Worm When Is It About Skitter Again
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• Skitter doesn't train long enough to be as tough as she is.
• Skitter shouldn't be able to recover from punches from total-grown and superpowered men.
• Skitter is never scared, despite being new to this world
• Skitter never experiences anything close to PTSD (no characters really exercise) despite the loss she faces
• Skitter never freezes in combat. She always uses her Batman level intellect to think up the perfect plan on the spot.
• Despite her power being issues command, no other heroes/villains (particularly tinkers) ever bring super problems spray or bug zappers with them.
• The heroes are all incompetent or corrupt with very few exceptions
• The police force are nonexistent
• Despite the Undersiders all being teenagers, adults of every age mind to their every give-and-take. Nobody really doubts the kids know what they're talking well-nigh.
• Skitter seems like a practiced person, but she is a narcissist that only cares nigh doing what she thinks is correct, mostly for the accolades. I realize this last point is up for debate, but it's how she came across to me.
Spoilers will follow after this betoken.
Nigh of the story of Worm takes place over a ninety-mean solar day catamenia. This is important to betoken out considering Taylor, aka Skitter, is a meek teenager who is constantly bullied. She gains the power to control insects. Not super-powered insects, nor does she get insect strength or reflexes. She just has the ability to summon insects. This is a unique ability and fun to play with, nevertheless, on her very first night every bit a "hero" she fights (and by and large beats) a seasoned supervillain with loftier power levels. There is some interference from four supervillains, the Undersiders, and they were sent past a man who can see unlike possible futures, just it nevertheless doesn't explain how she can outthink and outfight this guy. Non to mention the fact that getting punched isn't piece of cake. Taylor is continuously described as skinny (in early on chapters). She just would non be able to fight at this level. Since this was the offset see, I allowed some interruption of atheism. The writing was interesting and I continued on. My limit to suspend belief was quickly reached.
Not to beat down every stupid victory Skitter or the Undersiders have, I decided to summarize. Remember this is over a xc-day period without any previous grooming except to gain some endurance.
• Skitter wins in the Lung fight.
• Skitter and the other Undersiders fight the Worm Universe equivalent of the 10-Men. They vanquish them after robbing a bank. (Clockblocker has a very cool power. The author does a practiced job of thinking upwards new stuff).
• There are overpowered beings chosen Endbringers. Skitter teams up with most heroes and villains in a truce to battle Leviathon. She non just is instrumental in victory, but she uses a halberd to stab the Godzilla-like monster in the butt.
. Skitter becomes a crime lord with her ain portion the city to run. A xv-year-quondam child is looked upwardly to by other villains and average citizens. She helps them, only it'due south just too far fetched.
• A group of villains called The Shambles 9 attack the urban center. Many times they are referred to be so potent that an individual fellow member of the team can take on dozens of capes (superpowered people) and volition probable win. That is unless Skitter is at that place. She is able to fight off i. She not simply survives, but she decapitates the graphic symbol (this is a survivable wound). She does this unmarried handedly.
• She executes the big bad in order to rescue a piddling girl. Skitter cares more about this girl than she does her ain father. Her male parent continuously suffers, but Taylor doesn't give a crap. She also executes this man with a shot to the head despite non wanting to stand upwardly to the bullies that torment her in schoolhouse.
• The leader of a group of capes gets Endbringer-level powers. Skitter is again able to lead the resistance and survive. Remember all she can do is summon bugs (sometimes dipped in capsaicin).
• Skitter is arrested and goes to super prison. She kills 2 more people and gets aid to escape. This was especially bad because she kills essentially the Superpower FBI director and the Worm Universe version of Wonder Woman. That's right. With less than three months of experience Skitter takes on a Wonder Woman level hero with two decades of feel. That's like saying Squirrel Daughter can shell Ms. Marvel. It will never happen. In fact, Wonder Daughter with 3 months of experience could accept a twenty-year veteran Skitter.
• Skitter and the rest of the Undersiders fight another Endbringer in Republic of india. This time there is actually a prey more substantial than a red shirt. Even so, the kickoff Undersider expiry is the ane that has the to the lowest degree touch on on Skitter. Her plot armor and that of her companions is thicker than whatever Batman has ever worn, and Batman has near indestructible plot armor.
At the end of all that, we finally get past the iii-calendar month bespeak. If you care about a story treating itself realistically, then you can encounter that this is non for you. I wanted to similar it. It had keen reviews and was well written, but smashing prose will never substitute for a poor story.
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