Insane Cancer

Post by **Herr Shaun** » 03 Apr 2007

Let me help you. What happens after something burns? What is a byproduct of fire?

Post by **AuraTwilight** » 03 Apr 2007

Burns. Not Cancer.

Post by **JuriDawn** » 03 Apr 2007

I think he's trying to make a joke about Heather not "smoking" anymore because she was burned, and therefore smoldered. Hilarious.

Post by **Herr Shaun** » 03 Apr 2007

JuriDawn wrote:I think he's trying to make a joke about Heather not "smoking" anymore because she was burned, and therefore smoldered. Hilarious.

Ding-ding, we have a winner! And it was supposed to be a groaner, don't act like I intended it to be anything more.

Post by **AuraTwilight** » 04 Apr 2007

Oh. I thought you were trying to imply that being burned caused lung cancer.

Ok, yea, it's totally funny. XD

Post by **simeonalo** » 25 Sep 2009

It symbolizes the corruption of Dahlia and The Order

Post by **AuraTwilight** » 25 Sep 2009

I don't see the relevance. You can't really call the assholishness of the Order as a "Cancer", and even so, it's not all that relevant to Heather.

Post by **pyramidheadkiller007** » 13 Oct 2009

Cancer is like a tumour mass that just grows.. or it can have masses grow right? They aren't supposed to be there. Maybe that is what Alessa/Heather thinks of the god in her. God is a cancer that is taking over her body

Post by **Mr.Webs** » 14 Oct 2009

ShaunOfShadou wrote:
CryingInTheCorner wrote:if you examine the ashtray, heather says something along the lines of, "I don't smoke. At least not anymore." This shows that she used to smoke, so the monster must be a visualization of her fear of lung cancer.
Or maybe that was a grim reference to the fact that Alessa was burned.

Wa wa waaaaaa.

But seriously folks, I always was under the impression that, cancer, much like the fetus, is an unwanted 'sickness' that grows and grows inside of her, until eventually it's a hulking grotesque mass. Hence, Heather's visualization of the Insane Cancer.

Post by **Herr Shaun** » 14 Oct 2009

Wow, I was a riot two years ago.

Post by **Mr.Webs** » 14 Oct 2009

Hehe. What can I say? I'm a total sucker for a good pun.

Post by **True** » 24 Oct 2009

pyramidheadkiller007 wrote:Cancer is like a tumour mass that just grows.. or it can have masses grow right? They aren't supposed to be there. Maybe that is what Alessa/Heather thinks of the god in her. God is a cancer that is taking over her body

Hmm, never thought about it that way

I always thought since Heather quit smoking that she might've quit cause she feared ending up with lung cancer or something.

Post by **untamedbananaslug** » 02 Nov 2009

Burning Man wrote:Biologically, the fetus can be considered a type of cancer.

LOL. Nowhere in a medical textbook would you find a fetus being classified as a type of cancer.

Post by **Weyoun** » 02 Nov 2009

Yes, but the fetus growing in Heather isn't a normal fetus.

Post by **Kaiza Killa** » 02 Nov 2009

untamedbananaslug wrote:
Burning Man wrote:Biologically, the fetus can be considered a type of cancer.
LOL. Nowhere in a medical textbook would you find a fetus being classified as a type of cancer.

When we have the ability to "build" our children this most cetainly will change.

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Post by **Son_of_Kauffman** » 03 Nov 2009

untamedbananaslug wrote:
Burning Man wrote:Biologically, the fetus can be considered a type of cancer.
LOL. Nowhere in a medical textbook would you find a fetus being classified as a type of cancer.

The cancer analogy is wrong.
I believe that within the context of the game, a fetus can be considered a parasite, draining resources from the motherÂ´s body to sustain itself.
In my opinion the insane cancer represents the fear of something parasitic growing out of control.

Post by **Kaiza Killa** » 03 Nov 2009

Son_of_Kauffman wrote:
untamedbananaslug wrote:
Burning Man wrote:Biologically, the fetus can be considered a type of cancer.
LOL. Nowhere in a medical textbook would you find a fetus being classified as a type of cancer.
The cancer analogy is wrong.
I believe that within the context of the game, a fetus can be considered a parasite, draining resources from the motherÂ´s body to sustain itself.
In my opinion the insane cancer represents the fear of something parasitic growing out of control.

...and to add to this. The so-called "fetus" inside Heather isn't exactly a normal fetus now is it? It is an interloper to her body.

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Post by **Datenshi92** » 03 Nov 2009

I agree with what some people before me said.
Insane Cancer does seem to be a symbol of an an anormal mass growing inside of Heather.
But my doubt is: why fat? Some of the other monsters can also look like walking "cancers", like the Numb Body and the Closer in some aspects, why is this one different?
The only thing I can make out of all this is that the Insane Cancer looks like its ready to blow at any moment.
Maybe Heather is also afraid of becoming fat, wich, being "pregnant" its something that most likely will happen, her body changes for the development of the fetus.
The aspect of these monsters look like they're ready to blow, might be connected to the fact that the fetus will "blow" out of her body at any moment, like it happens with Claudia, we don't see a normal birth, but her body does disapear.

Post by **Kaiza Killa** » 04 Nov 2009

Datenshi92 wrote:I agree with what some people before me said.
Insane Cancer does seem to be a symbol of an an anormal mass growing inside of Heather.
But my doubt is: why fat? Some of the other monsters can also look like walking "cancers", like the Numb Body and the Closer in some aspects, why is this one different?

Perhaps it is necessary to be "fat" so as to appear overtly like an un-natural "growth".

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Post by **DÃ¤niken** » 08 Nov 2009

Son_of_Kauffman wrote:The cancer analogy is wrong.

Growing fetus is made of dividing cells and is not part of normal anatomy of the person in question. In this way it resembles cancer but the analogy only goes so far. Main difference is obviously that cancer cells lack the normal mechanisms restricting cell division. I find the analogy quite insightful anyway.