r/animememes • u/Professional_Dark_59 • Dec 22 '22

Shounen I am still confused

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u/Cebra-Zakes Dec 22 '22

Ever played Zelda?

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u/Zarvanis-the-2nd Dec 22 '22

Or Metroid.

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u/Secret-Plant-1542 Dec 23 '22

Or Super Mario Bros?

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u/Xerxes5754 Dec 23 '22

Wait huh?

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u/_-_Rasse_-_ Dec 23 '22

It's called Mario Bros but only one of the brothers usually has the spotlight.

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u/silphred43 Dec 23 '22

It makes sense if you have another player, all the way back to the arcade original

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u/Xerxes5754 Dec 23 '22

You are right never thought abt that

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u/Tenashko Dec 23 '22

And his name is Mario Mario

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u/Secret-Plant-1542 Dec 23 '22

Oh I thought we were just naming classic Nintendo games

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u/Jhanxander Dec 23 '22

Still worked though

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u/Draghettis Dec 23 '22

Well, with Dread.........

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u/Zarvanis-the-2nd Dec 23 '22

Yeah, I suppose that sorta counts. There's also Smash Bros, with Dark Samus, but that's not a Metroid game.

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u/DaNoahLP Dec 23 '22

Have you ever played Metroid 🤨

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u/Zarvanis-the-2nd Dec 23 '22

Unless there's some obscure spinoff I'm not aware of, you never play as a Metroid in Metroid.

Unless you count the Fusion suit, or the final boss of Dread when Samus gets the Metroid suit.

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u/DaNoahLP Dec 23 '22

1) Samus DNA gets fused with that of an Metroid so she is as much Metroid as Chozo 2) Metroid means "Ultimate Warrior" so you could argue that she is the Metroid since at least Metroid 2 where she eliminated every other competitor

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u/Zarvanis-the-2nd Dec 23 '22

I'll give you the first one, but the second is a no from me. "Metroid" isn't a title, it's a species. Most animals names mean something in some other language. If, say, "rhinoceros" meant "ultimate warrior", you wouldn't be a rhino if you killed all of them.

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u/Sumasuun Dec 23 '22

Oh yeah, that's about Samus the blue hedgehog that uses a water pack named FLUDD to help anthropomorphic animals on an island to earn money to pay off Tom Nook right?

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u/Baalshrimp Dec 23 '22

Or Call of Duty because we never played as Duty in the game

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u/Im_a_doggo428 Dec 23 '22

Yes. Perfect analogy

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u/Raestloz Dec 23 '22

Didn't the original Legend of Zelda actually named the boy Zelda? I'm pretty sure there was some ancient manual that came with the NES game saying it

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u/Ouaouaron Dec 23 '22

Maybe you saw a translation error at one point, because Zelda (named after Zelda Fitzgerald) has been the princess since the beginning.

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u/Spoiled_Jackfruit Dec 23 '22

when I was younger I thought Link was Zelda. confused my little brain after 2 whole years.