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Transmute Jun Transmute Jun is a Female

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it's actually not an unreasonable assumption. It's possible some fanfic writers came up with it on their own.

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10-01-2012 15:09

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In case you're curious, this was the cover for that first issue of the British TV Comics magazine (that had the 2 pages I already posted).

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10-01-2012 16:25

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And from the following issue (which did not have BOTP on the cover) here is the next part of this fascinating story!

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10-01-2012 16:27

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Ok, the Phoenix has a steering wheel now, and Tiny's bodysuit has become orange? How did that happen?

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10-01-2012 16:42

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I know! It looks almost like a Mario Karrt steering wheel, doesn't it? And did you notice that Jason's bodysuit is red?

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10-01-2012 17:21

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yeah... with brown boots and gloves!!!!

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10-01-2012 17:57

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OMG. That was the worst coloring problems I've seen so far. Jason looks like some kind half animal with the brown gloves and boots and the strange shaping.

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11-01-2012 00:36

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Oh, but he's numb from the gas, don't you know? ROFL 2

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11-01-2012 01:50

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Numb and schriveled up like an old man.

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11-01-2012 02:56

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Jason looks like some kind half animal

I'm also associating Keyop's face in the last picture with some kind of an animal, the animal being some kind of an ape ... or even a weird alien! That just looks creepy! And, since he's taking the situation under his control, his cape has turned into a white one cause now he's the leader!

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11-01-2012 08:53

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Commander Keyop!!!! Omfg

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11-01-2012 12:40

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Well when he's the only one who's functional.... Wink

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11-01-2012 15:41

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I just find it hard to imagine him leading the rest of the team!!

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11-01-2012 15:44

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LOL, LB! Keyop is definitely making a weird face in that last panel... but he doesn't need to breathe! He's an android!

I'd forgotten that he's an android in this comic series too. I wonder if explaining him as "grown from a single cell in a lab" was considered too complicated or too ethically controversial -ie. suggesting some kind of eugenics- or if having him be flesh & blood at all at such an apparently young age (regardless of whether he was lab-created) was just deemed too unsuitable?

Clearly Zoltar's people have done their intel very well if they don't know that one of the G-Force members is an android though!

Now, if only he'd added some kind of EMF pulse to the numbing ray...

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12-01-2012 13:57

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Ah, but then Zoltar would win! We can't have that, now, can we? Wink

IIRC, the first Test Tube Baby was born in 1977 or so, so the idea of 'growing an embryo in a lab' wasn't completely foreign in the news.

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12-01-2012 15:31

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Originally posted by lborgia88
I'd forgotten that he's an android in this comic series too. I wonder if explaining him as "grown from a single cell in a lab" was considered too complicated or too ethically controversial -ie. suggesting some kind of eugenics- or if having him be flesh & blood at all at such an apparently young age (regardless of whether he was lab-created) was just deemed too unsuitable?

Possible, but it is funny, I usually associate that kinds of censorship with the US (First Amendment doesn't apply to kids stuff, we must protect our young from the perverse, the radical, and the offensive). Of course, how many had already been exposed to that through Star Trek reruns or would have no clue what a clone or genetically modified person would be at that time. Now, I think kids have as much knowledge on that sort of thing as adults do. Silly censors, they try to forbid knowledge and just make it more desirable. You'd really think they'd have learned the lesson from Gensis in that Bible they love to thump.

And for having flesh and blood, many cultures use children in warfare, sometimes willingly, sometimes not. I'd rather see it portrayed like it was in Gatch or BotP with training and purpose and more fantasy than reality, than it is in real life, where they usually fulfill the role of suicide bomber or worse, just pick up a gun and start shooting soldiers are then persecuted for shooting children.

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12-01-2012 17:01

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Originally posted by amethystNow, I think kids have as much knowledge on that sort of thing as adults do..

You've got that right! My kids spent a few years being addicted to the computer game Spore, so they know all about DNA and evolution and genetic manipulation... in fact, DD wants to be a geneticist wen she grows up and invent new kinds of plants!

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Maybe I'm too progressive, but I believe that we cannot impose morality on scientific innovation, morality comes into play with how we use that innovation.

We condemn too many scientific possibilities because they offend moral or religious sensibilities even with practical applications that help people.

I wish your daughter luck and hope she is able to shake up the scientific community and the world.

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12-01-2012 18:13

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Originally posted by Transmute Jun
IIRC, the first Test Tube Baby was born in 1977 or so, so the idea of 'growing an embryo in a lab' wasn't completely foreign in the news.

Born in England, if I recall -and there was a lot of controversy at the time that such a thing was "immoral" and all that. I suppose it might have still seemed like a potentially touchy issue there even by the early 80s when this comic was made. But then, Gold Key made him an android too. Maybe it just seemed like a fun idea and a way to add an extra "sci-fi" element.

12-01-2012 18:16

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Amethyst, you make a good point. After all, isn't that what Gatchaman is all about? We have technology, and we can use it for good (clean energy, farming, schools, cities) or for evil (pollution, killing, world domination). I'm being serious here. The entire message of Gatchaman is that technology can be used for multiple purposes, and it is the responsibility of the person who wields to to do so responsibly.

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