1. Hot!
2. VERY hot!
3. Cool idea.
4. FINALLY! Someone else who remembers that the members of the Star Fox team had their lower legs amputated to compensate for the gravitational forces inside the Arwings.

Corrupt said:
1. Hot!
2. VERY hot!
3. Cool idea.
4. FINALLY! Someone else who remembers that the members of the Star Fox team had their lower legs amputated to compensate for the gravitational forces inside the Arwings.

W-Wait... what? Where does it say this? I thought those were just boots they all wore to better pilot their arwings.

Bias said:
W-Wait... what? Where does it say this? I thought those were just boots they all wore to better pilot their arwings.

In the Starfox Manuel for the SNES game I believe.

Well they show their legs on the cover on the game. Interesting that they bothered added a little bit of realism to the game. They didn't half-ass it.

Sei said:
In the Starfox Manuel for the SNES game I believe.

Exactly. The high speed and 'barrel rolls' would mess with the blood pressure something fierce. So, to compensate for that, they voluntarily had their lower legs amputated and replaced with cybernetics. Hence why the old cover art for the SNES game, the leggs looked so...robotic.

Corrupt said:
Exactly. The high speed and 'barrel rolls' would mess with the blood pressure something fierce. So, to compensate for that, they voluntarily had their lower legs amputated and replaced with cybernetics. Hence why the old cover art for the SNES game, the leggs looked so...robotic.

I remember when that game came out, I remember the hours I spent playing, I remember when I finally discovered the hidden levels and that stupid endless one with the slot machine boss that didn't end until you got 777... Damn I'm old ._.

i just like fox's collar

Corrupt said:
1. Hot!
2. VERY hot!
3. Cool idea.
4. FINALLY! Someone else who remembers that the members of the Star Fox team had their lower legs amputated to compensate for the gravitational forces inside the Arwings.

I have a strong urge to put "amputee" on every starfox picture now.

I'm pretty sure the amputee piece was considered non-canon afterwards. But hey, I like the idea of making Krystal chop her legs off to join the team!

Damnit! Star Fox SNES was retconned! Star Fox team gets to keep its legs because amputating them doesn't help to keep the blood in the brain, though it does make it pool in the ass more than the legs. G-Diffusion is the hand-wave we use to justify arcade-style gameplay.

This is such a good idea! I've never understood how avians give oral.

Tsukiko said:
I'm pretty sure the amputee piece was considered non-canon afterwards. But hey, I like the idea of making Krystal chop her legs off to join the team!

You and me both, man, you and me both.

PhilosophicalMind said:
Damnit! Star Fox SNES was retconned! Star Fox team gets to keep its legs because amputating them doesn't help to keep the blood in the brain, though it does make it pool in the ass more than the legs. G-Diffusion is the hand-wave we use to justify arcade-style gameplay.

Isn't the G-diffuser the Arwing's reactor system?

Fara_Phoenix said:
Isn't the G-diffuser the Arwing's reactor system?

Yes, it is the reactor system that powers everything! The engines, the shields, and the anti-gravity fields of the cockpit. Bionic legs or not, I'd like to see if you'd enjoy watching all of Fox's insides spill out of a hernia caused by the G-forces associated with attempting an immelmann at an Arwing's cruising speed if he did not have it.

Headcanon says between the Lylat War and the Aparoid Invasion either fighter inertia dampers were improved or Fox got himself implants.

Fara_Phoenix said:
Headcanon says between the Lylat War and the Aparoid Invasion either fighter inertia dampers were improved or Fox got himself implants.

If it's "headcanon", why should we care? They have new Arwings up against the Aparoids, so the dampers should have been upgraded by then; the legs wouldn't work! Even if you had motors pumping the blood back up, Fox's arteries would burst.

commenters said:
(using logic to explain games, and the universes within them.)

glad to see how much everyone loves wasting their time on pointless arguments XD

Vriska_Serket said:
glad to see how much everyone loves wasting their time on pointless arguments XD

A few seconds of my time explaining why reality makes games and their universes morbidly funny is priceless.

You wasting a few seconds to point out fuck-all is pointless.

PhilosophicalMind said:
If it's "headcanon", why should we care? They have new Arwings up against the Aparoids, so the dampers should have been upgraded by then; the legs wouldn't work! Even if you had motors pumping the blood back up, Fox's arteries would burst.

What makes you think I think you should care?

Like everyone else (as far as I can tell) I'm just putting up my opinion here. Irrespective, I think, of others'.

