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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Making a nuke nonfunctional isn't exactly "child's play", but it's not that difficult either. Modern devices rely on very strict timing of the functions leading to deploying a packet of Instant Sunshine(tm).
The real problem, however, is what happens with the bomb components. Exposure to Plutonium, for example, is hardly conducive to one's long-term health, especially if it's broken up into smaller pieces that can get inside the body (particularly dust; see the terrorist guard from The Sum of All Fears who accidentally inhaled some dust from shavings created when the bad guys were remanufacturing the Pu they had acquired, for the nuke in Denver) more easily.
Really, it would have been somewhat of a shit sandwich no matter which way you did things, if not going for what actually happened in the movie.
All your safe space are belong to TrumpSo if I'm getting this right, apparently the MCU's version of the SHRA will be initiated by world governments rather than by Tony Stark, and his role in it is going to be more passive as an enforcer rather than its orchestrator? That already sounds like a huge step up since it makes Tony come off as less of a tyrant or strawman compared to the comics.
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It clears up something I was wondering about, too: we've been told that the plot is going to be a serious issue for T'Challa, with him taking a "choose a side" role similar to Spider-Man's, which made no sense if like the comics the Act was going to be an American thing. It being a "the entire world chooses to pass this policy" thing is probably also going to lend some weight to it being fairly... messy.
It also makes this movie's subtitle "Captain America vs The World."
Let's hope it doesn't open against an Expendables movie.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Well, with the dismal failure of the third movie, I don't think we have to worry all that much.
Nah, it's just a joke because Scott Pilgrim opened against The Expendables and did poorly.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectIf it had a predator, a xenomorph, a terminator and a velociraptor working together as a sort of legion of doom, I would absolutely see it regardless of quality.
I am but human, I am weak.
Especially if the velociraptor was accurately sized and not movie sized.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersNo, that's pretty much exactly like the comics, except replace "United States Government" with "World Governments". In the comics, Tony was against the Registration Act and was the only person actually doing anything about it, making speeches in Washington to discourage the U.S. from passing the law. When the Stamford Disaster happened and it became evident that the law was going to pass no matter what they do, Tony turned around and started urging other superheroes that, "We have to get on top of this thing, take control of it, and mold it into a form that is palatable to us rather than allow our fate to be decided without our input."
Tony was always an enforcer, not orchestrator, of the Registration Act. The orchestrator of the act was the U.S. Senate responding to widespread panic regarding the damage caused by super-battles in the nation.
edited 22nd Mar '15 10:00:04 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Tony's biggest flaw was being absolutely shit at explaining his position.
Also the fascist stuff wasn't good either.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYeah. Tony was trying to beat the Registration Act from within by folding it under the Avengers' control and making it something better than the panic-stricken progenitors would have it be. Captain America was trying to beat the Registration Act from without by somehow punching enough people to defeat United States Law.
edited 22nd Mar '15 10:04:30 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Marvel comics does (or did?) exist within the marvel universe.
He could have done it if he had only thought to.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYes, he should have.
The conflict was ultimately shackled in its conception by the fact that, in order to even justify the presence of a conflict, Stark was given a bunch of needlessly dictatorial actions to take that put the focus on him rather than the actual issue at hand, while Rogers was given a pointless cause with no possible victory condition. It stopped being about the Registration Act almost immediately and became Tyrant Stark versus Rebel Without A Cause Rogers.
edited 22nd Mar '15 10:07:04 AM by TobiasDrake
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edited 22nd Mar '15 10:07:42 AM by KnownUnknown

I'm not an expert on nukes but I do know that they rely on precise activation of atomic reactions. Presumably if enough of the missile is vaporized, then the explosion can't occur.