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Leela with Red hair?
Wait, isnt Red hair A scottish trait? The only way you could be A red headed Irishman is if you really hated yourself. Or you're an Ulster.
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David A

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Originally posted by Nerd-o-rama: Not like it matters, though, cause they're MUTANTS! There's your ethnicity. That's not an ethnicity. Just look at the X-Men. Originally posted by Venus: personally i always figured the Turangas were a little on the Irish side. For their apparent ability to hold their liquer, and Leela's fiery temper. Stereotyping. How cute. Originally posted by Col. Klink: Wait, isnt Red hair A scottish trait? The only way you could be A red headed Irishman is if you really hated yourself. The Scots originally migrated to what is now Scotland from Ireland. I doubt that they took all of the genes for red hair with them when they left.
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Shaucker

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Forget first names. "Turanga" is of Sanscrit origin, and "Leela" has varients all through India and Eurasia
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Local Jerseyan

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Names have nothing to do with your ethnicity. I'm Cuban, and my names are (respectively) French, I'll say Hispanic (only in pronunciation), and some kind of Polish Jewish thing... that's still a little out there. But I think I made a point: Many Cubans have French names.
So that aside, I don't see the mutants as being an ethnic group. They're people from every ethinicity who were ostracized from society because of these mutations. Even if you could define them as a group of people with their customs and whatnot, they're all still Irish, Japanese, Spanish, French, American, the whole lot. That's my view, anyway.
As for Leela, no idea. It's not like Amy who's Chinese (g'uh!) and Fry who IMO is Irish. So, *shrug*.
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« Reply #16 on: 09-28-2004 09:06 »
« Last Edit on: 09-28-2004 09:06 »
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Originally posted by CrazyDoc: I suppose he could have Irish blood from his mother's side though. What mother's side? He's his own grandpa. All that his mother's genes did was somehow cancel out any genes passed down through his father from Grandma Mildred, so that he could end up with the same exact genetic code as his grandfather (i.e. himself). *head explodes* I'm pretty sure Brannigan is an Irish name Sounds like one. After all, "Brannigan Begin Again" is a play on "Finnegan Begin Again". Anyway, Leela, like many Americans, is probably of mixed European descent. There's nothing wrong with being a mutt. Leela's mom does seem an awful lot like a stereotypical Jewish mother, though.
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evan

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Originally posted by Jicannon:
"Mutant" isn't really an ethnicity anyway....any race can mutate and they'd still belong to whichever race they were born into, only mutated. It could be. Think about it like this: those original mutants that were banished to the sewers were probably of numerous ethnic backgrounds. When they settled in the sewers, there was a limited amount of people to breed with. After dozens of years (or hundreds, we don't know how long mutants have lived in the sewers), the breeding process would remove most ethnic identities. That's why all the mutants have that beige-ish skin coloring - the constant genetic mixing turned them into a new ethnic group, different from the surface ones.
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David A

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Originally posted by evan: I don't think that many new mutants would be born if those already with the mutant gene were shuttled off into the sewers. Why not? Where did the first mutants come from? Also, "the mutant gene"? Maybe you need to look up the word mutation. The mutants are as different from one another as they are from "normal" humans.
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futz
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I tend to think she's Jewish but there isn't anything to say she isn't really alien either. Perhaps Morris and Munda or their parents were marooned here much like the Coneheads. Seems odd that they are both cyclopses but aren't related. Always seemed odd that weird aliens can walk the streets but not earthly mutants. The storyline turned 180 degrees before and it could go in any direction from there. Perhaps they're really mutated decapodians from their early days of genetic engineering.
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Ralph Snart

Agent Provocateur
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Leela is a sophisticated New New Yorker - she was born a mutant - the mutants were once regular people that were exposed to toxic waste, radioactive runoff and good ol' American Feces (God Bless America!). So to live in the NNY sewers, one would guess that the mutants were once NNY'ers, thus they are probably Americans. Leela then is a Hienz 57 - a mutt. In other words, a red blooded, single-eyed purple-hair American!
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futz
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A one-eyed, one-horned, flying, purple people-eater?
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Ralph Snart

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Now we know that Leela doesn't have a horn and she can't fly (without a ship, of course).
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Ralph Snart

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Hey, I'm 1/4 Cherokee Indian, 1/4 German and 1/2 American mutt that was born in Marietta, GA. So what does that make me? I call myself an American; not a Native American, not a Southener. American is my ethnicity. I dare say that Leela is an American Mutant.
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