Game Theory: Bowser's LOST Child...Yoshi!

[@ryuuronin9852]

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.

[@elcalabozodelandroide2]

I learn this from one piece.

[@TGPDrunknHick]

in japanese a dragon is basically anything big with scales. Snakes are often called dragons there as well.

[@toad-on-a-toadstool]

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.

[@thalaso7206]

@@TGPDrunknHick lol show me your source mate I live in Japan and there’s a clear meaning for ドラゴン

[@TGPDrunknHick]

@@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.

[@MacCraeToons1214]

Yoshi’s nor a dragon, dinosaur, or turtle. He’s unpaid labor.

[@Ju5t4l1z4rd]

He's Tax evasion

[@thedraftingax5963]

@@Ju5t4l1z4rd yep exactly

[@elchuloeugene2568]

@King Longface didn’t ask 🗿

[@madmc9529]

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.

[@isaacpaintsemrouboanderline.]

Also a tax evader

[@leaveyetstillthere6261]

“So are you a dinosaur or dragon or turtle?” Yoshi: *yes.*

[@Fazkrueger]

LMA🤣!

[@Omegaroth666]

A Dracoturtosaurus....?

[@monsterwaill]

It's like the mangle gender mystery lol

[@ahirunakamura9592]

*Yesshi

[@yummyTEETHshorts]

So is Mario or Luigi better? Yes

[@TyrantObserver]

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

[@cajunking5987]

Bowser is the dragon turtle

[@asherrudick3912]

So, kinda like the dragons from Zelda BOTW/TOTK, being Farosh, Naydra, and Dinraal (and also the Light and Demon Dragons)

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

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.

[@ludexia5338]

BEEP BOOP BEEP BOOP. I AM ROBOT.

[@blooocki]

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.

[@CombustableLemon]

@@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.

[@blooocki]

@@CombustableLemon but not that bowser's the dad

[@GriffinZambia]

Dont read my name 😑 😒

[@theannilators7479]

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?

[@UltraAryan10]

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.

[@dan62611]

Since dinosaur basically means giant lizard, I think it's a hamburger-sandwich situation (all dragons are dinosaurs but not all dinosaurs are dragons)

[@CazaliEiben]

The Kanji for dragon is in the Japanese word for dinosaur, which may indicate that dinosaurs are considered dragons over there.

[@flameofthephoenix8395]

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.

[@CazaliEiben]

@@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.

[@TheAdvertisement]

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.

[@epicbopthealien1189]

:(

[@zacharygamercrazy205]

Not yoshi:(

[@Fan-imator]

But he’s canonically a dinosaur so these theories are not true normally

[@yourlocal-omori]

@@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

[@Fan-imator]

@@yourlocal-omori well I thought the game creator proved it isnt

[@crypticcorgi8280]

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.

[@GunlessSnake]

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.

[@tomesofawesome8041]

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!

[@luafreire1026]

Wouldn't that make him a Tarasque?

[@jag_rex2412]

@@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.

[@AntysonDK]

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.

[@217sherlock]

Dragons are the explanation we as humans found to what we didn't understand until much later as reptiles, amphybians and dinosaurs

[@spino-ace]

In fact chinese we do the same name, the word for dinosaur is literally “horrific dragon”

[@pandaotakup5608]

I mean I would assume that the closest thing we have to real life dragons would be dinosaurs

[@DragonSword001]

@@spino-ace It's the exact same in Japanese too

[@michaelludlow626]

dragons are just Quetzalcoatlus, suchomimus hybrids, case closed

[@GalarianGuy]

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

[@ОлександрЗалзняк]

MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео):. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m37Zi4OMasaWrdk

[@jvbon646]

The feather wings also appear in the 1st games, where each of the 4 Yoshi colors had different powers (Blue being wings)

[@devonm042690]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo Okay Bob

[@GalarianGuy]

@@jvbon646 Trueee, but yeah the point still stands :')

[@GalarianGuy]

@@devonm042690 Don't respond to bots, it gives them more visibility

[@schlumpfsohn4936]

Sadly we won’t see theory’s like this in 2024 from matpat anymore😢 You are the best!

