Keep the 'Kid' in Kid Icarus!

People (i.e. me) sometimes ask, why can Kid Icarus fly in Captain N when he can't in the game, and why is he called Kid Icarus and not Pit?

Remember Pit killed Medusa at the end of Kid Icarus, but in Captain N she is still alive and Kid turns her to stone?

So Captain N is obviously set before anything in the game happens. Even before he became Captain of Palutena's Army. The reason he is only ever called by his nickname of Kid Icarus in Captain N is because, of course, Nintendo said that they can't name-check his game if he wasn't.

Okay, so he looks a bit different now but this is Videoland, right?

After the N-Team save Videoland from Mother Brain, Kid is sent to train in Pally's Army and rises to the level of Captain (and loses the speech defecticus - awww).

Of course he is still a kid, because angels age much much slower than humans, being immortal and all that. Then he gets kidnapped by Medusa, who clips his wings (and perhaps even breaks a few bones) to stop his escaping and that's why he can't fly in Kid Icarus, and that's why he can fly in Brawl, because of course, his primaries have grown back. In Of Myths and Monsters (the sequel to Angel Land Story), Pit's wings have some functionality, which just goes to back up my theory, that his flight feathers were still growing back and his wings still healing at that time.

You see, it's so simple.

When you think about it.

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Okay, I totally made this up, but it's the only explanation that makes sense to me. I mean, he lives in Skyworld, he'd need to be able to fly. Stands to reason, doesn't it? Why have wings if you can't fly? I'm going with this theory for my Skyworld Story anyway. I like my stories to make sense.

Comments from old blog

Hmm... Makes sense I guess. But if Medusa clipped his wings and he's growing his flight feathers back, why can't he fly (at least a bit) in Kid Icarus: Uprising? And since he can't in Kid Icarus: Uprising, where does Brawl come in the timeline?
I agree with what Brett said though. Captain N doesn't count as part of Nintendo history. But I'm glad they made it anyway-icus. I love Kid Icarus in that! Except for that episode when he wishes himself big. That kinda freaked me out.
-Dusk 29/09/13

But that one was hilarious maximus! Uprising doesn't count (check the blog post's date). I like things to make sense, even if I have to manipulate the official story to do so ??

I REJECT NINTENDO'S REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE IT WITH MY OWN!!!11 *dancing banana*
— Silver Arrows 02/10/13

I was watching Videolympics the other day. They are SO mean to Kid Icarus in that. Dr Wiley called him Kid Idiot and Simon Belmont called him Shrimpicus, so Kid called Simon Dopius Maximus, which is an exceptionordinarily cool insult.

This is actually from Invasion of the Paper Pedlars. That's the episode I remember watching as a kid and the one that helped me track down Captain N in the first place. Mother Brain is my master!!!! Kid has been hypnotised in this one. He's going for Kevinicus.


Kid Icarus, you are so exceptionordinarily cute!!! He gets bashed around so much in this episode. Kid Liquorice!


Aww! Yook at him the lil duckie! He's off to battle Medusa here, but first he must stop himself and Simonius looking at her.

I felt like crying when I first saw the Factor 5 concept art for the new Kid Icarus game. What are they trying to do to Pit?!!?? The Brawl Pit is absolutely perfect, how you'd expect him to look in 3D. And now these morons want to ruin him and rob him of his innocence, his identity, everything that makes him Kid Icarus. I am not going to post the concept art here because it is too fugly, but there's a link to it in one of my earlier posts, or just do a search.

Anyways, I found a petition and it's nice to know I'm not the only one who wants to keep him as he is.

How did I not notice this before?!

That warrants a few more exclamation marks.

HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THIS BEFORE?!?!??!!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!

I have almost very nearly completely got my name in Kid Icarus!!