Glydon

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Glydon is a character who is enthusiastic about flying and gliding. Mario meets Glydon in several Kingdoms throughout the game Super Mario Odyssey. He states that he's travelling to various Kingdoms to glide from the highest places, while the World atlas as well as his bandana having similar motifs as the ones found on the ponchos of Tostarenans indicate that his homeland is in the Sand Kingdom, which is indeed the first Kingdom where he can be found in the game.

Glydon, captured by Mario, gliding in the Lost Kingdom.

Mario can take control of Glydon to glide and dive. When captured, Glydon is unable to swim and simply disappears as soon as he touches water. Some Power Moons are obtained from other non-playable characters when Mario succesfully reaches distant places by gliding with Glydon.

His name is a portmanteau of "glide" and "-odon", a typical suffix used for animals (often reptiles, such as Iguanodon and Pteranodon) distinguished or recognized through their teeth.

While Glydon is explicitly stated to be an individual character, his name in various Western languages as well as the official PRIMA guide of Super Mario Odyssey indicate that Glydon is also the name of his species.

Physical appearance

Glydon in the Darker Side.

Glydon is a yellow bipedal reptile designed after flying lizards. He's taller than Mario and features a long tail, two hands with three fingers and a thumb each and two rather short legs which are typically kept significantly bent and almost resting on the coronal plane, resulting in a very peculiar walking gait. He also has two giant membranes on his sides, the patagia, that he uses for gliding and are reddish-orange in color, with various visible veinings on the inside, while the outside is red into orange on the tip, featuring irregular yellow stripes. The rest of his skin is mostly yellow with faintly visible scales, bar the back which features small orange stripes, the lower part of his body and from the lower part of the muzzle up to the tip of his tail, which is fully white and doesn't feature scales. His head features three short dark green hairs on the tip and eyes which are at the side and slightly protruding from the head. Said eyes have big black pupils surrounded by small light orange irises and a white sclera, as well as yellow eyelids that he typically keeps slightly lowered until he has been captured by Mario. The upper tip of his muzzle features two small nostrils while the mouth itself is toothless and only features a red rounded tongue. He wears small round red spectales on the tip of his muzzle, reddish brown shoes with beige outsoles, similar to those worn by Yoshis, and a bandana with alternating yellow and red stripes that end with yellow and red triangles and an outline formed by a green strip followed by a white strip.

Gallery

Artwork

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  Glydon captured by Mario

Screenshots

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  Glydon meeting Mario in the Sand Kingdom

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  Glydon captured by Mario diving in the Wooded Kingdom

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  Glydon in the Seaside Kingdom

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  Glydon with Mario in the Lost Kingdom

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Dutch	Glydon	-
German	Segelmander	Portmanteau of segeln (to glide) and salamander.
Italian	Planosauro	From planata (glide) and -sauro (lizard).
Portuguese	Glydon	-
Russian	Птеродон Pterodon	From Птер-, the Russian transcription of the Greek πτερ- (wing), and -одон, the Russian transcription of the Greek -όδων (tooth).
Spanish	Planeosaurio	From planeo (glide) and -saurio (lizard).