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Nuke Man, the Living Nuke

Nuke Man was created by the KAWllective it can be read on Tapas

Welcome back to the blog! This blog is gonna be an interesting one, and not in the way you'd expect. This series was created by the Kill All Webcomics collective, otherwise known as the KAWllective. They're known for making series constructed in a telephone game-like way where each page/ is drawn and written by a different artist. With 17 different artists with wildly varying styles backing this, it's certainly a clusterfuck of an experience, albeit one I mostly ironically enjoyed. Without further ado, let's delve into the chaos and find out who this "Nuke Man" is! Spoiler warning since this is a finished series, but you could honestly finish it in less than an hour.

Background

"For people like us, the smallest emotion can end the world. But we aren't trying to end the world, are we? We just want someone to notice how we feel."

The Earth is in threat of annihilation by mysterious giants falling from the sky. To destroy a single one, it cost billions in property damage and weapons, and resulted in the deaths of millions of innocent people and many of the planet's greatest superheroes. If a single giant caused this much calamity, it would take a miracle for humanity to be spared. Thankfully, the Hero Union has the perfect weapon that could end the invasion in an instant: Nuke Man.

He doesn't recall much of his past, but he was originally a man named Kashmir Moneiro, who died during a global pandemic that resulted in people gaining superpowers. He didn't have any powers, which made him the perfect candidate for the Hero Union's most crucial project. Kashmir's past memories were pushed back into a new body that was experimentally created. His purpose was to be humanity's best defense against planetary threats with his nuclear powers. The Hero Union has relied on him since he was a baby to save humanity from extinction time and time again… even though he has no idea how to control his powers.

He may not remember who he was before, but after being used for the Hero Union's efforts his entire life, it made him snap. Out of anger, he nuked a few cities and has sworn off using his powers since that day. He originally refuses to help the Hero Union, but tough luck for him. An entire alien fleet is on its way, destroying every planet they come across, and they're coming for Nuke.

Joined by head scientist "Gramps" and the hero with comically convenient data manipulation powers Binary, Nuke begrudgingly agrees to defeat the aliens on the condition that he only uses his powers in space. But as they deal with aliens while trying to reach a space ship, Nuke Man sees a mysterious woman within his mind and she secretly takes over his body.

The 'trio' head into space and the opposing fleet is showered by nukes. It seems the day is saved, but that's when the parasite controlling Nuke Man makes herself apparent to his allies. After Nuke Man shattered dimensions to use his powers and flew far enough from Earth, she's at the perfect position in space to exit his body and start her quest to destroy… well, EVERYTHING. Once she splits out of Nuke's body, she reveals her human body is only a vessel for her true form… a dog named Laika. Many years ago when Gramps was young and working with the Russians, he sent Laika into space inside a satellite to stop an impending doom. Sending her into orbit completely fried her, but her soul managed to escape and venture through space. Now that her plan is a success, she has the opportunity to travel where no living being has set foot before, even if that threatens everyone and everything in existence.

Soon enough she exits Nuke's body and returns him his free will, but takes his powers for herself. To him, it would seem like a relief having to not bear the immense weight that is the responsibility of protecting the planet. But without his powers, he lost the very thing that defined him. He came to the conclusion that person he was before does not exist. He was, and always will be Nuke Man, a tool for destruction whose life solely revolves around his powers. Without his nukes, he wouldn't be Nuke Man, just… Man! That's when the leader of the alien armada spoke to him in his head. He explained to Nuke that they destroy everything in their path so something new can be made, with them being gods of a new cycle. But if Laika succeeds, nothing will remain, so he urges Nuke Man to defeat the dog and become god of the universe's next cycle.

Nuke agrees to the alien's terms, which allows him to transform into his truest self: Man Nuke. With his new powers manifesting, he travels back in time with Binary to stop Laika from boarding the rocket ship, but her spirit trails behind him. Confronting the young Gramps, Binary concludes that the threat the Russians were dealing with way back then was Laika from the future. Sending her into space triggers an endless cycle that sets Laika on an evil path. It results in the universe being destroyed and her escaping to the past, but the cycle repeats all over again after she is killed by her past self. All Nuke Man needs to do is break the cycle. Thus he squares off against the dog in a fight that determines the fate of the universe. As they fight, Nuke talks it out with Laika, believing that she doesn't really want to destroy the world. Instead, she wants someone to notice how she feels. And now she has all the space she wants to let her anger out. She takes her rage out on Nuke, who's glad to be her punching bag as she vents out her emotions.

Eventually, both lay down their fists and Laika calls off on her universal destruction quest, deciding to return home with Nuke Man. Their fight changed the future, as the alien armada was too scared by their destructive battle to target Earth. All the heroes Earth sacrificed to take on the giants didn't perish. Nuke Man seems to still be affiliated with the Hero Union and Laika has become his best friend. For the time being, it seems like Earth is at peace. But if any more otherworldly beings come to threaten the world, Nuke Man's armed and ready to take them down.

Equipment

The Nuke Mobile

This isn't your average nuclear warhead. It's actually a high tech spacecraft!

Abilities

Nuclear Missile Summoning

They don't call him Nuke Man for nothing If a single atomic bomb is able to take out an entire city, imagine what sort of power he has when he's able to conjure an entire armada of them. Regardless of the artist, his nukes always appear realistic.

