On Martial Characters in Heroic Fantasy

2:18:47 PM <Claudius_Maximus> Roland tried to break his sword on a mountain, but he and it were so awesome the mountain broke instead.
2:19:50 PM <Claudius_Maximus> If memory serves Cú Chulainn cut the top off of a mountain with rainbow sword lasers
2:20:03 PM <Forrest> that was Fergus mac Roich
2:20:47 PM <Claudius_Maximus> Ah, was it?
2:20:53 PM — Exelixi emerges
2:21:06 PM <Forrest> with his sword, Caladbolg
2:21:12 PM <Exelixi> Fergus Mac Roich, with the sword Caladbulg, which shot rainbow lasers.
2:21:14 PM <Exelixi> Rainbow.
2:21:16 PM <Exelixi> Fuckin'
2:21:17 PM <Exelixi> LASERS.
2:21:24 PM <Claudius_Maximus> I'm sure Cú Chulainn has enough preposterously violent acts to justify non-shitty fighters all on his own
2:21:28 PM <Exelixi> And it was THREE mountains.
2:21:28 PM <Forrest> ...
2:21:35 PM <Forrest> I think we need a Celtic Mythology anime
2:21:37 PM <Forrest> seriously
2:21:39 PM <Exelixi> We do
2:21:57 PM <Exelixi> Cu Chulainn could leap over mountains and fight fifty trained warriors at once
2:21:59 PM <Exelixi> At the age of eight
2:22:07 PM <Exelixi> Oh, and he had a super mode
2:22:10 PM <Forrest> it needs to run in Shounen jump
2:22:18 PM <Forrest> so that when they make the next crossover game
2:22:22 PM <Forrest> we can do Goku vs Cu
2:22:29 PM <Exelixi> He could /jump over mountains/ in his normal mode, and he /could fucking go Super Saiyan/
2:22:41 PM <Forrest> and he was bishie, right?
2:22:45 PM <Exelixi> Oh yeah
2:23:00 PM <Exelixi> He was thin, effeminate, and he had sparkly white hair
2:23:05 PM <Exelixi> He was a SPARKLY bishie
2:23:27 PM <Exelixi> In short: Anime can kiss my pale, freckled ass, mythology is /way/ more hardcore.
2:23:55 PM <Prime32> As I said before, not Super Saiyan
2:23:58 PM <Prime32> Four Tails
2:24:08 PM <Prime32> But worse
2:24:27 PM <Exelixi> I don't know what "Four Tails" is
2:24:32 PM <Prime32> Naruto thing
2:25:22 PM — sDSK looks up. Yeah. Heroic fantasy means your martial doods are the anime swordsmen who can cut down single trees in a single blow, or at high level, the guy who can cut through a tank.
2:25:23 PM <Prime32> His aura gets so fierce it melts his skin off, and turns opaque from burning blood
2:25:41 PM <Exelixi> Let's see... He turns into a cyclops, his jaw unhinges, I think his teeth get longer, his joints all reverse, and he has a battle aura that melts steel
2:25:44 PM <sDSK> There's tons of examples in other mythos, too.
2:25:51 PM <Forrest> wait, that's what Cu does?
2:25:53 PM <Forrest> holy crap
2:25:59 PM <Exelixi> Yeah
2:26:03 PM <Forrest> ._.
2:26:04 PM <Prime32> My post was Naruto
2:26:12 PM <Prime32> But it seemed close
2:26:12 PM <Forrest> that's nightmarish
2:26:22 PM <Exelixi> Wow, yeah, that's pretty similar
2:26:24 PM <Emerald> Exe, antiweeaboos are just as annoying as weeaboos :V
2:26:26 PM <Forrest> he's not a super saiyan, he's something out of Inuyasha
2:26:32 PM <Wrex> I'm annoyed.
2:26:41 PM <Dahak> IIRC they had to cool Cu off with cold water and women, or something like that,
2:28:59 PM <Exelixi> Ah, yes, the Gaebolga, spear of Cu Chulainn. It had to be sedated in a mixture of boiling blood and opium, it was sentient, it had to be thrown either backwards or from the foot, and on impact, it grew hundreds of foot-long spikes inside them, turning them into pulp instantly.
2:29:37 PM <Prime32> Dahak: They sent out a mob of naked women to calm him down. He averted his eyes.
2:29:47 PM <Prime32> The women threw him into a vat of water. It exploded.
2:29:56 PM <Prime32> They threw him into another. It boiled away.
2:30:14 PM <Wrex> Fafnhrd, Conan, etc are what we're going for.