Hey Pandas, Let’s Unsuspend Our Disbelief And Talk About Superheroes And The Problems With Them (Closed)

Ignore my previous post which autocorrected a word wrongly.

Also, if you are not sure, this is not a serious post.

magical girls. whats the science behind their transformation? how can they effectively avoid and perform attacks while wearing frilly dresses with no armor, 6 inch heels, jewelry, and with their hair down(the length is almost always past their back btw). they have no armor and barely any practice and they still manage to defeat the villain, who is older, more powerful, and has more practice by far. also these people are teenagers too, how do they manage to separate their school lives and superhero lives? and also there is no way that at least ONE person saw their glittery transformation sequence. speaking of transformations, they are like 1 minute long, and with magical groups of at least 5 members, how do the villains have the patience to wait?

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shanila.pheonix_

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Mysteria 8 months ago

Not a magical girl, but Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters is a show about three teenage boys gaining elastic powers. Jake with Mr Fantastic-esque abilities, Ricardo who can enlarge his fists and limbs and stuff and is basically the muscle of the group, and Nathan who can glide and fly. I guess they do technically have a “magical transformation” because their outfits are built into these goggles. ANYWAY it actually touches on the difficulty of balancing superhero work and school ESPECIALLY because Jake has an overprotective, high-expectations father.

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Not sure if this counts but definitely One Punch Man. Hes a guy who can punch a person and knock them out first try. Cool. But wheres the conflict?? Hes not even trying to do it for a good cause or to care for the people. Just not that good of a hero :/

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Crybaby

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Mysteria 8 months ago

Isn’t that the whole point of the show tho? That the real battle is between him and depression?

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Whenever a superhero catches someone that's falling from a great height.
That sudden deceleration would be the same as hitting the ground. They are not going to be recovering from that!

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Donkey boi

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Mysteria 8 months ago (edited)

Just look at Gwen Stacy 💀. I see your point. It’s plausible when they take a bit of time to slow the fall as much as they can before they have to resort to a sudden stop. EDIT; And may I add some genuine physics I learned in Drivers Ed; your body is a safety cage for your organs. When your body stops, your organs keep moving!

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Wolverine. His claws are long. They must partially be inside his wrists when retracted. So..... Wolverine cannot bend his wrists ever. His wrists are fixed in line with his arms due to unbreakable adamantium covered bone claws.

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Nathaniel (He/Him) Cis Het.

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RedBadgerCan'tSwim 8 months ago

Unless they retract all the way into his forearm.

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Humans with superpowers. You have seen how much pro athletes have to eat in order to perform? A superhero comes along that can jump, run, smash through building, have a 20 minute fight with a villain. How much food would the superhero have to eat? They'd be constantly eating all day everyday. The hero would have to become a villain, robbing banks, just to pay for their grocery bill!

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Nathaniel (He/Him) Cis Het.

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