Mockingbirds & Power Mimics

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Mockingbirds are a group of New World passerine birds from the family Mimidae. They are best known for the habit of some species mimicking the songs of other birds and the sounds of insects and amphibians,[1] often loudly and in rapid succession
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Ordinarily, learning a new technique requires an instructor and long days of practice. However, some characters have the power to learn techniques just by watching someone else perform them a few times. Commonly, they can immediately do the …
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Characters with this power tend to be very versatile and difficult to predict, capable of easily catching opponents off guard and beating them at their own game.
Discard & Draw: They can only hold one power at a time; gaining a new power rewrites the old.
Super Trope to:
  • Cannibalism Superpower: The character copies powers by eating the enemy.
  • Ditto Fighter: A fighting game character that copies the opponent's moveset.
  • Power Parasite: The copied ability is actually stolen from the original user rather than duplicated.
  • Victor Gains Loser's Powers: The character gains the opponent's powers after defeating them.
 
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" ... the fakesimilies are getting more and more convincing... " BLISSBLOGGER " ... it's difficult not to assess them purely on how much they can pass as old school, i'm not sure is that the point or not... " SUFI The other I day came across someone talking about an old book they'd bought...
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Yes there is an interesting throughline to be traced, from Showgirls and the Nomi Says memes, to the Teaching Machine, to here. For those who want to trace it.
 
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The Mimic Machine

" ... the fakesimilies are getting more and more convincing... " BLISSBLOGGER " ... it's difficult not to assess them purely on how much they can pass as old school, i'm not sure is that the point or not... " SUFI The other I day came across someone talking about an old book they'd bought...
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Arguably we're entering the age of LLMs which is to say the age of mimicry
 
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The nudibranch, a type of mollusk sometimes called the "sea slug", feeds on jellyfish and other stinging sea creatures. It is capable of taking the "stinging" cells from the creatures it eats and incorporating them into its own body, sometimes becoming more deadly than the animals it preys on. One species has taken this in a different direction and absorbs chlorophyll from the algae it eats that it then puts into its skin, making it the only photosynthetic animal known to exist.

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t was believed by some cannibalistic tribes that eating a dead person's brain allowed you to learn their life's experiences. This unfortunately meant you could also gain the exact same disease they probably died from.
  • The most common version of this was when warriors would eat the brains or hearts of vanquished enemies to gain their strength or energy.
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