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[Atian the Elephantman God]

If Superman loses to Batman he stands no chance!

[Spehss _]

If Superman loses to Batman he stands no chance!

Batman can beat anyone if he gets enough prep time though.

But can Batman beat One Punch Man Saitama?

[Frumple]

Eeehhh... batman might actually have a pretty easy time of it. Saitama's usually pretty chill, and not exactly adverse to just listening if the opponent's willing to talk. Getting saitama to walk away (and thus give batman victory by forfeit!) likely wouldn't be that much trouble.

[IronyOwl]

Uh, um... shit. Probably?

I'll eat my hat if Atomic Skull and Black Adam aren't at least three bands each.

He has one pose. ONE! You can't be a JoJo with only one pose!

I'd count at least three. The flying thing, nippleparrying bullets stance, and kent-glassesing. Points off for rarely chaining them, though, which is indeed a mark against jojo mojo.

Hm, point. Pre-booth shirt-opening might count as well.

Eeehhh... batman might actually have a pretty easy time of it. Saitama's usually pretty chill, and not exactly adverse to just listening if the opponent's willing to talk. Getting saitama to walk away (and thus give batman victory by forfeit!) likely wouldn't be that much trouble.

Batman's also probably cunning enough to maneuver Saitama around to get him into/out of the way less directly than just asking.

[Frumple]

Hm, point. Pre-booth shirt-opening might count as well.

Ho, yeah. That's probably the most JoJo of them all, really.

Though, that said, especially some of the earlier Superman stuff was totally jojo as goddamn. I still remember good chunks of that one back on VHS with the underground bird people, which would have fit right into the bizarre adventures without any trouble at all.

E: Seems like it was called The Underground World. S'on youtube, unsurprisingly. I'd totally recommend it if you want to check out how casually older animators would make stuff that would scare the shit out of their intended audience.

[IronyOwl]

Though, that said, especially some of the earlier Superman stuff was totally jojo as goddamn. I still remember good chunks of that one back on VHS with the underground bird people, which would have fit right into the bizarre adventures without any trouble at all.

E: Seems like it was called The Underground World. S'on youtube, unsurprisingly. I'd totally recommend it if you want to check out how casually older animators would make stuff that would scare the shit out of their intended audience.

This is pretty Awaken My Masters, yeah. The Mummy Strikes arguably even moreso.

Also interesting to see Superman getting clocked by a birdman. Did he get more powerful as time went on, or just more consistent?

[NullForceOmega]

Vastly more powerful, early Supes is pretty tame.

[Frumple]

Depends on how early you're talking, heh. He's certainly gotten more consistent (and generally weaker) in more recent years, and he's definitely had bits where he was portrayed as relatively weak, but some of his earlier stuff also showed him as having a power listing that basically read, "Yes." Up to and exceeding spontaneous celestial engineering! It got pretty crazy.

[itisnotlogical]

I'm trying to get into the broader Ghost In The Shell franchise, since the live action movie is apparently still a real thing.

I never really used to care for Stand Alone Complex, but now I think it's among my favorite sci-fi shows.

Is it true that there was a really convoluted sub-plot early in the manga because Shirow wanted to write in a lesbian orgy for no reason? I remember hearing that somewhere but I've never read the manga and I'm not sure if that's a rumor.

[Furtuka]

Iunno about convoluted subplot, but I can confirm there was a cybersex lesbian orgy. IIRC Batou had to contact the Major during her private time at one point and gets really weirded out by the sensory feedback.

[itisnotlogical]

GitS has never been shy about sex but that just seems out of character

[Frumple]

... does it? It's been a while since I've watched much GitS, but that doesn't seem exactly out of character for the Major's personality from what I recall of it. Off hours yuri-pile (on the down-low, screen time wise) actually seems like something that would be pretty in line with it, really.

[Furtuka]

Haven't seen the anime adaptations yet, but from what I've heard the manga version of the Major is quite a bit more cheerful in personality than the anime versions.

[itisnotlogical]

Most of my GITS experience has been with the two non-SAC films and the new Arise films, where she's very much characterized as a philosophical Rei Ayanami-type. I'm just starting to discover that this is unusual

[Frumple]

Ah ha. Yeah, no, that's fairly close from what I can recall of what I've seen, it's just she's also a basically perpetual internet slummer, with most of what you would expect that to entail, and she's got a fairly wicked (if usually low flying, so to speak) sense of humor. Not so much unusual as missing pieces, more or less.