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Stop trying to make sense of the physics in a superhero movie


What are we here: children? Iron Man being able to wield the stones, aether turming into a stone and more items that should be "explained". It's all make-belief and those plot driven and temporary abilities and inabilities are as staple as the not beaming everywhere in Star Trek so please get over it.

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Watch "The Boys" -- they pretty much stick to real physics.

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Nah, they bend the rules whenever it suits them. Starlight was to do them all, not just the Deep.

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The mark of good fantastic fiction is being consistent with real world science except where you had declared you aren't. I know, that sounds like a contradiction, but it isn't.

Any world must be self consistent. We can declare certain people can fly, but those who "can't" in the fantastic world must fall. Dynamite or C4 or other explosives must blow up when properly triggered. And so forth.

Iron Man can use all the stones because of his armor shields him. (albeit it, it will kill him.) Hulk can because of his indestructibility. Cap probably can't, despite his moral and symbolic power. Spider Man can't and so forth. Thor might because he is also nearly indestructible.

Arguing the possibilities is a completely legitimate exercise to see if the creators have achieved the goal of making a believable world.

I believe it was Mark Twain who said, "“Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be possible and truth doesn't.”

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In other words: stop trying to make sense of the physics in a superhero movie.

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No. It means expect normal physics to apply unless we are told (literally, figuratively, metaphorically, or whatever) that they do not.

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How about visually

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That is subsumed under literally.

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Indeed! So what's your point dude. We are shown abilities in the movie. Nuff said!

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(Slow clap. . .)

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This is the correct answer. If the arguments here about the feasibility exists it means the believability was already shattered for many.

Also notice how Captain Marvels power is basically a plot device? how her strenght always varies exactly as much as plot requires her and its never consistent?

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Its not the super hero movie but the generation Z retards that are alive today & they dish this CG dumb n dimmer cr@ap to . eom

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It's not a generational thing.

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Right from the beginning Iron Man is marooned in space with one days oxygen left. In narration he mentions being light years from any planet or station, then out of black comes our Captain Marvellete, forget cute lil blondes name. This is cartoon time for if she possessed that much power to rocket , warp whatever across those distances...Shed have to be going FTL

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(No, not you up there. It’s... never mind)

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