Nissan's performance arm Nismo is partnering up with F1 constructor Williams to construct high speed road cars. Inadvertently, they created a great idea for a superhero.
Well, really, the creation goes to Jalopnik reader and blogger Mikeado, who realized that "Nismo Williams" sounds like the name of an awesome superhero. He went off from there, picking up on Nismo's goal of "sustainable performance" and their ZEOD RC electric racer.
By day, he's a perfectly ordinary sodium and eel salesman, but by night... he is NISMO WILLIAMS. *awesome theme tune*
— Mikeado (@Odaekim) June 27, 2013
Millionaire playboy street racer superhero, like an Anglo-Japanese Iron Man with a four-wheeled Super Suit. #NismoWilliams
— Mikeado (@Odaekim) June 27, 2013
The demeanour of a suited gentleman, the fighting style of a Ninja, these are The Sustainable Performance Adventures of Nismo Williams!
— Mikeado (@Odaekim) June 27, 2013
Mikeado even got a plot line started.
Tonight on The Sustainable Performance Adventures of Nismo Williams, can our hero save a city from the slow, evil Pollutotrons???
— Mikeado (@Odaekim) June 27, 2013
"AAAAHAHAHAHAHAAA oGHUGHUGHUGH *cough cough*, WE WILL SMOKE YOU OUT OF THE CITY, PUNY HUMANS!! THEN TAKE ALL YOUR VALUABLES!! BWAHAHAHAA!!!"
— Mikeado (@Odaekim) June 27, 2013
But through the black smog glow a pair of headlights, flanked by another, wider set of headlights further back. A high-revving, ... (1/2)
— Mikeado (@Odaekim) June 27, 2013
(2/2)... four cylinder engine is heard piercing through the smokey chuntering of Pollutotrons. The engine dims, the car continues racing on.
— Mikeado (@Odaekim) June 27, 2013
Bursting out the sooty cloud is something that looks much like the 2014 ZEOD RC but DEFINITELY ISN'T, OK. A missile launcher extends from it
— Mikeado (@Odaekim) June 27, 2013
The missile fires into the soft underbelly of one of the Pollutotrons and EXPLODES with a burst of clean energy! The monstrous machine (1/2)
— Mikeado (@Odaekim) June 27, 2013
(2/2) that looks like a tank had sex with Howl's Moving Castle staggers and falls to the ground as the clean energy dissolves it.
— Mikeado (@Odaekim) June 27, 2013
Having rushed to the scene at speeds of up to 300km/h on electric power but sometimes with a 10,000rpm 4-cylinder range extender running...
— Mikeado (@Odaekim) June 27, 2013
... Nismo Williams glides silently into the side streets as the horrified Pollutotrons begin their search. Will they find him??? Stay Tuned!
— Mikeado (@Odaekim) June 27, 2013
Nismo Williams should just go ahead and buy movie rights from this guy.