Hoo'd Win Part Planetary Smackdown!
Oct. 16th, 2007 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebitterguyAs 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]
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]
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Date: 2007-10-16 03:36 pm (UTC)So naturally, I voted for the Death Star.
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Date: 2007-10-16 03:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-16 03:49 pm (UTC)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.
Ask Yourself: Is the Death Star Yellow?
Date: 2007-10-16 03:56 pm (UTC)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!
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Date: 2007-10-16 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-16 04:02 pm (UTC)Re: Ask Yourself: Is the Death Star Yellow?
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Date: 2007-10-16 04:18 pm (UTC)Rather, it destroys planets that aren't Green Lanterns.
Mogo FTW.
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Date: 2007-10-16 04:51 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-10-16 05:18 pm (UTC)I agree with this logic.
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Date: 2007-10-16 06:32 pm (UTC)Plus, there isn't much yellow in their colour schemes.
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Date: 2007-10-16 06:39 pm (UTC)Doug.
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Date: 2007-10-16 06:48 pm (UTC)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.
It's not called Superfailfortressball Vader
Date: 2007-10-16 07:16 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-10-16 08:08 pm (UTC)Re: It's not called Superfailfortressball Vader
Date: 2007-10-16 09:46 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-10-16 10:05 pm (UTC)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...
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Date: 2007-10-16 10:07 pm (UTC)Re: It's not called Superfailfortressball Vader
Date: 2007-10-16 10:41 pm (UTC)If -- there were treats.
Doug.
Re: It's not called Superfailfortressball Vader
Date: 2007-10-16 11:48 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-10-17 01:17 am (UTC)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?
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Date: 2007-10-17 02:48 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-10-17 03:21 am (UTC)"It has the power to...the power to...can't you aim this damn thing, you pointy-helmeted bastards?"
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Date: 2007-10-17 03:22 am (UTC)Re: It's not called Superfailfortressball Vader
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Date: 2007-10-17 01:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-17 08:30 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-10-18 03:40 pm (UTC)LULZ
Date: 2007-10-18 03:40 pm (UTC)It sounds like something Dark Helmet would say.
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Date: 2007-10-18 05:06 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-10-18 05:18 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-10-18 05:20 pm (UTC)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....
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Date: 2007-10-18 06:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-18 07:55 pm (UTC)I really liked Moore's TALES OF THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS stories.
He created Mogo, didn't he?
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Date: 2007-10-18 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-18 09:29 pm (UTC)I believe, Sir, that you are quite correct.
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Date: 2007-10-19 07:58 pm (UTC)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.
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