Is Mark Korean-American in the comics as well?

[u/ManyMention6930]

I thought his race/ethnicity was something present in the comics but I’ve been reading through them and have found no mention of it so far

[u/spicybigdadd]

Is he not american?

[u/Chumbaroony → u/spicybigdadd]

American is not a type of race, like Asian and Viltrumite are.

[u/Etticos → u/Chumbaroony]

Viltrumite is a species not a race. Mark is a viltrumite + human hybrid and his human genes are of the asian race.

[u/AIien_cIown_ninja → u/Etticos]

Viltrumite is a weird species then because usually one species cannot breed with another species, especially ones as diverse as bugs and human.

[u/RepublicHunter → u/AIien_cIown_ninja]

Yeah bro this is a comic where people fly in space and punch holes in mountains. It clearly doesn't abide by the same rules as rl.

Also the show states that Viltrumites can breed with anything.

[u/Bobby_Dogma → u/RepublicHunter]

So that's where Seance Dog came from

[u/Saymynaian → u/RepublicHunter]

I have nipples, Mark. Can you breed me?

[u/MonkiWasTooked → u/AIien_cIown_ninja]

I mean, different species can sometimes give fertile offspring afaik, like mules very rarely can (but not with other mules i think it was?)

So really, we should pair two human-viltrumite offspring and see if they can have children

[u/CardOfTheRings → u/MonkiWasTooked]

Polar Bears and Grizzly bears have fertile offspring AFAIK .

Species that are very closely related can have fertile hybrids- the line between species and subspecies is a pretty vague one and it changes all of the time.

[u/akiva_the_king → u/AIien_cIown_ninja]

Viltrumites have "hyper dominant genes". As long as the species is mostly anthropomorphic and sentient, they can interbreed with them and the resulting offspring will turn more and more into a Viltrumite as they age until they're virtually full blooded.