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:::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. --{{User:Waluigi Time/sig}} 16:45, 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. --{{User:Waluigi Time/sig}} 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 [[MarioWiki:BJAODN/Enemies#Punchinello|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). [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 16:52, 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 [[MarioWiki:BJAODN/Enemies#Punchinello|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). [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 16:52, June 20, 2021 (EDT) | ||
