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<div>*[[Beret Guy]] is a very strange person. Sometimes he takes these strange tendencies into the supernatural. <br />
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==Explanation==<br />
In the early comics he was more just a strange and naive guy. There is an early start to the strangeness, but that power could also be attributed to [[Cueball]] (at least it is a shared power) in [[248]]. <br />
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After comic [[1099]], Beret Guy begins to appear frequently with these strange powers, typically not related to each other, except that he has some issues with electrical sockets and power cords as seen in [[1293]] and [[1395]]. (See also [[509: Induced Current]] and the title text of [[614: Woodpecker]], regarding power cords, but not these strange powers.)<br />
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Here is a list of the comics where Beret Guy displays strange powers that are beyond the realm of possibility.<br />
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===List of abilities===<br />
#[[248]]: Manages to create a hypothetical situation (trapping him and his friend).<br />
#[[452]]: Able to eat lug nuts with no apparent damage to himself.<br />
#[[1088]]: Capable of waiting in the same place for five years, presumably without sustenance<br />
#[[1099]]: He has infinite wings.<br />
#[[1135]]: Makes spiders weave him a shirt.<br />
#[[1158]]: Creates rope to pull & release ball via his imagination.<br />
#[[1293]]: Pours soup from power socket.<br />
#[[1388]]: Subducts through the floor to form mountains in his room.<br />
#[[1395]]: Inflates a laptop through a power cord so that it floats like a helium balloon.<br />
#[[1422]]: Makes a phone with an old battery behave like a dying star.<br />
#[[1486]]: Uses the vacuum energy to fly and "gain unlimited power" with a vacuum cleaner.<br />
#[[1490]]: Sees the individual atoms, and can distinguish the different elements. But he cannot see what they are actually a part of, like a human or a dog.<br />
#[[1522]]: Can examine life on exoplanets around distant stars through a magnifying glass just by standing on a ladder.<br />
#[[1614]]: A little less clear what his powers are in this. But first he is walking a flying/floating dog, and then he returns flying on (or as) a kite, while the dog holds on to the line of the kite.<br />
#[[1617]]: Living by eating newspaper and without breathing oxygen for several years in a sealed and buried box.<br />
#[[1922]]: Riding in the air above two small dogs combined into a larger dog through interferometry<br />
#[[2164]]: Using a hair dryer that does not look to be battery-powered or plugged into anything.<br />
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[[Category:Comics by topic]]</div>NoselessDIOhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2164:_Glacier&diff=1812192164: Glacier2019-10-14T02:20:07Z<p>NoselessDIO: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2164<br />
| date = June 17, 2019<br />
| title = Glacier<br />
| image = glacier.png<br />
| titletext = The Norwegian adaptation of The Sword in the Stone takes things in a weird direction.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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A {{w|glacier}} is a wall of dense ice. Though glaciers tend to appear still, they are actually slowly moving, typically by around 10 inches (25 cm)/day. <!--note that the wikipedia article claims/claimed 1m/day, but its source claims the here mentioned 10in/25cm.--><br />
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[[Beret Guy]] and another person wearing a knit cap (possibly the same person as in [[1350: Lorenz]]) are facing the forward edge of a glacier. The person wearing a knit cap remarks that glaciers are amazing, mentioning the fact that though we can't see it, the ice is slowly advancing. After considering this, Beret Guy leaves, then returns with two {{w|sabre (fencing)|sabres}} and a hairdryer. He uses the hairdryer to melt a part of the glacier, which he then attaches a sabre to. This use of the hair dryer may be another example of [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|Beret Guy's strange powers]], since the dryer does not appear to be plugged into anything. After he attaches the sabre to the glacier, he then takes a defensive position. {{w|Glossary of fencing|"Advancing"}} is a basic forward movement in fencing, and Beret Guy appears to feel it is unfair for the glacier not to have a weapon.<br />
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The title text refers to {{w|Excalibur|The Sword in the Stone}}, a famous sword in the legends of King Arthur, and {{w|Norway}}, a country known for its glaciers. In the original legend, the sword is set into solid rock, and enchanted so that only the true King could draw it out. The legend has been alluded to in a [[1521|previous comic]]. The title text might be making any of several implications about a Norwegian adaptation, including:<br />
* The sword would be set into ice, a much less reliable and more easily-bypassed substance than stone.<br />
* The sword would be set in the stone (or ice) hilt-first, meaning the true King would need to pull it out by the blade.<br />
* The true King would not remove the sword, but rather would embed it into the stone (or ice) as Beret Guy has done here.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:[A person wearing a knit cap and Beret Guy are standing to the left of a glacier.]<br />
:Knit cap person: Glaciers are so neat. You can't see it, but this ice is slowly advancing.<br />
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:[Zoom in on Beret Guy, who has his hand to his mouth, thinking.]<br />
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:[Zoomed in, Beret Guy exits to the left of the panel.]<br />
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:[Beret Guy enters the panel from the left, carrying two fencing sabres.]<br />
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:[Beret Guy uses a blow dryer to attach one of the sabres to the glacier.]<br />
:''Whirrrr''<br />
:[Beret Guy is holding the blow dryer and looks at the sabre that is attached to the glacier.]<br />
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:[Beret Guy stands in a defensive position with sabre in hand, ready to defend against the "advancing" glacier.]<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
The author of ''The Sword in the Stone'', T. H. White, was mentioned two comics ago in [[2162: Literary Opinions]].<br />
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