I get it, Cyclops is a walking nuclear reactor... It's a mutation
I get it also, that his eyelids are capable of absorbing the death star.It's a mutation.
What I don't get is how did they manage to create translucent glass capable of letting all of the external light through, while also holding back a fucking star without heating up to a level that would damage the skin on his face.
@LukeAlmighty
>create translucent glass capable of letting all of the external light through
That's the neat part. It doesn't. It actually blocks most colors. I think it somehow only lets the red part of the spectrum through. Or at least that's how it has been portrayed in adaptations. Maybe it works differently in the source material.
@alyx
I am still more impressed with the "doesn't heat up" part
@LukeAlmighty I think the lore behind that part is that it's technically not a laser per se. It's supposedly not photons. It's main energy output is not heat energy, but kinetic energy. And I assume he manages to melt things because when the kinetic energy hits, and has nowhere to go, it starts converting into heat energy in the object it hits (kinda like how you can supposedly cook meat by repeatedly slapping it).
>but then why don't the glasses heat up, because the beam does hit them
Not sure tbh. But I generally got the impression that the glasses reflect the beam back at the source, his eyes. Which... well, if they can generate something that weird, they can probably take it back in too. I also heard that the eyes technically don't generate the beams, but rather they act as a portal to some weird ass dimension where this energy just exists everywhere. So the energy just escapes through his eyes.
But again, most of the things I know about X-Men come from the animated shows, especially the original 90s run. So my knowledge is as accurate as those shows were.
But is it quite fascinating to see the lengths various writers went to to explain some of these physically impossible powers.
All I'm saying is, that he would make for much more interesting story in a medieval world then the post-nanotech one.