Man Nuke

After accepting his position as the ruler of the new cycle, he was able to become who he's always been: Man Nuke. As Man Nuke, he has a slew of new powers I'll describe below.

Time Travel

Yeah… because time travel somehow has to do with nukes.

Superhuman Physical Characteristics

Anyone with superpowers has much tougher physical characteristics than the average person. Of course they aren't vulnerable, but it'll take more than getting shot to put them down.

Flight and Enhanced Speed

He appears as a bright straight blue line as he zips around

Small Size (Type 2)

No clue why, but I guess he can shrink himself

Energy Manipulation

Superpowers are the result of energy extraction from diamonds, which caused a worldwide pandemic of people gaining powers. The energy inherited from them not only improves their strength and endurance, but also lets them live longer. Man Nuke also utilizes energy-based attacks like energy beams. Seeing as his powers have many similarities to Laika's he may also have energy absorption. That's more likely when she fired her Nuclear Death beam at him, only for him to completely blow it and fire one back at her that's twice as powerful. Man Nuke doesn't really tire out, in fact his energy levels only increase the longer he fights, continuously boosting his power.

Vacuum Adaption

Sure, he can breathe in space. Why the hell not?!

Regeneration (Low-Mid)

He had is leg disintegrated when he was transformed as Man Nuke. After depowering, it completely regenerated

Techniques

Interdimensional Hellnuke

Nuke Man shatters dimensions to generate a legion of nukes to rain down… sheesh, that's overkill!

Sub Atomic Time Shift

I have no clue how, but this lets him create wormholes that let him travel through time. When traveling through it, the inside looks like a winding tube that moves deeper the further he travels backward or forwards.

Nuclear Death

… This is unironically one of the rawest energy beams I have ever seen.

Nuclear Winter

It should be noted that a lot of Nuke's moves involve him pointing. When he points, you know shit's about to get real. For example, Nuclear Winter. When Laika used Interdimensional Hellnuke against him, Man Nuke pointed at the nuclear shower and used Nuclear Winter to freeze all the nukes in place before detonating all of them on command

Atom Split

It's unlikely that this move actually splits atoms because of no ensuing explosion. It's basically a long distance slash move that can easily cut people in half

Elephant's Foot

Basically a powerful kick

Feats

Overall

• Went on a spree nuking random cities
• When he was a child, he killed a demon that was going to slice the planet in half and an alien god that was going to wipe out all life in the universe
• Became the god of the universe's new cycle
• Defeated Laika, a dog who repeatedly destroyed the universe in loops, escaping to the past to be killed by her past self and have the process repeated. She bore Nuke Man’s powers and more.
• Due to creating a new cycle, it retconned the alien invasion that resulted in total destruction of the world and the deaths of many heroes. Heroes with powers like soul absorption, energy manipulation, technology manipulation, and regeneration were victims that failed to stop the aliens

Strength

• Easily stronger than aliens that can cause "over $109,000,000,000 of property damage"
• Nuke Man has destroyed multiple cities
• As a baby, he's killed beings that could split Earth in half and murder all life in the universe respectively
• He used Interdimensional Hellnuke to obliterate a fleet of UFOs that destroy every planet they come across
• Interdimensional Hellnuke "shatters dimensions" to summon nukes from their fragments
• In another timeline, he has destroyed three universes
• Physically strong enough to bulk through his clothes
• Moved through a wall
• Nuclear Death… just, straight up. It was able to completely obliterate Laika's giant form before she reformed into a much smaller body (This link contains a calc for a large star-level calc)
• Caused an explosion on the moon when he crashed Laika onto it (the link contains a calc for country level)
• Clashing with Laika caused an explosion bigger than Earth (large planet level)
• Can fight on par with Laika, who has ceaselessly destroyed the universe in a rigorous cycle

Speed

• Scales to Laika, who has traveled through space all on her own
• Quickly darted throughout all the rooms in a laboratory's floor while moving as a blue blur too fast to process
• Swiftly flew into space
• Quickly flew from a part in space near Earth, all the way to the moon (this link contains a calc for high hypersonic+)

Durability

• Somehow lived after Laika split his head open to leave his body
• Blocked Laika's Nuclear Death beam while she was in a giant form compared to him
• Survived a punch that shot him out from the moon
• Kept fighting even after his leg was disintegrated by a laser
• No-sold being caught in Laika's Nuclear Death beam

Weaknesses

• He claims that he doesn't know how to use his powers, despite being used as a weapon by the Hero Union. By the end of the series, he seems to have a much better grasp over his abilities
• He's really hung up about his own identity. Without his powers, he's nothing
• Anyone can enter through the Sub Atomic Time Shift portal

Matchup Potential

Since he originates from a telephone game, Nuke Man has such distinctly inconsistent pacing and visuals that really work in the webcomic's favor. Thus, it'll be difficult to find an opponent for him that can really match his tone. Not only that, but Nuke's powerset would require his opponent to match his high scale. I'd imagine the fight can radically shift in art styles for the hell of it and include multimedia aspects, mainly in using PNGs of atomic bombs for Nuke Man's attacks.

So far I've only received three opponents suggested for him. First is Sentry from Marvel, who I don't really see any familiarities with and really doesn't vibe. Then there's Atomic Skull from DC, which is just "radioactive hero vs radioactive villain…" You can see why I don't bode well with this. And lastly, Dr. Manhattan. I don't think I gotta explain this one.

NEXT TIME ON WCAB… whenever I feel like it