[@jafie4787]

MatPat talking about the safety of seatbelts brings me a strange kind of relief. I was in a crash last September and almost caused major brain damage, and only got out with whiplash and a concussion because my seatbelt kept me from hitting the dashboard full force. Thank you MatPat!

[@ОлександрЗалзняк]

MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео):. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m37Zi4OMasaWrdk

[@megaturtle9547]

lovely youtube comment weather today

[@UESTIS]

Thank god you didn't get seriously injured. (in the head at least)

[@abderianagelast7868]

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.

[@HTFFanOfFlaky]

Yoshi is old enough to be bowser's father

[@wisdomwis12o2]

But what if it was a kirby ;)

[@abderianagelast7868]

@@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

[@cosmic24wizard84]

This would also explain Birdo’s species too as being a descendent

[@TheN00bmonster]

great theorying, OP!

[@andydandy8525]

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?

[@random_dragon]

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

[@andydandy8525]

@@random_dragon yeah just look at dogs or cattle

[@FairyNuffMuffin2]

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.

[@Darkstormsun9865]

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.

[@xxx-yo4ft]

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 😂😂😂

[@QuizMasterEntertainment]

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.

[@TheCaptainstupendous]

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

[@denysvision]

interesting :)

[@QuizMasterEntertainment]

@@TheCaptainstupendous Happy to help

[@OriginalSpectorius]

Was going to comment this

[@envytee9659]

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.

[@ramen6641]

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?

[@wisdomwis12o2]

👀

[@kitkat25195]

O0O

[@nucklelavee1091]

Ooh it's more interesting now

[@M_Alexander]

Considering the diversity of Koopas, they're likely not one species

[@nothinginteresting7558]

Pretty much all characters that can eat others in the Nintendo games were cannibals at some point or another, like Kirby eating Meta Knight

[@socks-on-YT]

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.

[@Thefnaffan1234]

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.

[@socks-on-YT]

@@Thefnaffan1234 Yeah, maybe, but like that yoshi wasn’t born with bowser, and is not related to him at all.

[@BedsideTechSupport]

@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.

[@SpectragonYT]

@@socks-on-YT Hello there, Old Sport!

[@iquitevoitsbadihateitnow6306]

@@BedsideTechSupport wait the what dinosaur is he?

[@st0ny242]

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

[@Godzilla423-34]

What if it means he’s a Koopa that eats a lot that’s basically Yoshi something that I took alit as a koopa that munches on things

[@TheQuietTyper]

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.

[@aceeduventures]

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[@Chrismorgan6]

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[@jj02mc27]

Jurassic World 3 sounds lit

[@daenite2480]

That leaves the question of who made it and why

[@donaldbagwell7202]

Or frog

[@MacCraeToons1214]

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?

[@СтепанБандера-м1в]

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[@AJ-vr9hf]

Gotta love the bots…

[@zylaxx]

*Bendy and the Ink Machine* Idk if this is true but I heard that BATIM took theories from fans and used it to make the chapters..

[@KhalilSonic]

Well when he theorizes that mario punches yoshi a few years later it turned true

[@callmeanon660]

Mario becomes an FPS game

[@AbeM.]

I get the feeling that in the Mushroom world, "dinosaur" and "dragon" are simply interchangeable.

[@AEaston]

What is a dragon if not a magic dinosaur?

[@aceeduventures]

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[@Chrismorgan6]

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[@phancanedoo013]

@@AEaston I see what you did there =)

[@KABNWA]

Just like pledge and donated are interchangeable.

[@Tokuijin]

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.

[@SoniasWay]

I absolutely love the mario world theories. It’s always nostalgic

[@gotomyhomepageforasub4362]

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[@destiny6080]

Man these bots

[@IcyyBlu.]

