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Talk:List of most popular species

2007-11-08T20:17:11Z

Crucifox: /* Snow leopards */

== Wikicode to HTML ==
Would someone please change this table from wikicode to HTML, so I can edit it? I want to update the list and expand it, since the new format for the table could mean getting the full Pounced! table on the list. [[User:Almafeta|Almafeta]] 18:33, 29 Aug 2005 (UTC)
:Here you go - I copied it from Firefox and pasted it into Semagic, which renders it into HTML :-) You may delete this HTML from here when you are done editing. --[[User:DuncanDaHusky|Duncan da Husky]] 19:27, 29 Aug 2005 (UTC)
<pre><table border="1">
<tbody><tr>
<td>Species </td><td>Rank </td><td> </td><td>Species </td><td>Rank
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Wolf" title="Wolf">Wolf</a> </td><td>1 </td><td> </td><td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Horse" title="Horse">Horse</a> </td><td>16
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Other </td><td>2 </td><td> </td><td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Otter" title="Otter">Otter</a> </td><td>17
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Fox" title="Fox">Fox</a> </td><td>3 </td><td> </td><td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Cheetah" title="Cheetah">Cheetah</a> </td><td>18
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Dragon" title="Dragon">Dragon</a> </td><td>4 </td><td> </td><td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/index.php?title=Cougar&action=edit" class="new" title="Cougar">Cougar</a> </td><td>19
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Cat" title="Cat">Cat</a> </td><td>5 </td><td> </td><td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/index.php?title=Coyote&action=edit" class="new" title="Coyote">Coyote</a> </td><td>20
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Tiger" title="Tiger">Tiger</a> </td><td>6 </td><td> </td><td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Mouse" title="Mouse">Mouse</a> </td><td>21
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Dog" title="Dog">Dog</a> </td><td>7 </td><td> </td><td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/index.php?title=Ferret&action=edit" class="new" title="Ferret">Ferret</a> </td><td>22
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Lion" title="Lion">Lion</a> </td><td>8 </td><td> </td><td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Bat" title="Bat">Bat</a> </td><td>23
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Raccoon" title="Raccoon">Raccoon</a> </td><td>9 </td><td> </td><td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Kangaroo" title="Kangaroo">Kangaroo</a> </td><td>24
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Leopard" title="Leopard">Leopard</a> </td><td>10 </td><td> </td><td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Dinosaur" title="Dinosaur">Dinosaur</a> </td><td>25
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Rabbit" title="Rabbit">Rabbit</a> </td><td>11 </td><td> </td><td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Gryphon" title="Gryphon">Gryphon</a> </td><td>26
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Panther" title="Panther">Panther</a> </td><td>12 (tie) </td><td> </td><td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/index.php?title=Jackal&action=edit" class="new" title="Jackal">Jackal</a> </td><td>27
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Skunk" title="Skunk">Skunk</a> </td><td>12 (tie) </td><td> </td><td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Squirrel" title="Squirrel">Squirrel</a> </td><td>28
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Bear" title="Bear">Bear</a> </td><td>14 </td><td> </td><td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/index.php?title=Lizard&action=edit" class="new" title="Lizard">Lizard</a> </td><td>29 (tie)
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Were" title="Were">Were</a> </td><td>15 </td><td> </td><td><a href="http://furry.wikicities.com/wiki/Rat" title="Rat">Rat</a> </td><td>29 (tie)
</td></tr></tbody></table>
</pre>

== Snow leopards ==

Are snow leopards counted with leopards? [[User:Unci|Unci]] 16:33, 4 Nov 2005 (UTC)

:At a guess, I'd say yes. --{{UT|GreenReaper}} 03:55, 5 Nov 2005 (UTC)

::I just seperated snow leopards and leopards, first because they are seperate species, taxonomically speaking, and secondly because the snow leopards are quite few ranks over leopards. [[User:Crucifox|Crucifox]] 20:17, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

== 'Other' placing 3rd? ==

Do you really think "Other" should be 3rd, or 'last place'?

"Other" isn't an animal...

~Mix.

:However, as a group, "Those others not specifically named" seems to be fairly large. Perhaps it is useful to acknowledge a desire for variety and uniqueness, rather than just say that whatever isn't specifically included can go sit at the bottom of the heap. -- [[User:Siege|Siege]] 17:43, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

:More or less, it's a placing/ranking of popular speicies. Should we call them hybrids? Yes, I certainly DO think that 'others' should either be last on the list, or that pounced needs more speicies. ~Mix.

::No, because Other doesn't necessarily imply hybrids. They could be a single species, just not popular enough to garner their own category (for example, a zebra)

:::I know that it doesn't but "just not popular enough to garner their own category" still isn't a category which should place... ~Mix.

== Stats source? and other things... ==
The Pounced stats link has [http://pounced.org/stats.php changed] with the recent updates, but this new stats page only has gender statistics. Are there any other sources we could use in the meantime? [[User:SpazKitty|Spaz Kitty]] 21:02, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
:In the lack of any other outside resources, I'm beginning to think another representative sample might be found by seeing how many articles are in each "Species characters" category on WikiFur itself, going by the order given in [[Special:Mostlinkedcategories|Most linked to categories]]. Unfortunately, I don't believe it includes all articles located in subarticles (of subspecies; ie, Arctic Wolf), but until a more accurate accounting method is created, this will have to do. I'll be updating the page shortly with this new data - since I don't think it fully appropriate to remove the old Pounced data yet, I'll simply move that table below the new one. [[User:SpazKitty|Spaz Kitty]] 00:14, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
::I added the second list; not a lot of difference, interestingly. I didn't include hybrids at all, and some categories seemed to ambiguous to list right now (such as Weres, which is on the Pounced list; and leopard vs panther). Feel free to double-check and edit as changes occur (frequently). [[User:SpazKitty|Spaz Kitty]] 00:36, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
:Mmkay, a more or less accurate list has been posted. However, a few things I think need to be considered:
* I dislike the (tie) notation (as the numbers change frequently as new articles are added). Should we keep this, or just go by simply what ctrl+f 'characters' finds on the most-linked-to-categories page in that order?
* How generic should we be? Should mice and rats be lumped together into a general 'rodent' ranking? Unicorns and horses as equines? If we did this, however, we'd have to do the same for all felines and canines, which doesn't seem to be a good idea; however, if not, we're excluding characters listed as (for example) rodents but not mice or rats.
* Similar to the above, do we include such vague character types as weres, taurs, hybrids, etc?
* Are there any good resources available to Wikia that count articles in subcategories as well when listing the most popular categories? This would save time and effort recalculating rankings when listing species such as foxes or dogs, which include several subcategories.
:Thoughts are very much welcome and wanted. [[User:SpazKitty|Spaz Kitty]] 01:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
::I wonder if we could do something with EasyTimeline, like the [[:Template:Timeline of conventions|timeline of conventions]] (only different) - we could have both the most specific species at the right and the more generic categories at the left, in a horizontal tree. I would count weres and hybrids as half each for their parents - not sure about taurs, but maybe that works for them too. I am not aware of any tool that does what you want with category counting - the fact that categories can split and then join and potentially form a cyclic graph doesn't help. --[[User:GreenReaper|GreenReaper]]([[User talk:GreenReaper|talk]]) 02:04, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

== Surprising lack of bovine representation! ==
I dunno how popular cows are with the ladies, but I thought bulls/minotaurs were a staple with the guys, at least! --[[User:Mtext|Mtext]] 07:42, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

== Interesting to see the Change over Time ==

I'd collected data from September '05, which I just found. Going from my sample (ranking) to the article's, Mice dropped 8 places (!), Skunks and Weres dropped 3, Bats, Panthers, and Cougars dropped 2, Bears gained 2, Cheetahs, Kangaroos, Gryphons, and Otters gained 3, and Rabbits gained 4 places. Hyenas rose six places to get onto the top-30 list, and lizards dropped off the list. Sad to see the mice take such a hit, but I suppose I'm consoled by the greater number of rabbits and bears. I also have data on gender %s with species, which was interesting to see (e.g., Females dominated Other, Cat, Leopard, and Horse). If anyone can think of a particular use for that, let me know. --[[Furthling]]
:Interesting that horses were primarily female...I always got a more masculine vibe from that type of fursona. But I totally expected cats to be mostly female. ;D [[User:SpazKitty|Spaz Kitty]] 00:14, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
::Horses, along with Mice and Kangaroos, also had the highest % incidence of being transgendered, interestingly. Besides, even with a 2k+ sample size overall, the unadjusted numbers for horses: 23 male, 6 female, 2 transgender, give me doubts about the margin of error. So maybe you're right about our equine friends. :) --[[Furthling]]

== Divergent sources ==

I think it's an important distinction that the data from pounced.org is data about fursonas / people's own self representations, while the data from categories here on WikiFur (if we're just going by raw number of articles in categories count) includes fursonas, characters from stories, characters from games...

What about retooling this article to not so much of a list format, but a gathering of data from ... wherever we can get it, I'm sure at least a couple of surveys with public data included species by popularity, or some sort of species count. Furjournal has a list of species; I believe that was used in the [[Wolf (species)]] article.

I don't think any one source is going to be representative, but if we gather all available data together, and maybe crunch up some averages... -- [[User:Sine|Sine]] 04:08, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
:I agree about species lists for fursona vs. RP character vs, you know, totem animal or whatnot. I was bugging [[WhiteShepherd]] the other day to do a query like this on Furtopia for me. I'll bug him some more. :) --[[Furthling]]

==Use Rabbithole Data?==

So, as it turns out, the adult-oriented furry info site http://rh.greydawn.net/mps.php has fairly extensive statistics-- that is, it looks like they have a sample on the order of six thousand. The list they have is also littered with even more vampire/elf/weirdness, and needless to say breaks things out differently than the other two lists we have on the page. Useful to incorporate? Overkill? Inappropriate? --[[User:Furthling|Furthling]] 01:30, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

:Hm. I find it a little suspicious without resources listed (how did they get this information?), especially since it's pretty much widely accepted that foxes/wolves are the most popular species, and it has felines winning by a landslide. It appears to be a roleplaying site as well (related to Furcadia), which doesn't necessarily correlate to fursonas - for example, I play wolves, cougars, and lions in different RP situations, but my actual fursona is a cat. [[User:SpazKitty|Spaz Kitty]] 01:55, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
::the reason it has felines winning by a landslide I suspect has a lot to do with the way they structure their species list vs pounced and... however WikiFur does it.
::As for their sources, I can't specifically recommend browsing the site, because it's adult in nature and highly offensive if you find that sort of thing offensive. BUT, suffice it to say it's a very popular site for analyzing fetishes and other specialized adult RP interests, that's been pushed as far as I can tell on the Furcadia forums; also, it's probably higher in number because it's explicitly for registering multiple characters, unlike Pounced and to some extent even like the wikifur resource.
::Also, I'm not clear that the article is or should be constrained only to fursonas, particularly because the distinction between RP character and fursona is just not that strong (as much ire as that will raise among those of us who know the difference. I do BTW.) --[[User:Furthling|Furthling]] 02:00, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

List of most popular species

2007-11-08T20:14:03Z

Crucifox:

{|class="infobox" style="margin:0 0 1em 1em;" cellspacing="0";
|+ '''WikiFur categories data (November 2007)'''
|-
|style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Species''' ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Rank''' ||   ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Species''' ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Rank''' 
|-
|[[Wolf]] ||1 || ||[[Mouse]] ||16
|-
|[[Fox]] ||2 || ||[[Squirrel (species)|Squirrel]] ||17
|-
|[[Dragon]] ||3 || ||[[Rat (species)|Rat]] ||18
|-
|[[Cat]] ||4 || ||[[Ferret]] || 19 (tie)
|-
|[[Lion]] ||5 || ||[[Snow Leopard]] ||19 (tie)
|-
|[[Tiger]] ||6 || ||[[Coyote]] ||21 (tie)
|-
|[[Rabbit]] ||7 || ||[[Cougar]] ||21 (tie)
|-
|[[Raccoon]] ||8 || ||[[Gryphon]] ||21 (tie)
|-
|[[Dog]] ||9 || ||[[Hyena]] ||24
|-
|[[Skunk (species)|Skunk]] ||10 || ||[[Leopard]] ||25 (tie)
|-
|[[Kangaroo]] ||11 || ||[[Bird]] ||25 (tie)
|-
|[[Otter]] ||12 || ||[[Unicorn]] ||27
|-
|[[Bear]] ||13 || ||[[Orca (species)|Orca]] ||28
|-
|[[Horse]] ||14 || ||[[Dinosaur]] ||29 (tie)
|-
|[[Cheetah (species)|Cheetah]] ||15 || ||[[Lynx]] ||29 (tie)
|}

{|class="infobox" style="margin:0 0 1em 1em;" cellspacing="0";
|+ '''Pounced.org data (August 2006)'''
|-
|style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Species''' ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Rank''' ||   ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Species''' ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Rank''' 
|-
|Wolf ||1 || ||Horse ||16
|-
|Fox ||2 || ||Cheetah ||17
|-
|Other ||3 || ||[[Were]] ||18
|-
|Dragon ||4 || ||Coyote || 19
|-
|Cat ||5 || ||Kangaroo ||20 (tie)
|-
|Tiger ||6 || ||Cougar ||20 (tie)
|-
|Dog ||7 || ||Gryphon ||22
|-
|Lion ||8 || ||[[Bat]] ||23
|-
|Rabbit ||9 || ||Ferret ||24
|-
|Raccoon ||10 || ||Hyena ||25
|-
|Leopard ||11 || ||Dinosaur ||26 (tie)
|-
|Bear ||12 || ||[[Jackal]] ||26 (tie)
|-
|[[Panther]] ||13 || ||Rat ||28
|-
|Otter ||14 || ||Squirrel ||29
|-
|Skunk ||15 || ||Mouse ||30
|}
This list of popular [[phenotype]]s is derived from [[Special:Mostlinkedcategories|the list of most linked to categories]] according to which character categories contain the most articles, under the assumption that it is a representative sample of the [[furry fandom]] at large.

The second table is derived from [[Pounced.org]]'s [http://www.pounced.org/stats/stats.html statistics page] before it was removed, and contains data from August 2006.

For brevity's sake, these lists are limited to the 30 most popular [[species]] reported as of November 2007.

