Hoo'd Win Part Planetary Smackdown!

[thebitterguy]

As per last week's Hoo'd Win, we've proven that The Death Star would take out Unicron. Previously, we'd established that in a fight between Mogo and Ego, you should always bet on green.

So! In the final analysis, only two of these combatants remain. Now comes the planetary finale, literally (no, no, not the finale of Planetary. We still have to wait for that)!

In one corner, the biggest Green Lantern ever! In the other, a fully armed and operation battle station. Who will reign supreme, while the other is reduced to a hazardous debris field? You! Make! The Call!

[Poll #1072336]

Comments

[deven-science.livejournal.com]

As I'm unfamiliar with Mogo, I really have no place in this business at all. Shouldn't touch it.

So naturally, I voted for the Death Star.

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

I'm going with Mogo on this one - he's got the whole "name" thing going for him. 'Mogo' just sounds cool. Also sounds like a brand of frozen yogurt, but what are you going to do?

[thebitterguy]

Mogo! Now in tutti frutti!

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Go go Mogo!

The Death Star only really has one trick: the planet-buster cannon.

I can think of any number of ways that Mogo could take that thing out, even with the "no lethal force" imperative in effect.

[thebitterguy]

I can just see a million mile wide tennis racket. Or possibly just pinching closed the superlaser.

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

The "plugging it with an unstoppable green energy 'cork' made of sheer willpower while it explodes like a rifle in Elmer Fudd's face" was exactly what I had in mind.

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

It's like sticking a firecracker in an anthill, except the firecracker would be green and made of energy.

It would still have a sputtering fuse tho....

Ask Yourself: Is the Death Star Yellow?

[tfbretz.livejournal.com]

No, it is not.

Unless the Empire is willing to lay out the credits for enough Harvest Saffron to cover a small moon (and given their past unwillingness to spring for Thermal Exhaust Port Exclusion Covers and guard rails, I doubt they will), it's Mogo FTW!

Re: Ask Yourself: Is the Death Star Yellow?

[thebitterguy]

I want to get this battle immortalized on a t-shirt, and I want that line to be on the back.

[mark-argent.livejournal.com]

I'm no Star Wars fan, but these are the facts: Mogo is a planet. The Death Star destroys planets.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Rather, it destroys planets that aren't Green Lanterns.

Mogo FTW.

[srhall79.livejournal.com]

Mogo is a planet. The Death Star destroys planets.

I agree with this logic.

[lowercaseem.livejournal.com]

I too agreed with this.

Sure the death star is a one trick pony... but if your one trick is planet destruction and you're facing off against a planet...

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

Mogo wins, unless the Empire pays to a) paint the whole station yellow and b) modify the planet-busting cannon's frequency so that it too is yellow. Then all bets are off.

[spross.livejournal.com]

No Evil can escape the Green Lantern's Light!

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

...unless it's yellow.

[stop-no-dont.livejournal.com]

Mogo is also self-aware and thus, probably more adaptable than the Death Star, which still needs to be led around, technically.

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

I figure the death star could win if it could either be painted yellow (unlikely, due to budgetary restraints) or somehow "sneak up" on Mogo. Given that it's the size of a moon, the whole "sneaking" thing seems really unlikely, so I'm going with my original answer.

[thebitterguy]

I don't know if the Empire has budgetary restraints. They did build a moon sized battlestation as a prototype. I think it's just laziness and bureacracy.

Plus, there isn't much yellow in their colour schemes.

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

Well, they didn't start off under budgetary constraints, but like all organizations there were cost overruns and deficit-reduction targets (hence the lack of guard rails and exhaust port covers).

I mean, they didn't even have enough money to paint the interior walls in "institutional pale yellow" or get any of that industrial carpeting put down. They obviously ran out of money towards the end.

[neosis.livejournal.com]

I think it was noted in the roleplaying game that the original Death Star was funded by money siphoned out of the empire's "sewer maintenance" budget.

Also, I think in the novels, they revelaed that the death star is actually the second prototype. The original prototype damaged the star destroyer it was mounted on and forced an atomospheric crash, but it did destroy the moon it was pointed at, so they set about working on a larger and improved model.

