Which worm was best worm?

Which worm was best worm?

I always thought this version of Sundancer's costume was awesome.

Not to mention Sundancer's power. You have to respect a parahuman that even the Endbringer's steer clear of.

Love these two as well. Totally expected them to be throwaways, but nope!

I found it amazing how they went from this....

R.I.P.

...to this.

Given their powers, it's easy to see how they got their horrifying rep.

Not to mention, they had Skitter.

Girl had a thing for eyes.

(shudder)

>that low-key kink relationship

How it all began....

Oh, Jeeze, I loved how she just sort of...appeared in the story, and then kept popping up and then disappearing.

SO well done, even if it was confusing as fuck the first time you read it.

I wish more superhero stories were as creative with their main character s powers as this was with tertiary characters. Aegis always stuck out to me as really cool.

>Aegis always stuck out to me as really cool.

Oh, yeah, after he got wrecked hard by Bitch, him walking around all mangled until Piggot made him go "clean himself up."

Blegh.

>Favorite quote about Rachel:

"I’d discovered facing down more than a dozen gunmen, thirty or so people with improvised weapons and a mad scientist with a fetish for bombs made me really, really appreciate what Bitch brought to the team."

:D Love Rachel! Hated her so hard in the beginning, but love her to death!

Nature's way.

She was pretty clearly set up to be humanized, so I knew that was coming.

A dead one.

Dragon.

>You have to respect a parahuman that even the Endbringer's steer clear of.
They're not doing that for their benefit, they have sandbagging to do and it wouldn't be good for their schedule if they had to reveal they could take a miniature sun to the face and still go on to kill a city while being nothing more than a skeleton thin covering over their core.

I always did like her. :)

And even better, she was interesting without being...so horrible. Her struggle was very consuming.

Defiant? Never liked that asshole.

This motherfucker was smooth as hell. I'm honestly disappointed he was the type to drug a child to keep her powers at his command. Not to mention how irritating "muh Dinah" made Taylor at times. But that really was going too far, in my opinion. He really was the coolest outside of that, and I had wanted him to succeed.

Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet from Lost) is my idea of an older Tattletale. That smirk sells it.

>Not a cartoon
>Not a comic
what the fuck is wrong with you faggots?

Tell that to the endless threads about movies like Suicide Squad and Avengers.

It's Sup Forums in spirit, hombre.

And he would have if it wasn't for Taylors' protagonist plot armour. A lot of people absolutely hate him for some reason, but he had the villain game down no doubt.

Reminder that Taylor is canonically ugly, even Grue says she's not attractive when they start dating

This is really Capes and Western Animation.

He's not widely appreciated? I'm new to Worm and unfamiliar with any centralized fandom hangouts, so this is both news and a little disappointing. I'd wager it's probably because of the child drugging thing again. In a sick sort of way, it did help Dinah cope with the strain of her ability like he promised he'd do, but...man.

His revealing himself to the Undersiders and the subsequent ride in the armored limo remain among my favorite scenes in the series.

Most of the description of her is by herself a depressed teenager that was bullied for ages. And Grue didn't outright call her ugly. More just not his type (until he got PTSD)

Bitch is "ugly." Taylor's just completely unremarkable.

It's all subjective, anyway.

Spacebattles hates him a lot. Sufficent Velocity is just a clone of SB. Fanfiction.net is shit and I avoid it. QQ is a porn copy of SB.

Except no one besides her bullies or herself ever described her as ugly, she was meant to be the most 5/10 you could find.

>Worm fan art

Please tell me where to find more of this.

Yeah, SB really fucking despises him. The moment he shows up in one of their stories all the autists come out to virtue signal about how much they hate him for being a twisted pedo fuck.

Even after the PTSD he says I wouldn't call her attractive

>She wasn’t conventionally attractive, he had to admit. Her mouth was wide for her face, her ears large enough that they stuck out of the mess of black curls that draped over her shoulders. And her shoulders: narrow, bony, deceptively delicate in appearance. She somehow managed to be self-conscious and yet unaware of the way she held herself. The seeming fragility of her body was accented by the angles she seemed to settle into when she rested: her wrist bent at a right angle as she picked at one of her cuticles with her thumbnail, her leg raised so her right foot could rest flat against the cabinet, her shoulders tilted forward a fraction. It was as if her skin didn’t fit and she couldn’t stretch both arms or both legs out to their full lengths at the same time.

Deviant Art

It's easy to read too much into his possessiveness over his "pet," but I never detected any kind of sexuality from the man at any point. He's completely cold.

I do think one of his employees mentioned in his interlude was probably that awful, though, and Coil was compliant in his vague, unstated urges being gratified, which would be unconscionable if this interpretation is accurate.

