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I remember the short-lived theory from that time that Hancock had Whitebeard's symbol on her back and was refusing to fight in the summit war because she was part of his crew.
Do you remember other debunked theories 👀
I don’t specifically remember what people thought was on Hancock’s back, but I do remember people arguing over whether her stone power was a devil fruit or if Oda really was throwing a curveball with the gorgon story.
There was a lot of wild speculation going on in those days. People thought Roger was Robin’s dad, Duval was either Krieg or Gin, that the Straw Hats would fight the other Supernovas on Sabaody, and that “the death of Portgas D Ace” meant that Ace survived getting fire fisted by Akainu and would embrace his Gol heritage.
My absolute favorite bit of fandom history, however, occurred during Impel Down. I used to lurk on the Arlong Park forums back in the day, and on the April Fools Day after Ivankov had been introduced the mods helped create a decently convincing fake spoiler of Luffy being gender bent in order to sneak out of the prison. The debate on whether Luffyko was real or not was legendary. It was a simpler time, and in some ways I miss it.
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You've been cast into a fictional setting, and you don't get to pick your genre. This wheel picks it for you.
#dark fantasy?#I gotta be the comic relief#nothing bad ever happens to the comic relief in dark fantasy!
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Monster Concept
A gigantic Kraken based on an octopus, but it has the intelligence and camouflage powers of the octopus, so it mimics giant structures to hunt prey.
Some of its tricks:
Turning brown with a sandy texture and spreading out to mimic the entire seafloor.
Turning vibrant colors, spiky textures, and making archways and crevasses using its tentacles to mimic an entire coral reef.
Turning bright colors, wooden textures, and pointing three tentacles straight up in the air to mimic an entire sailing ship.
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I still disagree, but I think this has gone about as far as it can. There aren't many more points we could go over within the episode itself. We might just have to agree to disagree here.
I just feel like a lot of your criticisms of Daima, in this episode and others, are based on preconceptions that this is a "Toei Product" first and foremost, and that's just simply not true. The writing and production of Daima feels drastically different than GT or Super for me, and that's due to this being Toriyama's last work. And I say that as someone who loved Super (at least the anime version).
He was fairly involved in Super, but he was EVEN MORE involved with Daima, to the point where Toriyama was personally writing and re-writing episodes and storyboarding scenes. And personally, I feel Toriyama's influence in every episode, the world-building, action, and character beats all feel so authentically Dragon Ball to me that it feels off when I read these criticisms about it.
It feels jarring to me, like we watched different shows. Again, this episode wasn't amazing, but it felt like Dragon Ball to me. It didn't feel like GT, at any point. The surface-level similarities of involving a giant alien guy are there, but the details are completely different. At no point has Daima ever felt like a soulless corporate Toei cashgrab to me, it always feels like Toriyama's last hurrah.
Maybe I'm blinded by sentimentality, but that's what I think.
Dragon Ball Daima 01x13 - Surprise
And we're back. I think episode 12 was probably the halfway point for the series?
And holy shit. This is just gonna be non-stop bitching 'cause this is hands-down the worst episode of Dragon Ball Daima. I genuinely cannot imagine a worse episode than this existing.
This is worse than that time Gomah and Degesu spent half an episode watching Dragon Ball Z and nerding out over how much better of a show it was.
This guy's so fucking screwed. Gomah's never been a credible opponent, and now he's got both Dr. Arinsu and the Dragon Team gunning for him.
Degesu's reaction to shutting down Warp-sama is surprising. He legit acts like this is the most unthinkably vile thing anyone's ever done.
There's a bit of metaphysical whiplash going on here where it's like.
Oh shit! They're gonna, like, attack Warp-sama or kidnap Warp-sama or--
Oh, no. Warp-sama's just a machine. There's a switch in the basement they can use to turn Warp-sama on or off with at any time. It's fine.
BUT turning Warp-sama off is, like, the most heinous thing ever. Like, even for a bunch of fascists in the demon world, THIS is a bridge too far. How DARE.
Neva over here still trying to make krakens seem menacing after we already beat one's ass last episode.
It's fine. He never opens his eyes so he might not have seen that.
Yeah, crashing makes sense. Popping into Makai #2 just to grab the Dragon Ball and then skedaddling did seem a bit too easy. We already visited the former home of the Namekians. This is gonna be the former home of the Glind, then?
Yeah, but we've defeated two Tamagami. I think we'll be fine.
Bulma and Pansy nerding out about tech together is the best part of this episode. I haven't even finished the episode yet as I say this. I just know nothing's gonna top this.
