• otacon239@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I never got that about Cyclops. If his laser is red, and his glasses are red, wouldn’t that just let the light through? Wouldn’t he need green glasses?

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      10 hours ago

      Would just like to add that while they look like lasers coming out of his eyes, they’re actually concussive blasts, fueled by another dimension.

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      2 days ago

      Nah mate, the red lenses are reflecting red light, which is why they appear red. If they absorbed red light they would be absorbing incredible amounts of energy every second and heat up super fast. Because they reflect the energy the energy just goes back through the portals to the dimension that it came from. (Canonically.)

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        15 hours ago

        Except, also canonically, his eyes project a beam of concussive, ruby-coloured force. If they’re reflecting the blast, they should be experiencing a huge amount of force, and go flying off his face.

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        1 day ago

        see i’ve always had two pretty massive issues with this: 1) how tf does he see anything if he’s got portals in his eyes, and 2) shouldn’t there be a constant glow from behind his glasses whenever his eyes are open?
        Obviously it’s a cartoon and it doesn’t matter, but once you try to explain things you kinda gotta come up with explanations for things like this…

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        Editor: Why did you make his eyes red?
        Artist: Coz of the lazers, duh
        Editor: No, I mean why scientifically?!
        Artist: (oh shit oh shit)
        Editor: WE NEED TO GET OUR SHIT TOGETHER
        Editor: CALL NASA, SPARE NO EXPENSE!
        (ten convoluted phone calls later)
        Artist: … and so the force beam reflects forcelessly off the glasses and back into its home dimension where his optic nerve lives…

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        2 days ago

        Neat! That’s actually cool that it gets explained! I feel much better about that now and can finally sleep after all these years. Thank you.

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        15 hours ago

        See, his secret identity works!

        When he’s in the field he has a helmet that has only one opening, and they call him cyclops. If the government ever comes looking for a one-eyed mutant called cyclops by his teammates, they’ll never suspect the cool guy with red sunglasses covering his two eyes.