Otherwise, I do admire the fuck out of his brilliance. It's funny, his biggest mistake ended up being overreliance on mercenaries, and I've always personally vowed to never use hired help in any supervillain fantasy scenario precisely because an enemy could pay them to turn against me.

Why did he even feel the need to be there at the time? He didn't even bother creating a second timeline before he was going to take on the team that literally never failed a mission?

I think it's mostly the appropriate hate of a disgusting person, not his contribution to the story. I don't remember ever seeing people complain about him showing up in fanfic, unlike practically every time the S9 do.

I was wondering about that and ended up assuming I'd missed something. Wildbow wouldn't leave a plot hole that apparent, would he?

>He didn't even bother creating a second timeline before he was going to take on the team that literally never failed a mission?
He was the reason they never failed.

The Slaughterhouse Nine honestly do strike me as a little too "DeviantART OC" for Worm. I do think Mannequin and Crawler were pretty cool, though.

Well wait that was dumb of me to say they never failed, they never failed because of Coil

It wasn't until they turned up the second time they started getting like that, and then Jack turned out to have OP levels of plot armour and thinker powers.

It's still odd that he didn't use his power to make sure he'd come out on top against a traitor.

Johnny Depp convincing Jesus to become a mass murderer still gives me chills.

Maybe he felt he had it in the bag? Or what would he really have changed to come out on top there.
So why did Contessa's plan not include "kill Jack" or was it just impossible with the broken team mates he had

>Johnny Depp convincing Jesus to become a mass murderer still gives me chills.
Jesus was going to do that eventually anyway, Jack just told him to take it slow instead of blowing everything up on the first day.

Because their intentionally traumatizing methodology creates more new triggers than it does dead capes?

Coil was the best parahuman antagonist in the story and the void after his death is noticeable. Accord was pretty cool, though.

I pictured John Boyega as Grue the entire time.

>I'm honestly disappointed he was the type to drug a child to keep her powers at his command. Not to mention how irritating "muh Dinah" made Taylor at times. But that really was going too far, in my opinion. He really was the coolest outside of that, and I had wanted him to succeed.

Dude....

He was a complete and total murderous sociopath.

He regularly murdered people, for fun, and then collapsed those universes so he'd never be caught.

Drugging an eleven year old and torturing her with her power is among the LEAST terrible things he did.

How could you possibly like this dirtbag?

because he's an interesting antagonist.

So he didn't ACTUALLY kill them, and ultimately his plan might have actually helped but then he died, like sure he's a sick fuck but Dinah's power is insane and no one else took advantage of that.

The lower tiers of the PRT contracted her. The highest tier already had Path to Plot. Skitter was obviously not rational regarding Dinah and and yet did practically sacrifice her life to her prophecy.

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>It's still odd that he didn't use his power to make sure he'd come out on top against a traitor.

He DID use his power against Skitter, when he had her in his ambush house.

It's just that Skitter has armor like a flippin' tank, and managed to slog her way uot of the kill zone, DESPITE him using his power over and over again.

Coil's power doesn't let him know to bring BIGGER GUNS. He tried to kill her with everything he had, and she just tanked it all and kept coming.

In the final confrontation, Tattletale is the one who mouse-trapped him. Her Thinker power doesn't seem strong, but it really, really is when she can set things up.

Wildbow stated that Coil's powers are entirely precognitive. He doesn't actually kill or torture anyone when he's blowing off steam; it's no different from going apeshit in a GTA game to relieve stress.

He was intelligent, careful, cunning, respectful, resourceful, rational, ambitious, and he got things done. He reminds me of Mr. House from New Vegas, but admittedly slimier.

>He DID use his power against Skitter, when he had her in his ambush house.
This scene was stupid. Her armour wasn't that good, he shot her once in the thickest part with a handgun and she was gasping like a fish. Yet somehow, somehow, she bungles up him and his assault rifle henchies shooting her again in a dozen different timelines despite us being in her first person perspective knowing she absolutely had no way of doing that in the amount of pain she was in.

That whole thing was just plot armour like a tank, not actual armour.

The key to invulnerability is clearly to keep chanting "muh Dinah," "muh territory," "muh people," muh moral fiber" like a survival mantra.

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>And he would have if it wasn't for Taylors' protagonist plot armour.

"protagonist plot armor"

Whaaaaat?!

Okay, sure, her power seems like utter shit. The girl who controls bugs, whoop-de-do.

But look at the actual details of that power.

She can exactly control every precise action of TRILLIONS of bugs, simultaneously. She never once ran into an upper limit to how many insects she could command, all simultaneously, all perfectly.

Her range was HUGE. She reached out a thousand feet!

