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I'd go farther then that and just say that Star Wars is fantasy. It's just happens to be fantasy with a sci-fi paint job. Scratch the paint off, and you've totally got elves, orcs, swords, and wizards. But the paint still counts! ... well, not for much, but at least a little. (Waaaait ... what will appear under the "Death Star" paint? It's pretty important plot element and IMHO hard to replace with something from pure fantasy. You can replace other starships with normal ships, but Death Star would then still end up being something on too big technology level to be acceptable in fantasy - carrier maybe. Unless ... maybe you can replace Death Star with flying island and fighters with dragons. That might work, although it still sounds at least little technological as the island will still need to be build. Likely by dwarves or gnomes.)

(Reading what that "*" means on that link): Oh. Well ... only if they didn't run out of ideas already. They only added 72 last time, if they add 72 now it wouldn't even be 800.

The longer the hair, the whooshier it gets. I'm not so sure about it. She needs to tune the length to the best whoosh. Sorry, I though you disagree with what I said. (BTW, good example: I knew about this character, but forgot about this page.)

That doesn't change the fact that on the continuous line between pure fantasy and pure sci-fi, Star Wars is closer to fantasy. Anyway, good authors don't let existing genre limit their creativity, and bad authors are not able to hit the target they aim for, so no wonder drawing borders between genres is so hard task. 1) Earth likely IS in Star Wars universe. It may not be near, but they have fast ships 2) Parsec in Star Wars can be defined based on different planet's orbit, just like other units - year, month and day are all based on Earth properties, or for example foot or mile which are based on people's measurement can be based on any other species measurement instead. I'm sure days and years were mentioned in Star Wars, not sure about miles and feet, but it wouldn't surprise me ...

(sorry for doublepost)

Nah, she wants to control her hair with her mind. I'm pretty sure that she means this kind of control. Although, changing length is part of package. (See also tvtropes if you dare.)

Yeah! And the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in just twelve parsec! I'm sure I already mentioned I consider Star Wars more fantasy than sci-fi. (Also, "usually".) Also this. Who else? Anything bad in Star Wars is either because he wanted it that way or because he wasn't able to correct when someone else did the mistake. Or because he sold it to Disney.

... hard to imagine Pikachu stomping over something. Taurus, meanwhile ... or Rhydon ... or Rapidash ... (Note that my knowledge about Pokemon without help of google and wikis like this would be seriously limited. I'm not even sure how many pokemons there is nowadays - it used to be 251 ... now ... what? 727?)

So, most common type of magic is transformation. And mostly not combat oriented. What is the second most common? Flying is definitely something lot of people WANTS, but is it REFLECTIVE of them? What about health-related spells? Although, I guess that transformation can also be solution for people with various disabilities ... Is Dex exception, or are there lot of summoners who were lonely? I think that Susan doesn't WANT longer hair ... that she's satisfied with the current length.

I think it WOULD count as any excees energy. I know, that quote is for animals, but it might still be issue for humans as well, just not so big.

Well,they are still the same species, so you might say that was metamorphosis not evolution. You can argue like this for most pokemons. Hell, Caterpie - Metapod - Butterfree is classical example of metamorphosis. In fact, that's where the "meta" from "metapod" came from. He likely got the pom pom in same way Kadabra get spoon when evolving from Abra.

If the enchantment is a spell, it'd be similar to the enchantment that Not_Tengu put on the punch at Rhea's New Year's party. An alchemical enchantment would be like Germahn Labs Shrink Soda. Good examples. You might be right - comics didn't mentioned ambient magic could influence the strength of effect, while it did mentioned it influences the duration. Although the idea about "not working as good" would still work if the ingredients would be something you need to specially cultivate instead of just find - it always had SOME effect, but only when she planted it in Moperville the effect got this strong.

Well, maybe .... but we are talking about engineer or other science-type person describing 60 feet 7.4 inches, if you mean 20 meters. I was hoping that someone actually KNOWS how to compute that. So, let's put it together: to completely vaporize human, you need 3GJ. To turn him to gas, you need 142MJ. To push him back 1m/s, you need 19GJ. Completely confirmed: pushing with light is dangerous.

