Personally, I think the idea of an alien species existing in the universe that can absorb yellow sunlight as fuel for vast power is more realistic than a human being sharing face with a point blank gamma explosion, surviving, and then turning into a monster under extreme duress. Also more realistic than a human being developing a sudden genetic change to grant him a metal alloy like skin.
He's an alien, though, so that's the out Superman has. What's physically impossible for a human is one thing, but when said being isn't human, all bets are off. He also has a specific organ that grants him flight and in certain stories no longer in continuity, his flight and strength were alluded to being psionically linked.
stupid question = stupid answers; no point trying to make logic out of complete lack of logic
the only thing i can possibly think of here is if they were converted to real life, colossus being a solid metal statue would hold up the most weight *shrug*
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Last edited by psycho gundam on May 7th, 2012 at 12:14 AM
Yes but being an alien doesn't excuse everything - the laws of physics are the same everywhere in the universe (well for the most part, with a few exceptions like inside of black holes).
That's why the most important question is still:
Are we including the multiverse theory of pantheistic solipsism here?
From a purely conceptual standpoint, based on the fact that there are creatures in this world capable of lifting hundreds of times their body mass I'd say some kind of Exo technology could be developed someday that could come close to colossus levels of strength. But nobody is turning into a metal guy.
As far as Hulk and Superman go, forget it. In hulk's case your talking about adding additional mass to your frame and then when you revert to normal, the mass has to go somewhere. And even then, once you get to a certain level of strength (using the rhino beetle model), there's no real logical explanation based in physics for your strength outside of maybe a couple of hundred tons.
I shouldn't even have to explain why Superman is impossible. He's powers don't even make sense in the damn comic book.
PS, what's up with these threads big c, been smoking that good shit again?
Who is more realistic, ignoring the circumstances of how they were made?
But those circumstances are what make them realistic...unless you're asking us to suspend belief for the real world for a moment, and accept that nuclear bombs create Hulks, humanoid aliens with superpowers and a random mutation would give a person 'organic steel'?
Should have mentioned iron man hes 100% possibility with tech. hulk irl=radition poisoning/death. Superman solar absortion irl= a tree . as for colassos irl maybe as an andriod one day
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