Afaik viltrumite genes basically become 99% of the hybrid, correct? So how many generations would it take for these hybrids to keep having children by humans before they become more human than viltrrumite? Or are they so strong that it wouldn’t ever happen?
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They don’t dilute. Period. They’re basically endoparasites.
Their DNA with humans at least essentially overwrites the human DNA so they are just a Viltrumite, the DNA isn’t diluted as far as I’m aware
From what Omniman implies, never, “you’re basically all viltrumite” which I assume to mean that Viltrumite traits are dominant with just a little bit of flavor left in.
Like for Oliver, dude was born from a bug mother but he’s completely anthropometric and only has his skin changed, presumably because melatonin level wasn’t something that they cared to breed so that little bit of other species got to assert a gene here or there.
In humans, the determination is semi-random, giving one trait inherited from either parent without preference and if the organism gets a dominant trait it is expressed, but Viltrumites might have found a way or adapted to pass on the superior gene in all cases, always donating the viltrumite gene and the viltrumite gene being dominant over whatever other gene it may get from the other parent.
they won’t dilute. In Invincible, humans have the best compatibility with vitrumites, and the more said hybrid ages, the more vitrumite they became.
The worst it would get would merely be “late bloomers” like Mark.
The Viltrumite genes are too dominant (even their constituent atoms are), and humans are too compatible, so you’d end up with individuals who are undistinguishable from full-blooded Viltrumites in adulthood, even after a thousand generations.
Note how we see Terra looking quite young even after 500 years, and she’s only 1/4 Viltrumite. Her potential offspring are probably no different.
They would never be diluted. A half blood Viltrumite is effectively the same as a pureblood. The Viltrumite genes just take over. A half blood and a half blood Viltrumite would create a quarter Viltrumite, who would still end up becoming full once their genes kick in.
Viltrumite DNA is composed of unique atoms. They’re like viruses. They slowly overwrite the other species’ DNA with viltrumite DNA that is made of and encodes proteins made of these different atoms. Essentially, after enough time, any viltrumite hybrid becomes 100% viltrumite. By the end of the series, Mark is 100% viltrumite. To answer the question, it will never happen, because any compatible viltrumite offspring is a full-blooded viltrumite
The older they get, the more the Viltrumite DNA takes over. Notice what happened with all the hybrid troops? The older they got, the more Viltrumite. If you wanted to retain even a little noticable trace of the previous species, you’d need something which reproduced at an extremely young age.
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Their DNA works weird and takes over as time goes on, so it can’t really be diluted.
BUT if it did follow the 99% for each generation it would take about 70 generations with 100% humans before they would be only half viltrumite. Which is a damn lot, lol
That’s the neat thing. They don’t.
Eventually all humans will be viltrumites.
Mark is basically a Viltrumite but he has half-Asian traits since his parents are an Asian and a Viltrumite-which-appears-American.
I’d assume being a Viltrumite only applies to the powers they have.
If you were to have a kid with an elf, you wouldn’t have a half-elf. They’d be 99% human, and 99% elf because of the overlap of elf and human genes
No matter how many times your progeny has kids with elves, the human DNA in them will never really fall lower than like 98%, because the elves will just keep passing on shared DNA
Unlikely to be the same with viltrumites, but given they look very much the same as regular humans- nigh-on indistinguishable- who can say; it might just be that we just happen to have like 67% of our DNA in common; who knows!
Probably never because the pool of 1st gen human viltrumite hybrids is enormous, and the 2nd gen off of that is pairs of the 1st gen viltrumites.
Another issue isn’t Mark being 99% pure viltrumite… Mark is better than a 100% pure viltrumite. The genetic combination with a human is actually superior to the base form of the species, so you are going to see people trying to hit that level. It is possible that a 2% human/Viltrumite combo is even better.
But it is unknown how many generations it would take for more human dna to show up in the mix. The main issue is Viltrumite DNA is unnaturally dominant over the base species DNA, so 1% human/99% viltrumite might just be ‘normal’, and it doesn’t matter if you have children with pure viltrumites or more hybrids, that will be the ratio.
We know that Mark’s kid with a viltrumite isn’t significantly better/worse than his kid with a human. So I’d probably say that based on how the dna works, it adopted as much human DNA as was useful and then ‘stabilized’ in the enhanced form. That adoption is mainly the adrenal system which Viltrumites seem to lack.
Great answers here.