And Iceman wouldn’t be powerful if he could freeze to death…
Every hero has that plot armor built in
Him freezing to death isn’t my concern. His body turning into literal sentient ice is.
He’s an omega level mutant (basically so powerful they defy classification). He literally manipulates things at the atomic level, the ice thing is just how he best comprehends his own powers.
We’re already 70% water, what’s another 30%?
Instant death?
You mean he’d be dead because he’d blast his own face off?
Because he wears a visor constantly to contain it so he’s never dependent on his eyelids.
Someone taught me on this site a while back that his visor isn’t a mirror or a filter. I had questioned why they didn’t heat up and they explained that it’s apparently a straight-up portal that sends the energy to another dimension. Wild stuff.
The in-universe science behind Cyclops’ optic blasts have been very inconsistent over the years.
The explanation that I’m personally familiar with is that his eyes themselves are portals to a dimension of pure concussive energy that doesn’t produce heat, and that energy is also conveniently blocked by ruby lenses in his glasses and visor, and also his own body is immune to it.
Which doesn’t really make any sense from a real world physics perspective, but that’s comic books for you.
And of course depending on what timeline/reboot/alternate universe you’re dealing with, who’s writing it, and what’s convenient for the plot, any of that can go right out the window, I’ve definitely seen him melt things and start fires with his blasts in some versions.
I think another explanation that gets used sometimes is that his body absorbs sunlight to power them.
I thought that’s what his eyes were, and the lens just reflected the energy back into the “energy dimension”?
Wasn’t it Ruby (or sapphire) back in the day? Might’ve just been the cartoon but I think they had that in there at some point. It’s such a weird power that at I think writers just go with whatever they can to carry the story forward.
Ruby Quartz
I mean Ben Stein would have some serious competition for the Clear Eyes commercials in the 90s
There’s a long list of incidents where his visor (or sunglasses) are removed
Yeah, wearing that visor i assume he blasted and cauterised his eyelids off looong ago.
X-Men is ripe for nightmare fuel if you think about it long enough. Kitty Pryde is constantly one mistake away from becoming a gel banana.
Gel banana?
She can gel my banana any time
Mmm gel banana
Does he have to eat lots to power the laser
It’s sadly more stupid than that. His eyes open a portal to another dimension, although that’s been retconned and apparently now they “metabolize the suns energy”
