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What’s the deal with Yoshi? The little dinosaur (who might not be a dinosaur, but let’s not go into that right now) is somehow both a singular character and an entire species. He (they? it?) was introduced as a steed for Mario in Super Mario World, with mostly mechanical characteristics: stretchy tongue, floaty jump, eats stuff and lays eggs. Yoshi never speaks except to squeak his own name. Yet he has become one Nintendo’s
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