The Eusociality of Mutant Animals

[Metalwolf]

Originally Posted by Luckyday

With some human turned mutant animals, they seem to have a dual identity or that they try rationalizing by creating a new identity as a way of coping. It almost like that they see their past selves as someone who had died.

Malachi and Tigerclaw seem to fit the new identity thing you mentioned and did do the 'I was this guy' thing, but the others don't seem to fit them that much. Xever might be trending towards that a tiny bit with his mention of a half-tuna woman mutant line, but he and the rest of the mutants thereafter still don't seem to call themselves by a new name, or refer to their 'past selves' in the manner of them having 'died.' Splinter, the most 'tolerant' of his mutant-hood, still referred to himself as Yoshi when he talked to himself in one episode. Most of them seem to strive to keep their humanity as much as possible, Splinter keeps his Japanese heritage and said the line "I might not be human, but I still have my humanity.' He also still wants to have his daughter back, which seems to say that he hasn't decoupled from his human life, but the mutant thing just heavily complicates things. Shredder's mutants also strive to keep their 'humanity.' Shredder never refers to them as their Turtle-given mutant names, nor do they take on a new name of their own. While Xever might be leaning towards accepting his mutant status, Bradford gets downright violent if he gets referred to as a 'dog' and not 'man.' Not only that, whenever any retromutagen rears it's head, Shredder's goons are the first to elbow anybody else out of the way for it, even their fellow 'henchmen.'

It seems that if someone gets mutated as a child (Tigerclaw and Malachi) they seem to accept it fast, but adults don't deal with it as well, and at times can get downright nasty and vindictive. .

And would the human mutants be considered as animals now? That kind of makes me uneasy for some reason, because that implies they dropped a status and can now be killed and eaten.