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Cyclops would be a very different character if his eyelids weren't laserproof

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨JackLSauce@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And Iceman wouldn’t be powerful if he could freeze to death…

    Every hero has that plot armor built in

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Him freezing to death isn’t my concern. His body turning into literal sentient ice is.

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      • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        We’re already 70% water, what’s another 30%?

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  • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think every character would be different if they were different.

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  • underline960@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    X-Men is ripe for nightmare fuel if you think about it long enough.

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    • kelpie_returns@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Gel banana?

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      • errer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        She can gel my banana any time

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      • doppydrop@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Mmm gel banana

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    • pipe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      She’s secretly an agent of SERN!

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    • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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      • 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.

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      • hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I thought that’s what his eyes were, and the lens just reflected the energy back into the “energy dimension”?

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      • 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.

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    • JackLSauce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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

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    • Goretantath@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, wearing that visor i assume he blasted and cauterised his eyelids off looong ago.

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    • notarobot@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You just need to make his eyes roll up to kill him.

    You choose how.

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