Hoping it hasn't been posted yet but...

[apexpredator]

A link back to the original page from Reelizer.com.

And for legality:


MOAR BANE. From Secret Six: #23. Go on about your day now.

Comments

[apexpredator]

I'm just finding out that yelling "DESHI DESHI BASARA BASARA!" makes anything you do throughout the day more epic.

Waking up, stretch and "DESHI DESHI BASARA BASARA!"

Brushing teeth/in a shower: "DESHI DESHI BASARA BASARA!"

Getting dressed "DESHI DESHI BASARA BASARA!!"

And it all goes until I have my first cup of coffee at work. Its not just me, right?

[glprime]

Username from Chronicle?

(Andrew gets some sympathy points for the abuse, but he totally botches understanding the difference between why Apex Predators (which are animals) and Sociopaths (which are humans) )

Technically...

[blue_bolt]

Kingdom: "ANIMALIA"*
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Homo
Species: Homo sapiens

*Yeah, we are a type of animal.
:P

Re: Technically...

[glprime]

Okay, I'm meaning "animal" as in "savage/wild" vs "sentient, civilized."

Getting away from the linguistics, the scene in question has a character trying to use biology in an argument that is really more about justifying Nietzschean views of morality, where the superior being doesn't have to follow lesser beings morality; but the kid was obviously doing things much more for revenge than surviving in his environment as a "predator." (and ham-fisted philosophy speeches were more a character trait of his cousin).

I get what the writers were going for, with a greater motivation behind a Start Of Darkness, but the whole "deeper psychology" breaks down outside the scene and just becomes an odd thing. Like they wanted to tack on an interesting speech in the middle of a character going evil and oh yeah, he's abused and paranoid and none of that actual matters if it's correct or not.

Re: Technically...

[skemono]

Seriously! If you want to be an apex predator, kid, you have to start eating your bullies. That's what predators do!

Well....

[apexpredator]

Considering I was kind of a running joke when I started, and managing 2 years later? I DID. I've earned my teeth.

[apexpredator]

Honestly? Its due to an offhand reference in "Villains United". Pariah mentioned the "Apex Predator" was on its way, I believe as a reference to Superboy Prime. Then I thought. "AWWW YEAH, ITS AWESOME, MUST HAVE"

Then it was a reference to my job. As a salesman at the time, I was top book on my department. So I named myself that.

And then Randy Orton of the WWE started using it, so it got a little more limelight. To me, it just means the animal at the top of the food chain. The one that's not hunted by anyone else, just does the hunting.

[glprime]

Interesting.

[apexpredator]

Yeah, I didn't really go THAT deep into philosophy for it. Just thought Gail Simone's line was cool.

[icon_uk]

"Apex predator" is a term from biology IIRC. Every local environment has an apex predator, the one at the top of the food chain who isn't predated upon themselves.

On Earth that's pretty much always humans, but not exclusively so, and in area's we haven't colonised (like the oceans), the local apex predator might be just about anything (bacteria and parasites are usually excluded)

[glprime]

See response above.