^_^
The mega-hamsters are adorable and I kind of love them. XD But also they're only a threat because Vegeta's the only one actually willing to fight them.
I really hope this is going somewhere because we're halfway through the episode and this detour has, so far, been utterly inconsequential.
A "stranded in bear country" type episode generally serves the purposes of forcing a small number of characters into a tight situation where they'll have to interact with one another, building their dynamic with each other or forging one anew.
But we have the entire cast stranded in bear country and all we're doing is walking around going, "Sure is bear country around here."
Man, they really do think "what if things were very big" is in and of itself, interesting enough to carry an entire episode premise.
Over two minutes of this episode is just watching this kid sit down and have lunch while everyone goes "OH MY GOD IT EATS LUUUUUUUUUNCH!?!?!?!?"
Toei. You do not have a manga to keep pace with. You do not need to insert filler.
Just punch it really hard, Goku.
Thanks, Vegeta. You're the only character not pretending to be threatened by this stupid filler plot, and I appreciate you for that.
Sure, that might as well happen.
I mean, you're using 0.25% of your speed right now, and also you can teleport. But sure.
(sigh) Do I even need to say it?
Goku is choosing to lose this altercation.
At least Vegeta's kicking things up to a Super Saiyan form. He's not faring much better but, like, I can believe he's actually trying to win. That's what's important. It's not about the results, it's about selling the idea that this character is committed to the task that they're doing.
I dunno. Maybe you should just teleport and not be in this situation.
Maybe you should just teleport and not be in this situation.
God, we had a whole episode re-establishing Goku's ability to teleport and everything. This is literally the one and only character in the entire cast who can't be put in predicaments like this.
And now he's free-falling into a bag while screaming for his life.
This character who can both fly and teleport is trapped in free-fall and screaming for his life.
And it all culminates in a desperate last second dive to save Goku from being crushed, because he refuses to teleport out of IDK sportsmanship or whatever.
This is so boring. It's the first episode of Daima I actually had to force myself to finish because it was unwatchably bad. Absolutely nothing happened. We got lost in bear country and then proceeded to be menaced by bears because we forgot how our powers work.
This would fit right in as an episode of Dragon Ball GT. The first arc, were Trunks has to go Super Saiyan to lift some breaks and everyone keeps forgetting how to fly. That's how bad this is.
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That flying scene lasts, like, one second before Goku lands and uses a Kamehameha. He does remember his powers and he does choose to use an alternative to flying there in base form. He just chose to use a Kamehameha instead of going Super Saiyan or using Instant Transmission. I don't really see a problem there.
The one scene I will give you is a little dumb is Goku getting trapped in the kids clothes and then falling into his book bag. But that's only a couple minutes, intercut with other scenes. It's not the whole episode, it's one scene. There is an explanation given why they don't use Super Saiyan earlier, Goku doesn't want them to be bullies since these threats aren't actually malicious.
And there was character development and interesting interactions, we got Bulma and Panzy bonding over tech. That was a major focus of the episode, we hadn't had ANY focus on that dynamic until now and now we have quite a bit, and I think that dynamic is going to be fairly important going forward. That got almost as focus as the action did.
Creating that relationship was the real point of this episode, as far as the overall plot goes. Just like how the real point of Goku vs Glorio was in creating Goku and Glorio's relationship.
I agree that Goku vs Glorio was a better episode, I wouldn't say this episode was amazing. But I thought it was pretty good.
Dragon Ball Daima 01x13 - Surprise
And we're back. I think episode 12 was probably the halfway point for the series?
And holy shit. This is just gonna be non-stop bitching 'cause this is hands-down the worst episode of Dragon Ball Daima. I genuinely cannot imagine a worse episode than this existing.
This is worse than that time Gomah and Degesu spent half an episode watching Dragon Ball Z and nerding out over how much better of a show it was.
This guy's so fucking screwed. Gomah's never been a credible opponent, and now he's got both Dr. Arinsu and the Dragon Team gunning for him.
Degesu's reaction to shutting down Warp-sama is surprising. He legit acts like this is the most unthinkably vile thing anyone's ever done.
There's a bit of metaphysical whiplash going on here where it's like.
Oh shit! They're gonna, like, attack Warp-sama or kidnap Warp-sama or--
Oh, no. Warp-sama's just a machine. There's a switch in the basement they can use to turn Warp-sama on or off with at any time. It's fine.
