What were the silliest cases of Bad Science that you've seen in a comic book story? Anything goes -- a story from the Golden Age, a story that went on sale yesterday morning, or anything in between! As long as it was published in a comic book -- I don't care about plot holes in movies or TV shows which just happened to be based on a comic book hero's adventures.
I'll mention a couple to get the ball rolling; one from a few years ago and one from a classic of the Silver Age:
1. During "Infinite Crisis #5," the Golden Age Superman of the Pre-COIE Earth-2 screams after his wife dies on an Earth which Alexander Luthor has created out of thin air as a replica of the old Earth-2 (or something like that -- been awhile since I actually read the miniseries). Over on the mainstream Earth of the modern DCU, "our" Superman hears that scream -- apparently almost immediately after it begins -- and reacts to it.
This made absolutely no sense, because -- as far as we could tell -- there should have been many thousands of miles of vacuum between the two worlds, and sound waves don't propagate through vacuum, no matter how loud the noise was to begin with! Furthermore, even if we grant that there was somehow a continuous band of breathable air linking the two worlds at that moment in time, although nothing in the script ever said so, then soundwaves coming out of Golden Age Clark's throat still should have taken a long time -- as in many hours, minimum! -- to traverse that distance before Modern Clark, with his own super-hearing, could actually hear them arriving over on his Earth. Sound waves move a heck of a lot slower than lightspeed!
2. In "Fantastic Four #1," it was stated that the Human Torch could fly whenever his body was generating fire for a very simple reason: a burning body is lighter than air! (No, it isn't. When people have some or all of their surface area catch on fire in real life, they don't become airborne. Their bodies still weigh about what they weighed before, allowing for the fact that a few molecules here and there are turning into smoke, water vapor, etc.)
Anyone got any other egregious examples you want to share with us?
I'll mention a couple to get the ball rolling; one from a few years ago and one from a classic of the Silver Age:
1. During "Infinite Crisis #5," the Golden Age Superman of the Pre-COIE Earth-2 screams after his wife dies on an Earth which Alexander Luthor has created out of thin air as a replica of the old Earth-2 (or something like that -- been awhile since I actually read the miniseries). Over on the mainstream Earth of the modern DCU, "our" Superman hears that scream -- apparently almost immediately after it begins -- and reacts to it.
This made absolutely no sense, because -- as far as we could tell -- there should have been many thousands of miles of vacuum between the two worlds, and sound waves don't propagate through vacuum, no matter how loud the noise was to begin with! Furthermore, even if we grant that there was somehow a continuous band of breathable air linking the two worlds at that moment in time, although nothing in the script ever said so, then soundwaves coming out of Golden Age Clark's throat still should have taken a long time -- as in many hours, minimum! -- to traverse that distance before Modern Clark, with his own super-hearing, could actually hear them arriving over on his Earth. Sound waves move a heck of a lot slower than lightspeed!
2. In "Fantastic Four #1," it was stated that the Human Torch could fly whenever his body was generating fire for a very simple reason: a burning body is lighter than air! (No, it isn't. When people have some or all of their surface area catch on fire in real life, they don't become airborne. Their bodies still weigh about what they weighed before, allowing for the fact that a few molecules here and there are turning into smoke, water vapor, etc.)
Anyone got any other egregious examples you want to share with us?