==See also==
*[[:Category:Characters]]
*[[Wikipedia: Phenotype|Phenotype]] at [[Wikipedia]]

[[Category:Lists|Phenotypes]]
[[Category:Species| ]]

List of most popular species

2007-11-08T20:13:01Z

Crucifox:

{|class="infobox" style="margin:0 0 1em 1em;" cellspacing="0";
|+ '''WikiFur categories data (November 2007)'''
|-
|style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Species''' ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Rank''' ||   ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Species''' ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Rank''' 
|-
|[[Wolf]] ||1 || ||[[Mouse]] ||16
|-
|[[Fox]] ||2 || ||[[Squirrel (species)|Squirrel]] ||17
|-
|[[Dragon]] ||3 || ||[[Rat (species)|Rat]] ||18
|-
|[[Cat]] ||4 || ||[[Ferret]] || 19 (tie)
|-
|[[Lion]] ||5 || ||[[Snow Leopard]] ||19 (tie)
|-
|[[Tiger]] ||6 (tie)|| ||[[Coyote]] ||21 (tie)
|-
|[[Rabbit]] ||6 (tie) || ||[[Cougar]] ||21 (tie)
|-
|[[Raccoon]] ||8 || ||[[Gryphon]] ||21 (tie)
|-
|[[Dog]] ||9 || ||[[Hyena]] ||24
|-
|[[Skunk (species)|Skunk]] ||10 || ||[[Leopard]] ||25 (tie)
|-
|[[Kangaroo]] ||11 || ||[[Bird]] ||25 (tie)
|-
|[[Otter]] ||12 || ||[[Unicorn]] ||27
|-
|[[Bear]] ||13 || ||[[Orca (species)|Orca]] ||28
|-
|[[Horse]] ||14 || ||[[Dinosaur]] ||29 (tie)
|-
|[[Cheetah (species)|Cheetah]] ||15 || ||[[Lynx]] ||29 (tie)
|}

{|class="infobox" style="margin:0 0 1em 1em;" cellspacing="0";
|+ '''Pounced.org data (August 2006)'''
|-
|style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Species''' ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Rank''' ||   ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Species''' ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Rank''' 
|-
|Wolf ||1 || ||Horse ||16
|-
|Fox ||2 || ||Cheetah ||17
|-
|Other ||3 || ||[[Were]] ||18
|-
|Dragon ||4 || ||Coyote || 19
|-
|Cat ||5 || ||Kangaroo ||20 (tie)
|-
|Tiger ||6 || ||Cougar ||20 (tie)
|-
|Dog ||7 || ||Gryphon ||22
|-
|Lion ||8 || ||[[Bat]] ||23
|-
|Rabbit ||9 || ||Ferret ||24
|-
|Raccoon ||10 || ||Hyena ||25
|-
|Leopard ||11 || ||Dinosaur ||26 (tie)
|-
|Bear ||12 || ||[[Jackal]] ||26 (tie)
|-
|[[Panther]] ||13 || ||Rat ||28
|-
|Otter ||14 || ||Squirrel ||29
|-
|Skunk ||15 || ||Mouse ||30
|}
This list of popular [[phenotype]]s is derived from [[Special:Mostlinkedcategories|the list of most linked to categories]] according to which character categories contain the most articles, under the assumption that it is a representative sample of the [[furry fandom]] at large.

The second table is derived from [[Pounced.org]]'s [http://www.pounced.org/stats/stats.html statistics page] before it was removed, and contains data from August 2006.

For brevity's sake, these lists are limited to the 30 most popular [[species]] reported as of November 2007.

==See also==
*[[:Category:Characters]]
*[[Wikipedia: Phenotype|Phenotype]] at [[Wikipedia]]

[[Category:Lists|Phenotypes]]
[[Category:Species| ]]

List of most popular species

2007-11-08T20:12:21Z

Crucifox:

{|class="infobox" style="margin:0 0 1em 1em;" cellspacing="0";
|+ '''WikiFur categories data (November 2007)'''
|-
|style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Species''' ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Rank''' ||   ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Species''' ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Rank''' 
|-
|[[Wolf]] ||1 || ||[[Mouse]] ||16
|-
|[[Fox]] ||2 || ||[[Squirrel (species)|Squirrel]] ||17
|-
|[[Dragon]] ||3 || ||[[Rat (species)|Rat]] ||18
|-
|[[Cat]] ||4 || ||[[Ferret]] || 19 (tie)
|-
|[[Lion]] ||5 || ||[[Snow Leopard]] ||19 (tie)
|-
|[[Tiger]] ||6 (tie)|| ||[[Coyote]] ||21 (tie)
|-
|[[Rabbit]] ||6 (tie) || ||[[Cougar]] ||21 (tie)
|-
|[[Raccoon]] ||8 || ||[[Gryphon]] ||21 (tie)
|-
|[[Dog]] ||9 || ||[[Hyena]] ||24
|-
|[[Skunk (species)|Skunk]] ||10 || ||[[Leopard]] ||25 (tie)
|-
|[[Kangaroo]] ||11 || ||[[Bird]] ||25 (tie)
|-
|[[Otter]] ||12 || ||[[Unicorn]] ||27
|-
|[[Bear]] ||13 || ||[[Orca (species)|Orca]] ||28
|-
|[[Horse]] ||14 || ||[[Dinosaur]] ||29 (tie)
|-
|[[Cheetah (species)|Cheetah]] ||15 || ||[[Lynx]] ||29 (tie)
|}

{|class="infobox" style="margin:0 0 1em 1em;" cellspacing="0";
|+ '''Pounced.org data (August 2006)'''
|-
|style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Species''' ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Rank''' ||   ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Species''' ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Rank''' 
|-
|Wolf ||1 || ||Horse ||16
|-
|Fox ||2 || ||Cheetah ||17
|-
|Other ||3 || ||[[Were]] ||18
|-
|Dragon ||4 || ||Coyote || 19
|-
|Cat ||5 || ||Kangaroo ||20 (tie)
|-
|Tiger ||6 || ||Cougar ||20 (tie)
|-
|Dog ||7 || ||Gryphon ||22
|-
|Lion ||8 || ||[[Bat]] ||23
|-
|Rabbit ||9 || ||Ferret ||24
|-
|Raccoon ||10 || ||Hyena ||25
|-
|Leopard ||11 || ||Dinosaur ||26 (tie)
|-
|Bear ||12 || ||[[Jackal]] ||26 (tie)
|-
|[[Panther]] ||13 || ||Rat ||28
|-
|Otter ||14 || ||Squirrel ||29
|-
|Skunk ||15 || ||Mouse ||30
|}
This list of popular [[phenotype]]s is derived from [[Special:Mostlinkedcategories|the list of most linked to categories]] according to which character categories contain the most articles, under the assumption that it is a representative sample of the [[furry fandom]] at large.

The second table is derived from [[Pounced.org]]'s [http://www.pounced.org/stats/stats.html statistics page] before it was removed, and contains data from November 2006.

For brevity's sake, these lists are limited to the 30 most popular [[species]] reported as of June 2007.

==See also==
*[[:Category:Characters]]
*[[Wikipedia: Phenotype|Phenotype]] at [[Wikipedia]]

[[Category:Lists|Phenotypes]]
[[Category:Species| ]]

List of most popular species

2007-11-08T20:11:47Z

Crucifox:

{|class="infobox" style="margin:0 0 1em 1em;" cellspacing="0";
|+ '''WikiFur categories data (November 2007)'''
|-
|style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Species''' ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Rank''' ||   ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Species''' ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Rank''' 
|-
|[[Wolf]] ||1 || ||[[Mouse]] ||16
|-
|[[Fox]] ||2 || ||[[Squirrel (species)|Squirrel]] ||17
|-
|[[Dragon]] ||3 || ||[[Rat (species)|Rat]] ||18
|-
|[[Cat]] ||4 || ||[[Ferret]] || 19 (tie)
|-
|[[Lion]] ||5 || ||[[Snow Leopard]] ||19 (tie)
|-
|[[Tiger]] ||6 (tie)|| ||[[Coyote]] ||21 (tie)
|-
|[[Rabbit]] ||6 (tie) || ||[[Cougar]] ||21 (tie)
|-
|[[Raccoon]] ||8 || ||[[Gryphon]] ||21 (tie)
|-
|[[Dog]] ||9 || ||[[Hyena]] ||24
|-
|[[Skunk (species)|Skunk]] ||10 || ||[[Leopard]] ||25 (tie)
|-
|[[Kangaroo]] ||11 || ||[[Bird]] ||25 (tie)
|-
|[[Otter]] ||12 || ||[[Unicorn]] ||27
|-
|[[Bear]] ||13 || ||[[Orca (species)|Orca]] ||28
|-
|[[Horse]] ||14 || ||[[Dinosaur]] ||29 (tie)
|-
|[[Cheetah (species)|Cheetah]] ||15 || ||[[Lynx]] ||29 (tie)
|}

{|class="infobox" style="margin:0 0 1em 1em;" cellspacing="0";
|+ '''Pounced.org data (August 2006)'''
|-
|style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Species''' ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Rank''' ||   ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Species''' ||style="background: #D0D0D0; text-align: center;"| '''Rank''' 
|-
|Wolf ||1 || ||Horse ||16
|-
|Fox ||2 || ||Cheetah ||17
|-
|Other ||3 || ||[[Were]] ||18
|-
|Dragon ||4 || ||Coyote || 19
|-
|Cat ||5 || ||Kangaroo ||20 (tie)
|-
|Tiger ||6 || ||Cougar ||20 (tie)
|-
|Dog ||7 || ||Gryphon ||22
|-
|Lion ||8 || ||[[Bat]] ||23
|-
|Rabbit ||9 || ||Ferret ||24
|-
|Raccoon ||10 || ||Hyena ||25
|-
|Leopard ||11 || ||Dinosaur ||26 (tie)
|-
|Bear ||12 || ||[[Jackal]] ||26 (tie)
|-
|[[Panther]] ||13 || ||Rat ||28
|-
|Otter ||14 || ||Squirrel ||29
|-
|Skunk ||15 || ||Mouse ||30
|}
This list of popular [[phenotype]]s is derived from [[Special:Mostlinkedcategories|the list of most linked to categories]] according to which character categories contain the most articles, under the assumption that it is a representative sample of the [[furry fandom]] at large.

The second table is derived from [[Pounced.org]]'s [http://www.pounced.org/stats/stats.html statistics page] before it was removed, and contains data from August 2006.

For brevity's sake, these lists are limited to the 30 most popular [[species]] reported as of June 2007.

==See also==
*[[:Category:Characters]]
*[[Wikipedia: Phenotype|Phenotype]] at [[Wikipedia]]

[[Category:Lists|Phenotypes]]
[[Category:Species| ]]

Talk:Portal of Evil

2007-05-01T01:20:42Z

Crucifox:

"The 2 forums are a good example." Which two forums? Or are these forums about [[2]], The Ranting Gryphon? Or - something else? [[User:Tevildo|Tevildo]] 16:19, 5 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Wow, it's been a while since I've heard of any POE incidents. I guess that's a good thing. -- [[User:Siege|Siege]]([[User talk:Siege|talk]]) 15:59, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

== Wikipedia and PoE ==

I wonder if PoE being taken down from Wikipedia is worth mentioning on WikiFur, as it has nothing to do with the furry aspects of PoE. In any case, it really doesn't go where its been put, either.Crucifox 01:20, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Portal of Evil

2007-05-01T01:20:16Z

Crucifox: Wikipedia and PoE

Talk:Star Fox

2007-03-09T21:31:02Z

Crucifox:

{{featured}}

==Categorization==
The category should be [[:Category:Video games]], where the other games are. So too should that category's suggestions. [[User:Almafeta|Almafeta]] 04:57, 23 Aug 2005 (UTC)

:I'll worry about that later. Right now there are two of those categories and someone has to pick which one will be the primary one so the other can be removed. --[[User:Markus|Markus]] 05:54, 23 Aug 2005 (UTC)

::I've picked Video games (since it follows the naming scheme) and merged the content from Video Games into it. --{{UT|GreenReaper}} 06:40, 23 Aug 2005 (UTC)

== Grammar ==

Oh, lordy, where do I begin?
I think that articles with large amounts of spelling and grammar cleanup to be done should have that noted when being considered for the weekly feature. -- [[User:Siege|Siege]] 06:49, 8 Nov 2005 (UTC)

:At the time it was a daily feature, and we were just starting up, so our standards were a little lower. :-) --{{UT|GreenReaper}} 07:14, 8 Nov 2005 (UTC)
::Indeed. To admit faults, I chose the words I did and wrote in a hurry for one primary reason. I had distractions and I had taken a while to get it done often meaning frequent breaks. This didn't allow me much time to check it myself since I was often flustered by the delays and didn't care about the grammar and spelling until I finished and threw it through Microsoft Word's spell-check utility. It's not perfect, but it didn't yell at me too much except to point out a few errors it didn't have any corrections for. --[[User:Markus|Markus]] 07:25, 8 Nov 2005 (UTC)

All right. Well, I think this article has been put back into Feature-status shape now. :) -- [[User:Siege|Siege]] 07:33, 8 Nov 2005 (UTC)

==The Spoiler Tag==
I think you put that spoiler note in the wron place there Siege. Moving it down to the character list since that seems to give away some bits of the plots more than the individual articles themselves do. --[[User:Markus|Markus]] 18:09, 8 Nov 2005 (UTC)

:Thanks. I wasn't entirely certain that I'd put it in the best place. -- [[User:Siege|Siege]] 19:41, 8 Nov 2005 (UTC)

== Fixed alot of fan fiction and noncannical facts that where added as fact ==

Their was alot of noncannical facts like General Peppers full name being Cornelius Pepper and Androsses last name being Oikonny. Alot of this is fan belief but not proven through cannical information.

:Thanks for the fixes. :-) --[[User:GreenReaper|GreenReaper]]([[User talk:GreenReaper|talk]]) 15:25, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
:Some of those changes made and the addition of information are a little out of place. For one, I don't see how the production history (which I just renamed from "Starfox History) is a spoiler as it doesn't give away any in-game plot information. The characters section on the other hand certainly does. Why it was moved is beyond me. Second.. The links added to the bottom of the page were placed wrong. They can be best placed in External Links, which I did. And when creating the article, the only information I used came from the Wikipedia article in part, and the linked professional article in a larger portion. No other source was used that I can remember. ----[[User:Markus|Markus]]([[User talk:Markus|talk]]) 21:03, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

== Characters (and references) ==

I think more of the character information could be pulled out into seperate articles. I'm inclined to think links to character articles should just be links rather than links plus summaries.

