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[–] don@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours 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.

[–] Snowies@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

Classic mistake.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Jack'll crack when the Bruce is loose.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] Cintari@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago
[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 100 points 1 day 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.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 19 hours ago

the true nuclear family

[–] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 108 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The quote also mentioned Frédéric Joliot.

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Not a male scientist.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 56 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

Don't give JK Rowling ideas.

[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Or turned intona superhero but is good at hiding it

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 3 points 19 hours 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.

[–] Sirius006@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day 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.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 12 points 1 day ago

When your family is so brilliant they die from it.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 74 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Goddamn misogynistic radiation! Fight patriarchal particle decay!

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Misogynistic Radiation would be an absolutely amazing band name

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] abfarid@startrek.website 27 points 1 day 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 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

she got a blood transfusion from Banner

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

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 day ago

Isn't that basically dialysis?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago

What led you to that ciscendental revelation?

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 20 hours 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 1 day 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

[–] wieson@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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!

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Would have made her an alpha male if she was a male. But she wasn't and there is no such thing as an alpha female (neither does alpha male make much sense but I digress)

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Compound V works on women

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Half the fun of Philomena Cunk is she's like half right or at least you can see where she starts from.

I'm not into comics but now i'm genuinely curious; is there a comic story where the radiation turned a woman super? Only one springs to my mind is fantastic 4s invisible woman, which, you know, there's some subtext. I'm also not counting things like She-Hulk cause that lacks originality.

Is there more turtles turned super by ooze or radiation than women?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 20 hours ago

There just aren't a lot of women supers with cultural staying power in the first place, and getting powers from radiation was a trope from a time there were less than average.