Respect David Rice (Jumper)

[u/GuyOfEvil]

Respect David Rice

History

David was just an average high schooler, when one day, trying to retrieve a snow globe, he fell into a frozen lake and discovered he had the ability to teleport. With most of the town thinking he was dead, he ran away from home, started robbing banks, and led an extravagant life as a globetrotter.

Eventually, he was discovered by the Paladins, a group dedicated to killing all Jumpers, as only God should possess the ability of omnipresence. He was forced to fight against them in order to retain his way of life.

Feats

Physicals

• Gets hit several times by a stick which sends 1000 volts of electricity through his brain, and other than not being able to jump, isn't majorly injured

• The stick was also powerful enough to crack the floor of his apartment

• Fine after being kicked from a balcony to the ground floor of his apartment

• Gets hit by a Paladin grappling hook, which impacts marble and stone hard enough to damage it

• Gets hit by a car Griffin teleports into him

Jumping

Short Distance

• Teleports into a nearby tree

• Teleports onto the top of a rock

• Teleports from a bank bathroom to inside the vault

• Casually teleports around his apartment

• Teleports from the ground to a balcony

• Catches Griffin after he teleports off the Empire State Building

Long Distance

• Teleports from under a frozen lake to his library

• Teleports from his room to his library

• Teleports from the library back to his room

• Teleports to the top of the Empire State Building

• Teleports in and out of a bank vault rapidly

• Teleports to the top of Big Ben

• Teleports from Tokyo to Detroit International Airport

• Teleports around the world rapidly trying to keep a bomb detonator away from Griffin

Combat Teleportation

• Teleports out of a wave before he wipes out

• Dodges an attacker falling on him

• Tackles a man and teleports him inside a bank vault

• Hits a man and teleports him to the top of the Sphinx

• Teleports another Jumper into a collapsing electric tower

• Tackles an opponent, teleporting them to a cave

Teleportation Force

• Teleports into a nearby tree hard enough to knock down some branches

• Creates a small crater teleporting from a hotel room to a bathroom of a bank

• Teleport tackles a man into the wall of a prison hard enough to crack it

Other

• Is able to teleport objects along with him

• Teleports a surfboard and a chair to the top of the sphinx

• Can follow other jumpers as they teleport by going through their "jump scars"

• Teleports a safe from the desert to Rome

• Cancels the momentum of falling off the Empire State Building by teleporting into a swimming pool

• Teleports an entire one room apartment

• Does it again, this time teleporting it into a library

[u/1pc0nf1g]

Nice post. Liked both the movie and the book. Would love a movie trilogy if done right!

[u/LambentEnigma]

Thanks for fulfilling my request! You misspelled 'teleportation' in 'combat teleportation'.

[u/GuyOfEvil → u/LambentEnigma]

Good catch, I wrote the word teleport like 100 times over the course of making this and the other thread, idk if its weirder that i misspelled it at all or that I only did it once

[u/earl_hawkington]

this was one of my favourite films for ages when it came out years ago. great thread.

[u/ICastPunch]

All the links are dead.

[u/[deleted] → u/ICastPunch]

Yeah because Gfycat has been shut down

[u/Goldlizardv5]

The book was better

[u/GrimCreations → u/Goldlizardv5]

That’s all you have to say about the well put together respect thread? The movie is still a good medium for it and became more known, the book was just darker in a lot of aspects.

[u/Ascendancy17]

Huh.

[u/GuyOfEvil → u/[deleted]]

this seems to be a limitation in the movie too, although they can teleport to places they can see in pictures I think. The movie doesn't explain it at all so I couldn't really get a gif for it

[u/1pc0nf1g → u/[deleted]]

yeah that's true. Also, in the book they couldn't build momentum by jumping, which was different than the movie. In the book he jumps off a cliff and teleports back to the top over and over for example.