I think at some point, it was said to have been healed, but he still had some kind of mental block that kept him from controlling it.
Then again, it's been awhile since I read x-men comics, so who knows what the story is now.
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Then again, it's been awhile since I read x-men comics, so who knows what the story is now.
On Wolverine's regeneration, how many calories would it take for him to heal that fast? I would assume a lot.
Wolverine's regeneration is pocket-universe based, with the matter coming from 'elsewhere'. He's regenerated from a single cell before, as ridiculous as that fucking is.
One of the Ultimate Iron Man's had an interesting regeneration power, with a body that was basically all stem cells that were constantly regenerating. This gave him a much higher metabolism, and required him to eat a lot, and in the event of a severed limb or other such catastrophic damage would require that he eat large amounts of protein to repair the damage.
This was how he managed to survive getting knocked around in that big iron suit.
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You want to talk ridiculous, they need to figure out what Wolverine's pants were made out of in X-Men 3, cause Phoenix was burning everything else off of him but the pants didn't even singe. They need to use that material to make heat shields for space shuttles.
Or whatever pants the Hulk wears! He can wear some generally durable pants from time to time.
I had this book a while ago. I think you'd like it yoshi.
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Pretty mediocre reviews at amazon.com though:
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Hilariously, the author added his own "review" discussing the background of getting the book to print:
How can anyone who is invulnerable walk around normally? To be what is considered invulnerable you'd have to have a high molecular density or a force field of equal molecular density. If I had that much mass in that small a frame, I would break EVERYTHING! Supes must have took some mad training to handle his strength.
Edit: And that does look like a neat read.
Edit: And that does look like a neat read.
Very possible. I think I was about 10 when I got it so I very well may have missed a lot of errors and issues. I just remember a lot of it was pretty cool.
Superman's strength has been explained as imparting a kind of structural integrity/inertial dampening field over anything he's touching. This allows him to...
- Support large machines from a single, small point without ripping them in half (such as grabbing a falling crane by it's cable without having the cable snap)
- Grab a falling person without matching speed and direction (This is why Lois Lane doesn't shatter her spine every time Supes saves her)
- Support a fallen building without having the building collapse at other points
- Swinging around large objects (trees, pillars, columns, steel beams, etc) without having them snap in two.
In other words, Superman can do blatantly impossible things with his strength because he's literally holding things together just by touching them. I imagine his flight powers would allow him to reduce his effective weight as well.
Even with that explanation, Kryptonian physiology baffles the hell out of me.
How about Golden Age Super man or the Kree? Their molecularly dense right? How would they control their mass?
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... but wouldn't that make him unable to cause damage with his bare hands?
This all pretty much came about in explaining Superboy's powers. I think it's a clever way to explain all the physically impossible stuff that Superman does.
Tactile Telekenesis is the term they use.
Except Superman isn't dense, because the same thing that allows him to keep things together when he touches them is also what keeps HIM together when he's getting shot at. Bullets and explosions can't penetrate his skin because of the field, but he's still able to be knocked around by them. I'm guessing he's able to rip things apart ether because his field is stronger than the one he generates in things he holds or he's somehow actively willing it off.
He doesn't need to be dense because of the field. It's also why he doesn't suddenly start cracking pavement when under red light or kryptonite: the field is what makes him strong, not his muscles, so he clearly weighs roughly the same as a human of comparative size.
The only thing that confuses me about Kryptonian physiology is where does he get the energy to shoot his heat vision? Does he have an organ that allows him to transform his chemical energy (generates by his cells being exposed to yellow sunlight) into a light that focuses through his eyes to become a laser? If so, why did Kryptonian's develop this if they existed in an environment that wouldn't let them do this? It almost makes it seem like Kryptonians were developed as living weapons and then got dumped onto a planet lit by a red sun when they weren't needed anymore.
Kryptonian evolution vexes me to this day.
Now the explanation from what I've heard is that Kryptonians have evolved mass electromagnetic and radiation inside them. So the heat beams come from his own radioactive body. Though...if they are composed almost completely of radiation why does kryptonite weaken them? I could see make their powers go out of control but not weaken.
Okay, but WHY would they they develop such abilities? It's not like they can tap into these powers while under the red sun of Krypton, so unless it's just a random mutation that stuck around because it wasn't affecting them, I don't see why they'd have developed that.
Or maybe they were tapping into these powers, except under a red sun the effect was so weak it was negligible. Only under a yellow sun do the powers actually do any damage.
Maybe it's kinda like how our human bodies generate their own heat, right? But we've also got heat management measures. That's why we don't overheat when we step out into the sun. We absorb heat from the sun, but our bodies also get rid of the heat through sweating and stuff. But, generally speaking, we don't feel heat coming from other people, unless we're really close.
So maybe Kryptonians can, indeed, absorb some solar radiation and release it from their bodies, but the overall effect is as negligible as when we take in heat from the sun and sweat it off. Only when Kryptonians are exposed to a yellow sun do the powers get amped up.
I dunno, I'm just speculating here.
Maybe it's kinda like how our human bodies generate their own heat, right? But we've also got heat management measures. That's why we don't overheat when we step out into the sun. We absorb heat from the sun, but our bodies also get rid of the heat through sweating and stuff. But, generally speaking, we don't feel heat coming from other people, unless we're really close.
So maybe Kryptonians can, indeed, absorb some solar radiation and release it from their bodies, but the overall effect is as negligible as when we take in heat from the sun and sweat it off. Only when Kryptonians are exposed to a yellow sun do the powers get amped up.
I dunno, I'm just speculating here.
Hey I'm not saying its not fucking ridiculous, I'm by what I know. To me Krypton shouldn't have evolved ANY form of life. Incredbly high gravity, too close to the step away from super nova son, massivley radioactive planetary core, its just deadly! Kryptonians go against all basis of scientific evolution and make absoutely no sense. I mean really, why would a a species evolve MICROSCOPIC VISION! I can buy heat beams for primordial flame making purposes, but micro-vision is a bit of a push. If they were magic, I would by it but no.
True, but in the DC universe their sun is and Kryptonians be super powered from it and what-not.
It's classified as a yellow dwarf. The light it emits is "white" simply by virtue of our human brain interpretting the combinations of its electromagnetic emissions as white.
If we lived under a more "yellow" sun we'd certainly define that as "white" and for all intents and purposes it would be.
Shape-shifting! This has always bothered me. How unstable would your body have to be in order to be able physically alter itself as quick as some of these guys do? Hell Richards invented unstable molecule dealies in order to deal with it.
Edit: Also, would any shape shifter have a "base-form"? I mean if something had the ability to shape change 0n a molecular level I don't see how it could ever go back to one hundred percent exactly like it was before.
Edit: Also, would any shape shifter have a "base-form"? I mean if something had the ability to shape change 0n a molecular level I don't see how it could ever go back to one hundred percent exactly like it was before.
Someone had to post this joke sooner or later. In that respect Bowielee you are a hero.
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