Talk:Birdo (species)

Article Creation

WHAT!!! I WAS REPEATEDLY TOLD NOT TO MAKE THIS ARTICLE!!!- Ultimatetoad

Not to be rude, but the proposal that was passed said that we were to split Birdo into her character, and her species. — Stooben Rooben Sorry if that was blunt.

Rooben, Ultimatetoad wrote that before the proposal passed. I didn't know it either, but apparently I'm not the first to propose that this article be created. Wild! Stumpers! 22:13, 11 March 2008 (EDT)

Whoa! Yeah, he wrote this almost a year ago! _Ooops... — Stooben Rooben Thanks for telling me that!

No problem! I had to check the first time I saw it, too! Stumpers! 23:04, 11 March 2008 (EDT)

Yes, of course, I was the one who told him not to create it. Back then, no one decided if we wanted to create it, if Birdo was really a species and I didn't want this article. I still want it, but the proposal was finished. Ah well. :P Paper Jorge ( Talk·Contributions)·

Stumpers' To-Do List

I know I have a big part of the article done, but I'm by no means calling it a day. We need to remove the information that is added to this article from the Birdo article. Here's my list of things to add to this article and remove from the Birdo one when they overlap: Stumpers! 23:04, 11 March 2008 (EDT)

• Adding "Betrayal Most Proper" to the History section
• Biology section
  • physiology
  • life cycle
  • abilities
• Information from the Comics
• Noteable Birdos (technically complete)
• Actual Histroy (from character to species, etc.)

Hey Stumpers should I put this tag because it not finshin. Template:Construction Princess Grapes Butterfly 06:27, 12 March 2008 (EDT)

Not that it's really up to me, but I wouldn't think that the article would need that tag simply because the article has pretty much all the basics that it needs to be substantial for now. With the video game articles that have very little info and still need work, that's when that tag would come in handy. This article has a good portion of information, and it's mostly gonna need just little edits; perhaps the occasional add-of-bio. — Stooben Rooben But I don't wanna step on Stumpers' toes.

I think I will go ahead on put the template on there. Thanks for reminding me about it! The article technically is fine as it is, but I think its good to put the header up there until I can get information about the comics there... I don't want people to think that Birdos have appeared nowhere else! ;) Stumpers! 18:10, 12 March 2008 (EDT)

Okay. I didn't know. :o — Stooben Rooben Sowwy.

Wha? You shouldn't be sorry! :D You're fine! And doing awesome stuff around here. Stumpers! 22:31, 13 March 2008 (EDT)

Hey, thanks! :D W00t! I done been complimented! — Stooben Rooben W00t W00t!

Yaaaay! Nice Template! Princess Grapes Butterfly 15:01, 14 March 2008 (EDT)

Thanks!

Just thought I'd mention this here; I found another comic Birdos appear in, "Betrayal Most Proper". Two attack Mario and Toad when they storm Bowser's Castle looking for Wooster. Here the panel: [1]. -- Sir Grodus 20:06, 14 March 2008 (EDT)

Thanks very much!! Stumpers! 21:17, 12 August 2008 (EDT)

Plural

Is it "Birdo" or "Birdos"? I don't believe I've ever heard a plural used before! If that's the case, we should probably use "Birdos" because we know the plural of "Yoshi" is "Yoshies." Stumpers! 17:32, 14 March 2008 (EDT)

I think it plural if there more then one birdo is might be Birdos right or Birdies. Well is Yoshies have a plural sure that Birdos have plurals too. (This is too confusing!) Princess Grapes Butterfly 19:36, 14 March 2008 (EDT)

I would think (going by my school book) that it would be "Birdoes". That looks weird, but it says if a vowel (o) follows a consonant (d), then an "es" must be added; if it is a vowel-vowel ending, it's just "s". — Stooben Rooben That does look odd though.

I think the Marioverse has a different way to do this, maybe? Paper Jorge ( Talk·Contributions)·

Thanks, Rooben. Thing is, it lookes like "Bir -- does" now... as in "That's what he does for a living." But this is English we're talking about, and there are plenty of strange, non-phonetic things like that. Does anyone know of any word that ends in "do" or "bo" or whatever? Stumpers! 13:06, 15 March 2008 (EDT)

Hmm...well, all I can think of (off the top of my head) is: "Psychos", "hobos", "albinos", and "armadillos". I know there's a lot more than that though. o.0 — Stooben Rooben I agree that "Birdos" looks a lot better, though.

