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(Little Note to Add: I have been recently adding TV Tropes a lot as a slang on the posts. I have been rather seriously been thinking about pretty much saying that a good deal of Fictions consider it their personal bible. We Will Use Wiki Words In The Future-and some of them are Trope names).
No, you're right. These guys take luck, skill, trickery and overwhelming firepower to even have a chance of victory. They are a threat because there's a high chance one of them might get very Ax Crazy soon and 'graduate' from killing people in one-on-one curb-stomps and start bombing city blocks with Ki blasts.
I had another pair of ideas running around my head-one being that there's a 'good guy' variant of this faction (with at least one Alternate of the Ryonzampaku (sp?) Dojo among the group, as well as the Tendo Dojo and heaven knows what else)-on one side, they *are* 'good guys' and it will show. On the other hand, they are as much condescending Smug Supers as their dark counterparts, and follow the unwritten rules of the Martial Arts World to the letter-even if it might get *your* poor Muggle rear killed.
Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple - Television Tropes & Idioms
The second idea was a short story for the sake of flavor-dunno what to title it, probably something like 'To Make A Superman Bleed'. In it, for some damn reason that he keeps to himself, 'Invincible Superman' Hayato Furinji reprises (from his POV) an attack on the U.S. Army base on Okinawa.
The man is so out there that if someone went and said in the manga that he's a WH40K Primarch, it would sound plausible.
He's forced into retreating because the base, which had been slaughtered almost to a man during the 23 Hours by Chiropterans and has since rebuilt to handle attacks by them and worse things, counterattacks with everything they've got. Which includes (stolen) Macharius Vulcan Super-Heavy tanks. And worse.
Manga Fox: History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi Vol.41 Ch.382: To Okinawa Online Manga Scans
Just a crazy idea I wanted to toss in here.
[setting brainstorm] Kung Fu Transhumanism. - RPGnet Forums
Manga Fox: History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi Vol.28 Ch.249: "The Person I Made A Promise With" Online Manga Scans
Manga Fox: History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi Manga Series
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Essentially, reading those things I linked gave me an idea for a faction (or adaptating one): that would be YAMI, or 'One Shadow, Nine Fists'. The thing was (once upon a time) your generic 'evil martial artist who favors Darwinism through combat' faction. Now it has evolved into pretty much an evil martial artist faction that seeks 'human trascendence' through superhuman martial arts, transhumanism (and martial arts), and eliminating those who would endanger this ascension (through martial arts). They are also split about 'killing' vs. 'saving' techniques and mentality and 'bare handed' vs 'weapon-wielding' martial arts styles. And that they have accepted much more 'disciples' (including a bunch of Clanners (you know, 'Children of Kerensky')) doesn't helps ANY.
And of course, there's still other factions like Shadowloo and the like out there, who think of the same 'purity of combat' thing.
Hmmmrrrrrfffff.....you are right,y'know....in that unless you can (temporarilary,at least) suspend the higher brain functions or some similar skullcoja tech trick, they will win a fight....unless I missed some detail or other?
No, you're right. These guys take luck, skill, trickery and overwhelming firepower to even have a chance of victory. They are a threat because there's a high chance one of them might get very Ax Crazy soon and 'graduate' from killing people in one-on-one curb-stomps and start bombing city blocks with Ki blasts.
I had another pair of ideas running around my head-one being that there's a 'good guy' variant of this faction (with at least one Alternate of the Ryonzampaku (sp?) Dojo among the group, as well as the Tendo Dojo and heaven knows what else)-on one side, they *are* 'good guys' and it will show. On the other hand, they are as much condescending Smug Supers as their dark counterparts, and follow the unwritten rules of the Martial Arts World to the letter-even if it might get *your* poor Muggle rear killed.
Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple - Television Tropes & Idioms
The second idea was a short story for the sake of flavor-dunno what to title it, probably something like 'To Make A Superman Bleed'. In it, for some damn reason that he keeps to himself, 'Invincible Superman' Hayato Furinji reprises (from his POV) an attack on the U.S. Army base on Okinawa.
The man is so out there that if someone went and said in the manga that he's a WH40K Primarch, it would sound plausible.
He's forced into retreating because the base, which had been slaughtered almost to a man during the 23 Hours by Chiropterans and has since rebuilt to handle attacks by them and worse things, counterattacks with everything they've got. Which includes (stolen) Macharius Vulcan Super-Heavy tanks. And worse.
Manga Fox: History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi Vol.41 Ch.382: To Okinawa Online Manga Scans