People ask me how a Genocide Man would fight. Well, take a speedster — nothing crazy like the Flash, but let’s say Quicksilver over short range — and give him a gun that fires neurotoxin as fast as he can pull the trigger. Then give him 80 years of combat experience. That’s pretty much it.
Of course, someone who’s smart would watch and see what he’s capable of before jumping into the fight…
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Jacob: ...Now. Go!
Nice. But wasn’t there something mentoined about him having cynetic improvements?
Someone who was really smart might not jump into the fight at all.
Nice effect with the face shield, BTW.
“Nice. But wasn’t there something mentoined about him having cynetic improvements?”
Yes, that’s what gives him much of his speed and coordination.
Watcher is ominous. I just know this will end up with some sort of unexpected loss, like a named character’s death – the senator is likely, based on story dynamics. Also, the case.
No cybernetic improvements. Artificial glands replace his endocrine system and give him chemically-boosted speed. Just think of him as high on PCP, ATP, and Red Bull on command. 🙂
The three bonuses that Genocide Men get were explained back in chapter two. There might be a little something else that will be revealed next chapter…
“Someone who was really smart might not jump into the fight at all.”
Soooo…if the girl upstair is smart…or is she?
(She already had a previous lesson, didn’t she?)
It may be too late already, I’d bet she will be knocked out by the ripped off head the senator will toss at her…
Probably just knocked out so she can try harder later at getting killed…
Jacob’s moves reminds me of Deathstroke. He is fast and deadly and fights like a miser.
Jago: Find a copy of The Samurai Trilogy, with Toshiro Mfune as Miyamoto Mushashi. No wasted effort, no wasted motion, no energy expended surplus to needs.
The historical accuracy of these Samurai is at par with that of the Terminator…fevered imagination of the fans of the authors of Nanking’s niceties…entertaining, but purely imaginary.
Remus here is being scientifically correct.
In contrast, look up the historically proven prowesses of Hercules Cyrano, who defeated one hundred Spadassins, or professional swordsmen BY HIMSELF.
He was also on record as the first science fiction author and as far as you can be of Jean Rostand’s theatrical description…his nose was normal, Bourbonian maybe, but his wit was indeed formidable…(It’s what prompted that Duke to hire all these assassins).
Japanese weapons’ shape is by itself a giveaway. Plain bizarre and inefficient.China and Europe have a thousand time the war experience of the Japanese and none of their weapons evolved anywhere near these strange shapes.
A “Samurai” with a katana would have lasted half a second in front of Cyrano or any Musketeer.
To be honest, I’m not *trying* to be ‘scientifically correct’ in the fight scenes. I’m just trying to make them cool. 🙂
But I do know that many Japanese weapons evolved from farming tools, because peasants weren’t allowed to own real weapons. That’s why they look strange. History has a lot to say about what we are.
That’s why all of Europe’s Oligarchs piled on Niccolo Machiavelli, he had the blasphemous idea of advocating arming the populace, pointing out that free people, the Scots, the Swiss, the Dutch and the Italians farmers and little people where all armed to the teeth and where difficult to subdue unlike the English, the French and the Spaniards, all nations of unarmed slaves. Yet, a french farmer and his flail could break all the bones of a Landsknecht in a few seconds…
Still that Musashi whacking that monster Kojiro with an old rowboat paddle seem historically correct and sure rival Cyrano beating off his hundred killer spadassins! Both where expert in multiple fields.
Is Jacob using his pistol like a taser to take out the second man, or does it just look like that if he shoots someone point-blank?
The gun’s arc is enough of a jolt to have a taser effect at short range, but it’s the toxic dart that’s taking that man out.
My rule for drawing Jacob’s gun is to only draw two main bolts, unless it’s close to an object. Then it arcs and splits more. As we see here, if it’s jammed against someone’s nose it’s going to create a hell of a lightshow.
But don’t worry about any of that — if you’re asking whether the man is dead, the answer is yes.