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==Examples== ===List of Confirmed Capes=== <!-- alphabetic order--> *[[Ashley Stillons]]<ref name="II18.6 eOffense">There were capes with the sort of power where it didn’t matter what the fuck they were shooting, they’d put a hole in that something. Damsel’s power was like that. So was Foil’s. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/03 Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.6]]</ref> <small>(Confirmed by [[Wildbow]]<ref name=R2 /><ref name="SBashley e1">'''Wildbow:''' :i really doubt ashley can pop sibby Ashley could pop Siberian<br>It's why she came up as a possible thing in relation to Sleeper<br>Ashley was named in a WoG a while back talking about the 'anything but' powers and stuff like Alexandria Invulnerability. - Comment by Wildbow on Discord, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/62429974 archived on Spacebattles]</ref>)</small> *[[Clockblocker]]<ref name="26.5 eConflict" /> <small>(Confirmed by Wildbow<ref name=R1/>)</small> *[[Contessa]] <small>(Confirmed by Wildbow<ref name=R1>'''Torrieltar:''' How fast can Path to Victory react to unforeseen changes?<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' All changes are foreseen, as a rule. Can't cite anything, but there's a line that sorta appears in the story, where you run into the perfects (perfect defense, perfect offense) and stuff gets fucky - and the rule of thumb is that 'unless your ability beats -everything-, it doesn't beat this'. For processing power Contessa's ability would be on this level (as with Flechette's Sting, Clockblocker's inviolability, Siberian's invulnerability). - [https://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/5jmo6d/_/dbnr64k/ Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>)</small> *[[Eidolon]]<ref>A series of neon green concentric circles exploded outward from a point in the sky above, rippling out to disappear over each horizon. Eidolon had engaged one Alexandria-clone, and whatever he’d done seemed to have finished her off. One left.<br>[...]<br>Another circle exploded across the sky. Alexandria-clone-two was down. Legend and Eidolon descended in Echidna’s direction, keeping a healthier distance.<br><br>Whatever Eidolon had been hitting the clones with, considering the area it was covering and the fact that it was apparently taking ''Alexandria'' out of action, it suggested a kind of attack that couldn’t be used near the ground, because it might have leveled whole sections of the city. - [[Scourge 19.7]]</ref><ref name="24.4e2">Phir Sē’s portal opened beneath Behemoth’s feet, aimed upward, and a plume of light speared into the sky, consuming Behemoth, covering him.<br><br>Eidolon’s power held. He’d had the situation explained, had been given time to let his power build up to full strength, and his passenger had supplied something with a durability on par with Clockblocker’s ability. Inviolable.<br><br>“That’ll do,” Imp said, quiet. The light continued to flow upward, a narrow column no more than fifty feet across, billowing out only slightly as it reached the top of Eidolon’s barrier, parting smoke and clouds in a circular ring, revealing the intensely blue sky above. The entire sky seemed to brighten as the light dissipated beyond our atmosphere.<br><br>Phir Sē’s light faded, and the barrier collapsed.<br><br>Dust continued to fill the area, plumes of it.<br><br>Behemoth lurched forward.<br><br>Not quite Behemoth, but a skeleton, something like a skeleton. Emaciated, a black-red frame dripping with ichor, it had all of the key features, the basic underlying structure with the horns and the gaping mouth, the claws and the way the shoulders were broad enough to host his bulky frame, but a good eighty percent of him had been torn away, shredded. A skeleton covered in a veneer of meat. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/ Excerpt] from [[Crushed 24.4]]</ref> [Depends on held powers at a given moment] <small>(Confirmed by Wildbow<ref name=R2/><ref>'''Cvde:''' What power did Eidolon equip to defeat Alexandria's clone so quickly?<br>[...]<br>'''Wildbow:''' Something along the lines of a damsel, scrub, or foil shot, cede - Conversation with Wildbow on Discord, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/17497077 archived on Spacebattles]</ref>)</small> *[[Glaistig Uaine]]<ref>Gray Boys.<br><br>She’d gone through a phase, hunting down some of the scariest capes around, defeating them, claiming them.<br><br>This was one.<br><br>Scion was trapped in a time well, turning monochrome.<br><br>Without any apparent effort, he broke free of the effect, shattering it.<br><br>Only to be frozen again. - [[Extinction 27.5]]</ref> [Depends on shadows at a given moment] <small>(Confirmed by Wildbow<ref name=R2>Siberian, Damsel, Scrub, Flechette, and Grey Boy are Worm capes at the 'if anything can penetrate that defense, these guys penetrate that defense' level of attack. Eidolon and Glaistig Uaine have such attacks in their toolkits.