This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: AnglerfishAliens: From YKTTW
Sikon: Removed this bit from the anglerfish example:
- The same phenomenon is found among humans, and is termed 'marriage'.
I understand where the poster was going with it, but seriously, Dude, Not Funny!.
- Seed: Someone put it back in. I agree, though; I took it back out.
Pro-Mole: please, explain the first example: how come the non-sentient third sex that serves as a vessel to the embryo is a different species and still manage to be counted as "sex", and not "other organism"?
Nornagest: Cut —
- * Cthulhu (and assumedly others in his species) has five genders.
I'm a hundred percent sure that this isn't mentioned in Lovecraft. It might be mentioned in August Durleth or one of the later authors to work in Lovecraft's mythos (though I've never heard the factoid before), but, as much as I hate to get all Fan Dumb about Canon, that ain't.
An obvious inverstion would be a species with minimal sexual dimorphism consider humans an example of bizarre sexual dimorphism. I can't seem to think of any story that did so, however - can anyone?
Filby: Took this out...
- The Yuan-Ti◊ of D&D have a lot of variation between males and females depending on how "pure" their blood is.
- That one isn't a good example, given that the female is a "pureblood", which is supposed to be human-looking with snakish features and the male one is an "abomination" which is supposed to be a snake with humanish features. So this is more a case of bizarre racial dimorphism.
...because, as noted, it's not an example.
Nate Winchester: Removed-
- The DCU has the male Guardians of the Universe and their female counterparts, the Zamarons.
Sabbo: Scrapped the pointless I Am Not Making This Up pothole next to the title of the Real Life section, as well as the sentence which went with it. Stuff like that goes in the introduction, and phrased differently at that.
Seed: Removed:
- Lions, of course.
"Of course?" Male lions have longer hair in their manes. Their sexual dimorphism is about the same as humans. Hardly "bizarre", and not at all an example of this trope.
Ghilz: Hrrrm, the picture makes no sense! Despite being made by the same artist, Aliens and Sil from Species are not the same species! And on top of that, Alien drones like the one pictured are explicitly without gender (as they cannot reproduce, only the queen can, though I'm sure some disagree, the Xenomorph queens don't really look sexy).
Planet Cool: The new picture still makes no sense. We have one of those smurfy guys from The Green Lantern and Starfire from Teen Titans. They're not the same species either. So, Caption Writer... unless they really are kidding, that picture needs to be replaced. What was wrong with the one from Star Wars we used to have here?
- Ghilz: They ARE the same species. That's not Starfire, thats a Zamaron (prior to their re-design), who ARE the female version of the Oans. The fact you consider them to be different species just furthers the point...
