- Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Because you’re trying to use logic when there really isn’t any. At least for the space thing, he isn’t trying to kill people and I imagine a lot of the stronger villains could survive in space as well.
- DomeGuy@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
“Logic” doesn’t generally mean what you’re trying to say here. Well written stories and fictional universes have consistent reasonable logic that only differs from our own wirh intentional changes like “magic is real” or narrative biases like “we would have told this story a different way if the hero lost.”
A better term for what comic book stories with a mish-mash of power definitions and unexplained characterization lack is consistency.
(But, as with “literally”, the inaccurate and informal usage you probably mean to decry the medium’s unrealistic conventions is probably in the dictionary already, thanks to the cryoto-Jewish space-elves of a certain fun but overrated television show)
- Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Consistency is a problem as well, but that is not what I meant. Logic is the correct term. Inconsistency would be him sometimes breathing in space and/or not breathing on Earth. Which is probably also inconsistent. The general rule is, breathes on earth and not in space. Logically, you either need to breathe or you don’t. If you need to breathe, how do you survive in space? If you don’t need to breathe, why do you breathe at all?
- DomeGuy@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Pure logic does not include axioms like “you need to breathe or you don’t”, nor does logic lead from the axioms “not all beings need to breathe” and “you can’t breathe in space” to conclusions such as either “all creatures who breathe cannot survive in space” or “no beings who can survive in space are able to breathe.”
A and not-B does not lead to if-not-B-then-A.
5 daysThis. It has been depicted many times that for deep space exploration, Superman uses a space suit.
- NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish5 days
Superman’s body is capable of both aerobic and anaerobic cellular respiration, but aerobic is more efficient and provides more energy, therefore Superman breathes when he can.
At the time of this comment, there are 3 answers like this in the thread with only 2 actual attempts at the question.
I think we need to popularize an “askfiction” community with a rule about Watsonian vs Doylist answers. IMO the Doylist answers are mostly flippant and unhelpful.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WatsonianVersusDoylist
Yes it’s fiction, but OP is asking for an answer within that framework, if it exists
Or just don’t over-analyze the shit of out every story in existence. Stories are stories because they’re fiction. And this is “explain like I’m five”, that’s exactly the answer I’d give a five year old
People enjoy logical consistency, and shutting down a kids question with “it’s fake, don’t think about it” is a lame way to respond to questions when you could take the opportunity to expand their understanding of the world. It’s also helpful to develop counterfactual reasoning (how would things change if X happened) and fiction allows someone to explore concepts in different ways.
Regardless, ELI5 is “explain in a way that even a 5 year old would understand”, not “what would you say if a 5 year old asked the question”
- Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Could you explain the part about the cardboard? Went right over my head.
- FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Throwing villains through entire buildings where people are just sitting at their desks waiting for lunchtime.
- justaman123@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
It’s like that scene where superman saves the squirrel. Making up for all this unintended ancillary deaths. Although presumably he has x-ray vision and only throws dudes into the vacant conference rooms but I guess it depends on your super man
- Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
What’s interesting is that, in this series, he uses a breather in space.
I mean the people he fights that would be disadvantaged in space are just regular ass people, and the ones that aren’t regular ass people function better in space than Supes. There is no need to take Lex Luthor into space when, if he wanted to kill him, Superman could just punch him or melt him with laser eyes.
