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Physically strongest female character?
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ace191 wrote: And note, she only needed to use one hand/arm to do it! Just exactly what place on Earth could absorb all that force and not crumble? And how much water would splash out of the oceans but hey, she looks GREAT doing it!
Yeah... but I need a little science with my fantasy. Some element of plausibility is a requirement.
When I created Velorians, one of my rationalizations was that they had ten times the number of muscle strands as a normal human, but each was only a tenth the size but a hundred times stronger. That accounted for both strength and having much greater muscular expansion than human when exerting.
Another one I tried was that most of their muscles were just optimized human tissue, but connective tissues, bones and a very small fraction of their muscle strands were powered by Orgone energy and were fantastically strong. That explained how shutting down Orgone metabolism (via suppressing the thyroid) would depower them to more or less human.
At least there was some pseudo-science in that (if you assume someone is mixing in alien DNA).
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shadar wrote: Yeah... but I need a little science with my fantasy. Some element of plausibility is a requirement.
When I created Velorians, one of my rationalizations was that they had ten times the number of muscle strands as a normal human, but each was only a tenth the size but a hundred times stronger. That accounted for both strength and having much greater muscular expansion than human when exerting.
I find myself in complete agreement with you right there, physics/science matters, even in comics.
Actually, as stupid as this may be, I've always had an issue with "normal" people being able to lift or even to somehow get in the way of the path of Superwomen. And, I may, add, they do this next to every episode in CW's Supergirl (SG), but I digress.
Point is, underlying physics dictate that strength is equal to mass times velocity per time unit (F = m * a). Accepting that, i'll stick with SG, she's not as fast as Flash and certainly doesn't accelerate as quickly as Flash, she necessarily has to have a way higher mass and density in order to be superstrong. I think they've got this right in the Supergirl movie of 1984, when a trucker tried to lift Helen Slater as SG and failed completely to do so. Ever since, not so much.
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On another note, I like her humblebragging: "Sorry I'm a little late, but I had to
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argonaut wrote: I have to wonder what it was like for the inhabitants of those planets. If one of them had witnessed what Supergirl was doing, it would have appeared that she was balancing on one arm with her hand pressed against the ground, then sweeping her arm forward to send the planet careening from its orbit. Since she must have imparted some spin to the planet, I imagine buildings toppling, tidal waves engulfing the continents, and the atmosphere being stripped away as the planet hurtles through the cold, dark void ...
On another note, I like her humblebragging: "Sorry I'm a little late, but I had tostop for gasgo to the bankmove half a dozen planets into new orbits."
Yeah, that was one dru's 'oh no sally' mega stunt
Then they are rebuilding their civilization, and they noticed that Earth's gal hovering over them again, 'oh no, it's Supergirl'
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