• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 hours ago

    Some people hate ‘The Hulk’ because they can buy genetic mutation that turns him giant and green, sure… But where the fuck is the extra body mass coming from? You can’t just gain weight from nothing. Yes, magic does exist in the MCU, but he didn’t get his powers from magic, did he?!

    My understanding is that hulk gets his strength (and size/mass) from his anger. So in the universe, anger must have energy that hulk converts to mass

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      10 hours ago

      Right… but then anger itself would require huge amounts of calories. You can’t just create energy.

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        2 hours ago

        Perhaps its pulled from another dimension, like Cyclop’s laser from the DCU, or maybe it’s another force of the universe, like the speed force also from the DCU. There’s endless ways to explain it.

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        5 hours ago

        The gamma does turn him green. Maybe that’s not just stylistic, maybe he’s photosynthesizing.

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          3 hours ago

          Sunlight only contains so much energy. Even if he’s managing to metabolise every bit with no loss, there’s not nearly enough light hitting him at any one moment for that to really make sense. If he’s always photosynthesising and his body storing it for later somehow… he’d put on a huge amount of weight in his non-Hulk form.