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[Xantalos]

Just watched Big Hero 6. Fantastic movie, but there was one thing that bothered me.

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Why doesn't Baymax just grab onto the life pod with one hand and activate his rocket fist on the other hand? That way he could've gotten through the portal too. Sure he got rebuilt, but still. Plus it leaves a deathbot just floating around in hyperspace. That's never a good thing.

[10ebbor10]

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Why doesn't Baymax just grab onto the life pod with one hand and activate his rocket fist on the other hand? That way he could've gotten through the portal too. Sure he got rebuilt, but still. Plus it leaves a deathbot just floating around in hyperspace. That's never a good thing.

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Aligning thrust with the center of mass would be very impractical.

[Xantalos]

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He could've deflated, then activated the rocket fist?

[10ebbor10]

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He could've deflated, then activated the rocket fist?

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I would guess that the majority of his mass would be located in his frame, not the air.

[Xantalos]

Yeah still.

I'm totally calling that as the sequel though. Evilmax from an alternate dimension comes back puppeteer by eldritch abominations, primed to kill his huggly counterpart.

[Sergius]

Iron Giant.

The Giant eats metal. He doesn't use the metal to grow, or repair himself, he literally seems to digest it for food, which for a robot would be energy. But metal doesn't make a very good energy source, AFAIK iron is pretty much desd in the middle of the periodic table where neither fusion nor fission would produce much or any energy. Mass to energy conversion would work on anything, not just metal, so still make no sense to eat metal.

It's pretty much just the silly notion that a creature of metal would eat metal but I don't think it works that way.

[Bohandas]

Iron Giant.

The Giant eats metal. He doesn't use the metal to grow, or repair himself, he literally seems to digest it for food, which for a robot would be energy. But metal doesn't make a very good energy source, AFAIK iron is pretty much desd in the middle of the periodic table where neither fusion nor fission would produce much or any energy. Mass to energy conversion would work on anything, not just metal, so still make no sense to eat metal.

It's pretty much just the silly notion that a creature of metal would eat metal but I don't think it works that way.

It could be plausible if it was really rusty iron and he also ate aluminum. Thermite reaction and so forth.

[scriver]

Well we're made of flesh, and we eat flesh.

It works out.

[Xantalos]

Iron Giant.

The Giant eats metal. He doesn't use the metal to grow, or repair himself, he literally seems to digest it for food, which for a robot would be energy. But metal doesn't make a very good energy source, AFAIK iron is pretty much desd in the middle of the periodic table where neither fusion nor fission would produce much or any energy. Mass to energy conversion would work on anything, not just metal, so still make no sense to eat metal.

It's pretty much just the silly notion that a creature of metal would eat metal but I don't think it works that way.

Theory: he doesn't use it for power or anything, the Giant was a Von Neumann machine that was eating enough metal to build a second version of itself which would then do the same and etc.
The bump on the head he got screwed up his programming in that regard.

[LordBaal]

He was actually sent to destroy us. Not only that but he was sent from a planet filled with copies of himself (in a scene deleted from theatrical release). The planet most likely the latest victim of this army of robots, and himself probably being just another copy.

The Von Neumann theorem seems to fit perfectly.

[Sergius]

Well the Von Neumann is a good theory, but we don't even need to go that far, we can just say he's stockpiling the iron in his stomach for "whatever". My problem is that it's being presented like he's hungry and needs the metal for sustenance or something (or maybe he just got the munchies?) because rule of funny, pretty much what scriver said.

The Giant himself is probably not made of iron but some sort of space superalloy. But we can let that one go, it could be just "super-duper steel" which is iron+plentiful additive+unknown process.

[Xantalos]

I'd guess he just has a really good smelter in his stomach that'd be able to smelt any metal he comes across into SUPER SPACE METAL.
Maybe a molecular forge, but then he'd just eat whatever.
I think the bits where he eats metal like he has the munchies is because his programming got fucked up somehow when he got the head bash.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Halo legends movie

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Hunters aren't that huge.. Like seriously in game they get maybe 12 ft tall, in the movie they are like 30-40ft tall. I couldn't watch that again if I wanted to.

[Xantalos]

That can certainly be canonical, actually. They're just giant colonies of worms, so there's no real limit to their size.

[Parsely]

That can certainly be canonical, actually. They're just giant colonies of worms, so there's no real limit to their size.

^^This. Their height is supposed to vary.