Sure, she does have that spell, but I still think her rampage would be with the hammers, because those will be the weapons she'll instinctively use. Unless she trained with the "real" weapons much more than shown. Magic is a force capable of flagrantly violating the laws of reality. If Magic wanted there to be enough energy for everyone to use big, dramatic spells, there would be enough energy for everyone to use big,dramatic spells, Conservation of Energy be damned. Magic is a force capable of flagrantly violating SOME laws of reality. That doesn't means there are no laws which it MUST follow - although we will likely have hard time to differentiate between what magic wants and what it must do - if that distinction even have any sense (water usually flows down because it wants or because it must?). Also, it would be similar to what happened with Uryuom: every Uryuom can use a type of energy classified as magic, but it's completely predictable, without any drama. That's what I was talking about (you're right that forcing magic user to use defensive spells shouldn't be that hard nor that risky.) There was seven vampires in downtown Moperville and it's notable and big cause of concern. Most magic users likely don't know aberrations exists AND will never meet one. Case in point, Edward didn't considered necessary to warn Elliot and Ellen about them. He also didn't warned Diane yet. Susan needed to go to France before being attacked - nothing happened till then. Despite all talk about Not-Tengu not being special, the amount of magic users like that is apparently low and generally, people like Noriko are able to hunt them down before they cause serious damage. Also, they generally won't attack other magic users - for spreading terror, attacking civilians is more effective. Note that he only attacked BECAUSE he had personal vendetta against Noriko. And BTW, I suspect the cult didn't feed just his EGO, but also his magic. Again, this obviously don't happen often. Pandora is likely only immortal that much crazy (Voltaire, while more evil, is likely less crazy). And note that not everyone reacts to magic power like Dex. We don't know what the relationship between governments and paranormal organizations is: it's possible that USA is exception rather than rule. But that's not important: yes, there are organizations maintaining the status quo through threat of repercussions, and they have enough battle-trained magic users for this threat to be taken seriously ... which might not really work as good in case of more combat oriented magic. Look at wild west for example how the society where everyone needs to be ready to defend himself may look. Also, it could be bigger potential for corruption - government might be using the same threat of repercussions against magic users to allow government wizards to learn new spells. I'm not sure if Voltaire was lying when said she's not threat to him. And Jerry even implied that there IS some self-defence exception to the "empower and guide" cause. On the other hand, Voltaire WAS looking concerned, so maybe there IS something Tara could do to him if he wouldn't retreat quickly - possibly not kill him but still harm him or cause pain.

It would if they would work as catalyst for reaction(s) which would use other matter. Which they likely do, as they don't seem to do anything with the cup. In other words, the bodies submerged in Moperville magic anomaly are easier to transform by stuff like magic tea.

PS: Although I guess the word "vaporize" would be better than "melt". You can't exactly melt humans (or animals and presumably Uryuom as well), as they are already mostly liquid. I think it was ranged, as Tedd probably wouldn't able to "tweak" it so radically. On the other hand, he MIGHT quite easily tweak the range, which would explain the feet. We the comics viewers are not supposed to be under normal rules for classified information. Besides, it's DEFAULT. Of course the MAXIMAL effective range is bigger (likely around 300 feet, just like Ellen). It would actually make sense if the sentence would be "TF gun default power settings have range 60 feet" or something like that. I just think it's not so much longer it would be shortened like that. How the sentence is written, it seems that the range is deliberate, already-rounded value written in manual. See above: Any distance written in any manual will be rounded to units used in manual. Any manual originally written in imperial units contains suspiciously ugly looking numbers when translated (unless the translator is impertinent enough to aggressively round them risking they would be wrong). Of course, it's possible that the range is 100 of relevant Uryuom units and it just happens to translate to 59.8 feets so it's safe to round it. It's just not likely. On the other hand ... note how the minimal and maximal range - 30 and 300 feet - translate to 9.144... and 91.44 ... meters, which COULD be rounded to 9 and 90 meters without being dangerously imprecise OR suspiciously ugly. So, it CAN happen. 60 feet, meanwhile, translates to 18.288 meters ; 18 looks suspiciously ugly and 20 would be dangerously imprecise.