<br>[...]<br>Alexandria is basically a superman expy with top tier (beaten only by people in the first paragraph) durability and a super brain that's picked up martial arts. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/5qnn3s/_/dd0nhco/ Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>)</small> *[[Gray Boy]] <small>(Confirmed by Wildbow<ref name=R2/>)</small> *[[Hookline]]<ref>“He’s in the company of Hookline. Minor mover, has a hundred-foot long cable he telekinetically controls. It can’t be broken or damaged, short of some very select powers, and it will shake off or slip free of a lot of things that would snag or impede another weapon. Frost, hands that try to grab it. So don’t try. It moves faster and acts like a whip, so be super careful if a fight happens. There’s a hook on the end, and he’s most dangerous if you’re at or just inside that hundred foot limit of his range where the hook is flying around. Which brings me to my next point.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/02/10/ Excerpt] from [[Shade 4.5]]</ref> <small>(Confirmed by power conflict with [[Clockblocker]]'s power<ref name=clockline/>)</small> *[[Scrub]] <small>(Confirmed by Wildbow<ref name=R2/>)</small> *[[Siberian]]<ref name="26.5 eConflict" /> <small>(Confirmed by Wildbow<ref name=R1/><ref name=R2/>)</small> *[[The Subway Cluster]] [e.g., [[Flechette]]/Foil,<ref name="II18.6 eOffense" /> [[March]]<ref>“I’m invulnerable,” Caryatid growls.<br><br>“I blow up invulnerable people,” their March answers.<br><br>“She does,” Vista says. “Go. Run. Make sure everyone’s on the same page.” - [[Heavens 12.all]]</ref><ref name="reddit eMarchToo">The likes of Scrub, Damsel, Foil, or March would be able to damage Alexandria. - Wildbow on Reddit, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/34159831 archived on Spacebattles]</ref>] <small>(Confirmed by Wildbow<ref name=R1/><ref name=R2/> and charged weapon power conflict<ref name="II12.x eConflict">March was the first to move. A dash forward, weapon thrusting. Foil’s weapon shimmered before it met March’s. A small, localized explosion marked the conflict between the two powers, each nullifying the other. - [[Heavens 12.x]]</ref>)</small> *The (unnamed) [[Blaster]] from [[Lord of Loss]]'s group <small>(Confirmed by power conflict with [[Foil]]'s power<ref name="II11.7 eConflict">Foil turned the spider-mounted crossbow around to fire, and the blaster threw something to their feet- crystal encased them, freezing them immobile within for less than a second. It was less than a second because Foil’s shot hit the crystal and both the bolt and the crystal shattered. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/01/12/ Excerpt] from [[Blinding 11.7]]</ref>)</small> *[[Torso]]<ref name="II20.7 eTorsoHeadbutt" /><ref>To keep my forcefield going, I used Torso as something of a human shield, drawing the limbs in. Chunks of concrete struck his giant head and upper body and bounced off, with no harm done. When I tried to reorient, he nearly tore free of my grip again. - [[Last 20.7]]</ref> <small>(Confirmed by Wildbow<ref>'''helljack666:''' Torso is an Armor+Negate+Immortal Brute by Weaverdice Logic, right?<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' I wouldn't normally mix three together.<br>Shield rather than armor, since it's partial protection only protecting against hits to certain parts.<br>Shield x Negate. - [https://old.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/fd80aj/_/fjg243r/ Conversation] with Wildbow on Reddit</ref><ref>'''Negate''' brutes offer all-or-nothing measures, often with matching offense.<br>They arise from ''other'', ''massive'' damage, and from ''horror''. - BRUTE, document by Wildbow</ref><!-- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DPhRna0e7Ed1LGnOm40Vrcqu2mk_2wijE6jQaWP1TAU/edit#heading=h.yvz8rkqnfw0j -->)</small><!--100% negate, knocks down Titans--> ===List of Speculative Capes=== *[[Birdbrain]] <small>([[Victoria]] believed this cape qualified for All-or-Nothing accuracy, but [[Bluestocking]] disagreed<ref name="II11.1 eDefinition" />)</small> *[[Chort]] <small>([[Mama Mathers]] believed his physical strength surpasses [[Alexandria]];<ref>“Come, look up at me,” she told Chevalier. She put a hand at his chin, and Chort helped her, forcing Chevalier’s head up until it couldn’t move any further. Chort wore a wolf pelt with goat horns over head and shoulders, and despite being only sixteen, was strong on a level that surpassed even heroes like Alexandria. When he moved, he did so with care. To him, Chevalier was like eggshell. