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Calaveron posted:So you basically shouldn't play pool with Summers  No, no you should not.
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LvK posted:clearly the visor is made to pick up on his unique brainwave signatures so that he can psychically command it, as long as it is making direct electro-wha-something-etic contact with his skin, you ding-dong! That's dumb, he obviously uses a series of complicated eyebrow gestures.
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Nov 30, 2014 06:31
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His visors are connected to a sensor in his gloves, it's in the first episode of the 90s cartoon.
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Nov 30, 2014 06:59
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this isn't going to end until one of us gets a No-Prize. I do not intend to lose.
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Nov 30, 2014 08:27
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Awesome Andy posted:His visors are connected to a sensor in his gloves, it's in the first episode of the 90s cartoon. It's also in like issue 2 or 3 of the original X-Men comics.
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Nov 30, 2014 08:42
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Awesome Andy posted:His visors are connected to a sensor in his gloves, it's in the first episode of the 90s cartoon.  For someone whose job is to get into wild fist fights with supervillains this design decision seems awfully irresponsible.
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So what about when he's not wearing gloves? You people expect me to believe he'd risk psychic feedback and wardrobe malfunction instead of putting simple eyebrow activated triggers in the visor that his enemies don't want to take off for fear of subjecting their face to the unbridled fury of the punch dimension? Scoff I say!
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"It was designed by the late Professor X, shortly before his tragic death." Hmmm, no they're gonna need to be more specific than that.
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Nov 30, 2014 08:56
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:
Eeh, you can say the same thing about Spidey's web shooters. The answer is something about it needing a specific pressure, so a fist or punch is too much to set it off. But given that kid-Cyclops isn't wearing gloves, I'm going to assume the eyebrows thing is also true.
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Iceman can apparently take temperatures down to absolute zero (Marvel wiki again). I guess that's all the bases covered when it comes to extremes of temperature. Now do negative kelvin and see what happens.
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I think we've reached peak power creep when characters are casually tossing off powers and abilities that overreach the most extreme limits of known physics. Doing blatantly inexplicable stuff like flying and reading minds is one thing, but now they're just wiping their asses with the things the rest of us rely on for a stable spacetime continuum 
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Nov 30, 2014 10:38
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Of all the things to get Worf'd, absolute zero is reaching a little too far. It's not cold anymore, it's more like stop.
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Nov 30, 2014 10:41
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"There, I've recreated the big bang in his face an uncountable number of times during the space of a microsecond." "GRUUUUNT" *backhand*
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McSpanky posted:Doing blatantly inexplicable stuff like flying and reading minds is one thing, but now they're just wiping their asses with the things the rest of us rely on for a stable spacetime continuum This is how all the Marvel super-scientists feel whenever Reed comes over and asks in a kind of half-patronizing tone,"So what little project you working on today, buddy? Awww isn't that cute, my daughter was working on that while we were potty training her  "
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Nov 30, 2014 12:09
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SirDan3k posted:the visor that his enemies don't want to take off for fear of subjecting their face to the unbridled fury of the punch dimension? His enemy's face, no. Wolverine's lower back and glutes, well why not?  (Note also that Cyc is using his eye beam without clenching his fist or touching his visor.)
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Nov 30, 2014 12:12
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Dolash posted:Of all the things to get Worf'd, absolute zero is reaching a little too far. It's not cold anymore, it's more like stop. "Absolute zero" is x-men tactical speak for "as cold as you can make it, and focus solely on lowering the temperature rather than ice density or something", sort of like how in space adventures "ramming speed" means "as fast as we can go, and do not avoid the collision". Please make my No-Prize out to cash, I'm between banks at the moment.
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Dammit Who? posted:"Absolute zero" is x-men tactical speak for "as cold as you can make it, and focus solely on lowering the temperature rather than ice density or something", sort of like how in space adventures "ramming speed" means "as fast as we can go, and do not avoid the collision". Eh I can see it handwaved away this time by saying that he did get it to absolute zero, just that the incorporeal magic negates it. But wouldn't the human torch like you know, cause a fusion reaction that creates a mini sun the moment he tries to hit that temp?
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TwoPair posted:It was indeed Grounded, so if you think that was stupid, just remember... Grounded. I mean, was it the JMS issues, or was it from one of the issues after JMS quit?
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Metal Loaf posted:I mean, was it the JMS issues, or was it from one of the issues after JMS quit? After. It's an optimistic statement. JMS's run was pretty much depressed smug supes in the worst way.
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Dolash posted:Of all the things to get Worf'd, absolute zero is reaching a little too far. It's not cold anymore, it's more like stop. So basically, Iceman is Dio and Juggernaut is Jotaro. Jojoggernaut.
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Say Nothing posted:I think it was mentioned once that Cyclops' secondary mutation is the ability to accurately calculate angles in his head. Didn't he do something ridiculous like unlock a car door once with his eyebeams?
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Myoacoustics and myoelectric systems are a thing. It's entirely possible that the visor just reacts to the sneer. Though how he manages to emote enough to punch holes in things, I dunno.
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He's a space wizard, seriously there's a whole like story line of him having just a bandage around his eyes when he lands on that tropical island. How does that work? Who the gently caress knows. Also, it's been stated that he actually does have mental control over the blasts but that it's just really taxing on him or some such crazy poo poo.
