Game Theory: Bowser's LOST Child...Yoshi!
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Theorists, I have something to tell you. I may have been WRONG in one of my previous theories. I know, I know! That is SHOCKING, very unexpected news but it merits revisiting a certain green companion. Yoshi. What IS Yoshi? Well, I think I figured out where I went wrong...
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Yoshi’s nor a dragon, dinosaur, or turtle. He’s unpaid labor.
He's Tax evasion
@@justalizard7192 yep exactly
@King Longface didn’t ask 🗿
I mean I need someone to build my PlayStation. He's also easy to tax what the hell will he do he's to exhausted from building my PlayStation 5.
Also a tax evader
Fun fact: in Japanese, the word "dinosaur" (kyoryu) directly translates to "terrifying dragon". In Japanese, dinosaurs are basically called dragons, like how the English call the Komodo Dragon. So maybe it's both in their eyes.
I learn this from one piece.
in japanese a dragon is basically anything big with scales. Snakes are often called dragons there as well.
It's the same for Chinese, "恐龙" (kǒng lóng). 恐 (kǒng) from 恐怖 (kǒng bù) meaning terrifying, scary, and 龙 (lóng) meaning dragon.
@@TGPDrunknHick lol show me your source mate I live in Japan and there’s a clear meaning for ドラゴン
@@thalaso7206 you mean aside from the hundreds of novels, comics and other media exported to the west where obvious snakes are referred to as dragons.
give you a specific instance though. look up Ryuchi Cave from Naruto. probably easy enough to find. not the first or last to do this sort of thing.
Everyone asks "What is Yoshi?", but not "HOW is Yoshi?"
He's burning alive by the way, in eternal pain from Mario's betrayal, thanks for asking.
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Not yoshi:(
But he’s canonically a dinosaur so these theories are not true normally
@@Fan-imator its just a theory its suppose to be not true or proven yet until science or the creator of the game proves it
@@yourlocal-omori well I thought the game creator proved it isnt
Considering there’s a eastern creature literally called the DragonTurtle I’m pretty sure that’s what yoshi was originally meant to be,cause eastern dragons are snake like,with antlers,a mane,and four stubby arms and there’s also a black tortoise which is like a legendary creature there too
Bowser is the dragon turtle
So, kinda like the dragons from Zelda BOTW/TOTK, being Farosh, Naydra, and Dinraal (and also the Light and Demon Dragons)
Correct me if I’m wrong, but since dragons aren’t real and there isn’t an official classification for dragons and it varies from culture to culture, couldn’t dinosaurs be considered dragons?
Yep I also always assumed Dinosaurs and Dragons were the same thing and it seems pretty canon in Mario world. So Yoshi would a Dino-Turtle hybrid.
Since dinosaur basically means giant lizard, I think it's a hamburger-sandwich situation (all dragons are dinosaurs but not all dinosaurs are dragons)
The Kanji for dragon is in the Japanese word for dinosaur, which may indicate that dinosaurs are considered dragons over there.
Well, I personally think that there's a pretty high chance that either dragons were real or something that resembles them was real, so perhaps there were a few dinosaurs left after the extinction event, and early humans called it a dragon.
@@flameofthephoenix8395 I think it's more likely that humans romanticized big lizards (or similar animals like crocodiles) to fill their need for a big scary villain in their heroic tales, just like many tales over-romanticize swords into optimal and holy weapons.
“So are you a dinosaur or dragon or turtle?”
Yoshi: *yes.*
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A Dracoturtosaurus....?
It's like the mangle gender mystery lol
*Yesshi
Yoshi's ability to spit fire(with the right diet.) Might even point to the idea that he is more closely related to the Bowser line.
I always thought Yosh was supposed to be a turtle dragon like the ones from Chinese mythology. A dragon with a turtle shell on it's back.
This is the most outlandish theory he has about Yoshi, yet it somehow makes enough sense and seems plausible. Huge W for MatPat if this theory is proven canon in the future.
