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Quicksilver scenes make no sense


Yeah, cool scenes and all that, but when you stop to think about things - you know, the one thing hollywtf-writers NEVER seem to be able to do - things start seeming very nonsensical indeed.

First of all, we can think about meteors and whips, even before we think why guns are extemely loud.

Why do things entering Earth's atmosphere catch on fire? Think, think.. why? That's right - the speed + friction against air molecules, for example. You go fast enough, you catch on fire because of this. This whole room would've bursted to flames because of Quicksilver's running speed alone.

Why are guns loud? Because the speed (again) breaks the sound barrier, creating a SONIC BOOM. There's a reason why that hedgehog is named 'Sonic'. Audio is a strange thing, when you think about air pressure and waves moving within air molecules and all this.

You could write a whole essay on air molecules alone and realize why this scene makes no sense.

There's more.

Think about photons - why do we see things, and not see others? We see things, because photons have time to travel to a surface of something, then bounce off and hit our eyes (ouch!).

Now, eyes are set to 'see' at a certain rate and speed, brains are set to process things at a certain speed - someone like quicksilver would have to have non-human eyes and brain to be able to react and have the reflexes to cope with that kind of superfast movement. We're talking about faster than bullets, here! Isn't it lucky that he didn't ONLY get the superpower of 'physical fast speed', but ALSO the ability to 'think and react faster than anyone has ever thought or reacted'?

We can't see bullets, because they travel at really high speed. Obviously 'slow-motion cameras' are able to catch bullets, but when you look at the footage of those superslowed videos, you can notice how DARK they usually are. You can't really see the background much, because the photons do not have time to travel to the camera much in the extremely short time it takes to 'see' a bullet.

How can everything look so bright and well-lit, when there surely can't be that many photons that can reach everything, the camera, quicksilver's eyes, etc. in that very short period of time it all happens? So he can make people's hands move FASTER than photons? WHAT? We're talking about literal LIGHT SPEED here!

For him to even be able to see the bullets, they would have to appear extremely dark, and he couldn't probably even see them from any kind of distance, because the photons would have to travel a longer distance into his eyes.

There are also things like INERTIA, mass, 'slowness of mass' and so on. You can't just move around something that basically has 'more mass' (for practical purposes) because of its momentum (and gravity). If gravity and momentum are already affecting something that already has some mass (like someone's hand), you can't just disregard ALL that 'weight' and move it around like it weighs nothing.

Why do bullets kill and injure people so easily? Because they have a lot of momentum, they're like very powerful, tiny rocks being thrown at you at extreme velocipeed (can't help referencing better movies). This means Quicksilver shouldn't be able to move the bullets as if they are just metal bits gently thrown into the air - they have a lot of MOMENTUM he would have to counter, those bullets would be HEAVY to move around!

Others have mentioned this, but how fast would that 1980s tape player have to play that tape for him to hear the sounds as 'music'? But that's not all! There's a LIMIT as to how fast sound travels.

This guy moves MUCH faster than sound travels, so the sound could NEVER reach his ears as 'music' in that extremely tiny amount of time, because sound wouldn't travel through the air fast enough.

In any case, the room should be SUPER LOUD CONTINUOUS EXPLOSIVE SOUND (as he's continuously breaking the sound barrier, and guns are EXTREMELY loud), the room should burst into enormous flames due to all the friction (think about meteors again), he shouldn't be able to see almost anything due to moving almost as fast as photons themselves, everything should be heavy due to momentum, even the soup should RESIST his movements, because it's so suddenly, jarringly and violently being changed in its momentum...

...do I have to keep going? This scene may be 'rule of cool' epitomized, but it certainly makes NO SENSE.

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