I think every character would be different if they were different.
Cyclops would be a very different character if his eyelids weren't laserproof
Submitted 3 weeks ago by JackLSauce@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 weeks ago
underline960@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
X-Men is ripe for nightmare fuel if you think about it long enough.
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Gel banana?
errer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
She can gel my banana any time
doppydrop@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Mmm gel banana
pipe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
She’s secretly an agent of SERN!
Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I remember reading an excerpt from the novelization of X2, the scene where the fake cerebro gets used on all the mutants around the world, and it goes into excruciating detail of what happens to the characters in the compound (being so close to the epicenter):
Basically Mystique starts changing and shape shifting so much her body starts melting off of her bones.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You mean he’d be dead because he’d blast his own face off?
Because he wears a visor constantly to contain it so he’s never dependent on his eyelids.
otacon239@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Someone 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.
Fondots@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I thought that’s what his eyes were, and the lens just reflected the energy back into the “energy dimension”?
KnitWit@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
JackLSauce@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean Ben Stein would have some serious competition for the Clear Eyes commercials in the 90s
There’s a long list of incidents where his visor (or sunglasses) are removed
Goretantath@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, wearing that visor i assume he blasted and cauterised his eyelids off looong ago.
notarobot@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
More like he would be able to blink not just close his eyelids whenever he doesn’t have the visor. Even outing the visor on would be a pain requiring some specialized glove
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You just need to make his eyes roll up to kill him.
You choose how.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And Iceman wouldn’t be powerful if he could freeze to death…
Every hero has that plot armor built in
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Him freezing to death isn’t my concern. His body turning into literal sentient ice is.
Zorque@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He’s an omega level mutant (basically so powerful they defy classification). He literally manipulates things at the atomic level, the ice thing is just how he best comprehends his own powers.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We’re already 70% water, what’s another 30%?