I imagine the NOA meeting for localizing Woobat’s name went something like this
Reggie Fils-Aime: “Alright, next we have a new bat Pokemon.”
Random Nintendo employee #1: “Don’t we already have a bat Pokemon line? Have we already forgotten about Zubat?”
Reggie: “No, I think we remember who Zubat is, but I think that’s a good place to start with a name. We’ll move the first letter back in the alphabet until we reach a good one.”
Employee 2: “Yubat?”
Reggie: “What did you call me?”
Employee 2: ” I didn’t call you anything, sir. All I did was suggest we name him Yubat.”
Reggie: “Call me a bat one more time and you’re fired.”
Employee 2: “I’m only pitching the name Yubat.”
Reggie: “Go get your stuff. Your services are no longer needed here. Now back to the Pokemon names”
Employee 3: “What if we called him Xubat. You know, like Zubat, but with an X instead of a Z.”
Reggie: “So we’re two Pokemon the same thing, with a minor spelling difference? We tried that with Seel and Spheal already.”
Employee 3: “Well, I tried.”
Employee 4: “What about Wubat?”
Reggie: “PERFECT! Although we’ll have to spell it with an ‘oo’ instead of a ‘u’ so nobody will suspect a thing. Then we’ll call his evolution Swoobat. It will seem like we never even thought about Zubat in the process.”
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I imagine the NOA meeting for localizing Woobat’s name went something like this
Reggie Fils-Aime: “Alright, next we have a new bat Pokemon.”
Random Nintendo employee #1: “Don’t we already have a bat Pokemon line? Have we already forgotten about Zubat?”
Reggie: “No, I think we remember who Zubat is, but I think that’s a good place to start with a name. We’ll move the first letter back in the alphabet until we reach a good one.”
Employee 2: “Yubat?”
Reggie: “What did you call me?”
Employee 2: ” I didn’t call you anything, sir. All I did was suggest we name him Yubat.”
Reggie: “Call me a bat one more time and you’re fired.”
Employee 2: “I’m only pitching the name Yubat.”
Reggie: “Go get your stuff. Your services are no longer needed here. Now back to the Pokemon names”
Employee 3: “What if we called him Xubat. You know, like Zubat, but with an X instead of a Z.”
Reggie: “So we’re two Pokemon the same thing, with a minor spelling difference? We tried that with Seel and Spheal already.”
Employee 3: “Well, I tried.”
Employee 4: “What about Wubat?”
Reggie: “PERFECT! Although we’ll have to spell it with an ‘oo’ instead of a ‘u’ so nobody will suspect a thing. Then we’ll call his evolution Swoobat. It will seem like we never even thought about Zubat in the process.”
Anonymous
“Call me a bat one more time and you’re fired”
lol
Adam Capriola
hahahaha epic!!
Anonymous
(Speaking as the people at that meeting) They’re on to us.