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Well if you consider Super Mario world Yoshi's island it does not make sense at all.
The Yoshi's try to save Luigi while caring for Baby Mario from Baby Bowser(not Bowser Jr.) and they are all older then Bowser.
@@blooocki Bowser is just a Koopa who took over the entire nation of Koopas, so it makes sense if Yoshi was a hybrid of Koopa, and whatever Plessie is.
@@CombustableLemon but not that bowser's the dad
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In Denmark, our past civilisation actually referred to dinosaurs and dragons as the same thing. I think they might be just a little closer than one might think.
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Dragons are the explanation we as humans found to what we didn't understand until much later as reptiles, amphybians and dinosaurs
In fact chinese we do the same name, the word for dinosaur is literally “horrific dragon”
I mean I would assume that the closest thing we have to real life dragons would be dinosaurs
@@spino-ace It's the exact same in Japanese too
Sadly we won’t see theory’s like this in 2024 from matpat anymore😢
You are the best!
The 'munchikoopa' in his name doesn't mean that he is a koopa, but that he has the characteristic of eating koopas. Like when a plant has the byname grandiflora and it has big blossoms
Yoshi being a Koopa even works with his final smash in Brawl as rather than gaining dragon like wings, he gets feathered ones like Para-Koopas
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The feather wings also appear in the 1st games, where each of the 4 Yoshi colors had different powers (Blue being wings)
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@@jvbon646 Trueee, but yeah the point still stands :')
@@devonm042690 Don't respond to bots, it gives them more visibility
Given the connection between turtles, dinosaurs, and dragons in the Mario series, it could be that the various species are all of the above. They're dragon-turtle-dinosaurs, with a dominance of 1/2 of these traits compared to the other 1/2 depending on the species.
Plus we already covered/talked about how every color of toad is like it's own sub species. There are AT LEAST, four different colored Yoshie's. Two of which are the same color as Bahamut and Dorie. And then parakoops are yellow. And big koopas like ROY, have a stomping action, which is EXACTLY what yellow yoshie's do!
Wouldn't that make him a Tarasque?
@@tomesofawesome8041 Here's my simple theory, matpat was right about Yoshi being a monolophosaurus but the magic found throughout the Mushroom Kingdom is what gave the dinosaur radical adaptations.
It really makes more sense for dinosaur to evolve into a dragon then anything else.
Both, considering folklore and dinosaur fossils.
Alternatively, he's an animal that, in Mario lore, evolutionarily predates dinosaurs, koopas, and dragons, thus he'd have traits of all three.
Just as an aside, if yoshi is a dinosaur I would propose that he might be some kind of ceratosaurian - maybe a noasaur if I had to get specific - based on not only the back plates (similar to ceratosaurus itself) but also having 4 fingers, which is very uncommon in theropods outside of early groups and ceratosaurians.
Yoshi is literally older than bowser, and everyone else too. He was literally fully grown in the game Yoshi’s Island, where everyone ELSE was a baby.
MAYBE,the Yoshi we see in Yoshi's Island is a DIFFERENT Yoshi. At the end in Yoshi's Island,a new Yoshi was born.
@@Thefnaffan1234 Yeah, maybe, but like that yoshi wasn’t born with bowser, and is not related to him at all.
@Old Sport [DSAF OFFICIAL] It's also confirmed how the modern Yoshi (in the Super Mario mainline games not the Yoshi games) is a YOUNG dinosaur.
@@socks-on-YT Hello there, Old Sport!
@@BedsideTechSupport wait the what dinosaur is he?
Imagine if all MatPat’s theories actually came true? Like, you’re playing a Mario game, and suddenly spot a toad getting possessed by a mushroom?
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Idk if this is true but I heard that BATIM took theories from fans and used it to make the chapters..
Well when he theorizes that mario punches yoshi a few years later it turned true
Mario becomes an FPS game
4:00 I was thinking to myself, "Nintendo stop trying to be as complicated as FNAF", but then he practically said it himself a few seconds after 😂😂😂
That seatbelt speech was impressively inspiring.
