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Col. Klink
Professor
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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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Shaucker
Professor
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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
Bending Unit
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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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futz
Liquid Emperor
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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
Near Death Star Inhabitant
DOOP Secretary
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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
Liquid Emperor
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A one-eyed, one-horned, flying, purple people-eater?
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Ralph Snart
Agent Provocateur
Near Death Star Inhabitant
DOOP Secretary
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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
Agent Provocateur
Near Death Star Inhabitant
DOOP Secretary
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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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