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You don't want to mess with jellyfish. Not that they're easy to
That's true in media too, but with one little difference. When a fictional character has a run-in with a jelly it often sets their hair standing on end, with sparks flying or some other electric effect surrounding the
In many cases, that's just a visual effect, perhaps [[Rule of Perception|done only to show the viewer]] that the stinging is actually occurring and that said stinging feels the same as getting shocked. Other times the jellyfish is actually shown to have a literal electric discharge, as if it were an electric
Complicating matters are the jellyfish relatives known as [[wikipedia:Ctenophore|comb jellies]], some species of which look like they are wired up with LED light bulbs as a result of light diffraction in their tissues.
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