The secret tea ingredient is passed through the generations, but it didn't worked nearly as well (or maybe at all) outside Moperville magic anomaly.

This doesn't necessarily have to be magic on Téa's part, just advanced herbalism and access to ingredients with magical properties. Well that's of course also possibility, but then we can't blame Pandora for it.

Wait ... I just realized ... "TF gun defaults to 60 feet" ... seriously? Uryuom are using feets? That's even less likely than them using meters! Laser weapons we have now are WEAK. I didn't noticed any red on Hiroshima photos. There can't be any hot red mist when the water skips gas and goes directly to plasma. Although I'm not disputing the part about explosion: using photons with such big energy on short distance OR inside atmosphere wouldn't be good idea and definitely couldn't be described as precise, except in the sentence "that's precisely why I told you not to do it". PS: The next SI prefix is "tera". We might need it. Magnetic fields wouldn't be able to hold photons. Obviously, the photons emitted by spell are not created on casting and then directed, but instead are result of the spell travelling through atmosphere or created by degrading of other, non-photon components of spell. Side effect of the magnetic fields? Yeah, there could be multiple fields being used to create that effect. Definitely. And what we see provides very incomplete informations of what is really happening. Of course, TEDD can see what is really happening, but can't record it and likely isn't good enough poet to describe it.

Sci-fi authors usually pay lot of attention to the verifiable parts of their work. And isn't the travel distance of 20 000 leagues under the sea correct? I'm sure Bible can't be LITERARY true. Even most Christians don't try to claim that nowadays. Also, there is growing number of "discoveries" on topic of stuff in Bible which was totally incorrectly translated. Except we are not sure what language is really original, do we?

Slim to none. On the other hand, maybe we found another mark. Maybe the tea was normal before she started selling it.

Alternatively, the clothes can remove itself by becoming too thin to handle the strain and ... is "snap" the correct word?

I'm still pretty certain that the improper reset just affected Helena and Demetrius' memories of their previous cycle, they're ability to process information and even know what's going on doesn't seem to be handicapped at all, heck Helena's outburst in the comic page should be enough evidence that she knows what she's talking about. Yeah there is that clock that she made that was supposed to wake them up before Elliot left for Grace's birthday party, but that was like 10 months ago and it's possible something else kept it from working properly ::cough::Pandora or Magus::cough:: I would say that unlike memories of their previous cycle, their abilities and general knowledge seem to get quite quickly better. I still think that they had problems at start, and are still at disadvantage compared to immortals who reset properly - in fact, they reset years ago, Jerry just half year ago, yet he seems much more competent now.

Agree, but note that we already saw them (although not from such good angle) on first page of Requestioning. You need to let it go. Thermodynamic laws are powerless because they are declared for isolated system. Any system containing magic is NOT isolated - as can be proved by any summoner in few seconds. Any speculations about where wizards get energy for their fireballs pale in comparison with someone using ice magic, which means draining gigantic amount of energy from the surroundings which has lower temperature than the mage and dumping it - well, apparently in different dimension. Unless it's used to materialize water molecules, in which case "only" the second law will be violated. Or it may be because the structure of spell will collapse if less than 95% of particles is reflected. ... needs some experiments. Indeed it does. Photons are massless only when at rest, in which case they immediately disappear. Photons which are part of light move at speed of light and carry kinetic energy. Of course, photons with enough energy to push Vlad (who had at least 50kg, likely more) several meters would likely melt him. You need VERY reflective mirrors to get any meaningful push before they start to heat up.

It might be the clothes in the comic page, but she looks V5'd in the pinup. I meant that the boobs on comic page might be also big, just hidden by the clothes, while on the pinup the boobs are accentuated by the scarf. Note that even if she looks different, it may not be deliberate. She's inexperienced due to her improper reset. Maybe staying the same size is as hard for her as for Elliot.