Despite this, she felt her power was bad, (bugs, yuck) so she WORKED at it. She had the spidersilk armor, she had the chitin armor, she layered on layers and layers of that shit, she carried weapons, she had the utility pack, she carried miles of pre-spun spidersilk cables, she had the flight pack, the list goes on.

She could form swarms into body clones, she could hide herself in clouds of bugs, she could tie you up from a thousand feet away.

She had the swarm sense, so she could see, hear, taste, and feel you through walls from a thousand feet away.

There was no plot armor there, dude, Skitter was a MONSTER. She routinely tackled whole teams by herself, and it was never even in doubt she was gonna win.

But she still felt weak. So insecure....

>She could form swarms into body clones, she could hide herself in clouds of bugs, she could tie you up from a thousand feet away.
>She had the swarm sense, so she could see, hear, taste, and feel you through walls from a thousand feet away.
All I'm getting out of this is that she would be a fantastic and profoundly unique lay.

Yes, plot armour. Her power was good, but it was her status as MC that saved her from Coil.

>All I'm getting out of this is that she would be a fantastic and profoundly unique lay.

Heh. Well, she's in the market....

Dude I like her as a character , but she had plot armor.

Too soon, man.
>being tangled in those gangly limbs in an intimate full-body hug
>those toned runner's legs
>thousands of little kisses from thousands of bugs all over your naked body
>having her snake a millipede around your erection and get you off with its vibrating legs
I'm honestly 100% here for this, though.

>she had plot armor.

No, user, she totally didn't.

If there is any accusation you could level, it was that she was OP. I can't think of any fights except against the Slaughterhouse Nine where she didn't hold back. Even against Coil's mercenaries who were trying to kill her.

And no, they didn't kit her except the one time (and maybe a graze, I haven't read it in a while,) because she was using her many, many defensive powers to keep herself safe. The massive levels of body armor are just the last line of defense, not the first.

She was blinding the mercs, making body doubles, hiding, and attacking, all of them, all at once.

OP? I could see that accusation, even though she's written in such a way that she feels weak. Very contradictory. :)

Can someone draw Coil wearing a Make Brockton Bay Great Again hat

You're a fanboy who runs off of headcannon, we get it, but if you go back and re-read the part where Coil tried to kill her you'll see it was plot armour.

I think Parian might have the strongest physical attack powers in the entire series, and yet she's such a gentle soul she never really uses them.

I mean, she has TK that only affects cloth and thread and needles. Seems crap, but she has a range of like thirty feet.

Imagine she shot a needle into both your eyes from thirty feet away, or hell, just into your arms while you're trying to fight her.

Heck, she could sew your arms to your chest, using the thread of your own clothes!

The massive doll-golems she animated are just gravy, but they were all she ever really used.

She was in a wooden shack (aka not bullet proof) surrounded by dozens of professionals just blanketing the house in machine gun fire.

Also she gets saved at the last minute against Leviathen. Mannequinn almost kills her then fucks off because of one scratch. The fucking S9000 arc. Etc

Also spider silk wouldn't actual protect from bullets. It is too elastic so you would get internal hemmorging. The Mongols used silk underarm or not as protection, but just to pull out arrows cleanly from the wound.

Foil has the strongest attack. Her power is literally unstoppable and perfectly timed. Plus she could use it to make herself frictionless. Give her something better then a crossbow and she would fuck everything.

I always liked the concept of her character and the things she does with her powers.

What's your favorite superpower in the serial, thread?

Didn't Shatterbird have control over all silicon based materials within nearly the range of the whole city?

Is there smut of Shatterbird? She's my type

Her actual range is shorter, she just sets up a resonant cascade to extend her initial attack.

I liked the concept of Velocity. It made a speedster who wasn't a overpowered bastard and fit do well with the power fucking people over.

I also like Victor the Nazi skill vampire. He sounded like a really cool power set. Him, Uber or Grue could make a great powered Batman.

Coil was great as well.

Wildbow said she could have held off an Endbringer if she used her power right but she can't

Taylor is a blatant sue, and the writer seems to have issues which resulted in the portrayal of proper superheroes as bullying superpowered jocks that basically lose all the time.

On the subject of Endbringers, I still kind of hate the fact that there was a fourth one that broke the Abrahamic monster trio theme.

>Didn't Shatterbird have control over all silicon based materials within nearly the range of the whole city?

Correct!

But, I'm pretty sure Parian could take her, if Sabah was a fighter rather than an artist.

Remember, we know for a fact that she can put herself INSIDE her doll golems, and those things were tough enough that they could stand up to multiple hits from an Endbringer.

I don't think Shatterbird could hurt Parian, but I don't think Parian could catch Shatterbird.

