Robotech Crossover question

[taalismn]

Sinestro: "Halloween SUCKS."
Luthor: "Why?"
Sinestro: "Nobody would take us seriously if we drrssed up like good guus."
Edwards: "No kidding."
Kyle: "I wanna be a superhero..."

"Look! It's LOSERMAN and his sidekick WUSSPUPPY!"
"...ah, which is which?"
"It's your damn fault we lost to Forbush Man."
"Ya'know, I really HATE this whole 'karmic connection' to you, Edwards."

[Alpha 11]

Minmei: "I AM NOT A PSYCHO!!" (Opening fire with a multi-barrel, gatling-style railgun...)

Sinestro: "HOLY S**T!! SHE'S LOST HER FREAKING MIND!!"
Minmei: "I AM PERFECTLY FINE!!"

I'm not so monomaniacially anti-Minmei that I think she'd be still so utterly self-absorbed throughout her life.
If she'd been caught young enough, she might not have turned into Little Miss Relationship-Stringer.
And later in life it's been implied that she suffered HARD at the hands of Edwards and his gang; provided she doesn't just go catatonic and disappear off the storyline, I could see her becoming a different person. Whether or not she has enough life ahead of her to do anything with that changed life, though, is questionable. I mean, look at Rick, who wasn't much older than her, and he's not aged well, given the strain on him.
I think I mentioned the old indie comic from the days when HG was loose with the license and was letting the comics licensees run wild with the franchise into abomination territory. One of mention had a page or two of a late-life Minmei, clearly scarred, but a lot more sedate and composed, as the apparent head of a Torol-based music conservatory. It's the image I have most in mind for a UEsG Minmei.....has a life long enough to potentially overcome whatever Edwards did to her, find a man she can be comfortable with, and settle down to being competent at something rather than glamorous, and find usefulness rather than celebrity. She'll have her own cross-dimensional adventures, in ways that don't dredge up the past and don't require her to be the Minmei of the past.

In the same vein, I see Bloopers Minmei as a more comic take on UEsG Minmei, with a life of her own, some crazy adopted kids, and a very extreme bipolarism, ranging mentally and physically from the much put-upon self-centered man-seeking airhead of fancanon, then mutating into the uber-kickass, take-no-prisoners, don't-call-me-airhead Hulk-mei or pagan idol singer(it helps that her airhead phase lasts long enough that everybody thinks she's finally gone into 'default mode' for her and they comfortably forget(post-traumatic amnesia) her killer-competent side when she overturns local organized crime syndicates for fun, and settles old scores all over again.
It's contrast shock when she snaps into psycho mode.

Kinda like the T-shirt version.

Minmei: "I was going through some bad phases..."

But at least she's Still Trying.

Never thought I'd see that type of T-shirt.

Sinestro: "HOLY S**T!! SHE'S LOST HER FREAKING MIND!!"
Minmei: "I AM PERFECTLY FINE!!"

Minmei: "I just have issues.."
Everybody:Else: "YOU HAVE SUBSCRIPTIONS!!!!!"
Minmei: "Yep, to Idol Singers' Weekly, Dexter's Journal of Applied Homicide, Home and Cult Temple,....""...we are so not surprised..."

[Alpha 11]

Luthor: "I think she's pretty mental...even for US..."
Sinestro: "She SCARES me..."
The Joker: "I could be mistaken...but I don't think she's all there..."
Harley: "I think she's COOL."
Luthor, Sinestro and The Joker:
Harley: "What?"

And don't forget the craziest one of all, Deadpool!

Luthor: "I think she's pretty mental...even for US..."
Sinestro: "She SCARES me..."
The Joker: "I could be mistaken...but I don't think she's all there..."
Harley: "I think she's COOL."
Luthor, Sinestro and The Joker:
Harley: "What?"

Girls' Night Out?
Girls' Night Out.

Nova: (Facepalming) "Ok who was the genius who put those two in the same cell?"

Everyone looks at Pvt. Doppler...

Nova: (Facepalming) "Ok who was the genius who put those two in the same cell?"

Everyone looks at Pvt. Doppler...

Pvt Doppler: "Don't look at me for this! I died early, remember? Blame someone else! Blame that Darkraven guy; people LIKE blaming him for stuff."

Trudge-trudge-trudge
Darkraven's on backwaters patrol(not really disciplinary action, but it just FEELS like it, and everybody knows when you're assigned to backwaters patrol, it's because the Higher Ups want you to cool down, and there's a shortage of desks to be filled)
klopklopklopKlopKLOPKLOPKLOP(whinney of horse)
Darkraven: (looking at the huge black horse with the headless rider looming over him) "Looking for a head? Try Schmidt's Bar and Knockwurst Grill about six miles down that-a-way. Booth in the back. Last I saw, he was on his fifth beer and arguing with some sea captain with a peg leg. If you hurry, you might be able to take him home before he makes good on his threat to bite somebody's nose off."
Trudge-trudge-trudge
(the horseman just pauses there, and the horse looks after the figure marching away into the night, seems to shrug, then whirls and goes galloping in the indicating direction)

Minmei: "Hmm, maybe I'll go as Elsa this year?"

Sinestro: "Halloween SUCKS."
Luthor: "Why?"
Sinestro: "Nobody would take us seriously if we drrssed up like good guus."
Edwards: "No kidding."
Kyle: "I wanna be a superhero..."

Sinestro: "Halloween SUCKS."
Luthor: "Why?"
Sinestro: "Nobody would take us seriously if we drrssed up like good guus."
Edwards: "No kidding."
Kyle: "I wanna be a superhero..."

"Look! It's LOSERMAN and his sidekick WUSSPUPPY!"
"...ah, which is which?"
"It's your damn fault we lost to Forbush Man."
"Ya'know, I really HATE this whole 'karmic connection' to you, Edwards."

