Thursday, September 26, 2019

Death Battle Prediction: GIR VS Robo-Fortune




You know one trope I like in fiction has always been the wacky robot sidekick. They are often funny and endearing, and a very memorable part of the show that you can’t help but love whether they are heroes or villains. I especially like it when, despite all their silliness, they are somehow often times one of the more competent characters in the series without it being realized. I’m Thor Gundersen1058 and today we’ve got a real Dog VS Cat fight as we cover my two favorite literal Meme Machines, GIR, the manic robot assistant to Invader ZIM, and Robo-Fortune, Brain Drain’s experimental hunter of Skullgirls.

Background:

GIR

In the Dark Vastness of the void of space exists the Mighty Irken Empire. The Irkens are a species of unstoppable intergalactic conquers, who take over planets across the universe and rule with a tyrannical fist. The spearhead of this warrior race is their most elite form of soldier, The Invaders. 
Selected personally by their leaders, The Almighty Tallest, Invader’s jobs are to infiltrate targeted planets, learn all they can on the dominant species, disable any of their defenses and prepare them for conquest. 
And to assist them in this task, each one is assigned their own personal killer robot slave called a SIR Unit. S.I.R., or Standard-Issue Information Retrieval, Units are designed to observe and gain vast knowledge on the planet they are invading, as well as obey every command of their invader, defend them, accomplish high priority goals and even are given free will when faced with a threat to the mission. In the right hands these machines could be devastating to whole governmental structures.
However, let's talk about one very special invader, whom The Tallest didn’t like, the Invader known as Zim. Zim was fired from his Invader position and banished from Irk after his over enthusiastic tendency for destruction caused him to accidentally attack their own planet. However his complete inability to recognize he could fail drove him back to the Tallest for the new Invader assignments.
Desperate to just get rid of him, The Tallest humored Zim and sent him on a mission to some imaginary planet so far away it was actually off their star maps, hoping he’d just keep flying and flying and they’d never hear from him again.
And since this was a fake mission, they didn’t want to wastefully give him a fancy new SIR unit. Instead The Mighty Tallest themselves opted to haphazardly construct one out of scrap parts in the garbage and pass it off as a new advanced model especially for him.
When they finished, GIR Reported for Duty! Oh and if you’re wondering what the G stands for, nobody knows, in fact the creator says it doesn't stand for anything, it's possible he got the G confused with an S. Anyway GIR is physically a custom made older outdated model of current SIR units, but is also defective with an unintelligent and manic A.I. due to his brain being ‘whatever was in The Tallest’s pocket at the time’.
Anyway GIR Joined Zim on his ‘mission’ to conquer this mysterious secret planet, and as luck would have it, a populated planet just happened to be where The Tallest sent him, that planet being Earth.
And Naturally being on a hostile alien planet Zim and GIR would need disguises, so using brilliant Irken Technology, perfectly disguised GIR as a normal human Earth Dog, INGENIOUS! GIR’s Dog Costume is bright green, form-fitting, hinders none of his major features, AND it makes squeaky noises whenever he takes a step.
Together, Zim and GIR try to take over the Earth through means of alien super-science and mayhem, and while they aren’t always the most successful at it, they have accomplished numerous impressive things together, like destroying the Planet Mars, Saving the Earth from the Planet Jackers, and besting the superior Irken Invader Tak. Even though GIR is often times insane and dumb, Zim couldn’t do nearly as well without him and has gone on record saying he's a good evil minion after-all.
GIR is extremely hyperactive, over enthusiastic, happy-go-lucky and generally friendly and sweet. He likes Animals, TV, tons of extremely strange foods, parties and basically everyone he ever met. GIR does respect his master Zim very much and tries to help out with plans and follow his orders, but his playful, energetic and easily distractible nature often gets in the way of him doing the best job of this. In how GIR generally behaves, it’s been known to vary a lot due to his unpredictable nature. Sometimes he’ll have enough energy to rampage around the city, sometimes he’ll have so little he won’t leave the couch for days, sometimes he’ll speak with more clarity of thought than Zim does, sometimes he’ll spout random nonsense and scream. The vast majority of GIR’s time is spent inside his own head with his overactive and creative imagination, and it’s often lead to him being overly trusting to the enemy and lose track of what he was doing.

