Thread:The Many-Angled One/@comment-25192437-20161016004656/@comment-4548390-20161025073130

Arawn 999 wrote: The Many-Angled One wrote: Arawn 999 wrote: AnnabellRice wrote: I believe it's intentional, a variation of Henry Wu's Lysine Contingency from Jurassic Park, where he made the dinosaurs all lysine deficient so that without human handlers to supply the missing component, they would become comatose and die; however, in Michael Crichton's work, the animals are smart enough to find foods rich in lysine regardless of the geneticist's best effort at controlling their population. Warren's been betrayed by his clones enough times that I'd have thought he'd have come up with a contingency a long time ago. How things are worded on Doc Ock 2.0's page makes it sound like it's a flaw in his cloning process that Doc Ock is helping him fix, though. Maybe his new "resurrection" cloning method has a glitch in it that his old methods didn't? While giving the pills to Otto, the Jackal tells him that the cellular breakdown in his clones was, in his own words, "a little insurance I put in all my clients... so they don't forget who's in charge." Otto then tells him he knows it's a lie, that the cellular breakdown was a flaw in his cloning process that he couldn't correct, so he agrees to work with the Jackal to find a way of getting rid of it. It seems to me that the cellular breakdown was always there, but just now the Jackal decided to use it in his favor. Huh... I dunno about that. Up till now, Kaine's been the only clone Miles has created (that I know of) who had degeneration issues, and he long since worked that kink out: Ben Reilly never had any issues with it, nor did his clones of Gwen Stacy or Adriana Soria. They did have it, but it just happened when they died. And the Jackal triggered the decay of some of his clones already in the Alpha story arc.