1085
Sadge (mander.xyz)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
top 48 comments
sorted by: hot top new old
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day 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.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

She should have been born in a comic book instead of real life.

Classic mistake.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Maybe she should have been named Bruce. It's our strongest name!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Jack'll crack when the Bruce is loose.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Name one story where a Bruce beats a Jack, even in the Hulk, you simply can't because their normal powers are increased by Hulk being giant-kin

[-] [email protected] 103 points 2 days ago

Had Pierre Curie not died in an accident, he would most likely have eventually died of the effects of radiation, as did his wife, their daughter Irène, and her husband Frédéric Joliot.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

the true nuclear family

[-] [email protected] 111 points 2 days ago

No true, he would've become a superhero like the meme suggests.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

The quote also mentioned Frédéric Joliot.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Not a male scientist.

[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago

Obviously he was actually a woman, or he wouldn't have died.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

Don't give JK Rowling ideas.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Or turned intona superhero but is good at hiding it

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day 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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day 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.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

When your family is so brilliant they die from it.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago

I would love to see a movie about her where she gets super powers instead of dying

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Imagine the She-Hulk ~~movie~~ show if it were good. Yeah, this is it.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

She-Hulk was a TV show, and IMO it's among the better half of Marvel shows (which isn't saying much).

[-] [email protected] 76 points 2 days ago

Goddamn misogynistic radiation! Fight patriarchal particle decay!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Misogynistic Radiation would be an absolutely amazing band name

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

When the misogynistic radiation ionizes oxygen, it smells exactly like Axe body spray. So strange.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

she got a blood transfusion from Banner

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

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

Isn't that basically dialysis?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

What led you to that ciscendental revelation?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Banner is a gamma source iirc, especially when Hulk is out

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Ironically it's only Spider-Man that has killed women with radioactive sperm

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

God Marvel's hateon for Spider-Man is getting old, was old when they did that bit too.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day 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

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago

And then there was that guy who ingested radium like a supplement and his jaw decayed. He was bulletproof, however. And he had laser beam eyes. It’s sort of a mixed bag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Byers

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 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 spoilerNo 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"

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Found the Polish

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 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] 7 points 2 days ago

Compound V works on women

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 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?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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.

this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2025
1085 points (98.8% liked)

Science Memes

15488 readers
3043 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS