skipping at least a couple hundred million years of evolution
I can’t even imagine how long it would take evolution to produce nuclear fission and lasing chambers in a biological organism. Or what functional mutations it would have to build on to get there.
Supposedly he’s pulling the energy out from some other dimension or something, rather than producing it in his own body. That’s the latest hand-waving explanation, anyways; originally, Cyclops’ powers were supposed to be powered by photosynthesis in his body! Clearly the early writers were rather over-optimistic about solar power...
I can’t even imagine how long it would take evolution to produce nuclear fission and lasing chambers in a biological organism. Or what functional mutations it would have to build on to get there.
Supposedly he’s pulling the energy out from some other dimension or something, rather than producing it in his own body. That’s the latest hand-waving explanation, anyways; originally, Cyclops’ powers were supposed to be powered by photosynthesis in his body! Clearly the early writers were rather over-optimistic about solar power...