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Haha hilarious. When david said that curveballs one and only super power was never running out of bullets from any gun, i thought that no, there must be more, maybe later it will explain. Although your explanation would make the power distribution a lot more amusing. But on a more serious note, i asked brandon and never got an answer, so i am very very curious.

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Haha hilarious. When david said that curveballs one and only super power was never running out of bullets from any gun, i thought that no, there must be more, maybe later it will explain. Although your explanation would make the power distribution a lot more amusing. But on a more serious note, i asked brandon and never got an answer, so i am very very curious.

 

It's probably of the same nonsensical class as Nightweilder's—he can attack with shadows, which aren't solid, but he makes them solid, and he can block out the sun with it, which works but still doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Epic powers do interact with physics, but they run the gamut from merely bending physics to making physics cry. 

 

I assumed it was an unconscious and ridiculously specific form of matter creation/duplication. 

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It's probably of the same nonsensical class as Nightweilder's—he can attack with shadows, which aren't solid, but he makes them solid, and he can block out the sun with it, which works but still doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Epic powers do interact with physics, but they run the gamut from merely bending physics to making physics cry. 

 

I assumed it was an unconscious and ridiculously specific form of matter creation/duplication. 

Actually I believe that Nightwielders powers were somewhat explained, he doesn't actually manipulate shadows he can just control a mist-like substance that looks shadowy.

On Curveball I'm also assuming that it's simple matter creation. Brandon said that an Epic who could only pull Hamburgers out of his pockets was possible so something more simple like a bullet would definitely be within the realms of possibility.

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Curveball would actually be a really powerful epic if his power applied to all weapons.

Can you imagine him with that giant explosive rifle that the reckoners got, except with no ammo limit or reload time?

The ammo's not the problem its the amount of energy it needs.

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Infinite ammo is no less nonsensical than Steelheart's generic energy bolts and being simply invulnerable. I mean, really, how do you draw the line for "harm"?

How does shouting of all things turn everything into an alloy of iron and carbon? Why can't it make anything else? Why does it not work on living animals, but does on dead ones, yet it steel-ifies plants regardless of the state of their vital signs? At what point in the process of death is the thing considered dead?

Why is Conflux seemingly able to charge anything indefinitely beyond what their actual containment capacities would allow, but never has been mentioned to be able to just discharge into air or something?

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Infinite ammo is no less nonsensical than Steelheart's generic energy bolts and being simply invulnerable. I mean, really, how do you draw the line for "harm"?

How does shouting of all things turn everything into an alloy of iron and carbon? Why can't it make anything else? Why does it not work on living animals, but does on dead ones, yet it steel-ifies plants regardless of the state of their vital signs? At what point in the process of death is the thing considered dead?

Why is Conflux seemingly able to charge anything indefinitely beyond what their actual containment capacities would allow, but never has been mentioned to be able to just discharge into air or something?

Energy bolts are just not understood, although arguably the same could be said for bullet generation.

Shouting doesn't, anger is just the trigger for this particular power, nothing implicitly weird about that compared to all the other powers with mental triggers.

Not the air but he did kill his wife through a counter I believe.

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But the energy isn't fired, his power is restricted to ammunition not the gun itself.

Bullets contain the gunpowder that fires them, which is just an efficient form of storage for chemical energy. Assuming Curveball's power applies to all projectile weapons and not just handguns, I see no reason it wouldn't work on the Gauss gun.
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Bullets contain the gunpowder that fires them, which is just an efficient form of storage for chemical energy. Assuming Curveball's power applies to all projectile weapons and not just handguns, I see no reason it wouldn't work on the Gauss gun.

Because the bullets contain the gunpoder, not the gun itself. You strap the energy pack onto the gun not the bullet.

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But by that logic, Curveball can't auto-reload those guns from the old days where you added powder manually. I call false advertising! :ph34r:

Well we never saw him do so, so there's no reason to believe he could. But again that gunpowder is at least stuffed into the barrel, one could argue that his power is to replicate anything placed in the barrel of a gun.

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