Do Beast Boy's powers only permit him to transform into animals? What about them prevents him from turning into anything, like a house or a rock or a car or anything else that's not an animal?
Jaggyd
The member formerly known as skotti-chan
it's just animals, even there it gets kinda fuzzy, some writers let him go as far as alien animals and fantasy animals, other keep him strictly animals of Earth.
Has there ever been given a reason why he can't be anything but an animal? What limits him?
robje
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And humans are animals too right? Does that mean he can look like different people too?
Iceshadow
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Maybe the potion he drank to get his powers limits him.
Possibly, but it's pointless since he still be green.
Zombipanda
My Boom-Boom's mostly gay
I'd guess there would be problems turning into something that isn't biological? I mean, hypothetically, there would be a pretty stiff difference between turning into something inanimate and turning into something that has a physiology, right?
As for turning into people, as robje said, they'd be green, first of all! There could additionally be the complication of how closely he can model DNA. Can he replicate down to the level of that detail? I mean, when he turns into a tiger, does he turn into a specific tiger? Can he imprint it with specific DNA strands, or is he just replicating "tiger"?
ProjectX2
Don't expect me to take you with me when I go to s
He was bitten by a monkey and then given an untested serum! He's like Card's Tony Stark!
Random
Didn't **** any of those *****es
I don't think it's shapeshifting as much as a metamorphosis, if that makes sense.
Grocer Man
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This was brought up in the cartoon, to a degree. A villain cursed all the Titans to turn into animals, but realized that Beast Boy could just change back whenever he wanted. So he cursed Beast Boy so he could turn into anything but animals. Like lamps and telephones and paintbrushes.
Also, I think the serum that gave him his powers was made from the DNA of every animal on Earth.
Also, I think the serum that gave him his powers was made from the DNA of every animal on Earth.
Zombipanda
My Boom-Boom's mostly gay
EVERY ANIMAL ON EARTH!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!
So, I'd guess he replicates the specific DNA extracted from the specimen in the serum.
Are you sure? He has turned into a dinosaur on a few occasions.
Not necessarily. he's not literally becoming whatever he turns into, so it shouldn't matter. I wouldn't think so anyway.
Grocer Man
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...a dinosaur is an Earth animal.
Zombipanda
My Boom-Boom's mostly gay
Well, I'd assume his neurology is intact, but otherwise, I think he is, yes. There's a big difference between turning into something else with a circulatory system, respiration, and all the necessary components of life, and turning into a chair.
In comic book science logic, he's replicating DNA, changing his physiology by rewriting his own DNA. Sure, it's silly, but it's a blueprint that writes out the possibility of becoming something inanimate.
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Iceshadow
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Still though, he can turn into alien animals too.
My response was in assumption that you meant *current* (at whatever point in time this story took place) animals.
