Stupid questions you never dared to ask before

[Tueuse de Vampires]

So, when we were watching 'Hush' last night during the blackour I made this pretty stupid (well it was supposed to be stupid 😛) remark about the Gentlemen being sexist because there are no Gentlewomen. Sara commented "Well, that's why they are called GentleMEN...there are no women". And then I asked an even stupider question, which triggered this thread:


So if there are only Gentlemen, how do they reproduce?


So yeah, you see the idea of this thread...is there any stupid question in Buffy you never dared to open a thread about, and yet it seems very intriguing to ask it? Here's the place. And who knows, somebody actually might come up with a realistic answer to a question.

 

[Kemy]

Well expanding on that theme, that nearly all Demons are naked and yet none of them have genitals of any kind implying asexual species. Well ok, male Demons.

Vampires fair enough are like the Borg, they make more by assimilating more people into their ranks by a biological or technological mechanism.

But ordinary animals that number in the thousands, all those big Demon armies, needed to have started somewhere. No little Demons, no armies.

If they are asexual, which would fit well with so many of them being reptilian and laying eggs since asexuality is far more common to reptile and amphibian species, then fine. But we've seen a lot of female Demons with obvious secondary sexual characteristics, but in typical cartoonish style, clothed. But the males? nothing. Action figure nothing.

Lets face it, all this aggression, all the tough guy stuff, the " take over the world" stuff? just over compensation. 😉

 

[Washburne]

Well, vampires could reproduce being only male or female if they had to. Has nothing to do with gender. Not sure if the gentlemen does reproduce at all though. They got created/made or what ever and has never been killed since? Or have they since they knew how to kill them? I need to watch this again...

 

[Kemy]

^Well you see thats the thing. Female Vampires cannot become pregnant in mythology, newer movies and books tending towards partly living or "viral" Vampires are the only ones to allow it. Hence Darla being so 'wow'.

Vampire males can impregnate Human females for a short time after their mortal death until not enough living zygotes remain (Sperm cells live on 2-3 days after the body dies). But that results in a "Dhampir" not a Vampire.

The only way a new Vampire manifests its to be sired by a previous one, perhaps why the siring process is seen as something profoundly sexual, the act that brings about a new "life" or being.

The Gentlemen may have an entirely female society too, the Ladies (shrugs) or something similar who are off terrorising other areas. The Gentlemen were known by the story of the Princess, whose to say there aren't stories of ghastly Lady like wraiths doing something similar to male aristocracy and people of note through the ages.

 

[InsaneMystic]

Hmm... perhaps they all originate in some other dimension where some Proto-Demonlings ascend (like the Mayor did) rather regularly? Of course, ascended demons are "pure" and much bigger than all though guys running around here...

Ah well, let's just say a sorceror did it. :lmao:

 

[Urgent Power]

Maybe demons don't get pregnant, just lay eggs. ?????

But if I understand it, that wasn't the topic of this thread. Or at least wasn't supposed to be...

 

[Joan the Vampire Slayer]

How can vampires like Spike smoke if they don't breathe?

 

[Urgent Power]

How can vampires like Spike smoke if they don't breathe?

I think the thing is, they don't have to breathe, but they can breathe. They can inhale and exhale, there is air.

 

[palabravampiress]

Here's a question that came to mind today when I was watching Touched and End of Days: where did they all find time to remain so well groomed? One bathroom, finicky electricity, a bazillion teenage girls... you do the math. How come all the ladies are running around in full makeup and smooth hairstyles and the men are all clean shaven? If I was smack dab in the middle of an apocalypse, I doubt I'd take the time to put on my face. Shouldn't they have all looked a lot more bedraggled?

 

[Joan the Vampire Slayer]

I think the thing is, they don't have to breathe, but they can breathe. They can inhale and exhale, there is air.

Ah. Like they can eat for taste, but they don't get any nutritional value from it?
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Here's a question that came to mind today when I was watching Touched and End of Days: where did they all find time to remain so well groomed? One bathroom, finicky electricity, a bazillion teenage girls... you do the math. How come all the ladies are running around in full makeup and smooth hairstyles and the men are all clean shaven? If I was smack dab in the middle of an apocalypse, I doubt I'd take the time to put on my face. Shouldn't they have all looked a lot more bedraggled?

