Choosing Your Fav Brozone Member Is Like Choosing Your Fav Tmnt, In That Whoever You Choose Tells Me

Padme and Anakin would dress up as Morticia and Gomez Addams and no one can tell me otherwise.

There he is! The best boy!

nice work, thanks for sharing your art!

Nice words inspire me not to give up drawing, thank you!

First, in most cases he does not copy the abilities. That being said, he already has a ton anyways so outside of very specific powers like GL’s ring constructs or zatanna’s spells, he either already has it or can convincing use his own powers to simulate it.

Now to your questions

1. As far as I’ve seen, no, there is no set limitation on replication or duration. That being said, most if not all powers and abilities at some point will become exhausting.

Ex: Supes can use his laser vision or GL can make a construct but for prolonged periods it likely would be hard to maintain.

2. For artistic reasons it’s probably easier to draw a default, ctrl+c ctrl+v. For in universe reason I believe, and I could be wrong, it’s because the Martian society as a whole don’t put too much stock into physical appearance because they are mentally oriented as a society and as beings.

Also if I can find it I think there’s a MMH run that touches on the topic of a martian’s physical appearance.

3. Yes, and this can be seen in one of the dc animated shows. He flips through tv channels and shape-shifts to match whoever is on the screen. Granted that’s video footage not a photo, but he was switching channels quickly.

- to expand that question I assume you’re asking “can he shape shift into something from a photo- and be 100% accurate” which the answer is likely no.

-Now does he need to be 100% accurate? Depends on the mission. Into the average goon? He can skimp out on extra moles and scars. Into a known villain? Yeah maybe get the colour of the eyes right.

-With that said the events where MMH has to shape-shift he’ll likely have the physical referent to copy or videos/photos of it from multiple povs .

Been thinking about Martian physiology (disclaimer: limited knowledge of both it and the entirety of Martian Manhunter canon).

While there's a debate and conflicting canonical mentions of whether MM can take on powers and abilities, one definite capability is the way he can transform into anyone (and anything)

Which leads me to a few questions:

Are there any limitations to transformation duration/anything he can't replicate?

Why do all Martians look the same/have a default?

Can MM transform into something based on a picture? (As in a never before seen, completely novel entity? Since he's transformed into humans before, I'll say he can transform into any human based on an image)

If we apply some principles of human biology to them, Martians are kind of like B cells. They can hypermutate antibodies to even capture/get close to disease states never before experienced. Martians probably possess massive genomes with lots of splicing and recombination to be able to recapture all the possible appearances. I'm assuming they're cuttlefish like.

My contribution to ace week!

This is for a very niche demographic and from an even niche-r part of my life so-

To any casino cup watchers, I hold ace cuphead near and dear to my heart. In other words, you can pry this headcanon from my cold dead hands.

Happy ace week!

Me: *Never watches ninjago, not really into it any more, absolutely asleep*

Ninjago: this season will feature like 10 seconds of Zane trauma :D

Me: *rises* bitch I'm back from my coma-

Incorrect Fox quote based on my current mood:

Fox: I’m here for a long time not a good time.

Thire: Isn’t it-

Fox: I know what I said.

FINALLY

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE THINKING ABOUT THIS

The emotional advantage alone that Fox would have for fucking his brother’s wife’s pseudo brother-father figure AND his other brother’s nemesis who partially blinded him.

The only way you could top it is if Maul got thrown into the mix. Cody would hate that.

Commander fox x quinlan x aasjj polycule

You guys ever think about how Zane's whole tyrannical genocide arc might have been a good thing for him?

No no no, wait, where are you going-? AT LEAST HEAR ME OUT-

Zane is one of the most complex characters of the entire show, and it's largely because he's literally the reverse of "you don't have to be a mythical beast to be a monster". No, Zane proves that you don't need to be human to have humanity, which is a subtle, overarching theme throughout the later seasons of the show that I'm choosing to believe is entirely intentional and not a side effect of Garmadon being Lloyd's endless migrane.

Anyway, where I'm going with this is that a very crucial part of who Zane is obviously connects to the fact he was built instead of born, and specifically created to protect those who can't protect themselves, an objective he's never failed to complete to the best of his ability. It's heavily implied and even indirectly stated that the reason he's so firmly attached to this directive is because it's the very essence of his code and function, and by extension, his sense of self. It's seen, even if largely just in offhand jokes, that his code has a very powerful influence over his choices and courses of action throughout the entire show. Sooo, how does this lead to me suggesting that the genocide he committed that is never talked about again except for in throwaway gags was actually good for him? Well, it wasn't, obviously, good for his mental health, but it was an important development of his character, and it didn't go to as much waste as I once believed. Think back with me, if you would be so kind, to the infamous mirror episode, when Nya, Zane and Lloyd were breaking and entering and bullying a hospitalized man.

We all know that Zane commented on how his worst fear was having his humanity stripped from him, to become nothing but cool, calculating code. We also know that it was subtle-not-so-subtle foreshadowing for the Never Realm bullshit. Here's the thing- Zane's code specifically dictates that he won't harm others unless it's to protect. So, if wiping his memories had stripped him down to his code, then... what would have changed? It's here where I would like to introduce the idea that over the course of the show, Zane's original code was overridden by him developing his own core values and following them with just as much vigor. Sure, his objective remains the same, protect who cannot protect themselves, but instead of being a core part of who he is because that's how he was designed, it remains a core part of who he is because it's who he chooses to be. Dr. Julian's code was replaced by his own little by little- so when his memory was wiped, there was simply nothing there. The only evidence left of his original instructions was what he remembered, and chose to follow of his own free will.

To summarize and organize my thoughts, the Never Realm was a lot of new and unexplored levels of fucked up and caused a lot of questions begging for answers- but weirdly, it also wrapped up a character arc that's been slowly building since season 1.

From now on, Zane is who he is purely because that's who he chooses to be, and even though it puts him at a huge disadvantage, he chooses to be human.