Jan 9
I thought change Ratigator’s eye color into yellow because it look better when it’s yellow eye more than blue kind of.
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I thought change Ratigator’s eye color into yellow because it look better when it’s yellow eye more than blue kind of.
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Ratapoper in 3D
First time trying to make and finish a 3D model on Blender, decided to go with lowpoly cause i love those ! For PopTevin
Name: Ratigator
Debut: The Super Mario Mario Bros. Super Show!
When you think of rats, one can only think of one place- the rat capital of the world, New York City, baby! Yes, the Big Apple’s untamed sewers are home to a large amount of undiscovered fauna, including (but not limited to) rats, alligators, and perhaps a strange, mutated combination of both! Hence, Ratigator. He’s the pet (?) of Mario & Luigi in the live-action segments of the Super Show, though his presence is never really explained. Does it need to be? Like I said, anything can happen in New York!
We’re first introduced to the Ratigator in the episode “Alligator Dundee”, where the distressed Ratigator claims to be being chased by a scary monster in the sewers- enter the titular Alligator Dundee, a parody of the film Crocodile Dundee (I guess!), played by Paul Elder with a not-particularly convincing Australian accent. He’s after a mysterious sewer beast, and he needs the brothers’ help!
As you can imagine, plenty hijinks ensue, and after Mario & Luigi trap Alligator Dundee in a net, they clear up the misunderstanding and explain that Ratigator was their pet all along. Dundee gives up on hunting the creature and decides to enter the movie industry, marry a beautiful American woman, and change his name to Ratigator Dundee! And so they all have a good laugh about it, and pet the Ratigator. Alls well that ends well!
But that’s not the last we see of Ratigator! You really think they’d make a puppet like this only to use it in one episode?
Yup, here’s Ratigator again in an episode called “Mario Hilbillies”, which features Mario & Luigi’s hillbilly cousins, Mario Joe and Luigi Bob! Oddly enough, they look exactly the same as Lou Albano and Danny Wells, and never appear in the same room as the regular Mario brothers- crazy, huh? I wonder what that could mean! And then there’s this lady named Ellie Mae, who pets the Ratigator in this picture, and apparently she’s supposed to be a reference to a character named Elly May from a sitcom called The Beverly Hilbillies? This show has so many weirdly specific 80s references, I just can’t keep up! I wasn’t alive in the 80s!
As a side-note, this episode also confirms the existence of a furry Rat Fish! Could that be what Ratigator eats? Either way, I’m sure most New Yorkans in the audience have seen one before, right?
Here’s Ratigator once more in “Baby Mario Love”, carrying a leash and asking Mario to take him for ‘a crawl’. See, he’s like a dog! Just like every cartoon animal! Mario refuses because he’d already been for a crawl earlier that day. This scene also features Luigi saying “Hey, watch your language, there are reptiles present!”. Which if anything, confirms that Ratigator is a reptile? Do with that information what you will!
Now get this! Mario isn’t the only one in this show to have a live-action, hybrid rat as a pet! Thanks to King Koopa’s Kool Kartoons, we know that King Koopa has a pet rat-dog(?) named Ratso! We don’t really know if he’s part canine, but in the show’s intro he’s played by a dog in a costume, which is just adorable! I love when they get dogs to do things like this, like how Xenomorphs were almost played by dressed-up Whippets, but you can still tell it’s a dog with doggy movements!
In the show itself though, Ratso is played by a puppet in front of a curtain, who awards prizes to a few lucky people in the audience! I sure wish I could find a better picture of him, but Koopa’s Kool Kartoons is a cryptid of a show that’s barely available online, and certainly not in good quality! So until then, we’ll just have to pray the original Ratso puppet is lying in a studio somewhere, waiting to be discovered...
So there you have it! A comprehensive guide to anything you’d need to know about rats related to the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Uhm, now I forgot why I made this post. Oh yeah- have a ratty new year, everyone! Be sure to welcome in the Lunar New Year with your favourite rats. And if you’re lacking in rats, then just know that New York City will always be there for you! Badda boom!
Ratigator derserves more love ⭐️