The Kitten-o-Meter
since some of my heroes are not really heroes and some of my villains are not really villains I will just list my top Characters
Mariel Martog: looks at it and cast a good fortune spell on it
Inquisitor Tiburon Ordo Malleus: Regularly rescues Cats and and kittens and takes them to No Kill shelters (some times he may destroy a group of magic users before he does this)
Irken/Evil Irken: runs away and hides, he hasn't figured out Cats and thinks they are an alien race also bent on conquoring the human race one woman at a time.
Malkavian Who: will pick it up pet it then go and watch T.V. while petting it (even if its in a shopping mall.)
Kontrol Faktor = "In Komunist Russia we took Kare of our Kats. Give them Vodka and Salmon"
Racheal May Winter : "aahh does putty wanta home?" (she being a crew member on a Space Pirate Ship that has hundreds of cats on it, because of her)
Bhump : a Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirl and Captain of the ship Racheal is on: "Racheal put the cat down and don't bring another kitten on my ship I can't hardly walk in there anymore, and please for the sake of Bastet change the litter box"
Its amazing how many of you have really wimpy villains.
No wonder we can't beat the crap out the do-gooders. |
Point two, Some villains don't go in for that 'Eat a kitten' sort of motiveless evil.
Point three, I'm not quite sure what this 'Kitten-o-meter' is supposed to be measuring. Apparently, it's our response to seeing a kitten, since Lord Abyssmo, violator of planets, probably isn't petty enough to kill a random kitten on the street. He's still evil, but on a galactic scale, not really kitten-measure-able.
However, my villains and their responses to a Kitten:
Lil' Red Hood: Would Squee and run and pet and cuddle the kitten. She's a mafia overlord, but she's still technically also a little girl.
Artificial Human: Ignores the kitten. It has nothing to do with her.
Chiaroscuro Giovanni: Might feed the kitten a scrap or two, but wouldn't take it in.
Red Oni: Would catch it up and eat it. It's meat, and therefore edible.
Sable Tentacle: Depends on the drugs he's currently on, but would probably pick up the kitten and try and convince it to shoulderkitten for him to help him pick up girls in the D.
Erja Schrodinger: Would stare it down or something equally unproductive, being a catboy himself.
Handcuff: Would idly pick through it's mind to see if it had seen something interesting lately
Point one, My villains can beat the crap out of most do-gooders just fine. Maybe it's YOUR villains who are the whimpy sort.
Point two, Some villains don't go in for that 'Eat a kitten' sort of motiveless evil. Point three, I'm not quite sure what this 'Kitten-o-meter' is supposed to be measuring. Apparently, it's our response to seeing a kitten, since Lord Abyssmo, violator of planets, probably isn't petty enough to kill a random kitten on the street. He's still evil, but on a galactic scale, not really kitten-measure-able. |
Helping the kitten or bringing the kitten to a shelter or rescuing the kitten from getting killed... is NOT villainous.
So...any of the above = wimpy villain.
Of course this is only my villainous opinion.
Your ideas may vary based on mileage.
BDD
Point three, I'm not quite sure what this 'Kitten-o-meter' is supposed to be measuring. Apparently, it's our response to seeing a kitten, since Lord Abyssmo, violator of planets, probably isn't petty enough to kill a random kitten on the street. He's still evil, but on a galactic scale, not really kitten-measure-able.
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Although, this has reinforced my opinion that too many villains would be evil just to be evil, with little to no motivation. That's the trick. Eating the kitten = Need to work on your motivation. Unless you're just a carnivorous mutant or something.
The off-beat space pirate...Capt. Stormrider (50+3 Elec/Storm Science Corruptor)
The mysterious Djinn...Emerald Dervish (50+1 DB/DA Magic Stalker)
The psychotic inventor...Dollmaster (50 Bot/FF Tech Mastermind)
Virtue Forever.
Vitality Blaze would take it home as a pet, give it food with katnip in it, speed boost it and be entertained.
What would Kali do with a kitten?
Let's just say that Not Even Doom Music would make it ok.
