"The Imperium of Man comes to Gensokyo" Discussion thread.

Remember when Kaldor Draigo came along and general consensus was "because GW wouldn't let Ward resurrect Guilliman"? Turns out they needn't have bothered in the first place.

Yup, Papa Smurf is awake and kicking ass. On the flipside, now the Eye of Terror has almost literally split the galaxy in two and the daemon primarchs are on the prowl.

And apparently the Emperor is (somehow) even more of a jackass than previously thought.

Here's a real high class bout!

Now GO!

Thor Ragnarok is awesome.

My knowledge of Marvel's take on Norse myth is limited to the disappointment that is Thor Vikings, but one point continues niggling at me: how the hell is Odin supposed to end up in Valhalla? Doesn't he run the place?

Well, considering that the Einherjar seem to be just normal Asgardian soldiers that Hela quickly slaughters to a man rather than human warriors elevated to the halls of Valhalla by the Valkyries who are all dead, with one exception, it seems they're playing fast and loose with the concept.

Those are the Einherjar? I thought that was the dead guys in the basement, and that she was only able to bring them back because Odin was gone.

edited 5th Nov '17 8:58:48 AM by Chabal2

No, the Einherjar are supposed to be the army briefly glimpsed in the last two movies and more prominently featured if you can call being slaughtered that, anyway in this one. The undead warriors that Hela raises are called "Berserkers", if the MCU wiki is to be believed.

Hey, at least they died in battle, meaning the Valkyries will take them to Odin's halls where they will fight and be reborn every day until the final... battle...

Oh.

Raises the question of what Rune Priests tell their Space Wolves what awaits them after death, if being a Space Wolf is already the afterlife to a Fenrisian.

Behold: Redundancy!

Also Justice League is far better than I feared (even if they still can't do foreshadowing right).

Yeah, it was definitely a step in the right direction. DC feels like they're starting to get their act together when it comes to these things. "Feels" being the operative word.

Also, the things Touhou fans will do.

EDIT: ^ I'm sorry, Japan, but unless you can top that storyline where the Joker cut his own face off and then stapled it back on like a hideous mask (and forced Damian Wayne to wear it, if I recall correctly), you can't make him more fucked up than he already is.

edited 2nd Dec '17 8:34:30 AM by SullenFrog

I think I read part of that one. And then, because I am a sane and well-adjusted member of society, I spent some time testing whether it's possible to audibly say "Batman" without using your lips. My conclusion is that the Joker can regenerate his nerve endings to communicate with his severed flesh.

edited 2nd Dec '17 8:51:30 AM by Chabal2

That's a good point, now that I think about it. He shouldn't be able to communicate anywhere near as coherently as he does with his face cut off.

Oh, lord.

Vicious little bastards, are mons.

True, but it was the specific combination of Pokemon and Doom that amused me.

"Now I'm a Fairy-type! That can't be good!"

edited 7th Dec '17 12:54:30 PM by SullenFrog

Oh goody, the French are getting into Touhou.

No really, they are: the other day I found a doujin game (Burst Battle) for sale, in French, with blessedly little narm or cringiness in the blurbs. And not even a geeky niche store, the kind where a highnerdarch in cosplay Klingon armor grills you on whether Han shot first or if Optimus Prime can beat Godzilla before you're deemed worthy of even looking at the shelves, a regular mall store.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Happy New Year!

Welp, time to use the Internet for its original purpose again: Star Wars.

I get that need-to-know is a thing, but literally all that's left of the Rebellion is headed to a single location. You couldn't tell everyone where they were going next in case they got split up? And for that matter, why couldn't she move the cruiser to block the shots when the shooting started?

So can Yoda pull off Force Lightning? I understood that was Sith-only.

Snoke in a bathrobe. Snoke in a bathrobe.

So Rose had her whole romance arc in, what, 24 hours? 48?

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Warpfire? Twist please, we got WITCHfire.

Well no Lord Inquisitor, I don't doubt the effects on enemy morale or the benefits in close combat, but for a night mission in the promethium refinery, it's...

The curse of the Wulfen is starting to spread to different environments.

At last, 40K is brought to the format it always yearned for: romcom manga.

My interpretation is that what Yoda did technically wasn't Force lightning. When Sith and Darksiders use Force lightning, they shoot it out of their hands. It comes from within. Yoda instead called it down from the sky like a druid invoking the elements, drawing on the power of nature rather than his own power.

Yes, Sith Lords and the like could call down lightning bolts and thunderstorms in the old canon. But this is the new canon, which is following its own set of rules.

Yeah, I thought something along those lines. Think the 4 Jedi ghosts will pull off something similar in 9? It's one thing for everyone to tell Darth Emo he's not his grandfather, having his grandfather say so himself should have considerable effects on Kylo's psyche.

Though their Librarians' prowess is unmatched, the Legio Tempestus suffers from poor aim (especially during boarding missions), in addition to their poor track record at preventing infiltration and resisting psychic interrogation.

edited 11th Jan '18 9:19:56 PM by Chabal2

Gotta love the Simpsons.

So it turns out Nurgle has been made redundant, since Gensokyo already has a goddess of pestilence.

And zog me if she isn't the flashiest 'umie ever seen outside a rogue trader convention.

In other news, the War of the Beast appears to be entirely awesome, featuring as it does ork diplomats, primarchs, and a warboss the size of a stompa.