According to Michael Lundblad, " If animal studies can be seen as work that explores representations of animality and related discourses with an emphasis on advocacy for nonhuman animals, animality studies becomes work that emphasizes the history of animality in relation to human cultural studies, without an explicit call for nonhuman advocacy ."
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Examples include : the lightning that is portended by the silence and raindrops of a travelling storm cloud; or the sun's rise and culmination at its midday zenith; or a man traversing a rope stationed above an abyss, moving away from his uncultivated animality and towards the " �bermensch ".
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While with the other, more intelligent races an equally frequent terror and growing pallid has finally resulted in white skin ?-For degree of timidity is a measure of intelligence, and frequently to give way to blind rage a sign that animality is still quite close and would like to take over again . ( Daybreak, 241)
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A Fatality similar to Friendship is Babality, also introduced in " MKII " and turning the opponent into a baby . " Mortal Kombat 3 " saw Mercy, where the victor restores a minimal amount of the opponent's health bar and the fight then resumes; performing Mercy first is required to enable Animality.
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Erasmus Darwin went further and his " Zo�nomia " asks " . . would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which the great First Cause endued with animality . . . . possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down these improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end ! ", anticipating Lamarckism.
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In 2012, GamesRadar ranked him as 51st " most memorable, influential, and badass " protagonist in games, adding that while " Sub-Zero and Scorpion may get most of the fanfare ", Liu Kang " can shoot fireballs, whoops and hollers just like Bruce Lee, and pioneered the Animality with his dragon-transformation fatality-- it s no wonder that Liu Kang s the chosen champion of Earthrealm . " In 2014, Jack Pooley of What Culture ranked him as the second greatest ever fighting game character.
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Would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end!
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Rain's " Upside Down Uppercut " Fatality from " Trilogy ", in which he punches his opponent apart into four separate segments that fly vertically offscreen and then drop back down to perfectly reform their upended corpse, placed on 1UP . com's list of " Mortal Kombat's " fifteen worst Fatalities and made Game Informer's selection of the series'seven worst finishers : " Rain was one of the many palette-swap clones in " Mortal Kombat Trilogy ", and he easily had the worst Fatality . " James Deaux of Earth-2 . net commented, " I'm sure this was meant to be a comedic Fatality of sorts, but it looks utterly stupid . " His Animality tied with that of combos.
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Newsarama dismissed him as " useless, " and Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide called the character " dopey . " Eric Snider of Film . com said of his opening dialogue exchange with Liu Kang, " I couldn t hear the rest because my brain was exploding . " 411Mania called his tutelage of Liu Kang " hippie Native American Yoda spiel . " Patrick Coyle of Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension included Nightwolf among the film's " shallow, one-shot characters that serve little or no purpose . " Kate Willaert of " Game Informer " sardonically remarked, " Nightwolf delivers the best line in the movie when he tells Liu Kang he must test his courage, and find his Animality . . . . As a result, the film's final climactic battle turns into " Primal Rage : The Movie . " " Io9's Alasdair Wilkins said of the character's depiction in the film, in particular the scene of Nightwolf knocking out Liu Kang with the hatchet, " Nightwolf isn't just a magical shapeshifting shaman who only exists to show the hero his destiny . . . he's also kind of an asshole . " However, Doug Skiles of KillerMovies said in his 1997 review, " The only person putting forth anything resembling effort is Litefoot, who plays Nightwolf, at least for the whopping two minutes that he's on the screen ."