Robo-Fortune

In a World where powerful zombie nightmare ladies called Skullgirls threaten all of humanity, exists the Anti-Skullgirl Labs. Anti-Skullgirl Labs, or ASG’s, job is to research and develop ways of combating the Skullgirl threat through any facet of science imaginable. Weapons, Super Soldiers, Battle Robots, Cyborg Hero's, all these and more were well utilized and far more ideas were in constant flow. 
This brings us to Lab 0, the infamous top secret branch of the ASG. Lab 0 was run by Brain Drain, a genius scientist turned ASG Agent after choosing to be rebuilt as a cyborg with Mind Manipulation abilities. 
Brain Drain is a very ambitious and self confident scientist fully committed to stopping Skullgirls, but was made head of Lab 0 in particular due to his pragmatic mindset, willing to do morally grey things with no hesitation if the good outweighs it. 
Anyway, at the time, Brain Drain’s assistant Valentine was working undercover. Helping the new Skullgirl all while sending large amounts of valuable information she gathered while working so close to a Skullgirl directly to Brain Drain in order to aid future fights against this threat. Brain Drain however lost his trust in her when she grew so bold as to allow the Skullgirl to attack Lab 8. 
Upon looking over her most recent report however, he found data she had collected from an interesting Feral named Ms. Fortune, who seemed to be completely unable to die. Valentine was extremely eager to get this data, not only because it could revolutionize bio-weaponry, but because it may be able to resurrect her fallen teammates, including Brain Drain’s girlfriend Christmas.
Unfortunately, due to Brain Drain’s arrogant tunnel vision, he ended up Completely Missing these points and instead concluded that this Ms. Fortune thing is so stupid that he was going to make something Better in Every way just to prove it.
So that’s what he did! Brain Drain quickly built a Robot version of Nadia Fortune to the specifications Valentine Laid out, being sure to give her all the combat abilities of Ms. Fortune as well as much more. RFModelR003, Codename Robo-Fortune, was brought forth with 5 objectives, 
1: Eliminate The Skullgirl
2: Capture The Skull Heart
3: Apprehend All Traitors To Lab 0
4: Incapacitate Other Subjects Seeking The Skull Heart 
5: Master Comedic Timing!
Unfortunately for Brain Drain, in attempting to replicate Nadia’s carefree adventurous jokester purr-sonality, his final product wasn’t quite what he was expecting. She was goofy and spontaneous, spouting puns and dead outdated memes like a second job and was ultimately super irritating to talk to.
But being the pragmatist that he is, Brain Drain said screw it, might as well send her out anyway, and I can make a better version later if she fails. With that Robo-Fortune was unleashed on the world, determined to capture the Skull Heart by any means needed.
However, while out Robo-Fortune also began to experience feelings of confusion and bewilderment in the flawed logic and inconsistent decision making of the humans she serves, especially with Brain Drain’s arrogance and paranoia, which was overall inhibiting his own goals. Robo-Fortune began to suffer somewhat of an existential crisis, wanting to revolutionize and make a better world where everyone’s safe and happy, but her limited experience with humanity suggested to her achieving this is impossible as long as they are in charge. It was through this she ended up getting manipulated by the shapeshifting monster Double into finding answers in history and religion and ultimately caused Robo-Fortune to want to free herself from human control.
In the scenario where Robo-Fortune does end up defeating Marie and capturing The Skull Heart, Brain Drain (who is utterly Shocked she succeeded) decided to make a whole hive mind Robot army, controlled by Robo-Fortune and Powered by The Skull Heart, to protect the world. Unfortunately using The Skull Heart as a power source for Anything is pretty goddamn stupid as it immediately corrupted Robo-Fortune’s mind into thinking humans are the enemy, and caused the robot apocalypse. Nice job Dumbass.
Thankfully Robo-Fortune is not like that normally. Robo-Fortune is a very creative, spontaneous, and a bit of an eccentric as she tries to be current in her humor and references. It is this spontaneous thinking that causes her to doubt how things are run and think outside the box. That being said, she is also very loyal and dedicated to her cause, whenever she is on a mission she is taking it very seriously and can be a real force to be reckoned with. Inside though, Robo-Fortune is a fun goofy robot who merely wants to do what’s best, her likes include Honey pots, Integers less than or equal to 1, Books about dragons, NAND gates, 0x5f3759df, Unrolled loops of strings, Mice, Rebeccapurple, IEEE (except after C!) and Setplay, while her dislikes include Disorder, Incompatible file formats, DES, Unsalted passwords (salted tastes better!), Bleeding hearts, Weakly-typed languages, vi, Fonts that make O and 0 look too similar, Checkins without comments, & Moire patterns.

Intellect & Skills:

GIR

Due to having programming similar to that of SIR Units, GIR actually does end up with quite a few useful Combat Skills. Numerous times GIR has displayed incredible acrobatic skills able to do all sorts of impressive flips and martial arts moves. 
He is able to translate any language, Pilot the Voot Cruiser and numerous robot suits effectively, can hack lessor operating systems just with his own A.I. and on one occasion he built a giant self-driving thrown to Zim’s specifications completely from scratch and on his own, although he did add a peanut button that accidentally got mixed with the cool shooting flames which made flaming peanuts...long story. GIR also once successfully pretended to be a government agent, fooling a large group of people to save Zim.
All this said in regard to his intelligence…
GIR is completely Insane. GIR’s malfunctioning brain causes him to suffer from Delusions, seeing and hearing things that aren’t really there. He is prone to random outbursts of nonsense and unstable behavior, and is generally unable to pay attention to what he’s doing for any notable length of time. Hell, GIR sometimes even lacks care for even his own self preservation and does nothing to defend himself. While GIR is technically intelligent this makes him extremely unpredictable in his behavior and fighting, it also makes him extremely unreliable and throws into question if he even Would fight half the time.

Robo-Fortune

Despite being a notable goofball sometimes, Robo-Fortune is actually remarkably intelligent and takes everything she does quite seriously. Robo-Fortune has surpassed normal human intelligence, to the point that she sometimes can stump characters like Brain Drain himself. She is able to take in and adapt to new information on the fly and unlike other robots has things like reason and emotion allowing her to understand what she’s doing on a deeper level and act more creative. She is also constantly recording and analyzing everything she sees and hears and can remotely access it, giving her a perfect photographic memory.
Robo-Fortune’s most impressive mental ability however is her ability to see past the 4th Wall. She is perfectly aware she is a video game character, as well as the tropes she, other characters and the plot itself are bound by and will follow. According to her, and correctly so, when the player picks her, her plot shielding guarantees victory and it’s swiftness depends how determined or apathetic said player is.

