Reality Check - 3 Scientific Ways To Become a Video Game Superhero! (Sort Of)

Sick of your non-superpowered life? Perhaps science can help you achieve the capabilities of your favourite video game superheroes! Cam investigates on Reality Check.

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Reality Check

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Flex those mental muscles and join Lucy James on a journey of discovery in Reality Check, the show that investigates the science behind your favourite games, and spawns a few wild theories of its own.

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Spiderman definitely, spider-man.

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I wish I had Samus's Cannon-Arm !!

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Have they done Mech suits yet? BigDog robot is always very interesting.

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Complete fast healing process and healing innocent people

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What's up with the new intro/outro music!? That saw bass grates on my brain like sandpaper.

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I'd like to be able to super jump like in Prototype/Saints row 4 :P oh and land without dying ;o

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@meedokicky: Check out Kangaroo Boots << LINK REMOVED >>

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@CruiserCaptain@meedokicky: lol that is good!

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@meedokicky: I would just like Alex Mercer's abilities in Prototype 1 in general. :P

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@gamingnerd121@meedokicky: I also wanna be Alex Mercer.... shapeshifting... jumping over towers...running up walls... and turning my fist onto sledge hammers to fight with the HULK hahaha.. sooo awesome !!

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@gamingnerd121@meedokicky: scary ;o

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Loved this video. Really cool stuff Cam, just keep going. And obvioulsy Spiderman. Well, actually Batman is really smooth... and now i can't decide.

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What about science behind becoming Super Saiyan? There's this really nifty feature they have in which they get a lot stronger and tougher if they are severely injured but don't die from it.

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I'd rather have teleportation.......

maybe throw in a little rapid healing and say the ability to call a astral weapon into existence with just my mind and you'd have a great combination......

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Spiderman, all the way.

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cool! but wolverine is by far the best super hero period. none of that pesky physics gets in the way when you are nigh invulnerable and don't want to hear superman anything bla bla bla XD



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About Batman. Wouldn't an exoskeleton be helpful here? I always thought that Batman's suit (Bat suit) was sort of an exoskeleton itself, where it enhanced his powers and absorbs ALOT of force. Wouldn't this keep him alive when landing at 50 km/h or faster?

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@exxces_4@klaats: Just was thinking about the jet pilot suits, which have some absorbers (silicone pads or something, do not remember the specifics, sorry) just to absorb the ridiculous amounts of gforce. That concept came from flying bugs (dragonflies), who could manoeuvre instantly when flying and they have a lot of water in their bodies to absorb all their gforce.
Now obviously, if you apply this to Batman's suit, it will not absorb all, but it could absorb enough to survive the 50 km/h drop.

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@exxces_4@klaats: Harrison Ford didn't. ;)

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@exxces_4@klaats: yes this ^^

also, to consider, is all the organs in the body would be traveling at the same speeds. so when you stop your brain, heart and other organs would still have to deal with the same inertia that the exterior body would feel. so the force on the outside of the body may get dissipated, but without some way of securing and dissipating the inertia on the inside, its still rather moot.

pilots who fly super sonic plans have special suit to keep their blood flowing properly or they black or red out even those suits have a limit as to what they can do

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Hah? G.E.C.K.o? Garden of Eden Creation Kit?

On a serious note...

Franklin Richards' reality warping and manipulation.

:P

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These Reality Checks have a way of taking subjects I thought I had no interest in and making me absolutely fascinated. Well done!

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Fact check, Batman doesnt and never has had superpowers. So i guess my favorite Batman superpower is...fack it, i have no clue. But i would love for Batman to fly over to Gamespot and fix their shatty video tech skills.

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@iandizion713: "Superpower: Power greaterinscopeormagnitudethanthatwhichisconsidered naturalorhaspreviouslyexisted."

The ability to take down a tiny fraction of the villains Batman has would likely be considered a superpower by many.

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@Kunakai@iandizion713: so would a nuke.

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@iandizion713@Kunakai: They're also super!

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@iandizion713: Isn't there a comic with some sort of virus... Spoiler... Batman gets infected, and loses his sight. He gets a super sonic blast however and super hearing. This super sonic blast can blast superman, wonder woman, and lex luthor in his mech suit throgh a solid wall.

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@infinitetkz@iandizion713: hes just sick, he will get better soon.

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@infinitetkz@iandizion713: Nice, he became literally a BatMan.

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@iandizion713: Well, I mean, he did wield a lantern ring at one point. But I guess even then it still only counts as glorified accessorizing.

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@iandizion713: his superpower is cash. lots and lots of cash.

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@BrunoBRS@iandizion713: This.


This is also the superpower I would most like to have.

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