Nonetheless, in a show of solidarity Ender agrees to perform the first and only human planting sacrifice; he vivisects Human with the help of tools provided by Rooter's tree self and witnesses the sapling of his third life grow.
22.
In " Umi to Dokuyaku " ( 1957 ), published in English as " The Sea and Poison " in 1972, he lashed out at the lack of moral conscience that allowed Japanese doctors during the war to vivisect a captured American pilot.
23.
She wonders why all of the patients who recently disappeared had no family or friends, to which Arden contends that they all died and were vivisects him, extracting a metallic object from his neck that grows legs and flees while Kit has apparent flashbacks to alien abduction.
24.
After observing a pair of yuppies vivisect a fish that they had him remove from one of the aquariums at the restaurant where he works as a waiter, the man returns home to his barren apartment, where he further ponders humanity, this time while watching Mondo films.
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Hulkling's shapeshifting also demonstrated the ability to operate without his conscious thought in order to protect himself from injury; his body shifted its biomass to protect vital organs, while the Warden of The Cube was attempting to vivisect him in Civil War : Young Avengers / Runaways.