PhilosophicalMind said:
A few seconds of my time explaining why reality makes games and their universes morbidly funny is priceless.

You wasting a few seconds to point out fuck-all is pointless.

Fara_Phoenix said:
What makes you think I think you should care?

Like everyone else (as far as I can tell) I'm just putting up my opinion here. Irrespective, I think, of others'.

Fara kinda answered for me there, also, wouldn't your response to my response 8e utterly pointless as well? Which makes your comment seem hypocritical.

Finally art wear there not 100 feet tall

They need the same thing for geese and them teeth

Fox's expression is hot as fuck, hnnnngh

Bias said:
W-Wait... what? Where does it say this? I thought those were just boots they all wore to better pilot their arwings.

Death Battle explained it. In order to compensate for the G-Forces of the R-Wings, they had their legs replaced by cybernetics, since the G-force causes blood to gravitate towards the legs. Since they're cybernetic now, they don't rely on blood, so it flows throughout the rest of the body.

Corrupt said:
1. Hot!
2. VERY hot!
3. Cool idea.
4. FINALLY! Someone else who remembers that the members of the Star Fox team had their lower legs amputated to compensate for the gravitational forces inside the Arwings.

I know right?

Corrupt said:
1. Hot!
2. VERY hot!
3. Cool idea.
4. FINALLY! Someone else who remembers that the members of the Star Fox team had their lower legs amputated to compensate for the gravitational forces inside the Arwings.

C.Spicyweener said:
1. Hot!
2. VERY hot!
3. Cool idea.
4. FINALLY! Someone else who remembers that the members of the Star Fox team had their lower legs amputated to compensate for the gravitational forces inside the Arwings.

HAHAHAHA XD Your Avatar is killing me! XD

Retconned by who? Some art where they have nicer looking prosthetics?

No, really, WHERE DOES IT SAY THIS BECAUSE I WILL NOT ACCEPT IT AS TRUTH.

Flammie said:
Retconned by who? Some art where they have nicer looking prosthetics?

No, really, WHERE DOES IT SAY THIS BECAUSE I WILL NOT ACCEPT IT AS TRUTH.

It's never said anywhere. Robot legs has always been a very badly researched and poorly thought out fan theory.

Lol beak sheath. :D

Tufer said:
It's never said anywhere. Robot legs has always been a very badly researched and poorly thought out fan theory.

Have you not seen the SNES cover

Flammie said:
Have you not seen the SNES cover

It's true that the first iteration of Star Fox possessed cybernetic legs. There was a time went the amputation was canon.

The 64 reboot scrapped that idea with the G-Diffuser system, which eliminated much of the G-force stresses of high-speed aerobatics.

The only reason Death Battle included the prosthetic legs is because Death Battle rules state that the combatants must reflect the highest form of a particular character, regardless of canonicty- which is why Death Battles like Batman vs. Captain America utilized info from the movies, cartoons, video games and even source books, not just comics. The fact that Death Battle added in Fox's prosthetic legs does not mean they are canon.

Since everyone's on the subject of the manual, I took the time to find it so you don't have to open a new tab and type for yourselves.

http://www.gamesdatabase.org//Media/SYSTEM/Nintendo_SNES/Manual/formated/Star_Fox_-_1993_-_Nintendo.pdf

Whether they're canon or not, the point is, they just plain look cool. That's why Gami draws them.

just_a_regular_horse said:
Since everyone's on the subject of the manual, I took the time to find it so you don't have to open a new tab and type for yourselves.

http://www.gamesdatabase.org//Media/SYSTEM/Nintendo_SNES/Manual/formated/Star_Fox_-_1993_-_Nintendo.pdf

Yeah, I just read through that, I saw nothing about cybernetic legs or the amputation or the original legs. So not quite sure what that one commenter meant then. And the quick search I did revealed that even Shigeru Miyamoto didn't even intend for that to be the case. That's why in following publication after the first game they made the boots look more realistic.

I was kind of hoping for the cybernetic leg tidbit to be real. That would have put an interesting twist on this but it seems it was never meant to be canon from the start.

And yes I know this is three years late. And to think, I got here because I was curious as to what beak sheaths were.

You gotta love how the discussion on this post is so evenly split between, Are Robot Legs better for pilots? and So Birds can have rubber lips for blow jobs now?

shitsandgiggles said:
You gotta love how the discussion on this post is so evenly split between, Are Robot Legs better for pilots? and So Birds can have rubber lips for blow jobs now?

Yeah, this is a weird place.