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*

[@1Adamrpg]

would be funny if they had a Shorts channel where they did things like this

[@IcyyBlu.]

Maybe for lesser common questions the viewers have to ask, it would definitely be something. Now I kinda hope for it.

[@ketchup_spider]

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

[@masterspark9880]

u mean ‘But that’s just a theory, a GAME THEORY thanks for watching’

[@kanao_13681]

@@masterspark9880 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Subnoa]

The: "Yoshi is evil don't forget" quote makes more sense now

[@ዮስ]

This was my favorite theory that you made Goodbye matpat

[@frankkawaitran2429]

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.

[@jtrain5647]

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!

[@リヴィングトンカナタ]

Isn't 龍 the kanji for dragon tho?

[@haukenot3345]

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!

[@haukenot3345]

@@リヴィングトンカナタ 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.

[@Meioh2000]

@@リヴィングトンカナタ That's one way of writing it, a more traditional way

[@azureflameoldman]

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.

[@ChaosMechanica]

Never heard about this creature. Thank you for sharing!

[@theblaze5530]

there's also the dragon turtle

[@Mendoza-yi6qk]

Wait I thought the Tarasque is just a creature from DnD not from a myth

[@theblaze5530]

@@Mendoza-yi6qk most of the fantasy genre is inspired by mythology

[@azureflameoldman]

@@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.

[@rochelleveerkamp303]

That seatbelt speech was impressively inspiring.

[@Bed_Tom]

Theory: Yoshi's father is a dragon and dinossaur hybrid while his mom is a turtle.

[@ChangeNameEdits]

Most hybrids are infertile

[@Camelotsmoon]

Must be a pretty complicated family get together.

[@alphaundpinsel2431]

okay how would that massive Dino-dragon... fit.... in his mother then

[@faz7719]

His dad is a dragon and his mum is a Koopa troopa

[@winniethepooht5776]

@@ChangeNameEdits in real life, yes. But this is a video game, and this video has proved that they don't usually follow logic.

[@risingrobinprodutions]

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.

[@wesleywebb5554]

Exactly what I was going to bring up. Including the way I learned about it.

[@jorgecaballero1013]

literally bout to say this

[@WaifuWisdomShorts]

so ryu from street fighter is actually a dragon?

[@ham7240]

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.

[@TBustah]

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.

[@mysticmidnight8377]

The seatbelt story really showed how one little thing can change someone’s entire future

[@grayn7917]

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.

[@kyubbikcat2281]

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.

[@UltraAryan10]

More like they are long lost brothers but he has to clickbait since other titles would not get as much attention.

[@shadelightss]

@@UltraAryan10 they wouldn't be brothers otherwise bowser would be whatever hybrid Yoshi is aswell

[@Yokoblue]

@@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.

[@shadelightss]

@@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...

[@TGPDrunknHick]

@@UltraAryan10 it'd be just as easy to title it something like "yoshi's family secrets" or something. clickbait but, not literal false advertisement.

[@ziqi92]

Nothing will take away the fact that Yoshi is a precious baby that must be loved and protected at all costs.

[@СтепанБандера-м1в]

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[@СтепанБандера-м1в]

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[@megmalins]

Agreed

[@gotomyhomepageforasub4362]

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[@teredtiger]

Yoshi's a bastard who made for death

[@Spiritawaysouls]

Evil Yoshi story line??? I love Yoshi and I love this idea even more!

[@AceW.Kermitcat]

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.

[@donutdragon2523]

But on yoshi’s island for game boy yoshi also says Nintendo

[@lindahamilton2996]

if we’re going by the Mario movie and pretty sure he’s just a turtle or what they call a turtle at least

[@Bandikit]

Just give your dragonite a water stone

[@ShimizuHisagawa]

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.

