Star Fox (video game): Difference between revisions

** Unlike 42-year old Peppy in ''64'', this 36-year old Peppy was barely middle-aged, and certainly not old enough to be a [[Parental Substitute]] to a Fox who was already fully-grown. But Peppy was still the best friend of Fox's father, so he was still the team's [[Cool Old Guy]], and his affection towards Fox made him the perfect [[Big Brother Mentor]]. His perky chirpy personality also made him a lot more...[[Meaningful Name|peppy]].

** This 19-year old Slippy was not much older than ''64'''s 18-year old Slippy, but was notable for having no [[Viewer Gender Confusion]] whatsoever, being unambiguously male and boyish with a deep baritone voice, even while constantly wearing a bead necklace. In the reboot, when Slippy's sound become more [[Vocal Dissonance|feminine]], his appearance was made more masculine in contrast, and his trademark necklace had to go. Slippy also had a constant [[Speech Impediment|stutter]], and periodically punctuated his lines with "ribbit" -- this vanished entirely from his rebooted persona.

* [[The Exile]]: Fox McCloud Jr. and his companions were originally [[Ace Pilot|Ace Pilots]] in [[Redshirt Army|Corneria Defense Force]]. But after the incident that created the [[Unrealistic Black Hole|Black Hole]] and caused his father's disappearance, Fox and his friends protested. Cornerian leadership was terrified of Andross's growing power on Venom, and exiled the crew to Fox's ancestral home planet Papetoon to try to avoid Andross's wrath. [[It Got Worse|It didn't work]], and Venom soon conquered Papetoon and invaded Corneria, turning the latter into a tense warzone while Fox and his friends spent the next few years just trying to hide and survive. At the beginning of the main story, General Pepper suspended their exile and they smuggled themselves back to Corneria.

* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Fara Phoenix, due to being a mix of [[Leeroy Jenkins]] and a [[Badass Damsel]].

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Fox's scarf.

* [[Single Biome Planet]]: Averted more often than ''64'' did, but there are still a few notable examples.

** Titania is an ice planet. {{spoiler|But it turns out this is just a weather machine}}. In the [[Continuity Reboot]], Titania was changed to a desert planet, and Fichina became the ice planet.

** The monotony of planetary appearances was justified by the game using prerendered bitmaps for planetary backgrounds. It was understood that planets like Corneria and Fortuna had more variety than was shown, and Fortuna was actually shown to have three different biomes in its playable area.

** [[Punny Name]]: Fara Phoenix's surname is pronounced "fennecs".

** Then there's '''Vixy Reinard''', whose first and last names are both fox terms.

{{quote| '''Falco:''' ''(after being saved)'' Mind your own business, Fox!}}

* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: In the Nintendo Power comic, after Fox learns that {{spoiler|Andross killed his mother}}.