Thursday, January 26, 2012

What could Superman have done for Japan's Fukushimaya disaster?

Comic book trivia question.What could Superman have done for Japan's Fukushimaya disaster?He certainly could have constructed a temporary wall around the reactor, then hurled the whole thing into the core of the sunWhat could Superman have done for Japan's Fukushimaya disaster?
In the simplest DCU scenario? Superman hears the earthquake--since it was fairly loud--at around the same time his Justice League beeper goes off (Aquaman in the ocean nearby, telling him what he already knows, go figure).



Within the minute (assuming current-continuity levels of power, mind) he's there freezing the local ocean (super-breath) before the Tsunami hits, effectively doubling the height and thickness of all sea walls present. _Most_ of the Tsunami never reaches the shore. But the nearby landscape starts to sink anyway from the severity of the quake....



On hearing this happen and verifying it with X-ray vision, he puts out the all-points bulletin to the _whole_ League, requesting backup as he gets to the nuclear reactor.



Once there, it's super-breath to the rescue, again, repeatedly: inhaling the outgassed hydrogen from water being flash-vaporized at the cores, compressing it in his lungs until it's nearly liquid, then releasing it again as a supercooled liquid. He freezes the whole thing solid within seconds.



Catch is: Cryogenic cold makes things fragile. And oh yeah, that hydrogen was radioactive and in his lungs. By the time the League shows up, half a minute later, Superman is about to pass out, if briefly, from the lungful of radiation he had inside of him.



At that point, he mainly is there to tell folks what's going on and where they're needed, because he can barely talk, never mind stand up. A Green Lantern (pick one) reinforces the ground so that whole cities don't sink right away. J'ohnn and Aquaman figure out what to do with the massive amount of sea ice right off the coast, while Wonder Woman gets on the horn with the Prime Minister and keeps this from becoming an international incident...it's good to have a diplomat on your team, right?



Eventually Shazam and Captain Atom show up to deadlift the reactor carcass out of the ground and contain the radiation, respectively. They dispose of the reactor carcass as instructed to by the Japanese government. Eventually the Martian Manhunter and Aquaman lead the search for anyone who is lost, on dry land or washed out to sea.



And Batman? He's got to help his buddy overcome radiation poisoning from inhaling radioactive hydrogen, but hey. Japan got saved, right? All in a day's work--and par for the course when The Flash has the flu.What could Superman have done for Japan's Fukushimaya disaster?He couldn't have done much to prevent the earthquakes, but would have been involved in the clean up and helped avert the flooding.



He probably would have used his arctic breath to supercool the reactors and stop the meltdown. Then he would have called in The Ray to help clean up any radioactive leakage.What could Superman have done for Japan's Fukushimaya disaster?
Called Captain Atom to absorb all the radiation, used superspeed and heat vision to control the flooding, and then then rebuild with the aid of the league doing most of it at super speed.What could Superman have done for Japan's Fukushimaya disaster?It all depends on your religion.What could Superman have done for Japan's Fukushimaya disaster?
die after getting ****** up the *** by batman.

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