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Quote from: Xantalos on April 13, 2015, 10:27:04 am

I'd guess he just has a really good smelter in his stomach that'd be able to smelt any metal he comes across into SUPER SPACE METAL.
Maybe a molecular forge, but then he'd just eat whatever.

He'd still need the correct elements

Rather I mean a thing that disassembles and reassembles atoms into their correct configuration, but then he could just eat anything - actually I think he does, as demonstrated when he activated after having a pebble thrown down his throat. Maybe metal's just easier.

What would the Grate symbolism mean? I just know he was immortal or somesuch.

Well, it might be Grate.
It might be someone else in which case...
stuff.

"Respect the robot."
Well that's one way to respond to criticism.

You wake up, jolting up in the hospital bed. You have a sudden and distinct feeling of doom hovering over you. You look around. The area is full of people, all of them busily wandering around and attending to things. But across the room, standing near an empty hospital bed, is one person that isn't moving. He looks rather young, and is grinning at you. You blink and he's not there anymore.

Ah fuck.
Anyone think this is Grate? If not there's reason to be concerned.

I'd guess he just has a really good smelter in his stomach that'd be able to smelt any metal he comes across into SUPER SPACE METAL.
Maybe a molecular forge, but then he'd just eat whatever.
I think the bits where he eats metal like he has the munchies is because his programming got fucked up somehow when he got the head bash.

Iron Giant.

The Giant eats metal. He doesn't use the metal to grow, or repair himself, he literally seems to digest it for food, which for a robot would be energy. But metal doesn't make a very good energy source, AFAIK iron is pretty much desd in the middle of the periodic table where neither fusion nor fission would produce much or any energy. Mass to energy conversion would work on anything, not just metal, so still make no sense to eat metal.

It's pretty much just the silly notion that a creature of metal would eat metal but I don't think it works that way.

Theory: he doesn't use it for power or anything, the Giant was a Von Neumann machine that was eating enough metal to build a second version of itself which would then do the same and etc.
The bump on the head he got screwed up his programming in that regard.

Heh, awesome!

Sacrifice myself to myself to give myself more power.