Huh... in all of those, it's "os" rather than "oes"... wild. Stumpers! 14:16, 16 March 2008 (EDT)

I totally agree! — Stooben Rooben XD

Okay, so here's the deal: it's not correct either way because it has never been used in a plural context... this would even be a conjectural title article except that the Super Show has something to the extent of, "Come back with Toad, you stupid Birdo!" BUT, the precident set with Toad, the precedent sent with the words you listed (which was awesome... how did you think of all of this?), the whole "does" appearance of the plurals, and the fact that we all agree it looks better so there is no opposition, I think we can safely use "Birdos." Awesome! Case closed, IMO. Thanks Rooben! Stumpers! 21:55, 16 March 2008 (EDT)

o_0 That's kwazy! But it makes sense. Glad I could help! — Stooben Rooben And for my next trick, I'll investigate why the buttons on Mario's overalls are yellow! XD

I'm coming in a bit late here, but I think the difference between words like "does" and "albinos" is because of pronounciation: "Do" (doo) becomes "Does" (duhs), while albino (ahl-by-noe) keeps the "oh" sound (ahl-by-nose). Since Birdo is pronounced "bird-oh", it should be Birdos (bird-ohs). English is a pain: I cound only figure this out because I'm also learning French and its pronounciation rules. - Walkazo 18:56, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

The pronunciation has nothing to do with it--what about echoes, tomatoes, torpedoes, heroes, and potatoes? Goomb-omb

Very true - I can't believe I didn't remember those counter-examples at the time! As I said before, English is an inconsistant pain in the rear. I say simpler is better, so we should stick with "Birdos" (IMO). - Walkazo 01:47, 29 June 2009 (EDT)

Need another main picture

The character depicted in the main picture is "the" birdo, as she's wearing a diamond ring. We need to get some random birdo. Mumbles 19:19, 30 May 2008 (EDT)

It'd be nice if Nintendo released official artwork of lotsa Birdos, but the current one works because, well, Birdo is a Birdo. YELLOWYOSHI398

Mumbles: the Birdos in Mario Strikers Charged and I believe Super Mario Strikers as well all wore rings. It's a big oversight of the developement team. In other words, what you are saying applies to all gimes except the Strikers games. And don't worry -- I'll replace that image as soon as I fine one better. Stumpers! 21:40, 1 June 2008 (EDT)

Birdos in Sports

Is it really necessary to talk about how the Birdo character represents its species in all these games? It doesn't do that for Yoshi on the Yoshi (species) page, or Toad on Toad (species). Plus its not gender neutral. I'm going ahead and removing the superfluous information, but I thought I'd mention it here anyway. - Walkazo 19:07, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

I included it because, if you were to write an article about a race of humanity, such as Asians, Caucasians, African-Americans, etc. you would include references to individual members of the race. Keep in mind that the Yoshi (species) and Toad (species) pages are far from complete if memory serves. Stumpers! 21:58, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

Okay, but having sections for each sport Birdo played was a bit excessive. There should just be, say, a one-liner about how it plays which sports; but it shouldn't be the focus of the section. - Walkazo 23:52, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

Agreed. I couldn't believe that I had written over 1000 characters about her and her alone. Stumpers! 01:21, 31 July 2008 (EDT)

new color

I was playing mario super sluggers, and in movie clip one, me and my bro both saw a tan colored birdo with a red bow. im adding it. Caution! Your Buddy Bill was [[{{{2}}}|here!]]{{{1}}}

ok, not m best edit. if uthink the section shold be renamed colors, feel free to do so. Caution! Your Buddy Bill was [[{{{2}}}|here!]]{{{1}}}

Hey, that's a good section. I'm thinking if we put a biology section or something like that, we could describe many facts about the species, including the color. Anyway, the information is here, which is the important part - organization is just making everything look good! Thanks! Stumpers! 22:00, 20 January 2009 (EST)

Super Mario Bros. 2

Should we consider each Birdo you fight as a boss in SMB2 as a separate Birdo, and individual members of the Birdo species? They each have different abilities and colors, so they can't be the same one. Redstar 14:48, 8 December 2009 (EST)

It's true, but what will we name them? Birdo (boss1), Birdo (boss2), Birdo (boss 3), you get the idea. Hello, I'm Time Turner.

I don't think naming them will be necessary. There's so few information for them that they could just be generally described on this page. Example: "There are x Birdos found in SMB2. Each exhibits a different ability, such as spitting eggs, fire, and doing so at different speeds. They also vary in color, going from pink to red to green..." You get the idea. But, Stumpers said on Birdo's Talk page that he believes they're the same one, though nothing official truly supports it. Redstar 16:32, 8 December 2009 (EST)

I doubt it. How, and why, would they change colors? In real life, animals only change colors to hide, not whenever it feels like it. Hello, I'm Time Turner.