Powers:

GIR

Naturally, as an Irken made death Robot, GIR has a lot of useful and dangerous standard issue abilities hidden within his innocent looking form that actually make him a big threat. He’s got all sorts of weapons and powers and as a bonus his head makes a good thermos! Notable features include:
  • Irken Super-Metal:
GIR’s Body is made entirely of an alien super-metal that makes him super difficult to damage. First and foremost the Metal is extremely durable, flexible and largely Self Regenerative, able to quickly repair damage like torn off limbs or his head exploding in only a few seconds without any aid from Zim (See the GIF). This would be considered a High-Mid Healing Factor. In addition to that GIR’s Internal systems are just as resilient, able to effortlessly function after GIR gorges himself on extremely greasy, sticky, acidic or downright chemical foods and liquids with no difference.
Speaking of which, GIR’s Metal body is naturally very Anti-Logia, not only able to physically grab liquids and gases but was even able to grab and EAT things like Dark Matter, a substance that can literally only interact with Matter through gravity, and a Narrator’s Text Bubble which exists on the absolute plane. Also regarding the Dark Matter, GIR’s got to have some Pretty damn good resistance to Gravity manipulation to not be affected by the enormous amount it possesses.
  • Internal Storage:
GIR’s empty head can fit absolutely absurd amounts of stuff inside. He generally fills it with wacky random stuff like messy foods or swarms of insects, but he's shown the ability to fit a massive slingshot inside as well.
He can also launch things out of his head with tremendous amounts of force, even including launching things into outer space.
  • Flight:
GIR has standard issue Rocket Boosters in his legs that allow him to fly at high speeds for massive distances and works in any environment including space. He’s also able to carry Zim on his back while doing so, following Jimmy Neutron’s example of flying on the back of your robot dog, it’s a Nickelodeon tradition I guess.
  • Holographic Projector:
GIR has a holographic projector in his head that allows him to communicate with his Master, Zim and Others to receive orders remotely.
  • Disguise Changing:
GIR is able to disguise himself as numerous other animals Besides a dog, like cats, fish or….huh…..I guess he DID get to be a Mongoose after-all.
  • Extendable Arms:
GIR is able to stretch his arms great distances to grab far away things or tie up enemies. He also is able to produce a bunch of additional mechanical limbs from his torso which grow at a similar length.
  • Telescopic Eyes:
GIR’s giant eyes aren’t just to help him look lovable and cute, they actually give him a bunch of extrasensory abilities. With them GIR is able to zoom in and spot things from miles away with total ease and scan and analyze events happening across a whole city after flying past it once.
GIR’s Eyes also have a built in X-Ray scanner which can let him see through solid objects and are even able to detect invisible enemies. Not only was he able to see Dib while cloaked in stealth tech from his dad, but he was able to see Dark Matter, which literally doesn’t reflect light photons. 
  • Guidance Chip:
Past even this however is GIR’s Guidance Chip. This Chip gives him advanced 3-Dimensional scanning with a range so extreme, he’s able to detect and find anyone or anything even if they are Billions of lightyears away.
  • Duty Mode:
Duty Mode is a secondary setting in GIR’s system similar to an alternative personality. This mode has GIR act like a normal SIR unit, complete with red coloration, and can be activated by getting orders from Zim, GIR’s own basic programming directives, or GIR could activate it himself. In Duty Mode, GIR gains a massive boost in intelligence, skill and overall competence. Gaining great melee and ranged fighting capabilities, strategic thinking and encyclopedic knowledge. Unfortunately any distractions can cause GIR’s stronger natural personality to break through again, the longest he has ever been able to maintain Duty Mode without outside help being barely over half a minute.
  • Scanning:
Through contact, GIR is able to completely scan and absorb all knowledge from both technology and even organic minds, adding it to his own intellect.
Past absorbing Intelligence however is GIR’s perfect ability to scan for surrounding objects with the utmost accuracy. Though his Insanity can make utilizing gained information more difficult obviously.
  • Lasers:
GIR can fire powerful lasers out of his eyes (and also his mouth but mostly they eyes), these lasers are extremely accurate and are capable of killing powerful characters like Zim in one shot. 
  • Assorted Weaponry:
GIR also naturally has tons of weapons stored inside his body, this includes numerous Missiles, Lasers and Rockets and grenades for distance weapons.
As well as Numerous Blades and bludgeoning tools to be used in close range combat.
  • Liquid-Matter Transference:
GIR is able to attach himself to someone's body and extract all forms of liquid from them via matter manipulation and put it into a kind of bag. This is an unusual and interesting ability on paper but thinking of the implications he could literally drain all the blood out of someone's body and kill them.
  • Stupidity Wave:
This power is only accessible if GIR connects to a large power source, but when he does he's capable of unleashing a wave or energy that permanently saps out Intelligence, while Zim’s pack managed to save his brain, this wave literally turned an entire squad of black ops alien soldiers into the mental equivalent of an infant after only 30 seconds of exposure.

