Does science make better comics?

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#1  Edited By Thanofleeze

Do you personally enjoy when scientifically based explanations and theories are used to back up superpowers and weird phenomena in comics?

Do you care how Flash can run faster than light and hit with infinite force?

Or do you prefer total suspension of disbelief? Of course Superman can fly, because he just can, he's Superman!

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A bit of both. In hindsight realism sometimes helps comics but holds them back as well. I am from the camp were i don't care that superman flies in some imaginary manner or that he can lift however much he can. For he's superman he can do what he wants. On the hand with other character realism helps. But let's be honest if science was used in comics for everything we wouldn't have some of the greatest characters we already have.

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#3  Edited By DeathpooltheT1000

I cant believe people is using the term suspension of disbelief.

To justify anything goes bullshit.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief

Any creative endeavor, certainly any written creative endeavor, is only successful to the extent that the audience offers this willing suspension as they read, listen, or watch. It's part of an unspoken contract: The writer provides the reader/viewer/player with a good story, and in return, they a) accept the reality of the story as presented and accepted that characters in the fictional universe act on their own accord.

An author's work, in other words, does not have to be realistic, only believable and internally consistent (see Magic A Is Magic A). When the author pushes the audience too far, the work fails. As far as science fiction is concerned, viewers are usually willing to go along with creative explanations unless the show tries to use real science, at which point it's fair game, though this is because Science Fiction is just that: Science FICTION. Attempting to use actual science to explain something you made up removes the story from its own fantasy universe and places it in the context of reality. That's why people don't criticize your wormhole travel system or how a shrinking potion doesn't violate the laws of matter conservation. Suspension of disbelief can be broken even in science fiction when a show breaks its own established laws or places said laws outside of fiction.

A common way of putting this is "You can ask an audience to believe the impossible, but not the improbable." For example, people will accept that the Grand Mage can teleport across the world, or that the spaceship has technology that makes it completely invisible without rendering its own sensors blind, but they won't accept that the ferocious carnivore just happened to have a heart attack and die right before it attacked the main character, or that the hacker guessed his enemy's password on the first try just by typing random letters, at least without some prior detailjustifying it or one of the Rules listed below coming into play. What is in Real Life impossible just has to be made the norm in the setting and kept consistent.

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To an extent.

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To an extent.

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This but imagination is more important.

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A bit of both,
I feel some users forget it's just a comic book so some things have to slide

And others forget it has to be some what believable, there is PIS in some cases

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Yes.. just don't have Oda make a Comic.

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If you can scientifically explain Zatanna i will stop with jla.

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I enjoy it. I don't necessarily think it makes the comic better though.

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It makes no difference to me. I just want them to be consistent with it.

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#11  Edited By TommytheHitman

I'd rather just enjoy the interesting story/action/characters then care about how these guys have their powers. I don't care where are all the Hulk's muscles come from... I'd just rather watch him fight. Don't pull a Jonathan Hickman and make it over complicated for the sake of making it over complicated. For example. Doctor Strange. It's magic. BOOM! Done! No explanation needed!

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Hell no. Don't drown me on annoying techno babble that I don't understand.

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Consistency would be the key here.

That why I keep reading regularly comic books.

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I actually do.

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No, but when a comic does bring in scientific explanations, it merits true analysis, and more often than not it gets ripped apart.

So basically- If you don't do it, fine, but if you want to do it, make sure you do it right.

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A little bit of both. As long as it's not completely unbelievable.

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U mean Bro Science?

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#19  Edited By legacy6364

Sometimes.

But somethings are better left unexplained.

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#20  Edited By DeAnnunaki

It makes for a much cooler powerset, seeing how a character is able to apply their powers into different ways.

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More suspension of disbelief with a pinch of realism is more than enough for any comic story that isnt Sci-Fi.

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A bit of science mixed in with the science fiction is good, but suspension of disbelief doesn't require it all the time.

Technobabble and handwavium are reasonable enough plot devices for me, but if it throws in a bit of science trivia so that I learn something new from my funny books, then that's ok too.