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TANGENT: One of the details I LOVE about Mr. Byrne's work is shown on that page. The paint can has a little dribble on it; it falls into Sue's force field and paint; and then it's messier.
It's a teensy weensy detail - but it's so important and so realistic, and anybody who's ever painted would get it immediately.
ITEM:: I believe Mr. Byrne established that Reed's body is actually susceptible to great pressure, in the story where the FF was sojourning into Ego's planetary body. So he's not resistant to pressure, and he'd probably had some issues when battling Namor in Atlantis.
DISCUSSION: In comics, I don't think that any super power is entirely impractical with the right character, in the right situation (not a challenge.) At times, "useless" has been ascribed to Mr. Fantastic, Angel, the Atom, Aquaman, Daredevil, Black Widow*, Batman, Hawkeye, Green Arrow, etc. And so many of them have had their books become massive fan favorites.
It's when we apply TOO strict an analysis of the powers that we run into problems, e.g., "How does the Atom breathe when he's smaller than oxygen molecules? How does Storm use her powers indoors when she'd blow everything around, including the X-Men? How does Namor have electrical powers?" If we look at it too closely, we start applying real world physics to it - and then we find that Action Comics #1 is wrong, and that Superman couldn't lift a car; its own weight would collapse it. And after that, it all falls apart. And stops being fiction.
*One of Natasha's abilities that is no longer used is her ability to walk on walls. I rather miss that... I thought it would enhance the hell out of her espionage skills.
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