>>102780463So here's the thing. You know and I know that back in the 1970s we'd be seeing Black Bolt doing cool shit like matter reconstruction which is independent of his voice, which he should theoretically be able to use at this point, probably.
But it's been a long, long time since he's used those powers, even in other situations where he should have. So this poses any modern writer a problem with no good solution: If they start making use of it now, it raises the question of why the character didn't use that ability any of the last thirty times that it would have been useful. At a certain point you have to just admit that it's become effectively non-canon with the passage of time or else you're opening an even more problemical can of worms.
Did you know that Nightcrawler can become invisible in low-light conditions? No? That's because he hasn't done so since like 1980 or so. If he started doing so now, it would be this big "what the fuck are you talking about?" moment. Same thing here.
It sucks, but what can you do.
