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Post by james on Jan 14, 2022 9:25:55 GMT -5
How many more times in Stan Lee's run on X-men do I have to see Iceman use his ice for food? At least in the early issues he was always making sundaes or pie a la mode. Now correct me if I'm wrong but all Iceman could do was make ice or snow not actually change the molecular structure as to make ice cream or other cold treats.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 14, 2022 10:16:23 GMT -5
Silly Silver Age “Science” is the only explanation. Comic books were aimed at a younger audience that wasn’t going to question it.
Look at Iron Man’s “transistors” or every instance of “radiation” or “magnetism”. They worked the way they did because the story called for it to work that way.
I did love how, years later, the writer of X-Men had Emma Frost’s consciousness inhabit Bobby’s body and she showed him how he had been wasting his Omega-level powers with childish things like making snow cones when he could be freezing the water in his enemies’ cells or slowing the flow of their blood.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 14, 2022 10:21:30 GMT -5
Yeah, but ... admit it: having the power to (also) make popsicles or Slurpees would be damn cool.
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Post by badwolf on Jan 14, 2022 10:26:00 GMT -5
This was actually addressed in the Marvel No-Prize Book.
Regarding powers, there was that one time he absorbed the heat from the area around him, making everything else cold, which I never saw him do again.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 14, 2022 10:46:17 GMT -5
Trying to make sense of "Marvel science" is a roadway to madness.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2022 10:47:31 GMT -5
but the yellow snow tastes like lemon!
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 14, 2022 11:07:08 GMT -5
Odds are this wasn't Stan Lee's doing at all but simply him going along with what Jack Kirby did in the art. As I've noted before, Kirby never let scirntific plausibility stand in the way of a great visual.
Cei-U!
I shift the blame!
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Post by MDG on Jan 14, 2022 11:24:37 GMT -5
Silly Silver Age “Science” is the only explanation. Comic books were aimed at a younger audience that wasn’t going to question it. Look at Iron Man’s “transistors” or every instance of “radiation” or “magnetism”. They worked the way they did because the story called for it to work that way. Yeah-I'm not sure how someone is "propelled"by transistors... Yeah, but ... admit it: having the power to (also) make popsicles or Slurpees would be damn cool. His "utility belt" just has tubes of flavor syrup. |
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Post by tarkintino on Jan 14, 2022 11:28:49 GMT -5
Yep--one could not expect much "hard science" from a roster of characters (both Marvel and DC) born of "radiation" (fill in the blanks), spider bites transferring inherent genetic qualities / abilities to a human, super-soldier serums, alien rings responding to the will of its user, anything from Krypton, 99% of the tech in the Batcave, etc.
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Post by Mormel on Jan 14, 2022 12:05:54 GMT -5
A little-known mutant ability of Bobby's is that he stores an excess of sugar in his body, in addition to having well-developed mammary glands, by means of which he can add sugar and milk to his ice powers to create bona fide ice cream!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 14, 2022 12:06:55 GMT -5
A little-known mutant ability of Bobby's is that he stores an excess of sugar in his body, in addition to having well-developed mammary glands, by means of which he can add sugar and milk to his ice powers to create bona fide ice cream! Super diabetes. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 14, 2022 12:42:50 GMT -5
Well .... it was thinking uhhhh Jim Lee, so I am just going to see myself out the door.
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