what does it feel like to be pumped full of stolen chi
post times a character's chi was stolen in cartoons or comics
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what does it feel like to be pumped full of stolen chi. post times a character's chi was stolen in cartoons or comics
the frick is a chi
I believe it's pronounced "quey"
i pronounce OP to be 'gay'
heh
Bless you.
>the frick is a chi
One half of Goku's wife.
Life energy in Chinese philosophy.
Also known as Qi.
That’s a wireless phone charger, silly
If Chi is just chinese for life energy, then doesn't Sauron do that on the daily?
Sort of...
10 years of studying taichi and chinese forms of internal alchemy, have recieved psychic transmissions and have been initiated into neidan lineages around bali (where many of the masters fled to after the cultural revolution). Am training to become a qigong and alchemical teacher myself right now. Don't ask why i'm on Cinemaphile, i'm bored in an airport.
Life energy is not really Qi, and mostly a very bad wat to thing about it. That would be closer to a substance the chinese call Jing, QI is a little more metaphysical to understand.
For insteace within daoism, Qi is the substance that connected heaven and earth, it is Qi which through the 5 phases (wuxing) drive taiji to an upper maximum, splitting into the duality of yin and yang.
So when you describe Qi you need to realize that word is like a rar file, more than it is a regular english word. Chinese characters tend to do this, hold vast amounts of data in a small symbol, and Qi is about the worst offender for this.
I have always told people a better word to translate Qi as would be "Change", it is any middleman in the process of change within the microcosm (the human body) and the macrocosm (the universe).
When you want to change your body to do basically things that would be labeled superhuman (because whether or not you believe me I have seen it, people walking through walls, phasing in and out of dimensions, bilocation, walking on water, etc. I obviously cannot but if you spend enough time in monasteries in these areas of the world then you 100% will). You are using Qi to affect the nervous system, and the space underneath the muscles, the sinews that connect them to the bone. By elongating these parts of the body until they become like rubber (the head of a drum is the traditional phase), this allows you to pressurize the abdomen of the body and push pre-natal qi, up the spine to the crown of the head. If anyone is curious about Qi i'll answer questions you give me till my flight comes,
I think OP's pick is Akuma from Street Fighter, which would imply a Japanese understanding of ki/chi/qi
Do they differ from the Chinese meaning?
I mean it's such a complex topic that it differs between schools right, the Qi used in taichi is not the same Qi used in higher alchemical art, which is not the same as the Qi used in Aikido.
But Ki means the same thing as Qi, and they would all consider themselves to be studying the same fundamental part of reality, even if they approached different parts of it.
You won't find high level yang Qi practices in martial arts, unless people went and trained with internal practitioners.
Though zazen uses principles taken from daoist shamanic work and uses the dan tian as an object of stabilization, which would automatically result in the building of bodily yin (biomagnetic) and yang (bioelectrical) Qi.
Not that guy, but I would think so. While Japan has been known to copy some of its stuff from the likes of China, they usually have their own spin on it. Of course, in the case of the Street Fighter cartoon, we are talking about an extremely weird adaptation that was loosely based on a movie that was itself loosely based on the video games, while using designs more in line with the video games. God only knows what the hell the Street Fighter cartoon may have interpreted chi/ki as since this was also back in the 90s, when American understanding of Japanese culture was virtually nonexistent. Not that it's terribly much better these days, though that's more to do with the average anon here just being too lazy to look up shit despite how readily available it is on the net
bro? your kamehamehas?
i don't listen to hip-hop
>mutt education
Vulture-San's main gimmick was stealing people's chi, until Supaida-Man went ganbatte against his keikakus
I remember thinking it was pretty fricked up how Peter was just fine with Connor's swapping the unstable spider DNA into Tomes in the 90s cartoon. You'd think that would go against Peter's morality, at least to some degree, especially since it meant Vulture was sometimes turning into the Man-Spider and terrorizing others
>since it meant Vulture was sometimes turning into the Man-Spider and terrorizing others
I only vaguely remember the arc, but did it? Maybe the Man-Spider only came to the fore when combined with his presumably stable Spider-DNA
It did, Vulture was trying to steal Spider-Man's lifeforce, but Dr. Connors apparently messed with the tech or whatever Tomes was using so he took the unstable spider DNA, and this made him become a Man-Spider. And as far as I recall, it never got resolved, like having the DNA extracted so nobody was turning into a spider mutant, it just got left in Vulture's body.
well shoot, that is pretty fricked up
Only just after he drained him, when he showed up again Scorpion was keeping him locked up in his basement. His DNA kept glitching out but he wasn't turning into a Man-Spider, for some reason. It got resolved by the end of that episode anyway. Not that Peter knew any of this but he just passed on his Spider AIDS to someone else, I don't blame him for being relieved.
