Silliest Cases of Bad Science?

[Yodaman]

Anyways i dont care how good of a Beverly hills plastic surgeon you are, or the Movie "Soul Man" would have you to believe. there is no way in hell to change your pigmentation from Caucasian to African-American like the Punisher did in the early 90's. when he was trying to escape some hoods after him.Even for a comic book that was out there! But it did lead to him and Luke hanging out. which i dug for awhile, but i still laugh my ass off at.

Anything utterly absurd in modern comics is completely eclipsed by something from DC in the Silver Age.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Anything utterly absurd in modern comics is completely eclipsed by something from DC in the Silver Age.

Hey!!! I liked Lois as a sista!! Yoda.plus i read that book( no i wasnt around when it was published i read it years after. I am not that old). what made it cool was she was trying to find out how people would treat her as black.kinda like a comic version of the novel "black like me". yeah the tech used to do it was silly, but freaking punisher turned "black" only to hide from some goons. not only was it silly and implausible, but it was a stupid storyline too. The only cool thing was Luke Cage hanging out with him talking &^%$#!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I remember that Punisher story. Even as a kid with no medical knowledge whatsoever (before I started watching ER, even ), I knew there was something that didn't add up in that story. I was like, "That's not how race works. I'm pretty sure of it." Although, the fact that the Punisher did it to hide kind of sucked all on its own. The Punisher don't hide from common thugs!

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

yeah when does the Punisher hide from crooks. He's the *&^%$#(* Punisher!!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

How would that even play to the underworld community if it got out?

"Oh s***, the Punisher's after me!"
"Dude, calm down, the Punisher ain't s***."
"Really?"
"Yeah, he sucks."
"You know, I hear he turned hisself black just to hide from some thugs."
"Like, super-thugs?"
"Nah, man, just random dudes off the street and s***!"
"Oh, f*** this, the Punisher ain't got nothin' on me. Later, y'all. I'll be out mugging old ladies."

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

i love Punisher and he's a one trick pony, but what makes him cool is he never runs.This is the dude that has fought every tom , dick and Daredevil, but some hoods are after me and i have to turn "Black" so they cant find me. Man! getta outta here with that. Running from the Sentry, Iron Man okay, but street hoods and then to go to that length. shee*****hat was dumb.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yes. Yes, it was.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

The Punisher disguises himself from time to time for awesomeness effects.

Or do we all forget where he played bartender, walked out after drugging everybody, and blew the mother f*****g place up?

 

[roach]

How does being bitten by a radioactive spider translate into getting a clairvoyance ability?????

 

[Manic]

Apparently Stan Lee thought spiders were psychic instead of having a ton of eyes looking in different directions.

 

[roach]

I've never had a problem killing a spider...killing flies yes...those bugs are quick...spiders no

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

I guess Spiders can... Yeah, nothing I can think of.

Fly's at least feel atmospheric pressure, and that's why they slip out of the way of danger more often than not. (And one of the many reasons fly swatters have holes in them.)

Maybe the spider who bit Spidey was magic? Radioactive magic. =D

 

[RockSP]

How does being bitten by a radioactive spider translate into getting a clairvoyance ability?????

That particular spider had previously received a mongoose blood transfusion.

 

[ChelseaGrin26]

That particular spider had previously received a mongoose blood transfusion.

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[roach]

That particular spider had previously received a mongoose blood transfusion.

infact before that that spider was also on the same shuttle flight that gave the FF their powers....a cosmic rayed, moongoose blooded radioactive spider

 

[ChelseaGrin26]

After said spider pushed Rick Jones out of the path of the Gamma blast.

 

[Manic]

The spider was also sitting on Steve Rogers' shoulder throughout the super soldier experiments.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It's as psychic as a spider can possibly be, hence the spider-sense.

 

[Roughneck]

Wow....I've never been bothered by any of those ones......but here's one that's been missing me off for years.

Holding up a car....when they pick up a car by the front and lift it up....How's that work, sure they're strong, but the whole balance of it wouldn't work....they would fall forwards before getting the car up.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

Marvel's Earth X explained all of those crazy super powers such as the survival and transformation of Bruce Banner's from the deadly radiation blast as awakening the Celestial seed inside each human. It explained the origins and purpose of the InHumans, even gave a great origin to all the human mythological heroes such as Thor, Hercules, Loki, Odin, etc.

The best origin story was that of Wolverine where it was revealed he never was a mutant, but from a race of pure human beings who have survived mass extinctions due to Celestial meddling and adapted with bone claws, advanced reflexes, and powerful body regeneration and immune systems. Oh and his great-grandpa x 10^4 was Devil Dinosaur.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

Wow....I've never been bothered by any of those ones......but here's one that's been missing me off for years.

Holding up a car....when they pick up a car by the front and lift it up....How's that work, sure they're strong, but the whole balance of it wouldn't work....they would fall forwards before getting the car up.

Depends on how absurdly strong they are right?

Now here is some crazy physics: Hulk holding the tectonic plates together with his bare hands. His hands and fingers would have to reach miles into the earth's surface, expand in width to the size of mountains, and be spread thousands of miles apart to hold it in place.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

Great origins? I don't know about that.

 

[wobbly]

Can't say I cared much for Wolverine being revealed as a descendant of Moon Boy myself.

Not especially keen on all the Pantheons of Gods being '3rd stage' alien mutants either (as was Mephisto come to think of it). Prefer some things to keep their magical/mystical status rather than have a sci-fi based revelation about them.

The 'true' purpose of Galactus, who took over his role and the Earth having an embryonic Celestial at it's core was very neat though (imo).

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

Yeah, I enjoyed the "Galactus goes around and eats babies" idea myself actually. (They're evil babies), but some of the explanations were out there. And I'm not sure I really liked the idea of powers coming FROM celestials either as a defense organism, because Galactus probably would've had a little bit more resistance to deal with otherwise. =/

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I hated virtually all of the X trilogy's origins. I prefer my universes nice and expansive with lots of stuff going on, not an incestuous mess where the Celestials are the center of everything.