[Teen Titans] Starfire's Allergy

[Kyle Thomas Pope]

In tonight's episode the Titan's track down Slade's Chronoton
detonator using Starfire's stated allergy to metallic chromium. If
Starfire is allergic to metallic chromium then she has a major
problem. Chromium, or chrome as it is better known, is a very common
metal on earth that composes much of the brightwork on automobiles.
It is also used in strengthening tool steel as well as a myriad of
other metallurgical uses. Starfire would be unable to breathe
anywhere near a major city without going into sneezing fits.

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[Lord Craxton]

Post by Kyle Thomas Pope
In tonight's episode the Titan's track down Slade's Chronoton
detonator using Starfire's stated allergy to metallic chromium. If
Starfire is allergic to metallic chromium then she has a major
problem. Chromium, or chrome as it is better known, is a very common
metal on earth that composes much of the brightwork on automobiles.
It is also used in strengthening tool steel as well as a myriad of
other metallurgical uses. Starfire would be unable to breathe
anywhere near a major city without going into sneezing fits.

Maybe it's just some odd, time-bending isotope that she's allergic to...

-Lord Craxton

[Captain Nerd]

Post by Lord Craxton

Post by Kyle Thomas Pope
In tonight's episode the Titan's track down Slade's Chronoton
detonator using Starfire's stated allergy to metallic chromium. If
Starfire is allergic to metallic chromium then she has a major
problem. Chromium, or chrome as it is better known, is a very common
metal on earth that composes much of the brightwork on automobiles.
It is also used in strengthening tool steel as well as a myriad of
other metallurgical uses. Starfire would be unable to breathe
anywhere near a major city without going into sneezing fits.

Maybe it's just some odd, time-bending isotope that she's allergic to...
-Lord Craxton

Thiotimoline chromate?

Cap.

[Brian Doyle]

Post by Lord Craxton
Maybe it's just some odd, time-bending isotope that she's allergic to...

There is an extant element in the comics called "chronium". Is that maybe
what they called it?

[Ethan Hammond]

Post by Kyle Thomas Pope
In tonight's episode the Titan's track down Slade's Chronoton
detonator using Starfire's stated allergy to metallic chromium. If
Starfire is allergic to metallic chromium then she has a major
problem. Chromium, or chrome as it is better known, is a very common
metal on earth that composes much of the brightwork on automobiles.
It is also used in strengthening tool steel as well as a myriad of
other metallurgical uses. Starfire would be unable to breathe
anywhere near a major city without going into sneezing fits.

Stupid isn't it.

--
All Purpose Cultural Randomness
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/apcr/index.html

[Galen Musbach]

On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 11:04:03 GMT, "Ethan Hammond"

Post by Kyle Thomas Pope
In tonight's episode the Titan's track down Slade's Chronoton
detonator using Starfire's stated allergy to metallic chromium. If
Starfire is allergic to metallic chromium then she has a major
problem. Chromium, or chrome as it is better known, is a very common
metal on earth that composes much of the brightwork on automobiles.
It is also used in strengthening tool steel as well as a myriad of
other metallurgical uses. Starfire would be unable to breathe
anywhere near a major city without going into sneezing fits.

Technically, an allergic reaction can only be caused
by protein. Sneezing, watery eyes, and hives are all
symptoms of an allergy, but may also be caused by
something else. This is significant because, if it isn't
an allergy, treatment for allergies is ineffective.
For example, the woman who had an "allergic reaction"
to chlorinated water in swimming pools, who found
all "allergy" treatments worthless because her allergic
reaction wasn't being caused by an allergy (chlorine
is not a protein).

It is by definition impossible to have an allergy to a metal;
nevertheless, about 1 person in 20 will break out in a rash
when subjected to sustained skin contact with small bars
of pure nickel.

This is because "allergy" as a medical diagnosis has
a different meaning than "allergy" in everyday speech.

I have an allergic reaction to cigarette smoke;
cigar smoke doesn't bother me. I'm told it's not
possible to have an allergic reaction to tobacco
smoke, and I wonder why people tell me that,
since I already know that cigar smoke doesn't
bother me; there's something ELSE in the cigarettes.
Anti-allergy medications do work for me, but it's
annoying to pay $10 a month for medication
because my coworkers can't be bothered to
not smoke around me.