[wyrmraker]

Sorry if I'm getting a little repetitive. Just trying to get the arc up tio speed as I wrap up the section. I think I have two more to go after this one.
***
Breetai smiled. Finally he'd been in a battle that had truly tested his abilities, He missed field duty. And the Kryptonian had been worth his time.

The damage he'd taken had been grevious, although easily repaired once he'd gotten to the infirmary. The Kryptonian, however, was less fortunate. Left arm broken in two places, cracked jaw, concussion (Breetai had REALLY enjoyed slamming his opponent face-first into the deck, walls, and armored drop pods). Fortunately the man's physiology was similar enough to humans that he could be slowly repaired.

While in the infirmary, Breetai had gotten reports on the other combatants involved. Wonder Woman had had her heart torn from her chest, but was rushed to ICU for surgery. Hal Jordan was unconscious, but alive and relatively unharmed. Power Girl and Supergirl were mostly heavily bruised, whereas Sinestro had actually surrendered, and Shazam had somehow been turned into a twelve year old boy.

Breetai had frowned at that. He had been unaware that Darkraven had such a mystical weapon in his personal inventory.

Then there was the second wave. Cyborg had come out of his battle with the Bolos looking shaken, and just quietly surrendered. Killer Frost had been decapitated. The undead giant Solomon Grundy's pieces had been gathered up, stuffed into a garbage disposal sled, and the sled was now on a one way trip to Barnard's Star. Bane had been neutralized, the cyberneticists having been able to remove the drug dispenser from the man's skull. Giganta had been shrunken down, and was in ICU after the massive battle on the planetoid's surface. Cheetah was already up and prowling around in her cell, her abilities somehow interfered with by a device brought in by one of the allies.

As for the allies, Breetai was irritated at the loss of several good men. Getting quality troops for Dimensional Knocker security was always difficult, since said men had to be iron-willed to almost the point of insanity.

Lady Shiva was in surgery for her many wounds, but even drugged she wore a smile that couldn't be removed with anything short of a sandblaster. Harley Quinn was enjoying all the attention being paid to her by some marines, while her hyenas were being tended to by the station's physicians. Nothing serious, but Bane had cracked a few ribs on them. Reports stated that they were actually quite friendly.

The 'Bat Clan', as Two-Bears was calling them, hadn't been injured at all in the melee. Red Hood was in the bar, still flirting with female corpsmen, Red Robin had been going over the video feeds of the fighting, and Black Bat was busy avoiding flirtation by many, MANY amorous marines. She was currently hiding out in the quiet of Darkraven's quarters.

As for their own side, seventeen marines were dead, forty-one wounded, mostly at the claws of Cheetah. Desdemona was in Critical Recovery for potential neural overload thanks to her fight with Giganta, and Aleph Squad, irritated that they missed an epic battle, were still off dimension under the command of Deathstroke. Reports stated that the Dimensional Knocker wouldn't return to alignment with that dimension for a week, so Aleph was stuck there. Breetai had no doubt that they would make an excellent accounting of themselves.

Grunting against the stiffness of freshly regrown muscle, he got up, eager to begin the interrogations. He wouldn't be the only one interrogating, and he couldn't wait to see what the Regime had to say for itself.

[taalismn]

Aleph Squad----First In, First Blood, but Last Ones Standing.

[Arnie100]

Chief Toombs: "What about us?"

(Everyone breaks out laughing...)

[taalismn]

Chief Toombs: "What about us?"

(Everyone breaks out laughing...)

Mauve Squadron: First Out, First to Pass Out at the Sight of Blood, Last Ones Holding the Bag.

[Arnie100]

Chief Toombs: "But we're professionals, too!"
"Professional WHAT?"

[taalismn]

Chief Toombs: "But we're professionals, too!"
"Professional WHAT?"

"If projectile vomiting were an Olympic sport, you'd serve your country well."
---Arthur

[Alpha 11]

Sorry if I'm getting a little repetitive. Just trying to get the arc up tio speed as I wrap up the section. I think I have two more to go after this one.
***
Breetai smiled. Finally he'd been in a battle that had truly tested his abilities, He missed field duty. And the Kryptonian had been worth his time.

The damage he'd taken had been grevious, although easily repaired once he'd gotten to the infirmary. The Kryptonian, however, was less fortunate. Left arm broken in two places, cracked jaw, concussion (Breetai had REALLY enjoyed slamming his opponent face-first into the deck, walls, and armored drop pods). Fortunately the man's physiology was similar enough to humans that he could be slowly repaired.

While in the infirmary, Breetai had gotten reports on the other combatants involved. Wonder Woman had had her heart torn from her chest, but was rushed to ICU for surgery. Hal Jordan was unconscious, but alive and relatively unharmed. Power Girl and Supergirl were mostly heavily bruised, whereas Sinestro had actually surrendered, and Shazam had somehow been turned into a twelve year old boy.

Breetai had frowned at that. He had been unaware that Darkraven had such a mystical weapon in his personal inventory.

Then there was the second wave. Cyborg had come out of his battle with the Bolos looking shaken, and just quietly surrendered. Killer Frost had been decapitated. The undead giant Solomon Grundy's pieces had been gathered up, stuffed into a garbage disposal sled, and the sled was now on a one way trip to Barnard's Star. Bane had been neutralized, the cyberneticists having been able to remove the drug dispenser from the man's skull. Giganta had been shrunken down, and was in ICU after the massive battle on the planetoid's surface. Cheetah was already up and prowling around in her cell, her abilities somehow interfered with by a device brought in by one of the allies.

As for the allies, Breetai was irritated at the loss of several good men. Getting quality troops for Dimensional Knocker security was always difficult, since said men had to be iron-willed to almost the point of insanity.

Lady Shiva was in surgery for her many wounds, but even drugged she wore a smile that couldn't be removed with anything short of a sandblaster. Harley Quinn was enjoying all the attention being paid to her by some marines, while her hyenas were being tended to by the station's physicians. Nothing serious, but Bane had cracked a few ribs on them. Reports stated that they were actually quite friendly.

