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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
A favorite comic series of mine, Planetary, once described magic in technological terms as "the cheat codes of the universe."
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Shouldn't that be "teleological" above?
But yes, I like it.
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Another Marvel comic character, the Scarlet Witch, used her mutant "hex power" to locally alter physics in unpredictable ways, usually in such a way as to hamper the bad guys in some unanticipated but predictably useful way.
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It's been too long since I've read any Marvel comics. I recall the Scarlet Witch, but not what degree of control she had. Could she specify exactly
how local physics would be altered, or was it luck of the draw? (And did her alterations sometimes cause unexpected problems for the good guys, too?)
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Mutants. Now there's an SF element ripe for discussion...
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Starting with "Describe a non-fatal mutation that causes a significant change in the mutant that can be used to advantage
by the mutant to do things others can't."
Some of our favorite super heroes are at the least unlikely, like Cyclops ("He shoots energy beams from his eyes that can destroy physical object. Where does the energy come from?") or Ant-man ("He can shrink down to the size of an insect. What happens to the mass?")
Mutations that are at least a bit more likely and plausible operate on a finer scale, like telepathy, which has a long history in SF.
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Dennis