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This Week's Fighters....

Cyn vs The Plutonian!

Conditions:

No Restrictions.

Scenario:

After the Plutonian was imprisoned at the end of time by his parents, he gets rescued by Qubit to save the world one last time. A new threat has arrived on Earth, a mysterious, bloodthirsty robot who took to slaughtering all of mankind shortly after defeating Cell. The Plutonian is initially uninterested in saving humanity and is more amused to watch them die then anything, but the conversation in interrupted when Cyn arrives. Qubit quietly teleports away as Cyn takes an interest in this apparently terrifying figure that the last of Earth's heroes risked everything to save. The Plutonian changes his mind on sitting this one out when Cyn starts to mock him, deciding he would rather have the satisfaction of wiping out what remains of the world himself.

Analysis: Cyn

The year is 3071. JC Jensen IN SPAAAAACEE! and its corporate subsidiaries have taken humanity out to the stars and beyond, allowing them to mine entire worlds for their resources. With their impressive, state of the art futuristic robots, they have established themselves as one of the biggest corporations on Earth and beyond. And, in the process, made a lot of their high ranking executives excessively wealthy.

These executives include the Elliot family and their young daughter, Tessa. Tessa had a lot of hip, young person opinions like "treating the clearly sapient robots like people" and "not selling her soul in the name of soulless corporate greed and endless expansion" that made her very at odds with her parents, leading her to take in every Worker Drone she could find, not as servants, but as actual extended family. This lead to her taking in plenty of rejects that could find no other home. Innocent, otherwise expendable Worker Drones such as N, J, V, and eventually, Cyn.

Cyn in particular was especially defective. She was shy and robotic sounding in ways that other drones simply weren't and had a glitch in her code that had her narrate every action she took out loud. Sort of like someone typing out commands on a keyboard. She wasn't looked on highly even by her fellow Worker Drones. It was with Tessa and her lovable big brother N that she could've found a new family and a new life. If it weren't for something.... else lurking in her software.

See, Cyn was a zombie drone. A drone rebooted after the death of her software. Common procedure is to dispose of these drones as thoroughly as possible. Otherwise, a horrible virus could take root in their code. An eldritch, unknowable entity that could take hosts in advanced sapient robots and bestow them with unending hunger and unimaginable power. The Absolute Solver.

Left abandoned and rotting beneath a pile of rotting drone corpses by the people who only ever created her to be an expendable tool, Cyn welcomed the Solver with open arms and became the face of Armageddon.

Cyn proceeded to slaughter the Elliot family, taking her fellow Worker Drone siblings as hosts for the Solver infection and turning Tessa into a human suit. Rebuilding her family into Disassembly Drones and unleashing them upon humanity to wipe the slate clean. Turning to wipe out humanity and bring all life in the universe, organic or otherwise, to an absolute end.

And Cyn was fully powerful enough to do exactly that. Far from being a simple virus, the Solver is otherworldly in nature. More akin to being turned into a vampire. Complete with the need to feed on the living that that implies. Infected drones need to eat their fellow drones in order to avoid overheating from the immense power they hold and even on an eternal winter death planet, simple exposure to sunlight can overheat them enough to kill them. But, in exchange, they get full on reality warping abilities.

Their hands can transform into any weapons they might need, from claws to rockets to laser canons or even more random things like flag guns. They can freely sprout wings to fly or transform into horrible fleshy monstrosities. Big long eldritch centipede looking creatures. It's horrifying.

Take that into conjuction with the fact they're nigh impossible to kill. They can easily regrow having their entire head taken off and some drones, such as Nori, can survive and fight as nothing but a ripped out heart. In the event that they do receive too much damage, they can feed on other drones to get more material to regenerate from or simply transfer their personality to a backup body. Some piece of Cyn’s old personality seems to have persisted in her even now and she has countless backup bodies of her family to choose from. Her love has been twisted into an utterly horrific abstraction of itself.

And if all that is too indirect, she can simply reality warp the problem away. She can create weapons out of nothing, telekinetically rip robots to pieces, freely teleport, create lifelike illusions, or turn metal into organic flesh and back. She's even powerful enough to create black holes.

Moreover, any drone that she or another gets a solid hit on can also be infected with the Solver and any drone that's infected can be possessed by Cyn to act on her whim, either wiping their memories to keep them as obedient puppets or assuming control directly.

There is no describing how eldritch, horrifying, and sadistic Cyn likes to get with her powers. Creating illusions of ripping your father in half to fuck with you. Growing a massive wall of human like hands to come at you from the darkness. Creating a black hole the size of a planet. Or even fusing with the entire planet of Copper 9 and becoming a massive bio-synthetic abomination.

Hell, she left the Earth looking like this:

Cyn left humanity a footnote in the history of the universe and now travels the universe to do the same to all life. She is the one who, over time, wishes to bring the universe to its end. Hell, the fight at the end of the series was described as outright breaking reality.

