2023-09-17 16:14:57 ¶ ●

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Not directly relevant to your line of research, but I found out today that Scott Summers wearing a visor or shades to control his laservision has precedent in a Grimms fairytale called the Six Servants. Among the six is "a man who wears a blindfold in front of his eyes because his glance is so powerful that it makes everything he sees split to pieces". Known as Bullet-Eye, or Kogeloog

this ask got me really excited about the possibility that all of the X-Men were actually an adaptation of a Grimm fairy tale, and then sad that none of the others even remotely mapped…

I don’t have much to add other than that it’s interesting to look at the different allegorical ways people used to have to describe what we think of as “laser eyes”; along the same lines as Medusa turning her prey to stone out of the sheer ugliness of her visage. Homestuck’s dragons are kind of a fun modern retooling of this, causing explosions and flame with a mere glare in place of the more traditional fiery breath.