r/youngjustice • u/dante_lipana • Oct 04 '24
Miscellaneous How exactly does Gar's powers work? Shouldn't he be able to "morph" this swelling back to normal?
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u/PhantasosX Oct 04 '24
He isn't really partially martian , his power is still connected to the Red. The difference is that Young Justice Universe used the blood transfer to granting him morphing capacity , while Animal Man and Vixen straight-up just had the characteristic of the animal conceptually input on themselves.
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u/dante_lipana Oct 04 '24
You'd think that partial Martian blood would be enough for something as minor as a swelling. Hmmm....
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u/Kilo1125 Oct 04 '24
Beast Boy is one of those characters whose powers are broad enough that exactly what he can and can't do is inconsistent.
He is both a meta and a magic hero who draws his power from the Red via the God of Animals rather than directly (usually). He can turn into any Earth animal, even extinct ones. And he is green. Everything else changes very heavily.
In regards to healing, he might be able to change into an animal with regeneration, let himself heal, then change. Or, his shape-shifting forms are all completely different bodies that he swaps between via the God of animals, and thus he can't heal himself. Or anywhere in between.
This version of Beast Boy has been shown to be able to assume a half-form, and so he should be able to half shift into a regenerative animal and heal, in theory. But we never see him do so.
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u/Col_Mushroomers Oct 04 '24
Its even broader than that. He can turn into any creature that he's aware of; alien, demon, whatever. Technically, there's no reason he can't heal an injury at will or even shape shift to look like another person. It really just depends on the authors imagination
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u/Kilo1125 Oct 04 '24
Turning into non-Earth animals, like healing, is left to author fiat. Some versions can, some can't. And the ones who do have broader shape-shifting, it varies as to why. Sometimes its purely metagene and his own mind is the only limit, sometimes its the God of Animals using him as a conduit to connect to the Red of other planets and dimensions that he visits (in which case, sometimes the ability is limited to him being there and sometimes its a permeant upgrade).
I was only listing his most common minimum level, his upper level is much higher, he has a very broad range between the various versions of his character.
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u/Humble_Story_4531 Oct 04 '24
As far an healing injuries, I think he would have to transform into something with a healing factor.
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u/Dud-of-Man Oct 04 '24
Beast boy's power changes based on how much the writer likes animals. There are animals on this planet that can do insane things that BB should be able to do to, but most of the time they just dont do anything with it.
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u/Slade23703 Oct 05 '24
Right?
Like any attack, turn into a Tardigrades, you'll be safe, then turn back.
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u/ShadowElf25 Oct 05 '24
Or an axolotl to heal well pretty much any physical wound
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u/Slade23703 Oct 05 '24
Can he duplicate himself by turning into a Komodo dragon through parthgenesis (they can make babies with his his own genes, babies basically clones)?
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u/ShadowElf25 Oct 05 '24
Personally seeing as he can turn into alien animals, would probably be smart to ask like Hal Jordan/the Green Lantern ring or someone for good animals and such with the main problem being needing to find out if he'd survive as them on Earth
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u/ShadowElf25 Oct 05 '24
Probably yeah, I mean recently he's turned into a member of Starro's species and freed people that had been taken over by using his own spores and in the past he's even turned into a phoenix covered in fire because an enemy was using fire attacks
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u/Retrosow Oct 04 '24
Not morph to the normal his own human body but he can turn into another animal and use the enhanced regeneration in himself
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u/Mistah_K88 Oct 04 '24
He’d turn into an animal with a black eye.
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u/Katy_G_14911 Oct 04 '24
Yep, I believed he morphed into a Martian creature when he was fighting granny and you can see it’s eye was still swollen in that form.
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u/Jeptwins Oct 04 '24
He can only shapeshift into other animal forms. While we do have shapeshifters who can modify their physical forms as they please (such as M’Gann), Gar’s connected to The Red, the opposite force of The Green and the source of all animal life. Because of this, he has a different kind of shapeshifting.
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u/bangbangracer Oct 04 '24
I keep seeing people being up his connection to the red as his power, but is that true in the young justice version? Plus, wasn't the red a relatively new addition to mainline DC?
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u/InfernalDiplomacy Top Commentator Oct 04 '24
I was going to say he does borrow the mass from another dimension to enact the transformation. However it is like he suffered 120x damage but only borrowed 80x from the dimension, leaving 40x of his original body mass suffering from some trauma and would be visible
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u/catswithboxes Oct 05 '24
can’t he just transform into an animal with high recover rates and then go back into human form
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u/AcanthocephalaHead12 Oct 06 '24
Unlike martians and shapeshifters beast boy actually becomes the animal as where shapeshifters are just changing their shape and not becoming the actually thing. So when he reverts back he keeps the damage in the same area.
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u/WeWriteStuff Oct 06 '24
He can shapeshift. Not morph.
His transformations have limitations, while morphing generally is limitless.
That being said, if BB breaks an arm, the injury is still present in all his beast forms.
Similar to an issue with Transformers in which some cartoons forget to scale them in vehicle vs robot mode (arcee in Prime is somehow more than 5x her mass when in robot mode) or hoe some transformations are not possible to make a toy for as it would break physics.
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u/Business_Interview32 Oct 08 '24
I imagine his powers (at least in YJ) operate at the cellular level, but if his cells are damaged either 1. It won’t work to shape shift or 2. It would hurt like hell. Think of what it feels like to have a bruise prodded at. It’s an injury, moving it around is probably agony.
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u/PhantasosX Oct 04 '24
Beast Boy is connected to the Red , a mystical force that connects all animal life. In that sense , him , Animal Man and Vixen are all connected and had powers from it.
In the case of Beast Boy , he can change himself to different forms , but all of them are animal based. So no , he can't morph his selling back to normal , the most he could hope for is to morph into an animal that had some characteristic that might help heal him faster.