BUT turning Warp-sama off is, like, the most heinous thing ever. Like, even for a bunch of fascists in the demon world, THIS is a bridge too far. How DARE.
Neva over here still trying to make krakens seem menacing after we already beat one's ass last episode.
It's fine. He never opens his eyes so he might not have seen that.
Yeah, crashing makes sense. Popping into Makai #2 just to grab the Dragon Ball and then skedaddling did seem a bit too easy. We already visited the former home of the Namekians. This is gonna be the former home of the Glind, then?
Yeah, but we've defeated two Tamagami. I think we'll be fine.
Bulma and Pansy nerding out about tech together is the best part of this episode. I haven't even finished the episode yet as I say this. I just know nothing's gonna top this.
^_^
The mega-hamsters are adorable and I kind of love them. XD But also they're only a threat because Vegeta's the only one actually willing to fight them.
I really hope this is going somewhere because we're halfway through the episode and this detour has, so far, been utterly inconsequential.
A "stranded in bear country" type episode generally serves the purposes of forcing a small number of characters into a tight situation where they'll have to interact with one another, building their dynamic with each other or forging one anew.
But we have the entire cast stranded in bear country and all we're doing is walking around going, "Sure is bear country around here."
Man, they really do think "what if things were very big" is in and of itself, interesting enough to carry an entire episode premise.
Over two minutes of this episode is just watching this kid sit down and have lunch while everyone goes "OH MY GOD IT EATS LUUUUUUUUUNCH!?!?!?!?"
Toei. You do not have a manga to keep pace with. You do not need to insert filler.
Just punch it really hard, Goku.
Thanks, Vegeta. You're the only character not pretending to be threatened by this stupid filler plot, and I appreciate you for that.
Sure, that might as well happen.
I mean, you're using 0.25% of your speed right now, and also you can teleport. But sure.
(sigh) Do I even need to say it?
Goku is choosing to lose this altercation.
At least Vegeta's kicking things up to a Super Saiyan form. He's not faring much better but, like, I can believe he's actually trying to win. That's what's important. It's not about the results, it's about selling the idea that this character is committed to the task that they're doing.
I dunno. Maybe you should just teleport and not be in this situation.
Maybe you should just teleport and not be in this situation.
God, we had a whole episode re-establishing Goku's ability to teleport and everything. This is literally the one and only character in the entire cast who can't be put in predicaments like this.
And now he's free-falling into a bag while screaming for his life.
This character who can both fly and teleport is trapped in free-fall and screaming for his life.
And it all culminates in a desperate last second dive to save Goku from being crushed, because he refuses to teleport out of IDK sportsmanship or whatever.
This is so boring. It's the first episode of Daima I actually had to force myself to finish because it was unwatchably bad. Absolutely nothing happened. We got lost in bear country and then proceeded to be menaced by bears because we forgot how our powers work.
This would fit right in as an episode of Dragon Ball GT. The first arc, were Trunks has to go Super Saiyan to lift some breaks and everyone keeps forgetting how to fly. That's how bad this is.
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I liked this episode, it was a fun little episodic bit to distract from the main plot for a while, which we needed after the epic plot-progression of Vegeta vs Tamagami 2 and Duu vs Tamagami 1. The animation was really good, and I loved how it sold the sense of scale. Just the puppy was Oozaru-size, the kid was the size of a mountain.
If your only complaints are "power levels", than I don't really know what to say aside from that there are things that matter more than that.
And even as far as power levels go, the internal logic of this episode was fine.
First off, Vegeta didn't beat the Kraken's ass, he went SS2 and made a blast go off in its mouth and then it left because that hurt a little. It was perfectly fine afterward. Goku said they couldn't beat it as they are, and I believe him.
They weren't trying to "win" these fights, they were just trying to distract/survive a bunch of hamsters, an innocent child, and his curious puppy. Goku said that it would be cruel to go all-out against the hamsters, and that's the reasoning for the whole episode.
And the kid overpowered Super Saiyan 1 Goku. He was legit really strong. Using Super Saiyan 3 to obliterate him would have been evil (and might not have even worked).
There's a reason Shin and Neva freaked out about the Kraken and the Megaths, even knowing how strong Goku and Vegeta are. We are supposed to take these things as legitimate threats.
Dragon Ball Daima 01x13 - Surprise
And we're back. I think episode 12 was probably the halfway point for the series?
And holy shit. This is just gonna be non-stop bitching 'cause this is hands-down the worst episode of Dragon Ball Daima. I genuinely cannot imagine a worse episode than this existing.
