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It'd be incredible if The Bad Guys 3 took a hard pivot into Dianne and Wolf using an assortment of realistic guns to shoot people (including humans) in the head, using knives to take people out, swearing, drinking hard liquor and smoking, and making out and tearing each others' clothes off - imagine if, for example, they parodied / re-enacted the brutal knife fight to the death from Saving Private Ryan (ending with Wolf winning and doing the infamous "Shhhhhh") after getting the upper hand on an *actual* bad guy by grabbing the back of his head and skull-bashing it against a wall, then he bloodily limps off to rendezvous with Dianne.

Peak cinema.

I'm skeptical there will ever be a Star Fox movie, and we wouldn't see it until 2030 at the earliest even if there were to be one.

But assuming we ever get one, I think it's fair to assume it would be yet *another* Lylat Wars retelling, and to be honest, I think it is absolutely the only justifiable way to ever tell that story ever again in human history (who am I kidding, Nintendo probably has in mind at least three different ways to retell it even before Miyamoto retires). I just don't think it makes sense to skip to right to Adventures for a film universe, although it'd technically work.

That said, the movie needs to do one critical thing and if it doesn't do this one thing, it's more or less a failure, especially since it'd mean we may not get a sequel, ever.

After seeing Fox McCloud soar through Venom and destroy Andross in a pitched fight, and then being guided out by the spirit of James, we need one critical mid-credits / end-credits scene:

Cold open of a first-person POV shot - audience can't see who's eyes they're looking through (real ones may know immediately). Darkness. Heavy breathing. Sprinting through dense jungle. Something catastrophic is happening behind. Trees shake. The sky is is blood red, and we don't know where we are.

The unseen runner falls.

A blue-furred hand hits the ground.

The figure looks upward in third-person

Krystal. We're witnessing Cerinia's Doom.

Final title card reads:

Fox and Krystal will return.

I just want to smile in a dark theater watching The Bad Guys 3 as Diane and Wolf banter and kiss and pet each other and then have an adorable wox kit by the end of the film.

I've been in Binghamton full-time since 2017 and maybe 10 - 15 percent of the dates I've been on post-college have been in Binghamton. The dating here is awful, probably for a variety of reasons (the area is aging, the non-student population is terrible, etc.)

The apps are awful and I've about exhausted them all even if they weren't. There are basically no actual singles bars to speak of, other than (I guess) the college-focused bars. Singles events are unicorns so I have to do those up in Syracuse. Meetup (the app) is a ghost town for this sort of thing as well.

Is this just...how it is in Binghamton? Has anyone had any luck trying, well, anything? Specifically anything not listed here? Any ideas at all? It's miserable just how demoralizing the last decade has been. I know I should just get out but that's going to be even harder to do, for financial reasons.

And / or your favorite - interested in seeing what people think.

This is just a general PSA for awareness purposes that Rules #3 and #8 were just added - please review them if you'd like.

Well, this is not a post I wish I had to make. Yes, it is a milestone and a commemoration, but not a happy one. Today marks 20 years of not having Krystal in a Star Fox game - Star Fox Command. No, Smash does not count, and Ubisoft couldn't even be bothered to put her in Starlink. 20 years is a long time to wait for anything (*8 percent* of the total lifespan of the United States!), and it's done a lot to hollow me out and burn me out. It's a testament to Krystal's impact itself that there is a community for her at all at this point.

20 years ago today, Star Fox Command launched for the first time, in Japan (the U.S. release was later that August). That's right around the time I got into Star Fox to begin with; I could never have known that 20 years on, Nintendo would have done absolutely nothing with the character and that Command's limbo status of not-really-canon would still not have been picked up on, that we would still have no idea of where the story goes from there.

Because as much as this is the 20th anniversary of Command and Krystal's abandonment, it's also the 20th anniversary of the total abandonment by Nintendo of any narrative progress in the franchise, which hurts nearly as much. I think it'd be overwhelming if you'd told me then that 20 years on I'd still be waiting for answer, for...anything at all. I still remember how hard the Wii days of waiting for a Star Fox game that never came were. That Command ended in such a poor way with multiple plotlines and none of them truly settled canon, along with Krystal's near-total character assassination, has made this even more painful.