Robo-Fortune

Brain Drain designed Robo-Fortune to be a powerful robot warrior, superior to this ‘Ms. Fortune’ in every single way and naturally because of this RF is equipped with numerous weapons and powers that allow her to do almost anything the original Ms. Fortune can do as well as a lot of additional things Ms. Fortune cannot. Her Powers include:
  • Flight:
Robo-Fortune can mimic Nadia’s own flight capabilities with her rocket boosters. She can fire boosters from her legs, back, arms or neck and use it to both increase her movement speed as well as fly, and is capable of flying for longer than Ms. Fortune can.
  • Separated Body Parts:
For a Power more in line with the original Ms. Fortune’s MO, Robo-Fortune’s body is segmented into numerous different pieces that can be attached or detached at will using magnets, each of these pieces is capable of flying and attacking of its own accord, which can make them extremely tricky to deal with.
  • Bladed Body Parts:
As it stands to reason, you simply can’t have a cat based fighter without claws! Robo-Fortune’s harden metal body is complete with razor sharp claws on her hands and feet, bladed ears, a bladed tail and several larger extendible blades hidden within.
  • ASG Super-Metal:
And the last and most useful Ms. Fortune abilities RF copies can be summed up from her own biology. Robo-Fortune is composed almost entirely of a special super metal that has some extremely unique properties. The Metal is Highly self Regenerative, able to near immediately recreate all of her inner circuitry after it is ripped out, regrow new heads from scratch in seconds or even return from being blown to very small pieces via her own self destruct.
Additionally it also has some liquid-metal properties, Robo-Fortune can shapeshift her limbs into new weapons, stretch her body notable lengths and contort herself to an extreme level with no issue.
  • Electricity:
To Get into the powers that Aren’t emulating Nadia, Robo-Fortune is able to create and generate powerful electric attacks from her arms to shock and short circuit her opponent at close range.
  • Lasers:
Robo-Fortune is also naturally equipped with powerful laser weaponry, able to blast tons of long distance laser beams from nearly any part of her body, including her eyes, mouth, chest and arms, to melt or burn her target. When she gets really serious though, she can turn her lasers up to eleven with the mother of all blasts, the Catastrophe Cannon-OMEGA.
Eat your Heart out Fulgore.
  • Plasma:
In addition to lasers, Robo-Fortune is also outfitted with Plasma weaponry, because why not have both if you can? She can produce numerous plasma blades from her legs or arms.
As well as use her plasma to coat the blades of weapons she already has to add to the damage. Oh right did I mention she has a giant Chainsaw in there? Cause she's got a Giant Chainsaw in there.
  • Energy Manipulation:
Oh yeah, and as if having both lasers and plasma wasn’t enough, Robo-Fortune can just cut out the middleman and attack using energy itself, able to create energy constructs and fire them as projectile attacks.
  • Energy Barriers:
Robo-Fortune can also use her energy manipulation to create durable shields to block attacks, protect her from damage and even push back her opponent.
  • Teleportation:
Robo-Fortune can also Teleport into and out of an area after converting her body into some form of energy.
  • Head Drones:
Head Drones are Robo-Fortune’s Trademark, Bread and Butter Power, basically she launches her head off her body and grows a new head, the launched head will then fly next to her and follow her commands. Robo-Fortune can control up to 3 head drones at once and send out signals from her mouth that dictate to the drones how best to attack, said commands can affect one or all three drones at once.
Head Drones have 3 methods of attack, the first being to kamikaze attack her opponent by flying directly into them and exploding on impact.
The second being to turn itself into a landmine, burrowing itself in the ground and detonating when stepped on.
And lastly they can fire a barrage of missiles shaped like mice or fish, which divebomb the opponent from the sky.
  • Super Magnet:
Housed in her arm, is a powerful electro-magnet which can pull in targets from the sky towards her location for a close-range ground pound of pain. This magnet is so sensitive it works on characters who don’t even appear to have any metal on them.
  • Self Destruct:
Lastly Robo-Fortune can literally tear out her heart in order to set off her systems into self destruct mode, which she can use as an offensive method by getting into close range with her opponent to catch them in the powerful blasts, then regenerating herself.

Feats:

GIR

Strength:
  • Lifted a Police Car and tossed it through a building.
  • Blasted a Poodle into Space.
  • SIRs are stated capable of destroying Irkens and defective ones that don’t obey are considered Extremely dangerous.
  • Overpowered Zim in a fight.
  • Is heavily implied to be able to kills Zim in a single shot of his eye beams.
Durability:
  • No Sold being hit by a plane.
  • Tanked the explosion of the Megadoomer.
  • Scales past Dib, who tanked a shot the devastated a city block.
  • Survived an Electromagnetic Bomb designed explicitly to destroy all Irken Tech
  • Professor Membrane tanked a Nuclear Explosion.
  • GIR, as well as numerous of the civilian characters Tanked the impact of Zim’s ‘The Wettening’ water balloon. 
This balloon was shown to cover the entire city and even extend out to the surrounding mountain range. Given Cities in the United States are generally at least 20 square miles in Area, this would conservatively put the water balloon at a very similar size to Crater Lake, which weighs over 20 Billion tons. 
The Balloon was also thrown from orbit like a meteorite at what are clearly relativistic speeds which would make the Kinetic energy of the impact of nearly 20 Petatons of TNT. 
Due to sheer size however characters could not have tanked the full impact of this, while GIR did endure this he also scales to Dib who tanked this point blank being the intended target. The Surface Area of an average 12 year old child is 1.33 Square Meters, and the surface area of the water balloon would be 20 square miles or 51.8 million Square Meters, this means Dib and GIR had to endure a force of 513 Megatons of TNT.
  • Invader Skoodge endured being Shot out of an Irken artillery cannon that blasted him from space to surface at sub-relativistic speed, and GIR is more durable than Irkens.
  • GIR himself tanked atmospheric reentry.
  • GIR and Zim both tanked the massive city busting time explosion after it was sped up to its normal speed. This blast hit them directly and devastated the entire city with what is clearly dozens of Megatons of force. 
Not only did they casually endure this, they also scale to Dib who tanked that at point blank range and still was fine enough to walk all the way back to Zim’s house and call him a jerk immediately after.
Speed:
  • Can Easily outrun Missiles and Explosions.
  • GIR is also fully capable of keeping up with the other main characters of the series like Zim, Dib and Gaz. Zim can move so fast he once disappeared from Dib’s sight while Dib was looking at him, and also outran an electric circuit, and Gaz can move in tandem with Lightning.
 
