Grrl Power #1394 - Sanity check (Patreon)

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Sydney is looking at this from the same perspective she would if she read a Superman comic where he fights a mugger. And not the old, old, old, original incarnations of Superman where he could, indeed, stop a locomotive, but still spent most of his time going after bank robbers armed with a .38 special, or at most, a Tommy gun. That's not a fair fight, nor was it intended to be, but there's still many orders of magnitude between that Superman and more recent incarnations, who regularly fights apocalypse level threats like Darkseid and does stuff like towing the Earth, (which has apparently happened more than once because the first image result is the pic I linked of him towing multiple planets in a manner that would probably cause catastrophic weather events, at a minimum.) 

Sydney is objecting to that souped up version of Superman battling a street level thug. Maxima can't tow the Earth, that's... well, that's just dumb, really. What the hell would you attach the chain to? A continent? Which famously float on lava? (Yeah, I know it's more complicated that that. I'm just saying it's not exactly a solid anchor point.) And even if that didn't cause civilization ending earthquakes, how would you maintain the rotational integrity of the planet? Just give that chain a tug every 24 hours? So yeah, Maxima can't tow a planet, not just because it's dumb, but because that's simply not the power scale of the Grrl-verse. 

That said, her fighting some rando like this is unfair in the extreme. And Sydney's like, "This is like a power lifter who is also somehow a super agile Parkour expert fighting a baby with colic and polio. What exactly is fun about this?" I mean, if this guy was a straight up Nazi, then yeah, do all that and worse, but he's just some guy who obviously overestimates himself. 

As far as their disguises not having a brain-interface, that's true. There is a version that can interface with certain wet or cyberware to allow conscious control, but the ones they're using fall in the range between the advanced tech Cora uses and Maxima's color changing collar. They're at the higher end of that spectrum, since they include the "sonar-proofing" as well as a Virtual Intelligence that listens to conversations and pays attention to body language to adjust things like Sydney's wolf-ears.