History Main / QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything

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Subtrope of PhlebotinumDuJour and a type of HandWave. Can be considered an updated modern version to early 20th century LightningCanDoAnything and mid-century ILoveNuclearPower, as a source of implied MagicFromTechnology in an age where [[ScienceMarchesOn electricity and radioactivity gradually became demystified]].

* In ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'', it creates floating cities, advanced technology, elemental powers, stable time loops, and a number of other things.

This trope applies when quantum physics is brought UpToEleven to explain any kind of bizarre event or to introduce powers and/or improbable [[MagicFromTechnology technologies which are indistinguishable from magic]].

* In the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, a ''very'' fictionalized version of quantum physics form the basis of [[Film/AntMan1 Ant-Man's]] {{Sizeshifter}} powers. Taken UpToEleven in ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', the premise of which revolves around trying to rescue a fellow size-changing hero who shrunk down to a quantum level and hasn't been seen for thirty years. [[spoiler:When the heroes finally find her, she shows some bizarre side effects, including PsychicPowers and HealingHands.]] It's also used to explain the main antagonist's {{intangibility}} powers, [[spoiler:to turn her back to normal]], and [[{{Foreshadowing}} what sounds like a throwaway line]] implies that TimeTravel is possible.

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfWondersPlanetfall'' is shamelessly [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness soft sci-fi]], so the [=VoidTech=] Secret Technology takes this trope and runs with it. There's fluff about "entangling probabalistic quantum-realities" and such, but it's really MagicFromTechnology that frequently nods at popular quantum physics [[RuleOfFun as an excuse to include teleportation and time-manipulation gimmicks]].

* The TimeMachine in ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' employs the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Large Hadron Collider]] to access the past. Explained by [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist Makise Kurisu]] through a series of [[TechnoBabble complicated quantum physical theories]].

* Dr. Manhattan from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': a nuclear accident turned him into a PhysicalGod. Doc's body basically suffered 100% matter-to-energy conversion... But because his rather obsessive father trained him as a child to be a watchmaker -- thus imbuing him with patience, attention to minute detail, and mechanical understanding -- he somehow retained consciousness and "the very first trick [he] figured out was to put [him]self back together." Then he realized he could do it with ''the rest of reality'' too.

** Dr. Manhattan was a [[{{Expy}} Captain Expy]] for Captain Atom when DC refused to let Creator/AlanMoore kill off all the characters they'd just acquired when they bought out a rival. And then there's alternate universe Quantum Superman, who was basically what happened when Clark Kent was the astronaut instead of, um, whoever Captain Atom was before the accident[[note]]Captain Nathaniel Adam, so a rare case where "Captain" in a superhero name actually designates a legitimate military rank; also not much of a code name[[/note]]. During some big thing when all the multiverse's Supermen teamed up, Quantum Superman was about as badass as the rest put together.

* One issue of ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' centering around Amadeus Cho involves a town where things only exist if you're looking at them and willpower can alter reality, all "justified" by Schrodinger's Cat.

** Also, when Egon [[ForbiddenChekhovsGun warns the others to avoid crossing the streams]], Ray makes a comment about [[TechnoBabble "total protonic reversal"]]. Quantum Mechanics can even destroy the Universe thanks to a Ghostbuster's equipment.
* "Quantum shifting", or [[TechnoBabble something like that]] appears on a screen in ''Film/HollowMan'' as a method of turning things invisible. It's not dwelt on.

* In the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, a VERY fictionalized version of quantum physics form the basis of [[Film/AntMan1 Ant-Man’s]] SizeShifter powers. Taken UpToEleven in the [[Film/AntManAndTheWasp sequel]], the premise of which revolves around trying to rescue a fellow size-changing hero who shrunk down to a quantum level and hasn’t been seen for thirty years. [[spoiler: When the heroes finally find her, she shows some bizarre side effects, including PsychicPowers and HealingHands.]] It’s also used to explain the main antagonist’s [[IntangibleMan intangibility powers]], [[spoiler: to turn her back to normal]], and [[ForeShadowing what sounds like a throwaway line]] implies that TimeTravel is possible.

