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Yetrigar
YETRIGAR
Created By: Doug Moench & Herb Trimpe
First Appearance: Godzilla #10 (May 1978)
Role: Unstoppable Monster
PL 15 (180)
STRENGTH 20 STAMINA 17 AGILITY -2
FIGHTING 10 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE -4 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE -2
Skills:
Expertise (Survival) 5 (+5)
Intimidation 13 (+11, +20 Size)
Advantages:
All-Out Attack, Diehard, Extraordinary Effort, Fast Grab, Fearless, Startle, Takedown 2
Powers:
"Ape-Like Senses" Senses 3 (Acute & Extended Scent, Low-Light Vision) [3]
"Kaiju"
Growth 19 (Str & Sta +19, +19 Mass, +9 Intimidation, -9 Dodge/Parry, +4 Speed) -- (168 feet) (Feats: Innate) (Extras: Permanent +0) [39]
Protection 4 (Extras: Impervious 25) [29]
"Giant-Size Smash" Damage 15 (Extras: Area- 60ft. Burst +2) [45]
Offense:
Unarmed +10 (+20 Damage, DC 35)
Area Attacks +15 Area (+15 Damage, DC 30)
Initiative -2
Defenses:
Dodge +4 (DC 14), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +21 (+13 Impervious), Fortitude +17, Will +4
Complications:
Disabled (Animal)- Yetrigar cannot speak, nor use his claws to easily manipulate objects.
Total: Abilities: 2 / Skills: 20--10 / Advantages: 23 / Powers: 119 / Defenses: 26 (180)
-Yetrigar is a Yeti-like monster created for Marvel's now-forgotten Godzilla series (the same place Doctor Demonicus came from), and since the license went away, we now only see the side-characters Marvel created for it, and not the big monster himself. He's basically a member of a race of shaggy men who live in the Japanese mountains, but was exposed to some radiation, and this led to a giant Kaiji Battle with Godzilla himself. Ultimately, Red Ronin had to separate the two monsters, then bury Yetrigar under an avalanche. He's reappeared a few times since then, at one point being deliberately freed by Mockingbird to fight the entire West Coast Avengers so she could chase a guy without interference. They were unable to harm him- Hank Pym had to build a device and expand it in Yetrigar's ear to knock him out. He last appeared being stuck in the Vault, apparently having been reduced to normal size- he did not even appear during Marvel's big monster crossover a few years back.
-Its always handy to have a bunch of random, assorted builds in a backlog. Case in point: Add some Senses from the Apes I've built to the stats for the Showa-Era Godzilla I built, and BOOM- instant Giant Yeti. Powerful enough to handily fight the '80s Avengers-level teams (I mean, most of the team can't even break his Impervious Toughness, and Wonder Man was a sissy back then), and enough to face GODZILLA HIMSELF and win.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Hyo Iwamono! Krakoa! The Living Laser!)
"and Wonder Woman was a sissy back then),"------ Do you mean Wonder Man or was this some cross-over tale?
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Hyo Iwamono! Krakoa! The Living Laser!)
Oh, neat- the day I post Predator X, Ben Thomas's YouTube channel made a video about the REAL "Predator X": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shjVqU5 ... BenGThomas
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The Nth Man
NTH MAN: THE ULTIMATE NINJA (John Doe)
Created By: Larry Hama & Ron Wagner
First Appearance: Marvel Comics Presents #25 (Aug. 1989)
Role: Elite CIA Ninja
Group Affiliations: The CIA
PL 10 (153)
STRENGTH 3 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 6
FIGHTING 11/15 DEXTERITY 6
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 2
Skills:
Acrobatics 8 (+14)
Athletics 9 (+12)
Close Combat 2 (+13-17)
Expertise (CIA Assassin) 8 (+11)
Insight 3 (+6)
Intimidation 4 (+6)
Perception 6 (+9)
Stealth 5 (+11)
Technology 1 (+4)
Advantages:
Accurate Attack, Agile Feint, Equipment 4 (Guns, Ninja Stuff), Diehard, Fearless, Improved Critical 2 (Guns, Unarmed), Improved Defense, Ranged Attack 4, Takedown
Powers:
"Warp Time"
Speed 5 (60 mph) [5]
Quickness 8 [8]
Enhanced Fighting 4 [8]
Enhanced Dodge 4 [4]
Offense:
Unarmed +11 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Boosted Speed +17 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Sword +11-15 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Guns +10 (+5-6 Ranged Damage, DC 20-21)
Initiative +0
Defenses:
Dodge +12 (16 Boost, DC 22-26), Parry +12 (+16 Boost, DC 22-26), Toughness +4, Fortitude +6, Will +7
Complications:
Enemy (Alfie O'Meagan)- The two were childhood friends, but Alfie is responsible for the modern hell that is the world.
