my Warming Up Doodle might have gotten away from me and turned into the thing i spent all day having fun drawing again, oops… anyway a character trope, i really like, is when the last character you’d expect to fuck you up, ends up being one who can fuck you up most, in terrifying ways you would have never imagined, it’s a goodn
In the files of Super Mario Sunshine, an unused Yoshi egg generator object can be found. It has no associated code, but based on its name, it would generate Yoshi eggs (the same way other generators in the game work, such as a Stu generator generating Stus).
Interestingly, there is also a purple version of it called “bad_gene_egg”, presumably standing for “bad egg generator”. While no remnants of its functionality are found, the fact that the Yoshis on Isle Delfino are stated officially* to be creations of Bowser Jr.’s paint, a “bad Yoshi”, i.e. an enemy Yoshi, could theoretically exist since this is the same paint used to create the enemies in the game.
*original 2015 Japanese version of the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia
the kicker is he was being asked if his work was coming from the approach of man vs. nature aka “THE ENVIRONMENT STRIKES BACK” but no. his literal words were along the lines of “sharks are not very scary if you are never in the water so i had to make them scarier, and now they have legs.”
Junji Ito has the best fucking take on horror, which is ‘wouldn’t that be weird’ and then he draws it into the most terrifying thing possible.
One of his strangest stories is about a cursed type of honey that, when ingested, is guaranteed to be the best thing you’ve ever tasted. But, if you consume it, you have a 25% of being flattened like a pancake by a giant tree demon. Characters eat it, get addicted, and that addiction forces them to risk it over and over again until they eventually get turned into a gory puddle by this ghost tree thing.
It’s a weird story, but the funny part is that Ito wrote it because he thought it would suck to be a mosquito.
