SilverLum wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 5:12 pm
I believe people often mistake Globox for being a glute due to some lines in Rayman 3 that may or may not refer to him as such (Globox’s catchphrase “Gaseous Glute” and the hostess calling for the “glute” to report to the welcome desk), but it is canonically the name of the bird! I believe this was just a misunderstanding by the team. Globox is simply…a Globox
Yes, I've come to the conclusion that it's a misunderstanding on the part of the English translators, which was then propagated to most anglophone players, and from there to Wikipedia, and then through a process of citogenesis it ended up in the book!
It's not the only piece of content that was mistakenly included: on the page about Rayman Designer, there's a screenshot from one of my YouTube videos that shows a really hacked version of the game!
It's funny, for several years, the "Globox's species debate" basically consisted of people who played the French version saying "how could you possibly think he's a Glute?" and people who played the English version saying "how could you possibly not?". It's only when people started playing both versions that the problem became apparent