#Dr Genus

[amenoromen]

[badjohnspeakeasy]

Being a Mad Scientist sure is lonely.

I think it's thematically appropriate that Mosquito Girl survived, and that Genus repaired her. Mad Scientists in OPM are lonely, dependent people.

Kuseno has Genos.

Fukegao had his brother, Marugori/Beefcake.

Genus surrounded himself in clones, now he surrounds himself in his remodeled, reformed experiments.

Psykos started out with Fubuki and her stuffed cycloptic bear, then she leveled up to Orochi, a horde of monsters, and her little flying eye critters that she used to spy on people.

And WIIIIIILD Emperor (that name is such a sad but hilarious overcorrection) has his Underdog Men, and now that he's of the opinion that he can't trust anybody now (even his homie Zombieman), he's more isolated and insecure than ever.

I hope Isamu manages to let some positive influences in his life, or he'll end up like Metal Knight, the loneliest and most paranoid guy of all.

After losing Isamu as his assistant, all Bofoi has is his robot army, his action movie figurines, and a dark laboratory from which he broods and watches the outside world.

[gofancyninjaworld]

'I Don't Want To Cure Cancer' OPM Edition

With apologies to Spiderman.

Let's go round and interview a few scientists in OPM, shall we?

Us: Dr. Bofoi, we can't help but notice the extraordinary speed with which you cleared City A and erected a new headquarters, all at a small fraction of the cost that would have been expected. Beyond that, we notice that your capacity to build at scale is unparalleled. With so many people losing their homes to monster attacks and other disasters, why don't you take the next step and cure homelessness?

Dr. Bofoi: I don't want to cure homelessness. I want to bill the Hero Association for every Yen I can get. I assure you, it's going to a far more important cause. Actually, more importantly, how did you get in here?

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Us: Dr. Kuseno, your endeavours in supporting the hero Demon Cyborg are truly extraordinary. Once people thought the dream of near-infinite clean energy from nuclear power to be a pipe dream, yet you appear to have solved this problem in an incredibly compact and robust way. Why don't you use your technology to cure energy shortage and usher in a new industrial revolution?

Dr Kuseno: Lol, I fear you may have mistaken me for someone with lofty ideals. I don't aspire to anything as grand as a new industrial revolution. I don't mind doing the odd good deed, but my aims are far more simple: I want to develop a killer cyborg through whom I can pour out the fullness of my burning rage against my enemies.

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Us: Dr. Genus, you have not only understood the rules of life far better than any person but have rewritten them entirely. With your army of you, there are few fields that you do not have a purview of. Perhaps the most amazing thing you could do would be to harness your ability to clone flesh indefinitely to cure world hunger and stop the depredation of the natural world to feed humanity. How about it?

Dr. Genus: Starving is about all the unimproved mass of humanity deserves. I have no interest in curing world hunger. I just want somebody intelligent enough to talk to. Pause Which you most certainly aren't.

[theomnicode]

OPM and Mob psycho parallels

I can't help but see parallels with current Psykos situation and Mogami's situation in Mob psycho. Both locked inside white rooms like dangerous mental hospital patients. Mogami was possessed by an evil spirit and OPM God spoke through Psykos and made her insane.

Once the father tells everyone there is a reward, the situation turns from helping Mogami to helping her just to get the reward for selfish purpose, not unlike Psykos was sold to the highest bidder for HA's selfish needs of acquiring money.

Then think about how Saitama plays rock paper scissors in his dreams. This was added in the anime version.

He also plays rock paper scissors in the OVA with Bang but keeps on losing.

Now I'm thinking Bang was probably "cheating" and reading his body movement, like Garou can read body movement, while Sai was trying to play fair. Bang wouldn't even need to try it on purpose, he could just beat Sai on that aspect instinctually because he has trained that for almost as long as he has lived.

Reigen in Mob psycho wins by conning everyone with a psychological trick instead. That or he too, actually read everyone's body movement intuitively, but that would be impossible with so many people around. So psychological warfare it is.

