Acceleration doesn't seem to matter 90% of the time in superhero universes. Also, if there was enough time to slow the train down there was enough time to get the kid off the tracks safely.
So you're saying Superman put, or lured, the boy there in the first place, to give him plausible deniability for intentionally make nazi puree? I'm not sure he'd have waited for an excuse...
Seeing how the train engineer is just fine and not flying out of the train, the train didn’t violently decelerate. Meaning that the train stopped over a long distance and thus Superman had enough time to just move the kid next to the rails without high acceleration.
I'm imagining superman stands there and leaves a superman shaped hole in the train, obliterating the driver and anyone else near the front, as the rest of the train sheers free and sends shrapnel at full speed to shred the kid to pieces.
I’m sure the deceleration of the people on the train was healthy.
I’m guessing in this particular comic the train was some kind of empty runaway train. Just to avoid raising such concerns. Even then, it seems like there would have been a less destructive way of stopping this thing. Like maybe flying into the train and pulling some kind of brake.
This joke was used in Hancock, car instead of boy. But a bunch of people got angry at Hancock for destroying a train rather than lifting the car out of the way.
One of my most hated scenes of any movie is in Spiderman 2 (Tobey Maguire one) where Doc Ock yeets a car at Peter Parker to find out where Spider-Man is.
Had Peter not been spiderman, he would have just been squished and dead and Doc Ock would have felt like quite the fool.
Ah, I got mixed up, it's been a while. He was specifically looking for Peter, but didn't know Peter was Spidey. You're right, inexcusably dumb move, there's no way it would have worked.
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 81 pts · 71d
Same goes for this comic image:
Why not pick up the boy, who is not suppose to be on the tracks, instead of destroying a perfectly good train?
redsand@infosec.pub · 28 pts · 71d
Would have accelerated the boy too fast
wander1236@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 71d
Acceleration doesn't seem to matter 90% of the time in superhero universes. Also, if there was enough time to slow the train down there was enough time to get the kid off the tracks safely.
redsand@infosec.pub · 24 pts · 71d
You're probably right so lets fill that train with Nazis and now your writing problem is solved.
notabot@piefed.social · 10 pts · 71d
So you're saying Superman put, or lured, the boy there in the first place, to give him plausible deniability for intentionally make nazi puree? I'm not sure he'd have waited for an excuse...
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 71d
Nazis - train theres gotta be a joke in there somewhere
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 70d
Unless you're Gwen Stacy, the only time physics worked as they should.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 71d
Seeing how the train engineer is just fine and not flying out of the train, the train didn’t violently decelerate. Meaning that the train stopped over a long distance and thus Superman had enough time to just move the kid next to the rails without high acceleration.
Karjalan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 70d
I'm imagining superman stands there and leaves a superman shaped hole in the train, obliterating the driver and anyone else near the front, as the rest of the train sheers free and sends shrapnel at full speed to shred the kid to pieces.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 71d
I'm sure the passengers/conductors of the train are perfectly fine with it
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 71d
I’m sure the deceleration of the people on the train was healthy.
I’m guessing in this particular comic the train was some kind of empty runaway train. Just to avoid raising such concerns. Even then, it seems like there would have been a less destructive way of stopping this thing. Like maybe flying into the train and pulling some kind of brake.
redsand@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 71d
There was but the truth is it looks cool. He's stronger than a train.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 71d
Top left is the engineer and he's mostly worried about his hat.
viertesauge@feddit.org · 9 pts · 71d
What about the acceleration of the passengers in the train?
redsand@infosec.pub · 11 pts · 71d
I addressed that by making them all Nazis
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 71d
Right? What's wrong with a little bit of life-threatening whiplash?
marcos@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 71d
Yeah, somebody should make a movie about how people would hate someone like this.
And then turn it into a romantic comedy by half of its duration, for no good reason...
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz · 8 pts · 71d
This joke was used in Hancock, car instead of boy. But a bunch of people got angry at Hancock for destroying a train rather than lifting the car out of the way.
Godort@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 71d
The villainous behavior of Superman has been well documented
JohnnyMac@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 71d
One of my most hated scenes of any movie is in Spiderman 2 (Tobey Maguire one) where Doc Ock yeets a car at Peter Parker to find out where Spider-Man is.
Had Peter not been spiderman, he would have just been squished and dead and Doc Ock would have felt like quite the fool.
xylol@leminal.space · 32 pts · 71d
There's probably like 40 other squished people nearby as he was doing his trial and error that didn't make it in the film before he got to tobey
Uruanna@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 71d
I don't think he was trying to find which one was Spidey, just trying to cause chaos so that Spidey would show up, wherever he is?
JohnnyMac@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 71d
No. Harry gave up Peters name to Doc. So he wanted looking for Pete.
Harry yells to doc "Don't hurt him!!". Next screen Octy yeets a car at him. 😂
https://youtu.be/0pF64vPsepQ
Comments are on my side! Woooo!
Uruanna@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 71d
Ah, I got mixed up, it's been a while. He was specifically looking for Peter, but didn't know Peter was Spidey. You're right, inexcusably dumb move, there's no way it would have worked.
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 71d
superheros are cops. they work to protect capital and the status quo. why would they care if your car gets smashed? ACAB.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 71d
This is basically the plot of The Boys, except instead smashing cars they splatter people.
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 71d
Batman beats up cops too.
Peacemaker kills cops.
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 71d
beating up cops has always been the exclusive purview of cops. they get really pissy when someone else does it.
1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 71d
"We're sorry, but acts of otherworldly beings is not covered in your policy..."
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 71d
Wasn’t there like a Superman-is-a-dick meme trope going for a while?