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I HAAAAAATE characters that just perpetually have snot hanging out of their nose
It gives me such an ick, especially when you see them try to suck it up and then it just drips out again. I'm sure there's non-Nintendo examples of this, but I play a lot of Nintendo games and I'm SO sick of it. It's nasty.
If it didn't have that then Cubchoo would be just a little bear. Even Cubchoo's name is a reference to his snot. When it evolves, the snot becomes an icicle beard for Beartic. Without the snot Cubchoo is nothing.
God, I had a friend in elementary school who was generally a cool kid, but man was he nasty. Wiping snot on his hands and then grabbing cheetos before picking up the controller. Chewing on his damn toenails (like sitting there with his toe in his mouth chewing). Everything in his house was sticky.
But hey, he had a brand new PS2, and trampoline, and a pool. That's enough for kid me to overlook it.
Real, like why don't they just blow it out? They don't have a piece of cloth to do so? Then just blow it onto the ground, it's still less nasty than just leaving it there!
It's a Japanese / East Asian thing. Blowing your nose is considered rude, like farting. Better to hold it in as long as possible. I guess the runny nose is meant to be like an "ugly cute" (see https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Busukawaii) character trait.
The logic seems to be "odours and liquids coming out of the body are gross but stuff entering your body is normal and natural". So better to sniffle it or swallow it than to expel it.
I forgot the lil kid on Windfall Island did that, but I was replaying Wind Waker with my daughter yesterday and about barfed. That is what inspired this post
I love her so much but why tf did they have to give her snot???
Even in the last scenes with her they turn up the saturation so high you cant really see it but its still there 😭 at least you can kinds excuse it because its emotional but ugg
Oh god...This whole snot schtick with her ruined the character for me, wich I otherwise really liked. But what an insufferable gimmick to give a character.
I saw someone point out the panda but I didn't know it was temporary. Knowing that and what you described...yeah, I can get behind that. That's kind of hilarious.
It’s a common feature of children to always be kind of gross/snotty. In Hawaii it’s called hanabata and is so ubiquitous with childhood that you can refer to your childhood as “hanabata days”. I imagine it stems from a similar association with being a little kid. I see it as kind of cute lol but it is a cultural thing in a way.
I think asleep snot is different. This is just how they depict sleeping people in japan lol. It's their equivalent of sleeping zzz you see in western cartoon
Pretty sure this is a Japanese trope to indicate the character is very young, like kids who constantly have snot running down their face. I think it’s supposed to be viewed as “cute” though westerners don’t seem to think the same. It’s the same with when they draw a little x to indicate a characters butthole
Drool, snot, shit like that. So damn gross. Tears and blood, sure. Keep it. But the former, like from Rick and Morty or whatever you just showed me? Keep that out.
It brings out bad memories. One time in kindergarten I had a cold, still had to come in, the caretakers announced some game with hiding based on a rhyme or whatever that was. I let them know I'd prefer to be near the bathroom because my nose was horribly snotty, I had no tissues left and survived on the toilet paper. But no, they made me sit under a table and I must've looked just like these characters. Ughhh
Cubchoonis the only one i dont mind but i get genuinely grossed out when i see that animal crossing villager who i see literally everywhere like girl wipenyour nose
Swear I dont get why Asians are obsessed with this as a comedy thing and with animal/ childrens butts.
The amount its used in one piece >_> among the million of annoying things it has. That really annoys me. Even has one character that picks his nose constantly and uses his boogers as bombs 🙄 and another character that constantly has the snot hanging and he also can turn into a pile of snot. Like fn disgusting.
see cubchoo IS adorable EXCEPT for its big ol bubble of snot. NINTENDO DESIGNED IT THAT WAY. Imagine trying to cuddle a cubchoo and how sticky and gross you'd get
See my issue (or I guess non-issue) there is that cubchoo is an animal which makes me feel a lot less grossed out about it compared to like a child with personal autonomy who could just blow their nose and maybe take some cold medicine about it.
There's like tiers if "looking like a person" before I get real grossed out by personal filth otherwise it's just kinda like, well it's an animal they get filthy outside, it happens
Real cultural difference here. Japan has always shown love for physical comedy and slapstick. They find humour in enjoying drawing someone or something as repulsive or really weird a lot more than western cultures. Shin-chan is an example of the love for silly slapstick, and BoBoBo was my first introduction to the Japanese notion that weirdness in itself is a form of humour to them.
I personally also find the intentionally gross or grotesque designs very offputting.
Of course slapstick would be an unfamiliar concept to Americans who only know the wry witticisms of Tom and Jerry, the Marx Bros, The Three Stooges, Dumb and Dumber, Chris Farley…
These are all examples of humour that has largely fallen out of favour nowadays. The reliance on slapstick has diminished, and it's rarely the main focus of comedy anymore. In Japan slapstick is alive and well, and comedy shows can entirely rely on slapstick for their humour.
Just to play contrarian, because I do agree that major platform comedy has shied away from slapstick and gross out humor, but Dropout is one of the most popular comedy platforms today, and it's chock-a-block with slapstick. For examples, try watching Very Important People (e.g., the Tommy Shriggly interview) or various Game Changer episodes.
I would just get your nephew a tissue, same as I do my own kids when they're snot faucets. But he's a real (presumably) lil kid!! He didn't do anything wrong! I hate when characters are designed this way but IRL I would just try to help him
There was a bunch of kids i went to school with that were like that. And not even preschool/kindergarten. Im talking grade 4 and 5. Always had this big glob of snot halfway down their lip like it was a fashion statement.
There was also a kid who im pretty sure NEVER had his ears cleaned. There was dirty wax crusted all over his ear and onto the side of his head.
You've never heard the term 'snot nosed brat'? That's how a lot of kids run around like. Tfw playing a cartoony fantasy game and one of the examples of real world accuracy is what breaks your immersion
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u/Lucky_Zombie_2863 Jun 03 '26
Cubchoo isn’t as bad but like why does it need that