On another note entirely, the References section needs significant cleanup. -- [[User:Sine|Sine]] 19:02, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
: I moved some links around from References to External Links and one from See Also to References. Does that work? ----[[User:Markus|Markus]]([[User talk:Markus|talk]]) 21:04, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

== Something happening? ==

I noticed that this page, rather then showing the majority of what was really written, was replaced by a rather tear-jerking (ha) story about a furry who doesn't want to be furry anymore. Any particular reason why? o.o? {{unsigned|68.5.21.98}}
:Yes. It is an open proxy vandalism attack from an as yet unknown source and the admin team is in action trying to clamp it down and clean up any remaining affected pages.

== The Nintendo Power comics ==

First off, the Fara Phoenix bit I just deleted was wrong, Fara was Fox's girlfriend (or strongly implied girlfriend) in the comics, and definitely not his mother. Fox's mother was named Vixie Reynard in the comics. The information about her was mostly correct, just for the wrong character. I just deleted that bit because the comics are not considered canon. So, someone could re-add that information, just pointing out it is not considered canon, and getting the Fara/Vixie mixup fixed. Or just decide to not keep it. Possibly start a new article for the comics? Or perhaps a new section listing non-canon characters not created by fans, which would also include Faye and Miyu from Star Fox 2. Anywho, here's a link to the[http://arwinglanding.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=1 comics] in question.[[User:Crucifox|Crucifox]]([[User talk:Crucifox|talk]]) 14:54, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
:We know its not canon. All of the special publications that were made such as the SF64 comic are not canon. And SFCommand in itself may not be considered canon since it has so many endings and the next game might only just pick up at the halfway point from Command.
:All of the relevant material is put into this one page, partly because it would be a hassle to spread it out over multiple articles. This includes the comics although I (as only one of the editors at least) try to make sure I specify which characters are only seen in the comics. There does need to be some special copy editing for the characters to further specify comic characters from canon characters, and further still to seperate the personalities of the canon characters from their comic counterparts so a difference can be clearly seen between the Canon Fox and the Comic Fox for example. How does this sound? --[[User:Markus|Markus]]([[User talk:Markus|talk]]) 21:05, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

::Sounds complicated. Why I just deleted (not very nice, I know) it and left a comment when I noticed it was wrong (in or out of canon), since I wasn't really sure about the "comics vs. game" policy on the article. Figured someone would know what to do.[[User:Crucifox|Crucifox]] 21:27, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Star Fox

2007-03-09T21:27:32Z

Crucifox:

{{featured}}

==Categorization==
The category should be [[:Category:Video games]], where the other games are. So too should that category's suggestions. [[User:Almafeta|Almafeta]] 04:57, 23 Aug 2005 (UTC)

:I'll worry about that later. Right now there are two of those categories and someone has to pick which one will be the primary one so the other can be removed. --[[User:Markus|Markus]] 05:54, 23 Aug 2005 (UTC)

::I've picked Video games (since it follows the naming scheme) and merged the content from Video Games into it. --{{UT|GreenReaper}} 06:40, 23 Aug 2005 (UTC)

== Grammar ==

Oh, lordy, where do I begin?
I think that articles with large amounts of spelling and grammar cleanup to be done should have that noted when being considered for the weekly feature. -- [[User:Siege|Siege]] 06:49, 8 Nov 2005 (UTC)

:At the time it was a daily feature, and we were just starting up, so our standards were a little lower. :-) --{{UT|GreenReaper}} 07:14, 8 Nov 2005 (UTC)
::Indeed. To admit faults, I chose the words I did and wrote in a hurry for one primary reason. I had distractions and I had taken a while to get it done often meaning frequent breaks. This didn't allow me much time to check it myself since I was often flustered by the delays and didn't care about the grammar and spelling until I finished and threw it through Microsoft Word's spell-check utility. It's not perfect, but it didn't yell at me too much except to point out a few errors it didn't have any corrections for. --[[User:Markus|Markus]] 07:25, 8 Nov 2005 (UTC)

All right. Well, I think this article has been put back into Feature-status shape now. :) -- [[User:Siege|Siege]] 07:33, 8 Nov 2005 (UTC)

==The Spoiler Tag==
I think you put that spoiler note in the wron place there Siege. Moving it down to the character list since that seems to give away some bits of the plots more than the individual articles themselves do. --[[User:Markus|Markus]] 18:09, 8 Nov 2005 (UTC)

:Thanks. I wasn't entirely certain that I'd put it in the best place. -- [[User:Siege|Siege]] 19:41, 8 Nov 2005 (UTC)

== Fixed alot of fan fiction and noncannical facts that where added as fact ==

Their was alot of noncannical facts like General Peppers full name being Cornelius Pepper and Androsses last name being Oikonny. Alot of this is fan belief but not proven through cannical information.

:Thanks for the fixes. :-) --[[User:GreenReaper|GreenReaper]]([[User talk:GreenReaper|talk]]) 15:25, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
:Some of those changes made and the addition of information are a little out of place. For one, I don't see how the production history (which I just renamed from "Starfox History) is a spoiler as it doesn't give away any in-game plot information. The characters section on the other hand certainly does. Why it was moved is beyond me. Second.. The links added to the bottom of the page were placed wrong. They can be best placed in External Links, which I did. And when creating the article, the only information I used came from the Wikipedia article in part, and the linked professional article in a larger portion. No other source was used that I can remember. ----[[User:Markus|Markus]]([[User talk:Markus|talk]]) 21:03, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

== Characters (and references) ==

I think more of the character information could be pulled out into seperate articles. I'm inclined to think links to character articles should just be links rather than links plus summaries.

On another note entirely, the References section needs significant cleanup. -- [[User:Sine|Sine]] 19:02, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
: I moved some links around from References to External Links and one from See Also to References. Does that work? ----[[User:Markus|Markus]]([[User talk:Markus|talk]]) 21:04, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

== Something happening? ==

I noticed that this page, rather then showing the majority of what was really written, was replaced by a rather tear-jerking (ha) story about a furry who doesn't want to be furry anymore. Any particular reason why? o.o? {{unsigned|68.5.21.98}}
:Yes. It is an open proxy vandalism attack from an as yet unknown source and the admin team is in action trying to clamp it down and clean up any remaining affected pages.

== The Nintendo Power comics ==

First off, the Fara Phoenix bit I just deleted was wrong, Fara was Fox's girlfriend (or strongly implied girlfriend) in the comics, and definitely not his mother. Fox's mother was named Vixie Reynard in the comics. The information about her was mostly correct, just for the wrong character. I just deleted that bit because the comics are not considered canon. So, someone could re-add that information, just pointing out it is not considered canon, and getting the Fara/Vixie mixup fixed. Or just decide to not keep it. Possibly start a new article for the comics? Or perhaps a new section listing non-canon characters not created by fans, which would also include Faye and Miyu from Star Fox 2. Anywho, here's a link to the[http://arwinglanding.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=1 comics] in question.[[User:Crucifox|Crucifox]]([[User talk:Crucifox|talk]]) 14:54, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
:We know its not canon. All of the special publications that were made such as the SF64 comic are not canon. And SFCommand in itself may not be considered canon since it has so many endings and the next game might only just pick up at the halfway point from Command.
:All of the relevant material is put into this one page, partly because it would be a hassle to spread it out over multiple articles. This includes the comics although I (as only one of the editors at least) try to make sure I specify which characters are only seen in the comics. There does need to be some special copy editing for the characters to further specify comic characters from canon characters, and further still to seperate the personalities of the canon characters from their comic counterparts so a difference can be clearly seen between the Canon Fox and the Comic Fox for example. How does this sound? --[[User:Markus|Markus]]([[User talk:Markus|talk]]) 21:05, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Sounds complicated. Why I just deleted it and left a comment when I noticed it was wrong (in or out of canon), since I wasn't really sure about the "comics vs. game" policy on the article. Figured someone would know what to do.[[User:Crucifox|Crucifox]] 21:27, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Star Fox

2007-03-09T20:56:21Z

Crucifox:

Talk:Star Fox

2007-03-09T20:55:46Z

Crucifox:

Talk:Star Fox

2007-03-09T20:52:19Z

Crucifox:

Talk:Star Fox

2007-03-09T20:45:46Z

Crucifox: The Nintendo Power comics

Star Fox

2007-03-09T20:36:55Z

Crucifox: Deleted the Fara Phoenix part. Comic only character, and wrong anyway (girlfriend, not mother).

'''''Star Fox''''' is a series of [[:Category:Video games|video games]] started by [[Wikipedia:Nintendo|Nintendo]] in 1993. It is a very successful series, continuing to draw an avid fan base from most Nintendo gamers to this day. A number of [[furs]] claim to have been drawn into the [[fandom]] because of this game.

==Production history==

===Star Fox===
[[image:IMAGE7.png|left|thumb|The ''Star Fox'' title screen.]]
[[image:IMAGE.png|right|thumb|The ''Star Fox'' map screen.]]
In 1993, Nintendo's feature system, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (or SNES for short) was blessed with the gift of the Super FX graphics chip. This chip, when installed on certain game cartridges, would enable the system to generate and display polygonal 3D sprites and backgrounds which would be a graphical leap potentially larger than that of ''Final Fantasy VI'' or ''Super Mario World''. The first game to feature this chip was the premier release of ''Star Fox'', a video game classified as a shooter. It was licensed entirely by Nintendo with the help of Argonaut Software in a contract for three Super FX chip games.

''Star Fox'' was hailed as a marvel of graphics technology at the time, and it took a while for the game to really take off as people dived into its unique world. Nintendo later released a second version of the home game and a limited number of cartridges which were used in the "Weekend Competition". This more competitive version kept track of your score and gave you a limited amount of time in which to play. It also sparked the creation of a wristwatch version of
the game which was a promotional item people could get from collecting cereal box tops. Comics and plushies followed and were considered the most important aspect to the game’s universe.

===Star Fox 2===
[[Image:ZSNESSF2CAP.png|left|thumb|The "final" version of the SNES game: ''Star Fox 2''.]][[image:SF2 - Wolfen.png|thumb|right|Star Wolf's debut appearance.]]
In 1995, demand started rising for another game in the series. Nintendo again started work to create a game superior in quality as much as possible. Their efforts included the introduction of all-range stages for the majority of the game, two additional characters named Miyu (replacing the Andross look alike "Saru" from the alpha) and Fay (replacing a Fara look a like named Lady from another alpha version), new ships and ship transformations, a map in which players could literally fly everywhere, new enemies, and the introduction of Star Wolf. This title was tentatively called ''Star Fox 2'' and held promise as the second title that used the Super FX chip to control the graphics. This game also included more - and higher quality - synthetic voice clips than its predecessor. However, the release of the Nintendo 64 system promised more capability than the SNES and the ''Star Fox 2'' project was scrapped in its final bug-testing stages and thus was never released outside the beta cartridges that were in the company and the demos that were seen at E3.

These few cartridges were eventually turned into ROMS and distributed across the Internet in its original Japanese form. Patches were eventually made and a more or less final version of this beta game was released on the internet. This release had some rumors attached to it. At one time at the E3 expo that it was a feature in, one avid fan tried to steal the cartridge. He never left the booth with it as he was arrested, but Nintendo dropped charges soon thereafter.

Further, Nintendo had sent out eight copies of the full game to major magazines so they could make a review by release day. When the game was canceled, Nintendo asked for the cartridges to be returned. A few magazine companies complied, and a few did not. One of these cartridges showed up at an auction once and sold for over ten thousand dollars due to the rarity of a complete cartridge. It is from one of these cartridges that the ROM circulating the internet was copied from.

Due to the technical completion of ''Star Fox 2'', the third and final game in the contract, Argonaut Software parted ways with Nintendo and returned to its former productions.

===Star Fox 64===
[[image:StarFox64-01.png|left|thumb|''The Star Fox 64'' title screen.]]
[[image:StarFox64-05.png|right|thumb|An Arwing firing a smart bomb as seen in ''Star Fox 64''.]]
Two years later in 1997, after many discussions from Nintendo and sneak previews, ''Star Fox 64'' was released. This was the first game in the series to use voice actors for real-time dialog, the first ever addition of the Rumble Pack to let players "feel" the game (such as when they got hit by enemy fire), and greater levels of detail along with a rework of the sprites and new vehicles.

The system map split the game into three routes similar to the original game, and unlike the original, it allowed players to change routes depending on their performance in the last mission. This made the game more diverse and expansive than before, since the player could pick a path through the enemy lines to get to the final level which in itself had two possible layouts depending on the attack approach the player took.

Unknown to many players however, were the elements of the game which were carried over from ''Star Fox 2''. Star Wolf, the All Range Mode, and the Wolfen were reused from ''Star Fox 2'' and played a pivotal role in the game, as you could not go through the game without having to go through these things at least once. Each mission also carried a score cap which the player had to meet or exceed to get a medal for that stage, with a requirement that the entire team survive. Collecting all the medals for every stage on the map would unlock an expert mode with more enemies, a smarter AI, and the fragility of the Arwing increased. It also had extras for multiplayer mode which could be unlocked for performing certain tasks; all of this gave the game a decent replay value.

Many people use this game as the definition for what is canon in the Star Fox universe. Star Fox 64 was considered the "test dummy" of what the Nintendo 64 could do and was, in simple terms, a remake of the original SNES game.

===Dinosaur Planet===
[[image:playingitsafe_dinosaurplanet_large.png|thumb|right|This is a small collection of the very few pieces of artwork made for ''Dinosaur Planet''. The top was to be the cartridge label, the bottom were character sketches. Krystal is portrayed here as an animé-ish character and Prince Tricky is present as well.]]
Started in late 1999, ''Dinosaur Planet'' was intended to be Rare's (a.k.a '''Rareware''') final project for Nintendo before moving on to the Gamecube which was called "Project Dolphin" at the time. This game was intended to push the limits of the N64's technology and Rare even had a back story for the game. In fact, they had kept it such a good secret that when they revealed it on the cover of the year 2000 E3 coverage issue of Nintendo Power, the game was closer to completion than many people thought despite the tidbits of information floating around. In fact, they planned to release it in the fourth quarter of 2000.