This is worse than that time Gomah and Degesu spent half an episode watching Dragon Ball Z and nerding out over how much better of a show it was.
This guy's so fucking screwed. Gomah's never been a credible opponent, and now he's got both Dr. Arinsu and the Dragon Team gunning for him.
Degesu's reaction to shutting down Warp-sama is surprising. He legit acts like this is the most unthinkably vile thing anyone's ever done.
There's a bit of metaphysical whiplash going on here where it's like.
Oh shit! They're gonna, like, attack Warp-sama or kidnap Warp-sama or--
Oh, no. Warp-sama's just a machine. There's a switch in the basement they can use to turn Warp-sama on or off with at any time. It's fine.
BUT turning Warp-sama off is, like, the most heinous thing ever. Like, even for a bunch of fascists in the demon world, THIS is a bridge too far. How DARE.
Neva over here still trying to make krakens seem menacing after we already beat one's ass last episode.
It's fine. He never opens his eyes so he might not have seen that.
Yeah, crashing makes sense. Popping into Makai #2 just to grab the Dragon Ball and then skedaddling did seem a bit too easy. We already visited the former home of the Namekians. This is gonna be the former home of the Glind, then?
Yeah, but we've defeated two Tamagami. I think we'll be fine.
Bulma and Pansy nerding out about tech together is the best part of this episode. I haven't even finished the episode yet as I say this. I just know nothing's gonna top this.
^_^
The mega-hamsters are adorable and I kind of love them. XD But also they're only a threat because Vegeta's the only one actually willing to fight them.
I really hope this is going somewhere because we're halfway through the episode and this detour has, so far, been utterly inconsequential.
A "stranded in bear country" type episode generally serves the purposes of forcing a small number of characters into a tight situation where they'll have to interact with one another, building their dynamic with each other or forging one anew.
But we have the entire cast stranded in bear country and all we're doing is walking around going, "Sure is bear country around here."
Man, they really do think "what if things were very big" is in and of itself, interesting enough to carry an entire episode premise.
Over two minutes of this episode is just watching this kid sit down and have lunch while everyone goes "OH MY GOD IT EATS LUUUUUUUUUNCH!?!?!?!?"
Toei. You do not have a manga to keep pace with. You do not need to insert filler.
Just punch it really hard, Goku.
Thanks, Vegeta. You're the only character not pretending to be threatened by this stupid filler plot, and I appreciate you for that.
Sure, that might as well happen.
I mean, you're using 0.25% of your speed right now, and also you can teleport. But sure.
(sigh) Do I even need to say it?
Goku is choosing to lose this altercation.
At least Vegeta's kicking things up to a Super Saiyan form. He's not faring much better but, like, I can believe he's actually trying to win. That's what's important. It's not about the results, it's about selling the idea that this character is committed to the task that they're doing.
I dunno. Maybe you should just teleport and not be in this situation.
Maybe you should just teleport and not be in this situation.
God, we had a whole episode re-establishing Goku's ability to teleport and everything. This is literally the one and only character in the entire cast who can't be put in predicaments like this.
And now he's free-falling into a bag while screaming for his life.
This character who can both fly and teleport is trapped in free-fall and screaming for his life.
And it all culminates in a desperate last second dive to save Goku from being crushed, because he refuses to teleport out of IDK sportsmanship or whatever.
This is so boring. It's the first episode of Daima I actually had to force myself to finish because it was unwatchably bad. Absolutely nothing happened. We got lost in bear country and then proceeded to be menaced by bears because we forgot how our powers work.
This would fit right in as an episode of Dragon Ball GT. The first arc, were Trunks has to go Super Saiyan to lift some breaks and everyone keeps forgetting how to fly. That's how bad this is.
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By the way, in case you were wary, this is not AI Generated. I found an article interviewing Calvin Seibert from 2015.
"Artist Calvin Seibert, influenced by brutalist architecture in Colorado in the 1960s, creates modernist sandcastles"
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This amazing art got me thinking about Luffy and Momo's first meeting in Punk Hazard, and I went back to read it.
Man, it's SUCH a good scene in hindsight. It didn't leave much impact when it first happened, but NOW? With all the context Wano added? My god.
Momo is talking about Kaido here. He's referring to Kaido holding him in the air above Oden castle. An enormous man, wide of girth, more ferocious and menacing. That's Kaido.
And he hasn't eaten in 10 days. That timeframe will turn out to be important, factoring into how long Kanjuro was in Dressrosa for, how long Raizo was in Zou for, and how long Kiku was undercover in Wano for.
