History Fridge / OsmosisJones

* Many criticize the fact that Thrax couldn't remove himself from the false eyelash, despite his ability to burn things. However, it stance to reason his ability works differently with artificial stuff than organic. It would make sense organic beings are in danger against him because he's a virus and he can kill them with ease, but artificial objects are essentially lifeless things, at least something a virus can't really destroy as easy.

* According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, bacillus anthracis is a soil-borne bacteria that can be contracted via ingestion and causes death by invoking cold or flu-like symptoms, such as, say, a fever. Bacillus anthracis. Otherwise known as an'''thrax'''. What's even more disturbing? How anthrax was even exposed to the monkey cage at the zoo in the first placed, and how many cases of Thrax are now just waiting to happen...

* Frank's poor health may be (at least partially) due to depression. People with depression sometimes turn to overeating and other other self-destructive habits in order to cope with sadness and other negative emotions. Frank is a widower and the incident with Shane's teacher humiliated him and his daughter, cost him his job and stuck him with a restraining order, as well as getting a job at the zoo which he clearly doesn't like. Granted, Shane implies that Frank's poor health habits had started long before losing his wife, but losing her possibly just made his habits get ''worse'' and Mayor Phlemming wasn't doing him any favors either due to his incompetence and negligence.

* Thrax claims that, once he breaks his record by killing Frank in two days, he plans to go after Shane and kill her in one day. We see from her initial reaction when Frank flatlines that Shane would not be taking Frank's death well at all. Considering grief can weaken the immune system(which, in the context of the movie, could have been represented as the police becoming increasingly apathetic according to Shane's ongoing mood), Shane would have been a very easy target if Thrax attacked straight away.

* The designs of the different microorganisms and cells are distinct from one another that you can tell which of the characters are human cells based on how anthropomorphic they are. Human cells as depicted in the movie are not only more visibly anthropomorphic (i.e., they are the most [[ShapedLikeItself human-shaped]]) but are also uniquely colored to appear to have a translucent outline to their bodies while having a solid internal color, which vary between cell types (for instance, red for red blood cells, blue-purple for neurons, and cyan for white blood cells). Humans, as animals, do not have cell walls. Microorganisms, meanwhile, have [[CartoonCreature more variety to their appearances]]--with multiple legs, eyes, and mouths--and are opaque with darker outlines.

*** However, the villain in that episode was directly identified as Scarlet Fever, which is real and is a disease, not a virus. That said, the similarities suggest that Red Death may be a fictitious "cousin" to Scarlet Fever.

* In light of the above point, Thrax doesn't seem like a natural virus. But he could be [[OhCrap an engineered bioweapon that escaped containment or was unleashed]]. If Thrax is not this, he's a case of ArtMajorBiology. If he was ''designed'' for killing, whoever created him (terrorists, the military, take your pick) would likely have more samples stored away...

* All the white blood cells are voiced by black actors.
** For bonus brilliance, they're white blood cells in a white person (Frank is Caucasian).

** When [[spoiler: Thrax]] died in the beaker of alcohol, that's what happens to ''every germ on your hands'' whenever you use hand sanitizer. Yikes.

* Jones' boss is six times his size. Macrophagei, a type of white blood cell responsible for attacking bigger pathogens ("macro-" means "can be seen with the eye" and "-phage" means "I eat it"), and teaching other leukocytes about them, are six times the size of regular white corpuscles. They can also metamorphocize into dendrites, which is more or less a white cell's desk job.

* Jones' boss is six times his size. Macrophagei, a type of white blood cell responsible for attacking bigger bacteria and viri, and teaching other leukocytes about them, are six times the size of regular white corpuscles. They can also metamorphocize into dendrites, which is more or less a white cell's desk job.

* The designs of the different microorganisms and cells are distinctly different from one another. Human cells as depicted in the movie are not only more visibly anthropomorphic (i.e., they are the most [[ShapedLikeItself human-shaped]]) but are also uniquely colored to appear to have a translucent outline to their bodies while having a solid internal color, which vary between cell types (for instance, red for red blood cells, blue-purple for neurons, and cyan for white blood cells). Various microorganisms have [[CartoonCreature more variety to their appearances]]--with multiple legs, eyes, and mouths--and are opaque with darker outlines.

* The designs of the different microorganisms and cells are distinctly different from one another. Human cells as depicted in the movie are not only more visibly anthropomorphic (i.e., they are the most [[ShapedLikeItself human-shaped]]) but are also uniquely colored to appear to have a translucent outline to their bodies while having a solid colors, which vary between cell types (for instance, red for red blood cells, blue-purple for neurons, and cyan for white blood cells). Various microorganisms have [[CartoonCreature more variety to their appearances]]--with multiple legs, eyes, and mouths--and are opaque with darker outlines.

** When [[spoiler: Thrax]] died in the beaker of alcohol, that's what happens to ''every germ on your body'' whenever you use hand sanitizer. Yikes.

* Thrax claims that, once he breaks his record by killing Frank in two days, he plans to go after Shane and kill her in one day. We see from her initial reaction when Frank flatlines that Shane would not be taking Frank's death well at all. Considering grief can weaken the immune system(which, in the context of the movie, could have been represented as the police becoming increasingly apathetic according to Shane's ongoing mood), Shane would have been a very easy target if Thrax attacked straight away.

* Thrax claims that, once he breaks his record by killing Frank in two days, he plans to go after Shane and kill her in one day. We see from her initial reaction when Frank flatlines that Shane would not be taking Frank's death well at all. Considering grief can weaken the immune system, Shane would have been a very easy target if Thrax attacked straight away.

** There is another more grim explanation for Frank's declining health. Frank's internal temperature nearly reached 108 during the events of the film, which is deadly. However, if one's internal temperature reaches 104, which Frank's surpassed, that can result in permanent brain damage. This puts a dark contrast on the situation; Frank tried to get healthy but resulting brain damage from his brush with death meant he kept forgetting (from the anthropmorphised cell POV, the brain cell in charge of memory could've been killed and the records or information cataloguing system destroyed) to maintain his new healthy lifestyle or he just discarded the attempts.

* According to {{The Other Wiki}}, bacillus anthracis is a soil-borne bacteria that can be contracted via ingestion and causes death by invoking cold or flu-like symptoms, such as, say, a fever. Bacillus anthracis. Otherwise known as an'''thrax'''. What's even more disturbing? How anthrax was even exposed to the monkey cage at the zoo in the first placed, and how many cases of Thrax are now just waiting to happen...

** Probably but cells don't live too long (except for brain cells) so it'ss more like the end of the world after many,many generations. The more dramatic case would be the death of an infant causing a newly formed world to expire too soon.

** Not really. Viruses in the Real World evolve for two things: to make more of themselves and spread to other hosts. A virus that quickly killed its host would severely hamper its own spread (see: Ebola).

** Probably but cells don't live too long (except for brain cells) so is more like the end of the world after many many generations. The more dramatic case will be the death of an infant causing a newley form world to expire too soon.

* When you think about it, a sentient virus would pride themselves on killing everything, so slowly but surely Thrax aims to try and kill every living thing on Earth.