Grrl Power #493 – MisidentifiCATion
Guys. The hoops I had to jump through so Sydney could drop some hot Arnold quotes… It’s literally the only reason they’re at a Mars chocolate warehouse. Pretty sure I deserve an Eisner or the key to a city or something. By the way, Hot Arnold sounds like a disgusting sex move, probably involving Icy Hot sports rub in place of lube.
Say what you will about Sydney, but she recovers quickly from surprise, shock, sqee’s, glomp… glomp is an emotion, right?
You do have to suspend disbelief a little to accept that Harem would mistake Pixel for a puma (slash cougar slash mountain lion). They don’t have spots. It’s especially weird considering she grew up on a farm. Not that that would necessarily confer knowledge about great cats, but you’d expect her to have slightly better animal literacy. We can just chock it up to a brain fart. I just really needed someone to say “puma” to set Sydney up, and Krona already knew Pixel was a were-jaguar. Sydney mistaking her for a leopard is more forgivable. Leopard spots look closer to jaguar rosettes that any other cat, especially from the front, where they’re basically just spots.
I know it’s tiny on the page, but Sydney is looking up “cat spots” on her wrist thing in the second to last panel.
Rereading the page now, I should probably change Harem’s last word bubble to read “My second guess would have been panther.” She’s obviously making a Pink Panther joke, but since she already said Puma, it’s a little confusing.
Of course, jaguars are panthers. Specifically black jaguars. Actually, according to wikipedia, nearly any large cat except a lion or a tiger can be called a jaguar. I was surprised to learn (actually only a few years ago) that there’s no discrete species of cat called a panther. It’s just a thing people call other kinds of large cats. I don’t know why. Panther only sounds marginally cooler than Puma or Cougar, and slightly less cool than Jaguar. These rankings are objectively true based on my opinion.
None of this answers how becoming a giant pink hybrid form jaguar aids in stealthily reconning the place.
Edit: It seems quite a few people aren’t as familiar with some of Arnold’s catalog as I had taken for granted, so here are references. As to why any single line from a movie becomes a meme, that’s simply up to the fickle will of the masses. It’s not a tumah! and Get your ass to mars. (which gets looped in the movie after the console gets smashed)
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I’m liking Pixel more and more. It be great if there were some pinup art of her. Especially her were Jaguar form.
How about pinup art of all the were ladies?
Wearing nothing but their fur
And a second picture of them, in their transformed state.
Fully transformed? Yes, would like to see Clover in her honey badger form
Actually I was just being naughty and making a play on words.
If there were to be a were-themed vote incentive, I would like to see them having a picnic in the woods or somewhere equally isolated or private, where they can let their fur down.
Perhaps Sydney will have D&D with her civilian friends on Tuesdays and have a Thursday lycanthrope session too? She better remember to bring snacks though!
Would still like to see what DaveB has envisioned for their fully-animal form: would Pixelicious actually be a pink panther, or maybe a cute pussy :D
I’m sure it is…
I’ve done a post but seeing as it’s at the back of the line I’ll ad one here too :-P
Technically speaking she is a panther as it is just another word for mammal (including human) it was often used for a mammal that was spotted but not close enough to be identified properly so it stuck for the “black panther”.
No, a ‘cougar’ is not the same thing as a ‘panther’
The ‘black panther’ is simply a leopard or jaguar that has a fully black coat that still has the spots (but who is going to get close enough to a live specimen to check?)
LOL, a P.E.T.A. commercial:
I’d rather go naked AND wear furs!
Panel 5. No petting allowed!
Not sure I want to see Sydney in all of her fur.
all good suggestions.
I think becoming a giant cat does sort of help with the stealth, but the pink takes away from it. +2 to sound stealth -2 to visual stealth eh?
Let’s not forget we have reality-hacking girl here with us. She can easily edit something so simple as the color of fur from pink to black.
+1. That’s a good point.
Though the comment about the pink taking away from visual stealth reminds me of an old space combat sim that I played a long time ago, right around the time SVGA started coming out.
Let’s just say that the stealth fighters were only invisible to radar. Anyone looking out their window would’ve seen you coming from kvum* away. I’m like, “Just because you have 256 colors doesn’t mean you have to use all of them!” The stealth fighter had these bright orange stripes…
* The game used “km”, but they insisted it was not kilometers. The short story is that the emperor asked his court astronomer how far it was from their homeworld to the sun. Caught by surprise, the only thing he could say was “kvum, kvum, kvum” over and over, because he knew that if he got it wrong, the emperor would have him killed. The emperor thought he was counting out some sort of measurement. So one kvum is one one-thousandth the distance from their homeworld to their sun.
