Frye

“	Say it with sizzle... I'm Frye!	”
— Splatoon 3 Direct

Frye is a character in Splatoon 3 and one of the three members of the band Deep Cut, alongside Shiver and Big Man, with whom she co-hosts both Anarchy Splatcast, the news show of Splatsville, and Splatfests. She is also the second boss of Return of the Mammalians. Her signature color is yellow.

Appearance

Frye is an Inkling with dark brown skin, golden eyes with orange pupils in the shape of a cross, and purple tinted fingers and toes, which glow during Splatfests. Her Inkling "mask" markings are fairly thick. She has thick yellow eyelashes with a slight orange gradient to them. Her hair is yellow with purple-tipped tentacles. There is a lock on the left side of her hairstyle in the front and smaller lock on the left in the back. Her eyebrows are yellow and triangular. She has long, sharp-pointed ears, the tips of which are a lighter orange color.

Frye's right ear is pierced with three moray eel tooth-shaped earrings. Her outfit consists of a sleeveless yellow turtleneck crop top under a small yellow transparent shawl, white baggy pants with holes on the left side that have purple trims, and white toeless socks. She wears an off-white rope on her front left hair tentacle, forming an X shape, and below it a smaller tighter hair tie made from the same material. Around her waist is a belt made of the same sort of rope, with a large golden squid head charm with purple tassels hanging from it on the front left. On top of her head is a golden-colored hat with cube chunks on it, most possibly resembling fried batter or food. Under certain circumstances she wears an eel mask, alluding to a real-world tanuki mask. During Splatfests, her shawl lights up with the music.

During Splatfests, the colors of her hair, shirt, and shawl change to match her team's color.

Return of the Mammalians

Frye 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, Frye, along with Shiver and Big Man becomes the player's ally and helps them in defeating Mr. Grizz.

Boss

Main article: The Future Stares Back.

Frye is the second boss of the single-player campaign, Return of the Mammalians and the first Deep Cut boss.

Gallery

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  Closeup introducing Frye

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  2D art of Deep Cut with Frye on the right

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  3D art of Deep Cut with Frye on the right

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  Frye's character icon

• File:S3 Frye boss battle introduction.png

  Boss introduction

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  Frye's 2D artwork

Trivia

• The tip of her hair could allude to an eel resting in water.
• In the Japanese version, she speaks in the Kansai dialect, like her bandmate Shiver. In addition, she uses the personal pronoun "washi", as well as other speech patterns which are commonly associated with stereotypical old people in popular Japanese media, such as adding "ja", "zo", and/or "na" at the end of her sentences, addressing people she isn't close with as "omae-san", and many more.
• Frye is the first inkling to be explicitly shown to have a tongue in game. The only time an Inkling's tongue had been shown previously was in the artwork for Splatoon's Naughty vs. Nice Splatfest. She along with Shiver have this unique feature.
• In her dialogue in both the Rock vs. Paper vs. Scissors and Gear vs. Grub vs. Fun Splatfests, Frye is shown to be very indecisive.
• If the player has Color Lock toggled, Frye's ink color in her boss fight changes, her design also changes with the yellow and the blue swapping places. The face of the Octostomp's remains also changes color to blue.
• One of Frye's speech soundbites bears a strong resemblance to a common English expletive. This is likely to be a coincidence.

Etymology

"Frye" comes from the verb "to fry", the action of cooking food over heat, contrasting with Shiver's name, which suggests cold. A "fry" is also one of the collective terms for a group of eels.

"Utsuho" is a rare Japanese female given name usually spelled with the kanji 空 (sky/void) or 空穂 (sky/void-ear), which may also be read Utsubo. It is a pun on 鱓 utsubo, the Japanese word for "moray eel". This is in reference to Frye descending from a lineage of moray eel trainers.