Piper Cub is enjoying watching the Digimon I on Netflix. I get that it’s all a sci-fi kids fantasy; but really? Elvis as a digimon? and why does he have a little teddy bear?
I’ve never seen it and have no clue what he’s doing there, but the teddy bear seems easy enough to explain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiOs1V-i8eY
Why not? There’s almost as much variety of Digimon as there are Pokemon, and given the nature of Digimon, it’s easy to see one being modeled after Elvis.
Are Digimon Japanese? If so, Elvis is huge over there. One of the former Prime Ministers was a massive Elvis fan and made no secret of it.
Yes. The toys and games are by Bandai, the anime by Toei. (Who are partners in a whole bunch of different projects…now I’m curious as to whether they’re owned by the same company…)
It was a Japanese anime. However Elvis in this case is a villain so I’m not sure that fits.
I do know that the writing team that did the English dub of Digimon threw in a lot of snarky jokes and other Parental Bonuses, so the Elvis impersonation may have been their way of taking a ridiculous character and just running with it. Or maybe it comes from the original scripts; I really don’t know.
Oh! That presents a whole different theory.
He was probably a delinquent. Pompadours are (well…were…this is an OLD stereotype that’s probably lost most of its real-world application by now) popular among delinquent types. What was this 'Mon named? Assuming it wasn’t changed significantly from the Japanese (not a safe assumption, but possible), that could possibly confirm one way or the other… (And even if it was, one could look up the Japanese name to see if that helped.)
Nah, he’s Elvis in the Japanese version too. The reference is more blatant in Japanese, but the voice is more stereotypically Elvis-ish in English.
E: One cite to back me up: Digimon: Original and Dub Differences, Digimon Adventure - Episode 15
He was named Etemon. (エテモン, according to Wikipedia.) I don’t know if I’d call his headpiece a pompadour or not.
Bōsōzoku. Their hair. I don’t know if that’s the case with Digimon. I just know them as being the MegaBloks to Pokémon’s Lego.
Good examples, thanks (and evidence my assumption it had gone out of style is wrong), though it’s not restricted to Bosozoku.