Total: Abilities: 76 / Skills: 46--23 / Advantages: 16 / Powers: 25 / Defenses: 13 (153)
-Larry Hama, Eternal Ninja-Fetishist of the 1980s, had so much success with Snake-Eyes in G.I. Joe, and was so instrumental to the Ninja Craze that hit comics around that time, that it was perhaps inevitable that he would write another Ninja-Centric series- this one a Limited Series set in a Post-World War III world. It was meant to last 25 issues, but was cancelled after 16- Hama was able to resolve the storyline anyhow in another book. The artist, Ron Wagner, has suggested that the commercial failure of Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja was due to it being set outside the standard Marvel Universe- I have a hard time disagreeing- the "Shared Universe" thing is a major aspect of Marvel's books. G.I. Joe wasn't part of the MU either, but at least THAT was a LICENSE (a dramatically-popular one, too).
-The world of Nth Man was thrown into disarray by Alfie O'Meagan (I didn't get the gag with his name until it was pointed out), a super-powerful guy who neutralized all of Earth's nuclear weapons with his mind, thus upsetting the balance of power and setting off World War III. John "Nth Man" Doe, Alfie's childhood friend, was trained by an old Japanese man to become a "Mighty Whitey"-style super-ninja (kind of funny how the ethnically-Japanese Hama went to that well TWICE), taught to kill "without regret". Alfie is his old friend, and soon grows reality-warping powers and more. The book crosses war zones, plague-ridden Post-Apocalyptic landscapes, a look inside a video game and more (I'm just reading the Wikis here- I've never read the series, nor even HEARD of it), and Alfie's attempt to de-power the Soviets' biological weapons backfires. This just creates a mutagenic virus that turns people into "Moots" (basically Zombies).
-The ending involves time travel (thanks to John's Time Powers) and doesn't make a lot of sense in the bios- Alfie himself travels to space and finds some being called M'Gubgub, and John sends them both back in time to continue the time-loop, as they de-age into their infant forms at the orphanage... so yeah, drugs. This, if you'll recall, is the writer who hated Serpentor and kept Cobra-La out of G.I. Joe for being too silly.
-John starts off as a standard-issue White Guy Ninja with elite Skills & fighting capability, but eventually develops limited Time Control powers that essentially let him speed up and upgrade to PL 10 stats. At one point, he somehow makes people age backwards, and later he accidentally travels through time. Alfie, for his part, basically had Every Power Ever, including Growth, Remote Sensing (he viewed things on a TV screen of his own making), Space Travel, Flight, Telekinesis, Molecular Control (ie. transformation), etc. He destroyed Earth's nuclear arsenal WITH HIS MIND, but when he attempted to alter biological weapons, he created super-zombies.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Hyo! Krakoa! Living Laser! Yetrigar! The Nth Man!)
Nth Man, wow, that is really digging deep. That was one of my friends favorites. He introduced me to the TMNT RPG, my first RPG so he wasn't all bad.
Anyway, Nth Man. I tried really hard to like this, but rather like Dr. Who it just sucks and I can't find anything to like in it. Always seemed like an attempt to combine Roy Batty and Ninjas, but ended up just ended up being full of lame. I still don't get the joke about Alfie O'Meagan, and the time travel shenanigans was really just the last straw of stupidity concerning "time travel." Battlestar Galactica (the first one) and Nth Man are just too terrible to be allowed to be used as examples of time travel.