Stalemate. Unless Parian can figure out a way to make a flying bird golem....hmmmm.

But if Shatterbird ever got in range of a warrior Sabah? I'd give it to the little brown cutie.

To be fair, that's what most cops are like, and a cape is just a cop jacked up to 11.

>4th
Did you miss 5 and 6? There's supposed to be like 20.

>To be fair, that's what most cops are like, and a cape is just a cop jacked up to 11.
Just because daddy hit you doesn't mean authority figures are bad.

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>On the subject of Endbringers, I still kind of hate the fact that there was a fourth one that broke the Abrahamic monster trio theme.

Technically, there were six.

And, in the 'alternate future' vision, there were over twenty of them. (Holy Shit!)

Obviously, they were some sort of a stress-tester for the powers. Horrifying and utterly monstrous, but logical.

Don't be a dick, you've seen the shit going on in th world now, a large percentage of authority figures are abusing their power. Not all of them, no.

>Obviously, they were some sort of a stress-tester for the powers.
Well, they were specifically for Eidolon to fight. So if he and the cape community kept beating them, more and more would spawn.

What? I thought they were literally just Eidolon trying to create something that wouldn't be pathetically easy for him, and even then he failed because Eidolon is fucking insanely overpowered, and had to just force himself to hold back more and more.

>What's your favorite superpower in the serial, thread?

I kind of liked Hoyden. I just love the fact that her offensive power was to explode when she hit things, and her defensive power was was to explode when things hit her. :)

That shit is just awesome and hilarious all at once. :)

In Eden's interlude you can see that they are tools she sets up to stir shit among the parahumans and keep that delicious conflict brewing. Eidolon just sent them a new command.

I've been losing so much sleep reading this shit. I'm addicted. I always get addicted to stories.

Is this why Scion looked at Eidolon with what Taylor believed to be disgust when he was fighting Leviathan?

But after even after Eden was dead there was still new Endbringers, and it wasn't Scion that made them, I think creating them might just be some shard that Eidolon and Eden would both have had access to, and Eden would have used them to stir shit up to give shards experience, while Eidolon making them was just for him to test his limits.

Nah, Eden made 20 superweapons that were supposed to keep tensions high. Since she was out of the picture, Eidolon got a hold of the power needed to activate them. They're so much stronger than they ever let on, if Leviathan wanted he would have killed everyone present at that Endbringer fight with ease.

Most cops aren't bullying thugs dude, don't buy into media spin.

>What? I thought they were literally just Eidolon trying to create something that wouldn't be pathetically easy for him, and even then he failed because Eidolon is fucking insanely overpowered, and had to just force himself to hold back more and more.

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Oh, no, he was totally a part of the Big Bad's 'growth' plan. The Faerie Queen explained it all.

He was the High Priest, IE, he had dominion over EVERY power that wasn't already used by a parahuman somewhere in the world. His power let him pick any three of them for himself, and, subconsciously, made opponents for him to fight.

This also stress-tested all the OTHER powers, every few weeks, causing more triggers and weeding out weak powers, forcing people to use their powers in new ways, stopping internecine warfare, etc.

All part of the Big Bad's plan.

The Faerie Queen was a storage mechanism, who collected up all the powers after they'd developed fully and their hosts killed.

And Skitter was the third. The Queen Administrator. She had dominion over all the powers that were actually attached to hosts.

They weren't necessarily new, I think Eidolon just triggered the ones Eden would have used to appear from dormancy in storage dimensions.

What a rat bastard.

Good picture, though.

Yeah but it wasn't Eden's plan to die, I doubt she had much dominion over what they were doing beyond that, Eidolon just got bored or unsatisfied with being perfect and made the Endbringers show up to fight him, hence "You needed worthy opponents" if he didn't directly influence if not just straight up create the Endbringers this wouldn't have effected him.

>Is this why Scion looked at Eidolon with what Taylor believed to be disgust when he was fighting Leviathan?
I believe that's because his shard came from Eden and was therefore a "dead" shard looted from the corpse of his partner.

>tfw superheroes are just zygotes in an alien reproduction cycle

>I believe that's because his shard came from Eden and was therefore a "dead" shard looted from the corpse of his partner.

Correct.

All the Cauldron capes were disgusting and broken to the Golden Idiot. Eidolon got one of Eden's REAL powers, whereas Taylor fot one of Scion's REALLY STRONG powers and he crippled it super bad.

Taylor was basically the router and control system for Scion's gigantic space mega-body. It's why she was able to assemble every cape she could catch into a 'pseudo Worm' and, you know, save...everything.

When Scion talked about how Taylor's shard was cracked and nothing was being transmitted between the broken parts is that what Paramecia fixed?