As for anime characters with sneezing problems, the only
one who comes to mind is Mahou Sensei Negima, and I
think he's still manga only.

-Galen

[Arnold Kim]

Post by Galen Musbach
On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 11:04:03 GMT, "Ethan Hammond"

Post by Kyle Thomas Pope
In tonight's episode the Titan's track down Slade's Chronoton
detonator using Starfire's stated allergy to metallic chromium. If
Starfire is allergic to metallic chromium then she has a major
problem. Chromium, or chrome as it is better known, is a very common
metal on earth that composes much of the brightwork on automobiles.
It is also used in strengthening tool steel as well as a myriad of
other metallurgical uses. Starfire would be unable to breathe
anywhere near a major city without going into sneezing fits.

Technically, an allergic reaction can only be caused
by protein. Sneezing, watery eyes, and hives are all
symptoms of an allergy, but may also be caused by
something else. This is significant because, if it isn't
an allergy, treatment for allergies is ineffective.
For example, the woman who had an "allergic reaction"
to chlorinated water in swimming pools, who found
all "allergy" treatments worthless because her allergic
reaction wasn't being caused by an allergy (chlorine
is not a protein).
It is by definition impossible to have an allergy to a metal;
nevertheless, about 1 person in 20 will break out in a rash
when subjected to sustained skin contact with small bars
of pure nickel.

Of course this all goes out the window when we're dealing with an alien from
another planet...

Arnold Kim

[Glenn Shaw]

Post by Kyle Thomas Pope
In tonight's episode the Titan's track down Slade's Chronoton
detonator using Starfire's stated allergy to metallic chromium. If
Starfire is allergic to metallic chromium then she has a major
problem. Chromium, or chrome as it is better known, is a very common
metal on earth that composes much of the brightwork on automobiles.
It is also used in strengthening tool steel as well as a myriad of
other metallurgical uses. Starfire would be unable to breathe
anywhere near a major city without going into sneezing fits.

Speaking as an allergy sufferer (seasonal allergy to grass and weed
pollen), for Starfire to have that sort of allergy, the metallic
chromium would have to be in particulate form suspended in the air --
IOW, an airborne allergen. She would...

ah... ahh... Ahhh... AHCHOOO!!! AHCHOO!!!

*sniff*

... she would have to *breathe the stuff through her nose* in order to
have that sort of reaction. Unless she were near a chrome-plating plant,
an auto body shop, a chromium foundry... or unless the stuff were
flaking off car bumpers and trim... it'd be pretty unlikely for her to
go into a perpetual sneezing fit just by walking into a major city.

</me blows nose>

Excuse me. *sniff* <^^;;;;

[Kyle Thomas Pope]

On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 09:08:36 -0500, Glenn Shaw

Post by Glenn Shaw
Speaking as an allergy sufferer (seasonal allergy to grass and weed
pollen), for Starfire to have that sort of allergy, the metallic
chromium would have to be in particulate form suspended in the air --
IOW, an airborne allergen. She would...
ah... ahh... Ahhh... AHCHOOO!!! AHCHOO!!!
*sniff*
... she would have to *breathe the stuff through her nose* in order to
have that sort of reaction. Unless she were near a chrome-plating plant,
an auto body shop, a chromium foundry... or unless the stuff were
flaking off car bumpers and trim... it'd be pretty unlikely for her to
go into a perpetual sneezing fit just by walking into a major city.

Normally that is how an allergy would work. However much is made of
the fact that Starfire is an alien presumably with an alien
biochemistry. They also showed Starfire sneezing in response to being
somewhere the chronoton detonator _was_. Plus we saw that the core
with the offending metal was sealed deep within the device yet
Starfire's sneezing led them into the sewer to find it. Clearly the
show had thrown all concerns about scientific accuracy out the window.
The show indicates that Starfire's reaction to chromium is triggered
by something other than contact with it in particulate form. If that
is the case then we're back to square one. Automobiles and drill bits
(among many other things) should send Starfire into paraphalactic
shock.

