Are the Powerpuff Girls homunculi?

Yeah.

There's no philosopher's stone involved, so no. They're golems.

>>94808422
Golems only look human on the outside. Homunucli are human on the inside as well, organs and all.
Since the girls breathe, bleed, eat and sleep, they've got to be homunculi.

>>94808422
>>94810150
Why do people like to pretend ficticious creatures have a clear definition and rules instead of being made up different in every story?
There's a faggot arguing "drakes" and "wyverns" and "dragons" always have to be different things on /v/.

Creatures of legend always have contradictory forms and rules, from elves to vampires to demons, to genies.

Call them whatever you like, it's a ficticious word invented to refer to something that isn't actually there.

>>94810271
t. golem shill

>>94810271
false.

>>94808277
I wish they'd reboot the series.

>>94808422
>There's no philosopher's stone involved

chemical x might be it, you don't know

>>94808277
I'd say yeah.

>>94810271
Because words have definitions, you bitch.

>>94808277
They are bio-androids like that one version of Frankenstein where they grew him in a vat.

>>94810340
Chemical X confirmed for Materia Prima

>>94810271
Sorry, but your wyverns argument doesn't have a leg to stand on

>>94810388
Homunculus Frankenstein's monster? That sounds weird.

>>94810402
Wouldn't they be wyrms then?

>>94810387
You sound very, very nice. And I mean that in the original connotation of that word.

>>94810421
s-shut up. it's an amputee wyvern

>>94810483
I don't think archaic nice applies here. I'm being curt, not coy nor finnicky.
Maybe you should open a dictionary?

>>94810574
Maybe you should suck my nuts

>>94810670
That's a queer request, anon.

>>94810574
How nice. You tried to look it up but somehow managed to screw even that up. Here:

>Middle English nice "foolish, stupid," from early French nice (same meaning), from Latin nescius "ignorant," from nescire "not to know," from ne- "not" and scire "to know"

But that's not important. You're missing the point. The meaning of words is not set in stone from the first time they are used, you nice person, so rebuking that anon with a simple statement like "words have meanings" is a very nice thing to say. Consider that definitions and language are constantly evolving over time. You can disagree with anon on the specific context of where we are in that evolution, but don't make nice blanket statements like that any more.

>>94810686
Sooo... Yes?

>>94810670
He can suck you off after I'm done condescending to him.

>>94808277
Essentially... yeah.

>>94810271
Because it's fun

>>94810932
Well hurry up

>>94808277
We keep going over this, and the answer is still yes. They are cute homunculi, in the same way HIM is cute Satan.

>>94811006
HIM is santa claus.

do you even watch the show?

>>94811051
Satan* Claws* and my point stands

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>>94808277
noun
plural noun: homunculi
a very small human or humanoid creature.
historical
a supposed microscopic but fully formed human being from which a fetus was formerly believed to develop.

go·lem
ˈɡōləm/Submit
noun
noun: golem; plural noun: golems
(in Jewish legend) a clay figure brought to life by magic.
an automaton or robot.

Neither they are actually:
girl
ɡərl/Submit
noun
plural noun: girls
1.
a female child.
synonyms: female child, daughter; More
2.
a young or relatively young woman.
synonyms: young woman, young lady, miss, mademoiselle; More

The more you know.

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>>94811153
They can be girls and also be lifeforms artificially created through fantasy alchemy or similarly fantastic science, which is in general what people mean by homunculus these days. They're no longer mutually exclusive in pop culture.

First tiny flesh blob man, then much bigger science fiction flesh blobs, and now these ones can even fly! Utonium continues where Paracelsus left off.

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>>94811389
Well certainly they can be many things but they are primarily girls. How they came to be as girls is secondary. I would even say there powers are secondary to being girls.

But as far as the more pop related version of homunculi or golems im not convinced. Both of those even in a modern understanding require things that wherent present at the site of their creation. I suppose if we knew more about chem X it would be easier. They are life created through alchemy, if there is a term for that I am unaware but I wouldnt call them homun or golem.

>>94810898
>ACKTCHUALLY I meant the MIDDLE-ENGLISH version
You're not speaking French or Middle English. To split hairs and aim for mid-eng instead of either the modern origin or the actual Latin (at which point you're not saying "nice" anymore) is silly if you aren't constructing your sentences als ywere. The modern English "nice" started closer to coy.

Regardless, you're a condescending little shit. Everyone knows words evolve. That's necessary to the very point I made. It doesn't matter that the origins of these fictional terms could at times be contradictory: they evolved into these meanings. You can misuse the word if you wish and the definition may change even more in the future, but crying about people having a strict definition for a fictional concept is just silly. They are defined because of the cultural consensus that evolved over time.

>>94808277
They're Powerpuff GIrls and you niggers are reading too much into the plot

>>94811153
A flesh-based automaton is an accurate description to be fair.

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>>94811898
noun, plural automatons, automata [aw-tom-uh-tuh] (Show IPA)
1.
a mechanical figure or contrivance constructed to act as if by its own motive power; robot.
2.
a person or animal that acts in a monotonous, routine manner, without active intelligence.
3.
something capable of acting automatically or without an external motive force.

Even removing or replacing mechanical with flesh, automaton implies a lack of sentience generally. The girls are clearly sentient and have there own goals/ambitions.

Although I suppose you could argue they arent sentient and only work per the professors orders. Perhaps when he made them and found out he made flesh puppets he ordered them to act like sentient human girls? And convinced himself he was raising real children?

There daughters of Aku.

>>94812000
The first and third definition implicitly contradict themselves, partially because we've had fiction tackilng automata with free will for...shit, a century?

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>>94811695
Unless otherwise specified, I just default to homunculus when it comes to purely biological independent constructs. Especially those mixed in a big frickin' science cauldron. I go with Bio-Androids if there's a significant machine element involved in manufacture, and Golems if it's normally inanimate material that is animated and controlled by obvious generic magic spells, like runes and sigils 'n shit.

But that's just my personal defaults if the author doesn't define his own terms.

>>94811862
Wait a damn minute, are you >>94810387 or >>94810271? If you're the latter poster, I was agreeing with you the whole time you dummy.

>>94810271
You must be fun at parties.

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>>94812164
On that note, I'm amused by the notion of future sentient machines finding the various terms we've used to describe them offensive. Such as artificial intelligence or robot. Someday our descendants will have to be PC and use "Synthetic-American" or whatever, or risk being hyper-doxxed by the Neo Twitter machine overmind.

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>>94812164
cant be helped really, words mean more then they mean, more often then not.
>>94812235
fair enough, at this point its arguing preference though.

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>>94813907
I figured we were always arguing preference. Better than splitting hairs over make believe and purist notions. Harmony Bunny is the cutest Powerpuff.

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>>94814383
>arguing preference
>states literal fact
Anon cmon now....

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>>94814383
>>94814533
>not appreciating Mange's curves

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>>94814717
Hold on now anon, no one said mange isnt the curviest. Harmony is simply the cutest.

Honestly its only liberty thats kind of weak....