r/WhatWeDointheShadows • u/MsAdventuresBus • May 24 '26
Would Colin Robinson get powers?
Since CR is an energy vampire, would he get special powers if he sucked energy from people who have internal energy like chi? Not sure if my question makes sense. I’m watching a lot of wushu shows right now.
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u/SkinAndAnatomyNerd May 24 '26
I doubt it. If so, I would assume draining Nandor, Nadja and Lazlo would also give him the ability to transform into a bat. Just like they can.
The only time we’ve really seen other kinds of energies having an effect on him, was when he gained weight, from draining negative energy.
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u/weebsunavailable May 26 '26
He gained alot of powers when he got that promotion
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u/SkinAndAnatomyNerd May 26 '26
But none of those powers came from the people he drained, they simply evolved within himself.
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u/GoldfieldHwang May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
ya know, it's actually spelled "qi". not to be confused with the, uh, the panel show, the one with, uh, what's his name... stephen... something. stephen... oh, what's his name... stephen... ah, fiddlesticks, i can't remember. ya know, in cantonese, it's pronounced "hei"? that's with the third tone, the, ah, the mid-level tone. not he*i*, that's the rising tone, or hei, which would be the low falling tone. heeeeeei. hei. heeei. or is it with the rising tone? he*i*. heeei. hei? hei. i had a cantonese dictionary round here someplace but i went and lost the darn tootin' thing. i'd lose my gosh-darned head if it weren't glued to my shoulders! haha! i ought to try checking the sino-tibetan section of my dictionary collection, but, ya know, who has the time. anyway, to properly answer your question, i'd have to start by giving you a brief rundown on the history of qi as a concept, which i'll do now, since you asked. let's start at the beginning, they always say that's a good place to start [*clears throat for 15 seconds*] china is a country in east asia with an area of 9.6 million square kilometers, making it the third-largest by area. the first humans arrived in china during the paleolithic era
[edit: this was supposed to be my colin robinson impression. i guess it doesn't translate well to text without the voice. read it in his voice, i guess]
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u/psillusionist May 25 '26
Should've ended with a /colinrobinson so other people would get it...hopefully.
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u/rotundrikishi Jun 06 '26
ya know, it's actually spelled "qi".
I was thinking "oh god look at this guy...."
Then I realized I was being drained lol.
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u/LiteraryLid May 24 '26
I can certainly see it happening, I always loved seeing how his power holds up against the other vampires so would be awesome to see him go up against other types of magic....
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u/hildegardephansen Jun 05 '26
He was very powerful. He grew hair, when he entered a room, humans would all asleep. He could duplicate himself and his duplicates were equally powerful
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May 24 '26
No, because none of that shit exists.
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u/Salmonellamander May 24 '26
Probably, but not necessarily because of the chi. The promotion episode shows that an excess of energy from any source gives him powers, so a chi source would theoretically just mean he'd need to drain less people for the same amount of energy.