History Fridge / CellsAtWork

* In the main series, the Red Blood Cells are coed, but rather than simply {{gender flip}}ping them in ''Manga/CellsAtWorkBlack'', the squad is all men. There's a good chance that the main series host body actually has AB type blood, with As and Bs treated as separate genders. Of course, this becomes a bit problematic when one remembers about the lack of A or B antigens making a person have O-type blood (and even the extremely rare Bombay Phenotype if they don't have H antigens either!), and doesn't help with determining more with how RH factors for Erythrocytes can be a thing, depending on whether your blood is positive or negative. This gets further elaborated on in the Fridge Logic section.

** Excluding traumatic death by bacteria, scrape wound, or sickness, or just being in ''Manga/CellsAtWorkBlack'', cells which reach the end of their normal biological lifespans return to the bone marrow to have their clothes and equipment changed. The cells have also been shown to have days off, or other jobs, such as the Platelets sweeping up the leaves from the Dendritic cells' offices.
** In ''Black,'' it's depicted as having their corpses eaten by the liver cells.

** ''Manga/CellsAtWorkBlack'' chapter 5, anyone?

** In ''Manga/CellsAtWorkBlack'', one red blood cell even mentions how their "organelles were removed to carry hemoglobin." Did they literally have their equivalents of hearts ripped out and the cavity filled with even more "blood"?

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* While cancer usually causes problems by sitting there quite literally eating all the pies (and therefore doesn't trigger much of an immune response), the carcinoma elicits a huge response from the immune system because he's actively trying to destroy the whole Body-he's an aggressive cancer!

* The carcinoma elicits a huge response from the immune system because he's actively trying to destroy the whole body-he's an aggressive cancer!

** Actually yes. Biologists explicitly compare it to the internet, so it's like that one 3rd cousin on another you only talk to on Facebook Messenger but know everything about.

* In ''Black,'' Streptococcus-B cells look more like [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Hormigaunts]] than the humanized bacteria of the regular series. Streptococcus-B is [[MakeThemRot flesh-eating disease]]. Tyranids eat whole planets and streppe plans to eat the whole body.

* Issuess of ''Black,'' start with a looming, winged shadow overlooking the run-down cityscape as Guy!Red toils on. While this is obviously the Angel of Death, the carcinoma in ''C@W!'' manifested angel wings as a directed mutation. All the preservatives and toxins present in or resultant from the various vices the Body indulges in may cause a breakdown in the tissue cells' cloning machinery, leading to cancer.

* In ''Black,'' liver cells manifest as sexy waitresses and dancers at a nightclub. Since cells reproduce by way of cloning themselves or by being produced by a literal baby factory, why would they be excited by tiddy dancers?

* In ''Black,'' Streptococcus-B cells look more like Hormigaunts than the humanized bacteria of the regular series. Streptococcus-B is [[MakeThemRot flesh-eating disease]]. Tyranids eat whole planets and streppe plans to eat the whole body.

* In ''Black,'' liver cells manifest as sexy waitresses and dancers at a nightclub. Since cells reproduce by way of GatticaBabies, why would they be excited by tiddy dancers?

* In ''Black,'' liver cells manifest as sexy waitresses and dancers at a nightclub. Since cells reproduce by budding, why would they be excited by tiddy dancers?

* 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 rearranged by hystamines is no fun, so they get mad, and that's why your sinuses feel like complete ass when you're sick.

* Megakaryocyte is the cell that produces platelets, here she is depicted as a mother who gives birth to lots of children so they can do heavy manual labor...
** Slightly better than in reality, because actual megakaryocytes desintergrate into platelettes instead of birth them in litters.

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* One of the Killer T cells' secondary jobs within the body is to stimulate exhausted immune cells, essentially forcing them them not to give up and keep going. With that in mind, Killer T's personification as a DrillSargeantNasty becomes even more fitting.

** It has been pointed out that there exists an autoimmune disease that causes the the immune system to attack platelets. '''[[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/401/289/694.png Imagine this in a setting where platelets are portrayed as adorable children.]]'''

* The way Killer T Cell reacted when U-1146 spoke fondly about AE3803 and his hopes that immune and non-immune cells could eventually get along becomes way more understandable when you consider the fact that T cells are specially designed for the purpose of killing the body's own cells - in this world, it's literally their day job to kill cells just as friendly as AE3803 without hesitation if they become cancerous or infected, lest they pose a threat to the body. From his perspective, [[GoodIsNotNice he's protecting U-1146 from potential heartbreak at best, and a path that would compromise his duty as an immune cell at worst.]]

** It may have been part of the replication error.[[FridgeBrilliance It would explain]] why they were wearing adult sized clothes in the flashback.