I get the feeling that in the Mushroom world, "dinosaur" and "dragon" are simply interchangeable.
What is a dragon if not a magic dinosaur?
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@@AEaston I see what you did there =)
Just like pledge and donated are interchangeable.
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Thank god you didn't get seriously injured. (in the head at least)
i cannot begin to tell you how much i love mario theories
Theory idea: how many dories are there because they show up in multiple kingdoms in smo and there’s no way they could travel as fast as you
I think there's a very obvious solution that hasn't been discussed yet: Yoshi doesn't fit neatly into the Plessie, Dorrie, Bahamut, or Koopa lineages because Yoshi is the common ancestor for them all. Or rather, a species very similar to Yoshis was the common ancestor for them all, and modern Yoshis evolved in a climate that favored remaining similar to their ancestor's form. Granted, this would require knowing when in the Mario timeline each species originated, or some sort of fossil record, but it makes more sense to me than Yoshi somehow being a hybrid of three or more species at once.
Yoshi is old enough to be bowser's father
But what if it was a kirby ;)
@@wisdomwis12o2 Kirby as the common ancestor or as one of the hybrid species? Because I could see a species as highly mutable as Kirby being sufficient as a common ancestor lol
This would also explain Birdo’s species too as being a descendent
great theorying, OP!
To be completely honest, dinosaur and dragons are not really different creatures in Japan.
The Japanese word for dinousaur is Kyōryū, with the latter half Ryū being the word meaning dragon.
Ha I just left a comment wondering how similar the words were cuz I've seen the two used interchangeably in multiple anime. Glad to see I was on to something TY for commenting
interesting :)
@@TheCaptainstupendous Happy to help
Was going to comment this
I was about to say the same thing.
恐竜 (Kyoryu) - Dinosaur
竜 (Ryu) - Dragon
However 竜 is sometimes used interchangeably as both dragon or dinosaur, so I genuinely question how much of the english wordings are a result of translation errors on the part of localisation teams.
wow these videos just keep getting more and more INTERESTING.
Evil Yoshi story line??? I love Yoshi and I love this idea even more!
Wait but since Yoshi was originally meant to "Eat Bowser's minions", if Yoshi is a Koopa, doesn't that mean he's a cannibal?
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Ooh it's more interesting now
Considering the diversity of Koopas, they're likely not one species
Pretty much all characters that can eat others in the Nintendo games were cannibals at some point or another, like Kirby eating Meta Knight
even more terrifying possibility: dragons, dinosaurs, and koopas descended from Yoshi. Yoshi has the least amount of genetic variation (pretty much only color,) so maybe something happened that caused a lot of genetic deviation separating the dinosaurs and the dragons and the koopas having the most deviation are muts?
That's what I was thinking, too!!
Sense he resembles all of them so much, maybe it's the other way around? Some evolutionary thing, that spawned a bunch of deviations!
I'm pretty sure that's happened a lot in nature, too
@@random_dragon yeah just look at dogs or cattle
I'm fully convinced that yoshi reproduce by eating other creatures and combining the dna of the consumed creature with their own, and then they lay out the new creature.
That would only happen if there were a lot of yoshis in the past but split and survived in different environments that would give them their unique main traits.
He’s just the pinnacle of all beings
unreal
he ALWAYS blows my mind
Here's the ultimate cop-out. Yoshi is actually an artificial lifeform with the DNA of dragons, dinosaurs and turtles mixed in. Probably chameleon given his tongue.
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That leaves the question of who made it and why
Or frog
Theory:
Yoshi's father is a dragon and dinossaur hybrid while his mom is a turtle.
Most hybrids are infertile
Must be a pretty complicated family get together.
okay how would that massive Dino-dragon... fit.... in his mother then
His dad is a dragon and his mum is a Koopa troopa
@@ChangeNameEdits in real life, yes. But this is a video game, and this video has proved that they don't usually follow logic.
