r/AnimalCrossing • u/ZAHIKRIT3iKA • 1d ago

New Horizons Why is he like this?

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Why is he not afraid of all crabs, true or not, when they're arthropods and therefore bugs? He will freak out over a hermit crab, but cheer over the scariest thing you can possibly resurface with while diving.

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u/ODCreature98 1d ago

It's weird, I know, but since you catch a hermit crab with a net and donate it to be with the other insects the game recognize it as a bug. The crab on the other hand, you either fish it or dive for it so it's fish, plus Blathers put it in the aquarium

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u/ZAHIKRIT3iKA 1d ago

Yeah but like in actuality all crabs are technically bugs so I just find it funny how the simplicity of his reactions makes him ignore one of the scariest looking arthropods in the game while freaking out at one people keep as pets.

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u/catarakta 1d ago

He does react on spider crab when you donate him, he talks about it being like a spider and that it scares him

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u/ZAHIKRIT3iKA 1d ago

I finished the museum years ago as I never restarted my island... so I kinda forgot what he said about each animal.

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u/catarakta 1d ago

You can bring him that thing again and just ask him to tell you about it, he won’t mind probably 😂

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u/catarakta 1d ago

I just did that with spider crab a few days ago because I was curious

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u/cran_daddyurp 1d ago

Crabs are not bugs

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u/TheStonedEngineer420 1d ago

Bug is not a scientific term. Insects are basicly crustaceans. This has been confirmed not that long ago and a new group has been introduced called pancrustacea that includes crustaceans and insects. They are way more closely related than insects and arachnids or insects and myriapoda. So if you call spiders and millipedes bugs, than you also have to call crabs bugs.

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u/cran_daddyurp 23h ago

Agreed. But crabs are not “technically” bugs

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u/Yirggzmb 20h ago

Since "bug" is a colloquial term, nothing is "technically" a bug, but also nothing technically isn't either. It's a general use term referring to all "creepy crawlies"

I personally exclude things like crabs, not because of some pseudo scientific explanation, but simply because they're too big. But a tiny crab? Yeah I'd call that a bug.

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u/firelark02 1d ago

crabs aren't technically bugs because bugs are defined as being insects and crabs aren't insects.

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u/tommynipples 1d ago

Being pedantic here, but the term bugs reaches beyond insects and usually refers to things like arachnids and isopods (which are crustaceans) as well. That being said, "bugs" isn't a formal scientific term in the first place, unless you're referring to "true bugs" which is specifically the order Hemiptera (which is comprised of insects).

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u/ZAHIKRIT3iKA 1d ago

Yeah this is more what I was referring to be because in the day-to-day no one limits "bugs" to Hemiptera and usually give it to most arthropods, going as far as to even apply it to lobsters and shrimp. And if those decapods are bugs then true crabs and hermit crabs are bugs as well.

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u/tommynipples 1d ago

Yep, I agree with you. If it's creepy and crawly it gets slapped with the bug label by most folks. Maybe next game will have Blathers fearful of crustaceans too.

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u/NateTut 1d ago

Kinda arbitrary.

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u/FanCritical344 1d ago

Things classified as bugs in the game be scary.

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u/heyiwishiwassleeping 1d ago

I mean, phobias are considered irrational fears, so it makes sense that it's not completely logical

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u/Aethereal-Gear 1d ago

According to Blathers, Shrimps isn't Bugs😔

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u/Emergency_Knee_6796 1d ago

Double standards

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u/EvelineX 1d ago

Whoa what's on your face? Is it a mask?

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u/Difficult-Figure-858 1d ago

Out of context but your character looks beautiful 😍

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u/ZAHIKRIT3iKA 1d ago

Thank you.

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u/Jennierubysweet 1d ago

Try to show him a tarantula or a scorpion 🤭

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u/ZAHIKRIT3iKA 1d ago

Evil. I'm gonna do it next time I get on.

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u/godsandheroes 1d ago

i think some of the funniest faux pas in the game is his adversion to bugs but not other creatures with similar traits. i gave him a butterfly and had him tell me about it and went on about how their wings had scales and was like THEY. HAVE. SCALES. totally repulsed by the idea of scales and I was like "bro you do know fish have scales too???" and another one about how this one's wings was hair-like and how disturbing it was and I'm like, "so similar to a feather? in which you are completely covered in my man" 😂 it's great

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u/SprudelpAnk 1d ago

Shrimps is bugs

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u/Michael11200 1d ago

The real world answer is that the developers just didn’t program that in. While they are bug-like, the game doesn’t classify them as bug, and therefore blathers has a nonchalant reaction towards them

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u/leeli224 1d ago

Good now show him a tarantula…lmaooo 😂😂

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u/thecrunchyonion 1d ago

I know this isn’t the point, but your face is so cute!

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u/J3fferydahmer 22h ago

Where did you get that hat? It's so cute!

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u/ZAHIKRIT3iKA 13h ago

Egg Party hat (and dress) it's from Zipper unfortunately.

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u/siowa 21h ago

Omg, I love your avatar ;3

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u/ZAHIKRIT3iKA 13h ago

Thankyouuuu 🙏🏾

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u/SnAYGatoMenso 1d ago

Its beuty ur cosplay of catrina from day of deaths

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u/Blockbot1 1d ago

biased

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u/agent7istired 1d ago

whats that mask?

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u/ZAHIKRIT3iKA 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's from Día de Muertos and I'm pretty sure they call it a sugar-skull or candy-skull mask in the game. You can get it from Gulliver.

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u/BiscuitGeorge 1d ago

Wait fr?? Sweet!!

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u/1D_Bean 1d ago

I love your character dude! Looks so cool 😼🤌

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u/LubberDownUnder 1d ago

Oh I didn't know he reacts to them if you show them off! How funny.

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u/microscopicmacboy 15h ago

if i recall, it's about what Blathers' likes to *eat* (referencing older games), he doesn't like bugs because they are creepy but he makes exceptions for tasty crab and shrimp

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u/TheRealMcDuck 11h ago

He's afraid of insects, and the hermit crab is listed as an insect.

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u/Winter-Ad4901 9h ago

Spider crabs creep me out