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Boom tube
File:Boomtube.jpg
A Boom tube as seen in Superman: The Animated Series.
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
Created byJack Kirby
In story information
TypeTechnology
Element of stories featuring
New Gods

A boom tube, in DC Comics, is a slang expression for a fictional extra-dimensional point-to-point Einstein–Rosen bridge opened by a Mother Box used primarily by residents of New Genesis and Apokolips. The concept was created by Jack Kirby for his Fourth World series of comics.

Overview[edit]

The "science" of boom tubes has never been explained (as is normal for the New Gods, though Orion, in the first issue of New Gods, says that a tube "stems from the waves of the mind") but they allow people to quickly travel interstellar distances, and between dimensions, by creating an apparent tube between two points through which people can travel. When used, a low humming accompanies the formation of the "tube" (a tunnel of rippling circles of light) which increases in volume as the tube is maintained and traversed, ultimately culminating in a loud "booming" noise when it closes. This "boom" has been known to knock bystanders off their feet and shatter glass, and gives the technology its name. The tubes are generated or opened by another device, a Mother Box. Boom tubes are powered by the mysterious X-element, which serves as a matter threshold.[1]

The initial Kirby comics depict boom tubes as a sort of quasi-technological equivalent of Bifröst, the Rainbow Bridge linking Asgard and Earth; indeed, boom tubes are described as a "bridge to Earth". Subsequent writers have allowed the tubes to be used for point-to-point transport between various locations on New Genesis, Apokolips, Earth, and other planets, thereby making them near-ubiquitous for the travel of the New Gods.

Later additions to the concept[edit]

  • The "tubes only" idea was reinforced when later writers introduced the idea that the New Gods were, in fact, giants, and that the boom tube would appropriately shrink or enlarge people who traveled through it. The precise size ratio has varied, with New Gods in their "original" size being depicted as anywhere from tens of feet tall, to tens of thousands of miles tall (as in New Gods #10, 1996).
  • In the Legends miniseries they are also referred to as "star gates".

Hush tube[edit]

In Brad Meltzer's Justice League of America #1, a villain named Doctor Impossible uses a "father box" to summon "hush tubes".

Other media[edit]

Television[edit]

Film[edit]

Video games[edit]

Boom tubes appear briefly in the video game Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe as one of many transportation methods used. In the first scene of the DC Universe side of the story, Darkseid attempts to escape defeat in Metropolis via a boom tube. However, Superman blasts him with a heat ray as he enters the boom tube, coinciding with Raiden of the Mortal Kombat multiverse blasting Shao Kahn with a lightning blast as he enters a portal in another plane. The cosmic coincidence of Darkseid and Shao Kahn using similar portal-like apertures simultaneously combined with the also simultaneous energy discharge from the respective protagonists' attacks results in the being Dark Kahn, the main antagonist of the game.

Boom tubes appear in Lego DC Super-Villains. They appear in the hubs when player selects a playable character from the roster.

References[edit]

  1. Walsh, Sean (Aug 12, 2003). "New Gods: Tech and Terms". New Gods Library. Retrieved 2010-09-17.

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