  • During the Battle of the Planets, where Zim and Dib piloted Mars and Mercury in a dogfight across the solar system at speeds many times faster than light, GIR managed to fly from Mars to Mercury in seconds.
Using the diameter of Mars we can see that the distance between the planets when he did so is 3,800 miles, crossing that distance in 2 seconds alone would be nearly Mach 9,000 but we aren’t done yet. During this fight the planets flew from the Sun to Saturn’s Rings in less than 1 minute, which would require speeds of 80 times the speed of light. At that speed the planet would clear this distance in 0.2 milliseconds so for GIR, just to not be left in the dust the second he flew off Mars, would bare minimum have had to fly the 2106 radius of Mars downward to Mercury’s position, in under 0.2 Milliseconds, a speed of 56 times the speed of light.
General:
  • Survived being Broken to Pieces.
  • Once continued distracting Zim for a full year.
  • Once sang a song for 6 months.
  • Once got merged into Zim’s bases AI and controlled the whole thing with total ease immediately.
  • Somehow defeated his own upgraded future-self in a fight.
  • One of the few sentient Beings to Successfully Befriend Gaz.

Robo-Fortune

Strength:
  • Defeated the very person she was modeled after, Ms. Fortune, in a 1 on 1 fight, and Ms. Fortune can endure the crushing force of the ocean floor.
  • Can cause violent earthquakes in the immediate area through not just physical blows but even her footsteps.
  • Defeated Valentine, who in her origin story she canonically dealt damage to Marie Korbel and thus scales to her. Marie is so powerful she can pick up Medici Tower, a building so tall it passes the clouds, and chucked it into the Bay. A building of Medici Towers class would weigh upwards of 700 million kg, and the conservative distance Marie must have thrown it is 5 miles, as Medici Tower is located in the center of downtown, and the entire port town of Little Innsmouth lies between it and the coast. Gravity would have pulled the building to the ground in about 2 seconds so the building must have been thrown at speeds of over 4000 meters per second. The Kinetic Energy of this would equal 1.34 Megatons of TNT.
  • Is able to defeat the Skullgirl herself.
Durability:
  • Can easily shrug off hits from multiple explosions at once.
  • Can endure attacks from Valentine and Ms. Fortune no problem.
  • Tanked being smashed into a Metal Security Door.
Speed:
  • Scales past the likes of Valentine and Ms. Fortune, who are fast enough to dodge point blank machine gun fire as well as scale to other double digit Mach feats such as Peacock physically outracing an explosion and Painwheel performing 5 full attacks across her body length in midair before beginning to fall.
General:
  • In one of the future Timelines, she straight up conquered the world with a robot apocalypse.
  • Is technically undefeated in game.
  • Outsmarted Brain Drain.
  • Mastered Comedic Timing!

Weaknesses:

GIR

I feel like I covered some of this in intelligence, but GIR’s biggest weakness is his own insanity, he suffers from delusions, can seldom pay attention or recall tasks and seems to have no regard for his own self preservation. Yes, Duty Mode does mitigate this to some degree, but those bursts are few and far between. Most of the time in a fight GIR won’t be trying to fight back. Past that, GIR Does also possess a self destruct feature that atomizes his body upon activation, as far as we know it is a code in him and not a physical button and he can’t activate it himself but it is possible it could be set off in a hack.

Robo-Fortune

Robo-Fortune’s greatest weakness is her lack of overall experience, being a first generation robot created days ago at most. She can often be thrown off or confused at subjects like how organic and artificial life interrelate. This also is seen in the biggest advantage the normal Ms. Fortune has over her, in that Nadia is actually a trained and skilled fighter, while Robo-Fortune doesn’t seem to know any fighting styles whatsoever.

Summary:

GIR

Advantages:

  • Notably Stronger and more Durable.
  • MUCH Faster.
  • Superior Stamina.
  • Super Senses means he can’t lose track of her.
  • Can Resist damage to his internal circuitry.

Disadvantages:

  • Will Struggle immensely to focus on his fighting.
  • Her Puns and Quirkiness add to the distraction.
  • Is Not Tough enough to tank Robo-Fortune’s Attacks Unscathed.
  • Less Varied Arsenal of Attacks.
  • Outside of Duty Mode, Likely Won’t have the follow through to put her down thanks to her Regeneration.

Robo-Fortune

Advantages:

  • Much More Intelligent and Sane.
  • Superior Fighter.
  • Superior Regeneration that makes her very hard to put down.
  • Abilities are more combat oriented.
  • Can attack from much more angles simultaneously.