His reasoning was they share a voice, though that could be explained by similarities in vocal-sounds in a particular species, as well as by Nintendo not wanting to hire more voice actors; and that the Birdos become increasingly agitated at the player's persistence. Without reading/hearing the actual script, I couldn't tell you if that's indicative of anything other than minions angry that they have to deal with a hero that the lower ranks couldn't take care of. Redstar 16:46, 8 December 2009 (EST)

Just put the other Birdos in the article. I'm pretty sure nobody will argue. Hello, I'm Time Turner.

The instruction manual explicitly says that the Birdo in SMB2 is a character. See this.Knife (talk) 17:06, 8 December 2009 (EST)

Understandable. But I'm not sure that extends to all the Birdos in the game, since it says he "likes to shoot eggs". Some of the later Birdos don't do that. I thought a fair way to go about it would be to write something like this on the Birdo page: "While the manual identifies Birdo as a character, several Birdos are encountered throughout Super Mario Bros. 2. It is unclear which exactly is "the" Birdo, though it may be the very first one fought." Redstar 17:32, 8 December 2009 (EST)

The trophy description for SSBM and SSBB states that Birdo can shoot fireballs.Knife (talk) 20:05, 8 December 2009 (EST)

Well, that settles that... But the Birdo is still a Birdo, so we should still have a Super Mario Bros. 2 section. Redstar 20:49, 8 December 2009 (EST)

Chaper 6-1 SAMMER GUYS!

Using tippi on those birds that fly down against some sammer guys call them "Birdo"s LucariosAura 11:10, 21 February 2010 (EST)

uh... hello? LucariosAura (used to be specialk) 05:19, 27 February 2010 (EST)

Be more clear about what you're talking about. No one is responding because we don't understand what you're trying to tell us. - Walkazo 23:39, 5 March 2010 (EST)

The "Squatting Birdo" Sammer Guy in Super Paper Mario (and some other sammer guys) have birds that fly down, and they are called Birdos if you use Tippi on them. LucariosAura (used to be specialk) 08:19, 7 March 2010 (EST)

Bump. LucariosAura (used to be specialk) 12:16, 17 April 2010 (EDT)

"birds that fly down"? None of the Sammer Guys have that. There are leves that fly down, but A: Those are an intangible part of the map and B: you can't tattle them. And the ninjas that come down are called NinJoes, NinJohns, or NinJerries, and thus, not Birdos. Deleted, Nameless, and Pageless

Are Birdos all female?

Aren't all Birdos female just as all Yoshis are male? I mean, you never see any female Yoshis, and you never see any male Birdos. Mario24 (talk) 09:49, 11 August 2012 (EDT)

Actually, the genders of both species remain ambiguous.--Vommack (talk) 13:28, 11 August 2012 (EDT)

Actually, male and female Yoshis have both appeared, although there is still some ambiguity in other cases. The character Birdo started off as a male who wanted to be female, and even though it's not as simple anymore, it's still evidence that Birdos are divided into the two genders. Besides, taking the lack of males as a sign that there are no males would be highly speculative even without the Birdo character stuff. - Walkazo 23:14, 12 August 2012 (EDT)

Also a male Birdo appeared in the cartoons Cheepy. Raven Effect (talk)

about the MK7 appearance

the only place where it is mentioned that they appear in MK7 is in the "latest appearance"
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Infobox art

Would it not make more sense to use the blue or yellow Birdo art from MKT? I know it's not the signature color but at least it's more typical to the Mario franchise as a whole compared to Strikers. 73.147.234.34 19:02, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

I have to agree, it just seems rather misleading and easily mistaken to be the character Birdo. I think the Light-Blue Birdo should be in the info box, while the Yellow one can appear in the section of Mario Kart Tour in addition to having a gallery for the Birdos as well. --Gamermakerguy (talk) 19:41, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

Personally, I see this as more proof the pages should be merged outright. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 19:49, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

So it can be cluttered with more info on Birdo's page? --Gamermakerguy (talk) 20:43, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

No, because this page is a cluttered embarrassment and having this info on Birdo's page would give this info the cohesion it needs. It's not about biographies or anything like that, it's about concepts. That's why Dry Bowser can b both a form of Bowser and a separate character who is a "family friend" at the same time. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 20:50, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