* In Dan Simmon's novels ''Literature/{{Illium}}'' and ''Olympos'', Quantum-based technology allows for the [[MagicFromTechnology simulation of godlike magical powers]]. "Quantum teleportation" can be used to travel through space, time and into other dimensions. Basically the word "quantum" is dropped into any explanation of how nearly anything works in the setting.
* "Because of quantum" is a standard ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' HandWave. The interesting thing is that it's explicitly used in the same way as "[[AWizardDidIt magic]]" is used in RealLife, but on the Discworld, magic is definable, closely studied and quite well understood. (Until it blows up in your face, that is.) But anything that really doesn't make sense and can't be explained, that's probably quantum.[[note]]One of the things Death and Ridcully have in common is that they both hate, or at least deeply mistrust, quantum.[[/note]]

* The final book in the ''Literature/TheQuantumThief''-trilogy features the discovery on how to use the universe itself as a giant quantum gravity computer and [[spoiler:use it to create a new, custom-made universe at will.]]

* In ''Literature/{{Anathem}}'', quantum effects are used to build a "Saunt Grod's machine," a nondeterministic Turing machine; at least as theorized uses go, this would suggest that BQP contains NP, a mathematical open question generally thought to be false.
* ''Literature/{{Timeline}}'' uses liberal Quantum Technobabble to explain its "[[InsistentTerminology Not-really-Time-Travel]] TimeTravel". The technology started as an attempt to build a teleporter after a company built the first Quantum Computer, which was capable of storing the position and state (thus breaking the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle) of every atom in an object. Instead of teleporting though the machine sends objects to [[AlternateUniverse Alternate Universes]]. Things started getting really Quantum Mechanicy when it's revealed that they have no idea how to turn that data back into a real object. So every time the machine is used the person or object sent must therefore arrive from yet another different universe than the one it was originally sent from, where they have the ability to turn data back into reality.

* ''Literature/KilnPeople'' by David Brin invents the egolaser, so to say. ("Just" replace photons by clones.)
* ''Literature/TheFold'' cites the observer effect as a key component of transdimensional travel. Also all human minds have latent telepathic ability building to a critical mass that makes transdimensional breakdown inevitable. Also there are monsters coming to eat all humans as soon as that travel becomes possible. The monsters are also reality warpers.

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* In ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'' slipstream navigation relies on "the ability of organic observers to collapse wave functions". Later, Harper and Technical Director Hohne develop a working teleporter that Harper explains via the use of "quantum entanglement", pointing out that it allows them to disregard the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. The teleporter even allows TimeTravel, although it can only function in the vicinity of a black hole.
* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Out of Mind, Out of Sight", Giles gave a simplified explanation of Quantum Mechanics (or what he called it anyway) as a theory of how Marcie Ross became invisible: Everyone in Sunnydale High ignored Marcie and made her feel invisible and with a little help from the Hellmouth, her perception of herself became reality.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has the Weeping Angels, which turn to stone whenever anything is looking at them because they are "quantum locked." While this still falls under ArtisticLicensePhysics or ArtisticLicenseBiology, it's also [[GeniusBonus an unusually deliberate allusion]] to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics) the observer effect.]]

* ''Series/QuantumLeap'', of course. The show also established that leaping affected Sam's memory — and his own past. This allowed the writers to regularly {{Retcon}} his skills and personal history.
* Warp drive from ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is not an example but the quantum slipstream drive introduced in Voyager is. ''Star Trek'' in general treats "quantum" as a one-size-fits-all buzzword to handwave things with. According to some non-canon novels, the transporter works using this trope, [[HandWave handwaving]] the questions about "creating a copy and killing the original".
** Some of the technology also requires an inversion of this, as transporting and replicating things atom by atom and molecule by molecule basically requires "observing" where various subatomic particles in the object in question are and thereby unpredictably altering their course. This is why, for instance, the transporters have something called a "Heisenberg Compensator" to suppress all that quantum unpredictability Heisenberg discovered... somehow. How does the Heisenberg Compensator work, you may ask? [[MathematiciansAnswer It works very well, thank you.]]

