u/DreamBrisdin

Like Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas by DreamWorks, it had a protagonist "stealing" a fiance from a supporting character, who had spent much more times and efforts than the protagonist to develop a mutual relationship with the fiance.

This guy is not villainous, is respected and is humble to regret his actions (with no casualities). He was also merely a victim of a fate (in this case, a sinple childhood promise bwtween the protagonist and the fiance), had a right to fight back, and his fiance wasn't unwilling to marry in the first place.

But in the end, he was treated as if he was responsible, his efforts were destroyed, and in the end, he was kind of taken lightly, and had no place to stand, and was no "salvation" to ease his feeling.

https://x.com/kabukichi2/status/2069735415104655595

https://x.com/s_aririn/status/2069641892187570516

https://x.com/michsuzu/status/2069636596908114008

I'm from Japan, and apology for my insufficient English proficiency. The Super Mario Galaxy movie was my first experience for "western" version of Fox McCloud. And I've noticed that Fox in that movie is more easy-going, assertive, expressive, pretentious, laid-back, and money-grubbing than what we Japanese fans used to know.

(Please don't get me wrong, I also quite like the movie version and I became immediately fond of, and I thought this is a good opportunity to introduce Japanese perspective).

And the latest iteration (2026 remake) is also more akin to the Mario movie than the traditional Japanese personality which had been established since the Nintendo 64 version.

After communicating with other Japanese fans and witnessing comments by western fans, I confirmed there are slight differences in personality between Japanese and western versions of Fox. At least among fanbase in Japan I've been with, I'm not in the minority (and possibly in the majority) who were not accustomed to the western version and the Mario movie was their first experiences with this.

In Japanese version (since 1997), he has been depicted as polite, formal, sobersided, not talkative, overly responsible and self-sacrificing, humorless, desireless or selfless, and inexperienced with women. And I personally think this is due to cultural differences. In Japan, (at least once) there has been an atomosphere that people may prefer serious, selfless, and polite personality for male role models.

PS: I found analogies and analysis by ckim777 and GreyhoundOne and Kcnnn and MagnetMod quite interesting, in terms of differences in depictions of mercenary acts. American iteration is like Maverick (Top Gun) and Han Solo (Star Wars), and Japanese one is like Amuro Ray (Gundam). And the recent "Marvelization" might have influenced the movie Fox to some extent.

PS2: I was also instructed that the Mario movie has significant differences between English and Japanese versions.

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-wasnt-localized-from-english-to-japanese-but-rebuilt-shigeru-miyamoto-explains-new-approach-to-script/

https://gonintendo.com/contents/60525-much-of-the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-s-japanese-dub-was-improvised-says-miyamoto

https://x.com/Karzworks/status/1933172180105515178

The famous Japanese film composer who composed the classical soundtrack of several Godzilla films and was responsible for creating the iconic roar of the King of the Monsters

https://x.com/nendoroid_pr/status/2060269923729858790

https://x.com/m44kwaijyuu/status/2053852388726018274

https://x.com/livedoornews/status/2048600456449179904