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Can't forget that Saitama and Genos also make a cameo in this scene. Probably on purpose.

Come to think: why is Genos hair blonde by choice?

That would be a ridiculously uncommon hair in japan, so I'm here thinking he can't have been a natural blonde. Just like how his eyes don't have naturally black schlera and yellow eyes def ain't normal.

His hair colour comes off as bleached, if anything.

So if he bleached his hair while he was a teen and then became a cyborg and wanted to keep his hair blonde bleached and eyebrows too and changes his schlera to black and irises to yellow...

He would look very different from his 15-year old self.

Very much like Dr. Genus in fact.

It just so happens...that Genus has blue eyes, which is a recessive gene trait... and brown eyes is the dominant one. Just like in the cameo.

The Single Gene Trait There is one genetic variation, a human trait that has a single gene governing it, and that is eye color which is blue or brown. Brown eyes are dominant and blue eyes recessive.

*shifty eyes*

Almost like Genos has all these new looks to hide him from prying eyes.

And I bet it has something to do with Tsukuyomi and espers and them looking for espers as samples. For artificial espers and probably for some kind of gene pool too.

Might not be coincidental how Genos wanted psychic powers in OVA from Kuseno...

Be careful what you wish for.

[scientist-of-love]

one punch man doodles (lyrics with genus are from do the evolution by pearl jam)

[gottahaveguts]

For anyone confused about Mosquito girl, apparently it's been hinted for a long time.

TIL that there's a subtle hint in episode 3 that Mosquito Girl could be alive. : OnePunchMan (reddit.com)

[opmshitposts]

[thoughtlessarse]

Chimpanzees and bonobos are often thought to reflect two different sides of human nature—the conflict-ready chimpanzee versus the peaceful bonobo—but a new study published in Current Biology shows that, within their own communities, male bonobos are more frequently aggressive than male chimpanzees. For both species, more aggressive males had more mating opportunities. "Chimpanzees and bonobos use aggression in different ways for specific reasons," says anthropologist and lead author Maud Mouginot of Boston University. "The idea is not to invalidate the image of bonobos being peaceful—the idea is that there is a lot more complexity in both species." Though previous studies have investigated aggression in bonobos and chimpanzees, this is the first study to directly compare the species' behavior using the same field methods. The researchers focused on male aggression, which is often tied to reproduction, but they note that female bonobos and chimpanzees are not passive, and their aggression warrants its own future research. To compare bonobo and chimpanzee aggression, the team scrutinized rates of male aggression in three bonobo communities at the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve (Democratic Republic of Congo) and two chimpanzee communities at Gombe National Park (Tanzania).

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[scumerage]

Genos is not Saitama’s Friend:

Genos is many things to Saitama: his disciple, his coworker, his roomate, his biggest fan, etc. No one... no one... spends more time with Saitama than Genos. There is no one Saitama knows better than Genos. But Genos is not and has never been Saitama's friend, for one simple reason:

Genos fundamentally does not understand Saitama.

Genos knows Saitama is stronger than anyone else he's ever met (true), believes that Saitama is by definition the strongest being in existence (no longer true), and praises him as the highest moral standard and wisest master in history (not true). In essence, he worships Saitama. In other words, he projects his own ideals onto Saitama, rather than actually trying to understand him with an open mind. Had it been Blast who saved Genos from Mosquito Girl, Genos would have viewed him in exactly the same way.

Saitama's core struggle is his search for a "real fight" to satisfy his lack of purpose and boredom. Despite the fact he has had many, many "real fights" over his years of training, but did those satisfy him? Of course not, Saitama never wanted "one real fight" but an infinite supply of "real fights" to satiate his thirst for physical struggle and challange. Making his goal impossible from the moment he started. Becoming the strongest hero was the easy part.... because it was actually possible.

Genos does not, cannot, and will not understand this. Because he can't look past his own narrow mindset and see Saitama for who he is, and what his goals in life are. Saitama has literally told Genos multiple times about his boredom, yet Genos' idealized fantasy view of Saitama never acknowledges that core character trait. Even Dr. Genus and Boros understand it on some level, despite their admiration. And last but not least King, Saitama's only true friend, the one person alive who actually understands his struggle and does not worship him.

