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(The Guppi) writes...
Those form-fitting spandex suits the Mutates wear are probably a lot more practical than "tattered street clothing", but they don't look very comfortable. (Especially with all that fur underneath.) Do the new threads simply look better as a Kenner action figure? Foster a needed sense of team spirit? Inhibit static electricity? (An ever-present concern in the dry New York climate, I imagine.)
Greg responds...
What spandex?
(The Guppi) writes...
I just watched _Metamorphosis_ again, and I have a load of new questions...
1) Why did Talon, Fang, and Claw take on new names? I guess it emphasizes their abandonment of their old lives, and Talon already had come up with it, and Fang probably thought it sounded cool, and Claw's better than nothing... but it's so jalepenin' Super-hero!
2a) What do people call Talon when he's around? And when he's not around? (Actually, maybe I should just ask "Who does call Talon 'Talon'?") 2b) Is his family weirded out by his name change?
3) Just some commentary. Unlike 'Fang' and 'Claw', 'Talon' seems to have raptorial rather than predatory connotations. (Bird vs. Beast, kinda.) Any significance to this? Keeping in with the metaphor, though, would make him 'Tooth' -- OK, maybe a little too Flying Dentist to go over well. :) I liked 'Catscan' from your development notes, but I suppose it wouldn't fit with the current backstory.
4) When Maggie was still trying to make her break, was she thinking about changing her name to something more show-bizzy or sophisticated? That'd add an interesting undertone to her later restraint. (Then again, it looks like Maggie's now set herself up to be mono-named a la Madonna or Cher... or, come to think of it, Fox :D.)
Greg responds...
1. You answered your own question. Talon was initially, if briefly, trying to hide his identity from his sister. Later it represented his new life. Fang thought it was cool. Claw couldn't or wouldn't talk, and us humans just have to name everyone. So they gave him the name.
2a. Everyone calls Talon Talon except for the Mazas, and sometimes Maggie.
2b. It's the least of it, of course.
3. He has talons on his hands. He was looking down at his hands when he came up with the name.
4. Maggie didn't want to leave her old life behind, so she kept Maggie. But now it's short for Maggie the Cat, which is a nickname that the inhabitants of the Labyrinth use.
Aaron writes...
Okay, I've been trying to find a way to ask this without tripping over the original ideas restriction. Here goes:
In Metamorphosis, Sevarius says something like: "Aren't you surprised we managed to pull it off at all? It took months of forcing the early test subjects to escape without the gargoyles encountering even one."
What's he talking about?
Greg responds...
Before Broadway and Brooklyn found Maggie in that alley, Sevarius was allowing Fang and Claw and (briefly) Maggie, to periodically escape. Xantos' security squad would give them time at night to run around and attract attention, hoping that the gargoyles would either stumble on them or here about them and seek them out. At first they had remarkably little luck. Finally, Broadway and Brooklyn stumbled on Maggie. Once that happened, the rest of the plan could be put into effect.
(The Guppi) writes...
Why'd Cyberbiotics have a hidden underground base? ('Doesn't everyone?' Right. :P) So why and when did they abandon it?
Greg responds...
They had a hidden underground lab, as a precaution against industrial espionage. That lab was destroyed by a fire at the same time that Fortress-1 went down. Renard could not afford to redeploy both locations. So the underground lab/complex was abandoned.
matt writes...
were the mutates eyes supposed to glow like the gargs or was this an animation mistake?
Greg responds...
They were supposed to.
Vashkoda writes...
1a) What had Sevarius actually concocted at the end of "The Cage"? b) What would have happened to Maggie had she drunk it?
Greg responds...
I like the ambiguity, so I'm not going to answer.
matt writes...
can the mutates fly like bats or only glide like gargoyles?
Greg responds...
Fly.
Anonymous writes...
in "the cage" talons eyes glow like the gargs eyes. was this intentional or an animation mistake?
Greg responds...
Only in "The Cage"?
Sapphire writes...
Will there be any more mutates in the future besides the 4 already present?
Greg responds...
Yes.
Don't forget Wolf, for starters.
Sapphire writes...
Would Talon and Maggie ever have any kids of their own?
Greg responds...
not saying this time
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