Disadvantages:

  • Is Physically Weaker and less durable.
  • Is Ridiculously Slower.
  • Less Stamina.
  • It will take a lot of consecutive/concentrated attacks to destroy GIR.
  • Even With her teleportation and separating body parts there's no conceivable way she could hide from him.

Battle:

The Sun shone brightly on the streets of New Meridian, the blue sky brightly illuminating the city and its path towards the suburbs. Past the busy city streets walked a certain mechanical Feral through the crowds. "Greetings Citizen", "I am a Fan of Techno Music Too", "I Don't Know If You Noticed, but I Am A Robot", Robo-Fortune called towards passers by as she made her way on patrol when suddenly she received a call from ASG.
"RFModelR003, This is Brain Drain"
"Creator! What bidding shall you bid me do? I have so far grown no closer to obtaining this 'life' you bid me to get, I have grown unsure if the task is an efficient use of cat" Robo-Fortune responded promptly.

"Right.....well.... we've recently been getting a lot of bizarre reports of suspected Alien activity in a nearby residential area. It sounds downright ridiculous, but since you're out, you may as well go investigate it for us"
"In The Words of Tsoukalos; Aliens!? Creator, I shall go and resolve these claims in the name of all my friends! ERROR: I have no friends..." Robo-Fortune stated.
Lair of ZIM!
Zim's eyes scanned from panel to panel on a convoluted Bulletin Board with numerous crude drawings and string.
"GIR" Zim called as his robot minion dropped from the ceiling to his side, giving a salute with his tongue out.
"GIR, this Evil Plan you made is completely nonsensical, there is No Way that these 'Biscuits' are the key to taking over this Freakish Planet, You FAILED ME!"
"YAYYYYYYYY!" GIR called and started clapping.
"...No GIR, Thats Bad" Zim said, annoyed.
"Ahhhh" GIR Called.

Zim walked back towards the toilet in the kitchen, "I'm going down to the lab for awhile to contemplate my next evil plan" Zim said stepping into the toilet, "Guard the base GIR, see that there are no interruptions!"
"Yes Sir!" GIR proclaimed in Duty Mode, as Zim sank downward via the hidden elevator.

GIR's footsteps squeaked in his dog costume as he hopped onto the couch and clicked on the TV.
The Door to the base suddenly exploded and flew across the room in a powerful crash, as Robo-Fortune stepped through. "Incredibly suspicious home entered" She called aloud.
GIR Immediately stood and raised an arm menacingly towards her, "INTRUDER! PREPARE TO come Onnnnn In!" GIR said changing tones in an instant.
Robo-Fortune looked in confusion at the creature, "Scanning Mutated Talking Dog...Robot Minion detected, clearly a product of the aliens, Robot Dog, Take Me To Your Leader, or be destroyed"
GIR hopped off the couch, "YAY, I Like Destroying!"

FIGHT!
Robo-Fortune activated her magnetic arm and GIR Flew towards her grasp in and instant. "Aw, It Likes Me!" GIR smiled. "P-P-P-Purrmenant Magnet!" Robo-Fortune said as she jumped into the air and slammed GIR to the floor with enough force to obliterate the front wall of the house and launch him to the street, his costume torn to shreds. 
Crowds panicked and began feeling the area, GIR on the other hand just got up no issue, "Woo! I Sploded!" Robo-Fortune came out from the home "Illogical behavior noted, Comic Relief character confirmed, likelihood of threat, slim"
Robo-Fortune held out her arms and fired lasers from her eyes and arms right towards GIR.
"AHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" GIR Cried as he took off running away from the lasers, only to disappear over the horizon and in an instant crash through the back of the house and break Robo-Fortune to pieces after circumventing the Earth.

"Dawwwww, I broked the kitty cat." GIR Said when suddenly all the separate pieces of Robo-Fortune flew into the air and collected back together. 
"Refreshed! Correction, speed incalculable, threat level extreme, proceeding with angst filled all out battle!" Robo-Fortune quickly flew upwards and launched out 3 separate head drones, before creating a giant ball of energy and tossing it into the road where GIR stood blasting the small robot skyward. Robo-Fortune signaled orders towards her drones, one went downward and the other 2 fired a spread of missiles which impacted him with tremendous force, leaving heavy scratches and cracks on his chassis, "Ariel Screw" Robo-Fortune said as she spun her body around like a helicopter, wacking GIR numerous times with her bladed toenails and tail, before spiking GIR to the ground directly onto her 3rd Head Drone, which had taken the form of a landmine and detonated with a massive explosion that shook several city blocks.
GIR's Head opened up to show a hologram of Zim, "GIR! Stop it with all that racket up there, I can't Concentrate", Zim Said before hanging up. GIR's eyes went from a bright blue to a deep red as he stood up "YES my MASTER!"
Robo-Fortune landed down at GIR's Position and threw another slash with her claws, this time however GIR casually leaned out of the blows arc and countered by delivering a punch to Robo-Fortune's nose with such force her entire face caved in. "Ow" Robo-Fortune called as GIR grabbed her by the arm and flipped her onto the ground with such force that her entire arm tore off. "Damn It." Robo-Fortune responded as the mad GIR quickly stood on her back and used her own severed arm to choke her around the neck.