The 'Bat Clan', as Two-Bears was calling them, hadn't been injured at all in the melee. Red Hood was in the bar, still flirting with female corpsmen, Red Robin had been going over the video feeds of the fighting, and Black Bat was busy avoiding flirtation by many, MANY amorous marines. She was currently hiding out in the quiet of Darkraven's quarters.

As for their own side, seventeen marines were dead, forty-one wounded, mostly at the claws of Cheetah. Desdemona was in Critical Recovery for potential neural overload thanks to her fight with Giganta, and Aleph Squad, irritated that they missed an epic battle, were still off dimension under the command of Deathstroke. Reports stated that the Dimensional Knocker wouldn't return to alignment with that dimension for a week, so Aleph was stuck there. Breetai had no doubt that they would make an excellent accounting of themselves.

Grunting against the stiffness of freshly regrown muscle, he got up, eager to begin the interrogations. He wouldn't be the only one interrogating, and he couldn't wait to see what the Regime had to say for itself.

Hope to see at least some of the interrogations. And I hope they win Shazam over.

Aleph Squad----First In, First Blood, but Last Ones Standing.

Nice! Won't mind getting some more info on these guys.

Chief Toombs: "What about us?"

(Everyone breaks out laughing...)

Chief Toombs: "What about us?"

(Everyone breaks out laughing...)

Mauve Squadron: First Out, First to Pass Out at the Sight of Blood, Last Ones Holding the Bag.

Chief Toombs: "But we're professionals, too!"
"Professional WHAT?"

Chief Toombs: "But we're professionals, too!"
"Professional WHAT?"

"If projectile vomiting were an Olympic sport, you'd serve your country well."
---Arthur

[Arnie100]

Chief Toombs: "HEY!!! My squad is just as good as any of yours!!"
Sinestro: "Oh, PLEASE. Even I've heard of you, guys!"
Chief Toombs: "But we ARE..."

[taalismn]

"Winter is coming..."
Sinestro: "Who said that?"

[Alpha 11]

Chief Toombs: "HEY!!! My squad is just as good as any of yours!!"
Sinestro: "Oh, PLEASE. Even I've heard of you, guys!"
Chief Toombs: "But we ARE..."

Here's a tissue.

"Winter is coming..."
Sinestro: "Who said that?"

[Arnie100]

Luthor: "You're hearing things again, Sinestro."
Sinestro: "I SWEAR somebody said something!"

[taalismn]

"And is it getting chilly in here all of a sudden?"
"It's November."
"Yes, but we're having a heatwave of 60+ degrees."
"So you shouldn't be feeling cold."
"Yet I have a chill feeling of foreboding..."
"Your past catching up, maybe..."
"No, this was something new, yet terribly cold...glacially cold.. and glacially old..."
"Maybe, if you're lucky, it will be glacially SLOW as well..."

[Alpha 11]

Luthor: "You're hearing things again, Sinestro."
Sinestro: "I SWEAR somebody said something!"

"And is it getting chilly in here all of a sudden?"
"It's November."
"Yes, but we're having a heatwave of 60+ degrees."
"So you shouldn't be feeling cold."
"Yet I have a chill feeling of foreboding..."
"Your past catching up, maybe..."
"No, this was something new, yet terribly cold...glacially cold.. and glacially old..."
"Maybe, if you're lucky, it will be glacially SLOW as well..."

Darkraven to Nova, "Here is someone I hope to recruit. After that last battle, I thought we could maybe use him." http://anilinkz.tv/one-punch-man-episode-1?src=3 Enjoy!

[SRoss]

Darkraven to Nova, "Here is someone I hope to recruit. After that last battle, I thought we could maybe use him." http://anilinkz.tv/one-punch-man-episode-1?src=3 Enjoy!

Nova: "Well its only fair I give you something in return."

Nova starts singing into Darkraven's open comm...

Meanwhile...

Darkraven: "Arrrggg! Ahhh! The @#$%^& helmet latch is jammed! I can't mute the @#$%^&* Comm!!! Oh God she sings worse then Dana!!!"

[Arnie100]

Dana: "Wait...I can sing." :

(The 15th barracks is suddenly devoid of life)

Dana: "DAMMIT." :

[taalismn]

Doesn't she sing a bit during her momentary hallucination while holding the Protoculture Matrix in the Masters' command chamber?
Oh right...before those mind clones of hers go all squiggley-melt....

[Arnie100]

Darkraven: "I'm gonna need hearing therapy after that racket."
Dana: :

[Alpha 11]

Darkraven to Nova, "Here is someone I hope to recruit. After that last battle, I thought we could maybe use him." http://anilinkz.tv/one-punch-man-episode-1?src=3 Enjoy!

Nova: "Well its only fair I give you something in return."

Nova starts singing into Darkraven's open comm...

Meanwhile...

Darkraven: "Arrrggg! Ahhh! The @#$%^& helmet latch is jammed! I can't mute the @#$%^&* Comm!!! Oh God she sings worse then Dana!!!"

Anyways, did you at least enjoy the episode?

Dana: "Wait...I can sing." :

(The 15th barracks is suddenly devoid of life)

Dana: "DAMMIT." :

Doesn't she sing a bit during her momentary hallucination while holding the Protoculture Matrix in the Masters' command chamber?
Oh right...before those mind clones of hers go all squiggley-melt....

Darkraven: "I'm gonna need hearing therapy after that racket."
Dana: :

[wyrmraker]

Darkraven to himself: Damn. Now I'm going to have to go back to Rifts Earth early and have ANOTHER mental block put in! This is almost as bad as that one night in Monument City!

[SRoss]

Flashback... Monument City...

Darkraven wakes up naked in a dingy hotel room, he can hear the shower and female singing coming from the bathroom.