Which makes no sense at all since all orbits are elliptical and the distance would change over time. At best you can give an average or approximate distance.
No one claimed Space Emperor’s were smart :P
Sea Emperors are telepaths tho
One one-thousandth of the average distance. This was before they had space travel. At the time they probably didn’t even know that their orbit was an ellipse.
Being a giant pink anthro jaguar gives a bonus to visual stealth by virtue of people refusing to believe what they’re seeing.
No, that’s being a giant pink anthro elephant, because anyone who sees one assumes that they must be drunk.
If you’re a low-level guard for a nebulously evil organization and you see a giant pink anthro jaguar sneaking through the complex, would you A) attempt to sound the alarm and likely get horribly slaughtered or B) pretend that you didn’t see anything out of the ordinary while exiting the room and considering a change in careers?
or C) they really aren’t paying me enough either way for me to see a therapist about the stress related to apparently see pink sexy Wear Jaguars,
“Excuse me, you appear to be a hallucination. Are you in fact one?
“Yes?”
“Good to know – I’ll be reporting to the infirmary now. Cheerio!”
No no! —–> This.
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If you’re seeing tiny pink elephants when you’re drunk, there’s two things I want you to do:
(1) Stop drinking so much; and
(2) Stop brushing the little buggers off on me!
(Thank you, Benny Hill.)
Only once you activate the SEP field…..
Thank you for that reference, you are a hoopy frood.
was wondering when someone would mention it. I wonder if there’s any italian bistros in the area.
+5 to Lethal Stealth, though, which I think balances it all out.
And when’s the last time YOU saw a giant pink were-jaguar?
Heyyy… she reminds me of Shina from Bloody Roar!
God I loved that game. Ofcourse Shina was a were-leopard. Damn now I feel racist too.
Although surely It’s speciest? How does it work if you’re a light skinned were-jaguar dating a dark skinned were-panther and/ or a light skinned were-Jaguar?
Are you split twice racialy or are you a common race as a were-animal?
Shina’s dad is a were-lion, so I don’t think that it follows normal species rules in the game.
me wants more bloody roar………..damn i miss that game along with some darkstalkers and rival school……….just more old school fighting game in general……please…….that street fighter V does not cut out with its graphics heck i would still play IV.
Fighting games were never really my thing but I loved Bloody Roar and will be all over Killing Bites if it actually ever sees release.
In the Bloody Roar universe, species is rarely maintained in families (outside of the tengu tribe, who’re all crows) but, IIRC, felines will rarely birth non-felines.
So cat spots isn’t pulling any unsafe search results, and I can’t find it on urban dictionary: can someone enlighten me as to what they are?
It’s probably just a Rule 34 thing…
She probably found a bunch of furry porn.
Probably did a “tineye” search and got furry porn.
I confess, I was thinking “Red versus Blue” for the first one…
You were not alone. It came up a couple of times, on the previous page of comments.
Ah, I knew the second one was from total recall, but haven’t seen Kindergarten cop.
Also my god that 4th panel…. that’s one for the facial freeze frame.
You should. It’s by far the funniest Arnold movie ever. Even better than Twins.
Psst. Discrete (specific), not discreet (tactful).
Stupid English!
Honest ignorance is NOT racism. Aggressive ignorance — tenaciously holding onto your ignorance after being told/shown/taught better — certainly can be. Because I acknowledge that racial differences do exist (even though it’s just the amount of melanin in your skin), and like to poke fun at racial stereotypes (and fully expect you to play the game and do the same back!), I’m called a racist and a bigot. On the contrary, I’m trying to bring to light, and have fun with, the absurdity of stereotypes.
When you have respect and actual toleration, you don’t need Political Correctness and “Tolerance”.
Political Correctness has always confused me: it places racial differences at the forefront of every problem we have (i.e., black lives matter) while at the same time saying that they don’t exist. That seems hypocritical to me, at best.
And toleration (in the true meaning of the word) is the ability to agree to disagree and still be civil — even friendly. “Tolerance” on the other hand is the exact opposite, saying that you must agree with me or we’ll have a problem.
Anyway, enough rant. We both have better things to do today.
IHN
Feel the same way
Ignorance can be fixed, stupid is forever…
Political correctness is only to make the politicians feel better. Also, pretty sure BLM isn’t from under the PC flag.
Racially we are almost identical. We are all humans. Now if we also had Cromags and Neandertals that would be different. But not by much. We can thank the white racist empires in the 17th century of starting we are of “different races” crap. Race = Species. We are the human race. Anything else is just adaptions to local areas. (Minor differences really.)
“PC” is such a nebulous concept used by mostly Reich Wingers to derail any conversation without really saying anything. Just silly putty. Of no real value.
