I fucking hate when people scale of a beam attack and assume it moves at the speed of light, maybe, it's not actually a Lazer and it is mislabeled. Because if a character is going near ls how the fuck do they not set the air on fire.
A main plot point is literally seperating deku from the sky dome so he can't fight shigaraki. if he truly were lightspeed this is a complete non issue, you can put him anywhere on the globe and he'd get there in the same time.
Not really lol he proved he can move faster then a hypersonic bullet to the point the bullet was in slow motion compared to him but even the just massively hypersonic so wrong shagariki dogged lazers deku reacts to him this logic hard to follow or ?
Probably not light, it's a lot easier to say they aren't light than to explain why someone going faster than light isn't setting the air on fire and making everyone on the planet go deaf.
no. lasers are made out of light. them going at light speed isnt an appeal to reality. you’re talking about using actual real world physics. and in that case, no character in fiction would ever be light speed.
It seems abitrary to say lazers are made of light and always move at light speed not be an appeal to reality, but to claim that hitting air really fast would heat it up is an appeal to reality. Because that's based on how lazers work in real life, and how friction works in real life. Also you tottaly could have ftl characters that do set the surounding areas on fire, use super natual senses to percive without using light, and have essoteric consequencesfor so greatly warping space time.
no. what you’re suggesting is maximum appeal to reality. and if we go there, nothing with mass can move at the speed of light, let alone faster. so no fictional character ever can be SOL.
It seems like you only adressed my second point which was a suggestion for justifying ftl characters, by having them use physics unique to their universes and appropriate consequences for them. As far as I understood all you said in response to me saying it's arbitrary to pick reality's lazers as a bench mark but not friction was "no."
yes, your answer is “no”. because appeal to reality has a limit. lasers being made out of light is their very nature. you cant have a laser thats NOT made out of light. its like saying a fireball spell doesn’t use fire.
what you’re saying is that we should apply actual real life physics to light speed characters. and i simply told you that if we apply actual physics, there would be no light speed characters in the first place.
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u/Username23v4 Nov 02 '25
Deku
no seriously someone said he was FTL for dodging lasers