This video left me with more questions about Yoshi than answers, now instead of just thinking he’s either a dino or a dragon, I think he’s either a koopa or a hybrid of a lot of them combined, I don’t even know which ones for sure
Hear me out Mat- The reason it wasn’t EXACTLY clear which category Yoshi belongs in is….what if it’s because he has his OWN category, and no i don’t mean the “Hybrid Category” like you said, i mean his OWN CATEGORY. Wario and Waluigi make it clear there can be “flipped” versions, so what if Yoshi IS a “flipped” version of someone who i just haven’t figured out yet? What if his category is “flipped” along with Wario and Waluigi? (I’m realizing this probably makes sense…wow- I GATHERED MY BRAINCELLS AGAINNNN WOO HOOOOO)
Fun trivia: In Japanese (and by extension, Chinese) the way you say “dinosaur” is 恐竜 (kyōryū). The second character, 竜, literally means “dragon”. Since the word for dragon entered the Chinese/Japanese lexicon first, dinosaurs are essentially “scary dragons”. Perhaps this is another reason why the translation is a bit more fuzzy.
I was wondering the same thing about what the word for dinosaur was in Japanese so after looking it up and seeing that, what you pointed out, kyōryū loosely translates to “fearful dragon” seems to close that argument for me!
Isn't 龍 the kanji for dragon tho?
Dino-saur (from Greek deinos + saura) literally means "fearsome lizard". I suppose the Japanese word is a rough translation of this. But it's really interesting that they chose to use the word dragon instead of lizard!
@@user-sr7kk6yh4r I don't read or speak Japanese, unfortunately. But if I decifered the wiktionary page for ryū correctly, its just two variants of the same character (kyūjitai vs. shinjitai). The writing you are using seems to be the more traditional, literary-style one.
@@user-sr7kk6yh4r That's one way of writing it, a more traditional way
Nothing will take away the fact that Yoshi is a precious baby that must be loved and protected at all costs.
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Yoshi's a bastard who made for death
the little part you added was soooooo funny
This was my favorite theory that you made
Goodbye matpat
I don’t think a turtle shell really discounts Yoshi from being a dragon. Dragons are really just a mixture of various animals and turtle shells can sometimes be added to the mix. One notable example is the Tarasque from a myth in southern France which is depicted as having Turtle shell.
Never heard about this creature. Thank you for sharing!
there's also the dragon turtle
Wait I thought the Tarasque is just a creature from DnD not from a myth
@@Mendoza-yi6qk most of the fantasy genre is inspired by mythology
@@Mendoza-yi6qk Nope, it a regional myth in France. While it’s called a dragon it has Lion’s head, 6 bear limbs, a serpent tail, and the aforementioned turtle shell. It featured in a myth where the Saint Martha was able to subdue it with prayer and holy water. It supposedly the namesake of the French town Tarascon who gets its name from this myth.
Interesting indirect link: Dinosaurs and Dragons are actually seen as being pretty similar in Japan. Kyoryu, the Japanese word for Dinosaur, uses the word for dragon “Ryu” at the end. Also, in the One Piece manga, all the dinosaur devil fruits are denoted as Ryu-Ryu or Dragon-Dragon fruits.
Exactly what I was going to bring up. Including the way I learned about it.
literally bout to say this
so ryu from street fighter is actually a dragon?
Definitely. In East Asia, it's a common rumor that when our ancestors found dinosaur bones, we made up dragons to fit the narrative of dinosaurs- and it makes sense why dragons look like reptiles.
