Heroes - Throatlift scene

Hi folks, here is a short scene from the fourth season of Heroes that I stumbled upon recently. I stopped following the series somewhere around the end of season 2 or the beginning of season 3, so I never saw this episode.

In the scene a black nurse (Sylar in disguise) grabs Peter by his throat and lifts him up. It's very short but pretty well done. After she throws him out of the elevator Sylar changes back to his normal self, so that's all there was. Here's the clip:

Heroes, 4x12, Throatlift

Chinese girls lifting people over their heads

Here are some scenes of Chinese / Hong Kong TV shows in which a girl lifts a guy over her head with no apparent reason for why she is so strong. All scenes are somewhat comedic, with the shows being lighthearted wuxia serials or comedies, and the girls are ordinary girls, i.e. not vampires, robots, possessed, superheroines or anything like that.

The first scene is from a comedy / wuxia series called The Duke of Mount Deer or Royal Tramp from 2008. In the scene a young girl and her master demonstrate some fighting skills to the main character and at the beginning the girl lifts up the old guy with one hand and holds him abover her head.
The second scene is from a recent comedy show called Can't Buy Me Love. A girl and a guy follow a thief through the streets. The guy eventually is able to stop the thief and causes him to fall to the ground. Then the girl arrives and angrily grabs the thief, lifts him over her head and starts to shake him until some piece of jewellery falls out of his pocket.
Number three is from Paladins in Troubled Times. A young girl wants something from a man (I don't remember what) and proposes a challenge: One of them is going to lift something in the room and if the other one can't lift it, he/she looses. She starts and lifts him over her head which he in return obviously can't, so she wins.

I have no idea if there are more scenes like that in the shows mentioned as these feats are somewhat random and each of the series is about 40-50 episodes in length. In one plot summary of the series I read, the girl from Can't Buy Me Love is described as being amazingly strong, but the only ubergirl moment I found (so far) is the one pictured above.

I posted the three scenes to mediafire:

Can't Buy Me Love (ep 10) - overhead lift
Paladins in Troubled Times (ep 3) - overhead lift
Royal Tramp 2008 (ep 18) - overhead lift

Smallville Isis - Report

In yesterday's episode of Smallville Lois is possessed by the Egyptian Goddess Isis. Isis wants to reawaken her beloved Osiris and finds Clark to be a suitable host for her husband (and brother).

What I never really understood about Smallville is how they structure their episodes. So the episode is called "Isis", right? Lois' possession happens about 10 minutes into the episode and ends 30 minutes in. That means only half of the episode is even devoted to it's main plot ... Anyway.

There are a few brief, noteworthy moments: When she enters a warehouse, Lois opens and bends a metal gate as if it was made out of cardboard, she pushes the guard that rushes towards her and sends him flying 20 feet through the air, and she rips off the lid of a wooden box. Later she pushes / throws Clark onto a sarcophagus and uses her telekinesis (?) powers once or twice against Green Arrow.

All in all I didn't find it too exciting, but still better regarding ubergirl-moments than the recent Supergirl episode. I've created clips of the scenes I found interesting, including the part when Lois becomes possessed:

Transformation
Enter warehouse (steel bend, push guard)
Push Clark

The Vampire Diaries - Season 2 (so far)

We're five episodes into season 2 and so far there are two recurring female vampire characters. One of them, Katherine, is supposedly the main villainess of this season and the "twin" of the show's female lead. The other one, Caroline (see pics), was turned into a vampire at the end of the first episode by Katherine.

Caroline had a few uber-moments: In episode 2 she pushed a guy, sending him flying a couple of feet, she overpowered two of her victims, moved at superspeed; in the last episode there is a short fight between her and a guy, which she wins quite easily. She kicks him through the air against a tree.

The other vampiress didn't do that much so far. I believe in one episode she broke free of some chains and pushed another vampire away.

