Friday, February 22, 2019

How they compare: Panther Zora


Panther Zora is the Big Bad of the Cutey Honey Franchise. This is the depiction of her from the original continuities' 3 manga series. While she doesn't have some of the most impressive accomplishments of her other canonicities such as merging with the evil of humanity's hearts or being the snake that tempted Adam and Eve, Panther Zora even in the manga was a formidable opponent!

Panther Zora was a witch-being from another dimension, full of spite and hatred for humanity. She turned panthers into the superhuman criminal organization known as Panther Claw to bring human civilization to ruin. 


Panther Zora is very powerful! She granted Panther Claw Agents power enough to vaporize normal humans and destroy small buildings. Even from her dimension she was able to simply will a castle on Earth to destruction.  She is much more powerful in her own dimension. Here mere presence can create a magnetic field the size of a small island.

Panther Zora's power can be seen in her shapechanging. This shapechanging has allowed her to grow to the size of a small island or to become an entire mountain, and in her mountain form to create an entire laboratory space within herself. 

She is also formidable in terms of speed. She was able to simply telekinetically will bullets to stop after they had already been fired and granted her Panther Claw Agents speeds to keep up with Cutey Honey who can dodge automatic fire. 

As a skilled magic-user Panther Zora also has a vast variety of magical abilities. She can see into other dimensions with her clairvoyance and can spiritually project her spirit there.  She also has displayed telekinetic capacities as well as transmutation, turning panthers into her Panther Claw Agents. She also resurrected her Panther Claw Agents several times when they died at Honey's hands. 


Panther Zora also has control of the elements and forces of nature. Her spiritual projection alone was the size of a skyscraper and called criminals and gang members from all over Japan to the area. Her spiritual presence also caused great darkness and possibly a storm. She caused a massive water sprout capable of propelling her island form at massive speeds that reached up into the clouds. In her mountain form even her breath created winds strong enough to destroy fighter jets. 

She likely scales to the abilities she granted to her minions which would also giver her many other forms of elemental manipulation including fire manipulation and acid manipulation. She would also theoretically have the Duplication of the leader of Panther Claw Sister Jill. 

With all that said, Panther Zora has two weaknesses. The first, while not very important is that she can not leave her dimension physically. She can only project into another dimension. A character with inter-dimensional range would thus be able to have that advantage on her. The more relevant one is that Panther Zora hates humanity and views them as weak and self-destructive. She underestimates the capacity of humans and anything humanoid, which has let them catch her off-guard on multiple occasions. 

So how would the Panther Witch-God do in other universes?

In the Marvel Universe, Zora would qualify as a Mid Level Metahuman. She's relatively versatile for them, and she would be dangerous against most Metahuman Level entities due to her inter-dimensional range and powerful abilities if she takes it seriously, however on the flip side a high end street level fighter could actually beat her if she underestimates them due to their humanoid appearance and she doesn't use her shapechanging effectively primarily due to her speed disadvantage against opponents like Spider-Man or Captain America. 


In the DC Universe, it would be fairly similar, being roughly on the level of a Beta Level Metahuman like Deathstroke or the Weather Wizard depending on how seriously she takes them. While most enhanced humans likely couldn't beat her since DC low tier speeds aren't as intense as Marvel low tier speeds in general, the sheer amount of magicians on the DC Earth would likely make it as dangerous overall.


In Dragon Ball Zora is an odd situation since by the time the verse gets inter-dimensional movement (Shukan Ido) they are all strong enough to casually stomp her physically. She would likely be a massive threat to Part 1 Dragon Ball who could physically stomp her agents but would have difficulty actually fighting her unless they use the Mafuba to seal her spirit while she is projecting it or using the Dragon Balls to get to her dimension. If they do so, she would be relatively powerful still but characters on the level of Piccolo Daimao or higher should be able to consistently defeat her in a physical battle with the only threat being transmutation. 


Panther Zora would actually fit in relatively well in the Mermaid Melody verse. Her water manipulation is only about on par with the low tiers of the verse able to casually cause or stop powerful storms, yet she compensates by being massively more versatile. She would be much stronger then the Part 1 Mermaid Princesses and about as strong as the Part 1 Big Bad Gackto. She is probably stronger then the Mermaid Princess individually after being strengthened by Aqua Regina but wouldn't be able to beat all of them by herself by part 2. That said they would have little ability without the help of Mikeru or one of the old ones to gain access to her dimension, though Mikeru himself would stomp her being a much stronger dimensional manipulator. 


In the Madoka-verse, Panther Zora would act essentially as a witch. While Zora can cause more destruction more efficiently then most witches on most of the realm and her relative power would be akin to high tier witches, her speed is low for the verse, meaning she would average at being only around the power of a low tier witch or a rookie mahou shojo. While it's possible she could kill an amateur mahou shojo, any veteran or relatively strong mahou shojo should be able to take her fairly consistently. 


In the Princess Tutu verse, Zora would be a massive threat to most of the verse. She would easily have power comparable to greater then most of the verse, superior speed and relatively even abilities, outside of Drosselmeyer. That said given how nonthreatening the verse looks outside Raven, it's possible that the High Tiers of the verse could beat her working together. 


In the Devilman Universe, also written by Go Nagai, Zora would qualify as a High Tier Demon, as the strongest of demons are mountain busters with similar levels of dark magic and versatility and given their demonic appearance her weakness likely wouldn't come into play. That said she would be much weaker then Satan, God or Devilman as Satan the weakest of those 3 is still able to casually destroy continents. 

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