I'm curious how many folks didn't get the pun in Adam Smasher's name until reading this post because we typically don't call particle accelerators "atom smashers" anymore.

Being real i didnt think it was a pun i just thought he was called that because it was The 80s

The two coincide more often than you might think – a lot of obnoxiously edgy 1980s villain names are also goofy wordplay.

At first I thought "who doesn't know particle accelerators are sometimes called 'atom smashers'" and then I realized 1) that most people are only broadly aware of the existence of particle accelerators and that's the nerdiest thought I've ever had, and 2) even I primarily know particle accelerators are sometimes called atom smashers because of the DC Comics superhero of the same name, who fucking no one else knows

In my experience, your average layperson is possibly aware of individual particle accelerators from having seen them name-checked in news article headlines, but doesn't know the term "particle accelerator", and isn't aware that, for example, the Large Hadron Collider is part of a specific class of devices and not just a weird one-of-a-kind contraption. Heck, they probably couldn't even tell you whether the "large" in LHC refers to the hadrons, or to the collider.

Well now I need to google if the L in LHC refers to the H or the C

Okay, it's called the Large Hadron Collider cause the Collider is Large (27km circumference)

Some quick research suggests that hadrons are generally pretty small