I read some spoilers that there will be a big fight betweeen these two vamps at some point during this season. I'll keep you posted ... In the meantime, here are two of the scenes I mentioned:

The Vampire Diaries 2x02 Throw
The Vampire Diaries 2x05 Fight

True Blood - Seasons 1-3

I think True Blood is fun to watch and have been following all three seasons thus far. It's too bad that there has been so little in the series in terms of superhuman displays of strength by hot female vampires. There are a couple of supernatural characters who showed the occasional mini strength feat, but it really wasn't much.

Anyway, here's my brief summary of the ubergirls of the first three seasons and their short moments of ubergirlishness ;-). I'm doing this off the top of my head, so feel free to correct me, if I'm wrong or miss something.

*** Spoilers ahead ***

(1) Pam - She is Eric's vampire daughter (i.e. he made her a vampire). There were a few moments where she moved at superspeed; she also briefly overpowered and threatened Lafayette in one scene; in the last episode of season 3 an assassin was sent to kill her, but she "took care of him" - offscreen, unfortunately - i.e. we only know about it, because she tells her maker later on (bummer).

Aside from her vampiric powers, she also has the power to be a cold-hearted bitch and spit out snide remarks at every given opportunity. I like her.

(2) Jessica - The cute redhead who Bill was forced to make a vampire in season 1 or the beginning of season 2. She had some more strength moments than Pam but not really much.

In one episode when she visited her parents, she pinned her father to the wall and threatened him. In season 3 she fought some werewolves, but you didn't see much. Right now, I can't think of any other scenes. It's a shame that she didn't explore her powers more after she had been made a vampire; that would have been a nice opportunity for some great scenes ...

(3) Maryann - The villainess of season 2 was a Maenad, a figure from Greek mythology. There was only one noteable scene where she used her physical power, and that was in one of the last episodes of season 2 when she briefly lifted Sookie by the throat. It was only a short scene and not really that impressive.

Her main power was to influence others who became possessed by her and enganged in mindless, but fun, Bacchanalian activities.

(4) Lorena - Bill's maker is a hot, jealous and crazy vampiress with no apparent moral sense. In other words: The perfect candidate for some evil displays of superhuman strength. Of all the female characters she had the most ubermoments (but still not much).

The most interesting scene was when she held Bill captive in a hotel room around episode 8 of season 2. There were a few short moments where she physically overpowered him; she also seemed to enjoy it. In season 3 there is a short scene in which she grabs Sookie and throws her against a wall, but unfortunately she is killed shortly afterwards. There also might have been a neckbreak or two during flashbacks in season 2.

(5) Sophie-Ann - The queen of Louisiana. She is, in my opinion, the hottest of the lot, but had the least amount of ubergirl-time. Actually, close to none. There was one short moment in which she moved at superspeed and threatened Eric in the beginning of season 3 but that was about it. In the final episode Bill challenges the queen and they jump at each other, but the episode left the outcome of the fight as a cliffhanger for the fourth season (*meh*). I hope they will show the fight and not only the aftermath, but we'll find out in a year or so ;-)

Well, that was a lot of text for so little content, but there you go.

The Gates - Season 1

ABC's Desperate Housewives with Vampires aka The Gates aired it's season finale this Sunday. To be honest, I didn't follow the series too closely except for looking for feats of superstrength and the like, so I can't really say if the show was any good.

Anyway, there were only two short superhuman moments, one in episode 9 IIRC, the other in the final episode.

In episode 9 the lovely Katheryn Winnick played a vampire who's out for revenge. In one scene she confronts her former lover who turned her into a vampire and kills him after a short, but sweet fight. She catches a sword with her hands during the fight and breaks off the tip; shortly after she lifts the guy by the collar and carries him to the wall where he is impaled by some kind of wooden stick.

In the final episode a bunch of vampires fought each other, however, only the very first few seconds of the fight were shown, the rest of the actual fighting occured off-screen. During these first few seconds Rhona Mitra grabs another female vamp and throws her several feet through the air onto the windshield of a nearby car. (No caps for this one yet.)

That was about it, which isn't really all that much unfortunately, unless I missed something. Thinking about it, it's still more than True Blood has delivered so far. Let's see if The Gates will get a second season ...