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[Glenn Shaw]

Automobiles and drill bits (among many other things) should send
Starfire into paraphalactic shock.

^-----------------^

Um, don't you mean "anaphylatic shock", Kyle?

http://www.hon.ch/Library/Theme/Allergy/Glossary/shock.html

If so, then Starfire would be in VERY serious trouble....

[Kyle Thomas Pope]

On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 21:35:20 -0500, Glenn Shaw

Post by Glenn Shaw
Um, don't you mean "anaphylatic shock", Kyle?

That's what happens when my brain starts fusing unrelated disciplines.

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[Rob Kelk]

On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 23:07:29 -0700, Kyle Thomas Pope

Post by Kyle Thomas Pope
In tonight's episode the Titan's track down Slade's Chronoton
detonator using Starfire's stated allergy to metallic chromium. If
Starfire is allergic to metallic chromium then she has a major
problem. Chromium, or chrome as it is better known, is a very common
metal on earth that composes much of the brightwork on automobiles.
It is also used in strengthening tool steel as well as a myriad of
other metallurgical uses. Starfire would be unable to breathe
anywhere near a major city without going into sneezing fits.

You're expecting somebody in Hollywood to understand basic science? (If
that was true, then we'd never have seen the folks in the two latest
"Star Trek" shows repeatedly travel to solid planets to find deuterium.
Real-world deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen - you get it from gas
giants or interstellar "dust".)

[FT]

Post by Rob Kelk
You're expecting somebody in Hollywood to understand basic science? (If
that was true, then we'd never have seen the folks in the two latest
"Star Trek" shows repeatedly travel to solid planets to find deuterium.
Real-world deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen - you get it from gas
giants or interstellar "dust".)

Or seawater, or anything that has hydrogen in it. It just takes a little
more work.

[Juan F Lara]

Post by Kyle Thomas Pope
other metallurgical uses. Starfire would be unable to breathe
anywhere near a major city without going into sneezing fits.

Does Chromiun even give off an odor?
When they found the Plotdevicitron, um Chronotron, bomb why didn't
they send Starfire away as she'd just be a nuisance because of her allergy?
And in the comic book books was Starfire ever able to shoot her energy
beams from her mouth and nose?

- Juan F. Lara
http://bellsouthpwp.net/l/a/lara6281/intro.html

[Kyle Thomas Pope]

Post by Juan F Lara
Does Chromiun even give off an odor?

Not that I've been able to detect. Otherwise I don't think they'd be
using in on car bumpers and exhaust pipes.

Post by Juan F Lara
When they found the Plotdevicitron, um Chronotron, bomb why didn't
they send Starfire away as she'd just be a nuisance because of her allergy?

Given Starfire's dangerous reaction to her allergy I certainly would
have sent her away. What was interesting about this episode is that
it showed that if she wanted to Raven can contain and shut down
Starfire.

Post by Juan F Lara
And in the comic book books was Starfire ever able to shoot her energy
beams from her mouth and nose?

That I don't know.

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[Glenn Shaw]

Post by Juan F Lara
When they found the Plotdevicitron,

ROFL. XD

Good one, Juan. :)

Post by Juan F Lara
um Chronotron, bomb why didn't they send Starfire away as she'd just
be a nuisance because of her allergy?

Yeah, I wondered about this, too. Using an allergy sufferer </me points to
himself> as a bloodhound would probably be highly ineffective. Not to
mention cruel and unusual punishment. :/

[David Nakamoto]

Post by Glenn Shaw

Post by Juan F Lara
When they found the Plotdevicitron,

ROFL. XD
Good one, Juan. :)

Post by Juan F Lara
um Chronotron, bomb why didn't they send Starfire away as she'd just
be a nuisance because of her allergy?

Yeah, I wondered about this, too. Using an allergy sufferer </me points to
himself> as a bloodhound would probably be highly ineffective. Not to
mention cruel and unusual punishment. :/

Ah, but then we'd miss the scene where Raven uses her powers to . . .
"confine" Starfire's explosive sneezes. ^_^