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Although, this has reinforced my opinion that too many villains would be evil just to be evil, with little to no motivation. That's the trick. Eating the kitten = Need to work on your motivation. Unless you're just a carnivorous mutant or something.
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As I pointed out, two of my villains are very un-needless-evil, and are actually quite nice.
The rest.. well, what's the point of kitten abuse? It's not like it achieves anything. Except for Exodus Terror, none of them would eat the kitten. And Exodus would only eat the kitten because, to her, anything that's meat is a viable source of food, and she is very much of the "survive first above all else" mind-set. But she'd only eat kittens if she were REALLY desperate for food. Lots more meat on a human, after all.
And Silhouette Scythe is a very powerful precognitive who occasionally gets caught up in the fractal nature of time and the impact of seemingly random actions on large events. Hence, making sure the damn cat was exactly where it needed to be, when it needed to be there. Unfortunately, her logic would fall apart when she got to the "stabbing the kitty to make sure it stays where it needs to." But then.. she is being slowly driven mad by her precognitive skills, so.. you know. Swings and roundabouts.
Personally, I find the kind of character that'll kill a kitten just to kill a kitten kinda boring. Or perhaps they're trying to compensate for something.
The Elysienne; Magical controller
Silent Sickle; Natural scrapper
And many more.
Aenigma Rebis: "Actually, Ely's more like Jean Grey. Only... smart."
Helping the kitten or bringing the kitten to a shelter or rescuing the kitten from getting killed... is NOT villainous.
So...any of the above = wimpy villain. Of course this is only my villainous opinion. Your ideas may vary based on mileage. BDD |
Let me tell you about the last time Tiburon "rescued" a cat. it was last Thursday, while investigating the corruption of magic in Paragon City he saw a girl of 18-19 dressed all in black heading to the super market, I think it was a Krogers. Needless, he sent a minion to watch what she was buying for she was dressed like a witch. When she bought red wine, salt, and candles, He knew she was a witch. He and his death squad fallowed her to her home where a group of women all dressed in black where having some sort of gathering, using high resolution imaging devices he found that they were getting ready to do some magic circle of summoning. Before they could start he ordered the attack killing almost everyone but after the slaughter he found a cat and some kittens in one of the bedrooms and dropped them off at the no kill shelter. The next morning the Paragon Time had the following News Article.
survivors says a military squad attacked them while doing ‘light as a feather’”
Actually He believes he is, by killing off magic users he is trying to save mankind from the evils of magic, sworn to kill all Worshipers of all false gods, in D&D terms Lawful Good.
Umm hmmm, so you think that Lord Inquisitor Sztloth Tiburon of the Ordo Malleus is a good guy because he takes cats away from Magic Users and places them in no kill shelters?
Let me tell you about the last time Tiburon "rescued" a cat. it was last Thursday, while investigating the corruption of magic in Paragon City he saw a girl of 18-19 dressed all in black heading to the super market, I think it was a Krogers. Needless, he sent a minion to watch what she was buying for she was dressed like a witch. When she bought red wine, salt, and candles, He knew she was a witch. He and his death squad fallowed her to her home where a group of women all dressed in black where having some sort of gathering, using high resolution imaging devices he found that they were getting ready to do some magic circle of summoning. Before they could start he ordered the attack killing almost everyone but after the slaughter he found a cat and some kittens in one of the bedrooms and dropped them off at the no kill shelter. The next morning the Paragon Time had the following News Article. Mass Murder at a suburban slumber party 9 killed 2 critically injured: good guy?survivors says a military squad attacked them while doing light as a feather |
ummm...yes.
All my villains are lonely, so they'd adopt the kitten. Then when the next Longbow Flamethrower called, "Halt, villain!" and burned the kitten to a crisp, they would use it to fuel their rage and hatred of Longbow and Paragon City.
Errand would look for the owner of a kitten. And see if there's a reward. Hey, money is money. (And if no reward, give the owner his card for "Rogue Island Delivers!")
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Seraph and Wolf are dog people so kittens get ignored yo.
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Depends on which character. Here's just a few:
Smurch would set it's tail on fire and laugh as it ran around in a panic.
Doctor Postronic would turn it into a robo-kitten with laser-beam eyes.