I think Yoshi’s a dinosaur, and the whole thing is just a play on words. As, you’ve said, the Japanese word for “dinosaur” is “kyoryu”. “Kyo” can mean “giant” (as seen in “kyojin”, “giant person”, like Goliath), “great”, or “fear”. Parenthetically, if you go with the “fear” definition, it’s actually a pretty close translation of the original Latin meaning of “dinosaur”, “terrible lizard”. Anyway, remember the letter that was mentioned in the previous video, the one that Yoshi (in the original Japanese) signed as “Super Dragon Yoshi”? If we’re going with the “giant”/“great” definition of “kyo”, “Super Dragon” (or rather, “supa doragon”, as it’s rendered in katakana) can be seen as a sort of Anglicization of the root words of “kyoryu”, and a play on the Super Mario Brothers themselves.
This is one of my favorite game theory vieoes
Matpat:who you think you are the fnaf series?
Nintendo:yessir
MatPat: Is Yoshi Bowser’s long lost child?
Also MatPat: spends the whole video about what Yoshi probably is and Proceeds not to mention any connection between Bowser and Yoshi whatsoever.
More like they are long lost brothers but he has to clickbait since other titles would not get as much attention.
@@UltraAryan10 they wouldn't be brothers otherwise bowser would be whatever hybrid Yoshi is aswell
@@shadelightss Bowser is a Koopa. If yoshi is a Dino/Turtle mix, he could easily be Bowsers son. Koopas are turtle. Imagine if Bowser mated with Birdo.
@@Yokoblue matpat already mentioned in the video in order to breed hybrids the 2 parents need to be related very closely. I don't think a koopa is mating with birdo, who is also a guy...
@@UltraAryan10 it'd be just as easy to title it something like "yoshi's family secrets" or something. clickbait but, not literal false advertisement.
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Even the "Odd 1s Out(James Rallison)" says so!
(by the way your show is GREAT!) keep it up!
If this were the Star Wars universe, Bowser would be half-Nosaurian/half-Yinchorri. With the carapace explained away as stolen Shell Hutt armor!
I absolutely love the mario world theories. It’s always nostalgic
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I think "Plessie" is more a reference to "Nessie", the Loch Ness monster, rather than a reference to the plesiosaur. Which would somewhat resemble a Nothosaur, according to legend anyway.
it's obvious
nessie is widely believed to be a plesiosaur, so a reference to nessie is a reference to plesiosaurs essentially
Probably both
Yoshi is neither a dragon, nor a dinosaur, nor a turtle, but a secret fourth thing.
Spot the FNAF reference is a great stinking game watching Mat
In a alternate universe:
MatPat: *starts video* “Welcome to GameTheory. Is Yoshi a dragon or a dinosaur? The answer is he is both, thanks for watching.” *ends videos*
would be funny if they had a Shorts channel where they did things like this
Maybe for lesser common questions the viewers have to ask, it would definitely be something.
Now I kinda hope for it.
I was thinking the same. Maybe in this universe, a dragon is a dinosaur and their similar traits to other reptiles are due to convergent evolution
u mean ‘But that’s just a theory, a GAME THEORY thanks for watching’
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The: "Yoshi is evil don't forget" quote makes more sense now
0:33 Hollow voice came in handy lol
Who said being a theater kid doesn't have any banefits
The thumbnail just cracks me up 😂❤
This feels like a concept that would've been covered in 2013
Fr ngl
finally its here, the bots have said
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You are getting beat by bots man
Ikr and I’m here for it
The seat belt thing is amazing see you CAN get saved by a SEATBELT
0:29 got me laughing. 😂😂😂
I had a small theory that Yoshi doesn't die when dropped into a pit but gets transported back into a egg thanks to a curse place on him by Bowser. Immortality is a side effect to the Egg Curse imprisoning him.
Main issue, Yoshi is part of a species called Yoshi, or also known as T-Yoshisaurus Koopamunchus. Its likely the initial one did, in fact, die in that pit. The one we see accompanying him in his Mario Kart/Party/Galaxy/etc games from these past two decades however, maybe excluding some titles, is likely the same one however.
