I can see you all coming "his name is Petey, a guy´s name, so he´s a guy".
I´m asking this question to see if we can have a talk about that huge plant. Let me explain.
To my eyes, Petey has always been female. And this theory is suppoted by some languages. For example, in japan it´s called Boss Pakun which would mean boss flower or something similar. However, because Japanese as well as other languages, tend to genderify nouns, flower being a female name, makes it ... well, female. This does NOT happen in english, a language that does not genderify names.
Still doubting, I played Mario Power Tennis among other games yesterday, and decided to switch languages:
-In French, Petey is called Flora Piranha (the "flora" meaning flower, again, a female noun, as in romanic languages like French or Spanish, nouns which end in "a" are usually female).
-In Spanish (my own language as I´m from Spain), it´s called Floro Piranha. Again, Floro comes from the noun flor, which in spanish, is a female noun despite not ending in "a" (flor ends in "r", it´s an irregular case).
-In German it´s called Mutant Tyranha. The name sucks, I know, but still, the games and manuals describe it as female.
-Italian would be the only exception, in which it´s called Pipino Piranha, the Italian equivalent for Petey.
The fact that the original source, in this case, the japanese versions, put Petey as female, would make it female in my opinion, but I understand that the version most widely played around the world is the english one as a lot of countries are either not localized or do not have their own language in the game (for example, Argentina, Mexico and some other American countires that speak spanish, have to play the games in ENGLISH because for some reason NOA doesn´t seem to count them).
But, aside from all the localization and language controversial, the first time I saw that huge piranha plant, I saw it as female: come to think about it... the petals are usually asociated with feminity (although some people do see them as a crown, but then again, the word gender in my language may be a reason to see them as a female atribute and not as a "crown" made of petals). Petey´s diaper... to me, the first time I saw it, it looked sorta like women´s underwear or a swimsuit (I´m not mentally perverted, it´s just that it looked like that to me). And the way it laughs and growls, despite being a huge plant monster, it still sounds like more feminine than for example, Bowser´s growls and roars.
In my eyes, Floro Piranha, I mean... Petey, has always been female. But then, the internet came and slapped me in the face lol.
So, what do you think? I do not mean to start an argument, just sharing an opinion for the sake of curiosity.
I´m asking this question to see if we can have a talk about that huge plant. Let me explain.
To my eyes, Petey has always been female. And this theory is suppoted by some languages. For example, in japan it´s called Boss Pakun which would mean boss flower or something similar. However, because Japanese as well as other languages, tend to genderify nouns, flower being a female name, makes it ... well, female. This does NOT happen in english, a language that does not genderify names.
Still doubting, I played Mario Power Tennis among other games yesterday, and decided to switch languages:
-In French, Petey is called Flora Piranha (the "flora" meaning flower, again, a female noun, as in romanic languages like French or Spanish, nouns which end in "a" are usually female).
-In Spanish (my own language as I´m from Spain), it´s called Floro Piranha. Again, Floro comes from the noun flor, which in spanish, is a female noun despite not ending in "a" (flor ends in "r", it´s an irregular case).
-In German it´s called Mutant Tyranha. The name sucks, I know, but still, the games and manuals describe it as female.
-Italian would be the only exception, in which it´s called Pipino Piranha, the Italian equivalent for Petey.
The fact that the original source, in this case, the japanese versions, put Petey as female, would make it female in my opinion, but I understand that the version most widely played around the world is the english one as a lot of countries are either not localized or do not have their own language in the game (for example, Argentina, Mexico and some other American countires that speak spanish, have to play the games in ENGLISH because for some reason NOA doesn´t seem to count them).
But, aside from all the localization and language controversial, the first time I saw that huge piranha plant, I saw it as female: come to think about it... the petals are usually asociated with feminity (although some people do see them as a crown, but then again, the word gender in my language may be a reason to see them as a female atribute and not as a "crown" made of petals). Petey´s diaper... to me, the first time I saw it, it looked sorta like women´s underwear or a swimsuit (I´m not mentally perverted, it´s just that it looked like that to me). And the way it laughs and growls, despite being a huge plant monster, it still sounds like more feminine than for example, Bowser´s growls and roars.
In my eyes, Floro Piranha, I mean... Petey, has always been female. But then, the internet came and slapped me in the face lol.
So, what do you think? I do not mean to start an argument, just sharing an opinion for the sake of curiosity.
, I think most plants are usually both male and female, probably it's the same thing with Petey Piranha, it's a system of male and female parts working together probably.
![:-\](/custom/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")