#cavemen vs. astronauts
Note
idk if you're still doing these but how do you think the animorphs would do against the original X-Men?
[Obligatory joke about the X-Men having an advantage because they cloned Jake to make Bobby.]
Animorphs Advantages
Trust in leadership. Full offense to Scott, but he can be bossy and overbearing to the point where it causes infighting. Jake's team will not hesitate to go up against impossible odds at his command, and basically never questions his orders in the heat of battle.
Flight hours. Warren might outweigh Tobias by a good 200 pounds, but he doesn't spend literally 15+ hours a day 7 days a week flying around hunting. And Tobias gets very good at taking out bigger opponents like David's golden eagle or the helmacron ship.
Adaptability. The Animorphs can survive in most environments most of the time, and are nigh unkillable. Jean can be taken out by a rock to the head. Scott can be taken out by a rock to Jean's head.
X-Men Advantages
Coordinated attacks. They can and do hit their enemies from multiple fonts at once: Warren goes high while Hank goes low, Jean goes mental as Bobby goes physical, so on. The Animorphs' weapons are all variations on hitting or stabbing their enemies up close.
Sheer raw power. Scott can punch a hole in a mountain. Jean may or may not be able to destroy entire planets. Bobby can make an entire city in the time it takes Scott to level one.
The fact that they actually go to school. Hank's obviously the one with the big advantage over the C- average high school dropouts, but Scott, Bobby, and Jean are also smart enough to be teachers in some continuities.
Animorphs Disadvantages
Distance. This is always their drawback, but they only have melee attacks. Scott, Jean, and Bobby can all attack from half a mile away.
Leaky communication. A ton of their strategy depends on being able to talk to each other without their enemies hearing. Even if they figure out that Jean can hear every word they're saying, they're going to be massively hampered by their inability to talk privately during battles.
X-Men Disadvantages
Compassion. Assuming that this is winner-take-all no-holds-barred fight, the X-Men will not only hesitate to kill, but are likely to stop fighting if one of their own is killed. The Animorphs have no such pangs of conscience, or at least don't let those stop them.
Lack of control. All of them are, to some extent, afraid of their own powers or hesitant to use them. You don't see Rachel beating herself up about what'd happen if she let the beast win or got too much phoenix power.
Conclusion: I'm giving this one to the mutants. Sorry, morphers.
#animorphs#x-men#all-new x-men#a v. x#cavemen vs. astronauts#uncanny x-men#me? spend 400+ words dunking on scott summers? it's more likely than you think#also - apologies for any errors in x-men minutiae#i haven't actually read most of all-new x-men or anything else with the core 5#i still love brian michael bendis; i just abhor jean/scott so much that i straight-up cannot read them#they are my lifelong NOtp
403 notes
·
View notes
Text
I have the tiniest reach, but let’s try
#ats 5x15#angel the series#spangel#the great debate#btvs polls#polls#cavemen vs astronauts#spike btvs#wesley wyndam pryce#angel btvs
26 notes
·
View notes
Video
youtube
Angel and Spike on Cavemen vs Astronauts
Okay, you ever watch a scene and imagine your own OC’s in it instead? Yeah...it’s probably just me. Anyway, if you haven’t read ASB or watched Angel, you might be a bit lost, but the scene’s still funny.
Angel = Sarah
Spike = Nick
Wesley = Alpha or James
Don’t ask, I had too much caffeine today...
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
#if you get this reference i love you#if not still vote#spike#angel#spangel#btvs#cavemen#astronauts#cavemen vs astronauts
6 notes
·
View notes
Text
Let’s settle this age old question. No weapons for either side.
1 note
·
View note
Text
Angel the Series | 5x15 | The great cavemen vs astronauts debate of '04
#angel#angel the series#Ats#Spike#Wesley Wyndam Pryce#Wesley Wyndam-Pryce#dailyats#atsedit#buffyverse#buffysource#spikedaily#tvedit#spike x angel#slayerdaily#ats 5x15#mine#my gifs
1K notes
·
View notes
Text
wes!illyria asks! collecting them into one place here:
they would have been incredible! their illyria and wes duologues are already really great and have this play-like feel to them. i always thought there was a sort of rosencrantz and guildenstern vibe there, and in my s5 au with infinite resources we're hiring sir tom stoppard to write a bunch of arcadia-style, physics-themed conversations between them on grief and being. what do you mean he has better things to do then write for my fantasy tv show
this is true! i was just thinking that in the fic i'd like to write, i really want fred taking a physicist's approach to her grief, getting into stuff like multiverses and chaos theory as a way to cope. really hammer home the astronauts vs. cavemen metaphor, yknow
i always interpreted it as him getting flustered because of the "guess i've always had a thing for older women" thing, which is honestly a wild thing to say in front of a bunch of strangers lmao!
yeah, he's american! i think i'd personally keep the accent because it's more devastating the more similar illyria is to her shell. i also always interpreted fred!illyria as having an american accent because... muscle memory, i guess? idk, i feel like there's a lot of interesting questions to explore about where illyria's host ends and where she begins.
(ie. pronouns, for instance! i'm partial to the [not necessarily canon-compliant] headcanon that illyria was worshiped as a god of incomprehensible demon gender which best aligns with she/her in modern english, but is ultimately divorced from the body she's in. i just like the gender fuckery of wes!illyria using she/her, though he/him wes!illyria also accomplishes something similar in a different way. which, to go back to the original question: how much of illyria is innate? how much does she absorb the 'essence' of her host? how much does she absorb other people's interpretations of her host? these are the questions that keep me up at night.)
