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old age

posted 17 years ago by flc735
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i saw this movie years ago and don't remember it too well but i do have one bit of ridiculousness to point out.
lets use bob for example: all people die of old age if not sooner, and so all of the bob's will eventually die out one by one until there is only one bob left which would give him super-mega strength.
this type of thing would happen all the time since there will always be a point in time when only one remaining "bob" exists with each set of persons.

i didn't look too hard, sorry if this was discussed before

[–] Abuhin 16 years ago

I theorized that natural death depletes life force on its own. So if you die naturaly, there's barely enough to pass on to the others. Someone else also mentioned that if it's natural, they should be dying about the same time.

[–] ipd02 16 years ago

What about a car wreck? If all versions of oneself somehow die in a car wreck say when they were babies on the way back from the hospital, but in one of the universes the parents take a different route home, then that baby should be super human.

Spoilers!

[–] bpressey 16 years ago

You all missed a pretty major plot-point. It was explained that "The One" needed to be there when he killed his alternate self to absorb the life force when it left the body.

[–] misfut 16 years ago

Then how did the good Jet Li get stronger? He was never there.

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[–] Lozeko_06 16 years ago

The film (to me at least) seemed to imply that the Good version was slightly weaker than the Bad one. I assumed that old age death doesn't count and that actual murder is required for the power to be shared out, but the Bad version is still in the same 'verse as victim, making him the closest version to share the power with.

What bothered me was the limited amount of parallel universes, only 125 worlds (including the "Prime" universe and the "Good" verse.

Blarrgh >_<

[–] Abuhin 16 years ago

I agreed with that "being closer" theory as well. Around the second time I watched it, I wondered why Yulaw needed to kill Lawless when he was on his way to execution. Absorbing more energy made sense.

Oh, and there's not only 125 worlds. Just 125 where a Law existed when Yulaw began.

[–] t-a-walker 16 years ago

I don't think its enough for one of your alternates just to die; I think you have to be there to kill them yourself. Killing them yourself causes the energy to be redistributed to the killer and (perhaps to a lesser extent) your surviving alternates.

I was bothered by the limited number of universes as well. Perhaps that was the number of "known" universes? Discovering another universe then might open up a connection to the known universes, allowing any alternates there to become linked with the "main" body of alternates.

[–] Gplayer 16 years ago

Jet li only existed in 125 universes. There are a lot more than that though. They don't have to be there for them to absorb the power. Gabriel wasn't there for any of the deaths and he was incredibly strong.

I honestly just figured they would all die naturally at the same time unless they died unnaturally.

[–] sdws17 15 years ago

This movie has plot holes, all you can do is accept it and come up with your best conclusion that makes the most sense to you. Mine is:

- You don't need to be there to gain their power. This is undeniable, because Gabe is superhuman after Yulaw's murders and never left his dimension prior.

- The power you gain is relative to how strong they are when they die; an old you wouldn't give you much power because they're old and feeble.

Besides, it seems all the counterparts were the same age, so perhaps all your counterparts are just as old as you -- after all, they're not time traveling, just going to parallel dimensions.

That makes the most sense to me.

[–] king_of_bob 11 years ago

You're making a HUGE assumption off the start. Specifically that these people are all destined to die at different times. But the fact that this has never happened before implies that barring interference from someone outside of the universe, all versions of oneself expire at the same time.

So if you die from being shot by some dude on the street, all versions of you die across the multiverse for various reasons. But, if that dude is from another universe, they aren't part of "causality" for that universe. So only that version of you will die, and the energy from that "soul" will be split among the remaining versions of you.

Prof. Farnsworth: Oh. A lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!