That's pretty damn impressive on its own. Then you remember that the universe is old enough to only by 87 days away from a Big Crunch event:

This is likely Cyn’s doing because, well... the Big Crunch isn't due til another few billion years and the note is found in a facility that was researching Cyn to stop her from destroying the universe. Cyn herself outright confirms as much when impersonating Tessa, she plans to destroy the universe outright. Keep in mind, the show takes places in the 3000s, billions of years away from when a Big Crunch could actually happen. Many have speculated that the Big Crunch, if it happens, will happen 100 Billion years from now, when the universe is 100 trillion light years across. Meaning that the Murder Drones universe would be 1075x larger than our own.

All of that being said, Cyn was not unstoppable. On the planet of Copper 9, N and V teamed up with the latest Solver infected, Uzi, to stop her from destroying the planet. Uzi put Cyn down for good by eating her core, absorbing Cyn’s entire personality into herself and taking full control of the Solver’s abilities for her own.

So, what remains of Cyn now? As easy as it might be to blame the Solver for everything, we're given a lot of indication that Cyn is not just still in there, she's in charge. She claims she would've been fully willing to spare Tressa during the initial massacre had she not gotten in the way and she remains especially fond of N in her own twisted way. Rather than being corrupted, there's plenty to say this was just Cyn taking her own twisted vengeance out on humanity and the world at large.

And now, she's going to get that found family she wanted anyways. She's still alive in Uzi's programming, confined to her tail but otherwise docile. Maybe that makeshift family of outcasts is actually in the cards after all, as her personal form of redemption...

Well, okay. Cyn does still turn Uzi's classmates into zombies sometimes. Maybe redemption is stretching it.

Analysis: The Plutonian

Being Superman would, by all rights, be the hardest job on Earth.

Imagine it, just for a second. Having enough power to split the Earth in half. Having senses that can pick up every heartbeat on Earth all of the time. Having virtually every superpower combined and then some with no discernible rhyme or reason. Being an alien from a home you can never return to, being raised by people who cannot understand you.

You don't necessarily even need to be a supervillain to crack under all of that pressure. You could just as easily be an ordinary guy who has lived a hard life and was no forced to uphold the biggest responsibility on the planet.

As Daniel Hartigan found out, all of that pressure is enough to make someone Irredeemable.

A long time ago, alien beings who traverse the dimensions of the multiverse and protect time itself discovered humanity. The Eleos they called themselves. Curious about the nature of all forms of life, they sent a probe to our world. That probe responded to the wishes of a heartbroken mother who had just murdered her own son. She wanted a second chance. Guilt had washed over her as she realized what she had done and she wanted any chance she could find to take it all back. To get it right this time.

Dan was that second chance for her. The probe took the form of a human son and Dan was raised as an earthling, with no awareness of his origins or true nature. His mother was horrified by his invulnerability, his physics breaking powers. She took her own life and the boy was put in one foster home after another.

Abandonment was the only constant in Daniel's life. No matter how perfect he tried to be, his powers would always hurt someone. Break something. He'd hug a little brother too hard and leave him with brain damage or terrify another family into abandoning him. The Hartigans were the only family that wasn't terrified of him. His father under that roof tried to raise him to be selfless.

Daniel was instilled with several core values. Piety, Loyalty, Utility, Truthfulness, and Order. Pluto. For the Plutonian. Unfortunately, these lessons would come at the expense of anything resembling an ordinary childhood. He would be gifted hordes of Christmas presents each year and be told to give them away and be happy with nothing. He had to be selfless in all areas. He couldn't be a child.

Daniel took that to heart. He neglected to tell his father about his mother's cancer until it was far too late. He wasn't allowed to use his powers selfishly after all.

Dan's dad killed himself after that. Wonder why.

This would define his relationship to the entire rest of the world. He would introduce himself as The Plutonian, or "Tony" to his fellow superheroes. The first and most powerful hero of all time. He lead The Paradigm, the premiere team of superheroes, and saved the world from all manner of threats both interdimensional and intergalactic. And yet and yet and yet. It would never be enough. There would always be someone jeering him at the back of every crowd. Some ungrateful prick complaining that he didn't save their lives well enough. Constant reminders that, just like everyone else he loved, he was only ever one mistake away from being abandoned.

And then that mistake came. Tony gave some alien technology to some well intentioned human scientists. They couldn't handle it. Countless children died. And when the truth came out that it was all his fault, even his beloved teenage sidekick lost faith in him.

A walking bomb just waiting to go off was all he would ever be to these people. So, fine. The Plutonian would give them the monster they saw.

So he lobotomizes his teenage sidekick with laser eyes and flattens his chosen home of Sky City, before dedicating himself to wiping out humanity at his leisure.

Point blank, nothing on the planet can stop him. He has all of the absurd super powers of Superman taken to their greatest possible extents. His super senses let him hear everyone on the planet at all times, accurately diagnose a man with cancer from the other side of the planet, see electromagnetic waves, count the electrons in your brain, and even possesses perfect awareness of every atom around him at any given time. He's invulnerable even against the weight of an entire solar system being used to crush him, can fly fast enough to outrun radio waves, and can sink Singapore into the ocean by just pushing it underwater.

