emile wrote: ↑4 months ago
Looking back, one of my first childhood memories of being turned on by heroine peril was the sight of Supergirl slowly weakened by kryptonite. It’s still one of the major attractions of the genre to me - a beautiful, powerful heroine growing weaker and weaker, being unable to fight back and losing the strength to come back.
What’s the best kryptonite weakening scene out there? Be interesting to get some opinions!
Our best-selling custom by far is Custom 4 - "Mind Over Muscle: Pagliaccia vs Poderosa".
As the title indicates, it's a version of the "mind over muscle" scene in Superman where Lex tricks Superman into opening a box with kryptonite in it, and then Lex places the kryptonite on a chain necklace around Superman's neck.
In our regular canon universe, Poderosa (who is Power Girl + Lois Lane, but Puerto Rican) doesn't have a weakness to Kryptonite since we have no planet Krypton. Instead, her weakness is the bottom of the soles of her feet, since it is the most sensitive area of her body which isn't the crotch (allowing us to keep the torture PG-13). We show this in Episode 19. And also in our canon universe, the mineral Drainium causes her muscles to freeze up, turning her temporarily into a statue (Episode 21).
But in Custom 4, which was ordered by our longtime fan Vulpor, our "Elseworlds" version of Poderosa is vulnerable to the substance called "Drainium", which drains her powers like kryptonite but doesn't kill her. As with the "mind over muscle" scene in Superman, our villainess Pagliaccia the Clown Princess of Fear tricks Poderosa into pulling a necklace of Drainium out of a metal box. Poderosa is weakened by the Drainium, and Pagliaccia places the necklace around the superheroine's neck. She becomes too weak to remove it, and suffers humiliation as Pagliaccia pummels her with blow after blow. (see photo below) Poderosa drops to the floor, dazed and incoherent.
- pagliaccia humiliates poderosa.jpg (119.29 KiB) Viewed 641 times
But Pagliaccia isn't finished with her destruction of Poderosa:
-She removes Poderosa's cape, taunting her with ridicule: "You will never fly again!"
-She slowly and dramatically unzips Poderosa's shiny red boots and tosses them aside on a rejected costume pile.
-She crushes the sensitive area of the bottom of Poderosa's pantyhose-covered feet, causing the heroine to scream in pain.
-She removes Poderosa's mask, taking a photo of the heroine's face while she protests vehemently, and exposing her secret identity.
-She calls up the Army general, who isn't fond of superheroines, and reports to him that she has accomplished what he hired her to do.
-She knocks out Poderosa with a mighty punch, and the heroine is sprawled out on the floor, nearly unconscious.
-For the final humiliation, she uncorks a vial of radioactive Drainium 'flakes' and scatters them liberally all over Poderosa's tight costume.
The video ends with Poderosa on the floor, twitching in agony and despair as the Drainium flakes sap the last vestiges of her power, and she is completely defeated.
So yeah, we have a cool kryptonite weakening scene! Thanks to Vulpor for the fantastic idea.
http://www.heroineburgh.com/custom-videos/