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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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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She seemed to have no control at all... but maybe just because she had good intentions, the result was almost always positive. "That's great, Wanda... what'd you do?" "Somehow, I must have altered its molecular structure, causing it to become unstable, and dissipate before it could hit us!"
Yada, yada...
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Originally Posted by WillAdams
It's rather interesting to compare the _Wild Cards_ novels w/ other more traditional super-hero stories, since the former attempts to stay w/in the realm of physics as expressed in science fiction.
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That's one of the reasons I've loved that series from the beginning: They provided scientific reasons behind the characters' powers, laws of conservation of energy, realistic consequences of powers (such as an invisible man who can no longer see unless he makes his eyeballs visible), etc --although quite a number of their "powers" were chalked up to sophisticated and not-understood psi powers that allowed, say, a character to fly with wings too small to lift them.