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Hollismason posted:He's a space wizard, seriously there's a whole like story line of him having just a bandage around his eyes when he lands on that tropical island. How does that work? Who the gently caress knows. I know at one point the reason he needed the visor was because of a childhood head injury.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:His enemy's face, no. Wolverine's lower back and glutes, well why not? "Hi, question for Ms. Bellamy. In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes that same rib twice in succession yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we, to believe that this is some sort of a, a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder."
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The Biggest Jerk posted:Eh I can see it handwaved away this time by saying that he did get it to absolute zero, just that the incorporeal magic negates it. But wouldn't the human torch like you know, cause a fusion reaction that creates a mini sun the moment he tries to hit that temp? He would die. Instantly. He would come apart as he reached absolute hot, since things like strong and weak nuclear force stop working properly at that point. He is creating a Big Bang inside his body. It's ridiculously absurd power creep.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:His enemy's face, no. Wolverine's lower back and glutes, well why not? Man, remember when Wolverine actually could die from falling.
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The Biggest Jerk posted:Eh I can see it handwaved away this time by saying that he did get it to absolute zero, just that the incorporeal magic negates it. But wouldn't the human torch like you know, cause a fusion reaction that creates a mini sun the moment he tries to hit that temp? The Human Torch doesn't even get near the Planck temperature. Reed Richards lies all the time about this kind of thing, because he's an rear end in a top hat who thinks it's funny. Even people technically qualified to call him out on this don't do it because they're afraid of looking ridiculous by accusing Dr. Richards of the Fantastic Four of making an undergraduate error.
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Dammit Who? posted:The Human Torch doesn't even get near the Planck temperature. Reed Richards lies all the time about this kind of thing, because he's an rear end in a top hat who thinks it's funny. Even people technically qualified to call him out on this don't do it because they're afraid of looking ridiculous by accusing Dr. Richards of the Fantastic Four of making an undergraduate error. If someone called him out on it Reed would just alter the laws of physics to lower the Planck temperature
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Hollismason posted:He's a space wizard, seriously there's a whole like story line of him having just a bandage around his eyes when he lands on that tropical island. How does that work? Who the gently caress knows. I don't want to blow your mind but Cyclops does in fact have eyelids.
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Opopanax posted:If someone called him out on it Reed would just alter the laws of physics to lower the Planck temperature He could use his time machine to go back and rewrite all the history books and specifically alter everybody's memory EXCEPT for that one dude, so he'd be left spluttering when he continues to insist Reed was wrong but everybody and everything disagrees with him. My God, this is how Doom happened, isn't it?  Edit: For content. Remind me never to make fun of the size of Thor's hammer.  The Mighty Thor, V1 #142 Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Dec 1, 2014 |
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Dammit Who? posted:The Human Torch doesn't even get near the Planck temperature. Reed Richards lies all the time about this kind of thing, because he's an rear end in a top hat who thinks it's funny. Even people technically qualified to call him out on this don't do it because they're afraid of looking ridiculous by accusing Dr. Richards of the Fantastic Four of making an undergraduate error. And that's the same reason no one's ever corrected Wally West about how short an attosecond is. (Unless... was that Wally? Or was it Barry? Because if it was Barry, then... poo poo, there's a reason his life is an "endless gallery of statues".)
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Parahexavoctal posted:(Unless... was that Wally? Or was it Barry? Because if it was Barry, then... poo poo, there's a reason his life is an "endless gallery of statues".) If any Flash was that fast, you'd have a worldwide version of Kingdom Come's Flash making the planet a utopia.
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The fastest any Speedster can go is the speed of light, because once you break lightspeed a Speedster will enter the Speedforce and either go to Flashhalla, or time travel. 
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Wapole Languray posted:The fastest any Speedster can go is the speed of light, because once you break lightspeed a Speedster will enter the Speedforce and either go to Flashhalla, or time travel. Unless said speedster outruns the literal representation of Death, like Barry and Wally in Final Crisis.
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The Biggest Jerk posted:Eh I can see it handwaved away this time by saying that he did get it to absolute zero, just that the incorporeal magic negates it. But wouldn't the human torch like you know, cause a fusion reaction that creates a mini sun the moment he tries to hit that temp? Semi-related, there was a New Mutants story in Asgard where all the characters were in enchanted iron shackles, no one could break them, but Rictor ended up doing it. I think he used an explanation of something like, "Yeah, the magic spell to make them unbreakable held, I just used my power to vibrate the iron itself into falling apart."
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Bullshitting the reader is the most common secondary power
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JediTalentAgent posted:Semi-related, there was a New Mutants story in Asgard where all the characters were in enchanted iron shackles, no one could break them, but Rictor ended up doing it. I think he used an explanation of something like, "Yeah, the magic spell to make them unbreakable held, I just used my power to vibrate the iron itself into falling apart." I could swear Silver Dagger once got into Doctor Strange's house by messing around with the wood on a windowframe, instead of trying to get through the window or its attendant enchantment.
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I seem to remember Luke Cage breaking Doom's armour, designed to withstand partical beams, explosions, etc... by just hitting it.
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