The Many Faces Of Krillin

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:13 pm

No, no no, he's got that.....sexual feeling.... >.<, never mind.

Deus ex Machina · Post by **Deus ex Machina** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:23 pm

PsyLiam wrote:
Deus ex Machina wrote:Piccolo has an excuse, he's A-Sexual.
He's a sexual what?

Please tell me you're being sarcastic...

Zackarotto · Post by **Zackarotto** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:08 pm

I think you want asexual, my friend. Writing it out like that is just begging for Liam to criticize...

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:14 pm

Sorry, but there's been a bit of a flood of grammatically bad posts recently. Yours was just the easiest to get a sarcastic comment out of.

In any case, do we know he's asexual? He could be a haemaphrodite.

Zackarotto · Post by **Zackarotto** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:18 pm

Piccolo, hermaphrodite or asexual? Does anybody care? Not Toriyama.

Muten Turtel · Post by **Muten Turtel** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:20 pm

It's kinda funny how a conversation about Krillans marriage goes into Piccolos gender debate.

Asexuals can produce eggs not Hermaphrodites.

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:36 pm

Nope. Asexuals reproduce by mitosis: splitting in two. Haemaphrodites reproduce by both creating the embryo and fertalising it themselves. It's still...word that escaped me (y'know, where a cell gets split in two rather than duplicating itself)...reproduction, but one person does it all. Or two people do it, but either of them can be the egg-creator or the inseminator.

Zackarotto · Post by **Zackarotto** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:57 pm

Are you sure about asexuals, PsyLiam? That might be a type of asexual reproduction, but I doubt it's limited to that. Hermaphrodites have both male and female reproductive organs. I know that.

I guess my point about not caring about Piccolo was ignored. Oh, well.

Muten Turtel · Post by **Muten Turtel** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 10:07 pm

The Type of eggs I am talking about are the ones like Piccolo Daimao created. The actual egg you lay. Hermaphodites give birth.

Zackarotto · Post by **Zackarotto** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 10:25 pm

There's a rare trait found in certain snakes (Rare to the point that it's hard to find in a species, like a birth defect, or something) where the snake can create exact clones of herself by fertilizing her own eggs, I think. Parthenogenesis. Yeah, that's it. Anyway, I remember thinking that it was a lot like Piccolo.

Gahrg...

Chibi-Chi · Post by **Chibi-Chi** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:38 am

And i thought *i* was going totally off topic with the Julie Andrews comment....oh well. I'd hate to be around when we talk about Gohan's love for the cloud thingy....

No-one can guess where that'll lead

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:14 pm

To be honest Zacko, I'm trying to remember Biology lessons from about 7 years ago, so I could be wrong.

Muten Turtel wrote:The Type of eggs I am talking about are the ones like Piccolo Daimao created. The actual egg you lay. Hermaphodites give birth.

That would be true of mammalian hermaphodites, certainly, but what about reptilian ones? Those species lay eggs, so wouldn't a hermaphodite version also lay eggs?

Dayspring · Post by **Dayspring** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:55 pm

Yes.

Asexual just means only 1 "sex" is needed to reproduce (be it by cloning itself, fertilizing itself or whatever). That's why you guys are confused about hermaphrodites. Herms are an example of something asexual.

Muten Turtel · Post by **Muten Turtel** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:23 pm

But this is why I can really hate science, confusion.

Jerseymilk · Post by **Jerseymilk** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:43 pm

"Asexual" does not mean only one type of sex. It means someone who has no sexual feelings. Look it up here for goodness sakes guys:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexual

Just using the term "asexual" doesn't accurately describe Namekians. At least not the part about being able to produce eggs. I agree with using Zacko's term, "parthenogenesis". Exact definition here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis

It's the most accurate term given the small amount of information we know. Remember when Dende told Buruma that they only had "one type" when she assumed that Saichoro was female since he was the one that re-populated the planet. Also some invertebrates use "parthenogenesis" and as we all know, Namekians are most closely related to mollusks.

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 1:40 pm

Jerseymilk wrote:"Asexual" does not mean only one type of sex. It means someone who has no sexual feelings. Look it up here for goodness sakes guys:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexual

That's one of it's meanings. It's not the only one.

Main Entry: asex·u·al
Pronunciation: (")A-'sek-sh(&-)w&l, -'sek-sh&l
Function: adjective
1 : lacking sex or functional sex organs <asexual plants>
2 a : involving or reproducing by reproductive processes (as cell division, spore formation, fission, or budding) that do not involve the union of individuals or germ cells <asexual reproduction> <an asexual generation> b : produced by asexual reproduction <asexual spores>
3 : devoid of sexuality <an asexual relationship>

It's not so much having "one" sex, as having no sex at all. Nameks should probably be more correctly referred to as "it"s, rather than "he"s.

(That's from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, BTW.)

Xyex · Post by **Xyex** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 2:14 pm

Yeah, he could be called an it, but he'd been called a he for so long that no one really wanted to try and switch over. Besides, Piccolo seems more guy than anything.

Oh, and I remember reading somewhere about an interview with Toryiama-sama (even linked to it, but only skimed it and don't know if it's real) where AT said something along the lines of Piccolo being 'fully-equiped'. Yeah...

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 2:56 pm

Oh, I'm not saying we should call him an "it". And I'd put anyone who does in the same catagory as those who say "Bejita".

Chibi-Chi · Post by **Chibi-Chi** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:22 pm

again, a bit out of topic, but this is all reminding me of Godzilla. But only cos that's asexual and can reproduce on it's own...now i have an urge to go watch Godzilla...and hope to god it eats that annoying woman (Lesley) who loves the main guy (Nick Totopolus~ Played by Mathew Broderick)...but i've seen it enough times to know that she doesn't get eaten...DAMN! You'd think they'd change the ending.
Anyway, back on...whatever topic!

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