Just the other day I was telling my son that instead of Ant Man, it should’ve been Mant.
We are all men. He is a “rat”-man, I am a “hu”-man.
So what does he want to be called? Just a rat? But - there are actual rats, which are already called rats. Unless those don’t exist in this universe, “ratman” seems like a pretty reasonable term. He has both rat and humanoid features.
Serious answer? He’d be called a Rat-Man in the language of humans, and an original word in his own language
Yeah. Him calling the man “man-rat” makes no sense though. For it to make sense, there would have to be something even more human and more distant from rats, so that he could be viewed as half rat.
The rat…person would call themselves a word in their language that would translate to man language as “hu-rat”. the man would thus be a man-rat.
Maybe in that world there are tiny humans that crawl in their walls and steal their food.
It’s a false equivalency on the Ratman’s part. There exist rats. There exist men. He’s a cross somewhere between, where the man is just a man. I mean, provided there isn’t some kind of miniature, unintelligent human analog in this world.