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/10 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.z II]]</ref><ref name=R2/> however, he was still presumably defeated by members of the [[Mall Cluster]]<ref>Then they saw Rain, with Love Lost and Colt. Colt was covered in dust. Chevalier and his team followed behind. - [[Interlude 15.z II]]</ref>)</small> *[[Clairvoyant]] <small>([[Doctor Mother]] believed he could see anyone/everyone,<ref>One caveat to two-six-five’s ability to grant visions was that it left the recipient on bedrest for a week, dazed and weak. It was ''potent'', capable of viewing wide areas or multiple things at once, viewing other universes, whole cities, anyone or everyone. - [[Interlude 28]]</ref> but tinker devices from [[the Taught]] could block his sight<ref name="blind">I reached out to place a portal in Teacher’s camp, right behind him. I hit a barrier, a dead zone I couldn’t affect.<br><br>Some tinker device was blocking my clairvoyant, which was blocking Doormaker in turn.<br>[...]<br>The only real limitation was a set of blind spots, identical to the one that had hovered over Teacher’s base of operations. I could work around that. - [[Speck 30.3]]</ref>)</small> *The (unnamed) lizard-demon [[Fallen]] <small>([[Victoria]] speculated this cape's immobile statue body was invincible after hitting it;<ref>I twisted around, exerting force against the immobile obsidian statue, and she came to life, stumbling back, just as I saw the attacker behind me freeze.<br><br>One attacker, with two bodies. Whatever one wasn’t active was immobile and apparently invincible. Whichever one was active had enhanced speed and the strength that came with hitting things very fast.<br>[...]<br>The lizard-demon Fallen charged after me again, in lieu of answer. I lashed out, and she became statue. It was like hitting something Clockblocker-affected, from my hometown’s old Wards team. No result, nothing got through. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/24 Excerpt] from [[Pitch 6.4]]</ref> however, [[Swansong]] destroyed the statue body without issue<ref>She used her power, and it tore through the statue, ripping it apart. Ashley was thrust away by the blast, and she landed not very far from where the lizard Fallen had dropped to the mud and grass, sitting there in shock.<br><br>Ashley hadn’t been lying when she’d suggested her power could hurt me. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/24 Excerpt] from [[Pitch 6.4]]</ref>)</small> ===List of Capes that are close but not All-or-Nothing=== *[[Sleeper]] <small>(His power is not perfect as capes that are [[Changer]]s or have special brains are known countermeasures,<ref name="II16.2 e1" /> offensive or defensive All-or-Nothing powers are also countermeasures,<ref name="II16.2 e1" /> [[Wildbow]] speculates [[Torso]] could beat Sleeper<ref name="discord eTorsoStraightFight">'''SteelRadiance:''' someone was memeing about Torso killing the Sleeper, and Wildbow was all "yeah, I guess so"<br><br>'''kippos:''' Remember that it's talking about someone airdropping torso onto Sleeper's head<br>Not a straight fight<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Straight fight, I think Torso could win.<br>More so than the airdrop. - Comment by Wildbow on Discord</ref><ref name="reddit eTorsoDrop">'''museofdoom2:''' Torso is metal as fuck. He is a truly top TIER cape, drop him over Sleeper and there will be no more Sleeper anymore :). I fucking love his character already. Weird, crazy ass OP power and his personality is pretty cool too.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' You might be right. I was just thinking about it. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref><!-- https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/fd80aj/last_203_parahumans_2/fjfuecp/?context=1 -->)</small> *[[Alexandria]]<ref>More troubling were the Nine he couldn’t put down. The Siberian was untouchable, an immovable object, invincible in a way that even Alexandria wasn’t. - [[Interlude 11e]]</ref> <small>(Vulnerable to Sleeper's non-perfect storm,<ref name="II16.2 e1">Naphtha was striding down the hallway, coming in our direction. He stopped us. “Changers?”<br><br>“No changers in our team,” Tristan said. “Why?”<br><br>Naphtha getting close enough meant I felt the oil touch my skin, as it touched everything in a certain radius of Naphtha. He pulled it away from me as it touched me, but my skin crawled with the memory of the feel of it.<br><br>“Another crisis. Similar to the others. Going to announce it to the dining hall,” Naphtha explained. “I don’t suppose any of you feel brave enough to go up against Sleeper? Absolute invulnerability better than Alexandria’s, special brains, absolute annihilation powers?” - [[From Within 16.2]]</ref> Wildbow did not group her invulnerability with the 'anything but' powers,<ref name="SBashley e1" /> lost an eye and did not pop the [[Siberian]],<ref name="15.z eLoseEye">Alexandria moved in close, hoping to stop Siberian, to catch her and slow her down, saw Siberian swing, pulled back out of the way.<br><br>Her visor fell free, clattering to the ground. Then she felt the blood.