Necromentalist would feed it and pet it while he poured over some forbidden texts. He'd probably name it something like "Furacane" or "Purrnado".
Flesh Sculptor would inject it with the latest iteration of his regeneration serum then chop off one of it's limbs and start a stop watch.
Doctor Bionic would upgrade it's ears with tiny dishes that can hear mice 1 mile away, and it's eyes with telescoping sites and mouse-targeting software.
Doctor Fear would do nothing. He's much too important to take notice of such a lowly creature.
Turannos would demand to know whose kitten this is and why they did not file form K47-0NW3/R with him before acquiring it. He'd then confiscate the kitten as contraband.
Depends on my villain
Biomekanic: Would pet it, eat some of the hair to determine if it had any interesting genetic properties, then ignore it. He already has quite the collection of lab animals at home anyway.
General Des'Array: Would pet it, and take it home as a pet for his children. He would most likely have to explain to his wife what a pet is, and why you don't eat it.
Headsplitter: It's smaller than his mouth, and made of meat. OTOH, it kind of looks like him. And he has a soft spot for babies ( the one between his ears ).
Godwin Odinkirk: Godwin smells like a snake, and would back away. He has nothing against animals that don't attack him.
Narakur the Defiant: Ignore it, as undead traditionally freak cats out he'd just walk away.
Tidesong: Run screaming. Cats eat fish, and she's kind of weird/******* crazy anyway.
Baator the Devourer. Kitten souls are very small, and rather unfilling. On the other hand, cats are self centered and can be jerks, two traits he admires. Also, they keep the number of mice down in the temple. Welcome to the cult! I shall name you Razorclaw Devourer of VERMIN! Go forth and FEAST! FEAST! I command you! FEAST on the vermin of this world! FEEEEEEAST!!!!!
For the record, some of my villains are downright evil, others are amoral, and some are misguided. But I don't think any of them are jerks who pick on tiny animals for ***** and giggles.
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Baator the Devourer. Kitten souls are very small, and rather unfilling. On the other hand, cats are self centered and can be jerks, two traits he admires. Also, they keep the number of mice down in the temple. Welcome to the cult! I shall name you Razorclaw Devourer of VERMIN! Go forth and FEAST! FEAST! I command you! FEAST on the vermin of this world! FEEEEEEAST!!!!!
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The off-beat space pirate...Capt. Stormrider (50+3 Elec/Storm Science Corruptor)
The mysterious Djinn...Emerald Dervish (50+1 DB/DA Magic Stalker)
The psychotic inventor...Dollmaster (50 Bot/FF Tech Mastermind)
Virtue Forever.
Blut Wurst would likely look around for a moment to see if someone was looking for the kitten, then set a miniature robot to keep an eye on it until it's power supply got low. He's not REALLY a bad guy mind you, he grew up in the isles and has a "Me Myself and I first" attitude. For now.
Karic T'Lanis likely wouldn't notice it, unless the woman he was currently interested in liked kittens. In which case he'd bring it home, clean it up and present the woman with a gift. All in the interests of consuming her soul mind you.
Alucard Blade: He would jab the kitten with a pointy stick and then rip out a patch of it's fur. From there he would stuff it into a bazooka and launch it at the nearest person's groin.
Doctor Ulrich: Would experiment and turn into a SHARK WITH FRICKEN' LASER BEAMS ATTACHED TO IT'S HEADS...but apparently his cycloptic friend tells him that can't be done. So he asks what he's paying his people for, honestly, and just inflates the kitten with helium until it explodes or hovers into the ceiling fan.
Huge Frogger: Would mumble about accidently stepping on an acorn
Jag Blade: Would have accidentally shot the kitten while gunning down rikti. At which point he would stab it with his bayonet, beat it over a rock, shake it around in the area after coating in A1 steak sauce and finkle dust all while screaming "Arise Chicken Arise" After realizing what he's doing wrong he'd go incognito for about 5 years leaving the bayonetted kitten in a ditch somewhere.
Dolly Polly: Would make copies of the kitten and set them out for silly villains to find and mess with before they exploded.
