Rubbish
on May 14, 2021 at 12:01 amCharacters: Head Alien II, Jason Chesterfield
Location: Professor Doc's lab
That second panel of HAII parses his reflecty visor in my mind as a pair of gapped incisors biting a lower lip. And now I can’t unsee it. And now neither can you, probably. Ah well.
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how DOES he have, like… “eyelids” on his visor anyway
or, eyeLID singular I guess
It’s like how the lips of latex masks can move in cartoons. It just works.
Or expressive glasses.
And you definitely can’t when you gave up any chance of having the element of surprise on your side by saying something after you managed to get behind the guy who can go intangible before pulling the trigger. Pre-mortom one-liners don’t work in this scenario, Jason.
Shoot first, quip later. Good advice generally, even against mere mortal enemies.
I don’t know maybe he thought if he caught head alien off guard fast enough he wouldn’t turn intangible fast enough.
I like how the characters are all at a point where they know to just try to kill this asshole before he can start talking, so he now has to actually come up with ways to stop them from doing so instead of just relying on psychological manipulation.
It took me forever to see it, and I still have to concentrate to do so.
I appreciate the use of ‘rubbish’. Gotta make sure Jason is British even in his taunts.
I dunno. “Rubbish” is pretty mild, especially for someone who’s as angry as Jason is here. It’s a bit “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. I’m a bit miffed, to be honest”.
And yeah, Jason. If you’re dealing with someone who can turn intangible, maybe go for the post-death quip?
How do you kill a villain who can go intangible anyway? I assume there must be a way, but I can’t think of it.
Assuming they control their intangibility then surprise attacks so that they are dead before they know they are being attacked would be the simplest way. They should be vulnerable to gas based attacks if they aren’t carrying oxygen with them…although how breathing is supposed to work while phasing is beyond me.
Them phasing to the center of the Earth is what qualifies as their “karmic” punishment. Seen it happen when a phaser lost control of his powers in Batman Beyond, but you could probably get the same result intentionally by tripping them right as they were activating their power or maybe destroying the floor beneath them while they are phased.
Otherwise, you will probably have to rely on the made up science of the setting since the specifics of phasing will be heavily setting specific due to how far removed from reality it is.
Depends on the rules of the McGuffin used to explain the phasing. The dialog has established that this is not true intangibility, or else HA2 wouldn’t feel anything when the bullet (or whatever) passes through him. That leaves open the possibility that a fast enough or big enough attack, even if not by surprise, might take him out.
I just thought up the best way to beat him, which is cover your ears, scream loudly, and kick his helmet in
I mean, if he’s intangible, how did the revolution of the Earth around the Sun not just take him away 🤷🏻♀️