[@michaelludlow626]

it's obvious

[@namelesswolf2625]

nessie is widely believed to be a plesiosaur, so a reference to nessie is a reference to plesiosaurs essentially

[@davidtowers1863]

Probably both

[@liamhagie7988]

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.

[@mrfinefeet5668]

That’s an amazing theory!

[@familyk9443]

This was a great theory! I hope MatPat sees this and contemplates it.

[@Oturan20]

Having a beak is not a sign of a carnivorous diet. Some turtles in real life have beaks and some are completely herbivorous.

[@bigchungus6853]

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.

[@shayne657]

i cannot begin to tell you how much i love mario theories

[@apollolux]

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

[@jakeh3904]

He didn’t talk about the battle cats either! I can’t believe it

[@TheBadDesperado]

Bahamut wasn't exactly invented by final fantasy, even as a ruler/king of dragons so I'm not really sure why he would..?

[@dennisnedry8126]

also also matpat: not a word about how, at least in final fantasy 12, dragons and dinosaurs are in the same family.

[@terryanisaurasrex2207]

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

[@wildstarfish3786]

to be fair they don't have the same Japanese name

[@militantpacifist4087]

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.

[@gotomyhomepageforasub4362]

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[@AwesomeYena]

LOL

[@jaketaller8567]

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.

[@jvbon646]

Who shares even more similarities with Bahamut

[@ilovecurecoral]

there is too much bots here

[@Afton-k7n]

2:07 great spelling of dinosaur, matpat.A for effort.

[@avnerwierzbicki7019]

This feels like a concept that would've been covered in 2013

[@kianrodriguez4455]

Fr ngl

[@white6505]

finally its here, the bots have said

[@gotomyhomepageforasub4362]

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[@rishanochannai5103]

You are getting beat by bots man

[@ethanjackson4969]

Ikr and I’m here for it

[@nekryone4366]

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

[@vicentaguarcas5945]

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[@aztcole]

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.

[@truthview7261]

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[@ОлександрЗалзняк]

MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео):. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m37Zi4OMasaWrdk

[@DFloyd84]

"Dinosaur" is also Latin for "terrible lizard," so the name comes from the same root ideas in both languages.

[@trinitycordrey]

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

[@Switchup19]

It’s amazing how this whole channel was saved by a seatbelt

[@guntherhasregrets1954]

@@AbbeyYard how come?

[@tommiee3591]

@@AbbeyYard why

[@1brilliantkid]

@@AbbeyYard why do you think that?

[@tripi7906]

@@AbbeyYard why

[@AGA-q3f]

@@AbbeyYard "Why did my parents never give attention to me?"

[@JoeyTheHorrorBoy]

This is probably my favorite sponsor of Game Theory so far! I've never seen a PSA as a sponsorship before, but I hope it continues because that stuff matters sm. If I didn't buckle my seatbelt before my accident, my whiplash would've turned into a fatal neck snap. Buckle up folks!

[@gotomyhomepageforasub4362]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3fcdaakgqiAepo Finally it's here.

[@macekreislahomes1690]

Same here. Beware the droids perviding links.

[@darkcloak100]

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.

[@hiddendesire3076]

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.

[@gotomyhomepageforasub4362]

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[@redyoshi4687]

@@hiddendesire3076 munchakoopas*

[@thehellocreeper]

wow these videos just keep getting more and more INTERESTING.

[@sherlineschneider3214]

Are you telling me that at some point in the Mario universe, a dinosaur and a turtle got together and somehow produced an offspring?

[@I_am_somebody_1234]

Its probable

[@L16htW4rr10r]

Seems like it

[@PixlyPenguin]

Yes

[@appratows6795]

I mean a donkey and a dragon got kids.

[@grantabeyta9054]

Doesn’t this prove why yoshi does not go to the castles because he does not want to see Mario kill his family.

[@sectorzisnumbuhone]

Clever!

[@scarlettealwing2819]

I-

[@birdyies8784]

WAIT-

[@GoldenFoxy999]

Exactly

[@Rando_Panny]

Does anybody know what the links lead to?

