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[Stahlseele]

Squirrel Girl beat Galactus . .

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

Squirrel Girl beat Galactus . .

Squirrel Girl? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/eek.gif)

[Stahlseele]

Squirrel Girl . .
Oh, my bad, it wasn't galactus(yet) but she has beaten, as of yet:
Thus far, Squirrel Girl has beaten:
Doctor Doom[12]
Mandarin[5]
Giganto[5]
MODOK[5]
Thanos[5]
Terrax[5]
Bug-Eyed Voice[1]
Bi-Beast[6]
Deadpool[7]
Pluto[8]
Fin Fang Foom[9]
Baron Mordo[9]
Korvac[9]
Ego the Living Planet[9]

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

Squirrel Girl . .
Oh, my bad, it wasn't galactus(yet) but she has beaten, as of yet:
Thus far, Squirrel Girl has beaten:
Doctor Doom[12]
Mandarin[5]
Giganto[5]
MODOK[5]
Thanos[5]
Terrax[5]
Bug-Eyed Voice[1]
Bi-Beast[6]
Deadpool[7]
Pluto[8]
Fin Fang Foom[9]
Baron Mordo[9]
Korvac[9]
Ego the Living Planet[9]

Wow... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[LurkerOutThere]

Ooh, so he doesnt just beat up the bad guys, he eats them too? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif)

We'll see how it goes in play, but i'm expecting that will add to his fearsome reputation.

[Tyro]

Oh, gods....

Okay, not knowing who your instructor was, I can tell you that there are basically two camps of Bruce Lee descendants. There are the Classic bunch, who try and preserve as much of Bruce's original teachings as possible. And there's the Concepts camp, that basically throws all his techniques out the window and just teach principles of combat. Bruce himself only had a handful of students, many of who went on to teach their own stuff under the name of JKD, but really all this comes down to the only three certified instructors: Taky Kimura, James Lee, and Dan Inosanto.

There's many ongoing flamewars over which camp is better and holds more true to Bruce's ideals. I'm firmly in the Classics side, but that's beside the point. What matters is that Bruce Lee was the top martial artist of his time, bar none. He beat the crap out of Chuck Norris. He revolutionized the way martial arts is viewed and taught. He is the direct father of the modern MMA concept. He's responsible for the "toolbox" concept central to MMA and taught in just about every martial arts school in the US nowadays: The techniques you learn are your tools. Use the right one for the right situation, and try not to use the wrong one.

Not only was Bruce a big deal back then, his stuff is a big deal right now. Without him and Ed Parker, it's highly unlikely that martial arts would even be popular in the USA today. He was not only a top-notch fighter, he was pretty much the first person to publicly mix and match styles to get to what works. Sure, the Bruce of the 60's wouldn't have modern techniques on his side-- but if he were alive and fighting today, you better believe he would have adapted quickly. He really was-- and is-- that big of a deal. Given access to newer evolutions in techniques, Bruce in his prime would have eaten the Machado brothers for lunch.

How do I know all this? For starters, I know Taky and Andy Kimura personally-- I almost went to Andy's first wedding. I've trained with James DeMile and Patrick Strong, and had coffee with Jesse Glover. Bruce influenced a lot of things, and he was the real deal. No single person has contributed so much to martial arts in recent history. In short, he *is* that much.

My instructor was one of James DeMile's students. I left mostly because his teaching style and my learning style didn't mesh, and also because his focus was too far into sport for my liking.

[CanRay]

Squirrel Girl? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/eek.gif)

In her most recent issues where she meets Doctor Doom, he doesn't even fight her. He just sighs and does whatever she demands. Otherwise her defeats of him would be much, much higher.

Yes, she's that bad ass.

And the Fantastic Four still don't want her on the team. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Stahlseele]

In her most recent issues where she meets Doctor Doom, he doesn't even fight her. He just sighs and does whatever she demands. Otherwise her defeats of him would be much, much higher.

Yes, she's that bad ass.

And the Fantastic Four still don't want her on the team. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

do you blame them? <.<

[CanRay]

do you blame them? <.<

Considering how often Doom tries to step up on them, yes. If they had her, he'd just show up, apologize for whatever his plan was, and give them a nice Latverian Gift Basket (Eighteen different types of sausage! And almost as many cheeses!).

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

Considering how often Doom tries to step up on them, yes. If they had her, he'd just show up, apologize for whatever his plan was, and give them a nice Latverian Gift Basket (Eighteen different types of sausage! And almost as many cheeses!).

Heh... Interesting... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Rubic]

Squirrel Girl could NOT be effectively made in Shadowrun. Her speculated power is that her chances of success in any endeavor are inversely proportional to how overpowering her opposition is, and only when fought off camera. Thus, her chances of defeating Galactus/Horrors from Beyond are a virtual certainty while a common street ganger would probably gack her without wasting a single shot. Last I checked, she's become a nanny for a hero group.

[Cain]

My instructor was one of James DeMile's students. I left mostly because his teaching style and my learning style didn't mesh, and also because his focus was too far into sport for my liking.

As much as I love James DeMile's stuff, he is definitely not involved in the JKD aspects of the Bruce Lee legacy. He teaches his own thing, and does not pretend that it's Jeet Kune Do in any way. The same's true for Jesse Glover. Taky and Andy have the right to call their stuff JKD, but prefer to use the original name, Jun Fan. If you were studying with one of James DeMile's students, unless he had another instructor, you were not being taught Jeet Kune Do from any of the acknowledged lineages. You'd still be learning Bruce Lee techniques and philosophy, but DeMile has publicly separated himself from the JKD brand name.

I'm sorry you and your instructor didn't mesh. That can sour anyone on any art. Still, that doesn't mean that Bruce's original concepts and techniques don't work, or that if Bruce were alive today and in his fighting prime, he could eat just about everyone else alive.

[Nerdynick]

Okay so I'm starting to lay out the framework for this campaign and I'm wondering, were it your campaign, would you have a "supervillian" antagonist, or would you keep it realistic and have the party going up against elite troops of high-level organizations? In other words, is the boss fight against a guy in a cape or Red Samurai/cyberzombies/Tir Ghosts/whatever?

[CanRay]

Elijah Price: "Now that we know who you are... I know who I am. I'm not a mistake! It all makes sense. In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain's going to be? He's the exact opposite of the hero, and most time's they're friends, like you and me. I should've known way back when. You know why, David? Because of the kids. They called me Mr. Glass." - Unbreakable

Only Samuel L. Jackson can take a brittle and easily broken man with a cane/in a wheelchair and turn him into badass of the month!

The most likely "Supervillian" antagonist for Shadowrun would be "The Man" or "Whitey" (I guess that would be "Humey" in Shadowrun.). Considering the genre, and the way storylines are set up in Cyberpunk and Shadowrun, it's likely a Mr. Johnson that's been genetically and surgically altered for superior intelligence (In(meta)human Intuition and Logic!) that went horribly wrong and also released all the evil's that dwell within all men's souls. Greed, ambition, lust, the traditional reasons for being what is socially seen as a "Villain". Or a politician. But I repeat myself. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) Or, more likely, the person behind Mr. Johnson who pulls the strings of the puppetmaster himself.

The way I'd set it up (If I were writing/running this) is that the protagonist "Superhero" would end up having to face all of his enemies and allies (Contacts) at the same time as opponents, and be unable to hold back while still being able to live. All the while, the smug bastard sits far away, completely safe, with an iron-clad alibi.

"Another glass of wine, Mr. Governor? Mayors? Admiral?"