Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5808856-20141104173641/@comment-1458758-20141111144017

Xanton wrote:

Also think about the Symbiotes from Spider-Man. They are parasites but they give their hosts some pretty extraordinary powers as well. Just saying. The symbiotes in spiderman (the black goeey stuff) boosts the power of it's host including its emotion, it's not that bad unless you're naturally evil. That's one of the type of symbiosis relationship, like Spiderman's prof said, it has the characteristics of a symbiote, and once it's gotten used to the host, it becomes hard to take off.

Just to clarify, in the comics, the Symbiotes, despite their name, are primarily parasitic. Yes, they give their hosts enhanced abilities and up their emotions, but everything we see from Venom, Carnage and their descendants is basically mutation on the typical.

The actual Symbiote species go from world to world and basically latch onto the local populace, using them as puppets until they've basically withered away, and then detach, leaving the corpse in their wake like garbage before moving onto the next planet.

That aside, given I've finally decided to post here, I don't like Skurd as a concept. Don't get me wrong, I get that even the best intentioned creators are in it to get a paycheck at the end of the day, but I'm generally against corporate interference and when Bandai basically hands down an edict so they can sell more toys, it tends to leave a bad taste for me. Having said that, I think the creators have handled it very well, despite my dislike of his inclusion, I actually find Skurd's personality very funny and like his little quips and things.

Over all though, I find that the idea is somewhat unoriginal, I know it's not exactly the same, but alien crosses have been explored in the OS and with Ben 10k's Biomnitrix and over all, I find it takes a bit of the suspense and such out of it when Ben mis-hits and it gets fixed by Skurd. Not to mention, it kind of removes the chance for more aliens as, while at times I've thought they were running thin on alien ideas anyways, with Skurd, we're not getting any new unique aliens, just pick n' mixes of old ones. It'd be cool if he maybe mixed in something and Ben was all "Wait, who owns this arm?" and have Skurd coyly reply "You'll have to wait and see." or something like that.