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SweetTeas
MemberBirdo oral done well is oddly rare
user 1148058
Memberi know right, it's confusing, good thing this person did her justice
Sazi
Membere6 tagging is based on what you can physically see in the image.
Heart0fink
MemberI mean.. She's got the mouth for it.
Delink816~
MemberCool, trans rights
Shortstackmaniac
MemberBirdo looking thicc
Markwayne97
MemberBirdo, like Yoshi, Toad, Koopa, etc. is also a species, and doesn’t always refer to a single character…
user 1148058
MemberThank you, someone gets it.
Devin Arts
MemberI know right?! They have literally THE "Insert dick" mouth, but next to no one took advantage of it.
Zer0Rebel4
Member1: birdo is a species. Her name is birdetta
2: she was the first trans video game character along with vivian. Being trans wasnt widely accepted when super mario bros 2 came out, and it was worded poorly in the manual
MuraMura
MemberHot.
Ammacfarlane1
Membertrue lol
CucumberCutie
Memberreminder that smb2 is literally not even canon. all of its events were in mario's dream.
and birdo has only ever been called "birdo" outside of the smb2 manual. so canonically speaking, she's not even confirmed to be trans and has always been named birdo, and never birdetta.
Zer0Rebel4
MemberTrue, but her preference is also referred to in "Super Smash Bros: Brawl" from 2008, and while SSB isnt really 100% canon either, her description writes that she prefers to be called Birdetta, but they also call her an "it" too :(
Not only that though but i did learn that shes not the best trans icon for video games because shes been presented as an "other", and was intended as a punchline/villan-esque character
tkongingi
MemberSchlomf
Leftylackluster
MemberGood 👍
CucumberCutie
MemberHOWEVER!! I'm certainly not saying that Birdo cannot be interpreted as trans, in fact I personally do consider Birdo to be trans. I'm just not a fan of using outdated, mistranslated manual descriptions of characters as trans rep. Especially with the use of "Birdetta" as her name when she was literally only called that in the smb2 english manual which is super old and reminder, mistranslated. plus, my point of smb2 not being canon, although there's not too much of a smb canon anyway.
Girafarig7
MemberWhy are people downvoting someone just speaking facts, birdo has never been trans in any canon game
EVIL WOMAN
MemberWould
ginkei
MemberGreat!
Todd the folf
Membertrue
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