Why is he a pig?
>>12652785Turn your monitor on.
>>12652785Because 'Ganon' means 'Boar' in Japanese.
He's actually based off your mom
Beacause 'Canon' means 'Bore' in Javanese.
>>12652785Pigs are evil, that's why you're not supposed to eat it.
>>12652785If pigs ever became sentient and rebelled, they would have a lot to be pissed at us humans about. And they'd probably be sympathetic to the semites because they don't eat pork. >>12652895Shalom.
>>12652895Is that why there are so many video games where the enemies are pigs?
>>12653035Name some
because in the japanese edition of D&D orcs were mistranslated as being pigmen and the monster art portrayed them as such so every japanese dev making fantasy games with elves and orcs and such had their orcs be pigmen
>>12653152>Moblins became pigs because Japenase thought it was high-fantasy instead of goofy-ass shit
>>12652785Why does he share the same laugh with soda popinski?
Pigs are the ideal mix of cool and scary. They couldn't do dragon/bulls again after Bowser anyway.
>>12653152But they were that way in first edition I grew up with as well?
Isn't it because his greed turned him into one when he took the triforce in the dark world?
>>12653105Tomba 2
>>12653217are you japanese?
>>12653292This... Looks Fun
>>12653318North american D&D was pigmem as well
>>12652895Pork loins are one of the leanest and healthiest sources of protein.You're not supposed to fuck kids and goats but that never stopped you sand goblins.
Kinda coincidental how in most games pigs are evil
>>12653559So the pig is santa's little helper?
>>12652895but they are so tasty tho,you are missing out
>>12652798Please clap. The joke is that he is looking at his (powered off) monitor and seeing his own reflection. He looks like a pig so he is posting a thread asking “Why is he a pig?”. PLEASE FUCKING CLAP
>>12653595you got BTFO'd
>>12652785Miyamoto REALLY liked Journey To The West.
>>12653365okay, but I still want to know if you are japanese
Wizardry took the porcs from 1E D&D, which is probably where the Japanese picked it up from. Wizardry was insanely popular over there.
many videogames are notorious for having evil pigs
>>12652785In LttP it could be said that he doesn't have a Moon Pearl, so his Dark World form reflects his inner self as a brutish ugly boar, so maybe he got "stuck" that way. Given the timeline of the series, though, that explanation wouldn't really hold up.As for the artistic reason, I guess they thought he looked cool, and a giant pig-orc creature was maybe a bit less overplayed than having him be a dragon or a human wizard or something
pig are a classic gross animal; fat, subservient but sly, eats children if not careful, eats your remains, basically the definition of a livestock that you hate but keep around for sustenance; such animal caricatures were always common and pigmen you could say are a gross evil, not like a white haired mage or armored black knight where theres some sense of nobility, but they are more blunt and feral. basically a classic case of a trash mob you can kill without remorse that you don't have to characterize or allude to any specific peoples, since every peoples have such kind of caricatures (evil fat people, but fuck them for getting mad at pigmen, why are you evil AND fat?)
