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If so how are they avoiding mouseifcation? Who are they and why do they prefer out destruction of the supernatural rather than hsh method? How do they permanently kill fae entities and how would the hsh respond to a group of fairy killers they can't mouseify.
Alright, so inklings have the ability to seemingly shapeshift into a much more squid-like form. How would this work though? How would the atoms rearrange themselves like that? And more importantly, how does it allow them to sink into ink? The ink doesn't, like, extend into the ground, it's about as dense as water you accidentally spilled on the floor.
Constantly enhanced by NZT-48 he shouldn't have been able to forget such a crucial aspect of his scheme when he turned that loan into profits.
Basically the Title. Would Oogie be considered a Colonial Organism along the lines of a Man O’ War?
As we of course all know, in the Forgotten Realms when you die your soul is sent to whatever god you worshiped and the faithless are cast into the wall of the faithless. Deekin is not shown to be an atheist or truly godless, he simply never expresses any faith. He probably either had some god he worshiped, or possibly closely enough aligned with the ideals of a god that they claimed him anyway. Different sources on DnD are a little wishy-washy on if you can avoid being faithless by aligning to the ideals and values of a deity even if you don't active worship one, some DnD materials allow that. Either way, Deekin was talking to an angel, so he was not being judged as faithless.
So my question!
What god was trying to claim Deekin?
Deekin said angels and being a bard with VERY high lore ranks at this point he can probably tell the difference between angels and other kinds of planar beings. Angels are in Celestia, the Lawful Good afterlife and there are a limited number of deities there who might claim him. Who was claiming him?
Exactly what it says on the tin.
Like Native American mythical creatures battling with the fae?
I have been reading about Morte Mamme and her brother Leviathan from some of the Hellraiser comics, and it seems that they both have similar powers when it comes to getting into people's minds. Morte Mamme can even get into the minds of other non human animals. She can also create life. She bestows magical powers onto her harrowers. Their weapons are magically enchanted by Mamme, she gives them invisibility powers, ahe grants them the ability to shoot lightning and has the power of transmutation and she grants then the power to inhabit the bodies of other creatures. She created acid that can burn cenobites, she grants them regenerative powers. She can simply create things out of thin air, so there is at the very least, minor reality warping. She truly has the powers of a god. Aside from the mental manipulation, Leviathan does not seem to have comparable powers, so how was he abe to imprison a being as powerful as Morte Mamme? Does Leviathan have other powers I am not aware of? I would appreciate any information. Thank you for your time :)
If I remember correctly when Optimus first wakes up in the barn in Age of Extinction he's telling some unknown person to run before he starts threatening Cade and everybody else that he's going to kill them. The only problem is that we don't know who he's talking about.
Remember in the Incredibles movie when Superheroes were made illegal by the government and then banned permanently, never again able to perform hero work or stop crimes in the process?
I only have one question..........what the hell happened to all the supervillains? You'd think that once all supers were banned and forced to go into hiding, every supervillain would see this as the perfect opportunity to wreak havoc and destruction upon the public, right? I mean, the government got rid of their most valuable protectors, so normally, the supervillains would think, "Idiots," and determine that they'd be free to terrorize the public now that supers were gone.
So, what happened to any supervillains who were around at the time? How did the government handle them after they banned superheroes>
Evolved into something else? Went extinct? If so, why?
I don't mean heal like Wolverine but at least enough they could heal from their injuries within one day.
My father in law owns a jewelry store that my wife and I work at. The inheritance we’d get when he dies is insane but the man is in perfect health and in his early 60s. We don’t want to wait that long to get our money!
We successfully made it look like he was killed in an accidental fall at work. Covered all of our tracks too.
We’re not those idiot criminals you see on TV, we’ve been planning this for years. The police were just about ready to declare the case closed but all of a sudden this “psychic” and his friend show up and they’re thinking we might’ve done it.
I am scared shitless. I’ve seen him in the news, he’s cracked a lot of cases. My wife and I are so close to getting our hands on 5 million bucks. How do we beat this guy without straight up murdering him (it was stressful enough covering up one murder, I don’t think I want to push my luck and try to cover up another)?
Any way we can trick or discredit Shawn? Whoever helps me, you’ll be rewarded.
Edit: Grammar.
Let's say after the battle of Pelennor Fields and before the march on the Black Gate. Gandalf knows it's game over once Sauron has the ring. Does he just head back to Valinor?
Let's say that, during the war on Auraxis, a small Covenant fleet happens across the planet and finds a bunch of filthy humans fighting each other on it (ignore the timeline problems this creates). For the sake of the answer not being a flat no because the Planetside factions would get stomped by the UNSC in space let alone the covenant, let's say that Covenant aren't allowed to glass them from orbit. Maybe there's a large amount of forerunner artifacts on the planet or something. The three factions, recognizing the threat they're facing, form a temporary truce to fight back. How do they fare against the Covenant's technology and troops? Could they fight off the Covenant on the ground war?
First off, I realize that not all Gallifreyans were time lords. However these were people with the ability to time travel, were they exclusively traveling to the past or perhaps forbidden from time traveling to gallifrey outside of a set period? Was this just a set point in time that every time lord knew was coming?
I only saw the movie, but the entire point is that Tom Cruise keeps going through the same loop because the Omega mistakes him for an Alpha and resets the day each time he dies.
However, when our hero finally kills the Omega and his blood mixes with that of a killed Alpha, time resets again.
Does that imply that there is more than one Omega? And if so, why are the aliens losing anyway after that?
I’m terrified to leave my house because those aliens ("Typhons" the TV said) can mimic anything. I’m running out of food, but every noise outside makes me think something is waiting to kill me. Should I stay put or risk leaving for help, and how can I even defend myself?
Before you go "What? Yes, obviously, he is Lawful Evil!" Well, let me ask about that...
Asmodeus is a selfish prick who only cares about himself. That is pretty evil. And he loves using the Law to his own benefit and screwing others over with it. What I am asking is, does he ACTUALLY care about Law as a virtue, is it something he believes is a moral virtue, or is he just an asshole? Does he look at a lawful and orderly society and think "That is a virtuous society, except that it isn't evil?"
In circumstances where he could break Laws and act unlawfully AND there would be no downside for him, and it would be to his benefit, would he do so or would he refrain from doing so because it runs counter to his beliefs? Being the ruler of Hell he has a great deal of control over what Infernal law actually is, which greatly benefits him. But there is a difference between believing something is beneficial for him, clearly it is, and it being a virtue worthy respectfing for its own sake.
Also I know that the DnD and Pathfinder versions are different but they are fairly similar so I asked about both. In both versions he screws over Lawful Good angels and gods using Law and sticks to deal he made but I don't think that necessarily counts either for or against the idea he has principles, there would be consequences if he broke those deals, sometimes they were to his benefit and if nothing else it might hurt his reputation if word got around that he was full of shit so certainly he wouldn't do it with powerful beings in a position to spread the word.
So, given all of that, what do you think?
I mean hes married the richest women in the world, he cant be unknown right? Are they aware hes an alien prince? That he used to destroy civilisations?
I know the explanation is time traveling infected Sentry in self contained time loop, but is there more to it? Is there some cosmic entity that created the Gospel of Hunger to infect multiverse?
Basically, if enough Predators for chest-busted to form their own hive or "zombie clan."
I mean no matter how secure Unicron seems i truely doubt the Autobots and Decepticons are willing to have Robot Satan anywhere near both his old body of earth and Cybertron.
So where did they put him after all was said and done?