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EvilMonkeyPope
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Topic: X-Force 23 spoiler? Posted: 01-Feb-2010 at 1:35am |
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In X-Force 23, Mortis kills Diamond Lil instantly with one touch. Doesn't Diamond Lil's aura protect her from energy attacks like that? Wouldn't Mortis have to first disrupt this aura before she could use her death touch on her? Did Mortis get supercharged or Diamond Lil get weakened off panel to effectuate this?
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Posted: 01-Feb-2010 at 1:53am |
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Not necessarily. The key distinction here is that Lil's bio-aura isn't impenetrable -- it makes HER indestructible. It's a kind of energy effect that permeates every aspect of her body. Even after removing a piece of her hair and throwing it at an opponent, the hair retained it's diamond-hard state, demonstrating that her indestructibility was a quality of her body, not a skin-tight field of some kind. Therefore, the better analogy is to compare Diamond Lil to Colossus old-school Rogue, instead of to Skids or Unus for instance. All living beings, even diamond hard ones, have a working metabolism and physiology that can be disrupted.
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Posted: 01-Feb-2010 at 2:55am |
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I think thats what explains Wither being able to kill Onyxx as well. His body is organic rock right, not actual rock, hence Wither being able to destroy him, as Wither's powers only work on organic material??
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Posted: 01-Feb-2010 at 3:08am |
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But if her bio-aura makes her indestructable, wouldn't Mortis still have to expend more energy to kill Lil than she would for someone of nomal durability?
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Posted: 01-Feb-2010 at 3:34am |
Why?
An invulnerable person needs a beating heart to live, just like anyone else. If Mortis's admittedly ill-defined death power allows her to cease living functions, to stop someone's heart from beating, why would it matter if that heart was more durable than another? It's not being injured or damaged physically...it's being turned off.
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Posted: 01-Feb-2010 at 5:27am |
I think I just don't understand Mortis's power. It's an energy attack that she shoot from her hand to disrupt the vital functions of hobos and cats, right? But Diamond Lil is physically impervious. So wouldn't his disruptive energy not be able to enter into Lil's body through her impenetrable exterior just as her body is unaffected by other energy attacks? It's not like Rogue's absorbtion power that works immediately upon physical contact.
And wouldn't most rocks be organic anyway?
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Posted: 01-Feb-2010 at 6:43am |
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Lil's impenetrable field has been penetrated before. In the breast cancer arc of Alpha Flight, she discovered an alien weapon that could cut through her skin. Lois's power having the same effect isn't unprecedented.
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Posted: 01-Feb-2010 at 12:13pm |
Mortis's power doesn't forcibly penetrate Lil's skin, and it doesn't need to. The energy contacts Lil's body, invulnerable or not, and induces the lethal change it creates. Lil would be equally vulnerable to being turned into gold, or Masque's flesh-shifting, or some other form of molecular rearranging power. Her bio-aura has no other effect besides making her superhumanly durable, and just being durable won't protect you from being altered at a cellular or molecular level.
You're just really overthinking this, EMP. "Impervious" is only relevant for bullets, batterings, and other blunt force B-words. Death touchs are a whole different animal.
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