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Post by The Agent on May 15, 2008 6:28:38 GMT -5
Okay,
Don't get me wrong, but to me Morrison's run is the one and only canon when coming to what Animal Man is and isn't.
Said that, can buddy absorb and reproduce chemical-related abilities? I don't really see him spinning spiderweb from his a**, ain't it? ;D (SERIOUSLY).
I mean, I think he can reproduce chemical-based abilities wherever they happen to be remotely related to human morphology. For instance: a skunk's bad smell, that can be easily "replicated" by human morphology standards, so Buddy can do that.
In the Aquaman issue, he tapped into an octopus and thus was able to emanate black ink from... we don't know what. I think that is TRULY inconsistent with what Animal Man is supposed to be, and Morrison would agree.
Animal Man can easily reproduce energy-based abilities because human body is related to energy, for instance.
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Post by minominop on May 15, 2008 11:47:22 GMT -5
I think it's just the nature of his power that he can immitate any and all animal abilities, even chemical ones. He obviously doesn't need wings to fly, (He hasn't anything to flap.) so why would he need an organ or gland to produce a spider web? In Animal Man #2 he regrew his own arm. From what? Where did that tissue come from? Not to mention using microbes to replicate your entire body.)
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Post by The Agent on May 16, 2008 16:50:44 GMT -5
Mino, I don't enterely agree, my friend. See, the new arm and the "anti-bodies" came from his already-existent cellular tissue --- I see his metahuman abilities working that way, it's pretty logic. I just don't see any evidence of gland-based abilities in Morrison's run (*CANON*), which makes me wonder: are they possible in Animal Man's palette of powers? I think Animal Man's powers are limited to "modifications" of his own body with NO additional production of not-human tissue, JUST additional production of human tissue. Hope it's clear!  |
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Post by The Agent on Jun 5, 2008 5:02:22 GMT -5
 Where is everyone? |
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Post by minominop on Jun 9, 2008 12:20:23 GMT -5
Mino, I don't enterely agree, my friend. See, the new arm and the "anti-bodies" came from his already-existent cellular tissue --- I see his metahuman abilities working that way, it's pretty logic. I just don't see any evidence of gland-based abilities in Morrison's run (*CANON*), which makes me wonder: are they possible in Animal Man's palette of powers? I think Animal Man's powers are limited to "modifications" of his own body with NO additional production of not-human tissue, JUST additional production of human tissue. Hope it's clear! The chemicals produced by these animal glands you seem to be worried about can be broken down into base elements; all of which can be found in the human body in some form or another. The chemicals, and glands themselves may be absent, but what they are made up of isn't. |
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Post by The Agent on Jun 9, 2008 18:58:09 GMT -5
d**n, you're right on this. Even the octopus's trademark black ink should be present in our body in one form or another. I had a similar insight some time ago, thinking about Animal Man and his powers.
So your theory seems fine to me.
(still wondering about the spiders's web).
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Post by minominop on Jun 9, 2008 20:01:42 GMT -5
The only thing I wonder about the spiders web is where he pulls it out of on his body.  |
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Post by The Agent on Jun 10, 2008 10:01:22 GMT -5
The only thing I wonder about the spiders web is where he pulls it out of on his body. Human RE-arrangement. From the mouth? And what about the venom? The teeth? |
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Post by minominop on Jun 13, 2008 13:26:36 GMT -5
Is the chameleons ability to hide itself considered chemical?
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Post by The Agent on Jun 16, 2008 16:26:47 GMT -5
Is the chameleons ability to hide itself considered chemical? Well, the chameleon has special cells called chromophores.So it's a cellular ability, rather than a chemical one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromophoreKinda of "energetic" power. |
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