The game was a tremendous undertaking, having been put on full display at E3 2000 next to ''[[Conker's Bad Fur Day]]'', so people visiting the booth knew the game existed. It was slated to be the largest cartridge released for the N64 with a total size of 512Mb. Stores like Best Buy had already started taking pre-orders for the title.

As the game got closer to being released, people began to feel that something was wrong. There was no advertising for the game, no magazine articles, no previews, not a single thing. The game had more or less evaporated. And sure enough, much like ''Star Fox 2'', the game was at a stage of final bug testing when it was cancelled. It seemed that the main character had a resemblance very close to Fox McCloud, a major primary character in the Star Fox series. Also, around that same time Nintendo was working on an adventure game that was to take place on an unspecified planet in the Lylat System. The title wasn't decided and the game wasn't even playable yet so a lot was still in the air. Nintendo wanted to get the game out before the Gamecube was launched and unfortunately it appeared that it wasn't going to happen. In their attempts to get the game out, they began to look for complete or near-complete projects that they could convert into what they wanted. Since Rare was a second party, Nintendo had a considerable influence on them and convinced Rare to convert the game into what would later be called ''Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet''.

Unfortunately, the executives at Rare were torn on the decision. Half the company was for this conversion while half were against it. However, since Nintendo had pulled their title, they missed their launch window for that year and there was no feasible way to market their game in the next year because the GameCube was being released as the replacement for the Nintendo 64. ''Dinosaur Planet'' was thus officially canceled then, and the conversion process began.

===Star Fox Adventures===
[[image:SFAdventuresCover.png|frame|left|Case cover art for ''Star Fox Adventures''.]]
[[image:Space_Stage.png|right|thumb|Stages like this marked every transit point from level to level. The SF64 Arwing was streamlined in SFA.]]
Due to increasing stress between Nintendo and Rare at that point, Rare felt insulted that Nintendo hadn't put up any official advertisement effort into their last project: ''Conker's Bad Fur Day''. This was in part due to the fact that the game ran in total contrast to the image Nintendo wanted. Further, the game got little to no publicity because the game's main character was a protagonist who drank, cussed, and urinated in addition to making numerous sex jokes. This had soured relations with Nintendo a bit and proved to be a bumpy ride for fans everywhere.

Nintendo wanted the now renamed "Star Fox Adventures" to be a GameCube launch title, but it was already 2002 and the system had been out for at least six months. New games were getting hard to come by, just as with the Nintendo 64, and it was not a good image that was being projected.

There had been a few big guns prepared for the fall season which included ''Metroid Prime'' and ''The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker''. They chose to put ''Star Fox Adventures'' into this lineup, although there was a drawback to this kind of power play in that there was almost nothing of value that had been released so far that year except for ''Sonic Adventure 2: Battle''. With everything starting to hit at the same time, Nintendo was competing with itself and ''Wind Waker'' was delayed till 2003. The official reason given for the delay was "translation issues" although unofficially, people believed it was to avoid overshadowing the holiday season.
[[Image:KrystalSFA2.png|frame|left|Krystal is the game's damsel in distress. She was a playable character for only the introduction chapter.]]
[[Image:KrystalSFA.png|frame|right|Krystal is also rumored to have used her telepathic abilities to communicate with the inhabitants of Dinosaur Planet without a translator and to feel their pain, as seen here.]]

In the graphical position, ''Star Fox Adventures'' was a masterpiece. The Rare team managed to pull off "fur shading" which let characters have a colored wire frame fur that would react to the environment around them, such as sway in the wind and move their faces and tails, something which Microsoft claimed that only Xbox could do and was eventually done on the Xbox in the remake of ''Bad Fur Day'', ''[[Conker: Live and Reloaded]]''. It added a tremendous degree of realism and naturalness to the game that no other game of the time could manage. The cinematic scenes allowed the story to be fleshed out and were choreographed with the animators and musicians to create a movie-like level of quality and depth.

Most of the music for ''Star Fox Adventures'' was ported from the N64 version of ''Dinosaur Planet'' and enhanced in places to allow for the Gamecube's additional sound chip. The remaining music was newly composed to be streamed from the disc through live recordings during the cinematics. All of this was managed by David Wise of ''Donkey Kong Country'' fame. Gameplay was like a modified version of the N64 Zelda title ''Ocarina of Time''. Some people complained about that, but others enjoyed it. It was quite a departure from Rare's portfolio of games, which were mostly extensive yet well done item quests.

People wondered why Falco wasn't in the game until the very end of the story and some grew angry about it, demanding to know why he was missing in the first place. In the technical view, there wasn't enough time to work him into the main story, but from the creative standpoint a comic was released by Nintendo of Japan to cover Falco's lack of involvement and to bridge the gap between ''Star Fox 64'' and ''Star Fox Adventures'', which was meant to happen after the SF64 timeline. Unfortunately, it was released after the US version of ''Adventures'' had hit store shelves.

After the release of ''Star Fox Adventures'', Rare parted ways with Nintendo to work under Microsoft and have produced a number of games for both the Xbox and Xbox 360. They have also continued to make a number of smaller titles for the Gameboy Advance.

===Star Fox: Assault===
[[image:Starfox-3.png|thumb|right|Early screenshot of the Multiplayer mode.]]
[[image:SFAst.png|left|124px|thumb|The ''Star Fox: Assault'' case cover.]]
During a brief conflict with Rare over ''Star Fox Adventures'', Nintendo had been working on a new Gamecube title as a direct follow-up of the story from ''Star Fox 64''. They were not planning for the dispute with Rare to end with Nintendo winning the copyrights to Krystal, Tricky, and the other original cast for ''Star Fox Adventures'': this new game was going to be a single-player arcade version of ''Star Fox 64'', yet another remake. However, through luck and their legal department, this game project was scrapped and started over from the ground up. The result was that only one poster for the arcade game was released and only the multiplayer was available for review at E3 2003.

This time around, though, Nintendo contracted Namco to be the new home of Star Fox, and Namco started working on the newest chapter in Star Fox history. Since Nintendo had won the rights to the Star Fox Adventures characters, Namco was able to continue down the path that Rare had begun in Star Fox Adventures, including being able to use Krystal. This caused a setback in the development time and the game was pushed back by at least a year. The new game was to be a story-driven shooter that had ground-based missions thrown into the game's structure and design.
[[image:KrystalAssault.png|140px|thumb|left|Krystal makes a return appearance in Star Fox Assault as a pilot with a less revealing wardrobe.]]
[[image:300px-Assault_arwing.png|right|thumb|The Arwing also got a bit of a graphical improvement. Its capabilities now included the ability to hover at a dead stop for at least ten seconds.]]

The game's single-player debut made its appearance during the E3 2004 Media Press Conference, and was fully playable on the show floor the very next day. It was proof that Namco could bring the Star Fox franchise together and fans could continue on what is considered one of the longest running and most celebrated space shooters in gaming history. At the time though, the game didn't have a name and it was being simply called ''Star Fox Triforce''. A year afterward, the name was changed to ''Star Fox Armada'' since the game's major focus had been shifted into the story, but it was again renamed simply to ''Star Fox 2'' which was the name of the unreleased SNES predecessor. When fans became confused, it was clarified that this game and the unreleased SNES game had nothing in common except for the name. At E3 2004, the name changed again, this time to ''Star Fox - Coming This Fall''. It was a humorous name, but it conveyed to the fans that Nintendo had no clue what they were really going to call the game.

After one last name change, Namco finally released ''Star Fox: Assault'' to store shelves in February of 2005. It was intended to be released Christmas of 2004, but they had a delay due to fan requests that the game have a LAN mode. This required a total overhaul of the multiplayer engine and thus the option never saw the light of day. Fans had been waiting long enough for the next flight adventure, and Namco was not willing to risk negative publicity and another E3 showoff since there were already two such showings under that game's belt; thus it hit the shelves without the LAN ability. However, some interesting notes about the game point out that the main enemy presence in the story resembles that of the [[MemoryAlpha:Borg|Borg]] from Star Trek. It was a humorous similarity in demeanor and goals.

===Star Fox: Command===
In August 2006, Nintendo released Star Fox: Command for the Nintendo DS. Command marks the first time the Star Fox series has ever been on a Nintendo handheld or had online multiplayer. Developed by Kyoto based developer Q-Games, Command is in many ways a revival of the cancelled Star Fox 2 (Q-Games was formed by many of the ex-Argonaut Software development teams that worked on Star Fox and Star Fox 2).

The story takes place some time after the events of Assault and the Star Fox team has split up, with Fox and ROB 64 being the only remnants of Star Fox left.
A new threat has invaded the Lylat System: the Anglar, a race of anthropomorphic fish aliens from the acidic seas of Venom who's intention is to rule the Lylat System by attacking all of the planets in it. When the Anglar attack Fox's homeworld of Corneria, he begins to attack the Anglar forces.

Throughout the game players meet up with both new characters (like Peppy's daughter Lucy Hare) and old ones. (Bill Grey and Katt Monroe make their first appearance since Star Fox 64) The game features various branching pathways which the player can choose at various points in the game. This also marks the first time that you can play as characters other than Fox in single player. The game contains over 30 missions and 9 different endings. Players can only go on one path at the beginning of the game but after getting the first ending the player will gain a "Key of Destiny" which can be used only once each new play-through to go on a different path.

The game is a revival of Star Fox 2 in terms of gameplay as the development team felt like going back to that game and updating many of the gameplay aspects for Command to better fit the Nintendo DS. All aircraft controls (with the exception of shooting lasers) take place on the touch screen while the action itself takes place on the upper screen in all-range mode styled fights.

On an interesting note, Star Fox: Command does contain references and cameos for the F-Zero series (a futuristic racing series also done by Nintendo), which has, in turn, made references to the Star Fox series by way of the character James McCloud, who looks stunningly like the character, though human.

== Characters ==
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These are the named characters from the Star Fox series. Although some had fairly limited roles, they each had a part in shaping the storyline, and in some cases, the gameplay.

=== Team Star Fox ===
* '''James McCloud:''' James is rarely seen in the games and is Fox's father as clarified in ''Star Fox 64''. He was presumed killed by Andross, and this death is what motivates Fox during portions of the game. In the SNES comics, James was reported as KIA during the creation of a black hole by the premature detonation of a bomb which Andross made, while in ''Star Fox 64'', James was betrayed by his teammate Pigma Dengar, resulting in his capture. He was then given to Andross who killed him. At the end of ''Star Fox 64'', James' phantom guides Fox out of Andross's exploding base, thus saving him from certain death. He makes an appearance in ''Star Fox: Assault'', with his voice being manipulated by the Aparoid Queen. He next appears as a playable character in "Star Fox Command" in the "Dash Makes A Choice" stage, which questions his actual "death."

* '''[[Fox McCloud]]:''' The main character in the series. Fox is the chief pilot of the mercenary group called Star Fox. He takes his father's death very personally and at times it drives him into irrational fits of rage. When he's not in such a fit, he is a highly skilled pilot and calls the shots for the team. During the events of StarFox 64, it is implied that his biggest difficulty, at the age of 18, is to gain the trust of his comrades, but shows himself to be a competent and skilled leader whom gains respect from them all.

* '''[[Falco Lombardi]]:''' A hotheaded blue falcon who was almost kicked out of the Cornerian Air Force. He's brash, cocky, and speaks with a Brooklyn accent- it is referenced several times in various comics and games that he was a member of a gang known as the Hot Rodders. He is also Fox's best friend and leaves the military to fly with him. He believes himself to be the best pilot in the system and often tries to one-up Fox, which sometimes backfires and lands him in trouble.

* '''[[Slippy Toad]]:''' Slippy is the mechanic of the team, and also the most trouble-prone. His piloting skills are lacking and he gets enemies on his tail quite often because of his ineptitude at dog fighting- he makes up for this with his technological aptitude, enemy shield analysis during combat, and steadfast courage even when obviously fearful. Most incarnations of him make him appear whiney and irritating, a subject for the fans' occasional comments that he be thrown out an airlock and forgotten. At one point his gender was questioned and a [[VG Cats]] comic was released to make light of it. In ''Star Fox Assault'' however, he takes on a more masculine voice and becomes less whiny, a respite that was welcomed- amusingly, he also tends to get his girl faster than Fox does.

* '''[[Peppy Hare]]:''' A middle-aged hare which serves as the team's eldest and wisest member. He represents the common sense of the Star Fox team and tempers their skill and eagerness into something useful. After the events of Star Fox 64, he retires from flying to be a mapmaker and consultant to the team, giving advice to Fox and acting as a father figure throughout the series, not just in terms of battle and warfare, but additional wisdom in terms of trust, friendship and (in reference to Fox and Krystal) the importance of love. After the events of Star Fox: Assault, General Pepper steps down from his position as General, and Peppy takes up the reins, generally cited as a determined, wise and beneficial military figure.

* '''[[Krystal]]:''' Originally the Damsel in Distress from ''Star Fox Adventures'', she joined the team after her rescue and became a pilot. Her telepathic abilities were used as a plot device in ''Star Fox Assault'' and it was hinted through the cutscenes of ''Star Fox Adventures'' and ''Star Fox Assault'' that she and Fox are attracted to each other in a romance, though it is only directly mentioned once in ''Assault'' in one cutscene where Tricky and Fox argue over it, much to Krystal's amusement. She tends to hold Fox in high regard, as both a friend and leader, and is a skilled enough pilot to hold her own in space combat- throughout Assault, she is attacked less than the other members of the team. She is also not against taking the fight on foot, and shows skill in closequarters combat with firearms- it's implied that she is skilled with her staff, as well. She does have personal flaws, however, and during the events leading to those of Command, makes snap decisions that some endings have her regretting (though, the next game will probably take place in the middle of command).

* '''Miyu:''' Not much is known about this character except for being a lynx. She is also one of two female characters that joined the Star Fox team in the ''Star Fox 2'' plot. Neither she nor Fay are seen in any other games aside from the SNES ''Star Fox 2''.

* '''Fay:''' Not much is known about this character except for being a poodle. She is also one of two female characters that joined the Star Fox team in the ''Star Fox 2'' plot. Neither she nor Miyu are seen in any other games aside from the SNES ''Star Fox 2''.