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Angels are implied several times to be essentially living quantum physics. Castiel describes his existence without a body as "a multi-dimensional waveform of celestial intent," and when the brothers ask why his powers are limited, he says "Well, the answer to your question can best be expressed as a series of partial differential equations."

-->''Quantum physics leads us to
-->answers to the great taboos.
-->We create the Universe around us.
-->God is in every living soul.''

* ''TabletopGame/{{Aberrant}}s'' can employ the M-R nodes in their brain to subconsciously manipulate the four elemental forces of quantum physics, and through them channel a number of desired effects attuned to the yadda yadda yadda yadda [[AC:people with superpowers are ''[[RuleOfCool awesome]]'']].

* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' uses quantum cryptography realistically, and attempts to insert some realism in a SubspaceAnsible that uses quantum entanglement by having each byte break the connection between a pair of entangled particles. However it also speculates that [[PsychicPowers psi]] creates quantum fields in the brain enabling quantum computation, though it does acknowlege that doesn't explain telepathy, just the lower-level mental augmentation slights like grok or pattern recognition.

* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' and its sequel ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' mainly uses this, among other things, to explain [[spoiler: the various abilities of the espers, especially the [[MentalTimeTravel Mental Time Travel]]]].

* Used liberally in ''Franchise/MassEffect'', naturally. In the second game, The Illusive Man communicates with the Normandy II through a device that induces oscillations in a single quantum particle so that they may be observed in an entangled partner on the other end instantaneously, acting as a sort of "Quantum Telegraph". In the ''Leviathan'' DLC for the third game, this is also revealed to be how telepathy works. The title aliens somehow evolved the ability to deliberately induce quantum entanglement between electrons in their own nervous systems and those of other creatures, allowing them to communicate with or even MindControl them across the vastness of space through the use of spherical "artifacts" that fill the role of vectors.

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfWondersPlanetfall'' is shamelessly [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness soft sci-fi]], so the [=VoidTech=] Secret Technology takes this trope and runs with it. There's fluff about "entangling probabalistic quantum-realities" and such, but it's really MagicFromScience that frequently nods at popular quantum physics [[RuleOfFun as an excuse to include teleportation and time-manipulation gimmicks]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Wondermark}}'' has [[http://wondermark.com/134/ this strip]] where one character is annoyed by lazy sci-fi writers using “quantum theory” to justify everything. [[spoiler: However, this only annoys him because he uses it to justify his own immoral actions, and they need to “come up with their own shtick!”]]

* WebSite/SFDebris uses the line in one of his reviews, {{lampshading}} ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'''s overuse of Quantum for their Technobabble.

** And again when he reviewed ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' when it turns out the space-ship doesn't have a sophisticated recycling system and so they must make new stuff by "erm, quantum".
* From Website/TheOnion: [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/scifi-writer-attributes-everything-mysterious-to-q,2781/ Sci-Fi Writer Attributes Everything Mysterious to 'Quantum Flux.']]
* [[http://www.quantumrip.com/ Quantum Rip]] uses quantum mechanics as a handwave for [[AnotherDimension interdimensional travel]] and magic.
* ''WebOriginal/SeventeenThousandSevenHundredSeventySix'': The main characters are space probes who spontaneously developed [[AnimateInanimateObject sapience]] and the ability to communicate instantaneously over a "quantum link". When Pioneer 9 "wakes up" for the first time, the others guide it into the link by getting it to think about a LogicBomb, then give it five billion gigabytes of data storage that's unconstrained by three-dimensional space for good measure.

