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Re: your appalling actions

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5868704&forum_id=2,#49898209)

Wolf O'donnell and Fox Mccloud have Irish last names and this is no accident. Wild canines are outsiders in this galaxy and are seen as a rogue-ish types much like your classic irishman. Wolf and Fox have more in common than they realize. However, Foxes basically cannot be tamed. They are far too sly and cunning. Like, not at all. Dogs evolved from wolves and not foxes for a reason. Hence, Andross, the Primate, was able to enlist Wolf to his cause but not Fox.

the Monkey race is bad because humans are bad and are always fucking with animals. It's an allegory. They are also intellectually superior just like irl. Andross excels at Engineering and wants to dominate the galaxy for no other reason than he can. He's an analogue for humanity. Andrew, particularly in this version, is a bourgeoisie WASP who definitely looks down on the other animals. The Lylat Wars are about ethic – nay – species Cleansing. The primates want to Enslave the other animals.

Pigma is a complete piece of shit, like unbelievably so, and is exactly how you'd expect a pig to be irl, particularly if you are a member of certain ancient religions who forbid eating pork. There's a practical reason for this. Pork can be dangerous af to eat because pigs are an intermediate host for tapeworm and other maladies. Pigma is complete Scum anyway because the animals are somewhat analogous to their irl compatriots.

btw, Pigma's betrayal of James has its roots in biology. Pigs have uncanny biological similarities to humans which leads to, imo, a kinship of sorts between Andross and Pigma. Pig skin stratifies and heals closely enough to human tissue that medicine has repeatedly used it as a surrogate body. Even the organs occupy an uncanny middle ground where they do not resemble “animal parts” so much as imperfect human approximations. Xenotransplantation exists largely because the biological gap refuses to stay comfortably wide. Pig eyes are the part people remember because they fail to look properly animal. Ophthalmic surgeons train on pig eyes since the tissue behaves with an almost offensive familiarity, and once you know that, the stare of a pig in dim light becomes difficult to process cleanly. Anyway, irl, Bad People are cruel to domesticated animals so Pigma aligns with Andross and wants to destroy Corneria which is, afaict, a planet predominated by domesticated Dogs.

Corneria being populated heavily by Dogs is not an accident either because Dogs are the quintessential domesticated animal. They literally evolved alongside Civilization itself. Obedience, hierarchy, loyalty, police work, military work, shepherding, companionship. Corneria is basically the Galactic Kennel State. Naturally this makes them the primordial enemy of Andross because Andross represents the nightmare endpoint of human intellect detached from empathy, the laboratory animal finally taking revenge against Creation itself. A Dog Civilization would instinctively oppose that because Dogs exist symbiotically with order and civilization whereas Primates endlessly destabilize and dominate everything around them. Fox exists in a weird liminal state between these worlds because he's canine-adjacent but fundamentally untamable. That's why Corneria trusts him but never fully understands him.

Falco being a bird also matters because Birds in fiction are usually coded as arrogance and freedom. Falco is basically an Italian-American fighter pilot stereotype mixed with an urban hawk. He's loud, territorial, vain, impulsive, constantly posturing, but ultimately anti-authoritarian which is why he follows Fox instead of Cornerian bureaucracy. Slippy meanwhile is exactly what a Frog would become in a hyper-technological civilization. Amphibians are fragile prey creatures biologically speaking so naturally Slippy overcompensates through engineering and machinery because physically he is completely unsuited for direct conflict. His constant panic over comms is literally prey-animal biology leaking into dialogue.

Peppy Hare is fascinating because Rabbits in literature are almost never true protagonists. They are survivors. Prey animals. Creatures of memory, routes, caution, inherited terror. Hazel from Watership Down is probably the closest analogue, not because Peppy is a “leader” necessarily but because both characters possess that same exhausted civilizational wisdom prey species develop after generations of catastrophe. Peppy survives James. Survives Andross. Survives the wars. Survives irrelevance itself. That matters. The Boomer reading of Peppy is that he is a coward because he steps aside for Fox. Completely wrong. A Boomer animal would have refused succession outright. Peppy understands something much older and sadder: prey animals survive specifically by knowing when their epoch has ended. Peppy is analogous to Gen X imo. There is an almost Japanese melancholy to him by later games, especially in the way he becomes institutional furniture inside Corneria, half advisor and half relic, endlessly briefing younger pilots who barely comprehend the scale of what he witnessed. The hare in mythology is often associated with the moon, with cycles, with recurrence, with anxious perception. Peppy sees the catastrophe coming before everyone else because prey creatures always do. The famous Do a barrel roll line becoming a meme is itself weirdly appropriate because modernity reduces all elder wisdom into disposable signal fragments eventually. Entire wars. Dead friends. Traumas. Lost civilizations. Compressed into soundboards and algorithmic repetition. Peppy becomes data before he dies. Which is, imho, the bleakest thing in the entire franchise.

Kat in the remake looking weirdly exhausted and used-up honestly tracks too. She's a street cat archetype. Cats in cities survive through adaptability, opportunism, charm, and navigating danger constantly. The N64 era made her look glamorous because that was late 90s gaming romanticism talking. The remake accidentally made her look more plausible. Of course a smuggler / drifter cat woman flying around the galaxy hanging around Falco would look rough around the edges by her 30s. That's probably the most realistic character design decision Nintendo has made in years even if they stumbled into it accidentally.

Even Leon being a chameleon or gecko type thing makes sense because reptiles in Star Fox are coded as cold opportunists. Leon has no ideology whatsoever. Wolf at least has honor buried under resentment. Pigma has appetites. Andross has imperial ambition. Leon just likes violence and proximity to power. He changes colors socially the same way reptiles camouflage physically. Entirely transactional lifeform. Also he's Haute Bourgeoisie just like Andrew but he's Gaul instead of Norman. Fits in perfectly imo.

The entire series imho, fwiw, lowkey operates like an ethnic conflict simulator disguised as a furry space opera. The animals are not cosmetic. Their species determine their psychology, class position, military role, and relationship to power. Nintendo probably did not intend all of this consciously but Japanese fiction constantly does this subconsciously because they still understand physiognomy and archetype in ways western media largely pretends do not exist anymore.

Andross becoming a Brain is the franchise accidentally glimpsing something ancient and ugly about intelligence itself. Not wisdom. Not civilization. Pure cerebration severed from blood, kinship, land, instinct, animal reciprocity. The old anthropologists and structuralists circled this phenomenon constantly without daring to name it directly: the terminal phase where symbolic manipulation escapes the constraints of organism and begins feeding exclusively upon systems, classifications, populations, abstractions. By the end Andross no longer even desires conquest in a normal imperial sense. He wants taxonomic dominion. Total semiotic victory. The reduction of living worlds into legible categories subordinate to cognition itself. A floating cortex surrounded by machinery and terrified servants is not "evil" in the fairy tale sense. It is intellect after it has forgotten why bodies existed in the first place. It's also philosophically offensive because fiction instinctively understands that disembodied intellect is not a legitimate basis for sovereignty. The Hero almost always requires phenotype, presence, vitality, lineage, charisma, physicality, some visible proof of biological legitimacy. Even on completely anonymous forums people immediately start posting height because human beings cannot actually conceptualize status outside embodiment for very long. Pure cognition floating in a vat terrifies people on an instinctual level. Fox wins because he still possesses animal form, movement, youth, danger, reproductive fitness, all the ancient signals the nervous system recognizes before ideology has time to intervene. Andross, meanwhile, is intelligence after it has metabolized itself into something post-physical and therefore fundamentally anti-life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5868704&forum_id=2,#49898338)