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[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 103 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 111 points 1 year ago

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

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

The quote also mentioned Frédéric Joliot.

[-] SippyCup@feddit.nl 58 points 1 year ago

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

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Don't give JK Rowling ideas.

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Or turned intona superhero but is good at hiding it

[-] Sirius006@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year 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.

[-] oo1@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year 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.

[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Not a male scientist.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 year ago

the true nuclear family

[-] oce@jlai.lu 12 points 1 year ago

When your family is so brilliant they die from it.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 71 points 1 year ago

Goddamn misogynistic radiation! Fight patriarchal particle decay!

[-] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Misogynistic Radiation would be an absolutely amazing band name

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

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

[-] meliaesc@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 1 year ago
[-] ColdSideOfYourPillow@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Imagine the She-Hulk ~~movie~~ show if it were good. Yeah, this is it.

[-] nef@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago

She-Hulk was a TV show, and IMO it's among the better half of Marvel shows (which isn't saying much).

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 year ago
[-] abfarid@startrek.website 28 points 1 year ago

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 26 points 1 year ago

she got a blood transfusion from Banner

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

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 year ago

Isn't that basically dialysis?

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

What led you to that ciscendental revelation?

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

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 1 year ago

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 17 points 1 year 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 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] Snowies@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 year ago

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

Classic mistake.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago

Jack'll crack when the Bruce is loose.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 year 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 year ago
[-] wieson@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago
[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

Found the Polish

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

[-] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Compound V works on women

[-] don@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year 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.

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