Goddamn misogynistic radiation! Fight patriarchal particle decay!
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.
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.
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No 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”
It was alpha radiation
Would have made her an alpha male if she was a male. But she wasn’t and there is no such thing as an alpha female (neither does alpha male make much sense but I digress)
Half the fun of Philomena Cunk is she’s like half right or at least you can see where she starts from.
I’m not into comics but now i’m genuinely curious; is there a comic story where the radiation turned a woman super? Only one springs to my mind is fantastic 4s invisible woman, which, you know, there’s some subtext. I’m also not counting things like She-Hulk cause that lacks originality.
Is there more turtles turned super by ooze or radiation than women?
There just aren’t a lot of women supers with cultural staying power in the first place, and getting powers from radiation was a trope from a time there were less than average.