Darkraven: "Maybe this isn't as bad as I thought."

The singing and the shower stop and the bathroom door opens...

Col. Toombs: (Wearing nothing but a towel) "Morning lover..."

Darkraven:

[Arnie100]

Darkraven: "THAT'S IT!!! I've HAD IT with this place!!! This place is absolutely BONKERS!"

[taalismn]

Mindmelter: "So, care to take advantage of our two-for-one memory erasure deal? Bear in mind, all deals are final, no 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless MInd' hoodoo."

[Alpha 11]

Darkraven to himself: Damn. Now I'm going to have to go back to Rifts Earth early and have ANOTHER mental block put in! This is almost as bad as that one night in Monument City!

Flashback... Monument City...

Darkraven wakes up naked in a dingy hotel room, he can hear the shower and female singing coming from the bathroom.

Darkraven: "Maybe this isn't as bad as I thought."

The singing and the shower stop and the bathroom door opens...

Col. Toombs: (Wearing nothing but a towel) "Morning lover..."

Darkraven:

Mind bleach please...

Darkraven: "THAT'S IT!!! I've HAD IT with this place!!! This place is absolutely BONKERS!"

Mindmelter: "So, care to take advantage of our two-for-one memory erasure deal? Bear in mind, all deals are final, no 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless MInd' hoodoo."

[taalismn]

Alternate Invid Invasions That Have Gone VERY Wrong:

Terran Concordiat:

*** Multiple airborne targets inbound from enemy landing site. They approach my position on obvious attack vectors, apparently intent on overwhelming me by sheer weight of numbers. I engage infinite repeater batteries and sweep them from the sky before turning my attention to the next wave of heavier, slower units coming in nape of the earth, bearing heavier armaments. I devote a full 14.8 seconds to volleying a mix of air-burst aerial mines and smart homing shells via my breech-loading mortars.
I am aware that my fellow Home Guard units are maneuvering into position to both protect urban areas from the sortying enemy mechs and also to engage their landing zones. Above, we are aware of Concordiat cruisers maneuvering to put the main landing zones under direct orbital bombardment. We have made their task easier by destroying several attempts by the enemy to place additional units in orbit by destroying their transports as they ascend. Meant for dealing Melconian warships in near orbit, our Hellrails make short work of the enemy transports. "Shooting skeet' our regimental commander has called it. Not that the enemy mechs would pose much of a problem for the Navy's point defense-in-depth systems.
Already, additional reinforcements are incoming from the Moon and colonies, Additional comrades are arriving via dropsled from orbit, freeing up those units on urban protective detail to redeploy to the mobile reaction forces and relieve the conventional infantry and manned armor attempting to close the gaps in our defensive coverage.
Forward scout units report enemy landing zones are exhibiting generation of protective force shielding. Regimental command orders us to advance and directly engage the enemy positions before their shields can fully deploy. We will see how they handle concentrated close range Hellbore fire.
Our knowledge of this new enemy is limited by what we have learned from the previous attempt at invasion. The Tirolians' database on these 'Invid' is colored by both their obvious prejudices and by the 'Robotech Master's' spiteful desire to deny us any useful tactical data, in revenge for their defeat. It matters little. We will learn and adapt to this new enemy, and defeat them, in defense of Earth. ***

[Arnie100]

Sinestro: "Glad I didn't plan that one."
Luthor: "You couldn't plan your way out of a wet dream."

[taalismn]

Sinestro: "Glad I didn't plan that one."
Luthor: "You couldn't plan your way out of a wet dream."

"It would appear one of the prisoners in Cell Block 17 is trying to smash his way out using the other as a battering ram."

[SRoss]

Macross Island.

Lang: "Ah, frauline Croft. I'll be assigning you to head up the study and translation of all this alien data."

Later, the Invid appear and like the Masters before them encounter a wall of Psycho GUNDAMS.

[taalismn]

"Dahak, this is what? The fourth or fifth bunch of idiots to try to invade Earth? Hello....Imperial Fleet? Battle Planetoids? How many more shows of force do we have to make before they get the message?"

[SRoss]

Howard: (Putting down his drink.) "This is a job for Iron Duck."

[Alpha 11]

Alternate Invid Invasions That Have Gone VERY Wrong:

Terran Concordiat:

*** Multiple airborne targets inbound from enemy landing site. They approach my position on obvious attack vectors, apparently intent on overwhelming me by sheer weight of numbers. I engage infinite repeater batteries and sweep them from the sky before turning my attention to the next wave of heavier, slower units coming in nape of the earth, bearing heavier armaments. I devote a full 14.8 seconds to volleying a mix of air-burst aerial mines and smart homing shells via my breech-loading mortars.
I am aware that my fellow Home Guard units are maneuvering into position to both protect urban areas from the sortying enemy mechs and also to engage their landing zones. Above, we are aware of Concordiat cruisers maneuvering to put the main landing zones under direct orbital bombardment. We have made their task easier by destroying several attempts by the enemy to place additional units in orbit by destroying their transports as they ascend. Meant for dealing Melconian warships in near orbit, our Hellrails make short work of the enemy transports. "Shooting skeet' our regimental commander has called it. Not that the enemy mechs would pose much of a problem for the Navy's point defense-in-depth systems.
Already, additional reinforcements are incoming from the Moon and colonies, Additional comrades are arriving via dropsled from orbit, freeing up those units on urban protective detail to redeploy to the mobile reaction forces and relieve the conventional infantry and manned armor attempting to close the gaps in our defensive coverage.
Forward scout units report enemy landing zones are exhibiting generation of protective force shielding. Regimental command orders us to advance and directly engage the enemy positions before their shields can fully deploy. We will see how they handle concentrated close range Hellbore fire.
Our knowledge of this new enemy is limited by what we have learned from the previous attempt at invasion. The Tirolians' database on these 'Invid' is colored by both their obvious prejudices and by the 'Robotech Master's' spiteful desire to deny us any useful tactical data, in revenge for their defeat. It matters little. We will learn and adapt to this new enemy, and defeat them, in defense of Earth. ***

Wow. Nice. Please add more to this!

