How fast do Monsters age compared to humans?

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#1

This question has been bothering me for a long time. In the DVD

extras, it said that Henry J. Waternoose has been keeping the family company running for 142 years. Holy moose.

They apparently have WAY longer lifespans than us Humans, so I think it’s only natural to assume that it would

take them longer to age as well. I mean, for being 142, Waternoose looks like he has nothing much to worry about

health-wise other than packing a few extra pounds. He is still strong and quite fast, even if it may just have

been the adrenaline that gave him that much strength when was chasing after Sullivan during the last scenes of

the movie. Assuming Boo (aka, Mary) were to keep seeing Sullivan (or maybe even Randall) for several years, would

she be much older while these two looked like they’ve barely aged a day?

#2

Good question. To me, I think

monsters are ageless. The continue to haunt little kids for all eternety. Never stoping until the child finds out

the truth.

#3

I think it actually depends

on each individual monster. Maybe Waternoose is a kind of monster that has a really long life-span, but this may

not necessarily apply to all of the monsters. There’s a possibility that there’s kind of a time-warp between

the two worlds, so that Boo might age but the monsters don’t, or possibly even vice versa, but I think that it

really does depend on each individual monster.

#4

Or maybe monsters have shorter years than we do, like a

dog and a human, humans age 1 year and dogs age 7, you know dog years. and in this case it could be monster

years.

#5

And we’re

also assuming that their world is the same distance from the sun as ours. I guess their world is the alternate

version of ours, but we can’t really tell.

#6

The monsters measure time exactly as we do; take a

look at their clocks. If time were vastly different in their world, coordinating the visits to children’s rooms

would be next to impossible. It just appears to me that some, at least, can live a lot longer than humans do,

probably due to the different animal genes incorporated into their own DNA. Look at how long some animals live,

like Giant Tortoises, for example, compared to us, while our lifespans seem infinite compared to those of most

insects.

pitbulllady

#7

Time within the Monster World is relative to us. However,

opposite. Not as in time going backwards, just from what we see is that night here is day there, and night there

is day here.

Monster aging depends on the gene factor inherited from the items on The Island. Being

several years from the first monsters, there are many Hybrids that have been produced, several we see in the

film.

For instance. Randall is a hybrid of several reptilian species, though still retaining warm

bloodedness.

Aging in the Monster World would confuse several scientists here. Some monsters live far past

the human age.
For instance. The dragon gene. Regularly, dragons live 10 times that of humans. Nearly 1000

years.
Again I use Randall as an example. If Randall had a dragon gene in his D.N.A. structure, his aging

would allow him to live for nearly 1000 years.

I’m no scientist, but if I recall there are several

factors. Such as if hybrids lifespans are alterted due to no “pure genetic code” or not.

It

really depends on pure and hybrid species. Waternoose was the combination of, perhaps, spider and crab ancestors.

Now how he would live to such an extent is unknown. Being the third Waternoose, it’s unsure how long each one

has lived.

Aging in the Monster World can probably not be answered by humans, as there are several

unexplained, as well as several “unaccepted”, properties that would effect them all.

#8

And the calendars. Sully

has employee of the month awards January through December. Exactly the same as our months. So if their months go

according to ours, then I’ll assume that their years do, too. I’m still a little confused about those animal

genes; how could animal genetics have had become incorporated into Mons from eating that “magic” fruit?

It’s not that I’m not buying the gene mutation theory; in fact, it’s the magic fruit concept from History of

the Monster World that I find half-arsed. How “magic” was the fruit that each Mon developed different

animal-like characteristics?

#9

Given that Civil

Rights for the reptilian monsters in the world had not yet come, it could be said that some of the Monster

World’s soceity is based on the Human World’s.
A further idea to question why the Toxic Card

existed.

The timeline of the months and years has no affect on a person’s age limit.

Remember…it

was NOT just the fruit. The whole Island was, seemingly, enchanted with mutation. This is the

“unaccepted” property I was talking about. However, the Island is a fact.

Think of it this way.

