Something I was thinking about: If Ant-Man has his normal strength when he shrinks, shouldn't he also have his normal strength when he grows?
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Something I was thinking about: If Ant-Man has his normal strength when he shrinks, shouldn't he also have his normal strength when he grows?
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Like Giant-Man didn't have enough problems being just big and clumsy--what if he was also just too weak to move? Personally, I've always thought it would be interesting if, since some shrinking characters get more dense (the explanation they kind of use in the Ant-Man movie), shouldn't growing characters get less dense? Other than some brief experimentation with Nuklon of Infinity Inc., who never actually connected the growth with the intangibility, we've never really had an example of an Intangible Giant-Man, which seems like such a logical extrapolation of the power set.
It was established at one point that shrinking was less stressful to his system than growing. That is why he he eventually adopted Yellowjacket as his heroic identity. But then he did becaome Giant Man again after that. I don't recall the in-story rationale.
I assume he absorbs mass when he grows from the same place the Hulk does.
Power Pack had a character that could shrink to doll size but retained his mass, making him dense enough to hurt people by falling on them. When he grew past a certain height he turned into a cloud.
I'd almost forgotten about him--Mass Master? Jack Hammer? Something like that (the Power kids seemed to keep swapping powers and changing codenames for a while). It's close, but he seemed to go straight to cloud form as soon as he started to expand--I don't think we ever even saw him (or any of them while possessing that particular power) use the power to assume just the height of an adult human, even if the actual appearance of one was out of his/her reach. While a 6 foot tall hero who only weighs 85 pounds would just be a bigger and especially vulnerable target, a 20 or 30 footer who passes thru stuff instead of tripping over it or smashing it would at least have the (admittedly, one time) advantage of looking like they could really do some damage, while still having most of the advantages of normal sized "phantom" characters. It just seems odd to me that no one has ever really made the logical combination of Hank Pym's shrinking & growing with the Vision's density increase & decrease powers.
Julie did it once when she had the power. She was pretending to be a monster and wanted more size.
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