<br><br>Saw, in her one remaining good eye, the chunks of her own face that were falling to the ground around her, bouncing off her right breast, the spray of blood.<br><br>It had been so long since she’d felt pain.<br><br>Legend called out the order and buried her in containment foam, hiding her from sight. - [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref> offensive All-or-Nothing powers beat her defense<ref name=R2/><ref name="reddit eMarchToo" />)</small> *[[Caryatid]] <small>(Her power is not perfect as she is vulnerable to tractor beam weapons used by some [[Teacher]] thralls<ref>Caryatid made her way to me- I reached out with a hand that had blood on it from touching my wounded shoulder, supporting her as she hopped over a pile of needles. As the next flick-throw of the beam’s contents came our way, she put herself between me and the hail, going breaker.<br><br>Which was a temporary solution at best. The one at the corner took aim and fired. Dragging Caryatid. As she was pulled, she was no longer still enough to be invincible.<br><br>“Pull back on the Z!”<br><br>The pull increased in speed. Dragging her toward needles a few inches a second. - [[Dying 15.4]]</ref>)</small> *Members of [[the Mall Cluster]] <small>([[List_of_Shards#Cloven_Stranger|Cloven Stranger]]'s power is not perfect as [[Rain]]'s thrown silver blade hit [[Hookline]]'s chains and nothing happened<ref name="II11.11 e1">A silver blade cut through the air. Precipice’s answer to Love Lost’s scream. It hit the chains that Hookline had made, but it drew no silver lines.<br><br>''They’re protected by Hookline’s power'', I thought. - [[Blinding 11.11]]</ref>)</small> *The Ripple [[Shaker]] from [[the Taught]] <small>([[Swansong]] destroyed a part of the ripple that was headed towards her, another part of the ripple hit Caryatid's non-perfect [[Breaker]] form to no effect<ref>I twisted in the air to watch the ripple. I could see more of Kenzie’s message appearing in my vision. My focus was on the others, though. Ashley blasted the ripple as it raced to her, like a car speeding down the highway. Caryatid took it head-on, breaker form active. A spike of it slipped through, but it didn’t look like anyone got clipped. - [[Dying 15.2]]</ref>)</small> *[[Victoria Dallon]]<ref name="II18.6 eDefense">There were capes where it didn’t matter what the fuck was coming at ’em, they’d take the hit and stay in the fight, or do something equivalent. I was one of those capes. Kind of. Our job was to protect the first group. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/03 Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.6]]</ref> <small>(The Ripple Shaker,<ref>He threw out the power, and it webbed out to every nearby surface before lunging forward. Before, it had been rings, a pillar. Always with a way through.<br><br>This time, a wall, impassable.<br><br>I veered hard right, put my foot out, kicking the actual wall, just to stop my forward momentum, then reversed course to get away and get back. My forcefield was up as part of the kick into the wall, and I felt the wall make contact with an extremity.<br><br>I felt the forcefield ''tear''. It didn’t die, but it remained in tatters, a body torn two, with limbs scattered.<br>[...]<br>Emboldened, I changed course, driving myself further up into the ceiling until the field finally died. The shaker’s wall passed beneath me. - [[Dying 15.2]]</ref> Precipice,<ref>I didn’t want to drop the field, not when I needed it, not when it had eben damaged before and taken a minute to come back up, after being hit with Rain’s silver blade. When Cradle had hit it and knocked it out for a bit of time. I threw myself into the ceiling tiles, into lighting and wiring, carving a furrow. - [[Dying 15.2]]</ref> and [[Cradle]]<ref>It wasn’t a bullet I had to worry about. I was flying, thinking I was safe, when lines began to appear. Silvery, but crisp, like slices in reality, reaching well over the building.<br><br>Not meant for me, but dangerous all the same. I flew past one, and the Wretch had a limb extended. I felt the Wretch get sliced, felt the dim sensation that was the Wretch’s extended being part. The forcefield didn’t collapse. It cut.<br><br>A gaping hole in my forcefield, now, where there had been a bit of torso and shoulder. - [[Heavens 12.7]]</ref> can use their non-perfect powers to tear through her forcefield without stopping, certain air pockets close to the cracks into [[Shardspace]] can slice her forcefield and send different portions to different realities,<ref>I landed with enough force it made my knees and hips hurt. I navigated around the slices in reality, putting out one of my forcefield hands that I could afford to lose.<br>[...]