That brings us to this supposed "revival" of Star Fox, which this "new" remake is by no means indicative of. Fox being in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie made all this come rushing back to me, my love of Star Fox and Krystal. Fox's inclusion in the move rekindled all the hopes and dreams it took me 10 years to try and destroy; I'm still catching up with a community I did not even realize much existed this last decade. Fox being in the movie amounts to a cruel tease: a hope of something more but by no means a guarantee, certainly not of Krystal returning. There never was much hope, in truth. Just a fool's hope.

The hardest part of being a Star Fox fan and especially a Krystal fan, for me at least, was thinking I was over it all. It was thinking I had it beat. I tried (and largely succeeded) in stamping it out of my mind and trying to quickly forget it as soon as I'd remember anything about it. I thought to myself that I'd outran it. Then I turned a corner, watched The Super Mario Galaxy Movie - and bam. There it was. Staring me right in the face.

Only this time it's worse. And, I realize now, it was always going to be there.

Then the arrival of this laughably insulting, Krystal-less, fifth-Lylat-Wars-retelling, fourth-Star-Fox-64-remake came out, and the less said about it, the better. It certainly will not help the series movie forward and was not what it needed. It made me try to hate this series, to hate Star Fox so that I could get over it all. But of course I couldn't, and now I don't even know who I am anymore.

The entire point of this subreddit and the associated Discord were to try and point a lot of this pent-up demand for Krystal and a lot of the damage her absence has caused a lot of us over the last two decades into something useful and take advantage of what is likely one last opportunity to strike while the iron's hot to try and bring her back.

To that end, I *will* be going to Japan next year or in 2028 at the latest as a Nintendo investor and asking them both why Star Fox remains so underutilized as an IP and why we have not seen Krystal for 20 years. I don't know what the future holds for her or this series and I don't have any hope anymore, but taking these things and pointing them at the people responsible is all I or any of us can do. And if we fail, then, well, at least we tried. We didn't sit down and die, resigned to lose. If it must be like night in winter without a star forever, we'll know we did not accept it without fighting.

Some say Krystal's returning and some say she isn't. Some say they hate her, some say they love her. Some say an Adventures remake is coming, some say it isn't. I wish I had even that much confidence, but 20 years of continuous disappointment will do that to you. I will not hold out hope for any particular outcome, but should the day ever come that Nintendo does what it should have done a long time ago and brings Krystal back, I am going to be...a mess. I'll finally be able to just breathe, and let 20 years of accumulated grief go.

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Which ship of Krystal's do you like the best? There's only three that we know she's canonically piloted, as far as I know.

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I don't think most people appreciate how cooked this series is if any of the following happening:

1. Star Fox 2026 is treated as a full, go-forward reboot and we get some sort of direct sequel / SF2 reimagining that replaces / erases the rest of the timeline, leaves Krystal out permanently, etc. Negative bonus points if it's the same dated boomer arcade schmup gameplay and nothing else, which we've seen 100 times before and isn't sufficient growth or evolution for a game in 2026.

2. Basically #1, except they *do* bring back Krystal BUT retcon her origin by cutting Adventures' story out completely and having the team meet her in a completely different, butchered, mundane, non-iconic way, thus ruining the character and the series.

3. Pick one of Command's bad endings / retcon several of them into a hot mess of a composite canon ending, or just in general canonize Command in just about any way. This one is a bit more conditional on how exactly Krystal is treated and if one of her worst endings is used, but it's still bad no matter what.

No one, least of all Nintendo, should underestimate just how many people bought this recent game not because it's what they really wanted from a Star Fox game (the praise for this being yet another Lylat Wars / SF64 remake / reimagining was virtually nonexistent prior to its reveal), but on the hope of getting something better in the future.

Leave Krystal out and / or retcon out of existence a huge chunk of existing canon, and a huge piece of the fanbase will simply not support that game, because such a huge chunk of the fanbase are Krystal fans above all / part of the furry community. QED, Star Fox will go back into the ground.

I know the oldheads will hate to hear this, but it's the truth: without Krystal AND forward story momentum, this IP is dead in the water. They need the Krystal and furry community for this series to have a future far more than they're willing to admit. So if they get their way, they'll have no one to blame but themselves for Star Fox's virtually guaranteed slide into irrelevancy and dormancy.

Keeping things strictly SFW, when do you think Krystal and Fox were first intimate? Of course this is all fanon, since only Command implicitly shows this in the Marcus ending, but my own headcanon would say they shared a bed right after Adventures if I'm being honest. I understand some may not like the idea of it being that fast, though 🤷‍♂️

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I'm curious what / where everyone's first Krystal experience - for me, it was Assault, roughly 20 years ago.

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