=== Friendly characters ===
* '''General Pepper:''' The head of the Cornerian Defense Force. He's a hound dog with a good many years in his name and wisdom to go with it. In some comics he was James McCloud's friend and had to be the bearer of bad news. In Assault, he becomes a victim of the game's main enemy and is used as a literal weapon against Star Fox. Later, he retires from his position as General due to undetailed circumstances, presumably illness.

* '''Beltino Toad:''' Slippy's father and the major designer of the Arwing, Star Fox's primary vehicle. He is the head CEO of Aerospace Dynamics (sometimes called Arspace Dynamics) and made his appearance as an advisor briefly in ''Star Fox Assault''; he personally ran the Orbital Gate jump gate facility. He was the designer of the destruct virus Star Fox used to vanquish the Aparoid Queen on its home world.

* '''Bill Grey:''' One of Fox's friends in ''Star Fox 64''. Bill Grey is a gray dog believed to be either a greyhound or husky and an elite pilot of the Cornerian Air Force. He was assigned as the captain of the Katina Defense Force and crosses paths with Fox on Katina during the attack on Katina, and again during the Solar mission or alternatively during the Sector X mission, depending on the path the player takes. At first, he has a surfer-like attitude and accent, but in ''Star Fox Command'', that was changed to that of a stereotypical cowboy

* '''Katt Monroe:''' Katt Monroe is a pink feline that has a crush on Falco Lombardi up until ''Star Fox Command'', a crush that Falco was not fond of and finally put an end to before the events of ''Star Fox Command''. Seen only in ''Star Fox 64'' and a focal point in a comic concerning Starfox, she assists the team on Zoness in her own customized stolen Invader III space fighter, Sector Z, and alternatively on Macbeth depending on the path the player takes. Sometime between the events of StarFox 64 and Command, her fur is changed to that of dark brown, in an orange flightsuit, and her demeanor has changed from flirty to outgoing and brash.

* '''Tricky:''' Tricky is the dinosaur prince from ''Star Fox Adventures''. Fox is convinced early on to bring him along for much of the game, though there are several areas where Tricky cannot follow. He proves to be a rather useful assistant- he later succeeds his father's position as ruler of Sauria, and is considered by Fox, at least, to be an honorary member of the team.

* '''Amanda:''' Amanda is Slippy's fiance, who makes her debut in Star Fox: Command. She pilots a fighter called the "Tadpole", and tends to worry about Slippy, at some points coming to help him out. One of the endings in Command shows Amanda joining Star Fox as a member,however its possible this ending may not be canon.

* '''Lucy Hare:''' Lucy Hare is Peppy's daughter who makes her debut in Star Fox: Command. She is a physics teacher who teaches on the planet Fichina, which is where she is found in the game. She pilots a fighter called the "Sky Bunny" and at one point Command you can choose to go to Corneria as Lucy, eventually saving Corneria from an Anglarian sneak attack (with help from Krystal, Katt, and Amanda).

* '''Dash Bowman:''' Dash is a young ape in the Cornerian Air Force and a child prodigy whos makes his debut in Star Fox: Command. He pilots a fighter called the "Monkey Arrow" and shows up in the story of Command at different points. It is revealed that Dash is infact the grandson of Andross and he wishes to continue where his grandfather left off, but this time for good (or so he says). One ending has Dash restoring Venom and being at peace with Corneria. Another has him turning to the path of conquest of Lylat, taking up his grandfather's place and using their new resources to begin constructing an army; another has him joining Falco Lombardi's Star Falcon unit.

=== Team Star Wolf ===

* '''[[Wolf O'Donnell]]:''' The lead pilot of the Star Wolf mercenary team. He is the elemental opposite to Fox. Where Fox is water, Wolf is fire. This is not to say, however, that Wolf represents evil - indeed, several times throughout the storyline Wolf instead aids Fox and the Lylat system, though his motives seem to be financial or challenge-based in nature. Fan fiction stories mostly set the stage for this rivalry by describing that he may have been Fox's friend in the Cornerian Flight Academy, a friendship that somehow grew strained and eventually broke as they became rivals and Wolf left the academy for various reasons - fanon often has Fox responsible for Wolf's missing eye, which may also be a reason for this rivalry. He is hired by Andross to be a countermeasure to the Star Fox team and given the Wolfen star fighter, which was meant to be superior to Star Fox's Arwing - later, after defeat at their hands, Andross commissions several successors to the Wolfen in the form of the Wolfen II starfighter, technologically superior to the Arwing, making their second defeat that much more bitter. Out of all the Star Wolf members he is worth the most money on the wanted poster, implying he is the best pilot of Star Wolf.

* '''Leon Powalski:''' A chameleon with a grudge. He is often described as Falco's counterpart, if only for his soft-spoken, yet cold and chilling, demeanor. Some stories place Leon as the sadistic monster of the group: cold-hearted as well as cold-blooded. Fanon often has him described as violent and cruel to a degree that even puts Wolf on the back foot. It is implied that he may also work as an assassin and torturer, and may have a long history with Falco from his Hot Rodder days. According to Star Fox Command, a friendly face might lay behind his cold blooded appearance. His ship in Command is a modified Wolfen whose unique cannon charges and tracks enemies to a rather annoying degree. Out of the Star Wolf members, his bounty is worth the least cash on the wanted poster, which is surprising, if only for the fact that he has been a member since Wolf formed the team.

* '''Panther Caroso:''' Pigma's replacement after he left Star Wolf. Panther is naturally a Panther, not to mention a ladies' man who tends to target Krystal with little to no effect. His first appearance is in ''Star Fox Assault'' as a skilled pilot who would apparently do better if not for his flagrant habit of wooing females in general. He was quoted saying that "All who see my rose meet death", implying that he uses a rose as his calling card upon victory over another. During Command, he tends to show flagrant self-absorption that leads him to speak in 3rd person, and pilots a modified Wolfen with a powerful, if slow, single-shot laser cannon. Out of the Star Wolf members he is worth the second most on the wanted poster, implying he is the second best pilot in Team Star Wolf, and somehow more dangerous than even Leon. He seeks a romantic relationship with Krystal, with one non-canonical ending leading to this outcome. Panther is often incorrectly portrayed as a womanizer who only wants for Krystal for her body in fanfics. Star Fox Command disproves this, showing Panther does indeed truly love Krystal, though probably not as Fox does.

=== Enemy characters ===
* '''Andross:''' The major final boss for most of the Star Fox titles. He is an ape that was kicked out of the Cornerian Defense Force's Research and Development division when his experiments turned monstrous and dangerous - it is also implied in comics that it is he who was responsible for the death of Fox's mother, by way of a car bomb originally meant for James McCloud. His sanity was questioned and when he finally snapped, they banished him to the barren planet named Venom, where he raised an army and attempted to take over the Lylat System. Fox McCloud and Star Fox were hired by General Pepper in the first two released games to take him down, and in ''Star Fox Adventures'', Fox ran into Andross again when he revealed himself to the younger pilot atop the Krazoa Palace.

* '''Pigma Dengar:''' Pigma is Peppy's own personal nemesis. He used to be a wing mate in the Star Fox team until Pigma sold them out to Andross, allowing James and Peppy to be captured in the Star Fox 64 storyline. He is a very greedy swine whose love of money is exceeded only in his care for his own life. In short, his greed and selfishness make him unreliable - a characteristic that lead to Wolf severing connections between him and the team (though in "Star Fox Command", he still considers them his friend, enough to spare their lives during their boss battle with him). In ''Star Fox Assault'' Pigma is a storyline plot device used to progress the story until he is turned into a boss and is apparently killed by Star Fox in an asteroid belt. During the events of Command, it is discovered that he was NOT killed, as was originally thought, until Falco Lombardi finally eradicated the Aparoid-infected threat.

* '''Andrew Oikonny:''' Andrew is Slippy's counterpart, weak and simple-minded. His comments have more bark than his lasers have bite. While he may not be nearly as whiny or weak as Slippy used to be, he is still a pushover in most respects, and unlike Slippy, his demeanor becomes no less annoying or different as the series progress. In ''Star Fox Assault'', he manages to gain control of the remnants of Andross's army and names himself Emperor of the Lylat System just before his ship is destroyed by a plasma beam from an unknown alien from above. Later, during Command, he becomes a cronie for the Anglar forces, and considers himself to be superior to all opposition, despite the fact that he fights as an underling.

* '''General Scales:''' The main villain of ''Star Fox Adventures''. He was manipulated by Andross at one point to give Fox the Krazoa spirit he held. Before that point though, he was the unquestioned tyrant who sought to rule Dinosaur Planet with fear and his literal iron claw. He even meets Fox a few times and interferes with Fox's attempts to restore the planet to its whole form. Although the needed stones were put in place, the Krazoa spirits were needed to put the planet back together; this is where Scales interfered by capturing a spirit, which resulted in Andross's intervention and lead to his uneventful and unceremonious death.

* '''Emperor Anglar:''' The main villian of Star Fox: Command. Spawned from the seas of Venom, his intentions are a lot like that of Andross: rule the Lylat System by attack all of the planets with his army. The fight against his usually consists of 2 parts: first destorying his attack ship (Spaerhead) and then attacking him directly by first destroying his protective orbs and then attacking his red glowing "lantern" on his head.

* '''General Shears:''' A villian that appeared in the Star Fox comic that took place between Star Fox 64 and Star Fox: Adventures. Shears was in command of a Research base on Titania, which discovered a genetic remnant of Andross. The general went mad, hatching a plan to revive Andross. However, Katt Monroe and her team discovered this plan, and tried to stop him. She even managed to contact Falco for assistance. At this time, Star Fox was called by Shears about Katt and the others, misleading them by saying they were servants of Andross. His deception led to a dogfight between Fox and Falco, while Andross' revival was underway. After some explaining, Fox entered the base in a attempt to stop Shears; but it was too late. Andross had awoken, killed the General, and attempted to kill Fox. Luckily, they managed to escape and destroy the base. After they left, Andrew Oikonny arrived to save his dying uncle, and instructed him to take him to Sauria.

==References==
* [http://gc.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=4209 Starfox in review] - Main history article. Most of this WikiFur article was written with that one as a base. (Currently timing out)
* [[wikipedia:Star Fox|Star Fox]] on Wikipedia.

== See also ==
* [[LylatRPG]] IRC RPG taking place in the Star Fox 64 world.
* [[Starfox MUSH]]
* [[wikipedia:Star Fox|Star Fox]] on Wikipedia.
* [[wikipedia:Star_Fox_Series|Star Fox Series]] on Wikipedia.

==External links==
* [http://www.arwinglanding.net/ Arwing Landing] - A Star Fox fan site with more info on the Starfox games and screenshots.
* [http://www.starfox.org/ StarFox.org] - A Star Fox fan forum.
* [http://starwolf64.tripod.com/ Star Wolf's Star Fox 64 Page]

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'''''Star Fox''''' is a series of [[:Category:Video games|video games]] started by [[Wikipedia:Nintendo|Nintendo]] in 1993. It is a very successful series, continuing to draw an avid fan base from most Nintendo gamers to this day. Some [[furs]] were drawn into the [[fandom]] because of this game.

==Production history==

===Star Fox===
[[image:IMAGE7.png|left|thumb|The ''Star Fox'' title screen.]]
[[image:IMAGE.png|right|thumb|The ''Star Fox'' map screen.]]
In 1993, Nintendo's feature system, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (or SNES for short) was blessed with the gift of the Super FX graphics chip. This chip, when installed on certain game cartridges, would enable the system to generate and display polygonal 3D sprites and backgrounds which would be a graphical leap potentially larger than that of ''Final Fantasy VI'' or ''Super Mario World''. The first game to feature this chip was the premier release of ''Star Fox'', a video game classified as a shooter. It was licensed entirely by Nintendo with the help of Argonaut Software in a contract for three Super FX chip games.

''Star Fox'' was hailed as a marvel of graphics technology at the time, and it took a while for the game to really take off as people dived into its unique world. Nintendo later released a second version of the home game and a limited lumber of cartridges which were used in the "Weekend Competition". This more competitive version kept track of your score and gave you a limited amount of time in which to play. It also sparked the creation of a wristwatch version of
the game which was a promotional item people could get from collecting cereal box tops. Comics and plushies followed and were considered the most important aspect to the game’s universe.

===Star Fox 2===
[[Image:ZSNESSF2CAP.png|left|thumb|The "final" version of the SNES game: ''Star Fox 2''.]][[image:SF2 - Wolfen.png|thumb|right|Star Wolf's debut appearance.]]
In 1995, demand started rising for another game in the series. Nintendo again started work to create a game superior in quality as much as possible. Their efforts included the introduction of all-range stages for the majority of the game, two additional characters named Miyu (replacing the Andross look alike "Saru" from the alpha) and Fay (replacing a Fara look a like named Lady from another alpha version), new ships and ship transformations, a map in which players could literally fly everywhere, new enemies, and the introduction of Star Wolf. This title was tentatively called ''Star Fox 2'' and held promise as the second title that used the Super FX chip to control the graphics. This game also included more - and higher quality - synthetic voice clips than its predecessor. However, the release of the Nintendo 64 system promised more capability than the SNES and the ''Star Fox 2'' project was scrapped in its final bug-testing stages and thus was never released outside the beta cartridges that were in the company and the demos that were seen at E3.

These few cartridges were eventually turned into ROMS and distributed across the Internet in its original Japanese form. Patches were eventually made and a more or less final version of this beta game was released on the internet. This release had some rumors attached to it. At one time at the E3 expo that it was a feature in, one avid fan tried to steal the cartridge. He never left the booth with it as he was arrested, but Nintendo dropped charges soon thereafter.

Further, Nintendo had sent out eight copies of the full game to major magazines so they could make a review by release day. When the game was canceled, Nintendo asked for the cartridges to be returned. A few magazine companies complied, and a few did not. One of these cartridges showed up at an auction once and sold for over ten thousand dollars due to the rarity of a complete cartridge. It is from one of these cartridges that the ROM circulating the internet was copied from.

Due to the technical completion of ''Star Fox 2'', the third and final game in the contract, Argonaut Software parted ways with Nintendo and returned to its former productions.

===Star Fox 64===
[[image:StarFox64-01.png|left|thumb|''The Star Fox 64'' title screen.]]
[[image:StarFox64-05.png|right|thumb|An Arwing firing a smart bomb as seen in ''Star Fox 64''.]]
Two years later in 1997, after many discussions from Nintendo and sneak previews, ''Star Fox 64'' was released. This was the first game in the series to use voice actors for real-time dialog, the first ever addition of the Rumble Pack to let players "feel" the game (such as when they got hit by enemy fire), and greater levels of detail along with a rework of the sprites and new vehicles.