Good question, palabravampiress.

Maybe, Willow was working her mojo on them, you know, grooming them mystically so they didn't need to use the bathroom?

 

[Urgent Power]

Here's a question that came to mind today when I was watching Touched and End of Days: where did they all find time to remain so well groomed? One bathroom, finicky electricity, a bazillion teenage girls... you do the math. How come all the ladies are running around in full makeup and smooth hairstyles and the men are all clean shaven? If I was smack dab in the middle of an apocalypse, I doubt I'd take the time to put on my face. Shouldn't they have all looked a lot more bedraggled?

Another question is, who paid for all the food that they were eating? No one had a job, not enough to pay. let alone the bills, etc.
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Ah. Like they can eat for taste, but they don't get any nutritional value from it?

Exactly! And I'm sure there are more things like that on the show.

 

[Joan the Vampire Slayer]

Another question is, who paid for all the food that they were eating? No one had a job, not enough to pay. let alone the bills, etc.
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Exactly! And I'm sure there are more things like that on the show.

I bet Spike was stealing money to cover it lol

 

[Tueuse de Vampires]

Another question is, who paid for all the food that they were eating? No one had a job, not enough to pay. let alone the bills, etc.

Well I have an answer to that.
As I understood it, the whole town got pretty much abandoned, so they could just walk into a supermarket and take whatever they wanted. And as far as bills go...I don't about America, but here you pay way later than you actually use, and bythe time somebody with a bill could show up the whole town was already a big whole in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Ulrikke]

Do vampires' hair grow? I ask because on the one hand we have Spike's hair occasionally showing dark roots (most obviously so during his crazy basement days). But on the other - how on earth does he manage to maintain it? Especially during some of the more stressful periods (e.g. season 7). We also have Angel's comment in the comics about having to shave now (IIRC).

It just bugs me. 😛

 

[Fusions2]

The only thing that always bugged me and kept me questioning everything was how come after every fight Buffy had and if she had her hair up why was it still always perfect after the fight finished? Maybe it was the Hellmouths energy and gravity all mixed in keeping her hair looking like something off a L'Oreal advert.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Do vampires' hair grow? I ask because on the one hand we have Spike's hair occasionally showing dark roots (most obviously so during his crazy basement days). But on the other - how on earth does he manage to maintain it? Especially during some of the more stressful periods (e.g. season 7). We also have Angel's comment in the comics about having to shave now (IIRC).

It just bugs me. 😛

I would think their hair grows since Angels did and they had his hair slicked back during S5.

 

[The Ferg]

I have two:

I was thinking about vampires in a scientific way, and to me it seems like their cells aren't created or destroyed. So... How does their hair grow? How would they heal so fast? And why would they even need a mirror?

Also...
How the hell do vampires get hard?

 

[Joan the Vampire Slayer]

I have two:

I was thinking about vampires in a scientific way, and to me it seems like their cells aren't created or destroyed. So... How does their hair grow? How would they heal so fast? And why would they even need a mirror?

Also...
How the hell do vampires get hard?

* laughs
Glad you brought this up, The Ferg...although this might be deleted because it might be deemed inappropriate...

If vampires do not have blood running through thier veins, it is a mystery to me how they can achieve an erection.

 

[itsxpaperdoll]

* laughs
Glad you brought this up, The Ferg...although this might be deleted because it might be deemed inappropriate...

If vampires do not have blood running through thier veins, it is a mystery to me how they can achieve an erection.

Ha! I always wondered about that one too ^^ Like, apparently they can. But how do they do it? Viagra won't work cos it still just stimulates your blood goiing in the right direction, right? I mean, I'm not a real expert in that field. I always delete those emails 😛

 

[Queen Mum]

Well if they are really dead, I don't the point for them to hunt blood. Where does it go? So I suspect they've got some sort of an organism working inside their body, it just does not work with the power of love, eh hearts. However, at the same time, we might just as well have reached the point where the idea of vampires wasn't completely thought through, but I don't really care. Female vampires don't have these problems, do they? ^^