History Fridge / CellsAtWork

* From a design perspective, choosing daggers as the weapons of the main White Blood Cells makes sense. They're light and portable, so they can be easily carried around while they're migrating. They allow them to be swift and deadly, and they need to be up close to the enemy to be the most effective.

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* One kind of Opportunistic Bacteria is represented as a Kitsune. Kitsunes are trickster fairies who could help you one day and harm you the next, which is largely how opportunistic bacteria act.

* Everyone throwing a tantrum whenever the poor Mast cell does her job isn't just a gag. This is how pain works. Your cells send out a DistressCall, which the brain interprets as discomfort. Being rapidly (and forcibly) rearranged by hystamines is no fun, so they get mad, and that's why your sinuses feel like complete ass when you're sick.

** This is supprted by episodes earlier on, which had Cancer's Regular Cell disguise as a notable EarlyBirdCameo. The body was showing signs even before it became an aggressive tumor.

** Perhaps the platelets surrounded the wound on all sides and the fibirins naturally stretched to come together in the middle.

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* Natural Killer Cell angrily [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial denies]] being "envious" of Neutrophil after he opens up about how much he admires and cares about [=AE3803=], wording which implies that he couldn't have a friendship like those two have even if he wanted to. Now compare their two lines of work: Neutrophil spends his days fighting against CardCarryingVillain invading bacteria, while Natural Killer Cell is specifically trained to kill the body's ''own cells'' if they get infected, who are depicted in this universe as his friendly allies and neighbors. It's in his own best interest that he not even consider making friends outside of his immediate kin, a fact that makes his jerkass behavior [[JerkassWoobie a pretty obvious coping mechanism.]] How many times has this guy gone home after killing yet another innocent cell that was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, wishing he had been selected to be something else?

** Why are bacteria pictured as borderline alien-looking kaiju either (but still vaguely humanoid)? Because bacteria are single or multicellular organisms that have cells wildly different, but still vaguely reminiscent of ours (i.e they do not have a nucleus but do have a cell wall, which our cells don't, but are still similar enough to human cells to be called cells).

* Macrophages having a [[NinjaMaid maid motif]] makes sense, as macrophages remove dead cells and bacteria from the body, while also caring for and nurturing young erythroblasts.

** Slightly better than in reality, because actual megakaryocytes [[AsteroidsMonster desintergrate into hordes of platelettes]] instead of birth them in litters.

* The Staphylococcus aureus bacterium is depicted as dressed like a queen, with a yellow dress and a gown resembling grape-like clusters, which is actually based on their real-life microscopic morphology and the color of their colonies on culture media.