Yeah but like Yoshi's, Birdo's are a species along with one being the particular character, so logically Yoshi himself should be merged in the species article vice versa. --Gamermakerguy (talk) 21:03, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

Yoshi has actually appeared as a species in a plot-important capacity. Almost all of these are background or otherwise generic appearances. Heck, the fact that they say "Birdo (light blue)" rather than "Light Blue Birdo" implies it is the "main" Birdo, as that is how they parse "costume" characters, not recolor species. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 21:08, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

Except multiple Birdo's appear in the background usually as audience in the Mario spin-offs. Yeah but Birdo (Light Blue) doesn't really confirm they are the same character though. Red Koopa (Freerunning) and Gold Koopa (Freerunning) would be the same Koopa Troopa but they are definitely not the same characters since they separately appear in Super Mario Odyssey. --Gamermakerguy (talk) 21:16, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

@Doc von Schmeltwick: Out of curiosity, why do you consider Birdo a different situation than Jaxi, which you're currently trying to split even though that species is even less prevalent than Birdos? -- Too Bad! Waluigi Time! 21:20, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

In Jaxi's case only one shows firsthand signs of life at all. In this case it's whatever the adaptations wants, whether there even is a species or character. Also, @GameMakerGuy How on Earth is "multiple in the background" not in the "background or otherwise generic appearances" I mentioned? Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 21:22, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

There are still multiple colored Birdos in the Mario Spin-offs, yes their roles aren't big compared to the Yoshis but they are still their own species as well. Also, Penguin Luigi isn't called Luigi (Penguin) so does that make him separate just because of not having a punctuation? The variants aren't even consistent to the names. --Gamermakerguy (talk) 21:52, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

That's an established power-up, like Gold Mario, Ice Mario, or Metal Mario (who also needs merged with his "character" article per Nintendo's own official interpretation). Regardless, the fact that they haven't had an important role and are identical in every way but color is why they should be merged. Look at Dorrie's page and see how the "character" and "species" are seamlessly on there. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 22:15, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

Well yeah because there is not a noble character. Especially for some reason, characters like Goomba (Mario Party Advance) has his own page despite being a Goomba. Well either way, I'm not agreeing to this because then the page is going to be cluttered on Birdo's article, since the species will have too much info for their roles different from the regular Birdos (such as appearing in some of the Mario & Sonic series where they have a roles in those games, where regular Birdo isn't or a cameo). Another thing, Peachette is listed as a variant to Peach on the Mario Kart Tour article despite being a powered-up form to Toadette and not having text like "Peach (Peachette)" or "Toadette (Peachette)". --Gamermakerguy (talk) 22:33, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

That is those games' interpretation of the Birdo concept. The MPA pages were split under faulty logic, IMO, as those are also that game's interpretation of the respective subject. Also what do you mean, "not a [notable] character?" Dorrie was originally depicted as a character before being changed to a species where the blue one is still called "Dorrie" by name. As for Peachette, that, like Penguin Luigi, is an established power-up, but uses Peach's base model and basic animations, not Toadette's. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 22:44, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

When was that confirmed? Other than just one appearing in Super Mario 64 and Mario Party Advance? Unlike Yoshi who appeared with his species in their debut, Super Mario World. Peachette in model is a variant to Peach but there is no concrete evidence she is a costume for Peach even if she is the so called "variant" to her when she is a powered-up version to Toadette. Yet Toadette and Peachette are separate together in Mario Kart Tour, much like Bowser is to Dry Bowser, despite also being a form for both of them for the sake of just appearing for the game. Then the same should also be done to have Shadow Mario be merged to Bowser Jr's article just because Shadow Mario doesn't appear in games as much anymore while Bowser Jr himself does more so and Peachette being merged to Toadette's article. --Gamermakerguy (talk) 22:55, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

I'm not suggesting to merge transformations to the base character, just concepts to the same concept o.O Also, it's been confirmed that not every instance of the "Toad" or "Yoshi" character is the same as any of the others. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 23:00, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

I do know that the Green Yoshi (could be the same particular Green Yoshi not the character but another one or possibly more other Green Yoshis when playing in Bowser's Castle or the Extra levels or for the GBA version, the secret levels) in the Yoshi's Island games is not Yoshi himself and with some other games. But how does it not qualify for Birdo when some games have both Birdo herself even as a playable character while some games that have her such as in the Mario Baseball there is more species in audience, Its just like with the Boom Boom and his species issue where its either they are implied to be the same one or there could be more especially one level in the World-e levels of Super Mario Advance 4 has two of them together. Even Yoshi and the species are going to be majorly cluttered, even though the species article is a major mess as it is. --Gamermakerguy (talk) 23:11, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

