For example: being able to turn anything into food but anything can include living things such as humans

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    X-ray vision is horrible for cancer rates (though one could argue that, since it doesn’t work like normal x-ray in many comics, that it’s some other magic with the name x-ray for convenience).

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      Well, I always figured that “x ray vision” was just eyes that were super sensitive to the natural background radiation everywhere, and not that they were actually transmitting x rays

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        I’m also not sure if transmitting x-rays would work

        It’s not like radar, you’d need to also be on the other side to collect the data after it passed through the object

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          That depends on whether the x-rays are absorbed by the bone/solid material or reflected.

          I don’t know enough about x-rays to answer that.

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        10 months ago

        As a counterpoint, combining Cyclops’s power with x-ray vision is a fun power combination, and it’s an interesting take to imagine his power as just cooking everything with radiation.

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      Pretty sure xray vision can just see the xray band of the electromagnetic spectrum

      I think superman can probably see the entire or a larger range than humans and can consciously filter it

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      They touched on that a little bit in Superman Redson, Lex tried to make a Superman clone and its x-ray vision did all the horrible things of an actual x-ray. It was a super short bit, but I found it neat.