<br>The forcefield died. I had to experiment to see why. Certain pockets of air close to the cracks were dangerous, slicing any passing limb by sending different portions to different realities. Like thickets of nigh-invisible, ultra-sharp brambles. - [[Radiation 18.1]]</ref> offensive All-or-Nothing powers can knock out her forcefield and continue without stopping<ref>“Any chance you could arm me with your spear?”<br><br>“Specially made bolts, yes, if I had any left. This? No. The power would conduct to the part you held, and you’d hurt yourself.” - [[Radiation 18.5]]</ref><ref>“Even with my forcefield?” I asked.<br><br>“Hold it out?”<br><br>I did. A bit of falling snow or ash settled on an outstretched hand.<br><br>The spear shimmered, taking on a faint but complex hue like it had been dipped in a puddle with a rainbow sheen of oil on the surface. She laid it gently across my forcefield hand.<br><br>The forcefield went down.<br><br>I quickly put my mask on, just as a safeguard. I waited.<br><br>The forcefield took a little while to get back up to full strength. I flexed my limbs, making sure nothing had been ruined.<br><br>“No luck,” I murmured. - [[Radiation 18.5]]</ref><ref>Damsel used her power, a slow-burning rumble of blackness in her clawed hands, just to my left. If I’d lowered my arm to my side, I would have touched it.<br><br>I caught her other claw. The power burned there too.<br><br>If one spark or flicker danced back toward her wrist, it’d hit my forcefield, and I’d lose that protection. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/03 Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.6]]</ref><ref name="II20.7 eTorsoHeadbutt">I disengaged from my forcefield, visualizing and forming the cocoon shape, the ribcage splayed open so I could fly out. Then I turned it toward Torso. Forcefield arms reached out, grabbing him under the armpits, where his arms stuck out of the heavy armor that covered head and upper body only. I lifted him into the opening in the forcefield-<br><br>His head lolled back, smashing into the forcefield. I felt it go, dashed to smithereens.<br><br>For what felt like three, four, maybe even five seconds, my forcefield didn’t come back online. A problem that had only ever occurred with Scion-level hits and Ashley’s blasts. - [[Last 20.7]]</ref><ref>Again, I repeated the exercise. Lifting him, hands reaching inside to brace his head.<br><br>The area shook. He flinched, his head moved to tear free of the bracing grip, and he bashed my forcefield into oblivion with a small tap of the back of his head against the ‘shoulder’ of it.<br><br>I clenched my fists. - [[Last 20.7]]</ref>)</small> *[[Brandish]]<ref>Our mother-host discarded the greater shape of her inviolable defense. - [[Heavens 12.all]]</ref><ref>'''Brandish''' – Member of New Wave, mother of two. Wears a white costume with orange symbols. Can fashion weapons out of energy and transform herself into a nigh-invulnerable, sphere, but can’t move of her own volition while transformed. - Cast (Spoiler Free)</ref><!-- https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/ --><ref>'''Brandish, Carol Dallon''' – Flashbang’s wife. Civilian identity is that of a high profile lawyer. Has the ability to create weapons and martial shields out of hard light, and can condense herself into a bouncing sphere of hard light, being effectively invincible and untouchable at the cost of all mobility. Wears a costume of white and orange with a crossed-blade symbol. - Cast (In Depth)</ref><!-- https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ --> <small>(Cradle's non-perfect silver lines can slice through her Breaker form and force her out of it<ref>“Your mom,” she said.<br><br>I looked, I saw. Sveta had reached down- and was hauling the glowing sphere up and out of the rooftop, which had a whole chunk carved out of it.<br><br>Cradle’s line appeared, lancing up and out. I couldn’t see enough of Sveta to make out if she’d been cut, but I saw the orb intersect the light. It sliced through the orb, and broke the effect, leaving my mom tumbling through the air.<br><br>Sveta caught her with tendrils. - [[Heavens 12.7]]</ref>)</small> *[[Gavel]] <small>(A steady stream of attacks can eventually whittle him down,<ref>Scion used a beam instead, directing it at Gavel.<br><br>Which was ''interesting''. Maybe. A beam was what ''I'' would have used to deal with Gavel. His power made it so he could only take so much damage at a time, and reduced the severity of any damage to a set amount. Shooting him with a hail of bullets would be little different from shooting him with one or two bullets, and any given bullet would only gouge out a teaspoon of flesh.<br><br>Excalibur's scabbard. He could have done so much more with the concept, but he'd gone with a hammer instead of a sword.<br>[...]<br>A spray of bullets wouldn't do much to Gavel, but a steady ''stream'' of them could whittle him down. - [[Venom 29.2]]</ref> giant-killers such as [[Flechette]] can kill him without issue<ref name="sb eGavel" />)</small>
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