--> '''Farnsworth:''' But, as Deepak Chopra taught us, quantum mechanics means anything can happen at any time for no reason! Also, eat plenty of oatmeal and [[ApeShallNeverKillApe animals never had a war]]. Who's [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the ]]''[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters real ]]''[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters animal]]?
* PlayedForLaughs in ''TheSimpsons'' episode "Don't Fear The Roofer" when Creator/StephenHawking explains that Bart didn't see Ray the roofer because of a change in space-time continuum causing a mini black hole that absorbed the light from Ray. ItMakesSenseInContext. [[labelnote:No, it doesn't.]]Lisa says this sounds plausible, [[DontExplainTheJoke but it's not:]] Ray would be blocking the light from behind anyway, so Bart should've seen a black shadow where his stood.[[/labelnote]]

* Any number of dubious metaphysical or pseudoscientific theories splash a lot of Quantum about-- so much so that there's a term for them-- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mysticism quantum mysticism]]. If someone offering you medical treatment uses the word "Quantum" in any explanation of how their treatment works [[note]]unless they're a radiographer or radiotherapist, and in that case they are getting far more technical than is strictly necessary![[/note]] you would be well advised to ''back away swiftly''.

* The 21st century reincarnation of ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'''s Jenny Sparks is Jenny Quantum, a RealityWarper who, so far, can teleport, time travel, cross dimensions, create dimensions, and manipulate "quantum energy", in addition to more mundane StockSuperpowers like flight, and these are just the abilities she's manifested in her first decade. As a century baby, she still has nine more decades to develop her powers further.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Aberrant}}s'' can employ the M-R nodes in their brain to subconsciously manipulate the four elemental forces of quantum physics, and through them channel a number of desired effects attuned to the yadda yadda yadda yadda [[AC:people with [[StockSuperpowers super-powers]] are ''[[RuleOfCool awesome]]'']].

* Most everything in ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', such as the alternate dimensions and being able to walk through walls with a certain device that makes your atoms not interact with other atoms yadda-yadda. The show takes real science, [[HollywoodScience mangles it beyond recognition, applies it improperly]], [[SerialEscalation takes it to the extreme]] and then [[RefugeInAudacity passes it off to the audience as something feasible in the future]]. Which 99% of it is not, at least not in the way they try to portray it. As a drama, it's a great show. As Scifi, well, it's on the soft side. The ''really'' soft side.

* Oh boy, ''{{Anime/Noein}}''. Listing every bit of techno-magic they call "quantum" something-or-other would take too long. Even the story itself can largely be explained using UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat as an allegory (which one of the characters actually does partway through). The characters from the "future"? They can time-travel/dimension hop because they are "quantum existences". They constantly talk about making sure their "existence is established", because an "uncertain existence" leads to possibly being erased from reality. The future and the past are also not on the same timeline (of which there are infinite), but can still influence each other, and... [[MindScrew um]]... [[TimeyWimeyBall wibbly-wobbly quantumey-wantumey]]...

* This trope is why ComicBook/CaptainAtom is considered the Biggest Billy-Badass in Franchise/TheDCU, even more powerful than {{Superman}} and literally capable of doing... well... [[SuperPowerLottery just about anything he wants]].

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'': Word for word, each one of them is carrying an ''unlicensed nuclear accelerator on their back''. Looks like Quantum Mechanics can bust ghosts!

* Most everything in ''{{Series/Fringe}}'', such as the alternate dimensions and being able to walk through walls with a certain device that makes your atoms not interact with other atoms yadda-yadda. The show takes real science, [[HollywoodScience mangles it beyond recognition, applies it improperly]], [[SerialEscalation takes it to the extreme]] and then [[RefugeInAudacity passes it off to the audience as something feasible in the future]]. Which 99% of it is not, at least not in the way they try to portray it. As a drama, it's a great show. As Scifi, well, it's on the soft side. The ''really'' soft side.

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* ''Webcomic/StringTheory'': The protagonist uses this explanation to HandWave how children can be [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetically engineered]] with abilities like PsychicPowers and RealityWarping.

** And again when he reviewed ''WesternAnimation/{{WallE}}'' when it turns out the space-ship doesn't have a sophisticated recycling system and so they must make new stuff by "erm, quantum".