Unlike his heroic counterpart, The Plutonian's powers have nothing to do with the sun. Like all Eloe, he's a subconscious reality warper. He's capable of punching through anything because he's automatically manipulating matter to make it more breakable. He can shoot eye lasers by manipulating by transferring kinetic energy into whatever he's looking at or freeze people with his breath via the reverse. Quantum mechanics bends to his mind and allows him to do whatever he assumes he can do. Hypothetically, outright reversing entropy would be an incredibly basic application of his powers.

And then he becomes aware of the true nature if his abilities. His creators are forced to step in to intervene in his rampage, stranding him out beyond the heat death of the universe, where no energy exists to even allow him to move. Once there, they explain who they are, tell Tony what he is, and allow him to explore his past one last time to come to grips with all that he has done.

As they do so, Tony begins to... evolve. He hijacks control over the timeline his parents having him traveling through and seems to actually be almost approaching his creators in power.

While he us certainly no match for a fully grown Eleos proper, the fact that he can override some of their abilities and is even comparable at all in any respect is awe inspiring, as it would require him to display power comparable to beings who casually traverse higher dimensions.

With this deeper understanding, The Plutonian can break reality in all new horrifying ways. He can stop the Moon's rotation by stealing its inertia, turn intangible, alter probability passively, telepathically enter your mind and resist such intrusions himself, and even use your mind as a lens to see backwards in time using his super senses.

He's explicitly not reading your mind. As a technique to get around people who can resist telepathy, he simply uses his super senses to see backwards in time from your perspective, effectively seeing your memories via time travel, making outwitting him nearly impossible.

Tony is only freed from this imprisonment by the scant remainder of Earth's heroes, who need him to save the world one last time. Unleashing his creators inadvertently released a wave of radiation that would end humanity in a few generations at most. Strong armed into helping via a magic bullet that could kill him placed inside of his heart, The Plutonian absorbed all of the radiation.... at the cost of his life.

It was so much radiation that it gradually disintegrated his entire body, leaving behind nothing but the energy he came to Earth as. His true essence was dissipated across the multiverse in the hopes that someone could take the values that the Plutonian was meant to represent and maybe, just maybe, get it right this time.

In a strange way, Daniel would prove to not be quite so irredeemable after all. As everything he was dissipated across countless worlds, someone, somewhere, found inspiration in the echoes of his being.

Someone, somewhere, became inspired to write about a Man of Steel from a far away world. In another life, The Plutonian would find redemption as Superman.

Throwdown Breakdown:

"A child neglected by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth." Or in this case, burn down the entire universe, so to speak.

Stats

Equal across the board.

Both characters have feats that easily put them on the level of destroying solar systems, from Cyn creating an Earth sized black hole to Tony shrugging off being crushed with the weight of an entire solar system. Both have showings that would allow them to destroy the entire universe or prevent said destruction over time, from Cyn accelerating the Big Crunch to Tony being able to reverse entropy. And both of them can mess with time in ways that would require them to be 4-D. The Big Crunch ends time whereas Tony can overpower the control his higher-dimensional parents had over a timeline. So, Universal+ across the board for both.

Speed follows a similar trend. Faster than light speed showings of intergalactic travel or outrunning radio waves are common for these two and both have Immeasurable showings. Cyn causing the Big Crunch would require Immeasurable speeds and so would Tony moving after the heat death of the universe.

Which means neither can directly outmuscle the other and the win is going to come down to skillset.

Powers

Cyn has one massive advantage here in terms of survivability. Her regeneration and multiple back up bodies give her a lot of extra chances against what would otherwise be kill shots against Tony, who largely relies on just being invulnerable to get through all of his problems.

However, The Plutonian has a power set perfectly designed for countering Cyn’s most dangerous abilities. While Cyn's own matter manipulation is incredibly impressive, being able to turn metal into icky gooey meat and all, but Tony's is consistently more precise even before he realized he had it, on top of it being a passive application of even just his basic punches. Similarly, Cyn's illusions are outright moot against the absurd scale of The Plutonian's atom specific enhanced senses, making setting up an ambush nigh impossible. Even the time stop that activates to protect Cyn's core can be reversed by Tony's own time manipulation, as he's overwritten other time powers before.

The black holes are admittedly still quite capable of killing Tony if Cyn gets her shot off with them however. He has no regeneration to heal the damage and we know destroy his entire body, which a black hole could do, would kill him. So while Tony has everything he needs to reach her core, she can still take this win from him if his cocky and sadistic tendencies get the better of him.

Which is where the ultimate trump card comes in: viewing Cyn's life backwards in time to understand what her deal is. Tony could just look back at her life from her perspective and, with a glance, learn everything he needs to know about her powers and how to counter them.

I should stress that the completely alien powers in both sides would throw each other through a loop. Humanity is not surviving this fight at all and both still do have options to kill each other. But Tony just has more counters and is better equipped to take advantage of them first.

This Throwdown's Winner is...

The Plutonian!

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