Nasty Pasty
DOOP Secretary
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Yeah, at least she was able to form relatively ok sentences and function somewhat properly.
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Crash_7
Professor
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Originally posted by Digital Dragon: 2. Leela is significant because she will be the mother of Fry's child and Fry's bloodline must be continued to have someone around immune to the brains after he dies.
I've noticed that this scenario has been speculated at in several fanfics.
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gottalovebender
Bending Unit
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i'm going to go along with what digital dragon said but add a little, leela is either significant because fry's love for her will give him strength, she will give birth to fry's kid, nibbler is a manipulitive bastard, i'll also add leela is fry's gardian, and saves his life so he can save the universe. my personal opinion on which one of these things is what the writers ment to say is, she saves him, he loves her, then she gives him a child. so technically i chose almost all of them but that would be the wiser choice, and make all of us shippers happy plus i really hope they are not related, even though he would still love her since he did his grandma, it would still be grose
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Dr. Morberg
Professor
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Or, maybe that was put in after the show was put on hiatus, just to mess with us fans and start discussions like this.
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David A
Space Pope
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This "other" business reminds me of a line from The Books of Magic.
For those of you not familiar with it, The Books of Magic was a comic book series by John Ney Reiber (based on an earlier miniseries by Neil Gaiman, of Sandman fame). It was the story of Tim Hunter, an ordinary boy who learns that he has the potential to become the greatest magician of his time (something referred to as "an opener" or "the opener" by various characters throughout the series).
Anyway, at one point in the series, there were these gargoyles spying on Tim and his girlfriend, Molly. After observing Tim and Molly for a while, one of the gargoyles said, "He's an opener, isn't he? And that girl, she's his other."
Unfortunately, we never got to find out what that meant. Not long afterwards, John Ney Reiber left the book. The new writer took it in a different sort of direction and apparently decided that Molly wasn't "the other" after all. "The other" turned out to be this evil version of Tim from an alternate universe who was travelling from universe to universe, killing all of the other Tim Hunters, so that he could be the one, true Tim Hunter.
Nibbler's line about Leela being "the other" always made me think of that gargoyle saying that Molly was Tim's "other". I suppose that we'll never find out what Nibbler meant, though; just like we never found out what that gargoyle meant.
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Shaucker
Professor
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Here's something to speculate:
Leela told Fry in SP3K that his greatx-nephew was his closest link, but later we see that since Fry is his own grandfather, he must be Farthsworth's great-grandFATHER; a much closer link. Technically, he could also become a distant relative of Leela's that way, it's that whole paradox thing, and Leela's parents are NY-ers, prolly mutated from people in old NY.
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futz
Liquid Emperor
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If you check the Alien Language Signs section at The Leela Zone/Futurama Madhouse you'll under the "My Three Sons" set there is a poster behind Leela as she is walking down the street with Fry. It says "The Eye Will Come". In Fry's Opera in Devil's Hands" his lyrics refer to Leela as "like a baby Moses" that might deliver her people. We don't know if that would be mutants, humans, or the Universe yet. Perhaps Fry is starting to have unconscious flashes of the future due his exposure to time travel.
It was Leela who checked Fry's genetics when he woke up. If there was anything there about being related she probably have said something. But then again, at the time she thought she was an alien. Her genetic database at her old job didn't know everything.
We tend to see the 31st century through Fry's eyes which means we're missing about a 1000 years of history.
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Futurama Nerd
Professor
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That's a good thought Rhodan. Maybe when Nibbler said Leela was "the other", he ment that she was the other person who helped fight the brains. But this is probably not true, I mean, it's Futurama! But Iam interested in this whole "other" thing.
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Shiny
Professor
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I, too think that Leela is important in her own right to the Nibblonians, for some reason other than her relationship to Fry. If only because having her only purpose being inspiring or breeding with Fry would be incredibly sexist, and I think better of Matt and David than that.
Leela is pretty strong, but her muscles can only be so dense before she loses the ability to swim or float. She treaded water in the Slurm factory, so super density can't be all of it.
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futz
Liquid Emperor
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Mmmm...come to think of it Nibbler was only guessing. The Other could actually be anyone, maybe even Scruffy.
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Shiny
Professor
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« Reply #66 on: 05-07-2005 15:37 »
« Last Edit on: 05-07-2005 15:37 »
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^^^^^^^ "Scruffy's gonna save the universe." (long pause) "No applause. Just throw money and women."
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Shiny
Professor
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If Nibbler was that manipulative, he'd have zapped Fry's memory the minute Fry put him down, knocked him out, and done what he had to. Instead, he gave him the choice, but of course he's going to try to persuade Fry to choose to save the universe.
And his comment about "the Other" seemed more like a remark to himself than to Fry. Fry didn't even really catch it. To Fry he just said not to give up, and promised to help as much as he could.
And he only finally zapped Fry's memory when Fry made the remark about telling everyone. It's possible he was considering asking Fry to keep it a secret, or trusting no one would believe Fry, before that. But seeing Fry so jazzed on the idea of his own importance and eager to convince his friends, Nibbler realized it was safer to blank his memory.
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Shiny
Professor
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« Reply #71 on: 05-07-2005 22:22 »
« Last Edit on: 05-07-2005 22:22 »
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Dang, David A, you really want to believe the worst of Nibbler! Are you a cynic, or do you just like playing Robot Devil's Advocate? I choose to believe the Nibblonians are more or less good, not just because they're cute and cuddly, but because they are trying to save the universe and stuff and they purr.
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Shiny
Professor
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Yes - even though he could have blanked Fry's memory and frozen him anyway if he refused. Nibbler's motives seem very complex, and therefore interesting.
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