#blasto

[jrgisafan]

Send your regards to this one’s friends.

[zizbombs]

this blasto guy is fucking crazy. even BONESAW is like 'man wtf are you even doing'. the audacity to make an endbringer clone but of the SIMURGH? string theory yeah yeah wanted to blow up the moon we get it. this guy blasto makes a fucking giant monster just to flex. just for the love of the game. bonesaw balks in the face of his creations because who would unironically think 'simurgh clone' then actually go through with it. dozens of pre signed kill orders for this guy and he's still doing this shit. he should've lived.

[thewayisset]

Eternity is forever

This one!

[artbyblastweave]

As long as we're posting about Blasto, My favorite thing about Blasto is that he seems to have made roughly the same mistake that Grue did, namely picking an etymologically-clever cape name while somehow totally missing the common-use interpretation of that name. Grue from a position of being the World's Most Normal Guy and thus being unfamiliar with Zork, Blasto from feldspar-and-quartzing his own field of study and coming out the other side with one of the few silver-age villain names in the setting presumably by accident

[playstationpark]

Top heavy hero 'Blasto' PlayStation

[notalittleatall]

The key thing about Blasto is that he is not a good person. In this interlude, we see him at his most sympathetic and additionally we see his most noble moment. At this time, he’s lost basically all his power, and is just some chill stoner guy getting paid to work in Accords basement. And he is very chill, especially compared to Accord, which makes him more human and relatable. It’s easy to forget that for the last few years, this guy has been a crime boss controlling a significant portion of the city.

It’s hard to reconcile his calm, chill attitude to life with the fucked up stuff he must have been doing to control territory like that. What you have to realise is that Blasto doesn’t care. He’s a parahuman chauvinist: he has the power, and he genuinely just doesn’t seem to care about any people who don’t have the power.

Contrast to Accord: Accord genuinely cares deeply about helping the average person, but has such a cripplingly powerful egomania and rage that he kills people for no good reason at all. Blasto on the other hand, has a mild narcissism/desire to inflate his ego. It’s just that he’s so apathetic to the wellbeing of everyone else that that narcissism is the driving force behind all his actions. And the result is the same. People die for no good reason at all.

Most of his actions as a crime lord have to be pieced together from out of story information. What we know for a fact is that he released the Woad giant during the Boston games, to make a point and to stake his claim. From his status as an active cape and thorn in Accords side, we can generally assume his modus operandi. He creates monsters and releases them, to remind people that he has the power and he isn’t afraid to use it. He uses terror and intimidation as a weapon: after all what else could the Woad giant be for? And the reason that he can be so chill while intentionally terrorising the civilians is because once again, Blasto just does not care. He has the power and uses it, and there is absolutely not moral conflict for him. And that’s more or less the average supervillain. Shit’s fucked.

[found-in-retro-game-mags]

Art by Robert DeJesus from PSM #12 (Aug. 1998)

[morlanwen]

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