A random question, will you do any Sin City builds? Have you already done these?
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Anyway, Nth Man. I tried really hard to like this, but rather like Dr. Who it just sucks and I can't find anything to like in it. Always seemed like an attempt to combine Roy Batty and Ninjas, but ended up just ended up being full of lame. I still don't get the joke about Alfie O'Meagan, and the time travel shenanigans was really just the last straw of stupidity concerning "time travel." Battlestar Galactica (the first one) and Nth Man are just too terrible to be allowed to be used as examples of time travel.
A random question, will you do any Sin City builds? Have you already done these?
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Re: Jeff the Baby Land Shark
I want stats for this! Should I just use the stats for the Bulette?Jabroniville wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 5:31 am
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, I WANT ONE!!!
JEFF THE BABY LAND SHARK
Created By: Kelly Thompson & Daniele Di Nicuolo
First Appearance: West Coast Avengers #7 (March 2019)
Role: Animal Mascot
Group Affiliations: The West Coast Avengers
-The adorable Jeff the Baby Land Shark is one of many Land Sharks who were used to attack Kate Bishop's West Coast Avengers in Kelly Thompson's wacky, off-the-wall short-lived run. He was adopted by Gwenpool and made a sort of "team mascot". Figuring she wouldn't have a solo series again (hee), she left him with Deadpool.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Hyo! Krakoa! Living Laser! Yetrigar! The Nth Man!)
I never read Sin City- I've just seen the movie, which I liked. I couldn't think of much to build for them, though Marv was obviously super-tough. A PL 8 in a world of PL 4s or so.slade the sniper wrote: ↑Sat Dec 26, 2020 11:56 am Nth Man, wow, that is really digging deep. That was one of my friends favorites. He introduced me to the TMNT RPG, my first RPG so he wasn't all bad.
Anyway, Nth Man. I tried really hard to like this, but rather like Dr. Who it just sucks and I can't find anything to like in it. Always seemed like an attempt to combine Roy Batty and Ninjas, but ended up just ended up being full of lame. I still don't get the joke about Alfie O'Meagan, and the time travel shenanigans was really just the last straw of stupidity concerning "time travel." Battlestar Galactica (the first one) and Nth Man are just too terrible to be allowed to be used as examples of time travel.
A random question, will you do any Sin City builds? Have you already done these?
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It's maybe just a dog of some size with a more powerful bite and maybe Shark senses? I dunno what he's been shown doing.I want stats for this! Should I just use the stats for the Bulette?
Re: Jab’s Builds! (Hyo! Krakoa! Living Laser! Yetrigar! The Nth Man!)
Underworld gives me really big The Darkness vibes. Maybe it has something to do with a black haired Italian mobster with super powers?
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Hyo! Krakoa! Living Laser! Yetrigar! The Nth Man!)
Great explanation of the uncanny valley. It's a subject I've looked into a few times, fascinating stuff.
To take a step further, it's all about the very human tendency to categorize things. Its very easy to lump things generally into familiar things and unfamiliar things. Familiar things often get to an easy mode where we use prior knowledge go along. Or, we're intuitively playful creatures and have to work to deal with unfamiliar things, but it can become fun.
The problem comes in when we categorize things as familiar, feeling that we have a handle on it, know how to work it and go into easy mode. Then we get startled when things don't go as planned, that sense of the unfamiliar creeping in. It's not just a thing with cgi, but we can find it everywhere. The sense of betrayal is a big area that this happen, we think that we know someone and then... wham, unexpected behavior. Or Mum has a major problem with manikins and many ventriloquist dummies, they're 'not right' and they creep her out. We also see this in our sense of touch. Contactless keyboards have had huge problems with not providing a sense of impact, also why many keyboards have a nice clicking sound when you touch a key. The Kinect game system had a similar problem with having familiar, but not the same, motions.
Sadly, it's also a problem with human behavior. Autism and trans individuals can come close in behavior, but there might be something off which results in a sense of revulsion and otherness. It's also a big problem with large groups. A lot of violence has happened between religious and ethnic groups has happened between very very similar groups that are different enough to create that sense of otherness.
