Talk:Squiglet

What video? Max2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOnkukmcNZg. Keep watching till tippy tattles. Full Metal Moogle

OK. 3D, kewl.

Octorock?

I think not. They have almost no connection whatsoever. They spit rocks. That's it. And the whole "Squid" thing is also pretty ridiculous. Just because "Squig" is close to "squid" does not mean that they are related to Octorocks. And Octorocks are octopi. Not squid.

So I removed that POV. Tell me if you think that my choice was dumb. ;) BLOC PARTIER.

"Pigs"

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I really don't think we should consider these actual "pigs." Beyond being pinkish, they look nothing like pigs (unlike, say, Pigarithm), and the name is clearly just a way to play off "squiggle," with the variants taking on a theme naming. Also, the language-of-origin name simply references their geometric design. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 15:55, June 20, 2021 (EDT)

Yeah, this description has been up for years now and it's always made me confused. I figured there's some in-game or guide tidbit that discloses their species of origin; could that be true? -- KOOPA CON CARNE 16:09, June 20, 2021 (EDT)

I checked all in-game bios, and none of the types are ever called "pigs," at least in English. The most specific it gets is "creatures." To me, they seem like abstract blobs like so much of the rest of the game's original designs. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 16:42, June 20, 2021 (EDT)

I wouldn't say they look "nothing" like pigs, yeah they obviously don't look like real pigs but they're still heavily stylized cartoon pigs. The English names obviously reference them being pigs (Piglet/Pig/Hog/Oinker) and the Spanish and French translations also picked up on the resemblance. Just because the developers didn't choose to include that in their Japanese name that doesn't mean the intention wasn't there, and I'm not too keen on throwing the information out just because of it. -- Too Bad! Waluigi Time! 16:45, June 20, 2021 (EDT)

They really don't look like pigs, though (they look less like pigs than SMG Mecha Bowser looks like Bowser, IMO). That circle on the front is their mouth, as shown by various animations, leaving them noseless. Unlike, again, Pigarithm, which actually does resemble a stylized pig or three. At this point, the only similarities to pigs are being pinkish, mostly hairless, and having four visible legs, which in a game with all sorts of postmoderny designs isn't really saying much. To put this in perspective, Muth is clearly a mammoth, having a recognizeable trunk, woolly body, and thematic location. Jellien is clearly a jellyfish in shape and movements despite being a space creature. Squiglet doesn't really have any of this, similar to how Boing-Oing, the Tileoid family, and Cursya don't look like anything this side of death itself. As for the other languages, my presumption there is that it's further localized using the English version as a base, and thus not separately "picking up" on anything (though I could be wrong on that count). Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 16:52, June 20, 2021 (EDT)

Eh, I'm unsure. Would this be a case of Spider, where it's called X in English and Y in Japanese but looks like Z, a case of Rhino Ankiron, where it's called X in English and Y in Japanese but looks like a mix of both, a case of Power Bee, where it's called X in English but looks like Y and is called Y in Japanese, or is it a case of ComBat, where it looks like X and is called X in English but is given a non-indicative name in Japanese? I can see this going a lot of different ways. Somethingone (talk) 08:37, May 27, 2022 (EDT)