The complete oddness of the Yoshi has always troubled me, even when I was a little kid and I first stood glossy-eyed in Toys R Us trying out the brand new Super Nintendo. Yoshi was always referred to as a boy, but those eggs popped out like whoa.

I shall not here touch on the weirdness of Birdo from SMB2. The eggs didn't even come out of that thing's REAR.

Anyway, I put Yoshi in my own style here because I dislike the way his eyes are normally bigger than (and coming out of) his head. That could possibly explain why he ate such large amounts, I suppose. His eyes were bigger than his stomach, and pretty much everything else in the Mario World.

And why the heck did they all come out of the egg wearing boots? And saddles? Talk about a handy animal. I wish they were still around. My cats are tired of me trying to ride them.

I also wanted him to learn to take smaller bites, but darnit, I forgot everything in Mario games has eyes. So that just ended up disturbing.

Yoshi and the (ever unfortunate) Goomba belong, of course, to Nintendo.