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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 104 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 111 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The quote also mentioned Frédéric Joliot.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 57 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

Don't give JK Rowling ideas.

[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Or turned intona superhero but is good at hiding it

[–] Sirius006@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days 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.

[–] oo1 3 points 3 days 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.

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Not a male scientist.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 3 days ago

the true nuclear family

[–] oce@jlai.lu 12 points 3 days ago

When your family is so brilliant they die from it.

[–] Snowies@lemmy.zip 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

Classic mistake.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Jack'll crack when the Bruce is loose.

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

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 72 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Goddamn misogynistic radiation! Fight patriarchal particle decay!

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Misogynistic Radiation would be an absolutely amazing band name

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 52 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] meliaesc@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] ColdSideOfYourPillow@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] nef@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 days ago

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

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 49 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] abfarid@startrek.website 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

she got a blood transfusion from Banner

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

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 28 points 3 days ago

Isn't that basically dialysis?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 7 points 3 days ago

What led you to that ciscendental revelation?

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

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

[–] Cintari@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 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"

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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.

[–] wieson@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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!

[–] don@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days 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.

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Compound V works on women