This reminds me of Nikita Mandryka's 1970s comic strip 'Les aventures potagères du Concombre masque'. There may have been a reason for The Masked Cucumber to be a vegetable superhero in a human world, but if there was, I don’t remember it. He just was.
And then there is 'Fruitless Efforts: Fruit of the Womb', a 2009 short film by Aaron Quist and Andrew Chesworth of the MAKE visual design studio of Minneapolis about an apple, ““an average fruit guy trying to hold a job, have friends and just live his life in peace like a normal apple,” and how he is pursued by the banana and the grapes who WANT TO EAT HIM! Cannibalistic fruit! Is it cannibalism if a banana eats an apple? Again, there is no explanation of why the fruit are determined to eat the apple. They just do. http://www.makevisual.com/fruitlessefforts/
But you can get away with a lack of an explanation in a funny-animal comic book/strip or a short animated film. If the author is writing a serious story for adults, most readers are going to want a reason for the characters to be anthropomorphized animals or fruits or vegetables instead of humans.
This reminds me of Nikita Mandryka's 1970s comic strip 'Les aventures potagères du Concombre masque'. There may have been a reason for The Masked Cucumber to be a vegetable superhero in a human world, but if there was, I don’t remember it. He just was.
And then there is 'Fruitless Efforts: Fruit of the Womb', a 2009 short film by Aaron Quist and Andrew Chesworth of the MAKE visual design studio of Minneapolis about an apple, ““an average fruit guy trying to hold a job, have friends and just live his life in peace like a normal apple,” and how he is pursued by the banana and the grapes who WANT TO EAT HIM! Cannibalistic fruit! Is it cannibalism if a banana eats an apple? Again, there is no explanation of why the fruit are determined to eat the apple. They just do. http://www.makevisual.com/fruitlessefforts/
But you can get away with a lack of an explanation in a funny-animal comic book/strip or a short animated film. If the author is writing a serious story for adults, most readers are going to want a reason for the characters to be anthropomorphized animals or fruits or vegetables instead of humans.
Fred Patten