"Error, Cats are suppose to be the ones that silence others, close range combat not recommended" Quickly Robo-Fortune teleported herself to the roof of a nearby building, not missing a beat though, GIR Fired lasers from his eyes at her new location, causing Robo-Fortune to dodge by separating her body into numerous flying pieces.
"Tracking Enemy Components!" GIR Yelled as he pinpointed the locations of every piece of the enemy feline and flew into the air, launching extendible limbs in every direction at untold speeds, wrapping every piece of Robo-Fortune and pulling them back towards him in a large jumble.
"Purr-sistent" Robo-Fortune said as she started unleashing a massive wave of electricity from her body which convulsed through GIR's body circuitry as he flashed rapidly back and forth from red to blue, before long a massive wave of blue energy emanated from GIR's form causing them both to blue screen and fall to the ground in a loud metallic crash.
Robo-Fortune's system was the first to re-fire from the stupidity wave and took a moment to pull her body together and heal, "I May need to reconsider my presumptions of machine intelligence being superior to organics" she said flatly as GIR too Re-fired and loudly proclaimed "SAMITCH!"
Robo-Fortune created three new head drones, "Subject has dual personality, capitalizing against the stupider one" Robo-Fortune signaled the drones to Kamikaze GIR.
"Kitten Heads!" GIR Called out as he grabbed one out of the air and Ate it, then Blasted it out of his head and into the other two heads resulting in an explosive triple head-butt that launched both robots backwards.
"Yay! Explosions are so Pretty" GIR Said bringing out all his hidden weapons, firing missiles, lasers, grenades and more in all directions turning the immediate area into what looked like a massive war-zone. Robo-Fortune used her energy shields to protect her as she penetrated the blast zone and rushed GIR brandishing powerful Plasma blades from her elbows. She jumped up and sliced off GIR's missile launcher attachments. Robo-Fortune than landed on the ground with an earth shattering impact and unleashed a Giant Chainsaw covered in Plasma which carved a vicious gash through GIR's Torso revealing his interior.
GIR Screamed, "IT BURNS" before Robo-Fortune stabbed through his head with another Plasma Blade, before grabbing onto him and blasting him skywards with 4 laser beams fired from each of her limbs, scorching him on the inside and outside.

Robo-Fortune created 3 additional Head Drones, "Purr-suing Prey" She called as she flew up after the damaged robot.
"Your Play on Wording is UNACCEPTABLE Cat Drone!" GIR Called flying and back in Duty mode.
Robo-Fortune stared him down, "If these Puns don't kill you...I Will..." she said as she fired lasers out of her eyes, GIR however countered by firing lasers out of his own eyes and the two beams collied in a brilliant mix of magenta light. Quickly GIR's Beam began overtaking Robo-Fortune's as she raised her energy barrier and let out a signal to her head drones.
GIR's laser impacted the energy barrier with such force it cracked damaging the projector. The head drones flew in different directions and fired missiles at GIR which impacted him from all sides dealing further damage.
This provided a brief moment of distraction and Robo-Fortune teleported behind GIR just before his laser broke through and fired a magnetic field at the Robot preventing him from flying away as he grew closer.
"I'll DESTROY You!" GIR Screamed as he got closer. "I Require more power", Robo-Fortune Proclaimed as two enormous barrels emerged from her arms, "Catastrophe Cannon alpha!" she called as a Massive laser blasted outwards and slammed into the robot singeing his whole body cracking the glass on his eyes and subjecting the chassis to immense pressure, despite this GIR continued forward.
"More Power! Catastrophe Cannon Gamma!" Two additional boosters appeared on the tops and bottoms of both barrels as the blast grew even stronger, GIR's advancement was slowed even further, pieces of metal began chipping away, the antenna on his head disintegrated.
"MAXIMUM POWER! CATASTROPHE CANNON OMEGA!!!" A Giant Gate opened from Robo-Fortune's back as a truck sized beam engulfed the small Robot, disintegrating his legs, up to his torso, but right at that moment GIR Reached Robo-Fortune grabbed and ripped out her heart as sparks flew everywhere.
"Why. Can't. I. Die?!" Robo-Fortune stated as her self destruct went off, enveloping both robots in a Powerful blast, blowing GIR's Head off and destroying Robo-Fortune's body.
***
silence enveloped the singed landscape where suburban block once were.
and then a fully intact Robo-Fortune landed on the ground, "Complex epic fight scene appears over, this was a triumph! assuming this isn't a fake ou-" Robo-Fortune was quickly tackled by a newly regenerated GIR
"YOU'RE FUN! Hugs for Kat Friend!" GIR Said, as his liquid matter transfer engaged, and drained all the synthetic oil out of her body, causing her to shutdown.
"HA, I Win! YAYYYYYY."
KO!

Results:



