Current Events > How many Nintendo games have characters with darker skin?

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Like the shade of Claude (Fire Emblem Three Houses) or darker

F-Zero

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Pokemon Sword and Shield

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Every Legend of Zelda game with Gerudo

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seqntenialbeast posted...

Pokemon Sword and Shield

Was Sun & Moon the first?

CruelBuffalo posted...

Was Sun & Moon the first?

Brock has darker skin than Claude, doesn't he?

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Nintendo is the most racist out of the big three console developers.

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CruelBuffalo posted...

Like the shade of Claude (Fire Emblem Three Houses) or darker

why does it matter? Stop man.

no to mention that nintendo is a Japanese company.

but to answer your question, most nintendo games have fantasy characters: we are talking about talking foxes, mushrooms, sentient turtles, etc.

still, of the FEW games with human-like characters we have:

• mario games: wario is dark skinned.
• zelda games: gano died and the gerudos
• fzero: several characters there
• punch out: many, many characters there

dont go trying to find shit to get offended at, @CruelBuffalo

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Some others but I'm on mobile.

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Guy_Fieri posted...

Nintendo is the most racist out of the big three console developers.

nintendo is the most progressive. Ostro is clearly trans, even the NES manual said so.

sheik literally cross dresses.

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The_homelander posted...

dont go trying to find shit to get offended

Irony level over 9000

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I haven't played every Pokemon game and the first generation wasn't in color, but every Pokemon game has characters as tan as Claude.
Claude has pretty light skin considering...

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Mario has no black friends.

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FortuneCookie posted...

Mario has no black friends.

Goombario

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Goombario

He's a mushroom.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Irony level over 9000

who the fuck are you?

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Also there have been countless Fire Emblem characters who have skin darker than Claude's from games that came before Three Houses


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The_homelander posted...

why does it matter? Stop man.

no to mention that nintendo is a Japanese company.

but to answer your question, most nintendo games have fantasy characters: we are talking about talking foxes, mushrooms, sentient turtles, etc.

still, of the FEW games with human-like characters we have:
* mario games: wario is dark skinned.
* zelda games: gano died and the gerudos
* fzero: several characters there
* punch out: many, many characters there

dont go trying to find shit to get offended at, @CruelBuffalo

Where did I say I was offended?

and you are saying Wario is dark skinned? Lol wut

I think Elma might be the first prominent one in a protagonist role

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The_homelander posted...

who the fuck are you?

Ok Mr 15 karma account with 211 amp

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Boey, Gray, Rinka, Basilio, Flavia, Aversa
From Shadows of Valentia, Fates, and Awakening

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Of their main franchises,

-BOTW has some major characters of color
-Pokemon has been really good about diverse casts lately--probably because the dev team traveled to other parts of the world for inspiration. Nowadays they always make some of their main characters nonwhite.
-ARMS has a few.
-Splatoon 2 has marina

That's mostly all I can think of. Metroid Other M has a black guy who is samus's friend but...I mean...it's such a crappy game that who cares.

Punch out has some I guess. And Elma from xenoblade doesn't seem to be white

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why should Breath of the Wild get credit, but not literally every other console Zelda game?
Impa from Skyward Sword
Ganondorf in Twilight Princess, Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker
The Gerudo pirates from Majora's Mask?

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How are the Gerudo any more positive in Breath of the Wild than in Ocarina of Time, their first appearance?
One of the sages is a Gerudo.

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Arms- Twintelle
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ImAMarvel posted...

Gerudo in OoT were all bad guys except for Nabooru. In BotW, it's a much more fair portrayal, with them essentially just being regular people, albeit a race of giant, desert-dwelling Amazonian women. They even gave them a bit of character, with a lot of them lamenting their woes finding guys.

This. Lol. I mean if all the darks are villains it aint great

They been killin it lately with the delicious brown waifus.

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Dude was probably the only good thing about Other M and should get his own game.

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remember me?


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Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty the Giant from Kung Fu was the first black character in a Nintendo game. Kung Fu was a launch title for the NES.



The character himself was inspired by Kareem Abdul Jabbar's character in Game of Death.

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Have you seen the Pokemon anime? In Pokemon xyz two of the legendary gun leaders who helped save the kalos region and who saved ashs life in his battle with Lysandre were an interracial couple, black and white

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They weren't bad guys, did you even play the game?

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They talk about seeking Hylian men even in Ocarina of a Time. The lore in Breath of the Wild is ripped from Ocarina of Time. Only 3 of the Gerudos in the game were bad


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ImAMarvel posted...

Not only have I played itb but it's one of my favorite games of all time too.

ok, how could you forget they weren't bad in the game and help Link when he earns their respect?
Only Ganondorf, Koume and Kotake were bad.

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and then in Majora's Mask, they flipped it. They made the pirates somewhat bad and they made Koume and Kotake good

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The_homelander posted...

mario games: wario is dark skinned.

@The_homelander what, no he's not

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Mario and Luigi are white supremacists

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p-m posted...

@The_homelander what, no he's not

i was wrong on that one

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FortuneCookie posted...

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty the Giant from Kung Fu was the first black character in a Nintendo game.