When organic chemistry meets Hollywood! The meme cleverly plays on chirality—molecules that are mirror images of each other but not superimposable, just like these two images. The "L" and "D" prefixes are actual nomenclature used to designate left-handed and right-handed enantiomers (from Latin "laevus" and "dexter"). Chemists spend countless hours separating these nearly identical compounds because they can have wildly different biological effects. One might cure your headache while its mirror twin does absolutely nothing... kind of like some movie sequels.
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