Comics show that Magic and Science are different but the fact is that it's all about energies, just different energies. Sue's powers I think are really powerfull but that doesn't mean that she must have nosebleeds. In fact her powers must make her body very, very healthy and strong.

Nice thread :)

@delphic: this is actually correct. it's a cliché started from Firestarter. Charlie's telepathic abilities to push would exert him and cause nosebleeds. Ever since then it's been a thing.

I mean, it happens to Maxwell Lord too, as well to a plethora of male characters throughout movies and comics...

And also... we have a saying in Italy: this is like talking about the sex of the angels.

I wasn't patient enough to read all these comments, so I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but as to the issue with Sue's nose bleed : If you go to the marvel website & look up Sue's character profile, somewhere in there it states that her force fields are psionic constructs, which are linked to her mind. When too much force, like say, a high-yield explosion, or a massive energy attack, or, I dunno, the weight of the London Eye, maybe, is appllied to the surface of her force field, then she experiences something the Marvel web site terms 'psionic backlash'. This phenomenon is not unique to the Invisible Woman, either. Several characters in the Marvel & DC universes whose powers have some kind of energy/mental connection, do from time to time, suffer from this same kind of Achilles' heel. Well, there's my two cents. Good blog. So long folks, & remember, have your pets spayed or neutered & never feed your mogwai after midnight!!

i dont know if you ever read any of the original x-men or fantastic four comics but marvel girl and invisible girl used to faint ALL the time after using their powers. its pure sexism, hope they leave that mess out in the reboot.

as for her moving, it happens in the comics but you cant see cause its not moving images but if you can catch some episodes of the animated series stuff like that would happen all the time.

@perfect_10: Oh sure, I get the moving, it might be a natural reflex to bearing an amazing strain. I am just saying that from a purely physical standpoint that it makes no sense for someone to do that.

A silly explanation for why Sue would have to exert more force to use her powers is, you can imagine that the invisible force fields are hollow with no mass. Therefore the energy that she creates are more difficult to take control/fuse and release, causing stress on her body creating a nose bleed. To reply to the pivot explanation the situation would have changed no matter where she was to hold up or move the London eye as the strength of her power would not have amplified and she would still have needed help from Mr. Fantastic using Human Torch's powers and the Thing.

@razzatazz: I love the fact that you're analyzing this scientifically. Her backing up could be an attempt to steady herself somewhat; Sue sometimes tends to get a little woozy when she overexerts herself.

Yup, nosebleed means psionic powers are/were afoot.

Lactic acid buildup is harder to draw/otherwise depict in comics. A nosebleed is easy to draw and doesn't get in the way.

Ah, the classic example of someone over analyzing a subject in order to promote an untenable hypothesis. You can always tell who the Simone/Fraction fans are, can't you?

@shackle: I stated in my analysis that I was over analyzing it. I never presented a pretense that I was not.

Science is fun! :)

Probably been mentioned, but the nosebleed thing is common for mental powers and such. Maybe not so much in comics, but I have seen it elsewhere, mostly in horror.

@brc2000: true

Nice blog and i like that you looked deeper into this one scene. As for the nose bleed i always chalked it up to her powers being more mentally based then the rest of the characters. The other three seem to have physical attributes that there powers are easier to use (this gets me in to the joke of the second film where Sue ends up with Johnny's powers and floats off unable to control her new powers)

Mr Fantastic - Doesnt even really have to think stretch, he just think "grab that object" not worrying about the distances. The thought of grabbing something or whatever he is doing is already be trained in to his head with a whole life time of making that same movement just now with greater distance

Thing - His powers are totally physical and really has no mental taxation on him to use his powers.

Human Torch - His powers seem to be a simple as "Flame on" or as simple as think flames and there will be flames, think hotter and it will get hotter. So his powers would be the next most taxing mentally IMO it still doesnt take as much thought as Sue Storms

Wow! I never thought of it this way... also Sue shouldn't be depicted as weak because she is a girl because in the comics she is often referred to as the strongest and most powerful member of the fantastic four.

@nmgeri18: Good point

the reason is the high pressure of blood to the brain

It wouldnt be a case of weight. In the comics,sue's forcefields have been shown to be demensional vibrations that prevent matter and energy from passing through. Her invisibilty is because herforce fields move what ever they cover out of demansional frequency so light passes through. In the case of the ferris wheel, she was not contending against weight but against space. Keeping the space where she used her force fields as supports stressed her brain causing her nose bleed. It was the strain that made her step back. Not the force of the weight.

@jorgevy: I think I agree :)

I never saw Jean Grey or Psylocke bleed by the nose, most of us believe that Sue, Jean or Polaris have passive powers, which is actually the opposite, they are actually a tank type of character, what I try to say with this, you can see it in sports, defensive is the most hard job to do, because you need to hold the line, or you will loose, you need to have a lot of strength to do this(for example on Football), thats the case of Sue here, she needs to hold the Eye with her own force, this situation was the reason of the nose bleed, the overweight that she needs to hold on, the same case with Jean Grey and Polaris, they are actually more powerful than we think, because they need to deal with heavy weight, like Jean Grey in the movie with the force of water at the end of the second movie, she holds on the water pressure with force fields and even use her telekinesis to fix the jet, I think passive characters are more like Professor X or Emma Frost, they actually dont get involve in the battle, they are more outside the battle using their minds, clearly that isnt the job of Jean or Sue.

LOL at the nosebleed :P

Let us remember that (in the film) Sue started using her powers not too long from being affected by the cosmic ray. The reason with her bleeding nose was because she was using her brain strongly (so strong that cause her to bleed and this make sense). The human brain is, as of yet discovered, the most complicated system in existence. It is comprised of over 1 billion neurons; and amongst those neurons, there are countless connections (I'm not a scientist, but took biology class).

Although the human brain is extremely complex, it has the consistency of jelly and is, thus, just as delicate. In fact, it is so delicate that it can not even support its own weight. So by Sue using all her power to hold that gigantic, heavy (weight), wheel... it did make her bleed. Just like in FF1, she was bleeding when she create a force field while Johnny was creating a super nova inside her shield. Her levitation, psionic, and telekinesis has to do a lot with the use of the brain. Therefore, in using these will suck all your strengths out of your brain, weaken your body, and making you bleed. I'm sure she was fabulous in those films.

@fabulosity: I am not sure, we have a pretty good idea how the brain works, despite its complexity. That is a bit more of thinking that humans are the be all and end all of the universe, but in actuality we aren't really that important. The only cases where excessive brain use results in bleeding are indicative of greater problems on a physiological scale. Sue is the only one of the four that gets side effects from the use of powers as well.

@razzatazz: That's because she's the only one who uses the strength from her brain. Like I say the brain is SO delicate and is the most dangerous, complex, organ. When using too much strength especially for this heavy wheel, You will bleed. Even when you are concentrating so hard you will bleed. This happened to normal people who concentrate too much which eventually, they get headaches and can also bleed through their nose.

@fabulosity: I don't think that is true, unless you can prove otherwise

she could be bleeding from anywhere else but it was inappropriate to show, thats why her nose bleeds

she could be bleeding from anywhere else but it was inappropriate to show, thats why her nose bleeds