In the moment, it's easy to dismiss the "no one understands my inner turmoil" line as just him being an edgy brat. But now we know.
This kid's father humiliated himself publicly for 5 years, then fought a dragon to save his country, and then was executed. Then Momo's home was set ablaze and Kaido held him in the air above an inferno while he cried. Then his mother told him to be strong and sent him 20 years into the future. Then he was separated from his guardians and saw Doflamingo torture and kill a man. And now he's here.
Momo's not fucking kidding, this kid's been through a lot, and he has to keep it all secret because he's undercover.
Momo's pride as a Wano royal saved him from being drugged here, and his insistence on sticking to the plan of going incognito saved him from being discovered.
We know Doflamingo was looking for Momo, and with Kanjuro being a spy and a good artist, Doflamingo knew exactly what Momo looked like. That would have eventually gotten around to Caesar if Momonosuke didn't hide his name and escape here.
Momo ate Vegapunk's experimental replica of Kaido's Azure Dragon Devil Fruit, obtained through Kaido's bloodline elements back when Kaido was a prisoner on this very island years ago. Kaido's escape is also when he met Alber, who was also a prisoner on this very island. And Alber's time here is how Vegapunk had his blood to create the Seraphim.
Also, this is the EXACT same situation where Luffy and Yamato ate their Devil Fruits. They didn't even know it would give them powers, they were just hungry and wanted something to eat (granted, Luffy wasn't starving like Momo and Yamato were, but still).
And he's not lying, he does have business.
Yeah... about that. I'm sure Momo would LOVE to see his mom and dad again. But they both died 20 years ago. It's nice you want to be friends, though, Momo needs them.
Momo transforms for the first time, hears the word "dragon", and bolts. Poor boy is very confused.
The fruit was dismissed as a failure just because it made the user pink, no other reason. But Momo has problems controlling it because of his youth, trauma regarding dragons, and fear of heights.
And that dragon trauma is also why he freaks out when seeing himself in the mirror.
Luffy says he's not a Zoan type here, which is funny because of what we learn later with Gear 5.
It's easy to forget, but here is the first time we learn this information, that the kids are doomed to die early deaths because of Caesar's experiments. Prior to this, we only thought they were growing larger and addicted to drugs.
Chopper figured this out, but while his conversation revealing this to Mocha takes place chronologically before this scene, it's only shown to the audience in a flashback 3 chapters after this one.
And that's why Luffy is SO FUCKING PISSED here. He's got reasons to hate Caesar already, but knowing that he's killing the kids raises his anger levels even higher.
Also, him saying "get a grip" triggers Momo's other trauma.
This is what Doflamingo said when Momo saw him torturing and killing a man, and that traumatized Momo. Momo's flight instinct activates here, as he runs away from the trauma by unconsciously "flying" the way Kaido does, by creating Flame Clouds and climbing on them. That becomes a major plot point later in Wano when Kaido and Momo use them to transport Onigashima.
This is 3 chapters later, the same chapter with the flashback of Chopper telling Mocha about Caesar killing the kids. To remind the audience of why Luffy is so furious here.
And yeah, Luffy walking out with an exhausted, starving, and traumatized child in dragon form wrapped around his neck like a scarf, literally carrying Momo's weight in a reassuring pseudo-hug while also symbolically carrying his will to save the kids, is a great underrated dramatic entrance for Luffy.
Especially with hindsight knowing that Luffy will continue to carry Momonosuke's will and that Luffy will eventually see Momo as an honorary little brother and Straw Hat crewmember.
My weirdly controversial take regarding One Piece is that Fishman Island and Punk Hazard are both great arcs, actually. People just needed to let Oda cook with the things he was setting up and trust that he had a long-term plan.
Heck, there are some things in both of these arcs that STILL have yet to pay off, like Joy Boy's promise to Poseidon, the Noah's purpose, why Luffy is prophesized to destroy Fishman Island, who first started the gigantification experiments hundreds of years ago, and why the Celestial Dragons want real dragons so desperately (to the point of creating artificial dragons and an artificial Azure Dragon Devil Fruit).
Luffy and Momosuke.
How it started and how it ended up. I wanted to draw adult Momo and Gear 5 Luffy in a similar pose to the one where Luffy carry Momo out from the trash shoot and made two art pieces that mirror each other.
