>>27230222Not a rant, I'm just wondering whether to applaud the artist or toast him/her.
You have the public use examples that are clearly the benign application of hybrids, but others like
>>27229963 that will make you scratch your head and go "I'm surprised this ISN'T a 'me am play god'", and of course the above two examples that are outright named as illegal breeding (despite all but Beheeyem being in the same egg group anyways). As I mentioned prior, nature itself keeps lines straight by making embryos between even slightly different animals extremely difficult, if not outright impossible, but it's the possibility of what happens if nature were to be a bit more lax that makes the concept interesting.
I know that Pokemon breeding obviously doesn't work this way, what with the egg always coming from the mother lineage, but it's not like that stopped the artist. Some of these have a surprising amount of insight put into their design and accompanying background which makes the concept all the better for being a nod to the inherent instability of actual genetic development, much less say cross-species breeding. Real life is predictable in comparison - it's either sterility in the crossed animal, or the embryo just doesn't take.
For now. But I'd say the artist flexed his/her creativity pretty well in some of the entries insofar as super-powered entities are concerned.
I find Puppeteer as a concept a lot more gripping than Midwife. I chalk it up to my hours spent on R-Type. 