Thoughts?

[drilanime]

[amenoromen]

WIP

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[mugiwara-shuenobi]

[gofancyninjaworld]

Cozy AU where Genus gave up his research before his breakthrough with Kabuto and joined the food stand business early on? All his other creations are employees.

I feel that. The most interesting takoyaki stand. A place where all the employees are monsters or monster-adjacent would be quite the thing.

It could be quite the novelty. If it's successful, with Genus having cloned himself, the franchising talks would be very easy. And why wouldn't it be? With his ability to clone meat, his most expensive inputs are going to be shockingly cheap.

Might be a place that becomes more successful as stuff becomes more expensive and uncertain.

[sbnkalny]

The genus name, Bazinga, has two legs while using their tongues.

[scientist-of-love]

Audio: Do The Evolution by Pearl Jam

Woah, One Punch Man! Been a while since I've talked about that, huh? Here, I made a Genus AMV!!

[reasonsforhope]

"During an archaeological dig in a desert area north of Jerusalem 40 years ago, a seed was discovered which was determined to be in pristine condition but had obviously seen many a year.

Now, despite falling from its parent 1,000 years ago, it has grown into a mature tree, and botanists examining it believe it may be an extinct species that was used for medicinal purposes for thousands of years—even receiving a nod in the Bible.

Neither Israeli botanists, nor Dr. Sarah Sallon, a physician who founded the Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, could determine what species it was from simply from the seed covering. So they did what nature intended—they planted it.

Using a well-documented technique that saw 2,000-year-old date palm fruit pits germinate, Dr. Sallon soaked the seed in hormones, liquid fertilizer, and water, and then planted it in a pot of sterile seed; then waited.

Despite its genetic code being exposed to environmental stressors for over 1,000 years, the seed sprouted after 5 weeks. The shoot was protected by a caplike feature called an operculum. As the shoot grew, the operculum was shed—leaving something for the team to radiocarbon date. It narrowed down the age of the almost 10-centuries-old seed to between the years 993 an 1202.

Fast forward 14 years and the plant has become a 10-foot-tall tree. Dr. Sallon shared images of the tree, its bark, and its leaves with botanists around the world. One expert suggested it belonged to the genus Commiphora, found across the Arabian Peninsula and parts of Africa. A genetic analysis subsequently revealed this was the case, but a perfect match was lacking.

Pictured: The tree, now 14 years old.

Dr. Sallon and her team thought it was an extinct species known from history as Judean Balsam, but the best way to confirm that suspicion would be to have some aromatic traces similar to the resins of the myrrh tree to which it is related. However, no such fragrant compounds were detected.

Instead, the chemical analysis of the leaves identified a group of phytochemicals known as guggulterols which have been observed in a related species called Commiphora wightii that’s known to possess certain cancer-fighting properties in its resin.

A medicinal balm, the origin of which is not known, is mentioned in multiple historical texts including the Bible as ‘tsori,’ and rather than the fragrant Judean Balsam, it’s this tsori that Dr. Sallon and her team believe they have found.

They must wait until the tree, now 14 years old, produces flower or fruit to know for sure if it’s an extinct species, and if so, how to perhaps keep it alive.

Dr. Louise Colville, senior research leader in seed and stress biology at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London who wasn’t involved in the research, told CNN that it was a major accomplishment to grow a seed that old and possibly lead to a resurrection of this Biblical botanical.

“What’s surprising in this story is it was just a single seed and to be able to have one chance for that to germinate is extremely lucky,” she said.

“Working in a seed bank, seeing the potential for that extreme longevity gives us hope that banking and storing seeds that some at least will survive for very long periods of time.”"

-via Good News Network, October 8, 2024

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Note: This is such a good demonstration of why seed banks are so important!! They give us such real and massive hope for deextinction and the revival of endangered species.