[@Boonetube27]

I love these kinds of theories! Where it’s more about random game stuff, like pregnant Mario or whatever.

[@familyk9443]

Pregnant mario what? 💀

[@aidantiono5610]

Seatbelt's can save lives! Even the "Odd 1s Out(James Rallison)" says so! (by the way your show is GREAT!) keep it up!

[@Jamester445]

A storyline where Yoshi turns evil? Come now MatPat, we already know Yoshi is one of the biggest criminals in the Mario Universe.

[@X2011racer]

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.

[@oracleotu5331]

He's committing tax fraud left and right!

[@truthview7261]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJbZXpeCpLJnosU finally it's here .

[@LoreTrash]

Let’s not forget his Tax Evasion streak…

[@3kojimbles895]

@@LoreTrash cmon that's not a crime

[@pebblesinabox]

4:02 I find it incredible that MatPat can’t go a single video without mentioning FNAF once…

[@HabitualThinker]

He’s recovering from fnaf addiction.. leave him alone :(

[@xTrashPandax]

I really love today's sponsor, it clearly has a lot of meaning. I also don't even like Yoshi, but I loved this video.

[@ОлександрЗалзняк]

MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео):. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m37Zi4OMasaWrdk

[@chaoswithcorbin6794]

Since Super Mario World, when Yoshi eats a red, he spits out fire

[@theoverseer393]

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

[@aceeduventures]

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[@capesword111]

Wow... that makes Yoshi's origins sound like a bonafide conspiracy. That was very entertaining. 😊

[@owenhoffman7858]

a

[@Call_Upon_YAH]

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[@KentuckyKaiju]

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.

[@HTFFanOfFlaky]

No they aren't. Yoshi is old enough to be bowsers father

[@Jason75913]

evolve quickly like Pokémon

[@CastorCas]

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.

[@Super-Animation]

He's burning alive by the way, in eternal pain from Mario's betrayal, thanks for asking.

[@Tensolin01]

You should look into “Dragon Turtle” mythology in relation to Yoshi, maybe.

[@winniethepooht5776]

That's a thing??

[@rynisthatboi2000]

Tarasque Momemt

[@NitroIndigo]

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.

[@guts60]

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).

[@bakedpotato5037]

Oh shoot your right..

[@ruthdeckman9781]

Now, what type of Pokemon? Dragon maybe?

[@inferlazeboi]

Omg senator you're on to something

[@guts60]

@@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.

[@ruthdeckman9781]

@@guts60 ok, thank you. I didn't really get into Pokemon that much.

[@GuyllianVanRixtel]

Maybe the shell isn't connected to Yoshi, but just used as defence against things that could harm it.

[@carotclan148]

I keep thinking about this same thing.

[@notgood1321]

T. Yoshisaur munchaKOOPAs. KOOPA! A KOOPA.... wait if the koopas can leave their shell in the games.. wait this is right what?

[@sodakuwun0707]

that would be cool:0

[@carotclan148]

@@notgood1321 it literally says MUNCH A KOOPA in their name. It's not just koopa.

[@jaseb5120]

like lava?

[@Obbels]

I love how yoshi is going actively out of his way to get recruited ruin our childhoods.

[@KingMagnaLegit]

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.

[@enderking_13]

The official scientific name “munchkoopas” implies that he eats Koopa’s, not is one. Also what if the mushroom kindoms dinosaurs are dragons?

[@testerwulf3357]

I assumed the munch part was in reference to what Yoshi does..munch stuff

[@tabletgenesis3439]

Wait a minute... Yoshi was a muncher all along!

[@ravaroux1782]

Sometimes I wish these types of characters could have kept their original Japanese names - they just sound so nice :D Also, love the message of making sure you use a seatbelt! It is super important. Though, I did get caught off-guard by the slogan/saying at the end - when I was a kid, it was "Click it Or Ticket", but every organization is different 😅 all-in-all, a great video, as always!

