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swan2swan · 9 months ago

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Has there ever been a comic or a story where the plot is "Traveler from the future comes back to destroy Reed Richards before he can perfect his Molecule Mashing Machine which is stolen by Doom and used to destroy the world", and then they stop his Molecule Mashing Machine, but then they go back to the future, and it turns out that the world is destroyed anyway, because while Reed didn't invent the Molecule Mashing Machine, the concept of Molecule Mashing was still proven to be physically possible, and thus, at some point over the next three centuries, scientists unlocked the ability anyway, and someone made an open-source Molecule Mashing Machine, and the world got destroyed because it doesn't matter who invents the process, the mere fact that it's feasible makes it an inevitable apocalypse?

#this also applies heavily to the Pym particle because a shrinking machine would have nightmarish applications #“This invention is too dangerous”#....actually I just spoiled the twist in this story #Doom realizes that the Molecule Mashing Machine can annihilate the world #so instead he finally decides to break out the Doomsday Device and bring the universe back to the Stone Age #thus buying humanity another ten thousand years before the Molecule Mashing Machine can be invented again #that is the cause of the post-apocalyptic future #(though I know I saw that somewhere else)#comics #superheroes

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