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The disease is contracted by touch and slowly turns the skin (small patches in children and the entire body in adults) of the victim to into a gray, stone-like form. It is said that the disease also drives its adult victims insane. Hanahaki disease, or hanahaki byou. Hanahaki Otome (花吐き乙女) by Matsuda Naoko.
In fiction. Audrey Jr.: a man-eating plant in the 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors. Audrey II: a singing, fast-talking alien plant with a taste for human blood in the stage show Little Shop of Horrors and the 1986 film of the same name. Bat-thorn: a plant, similar to wolfsbane, offering protection against vampires in Mark of the Vampire. [1]
The Agent programs are upgraded. The new Agents included Jackson, Johnson, and Thompson. Agent Smith is now a computer virus with the ability to copy himself using humans and programs. (2003) The Oracle, Seraph, Sati, Rama Kandra, Kamala, Merovigian, Persephone, Architect, and Smith from The Matrix Revolutions. (2003)
Attributing the profession of journalist to a fictional character allows many possibilities for the author: reporters may travel extensively and face adventures (like Tintin), are among the first to have news of disasters and crimes (like Clark "Superman" Kent and Peter "Spider-Man" Parker), and are supposed to be good at establishing communication.
R.U.R. depicts the first elaborate depiction of a machine take-over. Čapek's robots can also be seen as the first androids: they are in fact organic. Gaston Leroux's 1923 La Poupée Sanglante (The Bloody Doll) and La Machine à Assassiner (The Murdering Machine). The lead character, Bénédict Masson, is wrongly accused of murder and guillotined.
Artificial plants. Artificial plants are imitations of natural plants used for commercial or residential decoration. They are sometimes made for scientific purposes (the collection of glass flowers at Harvard University, for example, illustrates the flora of the United States). [1] Artificial plants vary widely from mass-produced varieties that ...
Bijan Robinson seemingly has the perfect name (first or last) to build around for a fantasy team name. He's also one of the more exciting running backs for 2024, a clear first-round pick. Even if ...
Placeholder name on a website. Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable given the context of their discussion; or to deliberately expunge ...