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' includes this in one of Professor Farnsworth's [[ItRunsOnNonsenseoleum entirely scientific]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqcaaUtPdAo explanations]]:

Don't worry. Remember, guys, a well-known {{Narrative Device|s}} is that Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything. Time-travel? Check. God-mode superpowers? Check. {{Death ray}}s? Check. Expect [[EEqualsMCHammer complex equations]], a lot of TechnoBabble and explanations of the UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat experiment and the observer effect that make every conscious being a potential RealityWarper.

* Used liberally in ''Franchise/MassEffect'', naturally. In the second game, The Illusive Man communicates with the Normandy II through a device that induces oscillations in a single quantum particle so that they may be observed in an entangled partner on the other end instantaneously, acting as a sort of "Quantum Telegraph". In the ''Leviathan'' DLC for the third game, this is also revealed to be how telepathy works. The title aliens somehow evolved the ability to deliberately induce quantum entanglement between electrons in their own nervous systems and those of other creatures, allowing them to communicate with or even MindControl them across the vastness of space.

* ''Webcomic/QuantumVibe'', the very name is a shortened version of a fictional field of quantum physics called "quantum vibremonics", which can apparently lead to interdimensional travel.

* In the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, a VERY fictionalized version of quantum physics form the basis of [[Film/AntMan Ant-Man’s]] SizeShifter powers. Taken UpToEleven in the [[Film/AntManAndTheWasp sequel]], the premise of which revolves around trying to rescue a fellow size-changing hero who shrunk down to a quantum level and hasn’t been seen for thirty years. [[spoiler: When the heroes finally find her, she shows some bizarre side effects, including PsychicPowers and HealingHands.]] It’s also used to explain the main antagonist’s [[IntangibleMan intangibility powers]], [[spoiler: to turn her back to normal]], and [[ForeShadowing what sounds like a throwaway line]] implies that TimeTravel is possible.

* There are some who would have us believe that you can "[[{{Teleportation}} quantum leap]]" by meditating really really hard. Don't click any links on this unless you fancy taking your computer to the shop.

* Used liberally in ''MassEffect'', naturally. In the second game, The Illusive Man communicates with the Normandy II through a device that induces oscillations in a single quantum particle so that they may be observed in an entangled partner on the other end instantaneously, acting as a sort of "Quantum Telegraph". In the ''Leviathan'' DLC for the third game, this is also revealed to be how telepathy works. The title aliens somehow evolved the ability to deliberately induce quantum entanglement between electrons in their own nervous systems and those of other creatures, allowing them to communicate with or even MindControl them across the vastness of space.

* Dr. Manhattan from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': a nuclear accident turned him into a PhysicalGod. Doc's body basically suffered 100% matter-to-energy conversion... But because his rather obsessive father trained him as a child to be a watchmaker - thus imbuing him with patience, attention to minute detail, and mechanical understanding - because he somehow retained consciousness "the very first trick [he] figured out was to put [him]self back together." Then he realized he could do it with ''the rest of reality'' too.

* In ''Film/SourceCode'', apparently [[spoiler:the quantum effects that power the simulator allow it, to change past events by seemingly creating an alternate timeline]].
* Hyperdrives, lightsabers, even standard starfighters in ''Franchise/StarWars''. The last is to justify why [[SpaceIsAnOcean space is often considered an ocean]].

-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Scott Lang]]:''' [[LampshadeHanging Do you guys just put the word "quantum" in front of everything?]]

* Creator/GregBear's short story "Schrödinger's Plague" JustForFun/{{egregious}}ly abuses this. A variation of the UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat experiment is performed with five scientists substituted for the cat and, instead of cyanide, a SyntheticPlague with a long latency period. The physicist who planned the experiment explains that it's been "established experimentally" that conscious observation can collapse quantum states. The author's note in ''The Collected Stories of Greg Bear'' hints that the physics in the story is not legitimate, but he leaves the proof as an exercise to the reader.
* Mostly averted in ''Literature/TheQuantumThief''-trilogy, but the final book features the discovery on how to use the universe itself as a giant quantum gravity computer and [[spoiler:use it to create a new, custom-made universe at will.]]

