earthworm
[*] Super strength, T-Rex
[*]Invulnerability, Rhino, Stegosaurus, Cockroach
[*]Super speed, Ant, Peregrine Falcon
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They’ll also have access to every other animal, so I’ve compiled a brainstorm list of go-to methods to take down some of my opponents:
[list][*]Sting of a box jellyfish should kill anybody with a human body
[*]The survivability of a Tardigrade (or Waterbear). These little guys can survive absolute zero, pressure equal to six times greater than the deepest ocean trenches, ionizing radiation at doses hundreds of times higher than lethal doses for humans, and the vacuum of outer space.
[*]If the Tardigrade didn’t cover it, Animal Nation can pull from the abilities of every extremophile animal to live and thrive in any condition, including extreme temperatures, radiation, or pressure.
[*]A Hercules Beetle’s strength, with the capacity to lift 850 times their own weight. For 150 pound man, that’s about 127,000 pounds.
[*]An electric eel’s ability to channel electric currents. Animal Man was in a mascot costume in the scans, it’s still him. This ability is particular to battling Carver.
[*]The tracking abilities of a minnow/moth hybrid .
[*]Perception of a Fly, multiplying reaction speed by 10.
[*]Remember the pistol shrimp scan? Well, snapping shrimp can also use their clapping to create noises at 218 decibels, and create cavitation bubbles that reach temperatures comparable to the surface level of the sun.
[*]A snake’s ability to see in infrared, for invisible opponents. Also echolocation of a bat.
[*]A chameleon’s camouflage, in order to be invisible to opponents.
[*]The wing speed of a hummingbird, to punch with Hercules Beetle strength, at 200 times/second
[*]Animal instincts, to shut out telepathy. You remember the scenes where Wolverine goes full feral mode, and is immune to the X-Men, Mr X, Psylocke etc? Same idea, shut out telepathy by not thinking and following instincts.
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The list goes on and on, obviously. The point is, Vixen on her own took out Amazo, and combining the dive of a falcon with the weight of a triceratops is just skimming the surface of what we can do. Via this power, I can survive in any environment, and thrive through anything my opponents can throw at me, and I have a myriad of options to kill any of them.
Sin, with Darwin, has the ability to evolve against her opponent, with no choice over how she does it. I have the same ability, but I have full reign over my evolutions, and there are millions of me, and counting. I am the OMACs and the Nimrods. I am millions of self-replicating, evolving-on-the-fly, super predators.
As my army efficiently hunts down and kills my opponents, I’ll continue to run my cloning factories in the earth’s most extreme environments. Ocean trenches, volcanoes, thermal vents, etc. I’m going to create an Animal Nation of billions, and just overrun the globe.
Against opponents like Digi, in a city-sized mecha, the plan is to overrun him with sheer numbers, keeping in mind that each member of my army is an invulnerable, healing, Cl. 100 with superspeed. The bigger opponents will be overwhelmed by my ocean of Animal Nation.
Good game, everybody.
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