Marvel Comics • Pym Particles (Subatomic Quantum Shunting)
Ant-Man & Giant-Man (Hank Pym / Scott Lang)
Square-Cube Law Solution: In real physics, growing 100x scales mass by $10^6$ while bone strength only scales by $10^4$, crushing your skeleton. Pym Particles compress gravity and increase structural molecular density proportionally.
Mass Shunting Physics: Pym Particles alter distance between subatomic particles while shunting surplus mass into or drawing extra mass from the Kosmos Dimension. When shrinking, Ant-Man retains full human kinetic momentum (70 kg force concentrated onto the tip of a needle: $P = rac{F}{A}$).
Peak Feat: Hank Pym entered Overspace (the realm above all abstract concepts) by growing infinitely large, encountering Eternity face-to-face in Mighty Avengers #30.
DC Comics • White Dwarf Star Lens & Density Compression
The Atom (Dr. Ray Palmer)
Square-Cube Law Solution: Compresses atomic mass into degenerate electron matter states, allowing infinite density without increasing physical volume.
Mass Shunting Physics: Ray Palmer discovered a lens crafted from the matter of a collapsed White Dwarf Star. Unlike Ant-Man who mostly stays insect-sized, The Atom can continuously modulate his mass from 0 grams (gliding on air currents) to billions of tons (super-dense point mass capable of punching through diamond).
Peak Feat: Shrank inside Superman’s bloodstream to neutralize a microscopic Kryptonite bullet inside Clark’s brain in Action Comics.
DC Comics • Extradimensional Cellular Biomass Multiplication
Giganta (Dr. Doris Zuel)
Square-Cube Law Solution: Mass increases exponentially; if rendered unconscious while giant, the collapse of her multi-ton body causes localized seismic tremors.
Mass Shunting Physics: Scales her physical body up to hundreds of feet tall. Unlike tech users, her transformation is biological and psionic, generating hundreds of tons of bone and muscle density capable of swatting fighter jets out of the sky.
Peak Feat: Wrestled Wonder Woman through downtown Washington D.C., shattering skyscraper steel girders like toothpicks in Wonder Woman Vol. 2.