I\'m just curious, but how is it that all Yoshis can lay eggs if some are MALE!?:conf: have any of you ever thought of that?

How I came about this thought: (pick one)
A: I have WAAAAY too much free time on my hands,
B: I\'ve been watching too many flash movies with Yoshis in them,
or
C: This is just another one of my World Famous Brainstorms about random bullsh**!

Oh and this forum is also about just talking about Yoshi and stuff that\'s Yoshi-related \'k?

[Edited on 11/22/04 by Dragon Man]

I heard that a platapus is both male and female:sick: maybe Yoshi is the same, he\'s sooo cute

Male seahorses give birth, it\'s possible Yoshi ones do, too. Or maybe they\'re ambi-gendered. if that\'s a word, or proper use of a nonexistent prefix.

actually from what I remember from Super Mario is that Yoshi never has an egg, he has to reascue them, maybe they are a endangered species

He lays eggs with mushrooms in, doesn\'t he? :conf:

Does it actually say anywhere that he is male?

Does it seem hard to believe that Nintendo are strange?

Does it really matter?

Perhaps he IS hermaphroditic (would it be he?) or maybe, seeing as Yoshi lays them after he/she eats.... Maybe they\'re turds!!!:sick:

sorry, but that was my only explanation.
I had another thought (2 actually)

first: In Yoshi\'s island and in Yoshi Story (and other games that I\'m too lazy to mention) The Yoshis THROW the eggs, which then explode! Is that considered and abortion? (Ok now I KNOW I\'m reading WAAAAY too far into this)

second: How are baby Yoshis born pre-equipped (lets call it) with shoes and a saddle? I know for a fact that those shoes can\'t be attached as I do recall maybe an episode or two of the origeonal Mario Bros. anime where Yoshi wasn\'t wearing them.... or was that sonic?

Here\'s a fun fact for ya; DID YOU KNOW!? that in the origeonal Mario Bros. tv show, that Yoshi was Aquaphobic?(afraid of water) well... now you know!

A wizard did it. Yeah. All of it.

Do ANY of the Mario games have physics that make sense? I find that I really don\'t care- that kind of thing is more fun when you don\'t try too hard to make it believable.

-Ri

I understand that, but I can\'t help but be curious.:D

Yeah, I remember the little guy hiding under a table because there was a glass of water on it. I also remember Mario and Luigi laughing (you know, the whole \"all\'s well that ends well so let\'s laugh while the screen fades away and the credits start\" thing)
Yoshi had a little kid voice in that show.... kinda reminds me of a certain little blue bomber we all know and love.:lol:

I think it\'s disturbing that Yoshis throw eggs yet..aren\'t babies supposed to come out?

But yet..I suppose not.. Only eggs that came out of questionmark blocks had babies, and well, the eggs laying around in special stages. But..didn\'t Bowser imprison them? Maybe baby Yoshis don\'t even come from eggs?

Girl Yoshi= Birdo, Pink Yoshi, Bowser.

Case closed.

I may have misunderstood your post Spider but.... Bowser is a girl Yoshi!!!????:lol: I think not!

with all the food Yoshis eat, I wonder what a Yoshi with heart burn would be like......

Dragon Man: Hey Yoshi.... what\'s wrong?
Yoshi: *Burp* Ohhhhh.... hi Dragon Man, I have some serious heart burn! *belches fire*
Dragon Man: Watch it! You almost set me on fire! (not that it\'d matter seeing as I am a dragon!)

Yes! A girl! Hahaha! I\'m crazy!!

[Edited on 4-3-2006 by Spider777]

Bowser is a male, and a Koopa at that. >>

Stop acting like you\'re so 1337.

Back on topic: If and when I become a geme designer, I\'m gonna put Yoshi in one of my games somewhere as an easter egg. That and the X-Play studio.:D

I recently saw an article covering parts of this topic, and here\'s what I\'ve found (to be b.s.)

Yoshi is commonly thought of as genderless by folks in Japan, however, Nintendo never really stated such! Personally I think that there\'s too much egg-laying going on for them to be \"genderless\" I say they\'re calling it that so kids won\'t become curious of the \"birdos and beezorz\" (oh ho ho!)

I also found an interesting little fact on that same site; Birdo was origionally thought of as a GUY WITH GENDER ISSUES!!!:sick: No seriously! Birdo was intended to be a cross-dresser, but eventually Nintendo deemed it too controversal and just made \"he\" into a \"she\"!
Those who\'ve played Dynasty Warriors will get this: Zhang He has got nothin\' on Birdo!:lol:

That\'s just creepy.

Question is; How could they even pass her off as a guy?... SHE\'S PINK AND WEARS A BOW!

But then again, Zhang He has been known to wear butterfly wings and a tiara, (sp?) so I guess I shouldn\'t judge.

Birdo was never a hermaphrodite, transgendered, a crossdresser, or anything like that.

In the NON CANONICAL US Super Mario 2 manual, there is a small blurb about Birdo thinking he is a she.

For one, Birdo\'s true name is Catherine. Does that sound male to you? Doesn\'t to me. :o

Possibly both Birdo and Yoshi don\'t have a gender, though.

Oh really? Than what\'s this?

[quote]Gender and name confusion

Although later Nintendo mythology classifies Birdo as female, the first edition game manual describes Birdo as follows: \"He thinks he is a girl and he spits eggs from his mouth. He\'d rather be called \'Birdetta.\'\" Birdo certainly acts effeminately in any given Mario game appearance, always being flirtatious and blowing kisses. Based on this description, it is arguable that Birdo is the first transgendered video game character. However, it must be noted Nintendo ceased referring to Birdo as a male since Super Mario All-Stars, retconning the idea that Birdo has gender confusion issues. Furthermore, this ambiguity does not exist in Japan, since Birdo is known there as \"Catherine\" and purportedly enjoys being called \"Cathy\".

It may be that Birdo is asexual but identifies with the female gender of a culture; whether or not this counts as \"transgendered\" would depend on one\'s views on Birdo\'s reproduction and whether asexual would count as male, female, or a \"third gender\" when considering transgender issues. Notably, Birdo\'s eggs have never hatched into any new Birdos in any of her in-game appearances. Similar issues exist with Yoshi. The gender-confusion that Yoshi and Birdo share seems especially strange when considering that Nintendo seems keen on pairing the two — as tennis partners or Mario Kart racing buddies, for example. It is more likely that Nintendo simply retconned her transgenderism out of existence. As seen in Mario Power Tennis, Mario Superstar Baseball, and Super Mario Strikers, there are Birdoes in the crowd, but also a playable character (excluding Power Tennis).

Confusion has also arisen over Birdo because the Super Mario Bros. 2 end credits erroneously switched the images for Birdo and Ostro, an ostrich that playable characters can ride. [1] Since then, many have confused the two to the point of calling the actual species \"Ostro,\" and believing that the \'main pink one\' was individually named \"Birdo.\" Super Mario Advance, a game which contains a remake of Super Mario Bros. 2, does not repeat this mistake.[/quote] Need I say more?