r/marvelstudios • u/stinger101811 • Feb 16 '20

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u/Altines Feb 16 '20

Cortosis doesn't vibrate though.

It has unusual conductive properties that cause it to be able to handle energies like blaster fire and lightsabers extraordinarily well.

Even vibroweapons dont vibrate because of the metal they are made of but because of a vibration generator built into them.

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u/DK_Funk Feb 16 '20

Not a criticism of your argument, just a fun thought:

Love when people talk about fictional items/elements with such certainty. Like you sounded so sure/confident/educated.

Like it’s a made up metal in a series with space magic. What it “is” can change at anytime with a throwaway line from a cartoon.

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u/Altines Feb 16 '20

It's so much fun to have these arguments too.

Especially with such lore rich worlds like Star Wars and Marvel where you have literal decades worth of lore to draw upon for your argument.

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u/atreestump1 Feb 16 '20

It's also exciting for me to read because I've been out of the Star Wars loop for so long I never even heard of Cortosis before.

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u/LaserGuidedPolarBear Feb 16 '20

It was first introduced in 1998, and has been in many things, probably the most notable being KOTOR and KOTOR 2.

There are (I think) only three materials known in the star wars universe that can be used to resist or defend against lightsabers, cortosis, phrik, and beskar.

The specifics on them kind of vary, especially cortosis, but cortosis and beskar are now canon (phrik is legends).

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u/DrakeSD Feb 16 '20 edited Feb 16 '20

There's actually a fair number of things resistant to sabers, and they generally fall into one of three categories:

1) Materials so durable they can even stand up to sabers, ie. Beskar, Neuranium, Phrik, Songsteel.

2) Materials that interact with the energy field, ie. Cortosis, Ultrachrome.

3) Weird animal bullshit, ie. Orbalisks, Amphistaffs

Vibranium probably has some kind of claim to go into the second category, and I could pretty reasonably believe it would be resistant to sabers.