I thought that’s what his eyes were, and the lens just reflected the energy back into the “energy dimension”?
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otacon239@lemmy.world 3 days agoSomeone taught me on this site a while back that his visor isn’t a mirror of a filter. I had questioned why they didn’t heat up and they explained that it’s apparently a straight-up portal that sends the energy to another dimension. Wild stuff.
hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
KnitWit@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Wasn’t it Ruby (or sapphire) back in the day? Might’ve just been the cartoon but I think they had that in there at some point. It’s such a weird power that at I think writers just go with whatever they can to carry the story forward.
ileftreddit@piefed.social 3 days ago
Ruby Quartz
Fondots@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The in-universe science behind Cyclops’ optic blasts have been very inconsistent over the years.
The explanation that I’m personally familiar with is that his eyes themselves are portals to a dimension of pure concussive energy that doesn’t produce heat, and that energy is also conveniently blocked by ruby lenses in his glasses and visor, and also his own body is immune to it.
Which doesn’t really make any sense from a real world physics perspective, but that’s comic books for you.
And of course depending on what timeline/reboot/alternate universe you’re dealing with, who’s writing it, and what’s convenient for the plot, any of that can go right out the window, I’ve definitely seen him melt things and start fires with his blasts in some versions.
I think another explanation that gets used sometimes is that his body absorbs sunlight to power them.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
The vast majority of mutant powers would be very boring if they were scientifically constrained.