• @[email protected]
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              311 days ago

              Did anyone check Marie’s grave?

              Most likely she melted into a sentient beam of radiation and is blasting all around the world, interfering with various radio signals, and science experiments, like John Bell’s - just to fuck with Einstein.

            • Sirius006
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              611 days ago

              What actually happened is Joliot turned into a supervilain, he killed Pierre Curie before he could become a superhero, but was ultimately defeated by Henri Bequerel, who is immortal.

              I thought this was common knowledge.

              In the meantime Irene Joliot died of the radiations, as everybody would expect.

    • oce 🐆
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      1212 days ago

      When your family is so brilliant they die from it.

    • @[email protected]
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      612 days ago

      Would have made her an alpha male if she was a male. But she wasn’t and there is no such thing as an alpha female (neither does alpha male make much sense but I digress)

    • @[email protected]
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      1412 days ago

      Wow, that was a wild read. I kept going to see if the man responsible for Radithor would get his after finding out it made him rich.

      Tap for spoiler

      No legal justice but …

      Bailey died of bladder cancer … his body was exhumed nearly 20 years later, it was … “ravaged by radiation”.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._A._Bailey#Death

      I guess it’s a good example of Hanlon’s razor, “Don’t attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity”

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      This does sound like a Marvel mutant? I think his name was “Furnace”? He had no jaw and his chest was flaming energy?

      Edit: That was not his name:

      Jono Starsmore, also known as Chamber, is a mutant who possesses mutant abilities including the generation and manipulation of concussive blasts of psionic energy from a furnace in his chest, telepathy for communication and mental manipulation.

    • Farid
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      I don’t think she got exposed to gamma radiation, she got a blood transfusion from Banner. So no, gamma radiation is still sexist.

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        2811 days ago

        she got a blood transfusion from Banner

        The existence of blood transfusions implies the existence of blood cisfusions.

        • Farid
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          311 days ago

          Maybe. But IIRC it’s still not the reason she got the powers. I think it was because they were related or something, she was able to incorporate Hulk blood somehow. She didn’t become She-Hulk due to massive exposure to radiation.

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            110 days ago

            She became a gamma mutant through gamma exposure through Banner, but she became she hulk instead of Cancer Woman because she’s Banners cousin. Makes you wonder how widely the Hulk gene is spread in that family waiting for a gamma burst to wake it up

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    Now I want an issue of The Hulk where Madame Curie bursts through The Green Door as the hulkest hulk that ever hulked.

    MARIE CURIE IS STRONGEST THERE IS!

  • 7bicycles [he/him]
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    612 days ago

    Half the fun of Philomena Cunk is she’s like half right or at least you can see where she starts from.

    I’m not into comics but now i’m genuinely curious; is there a comic story where the radiation turned a woman super? Only one springs to my mind is fantastic 4s invisible woman, which, you know, there’s some subtext. I’m also not counting things like She-Hulk cause that lacks originality.

    Is there more turtles turned super by ooze or radiation than women?

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      There just aren’t a lot of women supers with cultural staying power in the first place, and getting powers from radiation was a trope from a time there were less than average.

  • don
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    411 days ago

    I mean, she is highly venerated by the scientific community, such that her research is still kept around despite being highly radioactive. Also, she was a living human being, as opposed to, y’know, a comic book character.