On the far other side, humans are decent-ish when it comes to things that are different. Hard from perfect, but with animals and objects we can connect to them on a different level. In fact, we have a harder time not putting human attributes to objects. How many people name their car? Or know what their pets are thinking? Or think that WALL-E was adorable?
It's a really fascinating subject, that sense of familiarity and otherness that runs right through humanity.
To take a step further, it's all about the very human tendency to categorize things. Its very easy to lump things generally into familiar things and unfamiliar things. Familiar things often get to an easy mode where we use prior knowledge go along. Or, we're intuitively playful creatures and have to work to deal with unfamiliar things, but it can become fun.
The problem comes in when we categorize things as familiar, feeling that we have a handle on it, know how to work it and go into easy mode. Then we get startled when things don't go as planned, that sense of the unfamiliar creeping in. It's not just a thing with cgi, but we can find it everywhere. The sense of betrayal is a big area that this happen, we think that we know someone and then... wham, unexpected behavior. Or Mum has a major problem with manikins and many ventriloquist dummies, they're 'not right' and they creep her out. We also see this in our sense of touch. Contactless keyboards have had huge problems with not providing a sense of impact, also why many keyboards have a nice clicking sound when you touch a key. The Kinect game system had a similar problem with having familiar, but not the same, motions.
Sadly, it's also a problem with human behavior. Autism and trans individuals can come close in behavior, but there might be something off which results in a sense of revulsion and otherness. It's also a big problem with large groups. A lot of violence has happened between religious and ethnic groups has happened between very very similar groups that are different enough to create that sense of otherness.
On the far other side, humans are decent-ish when it comes to things that are different. Hard from perfect, but with animals and objects we can connect to them on a different level. In fact, we have a harder time not putting human attributes to objects. How many people name their car? Or know what their pets are thinking? Or think that WALL-E was adorable?
It's a really fascinating subject, that sense of familiarity and otherness that runs right through humanity.
We rise from the ashes so that new legends can be born.
Re: Jab’s Builds! (Hyo! Krakoa! Living Laser! Yetrigar! The Nth Man!)
I have read the entire Nth Man series. I liked it, although given my taste in comics, that doesn't necessarily means that it's good. The best way to approach it is to remember that it wasn't meant to be taken entirely seriously. I did not know that it was supposed to be 25 issues, but now that you've mention it, the final issues did have a "wrap up the plots in a hurry" stink to them. The series was self contained; the cross-over in Excalibur is entirely skip-able. Finally, not mentioned in your build is John Doe's abilities to mesmerize with a glance and to make those around him that gravity had become inverted.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Hyo! Krakoa! Living Laser! Yetrigar! The Nth Man!)
His name is meant to be a pun on " the Alpha (Alfie) and the Omega (O'Meagan)", which is a term applied to God. Alfie is basically God if God was a loser addicted to pop culture, up to and including a point where Alfie made himself look like Galactus and turned his therapist into a version of the Silver Surfer.
Also, since "Alpha and Omega" literally means "the beginning and the end", it was meant to foreshadow the time-loop paradox of the series (Alfie and John living in a closed loop over and over) and how Alfie's powers both kickstart the story and wind up resolving it.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Hyo! Krakoa! Living Laser! Yetrigar! The Nth Man!)
I remember an old Avengers where they fought the Living Laser (human form). Captain America was using his shield to block the laser attacks but was worried because his shield was getting "blisteringly hot". Having been more familiar with present day Cap, it was my first awareness that sometimes items get power creep as well. Heck, even in the 80's, the shield was strong enough to protect Cap completely from the nova blast of the Human Torch even though that was hot enough to fry Ultron's joints.
Re: Jab’s Builds! (Hyo! Krakoa! Living Laser! Yetrigar! The Nth Man!)
Ahhh, Nth Man. Wow, that takes me back! I really loved that series and those characters.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Hyo! Krakoa! Living Laser! Yetrigar! The Nth Man!)
You said Nth Man, and I was expecting this guy, the Nth Man of Project Pegasus, also known as Blacksun, Operative X, Thomas Lightner, and apparently since then a whole bunch of other names.
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