Re: Super Men In Black (Countdown 24 SPOILERS)

On Nov 30, 12:56 am, Duggy <Paul.Dug...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 30, 2:53 pm, newton58...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Nov 29, 7:11 pm, Duggy <Paul.Dug...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Telekenesis makes the flying make sense (more sense than advanced
jumping) and the field makes the invulnerability of the suit make
sense.
And it makes him a Jean Gray class hero. Whoo-fucking-hoo.

I'm not saying it's better. It sucks. It makes him a psi-character.
Yawn.

The sad
truth is telekinesis is a girl power. Men use their muscles, girls use
their minds because their little muscles can't handle it. I'm being
facetious, but no one wants to see Superman, the strongest, manliest
hero using his mind to fight bad guys. Jesus christ...

Hey, ring me when you reach the last 20th century.

Come on, am I wrong? Even on Smallville where he's totally Emo, he
still solves every problem by smashing it. You don't turn to Superman
for mind powers of any kind.


Fair enough. Although they could have just developed those abilities
anyway.
Yeah, exactly like humans!

Because Kryptons can only evolve exactly like humans, right?

Exactly. Finally, you agree with me. And not at all in a facetious
way.


Yeah, about the red sun negating solar radiation storage... THAT makes
no sense.

Yes, and the thread's been around and around on that point.

What, NOW you're tired of arguing for argument's sake? You're
slipping, Dug.


The red sun just wouldn't "power up" his cells, it wouldn't
sap them. Red solar radiation is still solar radiation. Come on,
people!

Different frequencies of solar radiation does different things.

Is that true? That seems like something that could be verified.


So why not a combination light/heat storage/projection system in the eyes?
I see you why not and ask, why?
That's not the same as answering "why not?" You know how many vestigal
muscles humans have? Me neither, but it's more than you'd think. Also,
see "flashlight vision" below. I think it's winning.

It's possible.

Well, I wouldn't go that far, but it's willing suspension of
disbeliefable. And, yes, I have a trademark pending on that phrase.


What if his heat vision is really "flashlight vision", which I admit sounds
silly, but no sillier than those fish with the light bulbs on their
heads.
Yes. They are silly.
You're right. I shouldn't have made that up.

No sillier then "actual" explanations.

This is why I like debating you. Eventually the back and forth gets to
a point where I can't tell if you're agreeing with me, contradicting
me, contradicting yourself, or if your cat just walked across your
keyboard. I'm just gonna go ahead and agree with you here.


On Earth, with the abundant solar radiation overloading his
dense cellular structure, all his natural abilities become magnified.
So instead of just projecting light beams out of his eyes, they can be
focussed into laser beams.
So you're saying that he can use his heat vision as a torch?
And that if he uses it at night everyone will see it?
Maybe on Krypton. On Earth it's a fucking laser beam, as illustrated
in basically every Superman comic in the last 20 years.

No. Some have the red-glowing eyes with no beams.

Specifically in situations when Clark uses the power with no one
noticing.

I think that when it is shown as laser beams it's more illustrative
than actual. Has anyone, in text refered to seeing the beams?

Well, they were depicted in the movies and on the cartoons as red
beams too, so I always figured that in a medium where they don't go
out of their way to show the invisible course of something (bullet
trails for instance) that it was intended to be a visible beam like a
laser. Which I like better anyway.
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