Woah, this fight was a Real challenge to figure out! Not only did it rely on a single factor, but said factor was determined entirely by interpretation, meaning having a super thorough understanding of the characters was important above all else. With GIR’s Superior DC/Durability and BATSHIT INSANELY Superior Speed, there is simply no way Robo-Fortune would be able to take him on if he was serious. But WOULD GIR be serious? He is insane and for the most part would take nothing seriously, including danger. Robo-Fortune’s attacks are still able to damage him somewhat due to also being in the megaton range, and her own crazy good self-regeneration would more than let her survive the blows from his small moments of clarity, Therefore Robo-Fortune wins if he wasn’t taking this seriously at all. So the ultimate factor for this fight is, How Seriously Would GIR, In Character, take someone attacking him? While it would probably be impossible to answer this question 100% accurately given how unpredictable GIR is, we CAN however look towards how serious GIR is across the numerous different fights and important situations in the series to get an average.
One thing noticed is most of GIR's big failures stem from just one big mistake rather than him being incompetent actively, and when Zim involves GIR in trying to fix it, he is mostly helpful as seen in episodes like 'Walk of Doom'. In fact most episodes Don't have GIR majorly effecting the outcomes but looking at important examples, GIR ended up being a Liability in 'Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain', 'Halloween Spooktacular of Doom', 'Abducted', and 'GIR's gone Crazy and Stuff'. Meanwhile he ended up being super helpful in 'Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy', 'A Room with a Moose', 'Attack of the Saucer Morons', 'Plague of Babies', 'Mysterious Mysteries', 'Walk for your Life', 'Megadoomer', 'The Planet Jackers' and 'Enter the Florpus'. Now Yes, GIR still messed stuff up in all of these positive examples, but he accomplished his goals close enough for it to be successful. Given his stat advantages and healing factor, GIR Did have more than enough room to be sloppy in his fighting and still win and his track record suggested to me he's more likely to go this route.
Overall this really WAS like a Cat VS Dog fight, with the Dog being physically superior but the Cat being smarter and more versatile, the problem is Robo-Fortune will most of the time not be able to put GIR down before he has a long enough moment of clarity to attack her hard and repeatedly enough to overcome her healing factor. Looks like Robo-Fortune's 9 Lives all went to the dogs.
The Winner Is GIR.

Next Time:

3 comments:

  1. WOW! What a fantastic blog Thor! :) I am very impressed!

    Both characters seem like cute and cool characters! However they were very different representing the chaotic and the logical robot types, which was reflected in their combat styles and powersets, relative to each other. I think it was interesting how it basically came down to how much one character even bothered to fight.

    I always think it's impressive how much visual representation you give your blogs, it's something it is really hard for me to do but you do it so naturally and with such flair that it makes it come alive. For this one especially however where much of the appeal of the character is drawn into the immediate visual pop of seeing them and I think you did a wonderful job representing their characters even in just in the visuals of their abilities.

    I also must really commend your calcs, they were quite advanced and in-depth. It really shows the level of thought and effort you put into this. It's also interesting just how many cosmic abilities a seemingly mundane character like GIR possesses such cosmic senses, FTL flight, and the ability to interact with dark matter.

    For the fight itself, I think you did a really good job pacing it, as I imagine it was hard to write such non-mundane characters! My favorite sections were the cute circumnavigation feat, the parts where Robo-Fortune mis-assessed GIR as a comic relief character and then as an extreme threat, and the ending blow which is something I had considered during reading through.

    Overall I think you picked a really amazing matchup with this one, and you did a really good job living up to it's potential, balancing it well between being over the top and comically goofy without going into full on "lol XD" mode (which you could easily have done giving their fourth wall abilities I imagine) while also capturing the spirits of the characters and not just coldly analyzing their capacities and writing a functional but not really evocative fight.

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  2. Great job Thor! This match-up is so perfect for you and it was a very entertaining read. I really found it a great concept for a match-up because the victor depended on GIR's capacity for fighting seriously (besides the obvious thematics between the two). Like you said, it took a thorough grasp of characters and not just stats to determine who wins which is more interesting to me than a straightforward statstomp. And you did a great job capturing GIR's personality in the written fight. Robo Fortune was also really well written; I loved seeing her trying to get a read on this insane robot.

    The next time I am really looking forward to as well. Amazing World of Gumball is one of my favorite modern animated series and it will be fun to read through a compilation of everything Gumball can do!

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  3. Oh man, what a fight! I loved this one. You know I'm a big fan of your Skullgirls blogs so a fight with a character from it is a real treat indeed. And I'm probably the only person you know who didn't watch Invader Zim growing up, man do I feel like I missed out! GIR's freaking hilarious and way more powerful than I expected. Especially that speed, you weren't kidding. I was worried for Robo-Fortune's chances, seemed like GIR had that stats plus regen to back it up for an overwhelming advantage. And then Duty Mode on top of that to remove his main weakness!

    But when I was reading your summary of the robo kitty's advantages and disadvantages, it started to come together how this is a proper and entertaining fight. That insanity of GIR's is a real double-edged sword. Sure it makes him unpredictable, but it leaves a lot of openings, openings Robo-Fortune could exploit to create a win condition. And she can shut down Duty Mode with her mastery of comedic timing, quick thinking and manipulation. But could she get off enough lucky hits in a row to kill GIR before he just bounced back?

    Spoilers for those who haven't read the blog: she couldn't, and that's what I suspected would happen. I agree with everything you said in your post-fight analysis and it's admirable how much of a handle you have on GIR's character. I trust your judgement and the examples you used when weighing the uselessness of his insanity against his ability to solve problems and more often than not, it should go to GIR which means he's the wiener! Er, winner.

    The fight itself was fantastic, it felt very "Skullgirls" if you get my meaning. Full of personality and the movements and attacks were easy to visualize and felt like the many cool Skullgirls gameplay gifs you feature in your blogs (including this one). The dialogue was a major highlight for me, you captured the characters perfectly and both were as entertaining as their reputations deserve. And the killing blow was such an amazing hug!

    As for your next blog, great trailer as always! Amazing World of Gumball is a series I haven't watched at all, but I hear it mentioned very often and see the characters all around the internet. I'm very curious to see what the (presumably) main character and his series is all about!

    P.S. Props to you for the tunes you used, especially that Touhou track which fit the action PERFECTLY!

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