Iron Man 3 is the story of the little billionaire who knew it was none of his business. The people in Iron Man 3 explode because they've been exposed to something called Extremis. Extremis was designed to heal people but overexposure causes them to explode. When someone explodes and a friend gets hurt Tony Stark is shattered. He feels like someone has exploded on his head. He then sets out to find the person responsible and explode on his head in return.
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| On my way to explode on your head. (The explosions are poop.) |
Iron Man 3 is just one of many examples of exploding people. People have been exploding since at least...
Jimmy Neutron
When I was trying to think of examples of exploding people I kept thinking of a robot that exploded then reassembled itself but I couldn't remember which robot it was. For hours I couldn't stop picturing a bang followed by several pieces of metal moving towards a central location.
Finally I saw the head and realized it was Goddard, Jimmy Neutron's robot dog. Goddard isn't technically a person but he is very intelligent. Like, scary Haley Joel Osment artificially intelligent. Fortunately, Goddard is on the side of the angels as long as you consider a hyper intelligent 10 year old who likes to play God an angel. Goddard is seen blowing up then reassembling himself several times throughout the Neutronverse. It's even an important plot point in the 2001 movie that started it all. Between his artificial intelligence and ability to die and come back with ease Goddard is frighteningly close to being a canine Terminator. Even more worrisome is his loyalty to a child who, again, is not hesitant to toy with the laws of physics and answers to no authority. It's good that children in cartoons almost never age or else the world would be in danger from a mad scientist with an unstoppable mechanical dog lieutenant.
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| Don't worry, the other dog playing dead in the corner survives. He's living on a farm where he can play with other dogs all day. |
Heroes
As far as I can tell most people are under agreement that the first season of Heroes was amazing but after that the show went downhill fast. I was in high school when Heroes was on and I was just starting to multitask between watching TV and screwing around on my computer. I didn't have the balance down yet so I was only vaguely aware that I was enjoying the first season and not enjoying everything else, so the whole show just became a big muddled mess in my mind. I still have pretty distinct memories of the parts when I was paying attention like Hayden Panettiere jumping off an oil rig, Masi Oka saying "yataa!" and becoming really invested in Milo Ventimiglia's career, but most of the show is just a blur. I have almost no memory of the big climactic fight in the first season finale but I remember the question "how to stop an exploding man?" getting thrown around a lot leading up to it. My research shows that Peter Petrelli absorbed some guy named Ted's ability to explode but he couldn't control it. In order to save everyone Peter's brother Nathan (who can fly) had to fly Peter up really high where he could explode without killing anyone, apparently including the two people who were in the middle of the explosion.
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| Don't worry, Adrian Pasdar survives. He's on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. where he's pretty awesome. |
Superman
I'm a big Superman fan. Others are not. Most people only see Superman as an inoffensive pop culture figure. People who dislike Superman often say the reason is that he is too powerful, which makes him difficult to relate to, unlike Batman, who is just an ordinary multibillionaire everyman. Recently, writer Geoff Johns, along with artist John Romita Junior, found a way to make Superman more and less powerful at the same time, They gave him the ability to channel his heat vision from his entire body, expelling all of his power at once in a single blast.
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| Oh no! Superman exploded and killed everyone on the planet! |
The new ability takes away Superman's powers for about 24 hours. He first used the ability to stop an opponent named Ulysses. The comic immediately after that showed a day in the life of a basically human Clark Kent. Clark spent the day with Jimmy Olsen after telling him about his secret identity. When the story ended Clark explained to Jimmy that he was the same basic person with or without powers and he proved it by stepping in front of a gun, even though he was no longer bulletproof, to save someone's life. Seriously though, how are all these people looking at a rich guy who dresses like a bat and routinely endangers teenager's lives and thinking "yeah, that's me in a nutshell. Oh, the guy with a normal job and normal friends and a normal family who explodes sometimes? Isn't he a weirdo?"
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