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@@hiddendesire3076 munchakoopas*
MatPat: Mentions Bahamut in a video about Yoshi being a dragon
Also MatPat: Doesn't touch any of the Final Fantasy games where Bahamut is the literal King of the Dragons
He didn’t talk about the battle cats either! I can’t believe it
Bahamut wasn't exactly invented by final fantasy, even as a ruler/king of dragons so I'm not really sure why he would..?
also also matpat: not a word about how, at least in final fantasy 12, dragons and dinosaurs are in the same family.
U know bahamut originates from the name of giant fish in Arabian myth that helps hold up the world right. FF didn’t make bahamut and if it did that’d be like the equivalent of saying Greek mythology was made by the Percy Jackson series
to be fair they don't have the same Japanese name
10:16 about the red thing on his back, in the official super mario texture pack for minecraft: wiiu and switch edition the saddle has been retextured to look lile yoshi's shell/saddle. I don't know if that information can be uaed as evidence.
Dream’s face is the scariest thing on the planet. Scarier then the amount of FNAF theories
Well, seeing as Yoshi is a dinosaur/dragon-looking creature that has a unique ability to extend his tongue to eat just about anything and spit it back out (depending on what it is) AND he can pretty much only say his own name (besides grunting noises when he does that jump/fly thing) I’d say he’s a species of Pokémon that has yet been discovered.
But on yoshi’s island for game boy yoshi also says Nintendo
if we’re going by the Mario movie and pretty sure he’s just a turtle or what they call a turtle at least
Just give your dragonite a water stone
13:19 Fun fact: We actually got really close to having an evil Yoshi in the form of Boshi, a character from Super Mario RPG who is stated as being Yoshi’s rival.
Who shares even more similarities with Bahamut
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I see why you said that Yoshi was Bowser's lost child. Yoshi's name means "adopted child" in Japanese.
I can sweep away the dragon confusion with one idea; Yoshi CALLS himself a dragon
The seatbelt story really showed how one little thing can change someone’s entire future
this theory has been in the works even before this video came out, and i am so exited to finally share it with you.
here is my proposal for you: some koopas got stranded on what will later be know as Yoshi's island. on that island, there wasn't enough meat (i assume that is what koopas eat, they seem very hostile) to go around, so some of the koopas began to stave. in desperation, they tried the fruit that is abundant around the island. it wasn't what their bodies where made for, so they couldn't break down the fruit, and so they had to eat way more fruit to stay alive. but then, a mutation occurred. a koopa whose body could break down plants, a koopa who was an omnivore, meaning they had to eat less to stay alive, meaning they got into less food shenanigans, meaning, they lived longer. and then its kids lived longer, and then their kids lived longer, and eventually that koopa, no, ancient Yoshi, was a common ancestor. other thing evolved too. they no longer needed their hard beaks, so it evolved into a bulbous nose also, their is fruit in tall trees. these trees are to high up to reach. so, some evolved to have longer and sturdier tongues, to reach and pluck the fruit out of the trees. overs evolved to "flutter" up and grab them. and a few grew bigger to just grab it (these would be the ancestors of Dorrie and plessie). however all of them had begun leaning to swim to catch fish. dorrie acquired a taste for fish, and so became all aquatic. plessie remained on land and in the water, while the yoshis remained on their island, eating fruit until a fateful baby falls into their home.
but hey, that's just a theory, a fan theory, thanks for reading.
That’s an amazing theory!
This was a great theory! I hope MatPat sees this and contemplates it.
Having a beak is not a sign of a carnivorous diet. Some turtles in real life have beaks and some are completely herbivorous.
literally so many animals with beaks eat vegetation. Most turtles and tortoises use their beaks to eat plants, and many birds as well use their beaks to eat seeds and nuts.
4:33 the fact that you called nsmb freakin 2006 gave me scary thoughts as a sonic fan
My sister used to take dance classes. One of them was themed on mario related things, and on a Yoshi themed dance with with costumes and little kids, it had said “we are the dinosaurs”. I never questioned the dance.
The real Bowser was killed by Mario and King Boo keeps bringing him back with Edo Tensei to every single Mario game, since the first Luigi’s Mansion game.
