In Fantastic 4 and in The Incredibles, there is a character with those two powers. They seem to have nothing to do with each other. The hell does turning invisible have anything to do with force fields? Waddup wit dat?
In Fantastic 4 and in The Incredibles, there is a character with those two powers. They seem to have nothing to do with each other. The hell does turning invisible have anything to do with force fields? Waddup wit dat?
Remember the First Rule of Superhero Beliefs
Do not look at the science with a fine toothed comb.
Rotogravure limitations still are the basis for the visual boundary artificially imposed on the special effects fields.
In practice even "everything imaginable" must have a boundary to be defined as the set of "everything imaginable'.
It's like arguing the value of infinity plus infinity and infinity times infinity... It ain't gonna pay for the hayride no matter what.
the picapoint mime wrote:
Remember the First Rule of Superhero Beliefs
Do not look at the science with a fine toothed comb.
Rotogravure limitations still are the basis for the visual boundary artificially imposed on the special effects fields.
In practice even "everything imaginable" must have a boundary to be defined as the set of "everything imaginable'.
It's like arguing the value of infinity plus infinity and infinity times infinity... It ain't gonna pay for the hayride no matter what.
I bet you're really fun to hang out with.
Their invisibility is caused by a force field operating on photons.
In the physical world, "force field" is there are several specific definitions - fully defined physics team is seeking to clarify and expand. However, in science fiction, the 'force field' often means invisible wall of resistance to commonly used protective shield. Therefore, it has taken from the martial connotations - its special feature is that it can absorb the energy to attack the enemy, and repels itself. In this way, bullets, death rays and other hazards have their kinetic energy dissipation and neutralization. This is an attractive idea, and invisible force field has to re-assert their own way, as a serious pulp magazines, comic books, novels, movies and TV shows elements of SF storytelling.
The reason is that the "Violet" character from The Incredibles was a knockoff of The Invisible Girl from FF. And her force fields were added because just being invisible turned out to be a pretty lame power. Same reason DC comics worked out The Flash being able to vibrate his molecules through walls--just running fast couldn't carry a comic book. Any of us would love to have those powers, but if our day job was fighting aliens and arch-villains, something with a little offensive capability would be nice.
I can produce a gravitational force field! But I can't turn invisible.
It gives the authors an excuse to let the reader know where the invisible character is by drawing the force field around them. Kind of like Wonder Woman's invisible plane where they still draw the outline.