Hoo'd Win Part You got your Star Wars in my Transformers!

[thebitterguy]

In spite of what "Your webcomic, yadda, yadda" says about it, I tend to enjoy shortpacked (and I presume the proprietor of Geek Creek does as well) for the fun geeky silliness which he's best at.

But, occasionally, he does come up with good points which need to be debated. One of which is... Hoo'd win? Unicron, or the Death Star?

Now, Unicron is apparently satan in the expanded Transformers-verse (holy crap, btw), but at his heart, he's a giant robot that turns into a planet (or vice versa, the great philosophical conundrum that consumes the heart of every Transformer: Are they robots that turn into stuff, or stuff that turns into... Wait, no. They're robots that turn into stuff. Whew. Okay, let's solve the purpose of being!). A giant robot that turns into a planet that eats other planets! With a sword! We should totally set him up with Mega Maid from Spaceballs.

The other is a hundred mile wide (based on a 20 year old copy of the Star Wars Companion I took to Myrtle Beach with me when I was younger, Good Times!) battlestation (not a moon; A Jedi told me so) that possesses a superlaser that can cause a planet to explode in a shower of constantly updating special effects. Not to mention it has about a thousand At-Ats in it, but half of them are in for maintanence at any time (Made in the USA!).

So! Which globe has the balls? Which sphere will win it all? You! Make! The! Ca! Al! Ll! L!!

[Poll #1069146]

The winner will fight whoever won "Ego vs Mogo".

Comments

[rickj.livejournal.com]

Unicron - just because he seems more maneuverable, and should be able to tear up enough of the Death Star before they get the superlaser online.

[thebitterguy]

He is very nimble, and it seems to take longer to boot up the DS than a 486 running W98.

[tenzil.livejournal.com]

And the winner of THAT must face Galactus.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Who will eat them both.

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

I voted Death Star, but only because I figured the Empire has learned from their mistakes and not sent it unescorted to destroy Unicron. So, the Star Destroyers can keep Unicron a little busy while they power up the planet-destroying laser.

[thebitterguy]

A perfectly valid hypothesis.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

So the next question becomes Swoops vs. TIE fighters...

[rodshark.livejournal.com]

Plus it CAN track and fire at large capitol ships fairly quickly (Return of the Jedi), so hitting a moving planet wouldn't be that hard.

So if the Death Star has it's energy sheild in place and escorts it would win.

If the shield is down or it is unescorted, Unicron would win.

What if the Deathstar fired down Unicrons gullet just as he began chomping on it? Double KO?

[srhall79.livejournal.com]

My love of Star Wars runs much deeper than my love of Transformers, so I went with the Death Star. Even Unicron can't repel firepower of that magnitude.

[thebitterguy]

The power of that fully armed and operational battlestation is awesome.

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

I like Star Wars. I can't abide the Go-bots. So Death Star for the win.

Although the Emperor was about to rename it the "Galactic Peace and Co-prosperity Sphere," a physical celebration of the Empire at its best, complete with fantastic pyrotechnics visible from a planet's surface.

Doug.

[eddyfate.livejournal.com]

Go Bots?! Blasphemy!

[rodshark.livejournal.com]

I find your lack of faith disturbing!

[stop-no-dont.livejournal.com]

Dear goodness, that Wiki entry for Unicron may be the single geekiest thing I've ever read.

[thebitterguy]

Well, for a fan based Wiki entry, it ain't that bad. For fun, check out the wikipedia entry on the Max Rebo Band.

Wow.

Empire FTW

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

Had to go with the Death Star on this one. What little I recall of the Transformers implies that at least some of them are more angst-ridden than a goth convention, so I figured that Unicron would be so busy worrying about the consequences of his actions that he'd never even notice the Empire's finest holding down the "charge" button on the Death Star's laser or whatever they have to do to get the damn thing to fire.

I could be wrong, but who cares? It's just little toy robots, when all is said and done.

Re: Empire FTW

[thebitterguy]

I never recalled a TF who was very angst-ridden. Perhaps you are thinking of the Go-Bots.

Re: Empire FTW

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

No, but I am thinking of the comic book TFs. (Specifically, I think either the TF movie adaptation comic or the TF vs G.I. Joe comic limited series.) In one of them at least some of the TFs were whiny little bitches, if memory serves. Unfortunately, my comics are in some of the 8236 boxes currently stacked floor-to-ceiling in my apartment, so I can neither confirm nor deny this rumour of whiny little bitchiness.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

The Death Star, because toys spun-off from movies beat movies spun-off from toys.

[crashing-angel.livejournal.com]

Heh, right now it is 50/50

[granolademonic.livejournal.com]

You presume correctly.

Indeed, I believe he may be the only person who I made sure to beFriend via granolademonic after shutting down Geek Creek.

Heh-heh, good call on Mega-Maid.

[thebitterguy]

I thought for a second about googling Mega maid and Unicron together, but realized that would just be a bad idea. It was best for my mind if I didn't find anything, or didn't look in the first place.

[granolademonic.livejournal.com]

And yet it will haunt your dreams...

Clarification required...

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

Are we talking Ep IV or Ep VI Death Star? I mean, one's about 6 times the size of the other, can fire its main laser every 3 minutes versus every 24 hours, and was built by Ewoks or something.

Re: Clarification required...

[thebitterguy]

Part of Hoo'd Win is defining the terms yourself.

[thebitterguy]

I totally don't get that.

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

What, you don't understand an empty comment with no subject? I can't imagine why. Actually, I thought I'd deleted that one - it was my first attempt to post the cartoon that's below, but I messed up the IMG tag, and I've never been able to figure out how I can edit my comments on someone else's postings.

[thebitterguy]

Comments can't be edited; it's one of the great quirks of LJ.

But the comic showed up in the first comment on my email, and I just didn't get what he was doing with the piece of paper.

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

Remember the old TF cartoons where the symbol would flip from the "good guys" to the Decepticons when the scenes changed? That's what he's doing.

[thebitterguy]

I had no recollection of that. I don't think I've watched a Transformers cartoon since the cold war.

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

On a related note...

[neosis.livejournal.com]

It's got to be the Death Star, you see Death Star can only be destroyed by small objects. Large ones are destroyed by the Death Star. Everyone knows this.