Hunter x Hunter 2011

[DarthEnderX]

I'm with Kraco on this one. The Little Flower shows all of the tropes of being a nuclear bomb.

That said, we still don't know if radiation even effects the ants. If it does though, Pouf and Youpi would also be pretty much done for at this point. Crawling around inside a nuke's molten crater is pretty much a death sentence.


Also, at this point, I feel like they've kind of defused the climactic battle between Gon and Pitou. Because Pitou simply isn't going to fight Gon now that they've taken Komugi hostage.

My assumption is that Pitou is going to somehow find out the King is dead and go berserk. Then we'll get our climactic battle.

[MFauli]

About the bomb: The flashback about this kind of bomb made it seem like a nuke, but nukes don´t turn the ground into lava, right? So I´m leaning towads no, the little rose is not a nuclear weapon.

My assumption is that Pitou is going to somehow find out the King is dead and go berserk. Then we'll get our climactic battle.

Well, ants communicate by telepathy, right?

[Kraco]

About the bomb: The flashback about this kind of bomb made it seem like a nuke, but nukes don´t turn the ground into lava, right? So I´m leaning towads no, the little rose is not a nuclear weapon.

So, it's something even more terrible than a nuclear weapon in your opinion, huh?

The lake of lava was just artistic lisence by the author. A nuke does melt the surface of the ground and for example turn suitable silicon containing sand into glass like substance when it cools down. I reckon Togashi (assuming this was in the manga as well) wanted to create a more dramatic effect for the King's downfall. To create such a lake in the first place, I think one would need a sustained energy source, not one lasting a second, or possibly something humongous.

[MFauli]

So, it's something even more terrible than a nuclear weapon in your opinion, huh?

Depends. As you said, this little rose-bomb must have had sustained power, something more focused, to the point. A nuke goes of an bursts away everything, makes it crumble. This little rose, however, kept heating its environment until stone was turned to lava. Now, this is a dumb comparison, because a nuke would easily blow off as much of an area as this little rosa AND have the effect of deadly radiation. So even when I´m saying that yes, the little rose is in ways superior to a nuke, a nuke is still more destructive.

Where I´d see the advantage for the little rose is against an enemy that might regenerate. Basically, I´d use it against someone like Cell or Majin Buu. Goku´s genkidama basically was a sustained force, as opposed to the usual hit-and-explode-attacks like a kamehameha.

[DarthEnderX]

Well, ants communicate by telepathy, right?

Supposedly the King and the Royal guard can't. Because they're the most human.

but nukes don´t turn the ground into lava, right?

Pretty sure anything that burns at thousands of degrees(which a nuclear explosion does) will turn the ground into lava.

Salamander monster? Argh, memories of Voyager.

Not a salamander. A Salamander.

[poopdeville]

Pretty sure anything that burns at thousands of degrees(which a nuclear explosion does) will turn the ground into lava.

Yeah, but the specific heat of rock matters. There's only so much heat a rock can absorb in a short amount of time.

http://www.hscott.net/analyzing-trin...clear-history/

That said, Chernobyl's accident melted lots of concrete and rocks.

[Kraco]

That said, Chernobyl's accident melted lots of concrete and rocks.

Power plant accidents can last for years like in Japan currently. Explosions aren't of nuclear type per se, rather just pressure from boiling coolant and such. Also, a power plant reactor would have hundreds of times more fuel than a nuke, whose core might only be the size of a tennis ball.