The system map split the game into three routes similar to the original game, and unlike the original, it allowed players to change routes depending on their performance in the last mission. This made the game more diverse and expansive than before, since the player could pick a path through the enemy lines to get to the final level which in itself had two possible layouts depending on the attack approach the player took.

Unknown to many players however, were the elements of the game which were carried over from ''Star Fox 2''. Star Wolf, the All Range Mode, and the Wolfen were reused from ''Star Fox 2'' and played a pivotal role in the game, as you could not go through the game without having to go through these things at least once. Each mission also carried a score cap which the player had to meet or exceed to get a medal for that stage, with a requirement that the entire team survive. Collecting all the medals for every stage on the map would unlock an expert mode with more enemies, a smarter AI, and the fragility of the Arwing increased. It also had extras for multiplayer mode which could be unlocked for performing certain tasks; all of this gave the game a decent replay value.

Many people use this game as the definition for what is canon in the Star Fox universe. Star Fox 64 was considered the "test dummy" of what the Nintendo 64 could do and was, in simple terms, a remake of the original SNES game.

===Dinosaur Planet===
[[image:playingitsafe_dinosaurplanet_large.png|thumb|right|This is a small collection of the very few pieces of artwork made for ''Dinosaur Planet''. The top was to be the cartridge label, the bottom were character sketches. Krystal is portrayed here as an animé-ish character and Prince Tricky is present as well.]]
Started in late 1999, ''Dinosaur Planet'' was intended to be Rare's (a.k.a '''Rareware''') final project for Nintendo before moving on to the Gamecube which was called "Project Dolphin" at the time. This game was intended to push the limits of the N64's technology and Rare even had a back story for the game. In fact, they had kept it such a good secret that when they revealed it on the cover of the year 2000 E3 coverage issue of Nintendo Power, the game was closer to completion than many people thought despite the tidbits of information floating around. In fact, they planned to release it in the fourth quarter of 2000.

The game was a tremendous undertaking, having been put on full display at E3 2000 next to ''[[Conker's Bad Fur Day]]'', so people visiting the booth knew the game existed. It was slated to be the largest cartridge released for the N64 with a total size of 512Mb. Stores like Best Buy had already started taking pre-orders for the title.

As the game got closer to being released, people began to feel that something was wrong. There was no advertising for the game, no magazine articles, no previews, not a single thing. The game had more or less evaporated. And sure enough, much like ''Star Fox 2'', the game was at a stage of final bug testing when it was cancelled. It seemed that the main character had a resemblance very close to Fox McCloud, a major primary character in the Star Fox series. Also, around that same time Nintendo was working on an adventure game that was to take place on an unspecified planet in the Lylat System. The title wasn't decided and the game wasn't even playable yet so a lot was still in the air. Nintendo wanted to get the game out before the Gamecube was launched and unfortunately it appeared that it wasn't going to happen. In their attempts to get the game out, they began to look for complete or near-complete projects that they could convert into what they wanted. Since Rare was a second party, Nintendo had a considerable influence on them and convinced Rare to convert the game into what would later be called ''Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet''.

Unfortunately, the executives at Rare were torn on the decision. Half the company was for this conversion while half were against it. However, since Nintendo had pulled their title, they missed their launch window for that year and there was no feasible way to market their game in the next year because the GameCube was being released as the replacement for the Nintendo 64. ''Dinosaur Planet'' was thus officially canceled then, and the conversion process began.

===Star Fox Adventures===
[[image:SFAdventuresCover.png|frame|left|Case cover art for ''Star Fox Adventures''.]]
[[image:Space_Stage.png|right|thumb|Stages like this marked every transit point from level to level. The SF64 Arwing was streamlined in SFA.]]
Due to increasing stress between Nintendo and Rare at that point, Rare felt insulted that Nintendo hadn't put up any official advertisement effort into their last project: ''Conker's Bad Fur Day''. This was in part due to the fact that the game ran in total contrast to the image Nintendo wanted. Further, the game got little to no publicity because the game's main character was a protagonist who drank, cussed, and urinated in addition to making numerous sex jokes. This had soured relations with Nintendo a bit and proved to be a bumpy ride for fans everywhere.

Nintendo wanted the now renamed "Star Fox Adventures" to be a GameCube launch title, but it was already 2002 and the system had been out for at least six months. New games were getting hard to come by, just as with the Nintendo 64, and it was not a good image that was being projected.

There had been a few big guns prepared for the fall season which included ''Metroid Prime'' and ''The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker''. They chose to put ''Star Fox Adventures'' into this lineup, although there was a drawback to this kind of power play in that there was almost nothing of value that had been released so far that year except for ''Sonic Adventure 2: Battle''. With everything starting to hit at the same time, Nintendo was competing with itself and ''Wind Waker'' was delayed till 2003. The official reason given for the delay was "translation issues" although unofficially, people believed it was to avoid overshadowing the holiday season.
[[Image:KrystalSFA2.png|frame|left|Krystal is the game's damsel in distress. She was a playable character for only the introduction chapter.]]
[[Image:KrystalSFA.png|frame|right|Krystal is also rumored to have used her telepathic abilities to communicate with the inhabitants of Dinosaur Planet without a translator and to feel their pain, as seen here.]]

In the graphical position, ''Star Fox Adventures'' was a masterpiece. The Rare team managed to pull off "fur shading" which let characters have a colored wire frame fur that would react to the environment around them, such as sway in the wind and move their faces and tails, something which Microsoft claimed that only Xbox could do and was eventually done on the Xbox in the remake of ''Bad Fur Day'', ''[[Conker: Live and Reloaded]]''. It added a tremendous degree of realism and naturalness to the game that no other game of the time could manage. The cinematic scenes allowed the story to be fleshed out and were choreographed with the animators and musicians to create a movie-like level of quality and depth.

Most of the music for ''Star Fox Adventures'' was ported from the N64 version of ''Dinosaur Planet'' and enhanced in places to allow for the Gamecube's additional sound chip. The remaining music was newly composed to be streamed from the disc through live recordings during the cinematics. All of this was managed by David Wise of ''Donkey Kong Country'' fame. Gameplay was like a modified version of the N64 Zelda title ''Ocarina of Time''. Some people complained about that, but others enjoyed it. It was quite a departure from Rare's portfolio of games, which were mostly extensive yet well done item quests.

People wondered why Falco wasn't in the game until the very end of the story and some grew angry about it, demanding to know why he was missing in the first place. In the technical view, there wasn't enough time to work him into the main story, but from the creative standpoint a comic was released by Nintendo of Japan to cover Falco's lack of involvement and to bridge the gap between ''Star Fox 64'' and ''Star Fox Adventures'', which was meant to happen after the SF64 timeline. Unfortunately, it was released after the US version of ''Adventures'' had hit store shelves.

After the release of ''Star Fox Adventures'', Rare parted ways with Nintendo to work under Microsoft and have produced a number of games for both the Xbox and Xbox 360. They have also continued to make a number of smaller titles for the Gameboy Advance.

===Star Fox: Assault===
[[image:Starfox-3.png|thumb|right|Early screenshot of the Multiplayer mode.]]
[[image:SFAst.png|left|124px|thumb|The ''Star Fox: Assault'' case cover.]]
During a brief conflict with Rare over ''Star Fox Adventures'', Nintendo had been working on a new Gamecube title as a direct follow-up of the story from ''Star Fox 64''. They were not planning for the dispute with Rare to end with Nintendo winning the copyrights to Krystal, Tricky, and the other original cast for ''Star Fox Adventures'': this new game was going to be a single-player arcade version of ''Star Fox 64'', yet another remake. However, through luck and their legal department, this game project was scrapped and started over from the ground up. The result was that only one poster for the arcade game was released and only the multiplayer was available for review at E3 2003.

This time around, though, Nintendo contracted Namco to be the new home of Star Fox, and Namco started working on the newest chapter in Star Fox history. Since Nintendo had won the rights to the Star Fox Adventures characters, Namco was able to continue down the path that Rare had begun in Star Fox Adventures, including being able to use Krystal. This caused a setback in the development time and the game was pushed back by at least a year. The new game was to be a story-driven shooter that had ground-based missions thrown into the game's structure and design.
[[image:KrystalAssault.png|140px|thumb|left|Krystal makes a return appearance in Star Fox Assault as a pilot with a less revealing wardrobe.]]
[[image:300px-Assault_arwing.png|right|thumb|The Arwing also got a bit of a graphical improvement. Its capabilities now included the ability to hover at a dead stop for at least ten seconds.]]

The game's single-player debut made its appearance during the E3 2004 Media Press Conference, and was fully playable on the show floor the very next day. It was proof that Namco could bring the Star Fox franchise together and fans could continue on what is considered one of the longest running and most celebrated space shooters in gaming history. At the time though, the game didn't have a name and it was being simply called ''Star Fox Triforce''. A year afterward, the name was changed to ''Star Fox Armada'' since the game's major focus had been shifted into the story, but it was again renamed simply to ''Star Fox 2'' which was the name of the unreleased SNES predecessor. When fans became confused, it was clarified that this game and the unreleased SNES game had nothing in common except for the name. At E3 2004, the name changed again, this time to ''Star Fox - Coming This Fall''. It was a humorous name, but it conveyed to the fans that Nintendo had no clue what they were really going to call the game.

After one last name change, Namco finally released ''Star Fox: Assault'' to store shelves in February of 2005. It was intended to be released Christmas of 2004, but they had a delay due to fan requests that the game have a LAN mode. This required a total overhaul of the multiplayer engine and thus the option never saw the light of day. Fans had been waiting long enough for the next flight adventure, and Namco was not willing to risk negative publicity and another E3 showoff since there were already two such showings under that game's belt; thus it hit the shelves without the LAN ability. However, some interesting notes about the game point out that the main enemy presence in the story resembles that of the [[MemoryAlpha:Borg|Borg]] from Star Trek. It was a humorous similarity in demeanor and goals.

===Star Fox: Command===
In August 2006, Nintendo released Star Fox: Command for the Nintendo DS. Command marks the first time the Star Fox series has ever been on a Nintendo handheld or had online multiplayer. Developed by Kyoto based developer Q-Games, Command is in many ways a revival of the cancelled Star Fox 2 (Q-Games was formed by many of the ex-Argonaut Software development teams that worked on Star Fox and Star Fox 2).

The story takes place some time after the events of Assault and the Star Fox team has split up, with Fox and ROB 64 being the only remnants of Star Fox left.
A new threat has invaded the Lylat System: the Anglar, a race of anthropomorphic fish aliens from the acidic seas of Venom who's intention is to rule the Lylat System by attacking all of the planets in it. When the Anglar attack Fox's homeworld of Corneria, he begins to attack the Anglar forces.

Throughout the game players meet up with both new characters (like Peppy's daughter Lucy Hare) and old ones. (Bill Grey and Katt Monroe make their first appearance since Star Fox 64) The game features various branching pathways which the player can choose at various points in the game. This also marks the first time that you can play as characters other than Fox in single player. The game contains over 30 missions and 9 different endings. Players can only go on one path at the beginning of the game but after getting the first ending the player will gain a "Key of Destiny" which can be used only once each new play-through to go on a different path.

The game is a revival of Star Fox 2 in terms of gameplay as the development team felt like going back to that game and updating many of the gameplay aspects for Command to better fit the Nintendo DS. All aircraft controls (with the exception of shooting lasers) take place on the touch screen while the action itself takes place on the upper screen in all-range mode styled fights.

On an interesting note, Star Fox: Command does contain references and cameos for the F-Zero series (a futuristic racing series also done by Nintendo), which has, in turn, made references to the Star Fox series by way of the character James McCloud, who looks stunningly like the character, though human.

== Characters ==
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These are the named characters from the Star Fox series. Although some had fairly limited roles, they each had a part in shaping the storyline, and in some cases, the gameplay.

=== Team Star Fox ===
* '''James McCloud:''' James is rarely seen in the games and is Fox's father as clarified in ''Star Fox 64''. He was presumed killed by Andross, and this death is what motivates Fox during portions of the game. In the SNES comics, James was reported as KIA during the creation of a black hole by the premature detonation of a bomb which Andross made, while in ''Star Fox 64'', James was betrayed by his teammate Pigma Dengar, resulting in his capture. He was then given to Andross who killed him. At the end of ''Star Fox 64'', James' phantom guides Fox out of Andross's exploding base, thus saving him from certain death. He makes an appearance in ''Star Fox: Assault'', with his voice being manipulated by the Aparoid Queen. He next appears as a playable character in "Star Fox Command" in the "Dash Makes A Choice" stage, which questions his actual "death."

* '''[[Fox McCloud]]:''' The main character in the series. Fox is the chief pilot of the mercenary group called Star Fox. He takes his father's death very personally and at times it drives him into irrational fits of rage. When he's not in such a fit, he is a highly skilled pilot and calls the shots for the team. During the events of StarFox 64, it is implied that his biggest difficulty, at the age of 18, is to gain the trust of his comrades, but shows himself to be a competent and skilled leader whom gains respect from them all.

* '''[[Falco Lombardi]]:''' A hotheaded blue falcon who was almost kicked out of the Cornerian Air Force. He's brash, cocky, and speaks with a Brooklyn accent- it is referenced several times in various comics and games that he was a member of a gang known as the Hot Rodders. He is also Fox's best friend and leaves the military to fly with him. He believes himself to be the best pilot in the system and often tries to one-up Fox, which sometimes backfires and lands him in trouble.

* '''[[Slippy Toad]]:''' Slippy is the mechanic of the team, and also the most trouble-prone. His piloting skills are lacking and he gets enemies on his tail quite often because of his ineptitude at dog fighting- he makes up for this with his technological aptitude, enemy shield analysis during combat, and steadfast courage even when obviously fearful. Most incarnations of him make him appear whiney and irritating, a subject for the fans' occasional comments that he be thrown out an airlock and forgotten. At one point his gender was questioned and a [[VG Cats]] comic was released to make light of it. In ''Star Fox Assault'' however, he takes on a more masculine voice and becomes less whiny, a respite that was welcomed- amusingly, he also tends to get his girl faster than Fox does.