The fruits and animals had a “virus” in some ways. When consumed, the virus mass-produces. Altering the

body and physical appearence.
Take acme or too much carrot juice. Those are, in some ways, a physical

alteration of appearence. Although, yes, short lived. But the fact remains the same.

As for different

animal-like characteristics, it depends on what animal they ate.
However…think of it this way…
The

Devils Fruit, so named as the humans hated Mons, had the “virus” to alter a Mon’s appearence and

physical body. Now replicating would, most likely, not occur as the basic D.N.A. was only the Mon’s.
When the

Mon consumed a creature, the virus replicated the D.N.A. structure. The virus then attaches itself with the

foreign D.N.A. and alters the chain of the original D.N.A.
Now, unsure myself if this is a dangerous process.

Probably is.

Remember that Mons were driven into another world. One that is possibly not limited by your

human science.
The Island where the Devil’s Fruit lies is the Garden of Eve. Basically the origin of all

monsters.

#10

I always thought they were refering to Waternoose the first (maybe that was actually in the

extras, i dont remember, i havent watched them in awhile). Although I spose it’s possible that they could live

longer than people. Nothing for me proves they dont

#11

He is Henry J. Waternoose the 3rd. One

of the reasons why he would not let his family’s company, in a way, fall.

#12

But I think the only way you can kill a monster is

by believing that there is no such thing. Other than that, they are practically ageless.

#13

I

think you’re getting Monsters, Inc. all mixed up with the old Nicktoon, "Ahhh!

Real Monsters!" here. In the Nicktoon, it was repeated often that monsters came into being after they were

imagined by humans, and only could continue to exist as long as humans believed in them. There was even a

one-hour special in which humans became so absorbed with their own problems, like crime, that monsters ceased to

be on their minds, and as a result, the monsters started to disappear, one body part at a time. Keep in mind

that these monsters lived right here in the Human World among us, not in their own dimension, as in the

movie.

In the Pixar movie, there are several references to monsters being

killed. Mike yells hysterically, as they’re running away from Randall, that

“he’s trying to KILL us!” as he attempts to explain to Celia Mae what the problem is, for example.

There is little doubt that even though these being must have a longer natural lifespan than us humans, they can

still die unnatural deaths, just as we sometimes do. While Waternoose’s age is indeed considerable compared to

ours, he DOES look old, and probably his appearance has changed considerably over the decades. Eventually, the

monsters in their world would HAVE to die, of old age or something, otherwise there would be no food, no room,

not even enough air to breathe, due to their numbers! We saw no evidence of a mass population explosion in the

movie, to the contrary-their world seemed clean and rather orderly compared to most of OUR

cities!

pitbulllady

#14

That’s the thing that caught my attention right from the beginning when I saw

Monstropolis; its citizens definitely seem more concerned about keeping their city clean. Which is odd,

considering that Monstropolis is supposed to be a “bustling” metropolitan area that constantly reminds

me of New York city, particularly the apartment buildings in which Sully and Mike reside.

#15

That particular philosophy Star Swordsman would apply to Toons rather than monsters. When no

one believes or remembers a Toon, they fade away.

Well particularly trash is rather tasty to several

monsters.
Monsters Inc. makes it a rule that their employees not eat any of the supplies or it will be

deducted from their pay heh.

#16

LOL, totally forgot about that trash-eating bit. You’re

right. After a while of only seeing similiarities between us and them, I keep forgetting all those odd little

differences that DO set humans and monsters apart.

#17

Heh

#18

Where did that Toon rule come from?

Only thing that kills toons as far as I know is laughing to death or the Dip.

#19

Limited to the Roger Rabbit

theory…

Well although I think it didn’t start from it, in an Animaniacs episode, the crew met up with

old friends who were black & white. The old broadvile type of people. However, they were fading away because

people had forgotten them, with the change of society and switch to color.

#20

To add to this theory:

In a House of Mouse episode – on the Disney Channel – , a little black-and-white

character attempted to destroy himself by using an eraser to “delete” himself, to speak. It was kind of

interesting…