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

It's not called the "Lose Star," the "Defeat Sphere" or even the "Superfailfortressball Vader." It's the Death Star, dammit, and even after it kicked Unicron's ass it was only batting .333. I insist that the Death Star is at least .500!

Doug.

It's not called Superfailfortressball Vader

[thebitterguy]

It isn't. But it SHOULD be.

Re: It's not called Superfailfortressball Vader

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

I note that the Death Star does not say *whose* death. It isn't called the "Death to our enemies Star". It might be the "Death to everyone who works here Star" for all we know...

Plus, just because it's called something doesn't mean it is that. If I named my dog "cat" he's not gonna start meowing.

Re: It's not called Superfailfortressball Vader

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

He might.

If -- there were treats.

Doug.

Re: It's not called Superfailfortressball Vader

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

I can only speak of the hundreds of dogs that I have hands-on experience with, but I have yet to hear a dog meow. Even when plied with treats.

And, yes, we've tried.

Re: It's not called Superfailfortressball Vader

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

They thought calling it the "Death Trap" was too obvious.

[lowercaseem.livejournal.com]

The comments for this hoo'd win are The Awesome.

[uhlrik.livejournal.com]

I vote for the Death Star simply because I think the only Green Lantern worthy of the name is Hal Jordan. Every single other Lantern that I've ever seen sucked. But then, I'm not a Green Lantern fan, and have never read an issue that had Mogo in it...

I regret nothing!


I'm sure mogo's got a whole lot more tricks up its sleeve, but the eternal yardstick in this is which is preferred. If I were writing the story, Vader and co would find a way for the Death Star to win, though naturally there'd be some massive number of expendable morons destroyed... speaking of which, how the heck is a planet gonna fight something like the Death Star without using lethal force?

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

how the heck is a planet gonna fight something like the Death Star without using lethal force?

He's got the green lantern thing going for him, so I'm presuming he could just turn all their guns into marshmallows or something equally as bizarre, then summon a huge green tow-truck and haul the Death Star itself off to planetoid-jail or wherever.

[thebitterguy]

You know what you need? An icon of you in your Codernaut costume.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Force of will.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I keep imagining the Death Star powering up and Mogo just scootching out of the way.

"It has the power to...the power to...can't you aim this damn thing, you pointy-helmeted bastards?"

LULZ

[thebitterguy]

I just love the idea of Mogo stootching.

It sounds like something Dark Helmet would say.

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

As big a Star Wars fan I am, and as grudging as I often am towards the Green lantern Corps and teh way it's depicted (if not the concept itself), Giant Willpower Smiting Planetary Consciousness *always* trumps Round-Gun-Filled-With-Mean-Spirited-Ants.

[thebitterguy]

BTW, what's your impression of the Sinestro Corps War? It's made me tingly. I'm actually looking forward to the spotlight on Superman Prime.

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

It's a little too Continuity-Intensive for me, I'm afraid. I was always more of a Marvel kid than a DC one, especially when it comes to stuff from the mid-80s to 90's. I can understand the excitement, but it's not my thing, per se

I feel the same about football, for example.

[thebitterguy]

I'm liking it, but I do have the benefit of reading the Tales of the GLC mini from the '80s. Barring that, I think it functions well for people who don't have a whole bunch of knowledge. I think the best thing is to have read Moore's Abin Sur story.

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

I really liked Moore's TALES OF THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS stories.

He created Mogo, didn't he?

[thebitterguy]

IIRC, Mogo Doesn't Socialize, which was his first appearance, was a Moore story.

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

I believe, Sir, that you are quite correct.

[neosis.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with the majority here. Mogo's weakness is yellow, and the Death Star's laser is quite red. Mogo wins.

[thebitterguy]

The Death Star, on the other hand, has a noted weakness to Awesome (hence being destroyed by Lando and Han), which Mogo has in spades.

[neosis.livejournal.com]

Ah, but as we all know, the Death Star's weakness is small things. And Mogo is not small. So while Hal Jordan would win against the Death Star, Mogo is simply to large to succeed! :)

[athelind.livejournal.com]

...would I reveal myself as a huge, huge geek if I pointed out that these days, only rookie GLs have to worry about yellow?

[thebitterguy]

Not particularly. I presume much of the GL knowledge is still assimilated from the Super Friends.