Still, doesn't seem like something Spider-Man would just be chill with. Peter might not have the same level of justice-autism like Batman who has actively ruined many of his rogues' attempts at returning to normalcy, but I would imagine Peter would have at least been like "the frick, Connors?"
Oh yeah? Well Mary Jane is so kawaii that she makes me doki doki in my kokoro.
Jackie Chan Adventures was all about that chi shit.
The Chi vampire was a great fricking episode
He couldn't cross running water.
They had to keep doing Chi transfusions and everyone gained each other's personalities
So much fun
How strange that two cultures came up with vampires independently of each other and they both had common traits like the water thing
They’re not even vampires. The Chinese hopping zombie doesn’t have a thing for running water and has no real connections to vampires except the blood drinking, which is bullshit because tons of undead monsters drink blood. The only reason it’s still called a vampire is because it’s been called a vampire for so long that changing it would be tedious. JCA just combined various Eastern and Western elements for the cartoon.
A lot of shit happens like that in human cultures.
Just look at how many cultures thought up some variety of dragon or another.
>western lizard evil
>eastern lizard good
They're very different.
Still called dragons, so not by much
Did they though? A lot of classic fairy tales like Cinderella for instance are actually chinese and made into western folklore later. Vamps are originally more of an eastern european thing so it's conceivable the idea was transmitted somehow.
Happens more than you think, like how cultures came up with "bendy stick with string shoot pointy stick" independently of each other.
A lot of cultures also have fire-breathing lizards for some reason.
Also tends to fly.
The specifics of the body vary though.
Jiangshi. hella rare in 'toons but abundant in anime
I unironically like American street fighter!
>Has, like, 4 forms when first introduced, maybe 5 if you count the roid-monkey form
>Xenoverse race has 1 racial transformation
Okay, sure.
Frieza is a genetic freak and not normal.
Isn't his whole species called "mutant race" or something? You'd think Toriyama would have pulled some lore out of his ass after like 30 years of wanking Freeza as a character
The official name of the species is just "Frieza Clan" or "Frieza Race," and King Cold and Frieza are mutants that spontaneously developed.
Could have sworn they had a different name that didn't sound like Toriyama just couldn't give a frick. I mean, "Freeza clan", really? I know the guy's not exactly a visionary of his medium, but you'd think he could put a bit more effort into something like a damn race, especially when he had just established two other races from his manga's two most iconic characters
ACSKTUALLY those forms are Frieza nerfing himself.
His final form is his real form, the golden frieza form and black frieza forms are his only true transformations.
Doesn't Cooler have another form after his gray-frieza-ish form?
And King Cold spends his time in the...2nd form?
... was buff human before or after Alien alien form?
And it's a game anywho, could've just made up some weak effects for fun (better basic attacks as the alien form, lower ki blast attack but crazy ki regen as the first form, whatever)
Yeah, his upgrades go opposite to Frieza. Frieza was introduced going from horned and armored to smooth, Cooler was introduced looking like Frieza's final form (though kinda armored in the chest/head section) to being horned.
I wouldn't quite say opposite, always seemed more like Cooler's final form was like applying elements of the 2nd and third forms, namely their armored elements. Though I guess if we go off of Toriyama's design philosophy for Freeza, which was smaller instead of bigger to subvert the usual expectations of transforming villains, then yes, opposite would be right. Really do wish Toriyama would explore a bit more the species since all we have canonically is Cold and Frost, the latter of which was just dollar store Freeza at the end of the day
Is this a fetish I don't know about?
Statistically speaking yes
Getting filled with power that isn't your own?
Kung fu panda legends of awesomeness episode enter the dragon, when Kepa drained po of his chi to release his demonic army
ask your mom.