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== [[Western Animation]] == |
== [[Western Animation]] == |
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* [[Cybersix]] was designed so that she requires "Sustenance" in order to live. With the only source of Sustenance being the man who created her, she is forced to extract it from the creatures that he sends to destroy her. |
* [[Cybersix]] was designed so that she requires "Sustenance" in order to live. With the only source of Sustenance being the man who created her, she is forced to extract it from the creatures that he sends to destroy her. |
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== [[Real Life]] == |
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* What would you need with a ''complex organic molecule'', ''acidic hydroxide'' and an ''oxidiser''? Why, you must eat ''sugar'', drink ''water'' and breathe ''oxygen'' to live. All three, in inappropriate concentrations and/or locations, can be deadly. (Excess free water can lyse cells, to say nothing of water shifting to places it shouldn't, as in pulmonary edema; oxygen can cause free radical damage to tissues, and oxygen toxicity is heavily implicated in retinopathy of prematurity; and either too little or too much circulating glucose—known more prosaically as diabetes<ref>Or, if you're Wilford Brimley, [[Memetic Mutation|Diabeetus]]</ref>—can cause metabolic derangements leading to irreversible brain damage, coma and death.) |
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[[Category:Weaksauce Weakness]] |
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