* '''[[Peppy Hare]]:''' A middle-aged hare which serves as the team's eldest and wisest member. He represents the common sense of the Star Fox team and tempers their skill and eagerness into something useful. After the events of Star Fox 64, he retires from flying to be a mapmaker and consultant to the team, giving advice to Fox and acting as a father figure throughout the series, not just in terms of battle and warfare, but additional wisdom in terms of trust, friendship and (in reference to Fox and Krystal) the importance of love. After the events of Star Fox: Assault, General Pepper steps down from his position as General, and Peppy takes up the reins, generally cited as a determined, wise and beneficial military figure.

* '''[[Krystal]]:''' Originally the Damsel in Distress from ''Star Fox Adventures'', she joined the team after her rescue and became a pilot. Her telepathic abilities were used as a plot device in ''Star Fox Assault'' and it was hinted through the cutscenes of ''Star Fox Adventures'' and ''Star Fox Assault'' that she and Fox are attracted to each other in a romance, though it is only directly mentioned once in ''Assault'' in one cutscene where Tricky and Fox argue over it, much to Krystal's amusement. She tends to hold Fox in high regard, as both a friend and leader, and is a skilled enough pilot to hold her own in space combat- throughout Assault, she is attacked less than the other members of the team. She is also not against taking the fight on foot, and shows skill in closequarters combat with firearms- it's implied that she is skilled with her staff, as well. She does have personal flaws, however, and during the events leading to those of Command, makes snap decisions that some endings have her regretting (though, of course, these are not considered canon).

* '''Miyu:''' Not much is known about this character except for being a lynx. She is also one of two female characters that joined the Star Fox team in the ''Star Fox 2'' plot. Neither she nor Fay are seen in any other games aside from the SNES ''Star Fox 2''.

* '''Fay:''' Not much is known about this character except for being a poodle. She is also one of two female characters that joined the Star Fox team in the ''Star Fox 2'' plot. Neither she nor Miyu are seen in any other games aside from the SNES ''Star Fox 2''.

=== Friendly characters ===
* '''General Pepper:''' The head of the Cornerian Defense Force. He's a hound dog with a good many years in his name and wisdom to go with it. In some comics he was James McCloud's friend and had to be the bearer of bad news. In Assault, he becomes a victim of the game's main enemy and is used as a literal weapon against Star Fox. Later, he retires from his position as General due to undetailed circumstances, presumably illness.

* '''Beltino Toad:''' Slippy's father and the major designer of the Arwing, Star Fox's primary vehicle. He is the head CEO of Aerospace Dynamics (sometimes called Arspace Dynamics) and made his appearance as an advisor briefly in ''Star Fox Assault''; he personally ran the Orbital Gate jump gate facility. He was the designer of the destruct virus Star Fox used to vanquish the Aparoid Queen on its home world.

* '''Bill Grey:''' One of Fox's friends in ''Star Fox 64''. Bill Grey is a gray dog believed to be either a greyhound or husky and an elite pilot of the Cornerian Air Force. He was assigned as the captain of the Katina Defense Force and crosses paths with Fox on Katina during the attack on Katina, and again during the Solar mission or alternatively during the Sector X mission, depending on the path the player takes.

* '''Katt Monroe:''' Katt Monroe is a pink feline that has a crush on Falco Lombardi. Seen only in ''Star Fox 64'' and a focal point in a comic concerning Starfox, she assists the team on Zoness in her own customized stolen Invader III space fighter, Sector Z, and alternatively on Macbeth depending on the path the player takes. Sometime between the events of StarFox 64 and Command, her fur is changed to that of dark brown, in an orange flightsuit, and her demeanor has changed from flirty to outgoing and brash.

* '''Tricky:''' Tricky is the dinosaur prince from ''Star Fox Adventures''. Fox is convinced early on to bring him along for much of the game, though there are several areas where Tricky cannot follow. He proves to be a rather useful assistant- he later succeeds his father's position as ruler of Sauria, and is considered by Fox, at least, to be an honorary member of the team.

* '''Amanda:''' Amanda is Slippy's fiance who makes her debut in Star Fox: Command. She pilots a fighter called the "Tadpole" tends to worry about Slippy, at some points coming to help him out. One of the endings in Command shows Amanda joining Star Fox as a member but this is not offical since none of the endings in Command are canon.

* '''Lucy Hare:''' Lucy Hare is Peppy's daughter who makes her debut in Star Fox: Command. She is a physics teacher who teaches on the planet Fichina, which is where she is found in the game. She pilots a fighter called the "Sky Bunny" and at one point Command you can choose to go to Corneria as Lucy, eventually saving Corneria from an Anglarian sneak attack (with help from Krystal, Katt, and Amanda).

* '''Dash Bowman:''' Dash is a young ape in the Cornerian Air Force and a child prodigy whos makes his debut in Star Fox: Command. He pilots a fighter called the "Monkey Arrow" and shows up in the story of Command at different points. It is revealed that Dash is infact the grandson of Andross and he wishes to continue where his grandfather left off, but this time for good (or so he says). One ending has Dash turning evil and basically becomming just like his grandfather, while another has him joining Falco Lombardi's Star Falcon unit. (Neither of these are considered offical since none of Command's endings are canon).

=== Team Star Wolf ===

* '''[[Wolf O'Donnell]]:''' The lead pilot of the Star Wolf mercenary team. He is the elemental opposite to Fox. Where Fox is water, Wolf is fire. This is not to say, however, that Wolf represents evil- indeed, several times throughout the storyline Wolf instead aids Fox and the Lylat system, though his motives seem to be financial or challenge-based in nature. Rumors from fan fiction stories state that he may have been Fox's friend in the Cornerian Flight Academy, but it went sour as they became rivals and Wolf left the academy for better things. Fanon often has Fox responsible for Wolf's missing eye. He is hired by Andross to be a countermeasure to the Star Fox team and given the Wolfen star fighter, which was meant to be superior to Star Fox's Arwing- later, after defeat at their hands, Andross comissions several successors to the Wolfen in the form of the Wolfen II starfighter, technologically superior to the Arwing, making their second defeat that much more sour. Out of all the star wolf members he is worth the most money on the wanted poster implying he is the best pilot of star wolf.

* '''Leon Powalski:''' A chameleon with a grudge. He is often described as Falco's counterpart, if only for his soft-spoken, yet cold and chilling, demeanor. Some stories place Leon as the sadistic monster of the group: cold-hearted as well as cold-blooded, and putting his dark desires to see people reduced to gutted bloody corpses above most everything else. It is implied that he may work also as an assassin. His ship in Command is a modified Wolfen whose unique cannon charges and tracks enemies to a rather annoying degree. Out of the Star Wolf members, his bounty is worth the least cash on the wanted poster, which is surprising, if only for the fact that he has been a member since Wolf formed the team.

* '''Panther Caroso:''' Pigma's replacement after he left Star Wolf. Panther is naturally a Panther, not to mention a ladies man who tends to target Krystal with little to no effect. His first appearance is in ''Star Fox Assault'' as a skilled pilot who would apparently do better if not for his flagrant habit of wooing females in general. He was quoted saying that "All who see my rose meet death", implying that he uses a rose as his calling card upon victory over another. During Command, he tends to show flagrant self-absorption that leads him to speak in 3rd person, and pilots a modified Wolfen with a powerful, if slow, single-shot laser cannon. Out of the star wolf members he is worth the second most on the wanted poster, implying he is the second best pilot in star wolf, and somehow more dangerous than even Leon. In several paths of Starfox Command he has begun a relationship with Krystal. Though a show-off and a lady's man, he often falls completely and faithfully in love.

=== Enemy characters ===
* '''Andross:''' The major final boss for most of the Star Fox titles. He is an ape that was kicked out of the Cornerian Defense Force's Research and Development division when his experiments turned monstrous and dangerous- it is also implied in comics that it is he who was responsible for the death of Fox's mother, by way of a car bomb orginally meant for James McCloud. His sanity was questioned and when he finally snapped, they banished him to the barren planet named Venom, where he raised an army and attempted to take over the Lylat System. Fox McCloud and Star Fox were hired by General Pepper in the first two released games to take him down, and in ''Star Fox Adventures'', Fox ran into Andross again when he revealed himself to the younger pilot atop the Krazoa Palace.

* '''Pigma Dengar:''' Pigma is Peppy's own personal nemesis. He used to be a wing mate in the Star Fox team until Pigma sold them out to Andross, allowing James and Peppy to be captured in the Star Fox 64 storyline. He is a very greedy swine whose love of money is exceeded only in his care for his own life. In short, his greed and selfishness make him unreliable- a characteristic that lead to Wolf severing connections between him and the team. In ''Star Fox Assault'' Pigma is a storyline plot device used to progress the story until he is turned into a boss and is apparently killed by Star Fox in an asteroid belt. During the events of Command, it is discovered that he was NOT killed, as was originally thought, until Falco Lombardi finally eradicated the Aparoid-infected threat.

* '''Andrew Oikonny:''' Andrew is Slippy's counterpart, weak and simple-minded. His comments have more bark than his lasers have bite. While he may not be nearly as whiny or weak as Slippy used to be, he is still a pushover in most respects, and unlike Slippy, his demeanor becomes no less annoying or different. In ''Star Fox Assault'', he manages to gain control of the remnants of Andross's army and names himself Emperor of the Lylat System just before his ship is destroyed by a plasma beam from an unknown alien from above. Later, during Command, he becomes a cronie for the Anglar forces, and considers himself to be superior to all opposition, despite the fact that he fights as an underling.

* '''General Scales:''' The main villain of ''Star Fox Adventures''. He was manipulated by Andross at one point to give Fox the Krazoa spirit he held. Before that point though, he was the unquestioned tyrant who sought to rule Dinosaur Planet with fear and his literal iron claw. He even meets Fox a few times and interferes with Fox's attempts to restore the planet to its whole form. Although the needed stones were put in place, the Krazoa spirits were needed to put the planet back together; this is where Scales interfered by capturing a spirit, which resulted in Andross's intervention and lead to his uneventful and unceremonious death.

* '''Emporer Anglar:''' The main villian of Star Fox: Command. Spawned from the seas of Venom, his intentions are a lot like that of Andross: rule the Lylat System by attack all of the planets with his army. The fight against his ussually consists of 2 parts: first destorying his attack ship (Spaerhead) and then attacking him directly by first destroying his protective orbs and then attacking his red glowing "lantern" on his head.

==References==
* [http://gc.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=4209 Starfox in review] - Main history article. Most of this WikiFur article was written with that one as a base. (Currently timing out)
* [[wikipedia:Star Fox|Star Fox]] on Wikipedia.

== See also ==
* [[LylatRPG]] IRC RPG taking place in the Star Fox 64 world.
* [[Starfox MUSH]]
* [[wikipedia:Star Fox|Star Fox]] on Wikipedia.
* [[wikipedia:Star_Fox_Series|Star Fox Series]] on Wikipedia.

==External links==
* [http://www.arwinglanding.net/ Arwing Landing] - A Star Fox fan site with more info on the Starfox games and screenshots.
* [http://www.starfox.org/ StarFox.org] - A Star Fox fan forum.
* [http://starwolf64.tripod.com/ Star Wolf's Star Fox 64 Page]

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Talk:Anthropomorphic taxidermy

2006-11-16T16:20:57Z

Crucifox:

=What the hell...=
Is this really the sort of thing you should be celebrating? IMO its debatable whether this should be included in this wiki.

I don't know that celebrating is the term, but while the entry is very well written, interesting and informative, it doesn't seem to have much to do with furry. [[User:733|733]] 19:48, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I think this is a great article for WikiFur. I mean, it is ANTHROPOMORPHIC taxidermy. Sure, its subject matter is certainly in bad taste, but if you made an argument saying this is in bad taste, and should not be included, then I could make a very good argument that the subject of [[yiff]] is in bad taste, and should not be included in WikiFur. - [[User:Crucifox|Crucifox]] 16:20, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Reynard the Fox

2006-11-16T16:10:21Z

Crucifox:

Okay, this is bugging the heck out of me, but I don't like that Reynard has been recatted as a red fox. Here's my reasoning. Reynard was a medieval story character. As can be seen on the wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fox Red Fox] article, Red Foxes weren't officially a species until 1758, centuries after Reynard.

Am I just being anal retentive? - [[User:Crucifox|Crucifox]] 16:10, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Golden Age of Furrydom

2006-09-27T23:20:11Z

Crucifox:

[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Golden+Age+of+Furrydom%22&btnG=Google+Search Searching for 'golden age of furrydom' on Google] turns up zero results. Can we get some additional information about where this term was apparently used? --[[User:Dmuth|Douglas Muth]] 17:00, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

It was a link in the [[TBOF]] article. Some reason, I just decided to write it.

"Golden Age of Furry" is used more commonly, I think, but then I wouldn't get the link. I've seen the phrase used on CYD, I think, but then I don't remember "exactly" where.

I know, needs sources. Badly. --[[Crucifox]] 18:00, 27 September 2006

Talk:Golden Age of Furrydom

2006-09-27T23:17:58Z

Crucifox:

Golden Age of Furrydom

2006-09-27T16:25:45Z

Crucifox: Cat (Have no clue where to put it, really)

'''The Golden Age of Furrydom''' is a phrase used to describe the time that certain groups within the [[furry fandom]] long for. This time is usually described as a time when the [[furry fandom]] was less adult oriented, and "purer" in its intentions.

It is most often used to ridicule [[anti-furry]] groups within the fandom, or by [[anti-furry]] groups outside of the fandom to mock all furries.

[[Category: Culture]]

Golden Age of Furrydom

2006-09-27T16:20:33Z

Crucifox:

Portal of Evil

2006-07-07T20:14:16Z

Crucifox: POE to PoE

The '''Portal of Evil''', '''PoE proper''' or simply '''PoE''' is a website that specializes in cataloging strange, shocking, or otherwise amusing web pages, and has been described as "the Yahoo! of the weird". PoE was founded and continues to be maintained by [[Wikipedia:Chet Faliszek|Chet]] (of [[Wikipedia:Old Man Murray|Old Man Murray]], currently an employee of [[Wikipedia:Microsoft|Microsoft Corporation]], formerly of Valve Software.). The site also has several sister sites, including '''[http://www.poe-news.com POE News]''', which specializes in odd and unusual news stories, and '''[http://www.poetv.com POEtv]''', a video repository portal with a similar slant (yet, all videos must remain 'Safe For Work'). Most sites on the '''PoE Network''' incorporate lively discussion forums.

