Originally Posted By: Wonder Boy


 Originally Posted By: Captain Sweden

Transmen


...sounds like a dynamic name for a new S-F/superhero book.

Something Jim Lee or John Byrne would draw.


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Etymology isn't my expertise, but Trans is the same root as Transition and Transport. If you know Latin (I don't), you may have heard about Gallia cisalpina / Gallia transalpina. Trans means "across", "beyond" or "on the opposite side". Cis means "on the same side [as]" or "on this side [of]". (Source: Wikipedia & members of a another forum).

So one could claim that Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler and Jon/Doctor Manhattan are trans, in one meaning of the prefix...

"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller

"Conan, what's the meaning of life?"
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!"
-Conan the Barbarian

"Well, yeah."
-Jason E. Perkins

"If I had a dime for every time Pariah was right about something I'd owe twenty cents."
-Ultimate Jaburg53

"Fair enough. I defer to your expertise."
-Prometheus

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