Sinestro: "Glad I didn't plan that one."
Luthor: "You couldn't plan your way out of a wet dream."

Sinestro: "Glad I didn't plan that one."
Luthor: "You couldn't plan your way out of a wet dream."

"It would appear one of the prisoners in Cell Block 17 is trying to smash his way out using the other as a battering ram."

Macross Island.

Lang: "Ah, frauline Croft. I'll be assigning you to head up the study and translation of all this alien data."

Later, the Invid appear and like the Masters before them encounter a wall of Psycho GUNDAMS.

That would be interesting to see.

"Dahak, this is what? The fourth or fifth bunch of idiots to try to invade Earth? Hello....Imperial Fleet? Battle Planetoids? How many more shows of force do we have to make before they get the message?"

Howard: (Putting down his drink.) "This is a job for Iron Duck."

[taalismn]

"I never would have thought it, but that lardasss Leonard had a point. He was as bad as General Ross, but after the Zentraedi Rain of Death, he had recent history on his side. And I'm glad he talked me out of destroying my armor and going out of the whole business altogether. Re-equipping the Army of the Southern Cross was worth it, securing the future of humanity."
"And we thank you for it, Mister Stark."
(Cut to footage of various armored ASC troopers on the battlefield, their "War Machined' beefed-armor allowing them to plow through Zentraedi malcontents, Tirolian soldiers, and Invid Troopers, while FLYING ASC troopers are doing the same to Zentraedi power armor, Bioroids, and Invid Scouts. Then the Hulkbuster Battloids come onto the field...)

[Chronicler]

"I never would have thought it, but that lardasss Leonard had a point. He was as bad as General Ross, but after the Zentraedi Rain of Death, he had recent history on his side. And I'm glad he talked me out of destroying my armor and going out of the whole business altogether. Re-equipping the Army of the Southern Cross was worth it, securing the future of humanity."
"And we thank you for it, Mister Stark."
(Cut to footage of various armored ASC troopers on the battlefield, their "War Machined' beefed-armor allowing them to plow through Zentraedi malcontents, Tirolian soldiers, and Invid Troopers, while FLYING ASC troopers are doing the same to Zentraedi power armor, Bioroids, and Invid Scouts. Then the Hulkbuster Battloids come onto the field...)

Leonard: "I do find it odd you backed out of the whole "no building WMD's for profit" thing."

*Tony gives him the stink eye*

(we need a write-up of what if Marvel hero's where on Robotech Earth)

[taalismn]

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(we need a write-up of what if Marvel hero's where on Robotech Earth)

Tiny Stark then proceeds to buy out Leonard's favorite bar just to crank him.


Doesn't necessarily have to be Marvel Superheroes on Robotech Earth. The original Iron Man movie makes little reference, if any, to other superheroes. In the stand-alone setting, Stark Industries was making a bucketload of money selling arms during the Global Civil War, and then afterwards after the SDF-1 crashed, and the Unification ran into problems(SHIELD being on of the UEG agencies formed to fight anti-unification groups like HYDRA, and AIM, which was trying to steal Robotechnology secrets. Tony Stark becomes a superhero briefly before the SDF-1 launch, and spends most of his time fighting global terrorism and cleaning up the mess left him by Stane, who was making money hand over fist selling armaments and leaking robotechnology to terrorists. Lang REALLY wanted Stark on his team, but Tony, being Tony, wants to go his own way. He has a crisis of faith after the Rain of Death, because it was something he couldn't prevent, but Leonard talks him back into joining forces with the UEG on a more permanent basis, and he effectively becomes Leonard's version of Lang after the latter leaves with the SDF-1. Although the two don't get along like Rick and Lang, Tony Stark treats Lonard like he does Nick Fury in canon. and Leonard is a LOT happier that Earth seems to be better defended by the efforts of a guy who could very well be smarter than even brain-boosted Lang.

Avengers Robotech re-introduces the greater body of superheroes into the universe, and introduces the SDF-1 as just another world disruption. Bruce Banner could be a result of independent biomedical research or an early accident with Protoculture. Other alien invasions happen, but they're more X-file incidents, small and contained, and the Asgard are seen as Earth's second contact(though the Asgard know nothing of the Tirolians). Nick Fury is a professional rival of Leonard, as well as General Ross, the three constantly playing each other off against the other. SHIELD has a helicarrier at Macross Island, but it either gets destroyed earlier, or becomes incorporated into the SDF-1. The presence of superheroes doesn't really change the outcome of the Rain of Death much, because there's just so many Zentraedi, even when a greater number defect to Earth's side because the news stories of the Avengers impress the Zentraedi even more than Lynn Kyle's movie 'powers'. Late in the first War, the Asgard MIGHT show up in greater numbers, mistaking the Zentraedi for the legendary giants they're supposed to face at Ragnarok.
In fact, the fact that HYDRA and AIM survive the Rain in their secret fortified bases makes the post Rain world that much more dangerous, and it balances out the greater number of permanent Zentraedi defectors who come over to the UEG's side, and the two terrorist groups actively support the Malcontent movement while carving out their own wasteland empires. SHIELD might wind up infighting with the GMP for dominance.
After than, you can have superheroes like Antman and the like popping up as surviving special operatives or emerging post-Rain vigilantes. New kingdoms could give rise to nationalist superheroes like the Black Panther, who MIGHT be persuaded to join a global force on occasion to deal with a common problem.
And there's always the chance of Bad Things like Bruce Banner completely blowing his cool at seeing the carnage wrought by the Rain of Death and near-permanently Hulking out, going on a wandering rampage of the wastelands, and becoming a problem.
Captain America? He'd work himself half to death helping the survivors and maybe having a crisis of faith, before regaining his mojo and becoming a living symbol of the reconstruction.

