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Also literally known as the Horror Frog (mander.xyz)

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[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Actually, the name wolverine frog is a direct reference to the comic book character.

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[+] Smoogs@lemmy.world -6 points 3 months ago (7 children)

frog has been around well before the comic book character.

the character trait idea could have come from the frog. authors do this all the time

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[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Do you think it's been called "wolverine frog" since the moment it existed?

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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

i think youre replying to the wrong post. as this is exactly what im trying to dispell.

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[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So you're trying to say that the frog may have been named after the comic book character then?

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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world -5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I'm saying you smell bad.

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[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

Lmao.

For anyone who actually cares, Wolverine the comic book character was first written in 1974. This frog was first discovered in the early 1900s, but it's skin-piecing bone claw mechanism wasn't discovered until 2008. It's nickname of "wolverine frog" is 100%, definitively, objectively, named after the comic book character, and not the other way around.

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[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Well yeah, the frog has been around. The name Wolverine frog is more recent than that though. More frequently it's called a hairy frog.

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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

correct. its features of the knuckles were taken for the character. there seems to be some confusion for people to understand a character is newer than the frog and the wolverine name is newer

not sure what it is you're disagreeing with here.

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