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Out of Context Comics

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Comic panels taken out of comics so we can make fun of them!! We love the golden age stuff!

Rules:

  1. Comics must come from actual comic books. No AI or Photoshops.

  2. Single panels are preferred.

  3. Comics should be unintentionally funny. Spider-man cracking wise is not what this is about.

  4. Don't be a dick.

  5. I can't believe I've had to add this... NO RACISM.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't accidentally use the equation that opens a 4th dimensional path through the floor though.

[–] FlyingSquid 34 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I've been reassured by that one Star Trek episode where Riker and Ro are out of phase with the rest of the ship that you can never pass through floors, only walls.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I remember a certain episode of batman beyond as a kid giving me a strange fear of "using powers to phase through walls and ending up accidentally falling through the ground". On second thought though, thats the least of your concerns; you wont actually hit the ground or anything and more importantly you'll phase through the air molecules as well instead of breathing them

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Mirio (Lemillion) from My Hero Academia has the power to phase through anything, and the story executed it well.

When he activates his power, he falls through the ground and loses the ability to see or breathe. Over time, he learns how to activate his power selectively on specific parts of his body, which allows him to phase through walls effectively.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wow, core memory unlocked. That was a pretty fucked up episode when you think about it

[–] FinalRemix 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That one and the sound guy that Terry made deafen himself are two peak episodes.

[–] Mirshe 2 points 4 days ago

Y'all forgot about Mr Freeze committing suicide-by-Batman.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Bruce putting on that like exoskeleton bat suit and being Batman one last time was a pretty good one too

[–] tabris 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The Earth is spinning at around 1000 mph at the equator, orbiting the sun at 67,000 mph. The solar system moves at 450,000 mph around our galaxy, which in turn moves at 1,300,000 mph through the cosmos. If you can phase through things, falling through floors is exactly the least of your problems.

[–] FinalRemix 4 points 5 days ago

Inertia though. You'd also have no drag, so you'd stay in place, relative to the observed start point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The goofy light-hearted sitcom Ghosts has a terrifying setup for how the ghosts can move about. They can move through matter laterally, but still use stairs and inclines to change elevation. Go down to the basement and through the wall? Then you'll be trapped in darkness and unable to find your way back except by accident. One character falls down a well and is trapped for most of a season. Another is missing for decades.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

They can also sit on sofas etc. "It makes no sense!" says one newly dead character.

[–] Iheartcheese 6 points 6 days ago

Geordie you philistine.

[–] GraniteM 4 points 5 days ago

Gravity plating in the floors! Their phased baryons were able to pass through normal matter, but not through the graviton fields running through all the floors of the decks.

Now don't ask how they were able to breathe, because I've got nothing on that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Um ackshully it's Geordi and Ro.