10 Perplexing Comic Book Questions Solved By The Internet

Geeks love to speculate. It helps that most of their hobbies comprise of huge fictional universes which are forever being added to, and thus have a near-infinite amount of questions to be asked of them. Sure, we know stuff about Middle Earth because of all the stuff Tolkien wrote, but what about all the things he left out? The things he didn't cover? That's not a failure of the author, but a success - they give us enough detail to let us fill in the blanks, and make us an active participant in the media we consume. Even if that active participation is just wondering how Iron Man goes to the bathroom, or whether Superman or The Flash would win in a foot race.

One of the age-old ways for nerds to bond is those long, passionate discussions over such discussions of minutiae of or hypothetical scenarios involving characters from books, video games, films, and comics. We already know that the sci-fi fans have a ball dreaming up weird and wacky concepts, but you gotta believe that superhero junkies are going to have plenty of their own "what if?" concepts - there's a whole series based around them, after all - and theories about the mostly BS in-universe science that explains the powers, costumes and proportions of masked vigilantes and caped crusaders. The Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe answers a lot of questions (probably many of which you'd never consider asking), but it doesn't answer all of them. So who do you turn to? Reddit, of course!

The "Ask Science Fiction" subreddit is entirely dedicated to people posing stumpers about geeky subjects, and having the hive mind come up with non-fourth-wall-breaking answers. There's people mulling over the reasons Hank was so ineffectual in Breaking Bad to the fate of the Borg from Star Trek, but mostly there's people coming up with insane, fascinating and amazingly dorky questions about superheroes, too. And others coming up with the insane, fascinating and amazingly dorky answers, too.

Here are ten of those perplexing comic book questions, and they've been solved by the internet!