What a way to go

What a way to go!

Markiehoe wrote: What a way to go!

I can only imagine this is a villain who has tried to shoot his way out of a robbery;

"Awww.....were you trying to kill me there?...Here, let me give you a little kiss for your efforts"

That could be a way to quickly subdue subjects if it works like rapid decompression. Survivors might enjoy it if they remember anything. The supergirl would need to tolerate the aftertaste.
A description of hypoxia: The first signs include both mental and physical effects. Mentally there can be a loss of judgement, self-criticism and short-term memory. This can be accompanied by an increase in reaction time and a kind of mental "tunnel vision". You may even become euphoric.

The physical effects include muscular incoordination and an impairment of colour, night and peripheral vision. Hearing also deteriorates. You may experience hot flushes and turn bluish at the extremities (cyanosis). Rapid breathing or hyperventilation is one of the early physical signs.

slim36 wrote: That could be a way to quickly subdue subjects if it works like rapid decompression. Survivors might enjoy it if they remember anything. The supergirl would need to tolerate the aftertaste.
A description of hypoxia: The first signs include both mental and physical effects. Mentally there can be a loss of judgement, self-criticism and short-term memory. This can be accompanied by an increase in reaction time and a kind of mental "tunnel vision". You may even become euphoric.

The physical effects include muscular incoordination and an impairment of colour, night and peripheral vision. Hearing also deteriorates. You may experience hot flushes and turn bluish at the extremities (cyanosis). Rapid breathing or hyperventilation is one of the early physical signs.

The problem is if she removes the oxygen too rapidly (in a manner similar to rapid decompression) there likely would be no survivors because the killer wouldn't be asphyxia, but rather collapsed lungs and damaged air passageways. Effectively she would be crushing the alveoli within the lungs, if not more, like pulling all the air out of a balloon. That's also not get into potential diaphragm damage or similar. Even just keeping her lips on her victim's would swiftly lead to permanent brain damage on the part of the person losing their air, as their brain no longer receives oxygenated blood and swiftly succumbs to a lack of energy.

Make no mistake, a move like this would NOT be non-lethal.

I recall reading the comic a long time ago. If I recall right, I don't believe it is a bad guy, but it was about 25-30 years ago.

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Raa wrote: slaymonstrobot.blogspot.com/2014/02/mani...-bonus-woman-of.html

Is he reading a girly mag in front of Kara while their daughter trashes the house?

yes, a small miscalculation could mean the difference between recoverable unconsiousness, and a shopping list of internal injuries (bleeding lungs, discombobulated stomach) But that's why they're super

Ok, according to my 1978 USNavy flight surgeon manual you have 18seconds of useful consciousness at 40 thousand feet which is 2.9 psi. So if SG dropped your lung pressure from 14.7 to 2.9 you would be out of it in 18 seconds. You can hang in there at 39,500 feet on 100% Oxygen.

"Is he reading a girly mag in front of Kara while their daughter trashes the house?"

PEEK Magazine perhaps?
www.pulpartists.com/Manheimer.html

That's it - and that Manhemer article was fascinating!

Nothing like a quickie but gentle lung evacuation to the edge of consciousness. As the world goes gray dark with flashing lights of zetar, the subject is most susceptible to a dose of pheromonic breath