[Cosmic Destruction - Vulkanus]
Ladies and jellyfish,
SHALOM, and welcome back to A.S.K. Air, and episode 2 of Alien Vs Alien! Last time we took
a look at Heatblast and Swampfire, comparing them in a bunch of categories, and today it’s time to
do the same thing with Ben Tennyson’s two most famous brawn aliens: Four Arms and Humungousaur!
Design
Starting with the art style and designs of these two aliens over the years, both have been pretty
hit or miss frankly. I love the classic look of both of them, whether it’s the UAF design
of Humungousaur or the OG design of Four Arms, as I talked about in my OV redesigns video, but the
rest of their designs have been pretty lackluster. The Ultimate Alien Four Arms design is pretty
mediocre, with the gold straps, and…the…ponytail! Seriously, whoever thought of that beauty deserves
some kind of return for such an incredible idea. I don’t know whether it’s a positive or negative
return but definitely some kind of fricking karma! Now that I think about it, did Four Arms always
have hair and a beard in the classic series, with the black vertical line on his head? That’s some
food for thought in the comments but even then, the Omniverse design is not as bad as the UA
version, and I’d actually call it pretty decent, all things considered. As far as Humungousaur,
the UAF design is pretty solid on its own, but then he’s cutified up as I call it, into the
cliche OV look for every alien, with way too much green, an unnecessary strap, and more curves to
give a smooth unmenacing demeanor. Not what I’d call a good idea when working with Ben’s most
muscular-looking dino alien. Even with all these art style changes, I think it’s foolish to not
give the point to Four Arms considering his design is much more clever for a sheer strength alien,
with the red color and the four-arm concept in general, compared to just a colossal oaf
like Humungousaur kind of comes off as. Point for design throughout the franchise goes to Four Arms!
Powers As far as powers, both
Handyman and Dino Mighty have pretty bland sets of abilities aside from just sheer strength. As
far as who’s stronger, the evidence on this has been less than reliable on both sides to say the
least. Tetramands, especially females, have been said to be stronger and Princess Looma actually
overpowered Humungousaur, while Four Arms was able to defeat her, which would imply Four Arms
is stronger. However, in other examples, such as when Ben tries to get the sword out of the stone,
it is clear that Humungousaur is actually able to lift more weight. Yeah, personally I think
female Tetramands are on the top of the list, followed by Humungousaur and then Four Arms,
because you really can’t look at both these guys and tell me that the giant dinosaur couldn’t just
punch Four Arms out of existence with his massive arms, let alone his tail, which Four Arms lacks,
or his growth shift ability. Even with his pretty cool sonic clap, Four Arms
would still get smoked in a fight with the big D in my opinion, so point goes to Humungousaur!
Weaknesses Both aliens are
pretty indestructible physically, especially in a hand-to-hand fight situation, but both present
the disadvantage of being too big for certain areas, such as the Rustbucket, and Humungousaur
being larger presents the weakness of being much slower when he walks. This is a problem Four
Arms doesn’t have, and it makes Humungousaur a disadvantage in a chase situation. Whereas,
we’ve seen Four Arms jump large distances, Hulk style, and be able to move a lot more agile,
rather than Humungousaur who reverts to as clumsy as Cannonbolt at points.
Voice Once again, just like the design,
the voices for these two gradually got worse and worse with time. Four Arms was originally voiced
by Richard McGonagle, a very chilling voice that fits amazingly for the character and gives him
a lot more depth than just a deep cliche voice. The voice actor even said that Four Arms was his
hardest-ever role, comparing it to gargling glass. In Ultimate Alien, the reigns were handed to Dee
Bradley Baker, who did a decent enough job with the voice, and later John DiMaggio voices him in
Omniverse, who, just sounds like the deep cliche man-voice I was talking about earlier. Similarly
for Humungousaur, he actually had the two exact same voice actors for the latter two shows,
with Dee covering for UAF and John for OV, and the similarity in the voices is much more apparent in
OV, where Four Arms and Humongausaur sound almost identical, even getting hints of Rath
in there occasionally. Now, if I was to compare these 5 different voice actors among the shows,
the best would obviously go to Richard McGonagle, who voiced Four Arms in the classic series,
and since both of Humungousaur’s voices were just below average in my eyes, I think Four Arms wins
this category as well! And no disrespect to the voice actors, I love DiMaggio as Rath greatly
as an example, and of course Dee as well, but to say the voices improved is just not true
in both cases. So I gotta go with the one that basically delivered solidly in the first place.
Moments
Now powers and voices are cool and all, but they don’t mean much if they aren’t utilized with some
interesting moments throughout the franchise! Which alien had the cooler moments? Well, for
starters, Humungousaur is actually THE most used transformation in the entire classic continuity,
appearing a total of 89 times throughout the four shows. In that time, he is used regularly as Ben’s
go-to alien, such as when he fights Vilgax during the Vengeance special, becomes the first ultimate
alien to appear on screen, angrily fights and manages to throw a house on Aggregor’s head,
appears as the first alien in the Generator Rex crossover, and beats Khyper as Tyrannopede with
the help of Skurd. On the red and handy side, Four Arms has also had his fair share of cool moments,
including his epic mammoth and bird fight scene, his battle with Kevin on the Golden Gate Bridge,
fighting the Negative 10, appearing as the only alien twice on screen in the Forge of Creation,
defeats Ssserpent, defeats Dr. Animo, defeats Captain Stockholm Syndrome, defeats Inspector 13,
defeats Princess Looma, and appeared in the court trial during the Tetramand Trial
of Combat. Jesus Christ, he beats a lot of people. I think the winner here is obvious,
so I gotta give it to Four Arms for coolest moments throughout the shows!
So, ultimately, Four Arms won this battle 4 to 1, which is pretty astonishing! While
Humungousaur is a pretty awesome cool alien that every dude loved as a kid,
he just couldn’t compare to the red legend that was my homie Four Arms! But what do you
think? Which alien won this battle for you? Be sure to let me know in the comments down below,
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and I’ll see you beautiful ladies and jellyfish next time! Shalom!