Grrl Power #1475 - Megascorpion (Patreon)

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Super Hiro is about 80% as strong as Maxima, but his flight speed is just shy of supersonic. Anvil can theoretically out-strength anyone on the team by absorbing enough kinetic energy (being punched all-out by Hiro doesn't make her as strong as Hiro, there's conversion entropy, and a lot of the energy goes to reinforcing her body) and no one is sure what her upper limit is and if she would instantly explode if she exceeds it or develop a full-body hernia or what. 

Basically, no one else was quite right to take Babezilla down quickly and nonlethally. Dabbler did some back of the cyber-abacus math and gave Max an idea of how hard and fast Max would need to hit her without exploding her head. I've posted about it before, but I'm positive super fights would wind up being extremely lethal. If some guy is robbing a bank wearing, let's say a tank themed costume, you really have no idea how much punishment he can take. So you give him a tap that would lay out a normal human, or try to, because if your regular punch is measured in megatons, scaling it back down to a 300 lb boxer punch might not be a level of control that's easy to achieve. Maybe to you, exhaling differently during the punch means the difference between 300 lbs and 3,000. Maybe you lay the guy out, maybe he doesn't realize he's being punched, maybe you break his neck. So if he's still upright and giving you flack about how his grandmother hits harder, you go back in and punch again a little harder, trying to work your way up till you're hitting him as his level, or just slightly above, but somewhere between 30,000 lbs and 180,000, his skull pulps. And that's a hero trying to control his strength. A supervillain with eye lasers could walk into a stadium and kill 5,000 people before a hero shows up and decides there's no time to work his way up to just the right amount of takedown force.  

There was a start of a good discussion on the previous page about whether or not Babezilla's phone would still work when enlarged. I think it comes down to how she grows. If she just summons more molecules to fill in the spaces, then I think the battery would still work, but I don't know the antenna. I also don't know if the CPU or the screen would still work, because suddenly regular sized electrons are flying around circuits that are 55x wider and thicker, and data transmitted to the screen (like the LEDs themselves) is traveling through wires that used to be hair-thick but are now finger-thick. I think there'd be some lag at any rate. 

If she grows by making her molecules larger, well, then how does she breathe? The phone itself should still work perfectly, but again, not sure about the antenna. I think that would fail, unless the EM waves returned to regular size once they leave her super-domain, then yeah, I guess it'd work. 

And if it's some sort of weird reverse-TARDIS-she's-bigger-on-the-outside nonsense, then of course it'd work, because she's just closer than you think she is.