Big Man
| “ | Ay! (Make money! Get fish quick!) Ay! (Big Man in the house!) | ” |
— Big Man introducing himself in Return of the Mammalians
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Big Man is a character in Splatoon 3 and one of the three members of the band Deep Cut, alongside Shiver and Frye, with whom he co-hosts both Anarchy Splatcast, the news show of Splatsville, and Splatfests. He is also the fourth boss of Return of the Mammalians. He speaks by saying the word "ay," followed by a translation of what he is saying in brackets. His signature colors are grey, red, and a mix of turquoise blue-green and yellow (in his boss fight).
Appearance
Big Man is a large dark-gray manta ray with white markings along his belly and on both sides of his pectoral fins. He stands on his pelvic fins like feet and his eyes and mouth are along the bottom of his body, giving him an anthropomorphic appearance.
He wears a red and white headdress where a regular manta ray's eyes and cephalic fins would be, which is tied to his head with a red rope between his eyes and mouth, giving him the appearance of the Kabuki character Nezumi Kozō wearing his hokkamuri tied around his nose.
Return of the Mammalians
Big Man and the rest of Deep Cut are initially hostile to Agent 3 and the New Squidbeak Splatoon, declaring that all the treasure in Alterna is theirs to plunder and that they won't let anyone else have it. Later, when the team agrees to give the treasure (now a broken down tool) to Deep Cut, Big Man, along with Shiver and Frye becomes the player's ally and helps them in defeating Mr. Grizz.
Boss
For detail on the boss phases, see The Obscurest Chiaroscurist.
Big Man is the fourth boss of the single-player campaign, Return of the Mammalians and the third Deep Cut boss.
Trivia
- The boss battle with Big Man is a reference to the boss battle with Phantamanta in Super Mario Sunshine. Besides having a similar appearance of a splitting sihouette of a manta ray, the color of the ink Big Man leaves is also identical to the electric goop Phantamanta leaves (albeit with Deep Cut's symbol). His title, "The Hype Manta Storm", is also a reference to the mission, "The Manta Storm", where Phantamanta is fought.
- His titles in the Japanese, French, German, and Italian versions also reference the Super Mario Sunshine mission.
- Super Mario Sunshine wasn't playable in Dutch, but Big Man's Dutch title is translated directly from the English mission name in Super Mario Sunshine.
- In the Japanese version, Big Man is the only Deep Cut member not to speak in Kansai dialect, instead speaking in more standard Japanese and using "boku" as a personal pronoun in his translated subtitles; this is because he speaks a different language than the other members.
- Despite being said to be a manta ray, Big Man bears far more resemblance to an eagle ray; Big Man and eagle rays have their mouths on the underside of their bodies, while manta rays have them more between the overside and underside. In addition, eagle rays have more prominent pelvic fins at the back of their bodies, which Big Man uses as his feet, and which manta rays don't have. Big Man's coloring also resembles an eagle ray.
- In the second half of Splatfests, when Deep Cut performs on the combined floats, there is a brief moment where Big Man's dance startles Shiver and Frye, making them build up more distance. This suggests that Big Man either sometimes improvises out of enthusiasm or that Shiver and Frye underestimate his size.
Gallery
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Closeup introducing Big Man
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2D art of Deep Cut with Big Man in the middle
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3D art of Deep Cut with Big Man in the middle
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Big Man's character icon
Etymology
"Big Man" could be a pun on "manta".
Names in other languages
Speech in other languages
Ay! Ay! Template:Foreignname
Introduction in other languages
The Hype Manta Storm
Translation notes
References
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