Jessie Jester: Would put the kitten on her hat and when asked "why do you have a kitten on your hat?" She tell them to look very closly at the cat when they do she kick them between the legs saying "That's why!"
Red Ebony: Walking with her zombies she pick the kitten up, glance around, pet it, then make the kitten an evil warlord over zombies who will have random attacks in the isles and paragon... So now you know who's behind it... THE KITTEN!
Abigail Blade: Mixes the shinning with pet cemetary and scares the hell out of half of Atlas.
Dark Mistress Luna: Would smile and wave at the kitten right before Lord Recluse guns his car and runs it over.
Solar Destiny: Being a complete Ditz would grab up the kitten run home to her lover Alucard hold it out and yell prouldy "LOOK I FOUND A PUPPY!" then when he tells her it's not a puppy, she beats him over the head with it causing the kitten to claw him up until he at last screams "ALRIGHT IT'S A NICE PUPPY!"
Lulu BloodSpire: Being seven feet tall and not smart she would just sit on the ground starting at the kitten to figure out what it was. Then the second a man or woman draws near, due to their curious nature, she look at them scream SNU SNU and leap upon them. Saddly the kitten would die from the mere sight of the SNU SNU as would the poor prey of Lulu.
Anarchy BlackDawn: Would leave it to appear as a normal kitten but in truth would experiment on it, train it, then unleash... BIG KITTEN on the helpless people of pargon then sit back and wait for the very perverted dirty jokes to pour in... one being... Look at the size of that...... >
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Solar Destiny: Being a complete Ditz would grab up the kitten run home to her lover Alucard hold it out and yell prouldy "LOOK I FOUND A PUPPY!" then when he tells her it's not a puppy, she beats him over the head with it causing the kitten to claw him up until he at last screams "ALRIGHT IT'S A NICE PUPPY!" |
Lepton Lullabye would ignore the kitten. He eats the brains of sentient creatures, and kittens don't qualify. Then again, it would have to be a superkitten to even notice him -- Lepton is a nightmare come to life, and nobody sees him unless he wants them to.
Leggy Blonde, VEAT, likes cats. She is, however, an arachnophile, so she likes spiders a lot more, and she might have a mutant spider pet at home. If so, she'd pick the kitten up as free pet food, and toss it into the web when she got home. But maybe all her 'pets' are robots, in which case she'd pet the kitten and be off.
Ludwig Spry would kick the kitten if it got in his way.
Imager would frighten the cat with an illusionary ninja, then laugh as it ran.
Gatora -- lizard girl -- would eat the kitten. In fact, I expect that Gatora spends most of her free time hunting strays. What I can't figure out is whether she'd swallow the kitten alive, or barbecue it with her radiation powers first...
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- Werner von Skülgrab: He would 'awww', then start wondering why this is the only animal other than seagulls that he's ever seen in the Rogue Isles. He would then pick it up and take it home for genetic tests. However, one of his lower-grade Atomic Robot Zombie Men would most likely eat the kitten when he wasn't looking.
- Internet Tough Guy: As cats are sacred to his kind, he would not harm the kitten in any way(additionally, setting on fire anyone who would). However, he probably wouldn't be able to take it home with him because of his pet Rikti Monkey, Biscuit.
- Sparksteam: Being a calculating, efficiency-oriented machine, he would not feel one way or the other about the kitten, and would thusly ignore it. However, should this kitten become an obstacle to his goals, he would have no choice but to eliminate it.
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As a stalker(Ninja-ish background even, but gee.... who saw THAT coming?), Akiko would probably pick the kitten up, pet it, take it home, and feed it. Cats are the stalkers of the animal world... so she would feel kinship.
Then she'd raise it and teach it to attack any intruders in the VG base.
Its amazing how many of you have really wimpy villains.
No wonder we can't beat the crap out the do-gooders.
Widowen would pick it up, scratch it behind the ears, and kiss it on the head. While looking at it with love in her eyes she would crank its head around backwards, snapping its neck with a sharp crunch, and then toss it over her shoulder.
Wallow would stab it in the face, toss it in the air with the blade still in its face, then slice it into 438 pieces before it hit the ground.