Though the sites listed on POE range from religious extremism to sexual [[fetish]]es, the large number of [[furry fandom]]-related sites that have been listed on POE, along with the often harsh comments passed upon said sites in POE's forums, have caused it to be branded by some as an [[anti-furry]] site.

==The Prime Directive==
Contrary to popular belief, the great majority of PoE members do ''not'' organize attacks on the websites that are listed on PoE. Rule #1 of the [http://www.portalofevil.com/forumrules.html PoE forum rules], also known as the ''Prime Directive'' (or PD for short), states: "''Do not contact the site listed. Do not email the site owner. Do not post in their guestbooks. Do not post in their forums. If the site owners want to interact with visitors from PoE they can come to these forums.''" In other words, PoE members are to keep their criticisms of the site to the PoE forums, even if the site owners post to PoE of their own accord.

Occasionally, casual visitors to PoE will react to featured sites in a way that violates the Prime Directive, e.g. by privately contacting the site's owner, posting rude messages on the site's guestbook, or otherwise causing the owner to alter or even shut down his or her website. Sometimes this is done maliciously by people opposed to PoE, in a deliberate attempt to make the site and its members look bad; such behavior, as mentioned above, is against the forum rules, and people have been banned for this.

==Furry Posters on PoE==

Mostly, posters on Portal of Evil don't make direct contact with furries, due to the PD. However, furries often post to Portal of Evil for a variety of reasons, most often to defend either themselves or some aspect of the fandom. Furry webmasters also frequently visit the site, and many furry site forums on PoE have large post counts due to flamewars between furries and PoE regulars. The [[2]] forums are a good example.

A few regulars, however, are themselves furries. A few try to conceal the fact, for fear of ridicule from their fellow posters, while others manage to gain a large post count while still openly admitting their furriness. The reaction from the other forum posters tends to depend on the attitude the furry takes toward PoE.

A few notable furry PoE regulars include [[Wheelie McJesus]], a furry who many at PoE regarded as a "good" furry; [[MyTanookiSuitHasBalls]], a furry troll who has been banned from PoE multiple times; [[painterfox]], a [[babyfur]] who occasionally lurks and shared the same college with [[crossaffliction]], a [[Christian furry]] whose user forum was at one time the most posted to on PoE.

==See also==
*[[Something Awful]]
*[[Monolithic antifurry conspiracy]]
*[[Anti-furries]]
*[[atrocity tourism]]

==External links==
*[http://www.portalofevil.com Portal of Evil]
*[http://www.poetv.com POEtv]

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Reynard the Fox

2006-06-23T21:22:31Z

Crucifox: spelling

'''Reynard''' the [[Red Fox]] was a trickster character in a series of beast epics known as ''Le Roman de Renart'', which date from around 1175.

== History ==

The ''Le Roman de Renart'', or ''Romance of Reynard'' began as a series of Old French poems by a varied assortment of authors, usually anonymous. The stories can be traced to a number of older texts, most notably ''Ysengrimus'', which were the direct inspiration for the first stories.

The stories are among the little political satire from the Middle ages that still survives. The various animals were represented as various members of the aristocrasy and the clergy. [[Human]] characters were often peasants.

== The character ==

Since the Reynard stories were not written by one person, and various parts of the stories were written without any collaboration, the character of Reynard shifts from a [[Robin Hood]] type hero to a villainous rogue, and anything in between.

However, there are a few similarities between all versions. Reynard is a noble in the animal court, and he lives in a structure sometimes referred to as a den, and sometimes as a castle known as Malperdy with his wife, Hermeline, and his three sons, who are known by various names in different episodes. He is a trickster, first and foremost, and his relationship with his uncle, Isengrim the [[wolf]], is at the core of the story. Though once partners in crime, they have since become bitter rivals when Reynard repeatedly fooled the less savvy Isengrim.
[[Image:ReynardCover.JPG|thumb|right|Front cover of ''The Story of Reynard'' by Maurice Genevoix (translated from the French by Margaret Crosland), as published in 1959 by Hamish Hamilton.]]
== The story ==

Once again, since the story was written by many different authors, there is no complete storyline to the beast epics, but only episodes. The only thing binding the different stories is character of Reynard and eight syllable rhyming couplets in which the stories were told. However, there were some attempts to put the Reynard stories together, and attempts were made at a beginning and an ending.

The beginning of the story is usually a meeting of the animal court. Various animals accuse Reynard of crimes, though most vocal are Isengrim the [[wolf]] and Chanticleer the rooster. These two charge Reynard with adultery and murder, and it is decided that Reynard is to be hanged.

Various animals are sent to collect Reynard, but only Grimbert the [[badger]], Reynard's nephew, is able to convince Reynard to defend himself at court while avoiding one of Reynard's tricks. Reynard appears at court, and is able to trick king Noble the [[lion]] into letting him go.

Eventually, Reynard murders a [[rabbit]], forcing Grimbert to summon his uncle to court yet again. Reynard once again tricks the king, but this time, Isengrim is challenges him to duel. Reynard is able to win the duel through trickery, and is given a high status in the court. Eventually, Isengrim is able to challenge Reynard once again, this time to a game of chess. Reynard, overconfident and drunk, looses the game, as well as a bet giving Isengrim claim to any part of his body that Isengrim chooses.

Isengrim wounds Reynard after this loss, and Reynard is thought dead. His funeral is held, and his old enemies come and eulogize their enemy. Reynard revives, however, only to be attacked by Chanticleer, who seems to kill him in a nearby river. In fact, Reynard only pretends to be dead, returning to his wife and children at Malperdy while everyone thinks him dead, inspiring the most quoted line in the epic, usually translated as "Yet Reynard still lives on."

== Trivia ==

The French word for [[fox]], ''[[renard]]'', is derived from the stories of Reynard. Originally, the French word for [[fox]] was "goupil."

The character of Tybalt from Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" is named after a [[cat]] from the Reynard stories. The character of Mercutio taunts Tybalt with this fact, as the hot-headed Tybalt is very different from the cowardly [[cat]].

The "Nun's Priest's Tale" from the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer uses a variant of a Reynard story.

The film "Van den vos Reynaerde" was completed in 1943 by Dutch animators, and it was meant as a sequel to the Reynard stories. However, it has not survived today as it was Nazi Anti-Semitic propaganda, and it was deemed flawed, as a fox "good guy" was deemed unbelievable. (Ironically, this was one of the few times Reynard had been shown as an out and out hero.)

The [[Digimon]] [[Wikipedia:Renamon|Renamon]]'s name derives from Reynard.

== References ==

* [[Wikipedia:Reynard|Reynard]] at Wikipedia

* [http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.7/articles/barten1.7.html Reynard the Fox and the Jew Animal] - article on the film "Van den vos Reynaerde."

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Reynard the Fox

2006-05-04T22:11:27Z

Crucifox: minor, forgot to login

'''Reynard''' the [[fox]] was a trickster character in a series of beast epics known as ''Le Roman de Renart'' dating from around 1175.

== History ==

The ''Le Roman de Renart'', or ''Romance of Reynard'' began as a series of Old French poems by a varied assortment of authors, usually anonymous. The stories can be traced to a number of older texts, most notably ''Ysengrimus'', which were the direct inspiration for the first stories.

The stories are among the little political satire from the Middle ages that still survives. The various animals were represented as various members of the aristocrasy and the clergy. [[Human]] characters were often peasants.

== The Character ==

Since the Reynard stories were not written by one man, and various parts of the stories were written without any collusion, the character of Reynard shifts between a [[Robin Hood]] type hero to a villainous rogue, and anything in between.

However, there are a few similarities between all versions. Reynard is a noble in the animal court, and he lives in a structure sometimes referred to as a den, and sometimes as a castle known as Malperdy with his wife, Hermeline, and his three sons, who are known by various names in different episodes. He is a trickster, first and foremost, and his relationship with his uncle, Isengrim the [[wolf]], is at the core of the story. Though once partners in crime, they have since become bitter rivals when Reynard repeatedly fooled the less savvy Isengrim.

== The Story ==

Once again, since the story was written by many different authors, there is no complete storyline to the beast epics, but only episodes. The only thing binding the different stories were the character of Reynard and eight syllable rhyming couplets that the stories were told in. However, there were some attempts to put the Reynard stories together, and attempts were made at a beginning and an ending.

The beginning of the story is usually a meeting of the animal court. Various animals accuse Reynard of crimes, though most vocal are Isengrim the [[wolf]] and Chanticleer the rooster. These two charge Reynard with adultery and murder, and it is decided that Reynard is to be hanged.

Various animals are sent to collect Reynard, but only Grimbert the [[badger]], Reynard's nephew, is able to convince Reynard to defend himself at court while avoiding one of Reynard's tricks. Reynard appears at court, and is able to trick king Noble the [[lion]] into letting him go.

Eventually, Reynard murders a [[rabbit]], forcing Grimbert to summon his uncle to court yet again. Reynard once again tricks the king, but this time, Isengrim is challenges him to duel. Reynard is able to win the duel through trickery, and is given a high status in the court. Eventually, Isengrim is able to challenge Reynard once again, this time to a game of chess. Reynard, overconfident and drunk, looses the game, as well as a bet giving Isengrim claim to any part of his body that Isengrim chooses.

Isengrim wounds Reynard after this loss, and Reynard is thought dead. His funeral is held, and his old enemies come and eulogize their enemy. Reynard revives, however, only to be attacked by Chanticleer, who seems to kill him in a nearby river. In fact, Reynard only pretends to be dead, returning to his wife and children at Malperdy while everyone thinks him dead, inspiring the most quoted line in the epic, usually translated as "Yet Reynard still lives on."

== Trivia ==

The French word for [[fox]], [[renard]], is derived from the stories of Reynard. Originally, the French word for [[fox]] was "goupil."

The character of Tybalt from Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" is named after a [[cat]] from the Reynard stories. The character of Mercutio taunts Tybalt with this fact, as the hot-headed Tybalt is very different from the cowardly [[cat]].

The "Nun's Priest's Tale" from the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer uses a variant of a Reynard story.

The film "Van den vos Reynaerde" was completed in 1943 by Dutch animators, and it was meant as a sequel to the Reynard stories. However, it has not survived today as it was Nazi Anti-Semitic propaganda, and it was deemed flawed, as a fox "good guy" was deemed unbelievable. (Ironically, this was one of the few times Reynard had been shown as an out and out hero.)

The [[Digimon]] Renamon's name derives from Reynard.

== References ==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynard Reynard at Wikipedia]

[http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.7/articles/barten1.7.html Reynard the Fox and the Jew Animal]-article on film "Van den vos Reynaerde."

[[Category: Fox characters]]

Reynard the Fox

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Skaven (species)

2006-05-01T00:32:33Z

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The '''Skaven''' are a subterranean anthropomorphic [[rat]] race found in the popular table-top battle game, Warhammer.

== Skaven in the Warhammer World ==

The '''Skaven''' in the fictional world of Warhammer are found underneath all regions, though they were driven out of certain regions, especially the Southern continent of Lutria. In their underground lairs, they are described as a teeming horde, well capable of conquering the world above if they would ever stop fighting each other. To take over the world is the '''Skaven's''' ultimate goal. This is commanded by the Grey Seers, magicians who serve as prophets for the deity known as the Horned Rat.

Power is split between the Grey Seers and the rulers of the Warlord Clans, who vie for power among themselves. Clans are constantly at war with each other, fighting for slaves, territory and power in general. The strongest Warlords can become Lords of Decay, and sit on the Council of Thirteen, a group that rules the '''Skaven'''. The Council of Thirteen includes the eleven most powerful Warlords, as well as the most powerful Grey Seer. The thirteenth seat is symbolically saved for the Horned Rat itself. The four most powerful of the Warlord Clans also contribute specialist troops to the other clans. Clan Pestilens is adept at spreading disease, Eshin excels at producing assassins, Moulder creates giant monsters, and Skyre builds bizarre war machines.

Though the '''Skaven's''' exact creation in the Warhammer world has not been told, they are generally known to have been formed when rats or [[humans]], or a combination, came in contact with Warpstone, a form of Chaos, a malevolent force in the Warhammer world. Though generally considered villains, the '''Skaven''' have been known to work on the side of right, if it serves their purpose.

== Skaven in the Warhammer Game ==

The '''Skaven''' are generally considered a swarm or horde army. The troops generally have weak stat lines, but low point costs. The army also allows players to use more cowardly or underhanded tactics, such as allowing characters to lead from the back or shooting into their own ranks. The first rule of commanding a '''Skaven''' army is that all members of the army are expendable.

'''Skaven''' armies are also well known for requiring a lot of luck with dice to do well. The army list's spell miscasts and war machine misfires are notoriously unforgiving. Whereas other armies usually roll to see whether or not they can cast or fire again, the '''Skaven''' commander often finds himself rolling to find out how many troops the misroll will cost him.

[[Category: Rat characters]]

Talk:Crossaffliction

2006-04-26T14:32:45Z

Crucifox:

Hey, I am crossaffliction, or was, I guess you'd say, so I thought I'd make this page. (Kind of feels weird to write my own article, though. Is that okay?) I also created a page for TanookiSuit, updated some (now) incorrect things on the PoE article, and I'd make a page for painterfox, but I know he doesn't want one, so I won't.

I think I'll register after this.

:Hi there! Thank you for taking the time to write this article. As for writing your own page, that's just fine - unlike Wikipedia, [[WikiFur:What WikiFur is#WikiFur is about furries and the furry fandom|WikiFur has no problem with vanity pages]]. We hope that you will indeed register and continue to help us out!----[[User:DuncanDaHusky|DuncanDaHusky]]([[User talk:DuncanDaHusky|talk]]) 14:25, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

I registered, obviously.

I'll try and work on some non-PoE pages, now.

MyTanookiSuitHasBalls

2006-04-26T14:26:02Z

Crucifox:

A poster on [[Portal of Evil]] claiming to be a furry. There is some debate on PoE as to whether or not the poster really is a furry, or just a [[troll]] pretending to be one.

MyTanookiSuitHasBalls has been banned from PoE and PoE-News on numerous occasions, but has always returned with various new screen names. Some of these include, but are not limited to, MyTanookiSuitIsBack, HornyToad and NarutoIsADishBestServedCold.

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