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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just the other day I was telling my son that instead of Ant Man, it should've been Mant.

[–] duke_valentino@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] odium@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago

M'ant tips fedora

[–] PowerGloveSoBad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's actually spelled Maunt

[–] CurlyChopz@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Surely it would be Small Ant or Smant

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We are all men. He is a "rat"-man, I am a "hu"-man.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 24 points 1 year ago

to him, he is a hu-rat, and you are a man-rat.

[–] MothBookkeeper@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So what does he want to be called? Just a rat? But - there are actual rats, which are already called rats. Unless those don't exist in this universe, "ratman" seems like a pretty reasonable term. He has both rat and humanoid features.

[–] Damage@slrpnk.net 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Serious answer? He'd be called a Rat-Man in the language of humans, and an original word in his own language

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. Him calling the man "man-rat" makes no sense though. For it to make sense, there would have to be something even more human and more distant from rats, so that he could be viewed as half rat.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The rat...person would call themselves a word in their language that would translate to man language as "hu-rat". the man would thus be a man-rat.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

But the human calls the rat-person a ratman because they seem to be something between a human and a rat. The human would call a regular rat a rat. Why would the rat-person call the human a man-rat, if the human is a regular human? Who would he call man then?

[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe in that world there are tiny humans that crawl in their walls and steal their food.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah but they're called pixies/fairies/gnomes/whatever

What do they bait their man-traps with - scratch lotto tickets?

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a false equivalency on the Ratman's part. There exist rats. There exist men. He's a cross somewhere between, where the man is just a man. I mean, provided there isn't some kind of miniature, unintelligent human analog in this world.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

There are abd they eat the cheese made the ratmen.

[–] kilorat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
[–] egonallanon@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Man-thing shuts up-up and hands over the warpstone now, yes-yes.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Darkblue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The daemon is not his foot (badly drawn, so it looks like that?). They are "buddies" and travel together.

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

We could just rename humans to slutfolk. They'll bed anything, which is why there's half elves, half orcs, dragonkin, ...

[–] Thoth19@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And ofc humans are called "man man". That's what homo sapien roughly translates to.