Invincible (Animated Series) vs Baran (Dai no Daibouken)

[Nik Hasta]

I'll be upfront on this, I have been fighting the urge to make a battle of the bad dads with killer moustaches but, even if I use the comparatively weaker animated version of Omniman, Baran is not really in his weight class in a reasonable capacity.

But his son however? He's a much better challenge for the Dragon Knight.

Location: A deserted version of Night City from the Cyberpunk tabletop setting.

Scenario 1: Baran starts in his human form.

Scenario 2: Baran starts in his Ryuumajin form.

In both instances he has the Demon Dragon Blade in prime condition.

Mark gets access to all his feats from the first series of the Invincible animated series.

Who wins? Good son or bad dad?

[Nik Hasta]

I appreciate Baran is a bit niche so I'll post some feats:

Ryuumajin Baran vs Dai Part 1

Ryuumajin Baran vs Dai Part 2

Annoyingly the cut between these two parts omits a section wherein Baran blasts a hole in a mountain with his crest beam from his forehead.

Human Baran nukes a kingdom

Beats the heck out of Hyper Demon Hadler

Hadler himself is strong enough to put Dai through several rock spikes the size of small buildings

Effortlessly flattens Crocodine and Hyunkel in a few hits, demonstrating blink movement. Both Crocodine and Hyunkel being firmly superhuman.

Beats the piss out of Crocodine in human form, demonstrating superspeed movement and combat.

Will post more later on.

[hareluyafan1]

Based on the names I honestly thought "Dai no Daibouken" was a Sentai series.

I don't watch either series but I'll say Invincible wins.

[Nik Hasta]

While this didn't get many responses, I figured I'd give my take because it's a good match and I was thinking about it again today.

So, this is a bit of a fun one. Baran has speed, skill, range game and experience to his credit. Mark has strength and durability to his. There's a bit of a question if a legendary weapon like the Demon Dragon Blade coated with Draconic could cut a Viltrumite's skin.

Dai showed the peak of a Dragon Knight cutting ability when he cut Kigan-jou (giant walking stone castle/mecha) in half and, if anything, Baran was more powerful than Dai was at this point.

Putting aside the blade stuff. Baran can toss out energy beams that can blow chunks out of small mountains with little apparent effort and, if he gets space to charge it, his strongest move Doruora can obliterate an entire island. Animated Mark is very tough but he can't ignore these hits.

On the flipside, if Mark tags Baran, my view is that he's strong enough to breach Baran's Draconic Aura and hurt him directly, even in Ryuumajin form, which would be bad for the Dragon Knight. Baran wants to play keepaway and use his superior range but the issue is that he can't just throw spells forever. Dai no Daibouken is actually pretty good about keeping track of stamina and the like and even Baran, with his overwhelming strength, has limits.

I suppose, if something like Gigabreak can cut Mark, then Baran can win it like 7/10. If it doesn't, then he's going to have to rely on beams, spells and his lesser strength. It's going to be a long one but I'd... tentatively back Mark like 6/10.

Ah, found a short compilation containing the moment with the forehead beam that damages a small mountain. It's worth noting that Dai smacked it away so Baran should be capable of the same as they are broadly in the same league.

But yeah, that's my take. Let this thread go to the depths now.

[Sharpandpointies]

I still don't know anything about the characters, but figured I'd comment on this.

Location: A deserted version of Night City from the Cyberpunk tabletop setting.

*thumbs up* ^_^ Surprising!

[Nik Hasta]

I still don't know anything about the characters, but figured I'd comment on this.



*thumbs up* ^_^ Surprising!

Genuinely was struggling for a location that had tall places that wasn't my usual go-tos of Tokyo or Manhattan but also wasn't real life.

[Sharpandpointies]

Genuinely was struggling for a location that had tall places that wasn't my usual go-tos of Tokyo or Manhattan but also wasn't real life.

It's just funny you went with CP TTRPG (rather than the video game). I didn't even know you knew that existed.

What edition? CP 2013? CP 2020? Or CP RED? ^_^

[Nik Hasta]

It's just funny you went with CP TTRPG (rather than the video game). I didn't even know you knew that existed.

What edition? CP 2013? CP 2020? Or CP RED? ^_^

I only know of it, never plated it myself. -__-

[Muadib]

If i may interject, Night City had some great supplements detailing the city, and the DataFortress fan site created several more supplements.

The map of Night City itself is based on San Francisco. Great setting, ran a cyberpunk cops game set in the city years ago.