Speak for yourself!
*holds snout in the air*
So did anyone else feel this page was especially add?
Awww, Sydney is bringing out her manga eyes again. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1715
I can understand Pixel’s annoyance with being asked about petting. It’s the same problem black people have with their hair. “No, you can’t touch it, white eyes I’m not a chia pet!”
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia!
I don’t get the “I’d have guessed panther.” “Yeah, I’ve never heard *that* before.” exchange.
Pixel Panther is commenting on the unspoken “Pink Panther” part, and the way she’s leaning in with narrowed eyes, she is daring Daphne to say :D
And so help her if she starts humming or whistling…
What’s up with that waist? It looks just weird.
Honestly I think the waists are a bit too slim in this comic. It makes people look a bit strange when bending over. This is the only thing I don’t like with Dave’s style.
Some people, specially athletes, have abnormally slim waists, just check out sprinters
I assure you that is the average size for six foot tall bipedal pink jaguars.
*watches Pixel lift her shirt to show off her back*
*nosebleed*
*SWOON*
Why has no one mentioned the Nyah cat reference in Panel 4?
Nyah is just japanese for meow. If you mean that poptart rainbow thing, that’s Nyan-Cat.
Which is just ”cat-cat”
One of my pet peeves is when people throw in random Japanese words, like the time someone called a friend of mine Neko-kitty. Neko, of course, is the word for cat. (Not “Nyan”, that’s a made-up word. “Nyah” does mean meow, though.)
So apparently my friend is “cat-kitty”. (She went ballistic too. She has the same pet peeve I do, in regards to throwing in random words from other languages.)
It’s like people saying “Mount Fujiyama”
I just remembered I have to go to the ATM machine today. I hope I can remember my PIN number.
In Mexican cooking ‘mole’ means sauce, which doesn’t stop menus from advertising ‘with mole sauce’.
And what’s the deal with ‘subterranean cave/cavern’? Are there other kinds?
Technically if you have a cave in a glacier, it’s not subterranean. And i haven’t found many places that call mole mole sauce, but the ones that do tend to be in rural areas.
“And what’s the deal with ‘subterranean cave/cavern’? Are there other kinds?”
Yes there are. Ever heard of a mountain or a hill having caves? Some do.
Nicely played. Mind you they still have terrain above them, hence are still subterranean. It is not like the non-raised terrain kind are called ‘plains caves’. A cave really does require terrain above it, or else it is a sinkhole, gulch or some similar name.
Well, we do call domestic felines”Kitty-Cat” here in the States. :p
Exactly.
Besides that its pretty close to cutsey wootsey nick names and or baby talk so its a strange thing to apply a pet peeve about the proper use of a language. (or two)
I remember someone complaining online that he didn’t like the taste of ‘Neko Wafers’. I had thought that was just a misspelling, but based on your explanation now I am not so sure. I don’t think I would like those either.
I’m pretty sure those are just off-brand japanese kit kats or something.
With REAL Neko!
I’ve, uhmm… never heard or read the word “abridged” used in such a way before…
It’s legitimate.
2.
to reduce or lessen in duration, scope, authority, etc.; diminish; curtail:
to abridge a visit; to abridge one’s freedom.
Cheetara ain’t got nothing on her!
OK, now I want to know where Sydney was going with that “wait, if you’re a were-leopard…”
You and me both
Thirded.
Sydney has already figured out that Dabbler is an alien princess and Xochitil is the daughter of an Aztec god. Pixel is probably Dr Livingstone’s great granddaugher. But to be modified to something more South American themed, how that Sydney knows she is a were-jaguar.
The descendant of an illegitimate union between Sir Francis Drake and an Incan priestess? One known to favour pink orchids and who was reputed to be able to transform into the forms of the creatures of the jungle.
Doodle Cartoon under the Page:
Sydney ‘Can I spank you?’
Pixel(pouty face) ‘…maybe later.’
But only if Sydney brings the matching pink furry handcuffs.
That she ‘borrowed’ from Ellie
I KNOW I’d get my armtorn off, out I still wanna let Pixel andvscritchnher behind her ears…
I just wonder how she’d react to catnip?
Mmm, dat back…. and the things I’d do to those fuzzy boobs…
I can see the aftermath now…
*hack* *haaack* “Sorry, hairball… ” LOL
“A hairball? I didn’t know you shed.”
“I don’t… it’s not my hair.”
(Credit for the joke goes to Jeff Dunham and Peanut, when he performed at the university I attended.)