#thank you for entertaining my rambling i have a Lot of Thoughts about this#i desperately need to organize the slideshow i'm making about s5 that has already hit 16 pages#also my other reasoning for she/her wes!illyria is. tbh. the toxic yuri of it all#ask#wes!illyria#<- gonna be tagging all related stuff with that#angel the series#ats
29 notes
·
View notes
Text
Joss Whedon and Alfred Hitchcock have made significant contributions to pop culture and both had to watch their products get polluted by their behaviour forever however Angelus and Spike, astronaut vs cavemen, sophistication vs brute force, all great questions, great characters who I have drawn here wrapped up in @pr3ttyflyforahentai because she is the stuff of dreams
15 notes
·
View notes
Text
Times change, trends evolve - the "cavemen vs astronauts" of yesteryear becomes the "one of every Pokemon vs 8 billion lions" of today.
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
last day of con :) didn’t get a pic with james this time BUT went to his panel and we had a good long 5 minute chat about cavemen vs astronauts (he shares my opinion about cavemen winning!!!), his role in chance (HES DOING MORE WORK WITH AMBER SOON) and how he misses theatre :] i’ll try uploading the video later
#honestly i’m so happy#bc last time i barely got to say a word#and yes i took up a LOT of the q&a time but i mean…#i was nervous but it was literally like talking to a friend he’s so lovely#literally was like I LOVED UR ROLE IN CHANCE and he was ecstatic#giles talks#will talk more ab this later
13 notes
·
View notes
Photo
GOOD MORNING, LIKERS!!! How is the week #going so far?
Yesterday, I mentioned surprises. After all this was my #birthday week. So how about we begin...shall we?
For #starters...how about a contest?
The prize? A signed copy of my latest book in the DARKENED series...DARKENED TABULA!!!
One of my favorite episodes of the tv show ANGEL involved a running joke/debate that ran throughout. I even did a #college essay on it. The debate? Astronauts vs cavemen. We are just going to put a twist on that.
STAR #TREK VS STAR WARS!!! Which do you prefer and why? Go to www.facebook.com/writerguygothic, like the post there, and post your answer.
And...make it fun. ;)
0 notes
Note
So you’ve tackled “could the Animorphs beat a Xenomorph,” but what about “could the Animorphs beat a Yautja?”
I'm going to vote for the Animorphs on this one. If Tobias can instantly spot a chee disguised as a rock (#27), one who is so well-disguised that a human could sit on that rock and never know anything, then Tobias can almost certainly see through Predator camouflage. We get those little hints of motion blur each time the Predator moves, presumably as the shielding is taking a second to catch up. So if a human can somewhat see one sometimes, then it seems reasonable that a raptor can always spot one.
Assuming that the Yautja attacks after Ax has a snake morph, then the Animorphs will also have an advantage in understanding how they're being hunted and adapting accordingly. Snakes are the obvious answer for blending in temperature-wise, but bugs could work too.
So: if Tobias can see the Predator, anyone with wolf or dog morph can track the Predator, and Ax can hide from the Predator... This one seems like an easy-ish win for Team Animorph.
#animorphs#predator#cavemen vs. astronauts#alien vs. predator#literally just basing this on Predator (1987)#if other people know the lore better then please do weigh in
35 notes
·
View notes
Text
Otp Meme Funniest Moments (1/3)
It's bollocks, Angel! It's your brand of bollocks from first to last.
You can’t ever see the big picture. You can’t see any picture.
#otp meme#*my gifs*#spangel#a:ts s5ep15#a hole in the world#cavemen vs astronauts#spike x angel#dailyats
128 notes
·
View notes
Text
OOC Post:
// I got bored again. And yes I made Spike's dialogue more American.
@rabbitripper
#cavemen vs astronauts#angel#angel the series#ats#the vampire diaries#tvd#crossover rp#stefan as angel#damon as spike#alaric as wesley#did stefan and damon ever have a fight like this?
39 notes
·
View notes
Text
thinking about ats and how I love Winifred Burkle so much but I honestly really like the whole Illyria storyline lol
#the cavemen vs astronauts the science vs ancient primeval forces#“THE CAVEMEN ALWAYS WIN#Illyria the ancient force wins no matter how hard they try#AND THE FACT THAT ITS BASICALLY FOR NOTHING#all of them having to talk to this being who resides in the body of someone they all loved#it’s fucked up#it’s cruel and I love it lol#a hole in the world is just such a great episode to me#I UGLY cried my first watch#lornes face when Fred sings is SO chilling#Amy and Alexis are just SO GOOD it’s heartbreaking#and the fact that they got so little time together#why can’t I stay? will ALWAYS fuck me up#and I know people are like blehh fuck Joss for doing this to another female character all for Wesley’s man pain but like….#I still like it lol#and like Wesley dies at the end anyways so it’s not even like he carries on happily after#he dies and he and Fred can’t even be together in the afterlife#I get why people don’t like it#I’m just a glutton for the pain honestly#winifred burkle#wesley wyndam pryce#angel the series
8 notes
·
View notes
Text
Only disappointment this episode is that the mauled by a bear vs stung by bees discussion could have become this massive running gag like they did on Angel's 'Hole in the World' with the Astronauts vs Cavemen discussion because honestly fav.
6 notes
·
View notes
Last Seen Blogs
nareku
XXXx
aglennco
AGLENNCO
destona323
Destona32
grymrot
The Strange & Unusual
araeofdrawings
Oodles of Doodles