Captain Power vs. adult Boba / Jango Fett

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2003-01-09 05:23am

I may be alone in this, but I always thought the guys on the tv show "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future" were a lot like Boba or Jango Fett...

Their suits were "powered" and could take/deal a lot of damage, but eventually needed to be recharged from various power-stations.

Each team member carried a blaster type weapon, capable of single shot or rapid fire "beam" type shots, from the power of a regular bullet to that of a hand grenade.

Only one of the team members had flight capabilities (through his power suit), but they also had hover bikes with similar capabilities to the speeder bikes we see in Star Wars.

Additional weapons depended on the character, but they included throwing-star type cutter weapons, small vibro-blade type knives, and shock prod sticks (sort of like Force Pikes). I'm not sure if the suits replicated them, or they were just carried in compartments, but we never see them wear backpacks, so I'm guessing they are part of the suits.

I can't remember exactly, but I think the power stations were run by fusion.

They also made use of "jump gates" across North America that they flew their terrestrial aircraft through. Basically small wormholes that they had some kind of control over.

Now, granted if they fought the Empire, they could just blow up Earth with the Death Star, but in terms of ground combat, I think they might have a chance... though again, Captain Power's team only has 5 members.... and Lord Dread's Bio-Mech army is even more inept than the Stormies we all know and love.

Still, the Bio Dreds themselves could deal a lot of damage before being destroyed (each is like a tank pretty much) and they can regenerate.

For more info:

http://www.captainpower.com

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0092329

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-01-09 10:24am

Captain Power loses because of extremely bad SFX.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-01-09 10:25am

BTW I mean Special FX not Sound FX.

paladin · Post by **paladin** » 2003-01-09 07:00pm

Captain Power and his team would get their asses kicked so badily by Boba and Jango that isn't fun.

Even if Jango and Boba are limited to only their suits and what they can carry, they still would win. Jango and Boba wouldn't be above wasting Power and company from long range.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-01-09 07:17pm

Captain Power loses on the sole grounds that he couldn't kill the lamest super villain ever

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2003-01-10 06:49am

Captain Power loses because of extremely bad SFX.

You and Bozo the Clown have forgotten the first rule of verses debates.. suspension of disbelief!

That means we forget character shields, special effects, goofs/flubs and other such nonesense like "the good guys always win/bad guys always lose" etc.

The reason Power failed to kill the "lamest Supervillian ever" was because the show was cancelled after the first season, had it been allowed to continue.. who knows.

And you forget, the bad guys controlled the entire PLANET, and had armies of millions of troops. Captain Power and his band were just 5 people, though, granted, there were pockets of human resistance in various places on earth, but with nowhere near the firepower Power's team had.

The rate of fire of Power's aircraft was equal to that of the Slave I. Of course these were terrestrial craft, not spacecraft, and the "seismic charges" (assuming they work in atmosphere) would be highly devestating, it's true (assuming Power's team was limited to the ground, which they wouldn't have to be). The guided missile would also pose a problem, though it could be shot down by their smaller air units (Power's fighter, Hawk with his flying suit, speeder bikes).

In terms of armor, the Fetts have more coverage (both camps seem to have "cracks" in their armor that might be more vulnerable of course) in that their faces aren't exposed, whereas most of Power's team's are (except for Tank). The Soldiers do have full-coverage versions of their helmets that they used in one episode, but they were for surviving radiation/chemical gas, not necessarily for surviving headshots from energy weapons. We have seen them take shots on the body/hands and shrug them off easily (though we'd assume each non-glancing blow drains suit power).