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Re: Things You Never Want To Morph
« Reply #15 on: May 04, 2009, 12:23:50 AM »
Well I now I'm gonna ask why you couldn't go bacteria? They have DNA.
for that matter so do plants, but I'm under the impression that they couldn't morph that.
Why not?

it specifically said they could morph any ANIMAL. plants and bacteria are not animals. and plankton is only animals if you are talking about ZOOplankton, which are the larvae of several different kinds of animals from clams to fish.

so I add zooplankton to the list. it would be useless and creepy to morph something so small
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Re: Things You Never Want To Morph
« Reply #16 on: May 04, 2009, 01:05:55 AM »
exactly.

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Re: Things You Never Want To Morph
« Reply #17 on: May 04, 2009, 10:17:37 AM »
EDIT: sorry, original version not clear.

The extraterrestrial species they morph aren't part of kingdom Animalia.  They didn't develop on Earth.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that they can morph anything with a nervous system, subject to a very small size limit. (mosquito, for example, was too dangerous to repeat)
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Re: Things You Never Want To Morph
« Reply #18 on: May 04, 2009, 10:25:26 AM »
Roaches, mosquitoes and moths. Because I really hate them, I can't approach a roach nor a moths, and I can't touch a mosquito without kill it! >_<
Except that... slugs... because I already looks like a slug, and ... really it'd be so horrible to morph a slug >_< I mean... I prefer even my own body!
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Re: Things You Never Want To Morph
« Reply #19 on: May 04, 2009, 11:14:09 AM »
I have no problem with moths, but roaches only deserve the "touch" of my shoe.


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Re: Things You Never Want To Morph
« Reply #20 on: May 04, 2009, 11:16:35 AM »
yes I'm aware of the animal limitation, but I want to know WHY?
Morphing seems to be fundamentally about extracting, storing and replicating DNA; why is it that only animal dna can be used and not plants and bacteria and etc.

And most animals aren't sentient; the morphers minds is supposed to be linked to the morph somehow, so I don't see how being a plant would render them unable to morph bac
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Re: Things You Never Want To Morph
« Reply #21 on: May 04, 2009, 11:44:21 AM »
I remember rachel morphed some kind of alien plant in 48, and Visser three has at least one plant-like monster morph from the Hork-Bajir Homeworld. So morphing plants can work.


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Re: Things You Never Want To Morph
« Reply #22 on: May 04, 2009, 03:32:03 PM »
I remember rachel morphed some kind of alien plant in 48, and Visser three has at least one plant-like monster morph from the Hork-Bajir Homeworld. So morphing plants can work.

The instance involving Rachel was powered by the Crayak, and therefore is not credible as 'realistic', and the creature from the Hork-Bajir Homeworld is an animal, it just resembles a plant. (It is described in greater detail in the Hork-Bajir Chronicles).

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Re: Things You Never Want To Morph
« Reply #23 on: May 04, 2009, 03:34:55 PM »
Oh, it's an animal that resembles a plant? My mistake.

Well if you hand wave Rachel's morph too, then I have nothing.


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Re: Things You Never Want To Morph
« Reply #24 on: May 04, 2009, 03:36:21 PM »
I like what Truth said about the animal needing a nervous system, that makes sense and flows what is show as possible in the series.

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Re: Things You Never Want To Morph
« Reply #25 on: May 04, 2009, 04:33:38 PM »
hmm i would not want to morph a fruit fly they are smaller than mosquitoes D:
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Re: Things You Never Want To Morph
« Reply #26 on: May 04, 2009, 05:41:14 PM »
Someone might have said this already but, dung beetle?

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Re: Things You Never Want To Morph
« Reply #27 on: May 04, 2009, 05:42:55 PM »
I wouldn't want to morph insects of any kind, too easy to smush, and too many insecticides in every household.


A spider, maybe, but same principle, too many anti-arachnid sprays.

Although morphing into a trantula and scaring the **** out of some chick would be priceless.



I'd never want to morph any type of fish, unless it was higher/est on the food chain. Nor if it is considered "pretty" and someone would be tempted to collect and display me.
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Re: Things You Never Want To Morph
« Reply #28 on: May 04, 2009, 06:41:25 PM »
A tick. My dog is currently infested with them and they are guh-ross. I would never want to be one.

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Re: Things You Never Want To Morph
« Reply #29 on: May 04, 2009, 06:43:38 PM »
Ew, hell no! plus, if someone found you, and tried to take you out? They'd disconnect your body, and you'd still be alive just as a head. How sucky would that be?
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