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{{comic | {{comic | ||
| number = 2612 | | number = 2612 | ||
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| title = Lightsabers | | title = Lightsabers | ||
| image = lightsabers.png | | image = lightsabers.png | ||
− | | titletext = A lot of Jedi romances start with this turning into a Lady and the Tramp spaghetti situation.}} | + | | titletext = A lot of Jedi romances start with this turning into a Lady and the Tramp spaghetti situation. |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | A {{w|lightsaber}} is a | + | {{incomplete|Created by a LIQUID LIGHTSABER - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
+ | A {{w|lightsaber}} is a beam-like sword weapon used by members of the {{w|Jedi}} order in the {{w|Star Wars}} franchise. This comic shows a lightsaber fight starting between two [[Cueball]]-like Jedi, one already presenting their blade in challenge and the second activating theirs in response. When the first strike is made between the two lightsabers, they seemingly meld together, with a bloop sound, like the beams are made of a liquid. This then causes the two light beams to be stuck to each other. In in-universe "technical documents", lightsabers are said to be made from magnetically-confined plasma, so perhaps the magnetic fields which were projected from each hilt have merged instead of repelling (or presenting as mutually imperveous) as is usually expected. | ||
− | + | This scene actually looks a lot like what happens between Harry Potter and Voldemorts wands in the end of the fourth book the {{w|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire|Goblet of Fire}}. Here two spells hit each other and connect the two wands, the wand holders then unable to release or disconnect the wands. | |
− | + | In this situation one Jedi tries to shake the beam, maybe to break the bond, but instead the wave travels down the combined beam to also shake the other Jedi's hand-held hilt. When the vibration dies down the other Jedi then tries to deactivate his lightsaber as an attempt to end the connection. But the retraction of the entire double-sized light beam into the handle (as seen in the movies) causes both of the Jedi to be drawn together where they collide together, forcefully enough to render them both unconscious. The connected lightsaber handles lie next to them on the ground. | |
− | The title text implies that such events are how {{w|Jedi}} romances start, comparing it to the famous "spaghetti scene" from the 1955 Disney animated movie ''{{w|Lady and the Tramp}}'' where the two titular characters unintentionally kiss after sharing a strand of spaghetti. In the Old Republic, Jedi were forbidden from entering | + | The title text implies that such events are how {{w|Jedi}} romances start, comparing it to the famous "spaghetti scene" from the 1955 Disney animated movie ''{{w|Lady and the Tramp}}'' where the two titular characters unintentionally kiss after sharing a strand of spaghetti. In the Old Republic, Jedi were forbidden from entering romantic relationships (and discouraged from forming attachments in general), but in the pre-Disney ''Star Wars Legends'' continuity of the Expanded Universe, Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade first met while fighting in the aftermath of the fall of the Empire, and then developed a romantic relationship. |
− | Star Wars is a [[:Category:Star Wars|recurring theme]] on xkcd, and lightsabers have been prominently featured before in, for instance, [[1397: Luke]] and [[1433: Lightsaber]], where the problem with the physics of a light beam as a sword is shown. But in general light does not interact with light as {{w|photons}} are {{w|bosons}} and can thus pass through each other. Interference, yes, but two pure light beams cannot collide and bounce back as when two lightsabers collide. Also as the comic Lightsaber mentioned above shows, there is no compatible real-world way of confining a beam of light, making it stop after about a meter (or anywhere){{Dubious}}<sup> - see {{w|Optical cavity}}</sup>. | + | Star Wars is a [[:Category:Star Wars|recurring theme]] on xkcd, and lightsabers have been prominently featured before in, for instance, [[1397: Luke]] and [[1433: Lightsaber]], where the problem with the physics of a light beam as a sword is shown. But in general light does not interact with light as {{w|photons}} are {{w|bosons}} and can thus pass through each other. Interference, yes, but two pure light beams cannot collide and bounce back as when two lightsabers collide. Also as the comic Lightsaber mentioned above shows, there is no compatible real-world way of confining a beam of light, making it stop after about a meter (or anywhere){{Dubious}}<sup> - see {{w|Optical cavity}}</sup>. So this is another time where [[Randall]] makes a joke about the physics of lightsabers. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:[The left Jedi violently shakes his handle causing a wave to travel down the beam towards the right Jedi.] | :[The left Jedi violently shakes his handle causing a wave to travel down the beam towards the right Jedi.] | ||
− | :Shake shake | + | :<big>Shake shake</big> |
− | :[ | + | :[As the left Jedi's end of the beam comes to rest the wave travels all the way the right Jedi's handle causing his hands to shake, although a bit less than the original shake.] |
:Shake shake | :Shake shake | ||
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:''Zhhhiiiip'' | :''Zhhhiiiip'' | ||
− | :[When the beam is completely retracted the two handles collide and so | + | :[When the beam is completely retracted the two handles collide and so does the heads of the two Jedi with a loud sound. They still hold on to the handle with both hands. They still hand in the air with shadow on the ground beneath them.] |
− | :''Bonk'' | + | :''<big>Bonk</big>'' |
− | :[In the final panel the two Jedi | + | :[In the final panel the two Jedi lies unconscious on the ground with their heads towards each other and with their arms stretched out towards each other. The connected handles lies between them.] |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} |