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[–] Snowies@lemmy.zip 24 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

Classic mistake.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 12 hours ago

Jack'll crack when the Bruce is loose.

[–] Cintari@lemmy.world 20 points 18 hours ago
[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago

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

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 95 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 16 points 12 hours ago

the true nuclear family

[–] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 102 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 (1 children)

The quote also mentioned Frédéric Joliot.

[–] 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 21 hours ago (2 children)

Or turned intona superhero but is good at hiding it

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 3 points 11 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 20 hours 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.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] abfarid@startrek.website 27 points 22 hours 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 21 hours 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 21 hours ago

Isn't that basically dialysis?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 6 points 21 hours ago

What led you to that ciscendental revelation?

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 12 hours ago

Ironically it's only Spider-Man that has killed women with radioactive sperm

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 21 hours 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.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 66 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Goddamn misogynistic radiation! Fight patriarchal particle decay!

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago

Misogynistic Radiation would be an absolutely amazing band name

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] wieson@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 11 points 19 hours ago

Found the Polish

[–] 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 23 hours 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 day ago

Compound V works on women