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nrjxll
Since: Nov, 2010
9th Nov, 2011 06:02:41 PM
Hollywood Evolution is the supertrope.
zortharg
Since: Sep, 2011
9th Nov, 2011 06:09:20 PM
Ah, much obliged. You kick ass.
How come there's a "webcomic" category but not a comic category?
Anyway, so if I had to give this a name, I would call it "Stan Lee's Theory of Evolution" (as opposed to Darwin's). I think you probably all get it already. Where mutations occur that give a first-generation mutant a very complicated power which would optimistically (if it's even conceivably possible at all) require hundreds of different and new proteins to be encoded into that person's DNA, and like a computer program that performs a complicated function with no debugging necessary because it's perfect after just one generation after what should be randomly generated data which is what a mutation is, comes with with no side-effects or flaws of any kind. For instance, the child of two human parents being born with retractable giant bird wings that allows him to fly. And they work. The sort of thing that implies a conception of the theory of evolution that is so whacked and far-fetched, that you kind of understand why there are creationists in the world.