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By the way, going back to this:
You don’t think I know that, God of Death? Can I pray to you so I can DIE ALREADY
Hades is the god of the dead, not the god of death. He rules over the underworld. The God of Killing You is Thanatos.
this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*
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This is one of my favorite things about Jurassic Park. But it's also one of the most maddening things, to me. Like, I fully get that the dinosaurs being inaccurate (especially in the Jurassic World movies) is a major theme of the franchise, but it still bugs me that there isn't a hugely mainstream work of fiction out there that focuses on biologically accurate dinosaurs.
And again, I say this as someone who does like Jurassic Park. That movie (and The Land Before Time) is what got me into having Dinosaurs as a Special Interest as a kid. It's not really anymore, but I still love to hear about dinosaurs when news comes out.
But I do love it when I run into dinosaur media that focuses on accuracy first.
One fantastic example of that is a manga I'm reading right now called Dinosaur Sanctuary. The premise is basically "what if Jurassic Park wasn't a disaster?". It focuses on a dinosaur zoo, but through the lens of the dinosaurs being biologically accurate animals, with accurate animal behaviors and problems. It's a cute slice-of-life manga focusing on a young woman just starting out as a zookeeper and everything she has to learn about her new job.
The author works closely with a real paleontologist to make the dinosaurs as accurate as possible, and the paleontologist writes a whole page after each chapter explaining the appearance and behavior of the dinosaurs showcased in that chapter. If you like Jurassic Park but want to see a more optimistic and educational take on the same concept, I HIGHLY recommend Dinosaur Sanctuary, it's REALLY good. Also, the author's spouse is on Tumblr shilling the manga (I've reblogged from them a couple times), so if you like it, tell them.
My favorite detail about Jurassic Park is that it has a baked-in justification for any and all retcons it might need to make due to paleontology advancing forwards.
Because there is not a single dinosaur that has ever appeared in Jurassic Park.
Not one. Not in the books. Not in the movies. Not ever.
"Now what John Hammond and InGen did at Jurassic Park was to create genetically engineered theme park monsters." ~Alan Grant
Grant says that in a moment of cynicism. It's part of his arc for the film. But it's not inaccurate. What Jurassic Park has, what it's always had since the very first novel, are "Mostly Dinosaurs".
"And since the DNA is so old, it's full of holes! Now, that's where our geneticists take over!" ~Mr. DNA
It's impossible to recover a fully intact gene sequence from an ancient amber mosquito. Cloning a pure dinosaur would have been completely impossible, and so the park filled in the gene sequence with whatever works. Frog. Lizard. Bird. Whatever they need to get the result they are trying to get.
Every single dinosaur is a chimeric beast made up of mostly dinosaur and a bunch of other stuff that some scientists thought would achieve the appropriate dinosaur-like result.
"Nothing in Jurassic World is natural! We have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different." ~Dr. Henry Wu
Which, from a writing perspective, is fucking genius. Because now you have a preset excuse for each and every plot hole your movie has.
Like. Why don't the raptors have feathers? Because of the chimera DNA.
Why do dilophosaurs spit venom? Because of the chimera DNA.
Why do T-Rexes have movement based vision? Oh, they don't. But Rexy does. Because of her chimera DNA.
Why is the Spinosaurus so fucking big? Because of the chimera DNA.
Why are the velociraptors mislabeled? Because Hammond's a dipshit.
Like. I've always marveled at the way Jurassic Park started out by giving itself a blanket excuse to be wrong about every single thing it ever said about the central attraction of its franchise. It's honestly beautiful, and allows the series a degree of immortality well into the era where we know better about its animals.
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This is a tournament of who is the best female villain.
BIG MOM IS MY FAVORITE VILLAIN IN ONE PIECE, VOTE HER!
Bracket B
Round 1a
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Not quite that in-your-face, but Eiichiro Oda did retcon the tail design of Page One after it was discovered that Spinosaurus had a finned tail:
shoutout to the part of the lost world (the book) where a guy tries to hold still so the t rex won't see him, just like in the last book, and it doesn't work, and the t rex gives him a confused look and then gorily eats him and a little while later ian malcolm michael crichton the author turns directly to you, the reader, and says 'LMAO, T REX DIDN'T HAVE VISUAL SYSTEMS THAT COULDN'T SEE MOVEMENT. LET ME EXPLAIN IN GREAT DETAIL HOW THAT WOULD BE COMPLETELY STUPID. I'M MICHAEL CRICHTON, AUTHOR OF JURASSIC PARK, THE BOOK WHERE THE T REX CAN'T SEE YOU IF YOU DON'T MOVE. HAVE A NICE DAY'
Most audacious retcon I've ever seen.
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