The course of events can roughly follow the notes I set up for my 'Mutantech' setting, which would be the next evolution of 'Robotech Meets the X-Men' with protoculture fueling the evolution of superpowers in a mutating population.

The way I see it, though, Marvel superheroes are good at acting as a spot fire brigade than fighting off global-level threats hitting multiple targets around the Earth at once. It would take something on the order of entire Earth ARMIES equipped with Iron Man-style suits to make a real difference against , say, the Robotech Masters or the Invid, or the Avengers would have to make a very LUCKY strike at some vital target, like blasting their way into the Robotech Masters' command deck at the onset of the Second War.

DC would be in much the same sort of situation, though admittedly Superman might be able to take a much greater chunk out of the Zentraedi fleet. Givem, however, that DC had an entire ARC devoted to a hellbent alien INVASION getting fought off, they (Comic Universe DC) might do better than Movie Marvel at dealing with the Grand Fleet. But I'm NOT doing Comic Universe Marvel or Comic Universe DC fighting off Robotech foes here, these are MOVIE versions introduced as part of the Robotech Universe.

In both cases, if the Rain of Death still managed to hammer Earth, there might be a post-Rain backlash along the lines of 'Where were you heroes while we were getting blasted?' that might see many of the surviving heroes forced to hide or go into greater assimilation into groups like the GMP.
Unless, of course, you live in Gotham, in which case the Batman emerges as sort of the overlord of the city, defending it against the lawless forces outside, and establishing Gotham as its own city-state.

[Alpha 11]

"I never would have thought it, but that lardasss Leonard had a point. He was as bad as General Ross, but after the Zentraedi Rain of Death, he had recent history on his side. And I'm glad he talked me out of destroying my armor and going out of the whole business altogether. Re-equipping the Army of the Southern Cross was worth it, securing the future of humanity."
"And we thank you for it, Mister Stark."
(Cut to footage of various armored ASC troopers on the battlefield, their "War Machined' beefed-armor allowing them to plow through Zentraedi malcontents, Tirolian soldiers, and Invid Troopers, while FLYING ASC troopers are doing the same to Zentraedi power armor, Bioroids, and Invid Scouts. Then the Hulkbuster Battloids come onto the field...)

NOW that would be cool to see!

"I never would have thought it, but that lardasss Leonard had a point. He was as bad as General Ross, but after the Zentraedi Rain of Death, he had recent history on his side. And I'm glad he talked me out of destroying my armor and going out of the whole business altogether. Re-equipping the Army of the Southern Cross was worth it, securing the future of humanity."
"And we thank you for it, Mister Stark."
(Cut to footage of various armored ASC troopers on the battlefield, their "War Machined' beefed-armor allowing them to plow through Zentraedi malcontents, Tirolian soldiers, and Invid Troopers, while FLYING ASC troopers are doing the same to Zentraedi power armor, Bioroids, and Invid Scouts. Then the Hulkbuster Battloids come onto the field...)

Leonard: "I do find it odd you backed out of the whole "no building WMD's for profit" thing."

*Tony gives him the stink eye*

(we need a write-up of what if Marvel hero's where on Robotech Earth)

Same here!

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(we need a write-up of what if Marvel hero's where on Robotech Earth)

Tiny Stark then proceeds to buy out Leonard's favorite bar just to crank him.


Doesn't necessarily have to be Marvel Superheroes on Robotech Earth. The original Iron Man movie makes little reference, if any, to other superheroes. In the stand-alone setting, Stark Industries was making a bucketload of money selling arms during the Global Civil War, and then afterwards after the SDF-1 crashed, and the Unification ran into problems(SHIELD being on of the UEG agencies formed to fight anti-unification groups like HYDRA, and AIM, which was trying to steal Robotechnology secrets. Tony Stark becomes a superhero briefly before the SDF-1 launch, and spends most of his time fighting global terrorism and cleaning up the mess left him by Stane, who was making money hand over fist selling armaments and leaking robotechnology to terrorists. Lang REALLY wanted Stark on his team, but Tony, being Tony, wants to go his own way. He has a crisis of faith after the Rain of Death, because it was something he couldn't prevent, but Leonard talks him back into joining forces with the UEG on a more permanent basis, and he effectively becomes Leonard's version of Lang after the latter leaves with the SDF-1. Although the two don't get along like Rick and Lang, Tony Stark treats Lonard like he does Nick Fury in canon. and Leonard is a LOT happier that Earth seems to be better defended by the efforts of a guy who could very well be smarter than even brain-boosted Lang.

Avengers Robotech re-introduces the greater body of superheroes into the universe, and introduces the SDF-1 as just another world disruption. Bruce Banner could be a result of independent biomedical research or an early accident with Protoculture. Other alien invasions happen, but they're more X-file incidents, small and contained, and the Asgard are seen as Earth's second contact(though the Asgard know nothing of the Tirolians). Nick Fury is a professional rival of Leonard, as well as General Ross, the three constantly playing each other off against the other. SHIELD has a helicarrier at Macross Island, but it either gets destroyed earlier, or becomes incorporated into the SDF-1. The presence of superheroes doesn't really change the outcome of the Rain of Death much, because there's just so many Zentraedi, even when a greater number defect to Earth's side because the news stories of the Avengers impress the Zentraedi even more than Lynn Kyle's movie 'powers'. Late in the first War, the Asgard MIGHT show up in greater numbers, mistaking the Zentraedi for the legendary giants they're supposed to face at Ragnarok.
In fact, the fact that HYDRA and AIM survive the Rain in their secret fortified bases makes the post Rain world that much more dangerous, and it balances out the greater number of permanent Zentraedi defectors who come over to the UEG's side, and the two terrorist groups actively support the Malcontent movement while carving out their own wasteland empires. SHIELD might wind up infighting with the GMP for dominance.
After than, you can have superheroes like Antman and the like popping up as surviving special operatives or emerging post-Rain vigilantes. New kingdoms could give rise to nationalist superheroes like the Black Panther, who MIGHT be persuaded to join a global force on occasion to deal with a common problem.
And there's always the chance of Bad Things like Bruce Banner completely blowing his cool at seeing the carnage wrought by the Rain of Death and near-permanently Hulking out, going on a wandering rampage of the wastelands, and becoming a problem.
Captain America? He'd work himself half to death helping the survivors and maybe having a crisis of faith, before regaining his mojo and becoming a living symbol of the reconstruction.