Ok, did a snip of Pixel’s back, forced Chrome to open it and then did a Google image search. It told me that the most similar thing was this, which was absolutely hilarious!
https://guideimg.alibaba.com/images/shop/102/01/26/6/wishpets-pink-camo-dinosaur-claw-slippers-fun-animal-footwear-cozy-comfy-large_2727896.jpg
You know…looking back on page 448, I can’t help but think the panel with Pixel over the giant vat of blood and the vial of were blood was foreshadowing to her were-ness.
On the other hand… while Dave made it clear that was just how Halo imagined it happened…
Who better to put in that situation than a therianthrope? It’s not like she could get re-infected.
Given that there is a far higher chance of were-creature blood leading to a were of the same species than of an unrelated one, I’m not sure that’s true. This speaks to their being different strains where different genes are dominant, which would mean that reinfection would indeed be a possibility.
Now whether reinfection would do anything or not is another matter, since Pixel already has a predisposition to one type of animal. I could see there being atleast a chance of a hybridized beast form occuring though.
*there.
Trying to pet random therinthropes like that, you’d think Sydney *wanted* to get infected. :p
Sadly I doubt it’ll ever happen.
So is pixel’s hair naturally that colour? If she dyed it what would happen to the dye when she transforms? There are so many questions about the logistics of were-transformations.
Also holy shit she totally said Nyah .. like you know
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IIRC if you insert one of the UTF8 space characters (don’t recall which (the are several)) instead of pressing the space bar, it stops the comment system eating the spaces
I would kiss you right now, if I could and you were okay with it.
Either way, be sure to keep your pants on. Otherwise it is something other than kissing.
Oh how I wish there was a delete comment button.
It looks like the comment system made that picture into a cat-astrophe.
When you get a Cat-astrophe you just need to pray for a Holy Mackerel.
Just hope it is not a cat-ass-trophy >_>
Some might think Pixel deserving of such an award.
Yes please! Would greatly enjoy to have such a trophy :)
Nevermind, these make it worth it.
Despairing that picture jagged-u-r.
Also remember that all big cats are Panthers, so it’s not a like.
Tiger is Panthera Tigris, Lion is Panthera Leo…
They’re all Panthers. There’s just an actual Panther Panther.
Also Panther is a really weird word. Just putting that out there. It looks weird. Shame on you panther, for weirdness.
Fortunately, the Cheetah is not classed as a ‘big cat’ :P
Here is Pixel’s Car.
Okay…
#1) That is totally a boss car – very shiny, very muscle car.
#2) “Driving the Pink Jaguar” should be a euphemism for sex or masturbation.
#3) Seriously, that car is just a little too on-the-nose (if you get my drift).
Thank you, pup!
Panther is a word used to discrib any mammal including humans so she is a panther no mater what form she’s in and so is harem and Sydney and krona.
Wait, what? o_O
Panther (păn′thər)
n
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1. A large wild cat such as a leopard or jaguar, especially in a color form with black fur.
2. See cougar.
Cougar (ko͞o′gər)
n.
1. A large powerful wild cat (Puma concolor syn. Felis concolor) chiefly of mountainous regions of the Americas, having an unmarked tawny body and a long tail. Also called catamount, mountain cat, mountain lion, panther, puma; Also called regionally painter.
2. Slang A woman, especially one over 30, who romantically pursues or attracts younger men.
As Pixel is both young and has not exhibited any predatory behaviour yet, it is a bit of a stretch.
As a devout furry I find this and the last page highly amusing and terribly relatable. Bravo!
I love the eyes in 4!
So, this is an observation I’m surprised no one else has made. The word ‘panther’ is also a slang term for a young woman who prefers older men, the same way ‘cougar’ is a slang term for a woman who prefers younger men. Is Just saying this because I’m wondering if that’s what Sydney is talking about re: the “SafeSearch is not on by default” line.
Be glad that Sydney bothered to ask, Pixel. Not everyone gets that luxury. Just ask Barkley.
Also does Sydney sound like Gollum in panel 4 to anybody else?
OK…I have to ask…what does searching for “spot difference between jaguar and leopard” come up with withou the safe search, compared to with safe search?
So technically, Panther is the genus that all big cats belong to, and the “species” panther does not exist, it is sometimes misused to refer refers to 5 species, the black Jaguar, the Black Leopard, Both sometimes called Black Panthers, the White Cougar, the White Leopard, both sometimes referred to as White Panthers, and the Florida Mountain Cougar, sometimes called the Florida Panther or American Panther.
i like sydneys little funny background event at the end
Jaguar better than Panther better than Cougar or Puma? Depends on what kinds of cars you like. A Mercury Cougar looks pretty slick if you like muscle cars. Panther Westwinds is good if you like classic roadsters and Jaguar has the best limousines and hyper cars. Puma had some luxory sports cars back in the day and is now a boring Ford SUV modell.