VN Ren'Py Superhuman [v0.999] [WeirdWorld]

[Snugglepuff]

I wonder, can the MC tank a nuke? At which point if any did he become so powerful that the government or HERO tech (without SuperHumans) wouldn't be able to kill him

Depending on the yield of the warhead, I wouldn't doubt that he could tank the blast. I'm fairly certain that nukes were ruled out as a means of taking on the toughest classes of monsters in general, due to the explosive force not being enough to kill or possibly even injure them.

I'd be more curious about the radiation exposure though.
His armoured form would more than likely block alpha, beta and gamma radiation, but the real question is whether or not it'd block neutron radiation, and how well his cells and superhuman dna can handle the damaging effects.

 

[Dinoflaggelate]

Something occurred to me when thinking about where the MC's powers will progress as he evolves. In later stages, a Superhuman's powers start veering more towards the conceptual along with the simpler "same thing but stronger" powers that simply grow with the Power stat.

I wonder if the MC's trait of Evolution along with the Body's immense regeneration might lend itself to becoming something like Doomsday from the Superman comics, where an attack might just about obliterate him, his Body trait regenerates him, and the conceptual mingling with Memory of the attack fuses into an Evolution where he becomes highly resistant, if not immune, to the type of attack that almost killed him. Right there in the moment, not over time.

That seems exactly like the kind of thing that would help MC stay in the game against some of these obscenely powerful abilities, staying in line with the fact that he doesn't specialize in firepower but rather durability and adaptability.

I've been thinking that, myself. It just makes sense as a combination of Body and Memory, even without any conceptual business. We've seen that infusing his memories into his body lets the MC automate his transformations. It should be possible at the highest end to automate the process so much the MC doesn't even have to design his transformations, just have his body shift on its own to handle the current problem. Ella actually says this update that combining Body and Memory is the key to "ultimate adaptation". Maybe she meant something else, but with her emphasis on how Body is more important and Memory is supposed to support it, I'm betting she means that sort of adaptive transformation.

It would be cool if we see something like that the next time the Eye manifests. It's implied to remember its deaths across the Dead Ends, so maybe it will have adapted to survive what's killed it before. Like, what if when Deus shows up toprune the timeline, finds his attacks ineffective, and has to bring in someone else who hasn't fought the Eye yet to handle it for him? I think that would be a fun comeback from the Eye's loss against him.

 

[obibobi]

Depending on the yield of the warhead, I wouldn't doubt that he could tank the blast. I'm fairly certain that nukes were ruled out as a means of taking on the toughest classes of monsters in general, due to the explosive force not being enough to kill or possibly even injure them.

I'd be more curious about the radiation exposure though.
His armoured form would more than likely block alpha, beta and gamma radiation, but the real question is whether or not it'd block neutron radiation, and how well his cells and superhuman dna can handle the damaging effects.

The MC could alter his body into a fly and can literally change his ass into a sofa, he completely changes what he is with a thought, even without factoring superhuman durability, cell damage being an issue just wouldn't make sense.

 

[Snugglepuff]

cell damage being an issue just wouldn't make sense.

I don't think you quite understand the effects of radiation damage on the cells and dna of living organisms... Hell, even the damage it does to inorganic materials.

 

[Zolrazz]

Something occurred to me when thinking about where the MC's powers will progress as he evolves. In later stages, a Superhuman's powers start veering more towards the conceptual along with the simpler "same thing but stronger" powers that simply grow with the Power stat.

I wonder if the MC's trait of Evolution along with the Body's immense regeneration might lend itself to becoming something like Doomsday from the Superman comics, where an attack might just about obliterate him, his Body trait regenerates him, and the conceptual mingling with Memory of the attack fuses into an Evolution where he becomes highly resistant, if not immune, to the type of attack that almost killed him. Right there in the moment, not over time.

That seems exactly like the kind of thing that would help MC stay in the game against some of these obscenely powerful abilities, staying in line with the fact that he doesn't specialize in firepower but rather durability and adaptability.

The problem here is that Mc's powers are very basic. Of course, if it were like that as you said, it would be a great advantage, the problem is that there is always a limit, even Doomsday ends up dying in some editions, dying for real, the problem is that he always comes back to life, if Mc could link himself to a non-material level, then, yes, he would become an S-level threat, the problem with this is that we have beings capable of altering reality, distorting space and attacking beyond the material realm

Depending on the yield of the warhead, I wouldn't doubt that he could tank the blast. I'm fairly certain that nukes were ruled out as a means of taking on the toughest classes of monsters in general, due to the explosive force not being enough to kill or possibly even injure them.

I'd be more curious about the radiation exposure though.
His armoured form would more than likely block alpha, beta and gamma radiation, but the real question is whether or not it'd block neutron radiation, and how well his cells and superhuman dna can handle the damaging effects.

Maybe radiation isn't a problem, the real danger would be the heat generated by the bomb, if we were to take the most powerful one which is the TSAR bomb, then I doubt he'd make it

 

[RudeFist]

The problem here is that Mc's powers are very basic. Of course, if it were like that as you said, it would be a great advantage, the problem is that there is always a limit, even Doomsday ends up dying in some editions, dying for real, the problem is that he always comes back to life, if Mc could link himself to a non-material level, then, yes, he would become an S-level threat, the problem with this is that we have beings capable of altering reality, distorting space and attacking beyond the material realm

They're basic for now but the more complex stuff is what comes with evolution, especially later ones. It's kinda like how Ella dunked all over that one Lieutenant who had the raw power rating of some lvl 5s due to the decades spent as a lvl 3, pointing out to him that despite his brute strength he was holding himself back from the wilder manifestations of power of later evolutions. And yeah, he definitely won't be invincible by any stretch given how many reality warping juggernauts exist, especially because he wouldn't be able to regenerate from the total obliteration several of them are capable of inflicting. It's more just an idea of how the MC can feasibly progress besides more tentacles and bigger appendages.