The course of events can roughly follow the notes I set up for my 'Mutantech' setting, which would be the next evolution of 'Robotech Meets the X-Men' with protoculture fueling the evolution of superpowers in a mutating population.

The way I see it, though, Marvel superheroes are good at acting as a spot fire brigade than fighting off global-level threats hitting multiple targets around the Earth at once. It would take something on the order of entire Earth ARMIES equipped with Iron Man-style suits to make a real difference against , say, the Robotech Masters or the Invid, or the Avengers would have to make a very LUCKY strike at some vital target, like blasting their way into the Robotech Masters' command deck at the onset of the Second War.

DC would be in much the same sort of situation, though admittedly Superman might be able to take a much greater chunk out of the Zentraedi fleet. Givem, however, that DC had an entire ARC devoted to a hellbent alien INVASION getting fought off, they (Comic Universe DC) might do better than Movie Marvel at dealing with the Grand Fleet. But I'm NOT doing Comic Universe Marvel or Comic Universe DC fighting off Robotech foes here, these are MOVIE versions introduced as part of the Robotech Universe.

In both cases, if the Rain of Death still managed to hammer Earth, there might be a post-Rain backlash along the lines of 'Where were you heroes while we were getting blasted?' that might see many of the surviving heroes forced to hide or go into greater assimilation into groups like the GMP.
Unless, of course, you live in Gotham, in which case the Batman emerges as sort of the overlord of the city, defending it against the lawless forces outside, and establishing Gotham as its own city-state.

Sweet!! You always do great write ups!

[Arnie100]

Nick Fury (Sam Jackson-style): "Why don't you just walk up these f**kers and (pulls out very large handgun) -- blam blam blam (looking at the three dead Robotech Masters) -- it's that motherf**kin' simple, people!"
Robotech Elders: "WE SURRENDER."
Leonard:
Nick Fury: "That wasn't so hard, now was it?"

Or...

Robotech Masters: "The humans will never be able to penetratr our defenses!! MUAHAHAHAA!!!"

(In the ventilation shaft, a lone figure grins evilly and extends his claws...snikt)

SLICE SLICE SLICE

Logan: (After leaving a path of destruction upon the Masters...) "Never say never, bub!" (And lighting a cigar...)

[taalismn]

Karno: "I do not understand! How can you be having so much trouble with ONE human prisoner?!"
(Wall bulges out next to him)
"HULK SMASH!!!"
Karno: "Oh."

[Arnie100]

Deadpool: "ALRIGHT, YOU B*****DS!! TIME TO -- "
Robotech Masters: "WE SURRENDER!!"
Deadpool: "Aww...I didn't get to kill anyone..."
Robotech Master: "We just didn't wanna hear you babbling."

[Arnie100]

Capt. America: "Y'know Hulk, I overheard one of those guys up there say that you were sissy-boy...of course that's impo --"
Hulk: "HULK NOT SISSY-BOY!! HULK STRAIGHT!!! HULK SMASH!!!"

[taalismn]

Nah, Cap's not mean-spirited enough to use prejudice as a goad...He might say "They called you a wimp", but even that's tongue in cheek because he WAS a hundred-pounds-if-soaking-wet weakling before he got the super soldier serum. Captain America might have grown up in the 30's and 40's, but he's a progressive Norman Rockwellian idealist American. He might be 100% hetereosexual, but he wouldn't hold a person's gender preferences against him.
In the Space Battles thread 'Tony Stark Aims to Please..." the running gag is that old-fashioned Steve Rogers, though not a virgin, is so painfully shy he doesn't even use sexual profanity, and is practically scared witless by the modern liberated women(especially the SHIELD agents) throwing themselves at him. So, of course he winds up having a steady girlfriend in former uber-shy wallflower Jennifer "SheHulk' Walters(she mutates during their first date, much to Steve's shock and Tony's great amusement).

I can imagine Steve 'Cap' Rogers welcoming Tirolian refugees into a citizenship class, after beating the royal snot out of the Guard Triumvirate("He is but one man, and he doesn't even have a gu-"SWAK)..
Of course, the Southern Cross might well resurrect a version of the 'Howling Commandos' and send them in parallel to the 15th during incursions into the Mothership. If the Avengers aren't around then, or aren't divv'ied up among other units that need extra muscle, then Rogers would definitely be part of them.

[taalismn]

Alternate Invid Invasions That Have Gone VERY Wrong:

Terran Concordiat:

