Talk:Shellcreeper

Is there a source that confirms the trivia fact: "Luigi's clothing was based on the Shellcreeper's colour scheme."? --Landfish7 (talk) 16:07, 3 March 2014 (EST)
 * It's not that it was "based" on his color scheme, it IS his color scheme. He uses the same palette as the Shellcreeper in order to be the "green Mario." 68.42.190.99 16:43, 27 January 2017 (EST)

ancestor
If that's the case, shouldn't this be the koopa's parents species then? MarioLover54 12:50 PM July 17, 2019 (EST)
 * The Wii U trophy in question does state "apparently", which isn't outright confirmation. LinkTheLefty (talk) 13:04, July 17, 2019 (EDT)

Koopas?
So I was looking at the Perfect Edition of the whatever, and it seems to list the Shellcreepers as belonging to the カメ族. Would that mean they're Koopas? Blinker (talk) 06:54, August 14, 2021 (EDT)
 * The problem with that is Shellcreepers were introduced before Koopas, so I doubt it. 06:58, August 14, 2021 (EDT)
 * Sure, but just because Koopas as a concept didn't exist at the time, that doesn't mean they can't have been classified as such, retroactively, right? Blinker (talk) 14:30, September 13, 2021 (EDT)
 * While I'm generally not a fan of retroactive variance (hence my stance that Rocky Wrench cannot be a variant of Monty Mole, but rather the other way around), since "Koopa" (as in Kame-zoku) is not an individual species but rather a wide range of related species, I don't see a problem with it. It helps that "variant" isn't quite the same as "derived" in meaning. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 02:44, September 30, 2021 (EDT)
 * I happened to have stumbled upon something very interesting. LinkTheLefty (talk) 16:06, October 18, 2021 (EDT)