Boom Boom is another that should be merged outright (moreso than this one, actually, because there are times when US English and British English are at odds over interpreting, showing how little it matters). Also, in the baseball thing, the audience ones are purely cosmetic as far as gameplay goes, and can be mentioned as a foonote easily. Much like the team members who have their species in the audience. Toad, Yoshi, and Kamek/Magikoopa have had enough major roles as character and species individually to stay split at this juncture, but Birdos and Boom-Booms just leave us with a multi-article mess. This has always been an eyesore of a page to me. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 23:19, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

The Birdos from the audience are indeed cosmetic, you're not wrong about that, despite the Mario Striker games having differently colored Birdos along with other species as side kicks for the Captains and yet Yoshi himself is a captain and not his species (except in the audience too). Especially Toad himself (other than Toadette) is not playable in the Mario Baseball games while his species who are mostly just NPCs that always don't get big roles either in most games. So what if the Birdo species don't have a big role anyways? Birdo herself never even gets big roles these days compared to the past other than just appearing in Mario spin-offs now. Man these pages are messing up my memory. --Gamermakerguy (talk) 23:27, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

This is why I think they should be merged. They aren't specifically relevant as a species or a character, but as a concept. Besides, if we assume all pink Birdos are the "character," that would include the one on Strikers Peach's team, except that one's no more relevant than any of the others other than getting the artwork. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 23:31, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

Well of course there is more pink Birdos and the ones from Strikers is a different story too, just like how there is more Green Yoshis while the character is a green one. But usually the only one in the spin-off games is the playable ones themselves, yet there are sometimes more of them in the audience or not, the Birdo species in Super Mario Bros. 2 are implied to be either a species or one character but there is no concrete evidence for any of them. I can understand why the Yoshi articles are separate. --Gamermakerguy (talk) 23:39, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

The SMB2 sections is another reason to merge these. It's sloppy on two pages, and doesn't quite seem right anyways. Not to mention redundancy. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 23:41, April 8, 2020 (EDT)

I still don't see a really good reason why this needs to be split anyways "just" because their role isn't significant as you think. --Gamermakerguy (talk) 00:01, April 9, 2020 (EDT)

The reason it should be merged is it's sloppy and the small amount of things it covers can far more succinctly be on Birdo's main page. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 00:15, April 9, 2020 (EDT)

That's not the only reason its sloppy, it's also because its missing a lot of information about their full history in all the games they appeared in, it doesn't even mention anything about the Mario & Sonic games either which there role is big in since they are rivals in a couple of the games. I found sloppy articles and fixed them up, though it costed a lot of time and heavy research to find them, I did this with Birdo's Egg as well. The article jsut needs a fix up really, because I know Birdos appear in more games then just what we are seeing in the articles. --Gamermakerguy (talk) 00:22, April 9, 2020 (EDT)

Yeah, but they're not big appearances (and so few provide infobox artwork for it...) anyways, another great example is Koopa Kid. It's a playable character, a shopkeeper, and what amounts to an arbitrarily large species of background or hindrance NPCs all at once, and it only gets one article. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 00:39, April 9, 2020 (EDT)

Well, Koopa Kid has the distinction of all individuals having the exact same appearance. Regardless, if the Birdo pages are to be merged, my primary concerns are: 1. Would it be written in a way that focuses on Birdo as the individual, and brings up their species appearances when they occur (e.g. In the Mario Baseball series, multiple Birdos appear in cutscenes. - think of how Bowser is clearly an individual, but for his Mario Maker sections, it would say "multiple Bowsers can be placed on one level")? 2. If this passes, I expect other pages to get merged, for example, Flutter and Flutter (character), effectively changing the Wiki's "rules" again. MarioComix (talk) 00:50, April 9, 2020 (EDT)

That's because Koopa Kid is both a species and they can split themselves as we saw in Mario Party 5 via Story Mode. That made sense for it to be their own primary article. There is more than just artwork that needs a gallery you know, especially there is some sprites, icons and screenshots for them to show, merging the Birdos articles are jsut going to get ridiculously more confusion then it already is. Look Mario Kart Tour is still being supported so more colored Birdos can still likely come with more artwork to come even if it's reused from Birdo's artwork from Mario Party 9, which is only for budgeting reasons. Besides Koopa Kid doesn't appear anymore compared to the Birdo species and Koopa Kid was ONLY in some of Hudson's Mario Party games. --Gamermakerguy (talk) 00:51, April 9, 2020 (EDT)