• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    > Hairy

    > Small

    > Uses bones as weapons

    Yeah, whoever called it the wolverine frog did an excellent job

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      I’m pretty sure its the other way around: this frog would have been the inspiration for the character.

      animals often are. especially unusual ones.

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          a combo. Pretty sure wolverines don’t break their own bones to grow knuckles

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            Well the comic character also doesn’t do that, so that kinda is my point actually. Maybe we can compromise on Wolverfrog.

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              …i can see someone didnt even bother to look at the diagrams or read any deeper about this frog

              frog has been around well before the character

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                I can see someone entirely missed the point of the exchange, but still possesses the irrational need to appear correct in insubstantial discussion. What else are you noticing?

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                  i dont believe in your fantasy that wolverine invented the claw coming out of the knuckles and some random frog just watched marvel and thought woopie ill try that.

                  the intellect in these forums is dismal.

                  I’ve never been more complimented by a downvote by a group of trolling idiots. certainly makes it easier which bad actors to block.

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                    The character does not break his bones to weaponize them, and the frog had no role in naming itself. Other people did that, just like other people in this thread pointed out the wolverine part of this species name came much later on and was clearly inspired by popular culture. This bit you’re doing of being absurdly, intentionally incorrect and then gaslighting everyone around you to get negative engagement is like a toddler smearing their shit on the tablecloth to get a reaction; It is tiresome. This is where we stop talking.

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          frog has been around well before the comic book character.

          the character trait idea could have come from the frog. authors do this all the time

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              i think youre replying to the wrong post. as this is exactly what im trying to dispell.

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                    Lmao.

                    For anyone who actually cares, Wolverine the comic book character was first written in 1974. This frog was first discovered in the early 1900s, but it’s skin-piecing bone claw mechanism wasn’t discovered until 2008. It’s nickname of “wolverine frog” is 100%, definitively, objectively, named after the comic book character, and not the other way around.

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            Well yeah, the frog has been around. The name Wolverine frog is more recent than that though. More frequently it’s called a hairy frog.

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              correct. its features of the knuckles were taken for the character. there seems to be some confusion for people to understand a character is newer than the frog and the wolverine name is newer

              not sure what it is you’re disagreeing with here.