*** Multiple airborne targets inbound from enemy landing site. They approach my position on obvious attack vectors, apparently intent on overwhelming me by sheer weight of numbers. I engage infinite repeater batteries and sweep them from the sky before turning my attention to the next wave of heavier, slower units coming in nape of the earth, bearing heavier armaments. I devote a full 14.8 seconds to volleying a mix of air-burst aerial mines and smart homing shells via my breech-loading mortars.
I am aware that my fellow Home Guard units are maneuvering into position to both protect urban areas from the sortying enemy mechs and also to engage their landing zones. Above, we are aware of Concordiat cruisers maneuvering to put the main landing zones under direct orbital bombardment. We have made their task easier by destroying several attempts by the enemy to place additional units in orbit by destroying their transports as they ascend. Meant for dealing Melconian warships in near orbit, our Hellrails make short work of the enemy transports. "Shooting skeet' our regimental commander has called it. Not that the enemy mechs would pose much of a problem for the Navy's point defense-in-depth systems.
Already, additional reinforcements are incoming from the Moon and colonies, Additional comrades are arriving via dropsled from orbit, freeing up those units on urban protective detail to redeploy to the mobile reaction forces and relieve the conventional infantry and manned armor attempting to close the gaps in our defensive coverage.
Forward scout units report enemy landing zones are exhibiting generation of protective force shielding. Regimental command orders us to advance and directly engage the enemy positions before their shields can fully deploy. We will see how they handle concentrated close range Hellbore fire.
Our knowledge of this new enemy is limited by what we have learned from the previous attempt at invasion. The Tirolians' database on these 'Invid' is colored by both their obvious prejudices and by the 'Robotech Master's' spiteful desire to deny us any useful tactical data, in revenge for their defeat. It matters little. We will learn and adapt to this new enemy, and defeat them, in defense of Earth. ***

Wow. Nice. Please add more to this! :

There's not a terrible amount known about Keith Laumer's Terran Concordiat's space-based abilities, aside from what follow-up authors have hinted at, and a line I've taken to heart from the xover fanfiction 'Caught by the Bolo' where the Bolo compares the nuclear barrage unleashed by three Cylon Basestars as paltry compared to what a Terran light cruiser could put out. Given the sheer slaughter handed out during Operation Ragnarok, and the fact that, unlike Starfleet, the Concordiat has to invest in OBSCENELY heavily armed ground forces(such as the Bolos), we can assume that their ships are expected to fight their way through SERIOUS surface to space defenses in order to start bombarding.
Since there's little evidence of fighters deployed as major fleet weapons, and if the Bolos are any indication, TC ships likely have HELLACIOUS point defenses for dealing with enemy missile spam. The Zentraedi and the Masters might be rather effective against them, since they heavily use capital ship energy weapons, but sending mecha against TC ships would be shoveling your troops to the slaughter, Ship-based 'infinite repeater' batteries would wipe them out. The Invid would be skeet-shot like a flock of ducks flying into the path of a Phalanx CIWS. It would take something like the Regis going full-phoenix to smash them, but that would give the Bolos time on the ground to get entrenched and start taking out Hives.

[Arnie100]

Nah, Cap's not mean-spirited enough to use prejudice as a goad...He might say "They called you a wimp", but even that's tongue in cheek because he WAS a hundred-pounds-if-soaking-wet weakling before he got the super soldier serum. Captain America might have grown up in the 30's and 40's, but he's a progressive Norman Rockwellian idealist American. He might be 100% hetereosexual, but he wouldn't hold a person's gender preferences against him.
In the Space Battles thread 'Tony Stark Aims to Please..." the running gag is that old-fashioned Steve Rogers, though not a virgin, is so painfully shy he doesn't even use sexual profanity, and is practically scared witless by the modern liberated women(especially the SHIELD agents) throwing themselves at him. So, of course he winds up having a steady girlfriend in former uber-shy wallflower Jennifer "SheHulk' Walters(she mutates during their first date, much to Steve's shock and Tony's great amusement).

I can imagine Steve 'Cap' Rogers welcoming Tirolian refugees into a citizenship class, after beating the royal snot out of the Guard Triumvirate("He is but one man, and he doesn't even have a gu-"SWAK)..
Of course, the Southern Cross might well resurrect a version of the 'Howling Commandos' and send them in parallel to the 15th during incursions into the Mothership. If the Avengers aren't around then, or aren't divv'ied up among other units that need extra muscle, then Rogers would definitely be part of them.

Cap actually did in the Ultimates. That's where I got the idea.http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzywho3vxT1qewl6m.jpg

[taalismn]

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Cap actually did in the Ultimates. That's where I got the idea.

Maybe he was having an off-day. Or he was practicing Saotome School Trash Talking.
Frankly though, Bruce probably WANTED to be ####ed off, and a baseless accusation was as good an excuse as any to go use the bad guys as squeeze-balls.

[SRoss]

Robotech Master #1: "The micronians will never overcome our power."

Robotech Master #2: "Wait! Why does that fourth muse look different from her sisters?"

Robotech Master #3: "FOURTH MUSE!?!"

Black Widow whips out her guns and caps the Masters...

[Arnie100]

[
Cap actually did in the Ultimates. That's where I got the idea.

Maybe he was having an off-day. Or he was practicing Saotome School Trash Talking.
Frankly though, Bruce probably WANTED to be ####ed off, and a baseless accusation was as good an excuse as any to go use the bad guys as squeeze-balls.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzywho3vxT1qewl6m.jpg Wiped out an invading alien fleet after that.

[taalismn]

Robotech Master #1: "The micronians will never overcome our power."

Robotech Master #2: "Wait! Why does that fourth muse look different from her sisters?"

Robotech Master #3: "FOURTH MUSE!?!"

Black Widow whips out her guns and caps the Masters...

Coulda been worse...coulda been Agent Cheesecake.

[Arnie100]

Robotech Master #1: "The micronians will never overcome our power."

Robotech Master #2: "Wait! Why does that fourth muse look different from her sisters?"

Robotech Master #3: "FOURTH MUSE!?!"

Black Widow whips out her guns and caps the Masters...

Coulda been worse...coulda been Agent Cheesecake.

Or Spongebob

[taalismn]

Agent Cheesecake (http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Cheesecake_(LMD)_(Earth-616) ) was a SHIELD Life Model Decoy/Android who essentially seduced enemies(easy enough to do, considering her signature garb was a swimsuit and boots, and she had a figure like a supermodel'shttp://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/4/47/Agent_Cheesecake_(Earth-616).jpg/revision/latest?cb=20070407005713). Given how the 15th on their first incursion into the RM Mothership speculate that the Tirolians are biosystem androids, it would be ironic if the Earth infiltrated the Masters' society using LMDs.