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Uru is a metal ore from the first moon in existence, and has existed since the beginning of the universe, being said to be rubble from the rock of creation and the strongest substance in all the realms.
and the strongest substance in all the realms.
Until it isn’t.
Damn even the metallurgists have to watch out for power creep
I mean, they’ve been having to do that since the chalcolithic.
Hey, at least its better than the placeholder; Unobtainium.
Iirc, isn’t one made with the other? I genuinely don’t know which.
No, you’re thinking of Captain America’s shield (in the comics) which is made of an alloy of both adamantium and vibranium that they’ve never been able to replicate. AFAIK Adamantium is stronger but more brittle, whereas Vibranium has the extra wacky properties, like absorbing “all” incoming kinetic energy (except when it doesn’t.)
Yeah i thought adamantium is the alloy that’s made from vibranium metal, but that’s mostly my head canon. I have no real information.
Didn’t vibranium come first? 🤔
Either: Daredevil #13 (Feb 1966) or Fantastic Four #53 (Aug 1966) (depending on which vibranium we’re talking about, yes, there were TWO of them…)
vs.
Avengers #66 (July 1969) (Ultron’s body)
2 vibraniums? please do elaborate! I don’t have the patience to read all the comics but I’m a sucker for this kind of lore details.
So a metal called “vibranium” was first introduced in Daredevil as an ‘anti-metal’ that melted all other metals.
The second vibranium, from Wakanda, is the one everyone knows about. I think they just recycled the name from Daredevil.
Yeah, not to yuck anyone’s yum, but this has been one of the reasons why I always thought fiction in general, but in particular superhero stories, anime etc., wasn’t that interesting.
Like, wow, you thought of some arbitrary description for how the villain is by far the strongest. Except for that other villain in the next episode, of course, who’s even strongester. Oh, and did I mention that our hero is a total weenie, but somehow also stronger than these guys? Crazy, isn’t it?
I know, you’re supposed to indulge these stories and not question them too much, but pattern-recognizing brain says no. 🫠
A super-powered character could have boring stories like that. What matters is the writers coming up with interesting questions that make readers think. Having super-powered characters simply opens the door to different questions.
It’s why Superman has endured. Interesting stories
“Holy Generalizations Batman! That guy just yucked our yums! Doesn’t he know fictional worlds allow writers unprecedented freedom to explore the human condition!?”
“No time for that now Robin! The Joker just broke out of Arkham again, and he’s practicing unlicensed dentistry!”
This is basically the plot of all of Dragonball Z
“These characters are cartoonishly evil, maybe I should stop reading comics?”
isn’t that just a problem of looking for bad authors?
“sometimes” last century??? Perhaps “Some time”? Who wrote this, AI?
