Discussion Main / HardLight

Ok I suppose as a filmmaking student, MCU fan, and Ms. Marvel fan (never really knew about her until Avengers game (even though she's Inhuman in that version-I accept them making her a Mutant while acknowledging hard light as they teased Mr. Fanzinski's skin-stretching ability, whereas her ability to turn light into a hard, physical object as a form of elongation will differ from Reed plus give the Inhumans a fresh start)), I'm really intrigued by hard light. On the one hand, in quantum physics, light acts normally as a wavelength when unobserved. But upon observation, it acts like a particle. I think her mutation is the ability to turn an electron wave into an aware particle at will. In photographic terms, when the sun casts a beam of light across the screen - she can create/manifest that effect-that flare and turn it solid. In terms of reflections and refractions, I guess each particle could potentially reflect off of itself in order to duplicate in a controlled refraction process. But that's all just a guess...

The entry on Luminus from the DCAU says this doesn't explain why his duplicates can be punched, and I don't really understand why it doesn't. It seems to me that if something's solid, it's solid. But maybe I'm missing something.

Wondering if this counts as a subversion or inversion: I recall an episode of the animated Batman (or Batman Beyond, don't remember) having the hero argue about the impossibility of this with a holographic villain, who acknowledges this fact before reminding Batman that lasers, like holograms, are also made of light (and demonstrating this fact).