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Line 3: Maybe Clyde got his color changed... Maybe he's Funky from Pac-Mania?... * In ''[[~~Pac Man World\|~~Pac-Man World]] 2'' and ''3'' (not sure about the first), Blinky and Clyde's names are swapped around. In the original game, Blinky is red and Clyde is orange; now, Clyde is red and Blinky is orange. The personalities also keep with color; the red ghost is the leader and the orange ghost is the coward. I'm not really looking for a justification; it's just a strange and seemingly unnecessary change. It's probably just an error. I don't know how they could have possibly forgotten the correct names for their most famous characters, or how they could have done this ''twice'', but that's the most likely explanation. What especially bothers this particularly anal retentive troper is that if they hadn't switched the names in ''Pac-Man World 2'', they would have been fought in the order Clyde, Inky, Pinky, Blinky -- the reverse of the original order! As is, it's no order in particular. The Red Power Ranger is the leader, so why not the Red Ghost? ... still, it bugs me as well. * See above problem, but not the answer. In other words, the Red Ghost IS the leader! ** This also happened in ''Pac-Man Arrangement'' -- again, the red ghost was still the aggressive one, and the orange ghost was still the dopey one, but their names had switched. The only justifications I can think of are either that they thought the [[Odd Name Out]] was more suited to the leader, or they wanted [[~~Added Alliterative Appeal~~Alliteration]] for "Clyde in the Caldera". (By the way, the first ''Pac-Man World'' didn't have the original four ghosts, just a bunch of generic ones.) * Anyone else noticed that the non-nicknames (Shadow, Speedy, Bashful, and Pokey) in the original game aren't very appropriate? Pinky is called "Speedy", but Blinky is the one who's faster than the others (when he goes "Cruise Elroy"), and Inky is called "Bashful", when Clyde is the one who backs off when Pac-Man is near! (That said, Blinky ''does'' shadow you, and Clyde is awfully pokey getting out of the Ghost House.) ** Some of the context of their names may have been [[Lost in Translation]] from Japanese. [http://www.destructoid.com/blinky-inky-pinky-and-clyde-a-small-onomastic-study-108669.phtml This article] is by no means the only one analyzing the ghosts' behaviors, but it is a quick read and has some unique art that made it stick in my mind. Line 19: [[Category:Pac-Man]] [[Category:Headscratchers]] __NOTOC__