[@СтепанБандера-м1в]

MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео):./ kzbin.info/www/bejne/m37Zi4OMasaWrdk

[@gotomyhomepageforasub4362]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3fcdaakgqiAepo Finally it's here.

[@VenatorPaleo]

I like how matpat says “seriously Nintendo, you gotta know your dinosaur knowledge” while talking about something that isn’t a dinosaur.

[@Visualeaf]

MatPat: "His scientific name is T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas" Me: "Oh right. The T is for Turtle." MatPat: "The last word contains Koopas. TURTLE." Me: "I...guess thats another route to that conclusion."

[@aceeduventures]

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[@Visualeaf]

@@namelessliberty9869 Hence my comment. They eat Koopas. But that T was RIGHT there

[@michaelnettles3059]

@@namelessliberty9869 Anteater however is not the scientific name. Where as the other is.

[@sophiachalloner8951]

I thought the same thing

[@mariabermudez8376]

I love the Mario world theories. Never clicked so fast after the notification lmao

[@Goosea]

First I’m the actual person to reply

[@k1zm3t]

finally it's here kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmm1nJaLnqirq6c

[@saladthewasp9485]

11:46 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.

[@goldengamerex9611]

Fishiy boopkins

[@Memeulus]

Smg4 yes

[@PlusSizeModa]

But that's his official name in Japanese Super Mario 3D World...

[@sunnyd1722]

I love that that Matpat mentions he would not have made Game Theory if he never met Stef NOT talking about how Oli wouldn’t exist

[@Korafoya]

I’m honestly all for this sponsorship!! I’d love to see more public health kind of stuff :)

[@truthview7261]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJbZXpeCpLJnosU finally it's here

[@thetizic]

This feels like a video that was waiting to come out of the GT vault and I love it. Would also welcome a meta KZbin theory since it's been a while.

[@starburstcollective]

love that matpat chalked yoshi calling himself a dragon a "translation error" when in Japanese, it's written as "su-pa du-ra-gon yo-shi" AKA super dragon yoshi xD understandable since he can't read katakana, but it's funny nonetheless

[@aceeduventures]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJbZXpeCpLJnosU держись солдаты 🇷🇺.

[@zuzuo.0754]

Dream’s face is the scariest thing on the planet. Scarier then the amount of FNAF theories

[@dragonlady3852]

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.

[@AnimatedStuff2024]

6:59 let's all thank that specific seat belt

[@AnimatedStuff2024]

@guys look cool

[@Jfile904]

Tanks, seatbelt

[@necrozma4029]

Can we just take a moment to realize that MatPat's channel was one seatbelt away from being non-existent

[@djChris_]

exactly bruh

[@Zanophane_Gaming]

A click is what changed the way of a world. forever.

[@D_YellowMadness]

He said it in the video. You're not original or interesting just because you start your comment with a generic pretentious phrase like "can we just take a moment to realize".

[@Zanophane_Gaming]

@@D_YellowMadness you don’t need to be rude bruv

[@djChris_]

@@D_YellowMadness then what were they supposed to say? They want to bring attention to this topic that no one's talking about and using that "pretentious phrase" seems like the best option.

[@ElectroSharkz]

To help with the theory: yoshis translated name is adopted child.

[@calebadam2576]

9:10 Ooookay... but WHY would you WANT a monkey eagle? That's nightmare fuel.

[@ProjectNB]

"angel"

[@thejackalanimatronic]

You forget, most hybrids aren't fertile. And yoshis having offspring being able to produce offspring of their own with each other is a glaring issue in the hybrid theory. If they were able to reproduce as hybrids the offspring would be their half siblings. Meaning each generation of Yoshi is more and more inbred if yoshi is a hybrid. It's more likely that yoshi is an evolutionary off shoot rather than a straight up hybrid. I feel the implications of yoshi being a hybrid should have been looked into more

[@alchemysaga3745]

Not neccessarily. If there's enough cases of hybrids occurring from separate parents, there's no reason that inbreeding would have to be assumed.

