3 little questions

[ArcherofAiur]

All the "new" Zerg models look amazing imo.

Again i think the broodlord looks amazing just the broodlord inst appropriate. For instance if the drone or mutalisk didnt exist i would be like "wow creative!"

[ChaosSmurf]

Haha, I just noticed that gif of the guardian makes it look so crap. Wow.

[Nicol Bolas]

Currently I think the Broodlord is obviously a mutalisk evolution.

The Mutalisk looks nothing like the Brood Lord.

It's weird for zerg units to evolve into something that has absolutely no resemblance with former self.

Right. Because Mutalisks look so much like Guardians. And Hydralisks are well-known for having 5 legs like Lurkers.

Zerg mutations have always been arbitrary.

[ArcherofAiur]

The Mutalisk looks nothing like the Brood Lord.

Except for body plan, segmentation, mandible development, membrane wings complete with digit support. But yah other than that nothing like the mutalisk.


Now you name similarities between broodlord and corruptor


Trust me Nicol, im taking embryology right now and the difference in development between mutalisk and broodlord are microscopic compared to corruptor and broodlord.

[Pandonetho]

Dude, it's called a metamorphosis of a completely alien species. They don't have to have a lot of resemblance.



And as for the lurker,



The lurker has the head of the Hydralisk still.

[ArcherofAiur]

Catapillar and butterfly have huge underlying similarities. For example caterpillars have six true legs just like butterflys. It all comes down to the body plan and development.

[Pandonetho]

Trust me Nicol, im taking embryology right now and the difference in development between mutalisk and broodlord are microscopic compared to corruptor and broodlord.

Glad you know so much about a random alien species that no one has ever studied.

[ArcherofAiur]

Glad you know so much about a random alien species that no one has ever studied.

Not alien species. Evodevo which all life follows.

Its actually really fascinating. For instance did you know your heart forms above your mouth and then eventually folds down into your chest?

[Pandonetho]

Its actually really fascinating. For instance did you know your heart forms above your mouth and then eventually folds down into your chest?

Did you know I dropped you as a baby and you turned out the way you did?

[Nicol Bolas]

Except for body plan, segmentation, mandible development, membrane wings complete with digit support. But yah other than that nothing like the mutalisk.

The membrane wings are attached in completely different ways. And the "digit support" are pointed in different directions. In order for the BL to come from a Mutalisk, it would have to reverse the direction of it's wings and attach the entire length of its arms to its side.

It would also have to break its permanently-curved spine. And get rid of its lower "mouth".

The lurker has the head of the Hydralisk still.

And the rest of it looks nothing like a Hydralisk. The Lurker is clearly a Chimera, a patchwork animal made from the head of a Hydralisk and the body of something else.

Not alien species. Evodevo which all life follows.

The point he's trying to make is that the underlying similarities between caterpillars and butterflies are exactly that: underlying. Cursory visual inspection doesn't so any similarities; you have to take them apart to be able to tell that they're similar.

You have clearly not taken apart a Mutalisk, Corruptor, or Brood Lord, so you can't use that argument.

Also, the Zerg do not follow evolution.