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Did anyone else think the mutant baby was cute?


When it wasn't sick or dying, that is? It was really quite adorable! But more as a pet. I wouldn't want that to come out of my girlfriend's vagina!

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UGh it was a disgusting little freak. Being way more intelligent than an average baby made it more disturbing. How could you guys think it was cute? We dont even know its gender? The mutant thing was just crying to get attention. It was not sick, it just created a sickness to be looked after. Remember he was not sick when henry hold him, when he put it down it just started crying and the swellings appeared instantly. Those cryings were unbearable! You people just cant see that it was the worst kind of baby a parent could ever have.

Cute? Yes, go to a therapist.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

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"Go to a therapist" Says the one who appears to have a lack of empathy for the baby's suffering while you focus on how it makes *you* feel (disgusted).
Take your own advice, go see a therapist, you sound like a Psychopath.
Please never have children, going by what you say here you'll neglect the baby while it cries through the night. The baby was crying for his father to care for him, I am pretty sure that is normal for a baby when it is in distress, you are overly focusing on how it looks and neglecting it's mental suffering.

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It was also ‘laughing’ at Henry’s torment, that’s what pushed Henry over the edge.

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It was adorable, and I loved it even more when it cried all through the night soooo funny. The larva, acted like a normal baby, imo, a little bit of reality in their surreal world.

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It was lovely and vulnerable and cute and those parents were turds. Like this pretentious movie.

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It looked like baby Voldemort.
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I wouldn't call it cute at all, but I felt for it because it wasn't the babies fault that it was born a mutant. Did you ever read 'The Scarlet Ibis'? It gave me that feeling. I really empathized with both of the boy characters.

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I thought the mutant baby was repulsive in a very sad way because it sounded like a human baby and in some ways I felt sorry for it. But when Henry killed it I felt relieved that he had put it out of its misery, it was something that should not be, a hideous unnatural thing.

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I wouldn't say cute necessarily. However, even though he was a mutant, he was still a baby. He was just so helpless. I couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

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