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''Star Fox'' (released as ''Starwing'' in Europe) was the very first of the ''[[Star Fox (
The Super NES game was the first game to include the Super FX chip, a coprocessor that provided (at the time) cutting edge 3D polygon graphics, years before [[Sega Saturn]], [[Sony Playstation]] and [[Nintendo 64]] made this the norm in console video game design.
''Star Fox'' was the second best-selling title of the franchise, only outsold by ''[[
A 1995 sequel, ''[[
''Star Fox'' and ''Star Fox 2'' are a different [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Canon]] compared to ''Star Fox 64'' and its sequels (though it's more accurate to say that ''64'' was [[Lighter and Softer]] than them), with moderately different character backstories, personalities and ''very'' different character ages.
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* [[Anyone Can Die]]/[[Final Death]]: Unlike in ''64'', any of your wingmates can die. If they die, it's permanent for the rest of the game.
* [[Badass]]: This game was actually moderately ''more'' [[Badass]] in characterization than the [[Narm|Narmier]] characters in ''[[Star Fox 64]]''.
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: It's more accurate to say that the better-known ''[[
** 24-year old Fox was already fiercely self-reliant, having already launched his CDF career, and subsequently wrecking it (for a time) when he provoked Corneria's powers-that-be to exile him and his friends. This Fox was less [[Only in It For
** 28-year old Falco was originally almost a decade older than his 19-year old rebooted persona in ''[[Star Fox 64]]''. He was not a [[Bishonen]], and his head sported more of a feather mohawk than the pointy tip in his later appearance. All this accomplished to make him more of a [[Big Badass Bird of Prey]] and certainly more masculine in appearance. It was specifically ''this'' incarnation of Falco that was specifically [[Expy|Expyed]] as Eric Bradley Hawthorne in ''[[The Class Menagerie]]'' ([[Hilarious in Hindsight|also]] [[Ambiguously Gay]]). One thing that didn't change much about Falco's characterization, was that he was [[Only in It For
** 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.
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* [[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]].
* [[Fun
* [[Cool Shades]]: One of General Pepper's most distinguishing features, along with his distinctive uniform and the lollipop he was always sucking on.
* [[Generation Xerox]]/[[I Am X, Son of Y]]: Fox McCloud Jr. is always being compared to his missing father Fox McCloud Sr., and in [[Flash Back|Flashbacks]] Sr. looks practically identical to adult Jr. (This was before the ''64'' [[Continuity Reboot]] gave ''James'' McCloud his trademark [[Cool Shades]].)
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