Penny Arcade is dead wrong. I asked a real live scientist (my friend Teresa) who has a Doctorate in Scientology and she said:

I can’t think of anything that I involved with plasmids (the normal in-the-lab kind that I use) that involves fire or blowing things up

There are a lot of things in lab that you could use to start a fire or
blow things up and I can guarantee you that plasmids are not one of
them.

Penny Arcade Guys: get your facts straight, OK? God.

But this does make us wonder: maybe they’re using not the “in-the-lab” kind but the kind that kills people. Possible?