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Wrong. Yoshi is a Pokémon. He says his own name, he has magic powers, he is full sized when hatched from eggs, very loyal even after abuse from Mario, has shoes. SHOES. No dragon hatches from an egg with shoes… buuuut some Pokémon hatch with clothes (Though typically the clothes are a part of them).
Oh shoot your right..
Now, what type of Pokemon? Dragon maybe?
Omg senator you're on to something
@@ruthdeckman9781 Not all dragon types are dragons. Take the Tyrantrum line, for example. It’s actually a dinosaur. Alolan Exegutor is a dragon for some stupid reason. Altaria shouldn’t be, it’s a cloud bird thing. Guzzlord isn’t a dragon at all, yet is still a dragon type.
The Dragon typing is just the arcane magic type… unless it actually is a dragon.
@@guts60 ok, thank you. I didn't really get into Pokemon that much.
Just for fun, let's throw another wrench into the workings here.
Has anyone ever noticed how when creatures in Mario games gain wings, they are feathered bird wings and not reptilian wings?
Blue Yoshis or ones who hold a blue shell, Koopa Paratroopas, Goomba Paratroopas, the Wing Cap, Yoshi's Smash move, etc. White feathered wings. To go a step further, the P-Wing and Cape Feather are also bird feathers or wings.
And since modern birds are descended from Pteradons, that would suggest that Yoshis predate the (few) birds seen in Mario games. But why would flight powers be more closely associated to birds in a game that has precious few birds?
Even when we see Yoshis and other reptiles fly, either the flight is limited or the wings are vestigial and don't actually function at all. Indicating that birds evolved to gain true flight as Yoshis, Koopas, and even Bahamut are too heavy to sustain flight.
Yoshis are the Apex Predator species of the Mario Universe, adapting to any and all environments to prey on other creatures, but especially the Koopas. Bowser, for all his might, couldn't put up an effective resistance to these predators. Jumping off of a Yoshi for some extra height and distance is a meme. Sure. But... we never actually see the Yoshi die from it. Even when dropped into lava or a deep ocean, the Yoshi just kind of complains. Like it's an inconvenience more than a fatal decision...
Yoshis can adapt so well to any environment they are in, that even this move isn't really an issue for them. The Koopa clan have to use magick/tech to even begin to come close to that level of versatility.
Much as Bowser and Namek utterly despise Mario, they are often shown to have an even stronger hate, if not fear, of Yoshis. This could very well be cause Yoshis are not only the Apex Predators, but also the common ancestor to most of the other creatures in the Mario Universe.
So in a sense, Yoshis are not actually Dinosaurs, Dragons, Koopas, or Birds. They predated them and gave rise to them. Mario is a thorn in Bowser's plans, but Mario coming to the Mushroom Kingdom was originally an accident. What if Bowser was not only fighting back against Toads but Yoshis as well? What if that is what started his war with the Mushroom Kingdom in the first place? Peach is said to possess incredible magic. Magic seems to be the Koopas only advantage against the creatures that prey on them.
Better hope we never see a Yoshi with a Toad's cap on. That would be... a problem. lol
Yoshi isn’t any of those, he’s a pokémon.
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Doesn’t this prove why yoshi does not go to the castles because he does not want to see Mario kill his family.
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You should take a bunch of characters to try to build a family tree with all the koopas and others
4:02 I find it incredible that MatPat can’t go a single video without mentioning FNAF once…
He’s recovering from fnaf addiction.. leave him alone :(
Hi Mat, great theory!
I'm by no means a Japanese expert, but I remember learning that the Japanese word for dinosaur is 恐竜 which more literally translates to "fear/dread" "dragon" which would explain why some guides may have translated Yoshi's species between both a dinosaur and a dragon. That being said, there still is a ton of dragon symbolism with Yoshi as you expertly laid out here!
Just a fun little detail about the kanji for dinosaur.
