Spoilers - Fixer and the Dragon

You rock the look, Russ.  Don't ever tell yourself anything else.

Tempest has tentacles on his head.  That's gotta be something that needs to be treated with cream or an ointment or something…

At least one villain has to be suffering from Depression after being beaten by the heroes so often.

Given her incredibly wealthy background, can it really be said that she suffered any discrimination for it? It's not like she's a street sweeper in Tehran or something.

I once had a girl I was into tell me "You know, you're the perfect guy. I would so date you. Too bad you're bald."

DISCRIMINATION.

Also, Tempest is an illegal immigrant.

He’s a giant blue fish person no amount of affirmative action will get him a job.

I dunno about that.  He could probably get a job at Sea World or maybe in Vegas.  I admit that no amount of affirmative action will get him a job as a lawyer or teacher or doctor, but he's got job opportunities, albeit, probably not jobs he WANTS.

Additionally, while we all call Tempest "he/him", I believe that Christopher confirmed that Tempest's race actually has no sexual distinction, so Tempest (in our language) is an it.  Thus, in addition to being an illegal alien, Tempest faces discrimination for being asexual too.

Though even without gender, calling someone an it is not quite right except maybe for some robots. Take Piccolo from Dragonball for example, since Tempest is obviously influenced by his design, his race has no genders either and they spit out eggs from their mouths, but Piccolo is generally refered to as "he/him". The Namekians have more masculine features, if they were more feminine then it would be the other way around and would refer to them as "she/her".

Right, and that's why I don't oppose to people calling Tempest "him", but that doesn't mean it isn't a cause for discrimination.  The same problem exists for Omnitron-X.  Technically, "he" is an it as well, and according to Christopher, thinks of itself as an it, but most of us refer to it as "he".  I tend to avoid the problem by referring to O-X as O-X, but I've heard from others that Christopher doesn't care for the nickname of O-X  :stuck_out_tongue:

 

Again, I'm not saying anyone shouldn't refer to Tempest and Omnitron-X as a "he", just pointing out (humorous) grounds for (theoretical) discrimination.

This topic has become entirely too silly. But I enjoy this thoroughly.

So much pandering to minorities, I wonder why I even bother playing this game! 

/joke

Everyone's a minority.  Unless they're a twin, triplet, etc.  then they're just weird.  I should know.  I am a clone myself.

Most of us are clones, by one of the definitions of the word.

Clone (cell biology), a group of genetically identical cells naturally derived from a common parent cell.

Apart from your sex cells, anyway. 

Three out of those four make sense…where are you getting the Medico part from?  Is it that he's turned into energy and now doesn't eat at all?

I just wanted to point out that "he" is gender inclusive in English.  If the gender of someone is unknown or cannot be discerned (or, in this case, nonexistent), then "he" is an appropriate term to address "him" by.  Unless, of course, "he" objects to this term and ask that you use a different one.  If you persist at that point, you're kind of being a jerk.

They is more inclusive.

They is also plural and unnatural to use when talking about one singular entity.

Dr. Medico weighs only 7oz. Sure he is heavier than some models, but he is still an full grown, adult male.

And there is nothing wrong with the word "they" as a gender inclusive term.  So we're agreed that "he" or "they" is perfectly acceptable, then?  Unless, of course, we hear otherwise from Christopher or we end up hurting Omnitron-X or Tempest's feelings.

I don't find it unnatural.  It refers to a group of people without specifying their genders; one person is a group of one.

If you want unnatural, look at Spanish, where a group of one man and 500,000 women is referred to by a male-specific plural pronoun.

This does not undermine anything I said. They is a perfectly acceptable gender neutral term when talking about a group. I just said it feels unnatural when talking about a single person or entity.

I don't find it so.  "Feel" is subjective, after all.  To me, it's much better than "it".