Powdered Egg

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Oct 27, 2017
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It was a breadcrumb hinting at the secret upside down castle. There's a major theme of reverse direction throughout SOTN.
 

mopinks

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Oct 27, 2017
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Banjo-Kazooie

The bear plays a banjo and the bird plays a kazoo. GO FIGURE.
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I'm not so sure
 

III-V

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Oct 25, 2017
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Phoenix DOWN, like down feathers.
Phoenix down. As in the feathers of a phoenix.
A lot of items in FF were probably confusing to a lot of kids (Gold Needle, Echo Grass etc.) so they just rolled with whatever explanation their brain came up with

I think the common interpretation was that people read "Phoenix" as a verb. So they'd "Phoenix" a "downed" party member. A lot of people don't really know what down feathers are, and that they can simply be called "down".
I guess that's a reasonable explanation. I did not know what to expect. I don't recall not knowing what it meant though.
 

McScroggz

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Jan 11, 2018
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NASCAR is RACECAR spelled backwards and if you drive a lap in reverse in a nascar race without wrecking and without going outside the lines you automatically win the race.
 

mopinks

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I get it because Pokemon games can be pretty goofy but it's super surprising to me than so many people didn't figure out Ekans

it's just such a weird name
 

Jegriva

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For the movies in non-English speaking countries, the name had to be different to accomodate this language change.

In French, it's "Je suis Voldemort" so the name is Tom Elvis Jedusor
I like how idiotic is to pick a new name, but choosing one that it's almost an anagram, adding the first person present of the verb "to be".

You pick a new name or you don't. You don't pick something related.
 

OneThirtyEight

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Oct 28, 2017
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Friday The 13th Part 2 takes place on friday the 13th. Part 3 takes place on saturday the 14th. Part 4 takes place on sunday the 15th.
 

JangleLuke

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Oct 4, 2018
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The Bravely Default Japanese boxart contains a pretty sneaky hidden spoiler.
(that I'm going to hide because I was spoiled myself by visiting online boards)
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Remove the 2 Fs from the subtitle
Pretty cool honestly.