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"Dinosaur" is also Latin for "terrible lizard," so the name comes from the same root ideas in both languages.
I love how yoshi is going actively out of his way to get recruited ruin our childhoods.
Theory: Bahamutt is a avian descendant
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Yoshi has Osteoderms.
That's what the "shell" is on his back and explains the red plates running down his back.
Just like Ankylosaurs with an adapted set of Osteoderms that form the club, Yoshi has surface formations that help protect his vulnerable back.
Would develop similarly to a Pachycephalosaurus skull.
Dragons were based on dinosaurs so it makes sense that they'd have similar traits
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The dragons from the Paper Mario series also have Yoshi like features lol
Heres my theory: he got it from a koopa after eating one and thought it look stylish, but he has to sometimes wear the saddle for mario to ride him.
A storyline where Yoshi turns evil?
Come now MatPat, we already know Yoshi is one of the biggest criminals in the Mario Universe.
There was a Pick-your-path Adventure Book based on the Mario series called "Brain Drain" where Yoshi gets brainwashed by Bowser and becomes evil.
He's committing tax fraud left and right!
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Let’s not forget his Tax Evasion streak…
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You should look into “Dragon Turtle” mythology in relation to Yoshi, maybe.
That's a thing??
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I remember years ago, Gaijin Goomba did a video about how Bowser was a cross between the Black Tortoise and Azure Dragon from Chinese mythology.
mat you should do a theory on crash bandicoot next
i feel this so much now, i was just in a car crash yesterday and the seat belt saved my life. always wear yo seat belt
9:10 Ooookay... but WHY would you WANT a monkey eagle? That's nightmare fuel.
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Wow... that makes Yoshi's origins sound like a bonafide conspiracy. That was very entertaining. 😊
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He’s not a dragon dinosaur turtle, he’s dinogonurtle
Yoshi is a dinosaur that has dragon like features when he powers up like mario with the fire flower or penguin suit, Mario isn't a penguin now is he? And that shell could be non genetical since he eats koopas! He could have used their shells as back ornaments like how tribal members use enemy's skulls as decoration, I think Matpat forgot about culture hence "munchakoopas"
I remember as a really young child my brother telling me that Yoshi was bowsers pet turning against him, it's weird to see this.
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I started laughing when I saw spike and this immediately popped into my head:
"When it comes to Yoshi, Boopkins, you ARE the father!"
I don't know why, but it just appeared and I started laughing hysterically.
Fishiy boopkins
Smg4 yes
But that's his official name in Japanese Super Mario 3D World...
From the beginning it sounds like Yoshi mostly calls himself a dragon and others refer to him as a dinosaur mostly. So what if Yoshi just wishes to be a dragon, even if he is a dinosaur and the god of nintendo sometimes calls him a dragon, or gives him a power like a dragon (like in smash) to make him happy.
I know, this is not really a theory and there are many factors against this, but I just thought it was a cute idea. :)
Honestly can't believe Matt said he would never have done TH-cam if he hadn't met Stephanie, and not the fact that their son, Ollie, would never have existed.
For someone with a Japanese translator, im surprised you missed the obvious “dragons and dinosaurs aren’t that dissimilar” language-wise
You would’ve been fine calling him a turtle-dinosaur, and a turtle-dragon
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You know, *ALL* of these theories may be correct. Yoshis reproduce and grow up ridiculously fast (you can't go ten feet without stumbling into a Yoshi egg sometimes) to the point that they're essentially disposable with no regard for their own existence. Canonically, they come in several varieties with different innate abilities. So they probably evolve very quickly. And if they hybridize well, that would mean that they can be Dragon, Dinosaur, and Koopa (and much more), and change in fundamental ways very fast depending on conditions.
No they aren't. Yoshi is old enough to be bowsers father
evolve quickly like Pokémon
I believe sometimes hybrids can still have offspring. It is just very rare. An example is Grolar/Pizzly bears.
Overall hybrids cannot produce fertile offspring but sometimes you have some that can.