shouldnt mark after episode 1 look less like a human of asian descent like his mother is and more like whatever you’d call nolans viltrumite phenotype?

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    10 months ago

    Those internal Viltrumite genetics. Half of your DNA from Viltrum will always give you powers, and Viltrumite (Humanoid) appearance, no matter what species you come from, but that other have will display some trait from your other parents side. Depending how alien that race is, the Viltrumite DNA will slowly overwrite the rest of it, and will look as pure Viltrumite as possible.

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      10 months ago

      Wait, Viltrumite kids will always look human like no matter the other race?

      I would have a crazy conspiracy theory why viltrumites and humans look exactly the same, somebody from Viltrum did a monkey very far into the past lmao

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        10 months ago

        The idea that an Alien came to Earth 50,000-100,000 years ago and started having Sex with all the Hominid Apes is not a new theory.

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        If anything, it’s probably the opposite. We actually know that smart-atom abilities can be “given” to people and other races in the universe have been getting good at making superhumans with that technology. Humanity itself is getting pretty close. Eve is a smartatom superhero; it’s only that she manipulates the environment, not herself, and she does it consciously, not subconsciously like a Viltrumite. Humans are creating near-Viltrumite supes like bulletproof.

        I don’t have a citation… but I’m pretty sure it’s said somewhere that Viltrumites haven’t always been this OP; that they modified themselves, then naturally selected until they became that OP. So I wouldn’t be surprised if Viltrumites used to be actual humans before they did all of that stuff to themselves.

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            10 months ago

            I imagine universe hopping. Like Viltrum was colonized by humans from another timeline. The issue with this is that Viltrum exists in multiple universes.

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      10 months ago

      so mark looks more like his mom because she’s “close enough” to not be overwritten, where as a viltrumite born of allen the aliens species would end up just looking like their viltrumite parent

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        10 months ago

        !I mean Oliver is purple, and grows closer to Nolan’s skin tone, and by the end of the series Mark is looking pretty Viltrum by the end of the comics. I think the other parents DNA is just like, a template for the Viltrumite DNA to exist on.!<

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        10 months ago

        Basically. In the comics, you see a example very soon of this (which I almost said, but rewrote it). Viltrumites are like Asari from Mass Effect, in no matter what, the species they breed with always comes out a Viltrumite, but unlike the Asari when they take DNA just had a tiny bit of variety to their DNA that never shows up, the other race for a Viltrumite hybrid does show up, like through skin pigmentation or alien biology. But, Viltrumite biology gets stronger as you they age, so eventually, those other unique factors just slowly vanish, until you look like you were always a pure Viltrumite.

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          10 months ago

          But, Viltrumite biology gets stronger as you they age, so eventually, those other unique factors just slowly vanish, until you look like you were always a pure Viltrumite.

          !Aren’t the Thraxa/Viltrumite hybrids way weaker than Mark or other full blooded Viltrumites? They’re pretty much cannon fodder at the end!<