** Possibly believable had she said '''statistical''' mechanics instead; basically, one of the principles of quantum mechanics says you can't predict what any individual particle will do, but statistical mechanics says that if you put enough particles together you can make a damn good guess.

* The ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' franchise {{Hand Wave}}s all manner of teleportation with words like "dark energy", "entanglement" (both are also names of chapters in ''Half-Life 2''), "resonance", and "string-based". Sci-fi weapons have names that evoke quantum mechanics, like the zero-point energy field manipulator, the gluon gun, the displacement cannon, and the tau cannon. BellisariosMaxim definitely applies here, which the games wisely adhere to by not usually trying to actually ''explain'' how anything works. They more so ''refer'' to the processes by seamlessly tossing {{technobabble}} into an otherwise normal line of dialogue (which the characters deliver as if they were talking about what they had for lunch[[note]]In Gordon's case, this makes sense in-universe, since he is a physicist whose thesis was about teleportation; he would have at least a rudimentary understanding of a lot of what they're saying.[[/note]]), and then move on at the earliest opportunity.
* This is what ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' is centered around; you solve puzzles with multi-colored rips in space, generated with a gun powered by miniature black holes.
** During the sequel VideoGame/Portal2, they claim that it works particularly well on surfaces covered in [[spoiler:moon dust or made from moon rock]], but the player never gets an explanation as to why that matters.

** The floating city part, at least, is based on a real experiment. It is in fact possible to use quantum physics to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA make particles levitate at a fixed height]]. It's probably not something you could realistically scale up to the size of a city, though.

** During the sequel Portal2, they claim that it works particularly well on surfaces covered in [[spoiler:moon dust or made from moon rock]], but the player never gets an explanation as to why that matters.

* ''ComicBook/SteamWars'' uses this to explain Quantum Dragoon powers specifically how they're able to "teleport" when really they're using Quantum Physics to project themselves in different places at once. Basically, given the setup of the series itself, it's their world's equivalent of ''[[Franchsie/StarWars The Force]]''.

* There is ''highly'' speculative (to say the least) research on things like quantum computing and quantum consciousness which could potentially lead to overcoming Moore's law [[note]]A well-known law in computer science that measures the rate at which computer processors become smaller and more powerful, but there are obviously physical limits to this at some point[[/note]] and build much more sophisticated computers, or explain the neuroscience behind free will [[note]]Since if we look at the brain in a completely materialist way, technically we don't have free will[[/note]], respectively. So we could theoretically build a super-smart AI with free will - sounds cool, right? Except all of these applications of quantum physics are at the moment, purely theoretical and little to no real quantitative research has been done to show they would actually work.
** ...and then a cooperation of ''Website/{{Google}}'' and ''UsefulNotes/{{NASA}}'' presented a Quantum Computer in december 2015, to which their most laconic comment is "It works." Observers were quick to point out that the core chip looks like it came straight out of ''Franchise/StarTrek''. Detractors then also pointed something out, namely the involvement of the ''{{CIA}}'' through a front-company. It remains to be seen if the computer really does what it should, though. You can read a German article [[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/google-und-nasa-praesentieren-ihren-quantencomputer-a-1066838.html here]], it also has pictures.

* In the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, a VERY fictionalized version of quantum physics form the basis of [[Film/AntMan Ant-Man’s]] SizeShifter powers. Taken UpToEleven in the [[Film/AntManAndTheWasp sequel]], the premise of which revolves around trying to rescue a fellow size-changing hero who shrunk down to a quantum level and hasn’t been seen for thirty years. [[spoiler: When the heroes finally find her, she shows some bizarre side effects, including PsychicPowers and HealingHands.]] It’s also used to explain the main antagonist’s [[IntangibleMan intangibility powers]], [[spoiler: to turn her back to normal]], and a [[ForeShadowing what sounds like a throwaway line]] implies that TimeTravel is possible.