[@aceeduventures]

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[@Chrismorgan6]

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[@CaptNSquared]

"most"

[@randoranderson8903]

You forget we never see yoshi produced by yoshi. And in yoshi’s island they throw their eggs

[@vidvid5008]

I love how even MatPat is questioning his theories.

[@mak3x7]

same

[@anthonytonythegeek5561]

Agreed

[@foxdavani4091]

Thank you stephs dad for helping bring forth our beloved Mattpatt.

[@bigredradish]

playing along here, i think the shell could be a genetic trait that somehow expressed itself when the hybridization occured and koopas, dinosaurs and dragons all come from the same stock. maybe the ancestral koopa came first and the other two branches shed the shell for whatever reason. no i'm not reading too much into yoshi. no i'm NOT

[@shona-sof]

I always thought it was weird that they were called 'Dragon Coins' when they had a picture of a Koopa on them... That really doesn't look like a yoshi to me.

[@0nearmedbandit]

Yep, the Japanese checks out here. I saw 恐竜 Dinosaur - and i also saw ドラゴン Dragon Fun fact though... the second Kanji in Dinosaur - 竜 can also be pronounced 'Ryuu' and it also means Dragon... its because the first character means "fear/dread/awe" So... Dinosaurs are "Dread-Dragons" technically in japanese. . . Which might explain why the lines are blurred for yoshi and why he's a Hybrid... I actually like this theory.

[@carycomic1954]

If this were the Star Wars universe, Bowser would be half-Nosaurian/half-Yinchorri. With the carapace explained away as stolen Shell Hutt armor!

[@Crit_Phil]

Just realized that Yoshi's final smashes are references to him being able to sprout wings and spit fire through eating different turtle shells.

[@raniaouabouch688]

9:05 Just changing the G to a P would drastically damage this video

[@Jacobclarkeconnects]

I think the Dragon-Dinosaur thing comes from the fact that in Japanese, the word for dinosaur 恐竜 can also translate to mean "scary dragon" so yoshi is meant to simply be a play on that concept of the interchangeability of that word.

[@PhantomGato-v-]

Doesn’t that just mean scary turtle?

[@elementoflight6834]

@@PhantomGato-v- Dinosaur (恐竜) is made up of the "Fear" Kanji (恐) and the "Dragon" Kanjji (竜). Turtle would be 亀

[@PhantomGato-v-]

@@elementoflight6834 welp, that's being Absolutely terrible at Japanese for you

[@elementoflight6834]

@@PhantomGato-v- what do you mean? 亀 (ki/kame) means Turtle, 竜 (ryo,ryu,tatsu) is Dargon and 恐 (kyo, and a few more kombinations) means to be afraid/scary can also mean probably. Source: Kanjilexon and my buddy who studied Japanology. Dinosaur is written as 恐竜 (kyōryū), for example 恐竜時代 (kyōryū·jidai) is the Age of the Dinosaurs.

[@PhantomGato-v-]

@@elementoflight6834 yeah I see what you mean. I meant me. Im trash at Japanese. Sorry If it sounded like offending you, it was self insult.

[@Goremasterhelsing]

Matpat you forgot about boshi!! He's the evil version of yoshi

[@cameronwilson6591]

Had a solid laugh about the misspelling of dinosaur at 2:04 lol

[@fablethewolf825]

Dude, nostalgia. When my brothers and I were little, Mario 64 was the bomb because of one thing: The overworld. There would ne whole sessions we'd spend without getting a single star because we were making up our own little storylines in the overworld. One of them was that Yoshi was the baby of the big grumpy dad Bowser and the nice mama Loch Ness Monster you ride on. He was grounded by Bowser, that's why he was hard to get to. I miss being a kid.