I was reading Bill Heineman's 'Tunnel Vision', a possible part of the the Sailor Ranko series started by Fire... and became annoyed by his nerfing for lethal drama habit.
In this he makes a Terminator T-800 kill off Shampoo After getting blown in half by an exploding motorcycle it was riding. I mean it has to go 120 km/h on a motorcycle to keep up with Shampoo (who is on foot)... and then it beats her by speed H2H. Err... what?
Its blown in half and this fails to effect a panicky (or something) Shampoo, she throws a mace at it and its flesh breaks off. Shampoo screams and it then wearing a new terminator shaped necklace.
It was bad enough that it offs her, because she is insanely fast, but not strong enough to break a T-800's grip (apparently being locked in a strangely not molten basement, gives you lots of time to speed train). Worse the things pulls this off while its electronic brain is scrambled by Nerimian residents. Not to mention blown in half... which apparently gets is a massive speed boost. The whole scene is wonky (did I mention the T-800 ignores non magical blows, yet is easily disarmed by Mousse when ever it pulls a weapon).
I'm still not sure how the Amazons managed to survive a nuke not on fire or why the koi pond didn't evaporate like parts of the dojo/house did... or ARG.
Complaint: Horribly inconsistent damage taken by things in the same area. And keeping charicters miraculously alive just to kill them to add angst.
In this he makes a Terminator T-800 kill off Shampoo After getting blown in half by an exploding motorcycle it was riding. I mean it has to go 120 km/h on a motorcycle to keep up with Shampoo (who is on foot)... and then it beats her by speed H2H. Err... what?
Its blown in half and this fails to effect a panicky (or something) Shampoo, she throws a mace at it and its flesh breaks off. Shampoo screams and it then wearing a new terminator shaped necklace.
It was bad enough that it offs her, because she is insanely fast, but not strong enough to break a T-800's grip (apparently being locked in a strangely not molten basement, gives you lots of time to speed train). Worse the things pulls this off while its electronic brain is scrambled by Nerimian residents. Not to mention blown in half... which apparently gets is a massive speed boost. The whole scene is wonky (did I mention the T-800 ignores non magical blows, yet is easily disarmed by Mousse when ever it pulls a weapon).
I'm still not sure how the Amazons managed to survive a nuke not on fire or why the koi pond didn't evaporate like parts of the dojo/house did... or ARG.
Complaint: Horribly inconsistent damage taken by things in the same area. And keeping charicters miraculously alive just to kill them to add angst.