The Liquid Robots were transported back to Avengers headquarters. After a group of intellectually gifted superheroes, including Tony Stark, Reed Richards, and T'Challa, dissected and studied them, they reached a startling conclusion.
"Technologically speaking, these Liquid Robots aren't all that sophisticated."
"But they definitely aren't products of our universe."
"To put it even more firmly, they shouldn't even be able to exist under our universe's physical constants!"
It wasn't simply a matter of their coming from another universe.
These Liquid Robots seemed as though they shouldn't exist in this world at all, as if they had crossed over from some entirely fictional world.
"Don't any of you watch old movies?"
Having earned his way into Avengers Tower by helping capture the robots, the young Peter Parker slapped his forehead. He hadn't dared interrupt before, and only offered his opinion once the researchers were left bewildered by this challenge to their understanding of reality.
"Aren't these the Ultimate Nullifiers from the Ultimate Nullifier Series movies?"
They really hadn't seen them.
Born into wealth and a playboy from childhood, Tony Stark had never needed to ask girls out to the movies. They would climb into his bed all on their own.
Reed Richards had watched two fairly popular science fiction movies as a child, but he had advanced through his studies too quickly. The first had been fine, when he was still young and ignorant.
Only two years had passed before he watched the second, but by then, he found that the screenwriters' idiotic brains couldn't even begin to understand how real science worked. The basic logic of those science fiction movies was so riddled with holes that watching them made him want to throw up.
After that, Reed never set foot in a movie theater again, devoting himself entirely to his