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Please enjoy this adorable part of a paper I'm reading on the NICU and babies.

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I could've told you that

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scurvy has got to have one of the biggest disease/treatment coolness gaps of all time. like yeah too much time at sea will afflict you with a curse where your body starts unraveling and old wounds come back to haunt you like vengeful ghosts. unless☝️you eat a lemon

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Couple of random things as I just found the series on the internet again, but Ocean Girl is so much to think about biologically (if you decide to be silly and take it seriously).

The people from Neri's homeworld had to have been the ones to establish life on Earth, as they can travel and probably formed earlier colonies before trying to return later

Neri uses telepathy to understand Charlie, which is a clever workaround the better hearing that whales have, the fact that most humans tend not to echolocate, and it's likely a skill either the founding aliens who settled earth didn't have (founder effect) or one we lost over time as we relied less on the telepathy (for whatever reason) -> probably because we moved onto land and need less water than Neri's "species" seems to

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the end of men in black is so funny. your boss trains you for two days on interplanetary relations then says "ok I think you can take it from here. I'm wiping my own memory so don't bother calling me if you have any questions"

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Werewolf who becomes a search and rescue specialist because they can track victims easily. Vampire phlebotomist who always gets the vein on the first try. Pastry chef witch who uses their skills with potions and spell directions in their baking.

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you love this world/you're willing to die protecting it

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I'm curious if anywhere in the comics it actually said that Kryptonians don't need to eat. From what I recall (yes they metabolize red sunlight) but they did domesticate animals (for reasons that weren't entirely clear). So as you said, isn't it possible that they do need to eat (explaining them having organs even) just not under a yellow sun that turbo charges them? (Also I think, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but the people on Argo City had to eat, didn't they?).

And I get viruses and bacteria from earth not surviving that. But as Kryptonians evolved somewhere entirely different (And we do have microbes even on earth that can withstand crazy temperatures for our standards) it makes sense that parallel evolution there would result in diseases.

Comics aren't written by biologists, but I think energy based is a little off, because red sun/kryptonite seems to render Clark human like rather than (I don't know how to put this) into some kind of barely visible energy form? I think energy form seems a little inaccurate for Clark's physiology is all.

I do like your explanation of a completely new and novel system for storing information, but then I wonder about how Clark's clone was made and how he was able to reproduce with a human, but I do think that's really cool as a concept.

Does Clark Kent even have a blood type? For baseline humans, it's hypothesized that blood types either evolved from mutations from O or that different blood types protected us from different diseases.

Now the curious aspect is, would Clark Kent have a blood type that made sense in a human blood type context (he has so many similarities)? Would the super technologically advanced and genetic engineering oriented Kryptonians even have kept blood types, or universal donor-ed everyone (by Kryptonian standards)? They had diseases, but it's unlikely that they have any relation to Earth-based ones, so it's curious to know what differences in "blood" there could be.

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me: why are you destroying earth!!!

aliens: because theres people who think that english is the only language they need to speak

me: thats fair i understand

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Oh interesting. I hadn't realized that they always metabolized sunlight (just that the yellow sun powered them). Thank you for clarifying!

Edit: I'm a little confused as to why you think diseases would be biologically unfeasible? Would you mind elaborating a little?

And also, I did a better re-read of your earlier answer. Oxygen isn't used for the purpose described, rather it's used to make energy currency/ATP. Blood also has a lot more purposes than oxygen transport, and kryptonians have both DNA and cellular structure, so I don't think they're energy based? (Could be wrong about that).

Does Clark Kent even have a blood type? For baseline humans, it's hypothesized that blood types either evolved from mutations from O or that different blood types protected us from different diseases.

Now the curious aspect is, would Clark Kent have a blood type that made sense in a human blood type context (he has so many similarities)? Would the super technologically advanced and genetic engineering oriented Kryptonians even have kept blood types, or universal donor-ed everyone (by Kryptonian standards)? They had diseases, but it's unlikely that they have any relation to Earth-based ones, so it's curious to know what differences in "blood" there could be.

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See that's interesting. Firstly, based on your tags -> I recall in comics canon there were viruses from Krypton that could affect Kryptonians. And then later there are a few diseases that can infect Kryptonians (even at full power -- seen with Clark and Jon).

I agree with your points about their metabolism and nutrient requirements, and find the blood-cooling idea compelling. But let's consider that the original kryptonians don't seem to metabolize sunlight (different star) and lack powers. Ergo, their blood might serve an evolutionary purpose (they did do a lot of genetic engineering though). In that sense, having all the same organs as us and the fact that they have blood at all seems like there is a natural purpose.

Thank you though, for your insights, they did make me think of new directions.

Does Clark Kent even have a blood type? For baseline humans, it's hypothesized that blood types either evolved from mutations from O or that different blood types protected us from different diseases.

Now the curious aspect is, would Clark Kent have a blood type that made sense in a human blood type context (he has so many similarities)? Would the super technologically advanced and genetic engineering oriented Kryptonians even have kept blood types, or universal donor-ed everyone (by Kryptonian standards)? They had diseases, but it's unlikely that they have any relation to Earth-based ones, so it's curious to know what differences in "blood" there could be.

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I just realized my main takeaway from The Penguin. It feels narrow. Other shows have influences from other characters, even far off ones, it's a "muddled" and complicated, intrusion-filled plot. But The Penguin really feels narrowed down to the actions of two characters. The filming's claustrophobic (like The Batman).

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Thank you sincerely for taking the time on these! Massively fun and opens a lot more avenues for me to figure out my framework for Manhunter's powers.

Been thinking about Martian physiology (disclaimer: limited knowledge of both it and the entirety of Martian Manhunter canon).

While there's a debate and conflicting canonical mentions of whether MM can take on powers and abilities, one definite capability is the way he can transform into anyone (and anything)

Which leads me to a few questions:

Are there any limitations to transformation duration/anything he can't replicate?

Why do all Martians look the same/have a default?

Can MM transform into something based on a picture? (As in a never before seen, completely novel entity? Since he's transformed into humans before, I'll say he can transform into any human based on an image)

If we apply some principles of human biology to them, Martians are kind of like B cells. They can hypermutate antibodies to even capture/get close to disease states never before experienced. Martians probably possess massive genomes with lots of splicing and recombination to be able to recapture all the possible appearances. I'm assuming they're cuttlefish like.

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Been thinking about Martian physiology (disclaimer: limited knowledge of both it and the entirety of Martian Manhunter canon).

While there's a debate and conflicting canonical mentions of whether MM can take on powers and abilities, one definite capability is the way he can transform into anyone (and anything)

Which leads me to a few questions:

Are there any limitations to transformation duration/anything he can't replicate?

Why do all Martians look the same/have a default?

Can MM transform into something based on a picture? (As in a never before seen, completely novel entity? Since he's transformed into humans before, I'll say he can transform into any human based on an image)

If we apply some principles of human biology to them, Martians are kind of like B cells. They can hypermutate antibodies to even capture/get close to disease states never before experienced. Martians probably possess massive genomes with lots of splicing and recombination to be able to recapture all the possible appearances. I'm assuming they're cuttlefish like.

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IF TCHAIKOVSKY COULD DO IT AS A DEPRESSED RUSSIAN FAG THEN SO COULD YOU 🫵‼️

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Not gonna pretend Constantine and Bats don't compel me.