#iago fire emblem

[astrosexologist]

commission for tacticalwench on twitter 🖤

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[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Iago is submissive and breedable !!!

showed an irl this followed by his portrait and she called u insane

[bokafuru]

[bloodsoakedlionsrevenge]

OneBloodsoakedLion's Incorrect FE Fates Quotes #98

[arishnea]

Feeding Iago x Senno shippers tonight 😏

A #VGenComm for @brainbiter.bsky.social] #FireEmblem #FEFates #digitalart #FEfanart

[rallyrambling]

"Makubex" to "Iago": a fun Fates localization story

so, the Fates English localization, am I right? needless to say, not the most beloved FE localization. Nintendo's localizations of the mid-2010s were heavily criticized for altering large portions of the Japanese scripts to make them more "funny" and "meme-tastic" (looking at you, Tri-Force Heroes NA localization...). when you look at the changes they made to a character like Izana, it's just sorta sad imo.

but today, I want to talk about one interesting aspect of Fates' localization that (probably) won't be a lightning rod of controversy. That being; Iago's Japanese name and how it was translated.

so, in Japanese, the character we know as Iago is called "マクベス", pronounced "makubesu" and officially romanized (in the game's files) as "Makubex."

to fully understand the oddity of this translation, let's shift gears for a moment and talk about a character from FE4 you likely forgot about...

you remember him, right? the famous Agrustian nobleman, defender of Infini Castle...the one and only Macbeth!

keeping in line with FE4 bosses having rather out-of-the-ordinary names (Joe DiMaggio being the foremost example in my mind), this guy's called Macbeth, obviously a reference to the Shakespearean villain.

in Japanese, his name is "マクベス" (pronounced makubesu), literally just "Macbeth."

but wait a sec, マクベス is also Iago's Japanese name! And yet, in the code of Fates, マクベス is romanized as "Makubex", not Macbeth or even Makubesu. what's going on here?

hang on, cause this is where things take a wild turn.

unless you're an even bigger weeb than i am, i'll bet you've never heard of the manga/anime series GetBackers. for the purposes of our discussion, the details of the manga's plot aren't important. what matters is the name of one of the characters: MakubeX (spelled like that, apparently, with the capital X).

who wrote GetBackers? Yuya Aoki. AKA Shin Kibayashi.

Kibayashi is a somewhat well-known manga writer/novelist. His most notable work is probably The Kindaichi Case Files.

He also wrote the Japanese script for Fire Emblem Fates!

So yes, Iago's Japanese name is a reference to the character from GetBackers!

very clever. very interesting. very cunning. there's just one tiny problem.

how is this going to be localized?

GetBackers is not well-known to those of us in the anglosphere. If he was called Makubex or Macbex or whatever in English, 99.99% of players wouldn't understand the reference. It's a name that just sounds weird and unnatural.

well then, why didn't they just call him Macbeth? that's the thing. i'm not 100% sure. maybe the localizers thought it was a bit too on the nose? it'd be like if an FE game featured a pair of lovers named Romeo and Juliet. like, it's just a bit too obvious to name the evil nobleman who loves murder "Macbeth."

so, for some unknowable reason, simply calling him "Macbeth" was off the table. how did the localizers keep the spirit of the name in their translation then? well, they simply borrowed the name of another villain from a Shakespeare play; Iago from Othello.

it's an absolutely perfect name; one that fits him even better than "Macbeth" I think. Macbeth's whole deal in the Shakespeare play is that he really wants to kill the king and take his place on the throne. Iago, meanwhile, remains loyal to Garon to the end. Iago from Othello doesn't have the associations with regicide that might muddy the reference they're going for. Shakespeare's Iago is a spiteful, vindictive, master manipulator. there's also the fact that the name "Iago" reminds English speakers of the henchman to the main villain in the Disney movie, Aladdin. i'm not sure 100% convinced that was part of the localizers' logic, but hey, at the very least, Disney helped enforce this idea of "the name Iago = scheming henchman", which helped make the name Iago even more fitting, regardless of the localizers' intentions.

so, that's the long, wild story of how "Makubex" became "Iago." it's one of my favorite little nuggets of FE trivia. hope you learned something new today, folks. class dismissed.

(source for the above info)

[feshippingpolls]

Garon x Hans x Iago. Just :). Toxic goop poly yaoi ftw.

FE: Should they kiss?

Garon x Hans x Iago

[fe-smashorpass]

[friendlyfatbee]

I love his design it goes so hard

[theepicmirroregg]

Iago from Fire Emblem Fates ☺️

[astrosexologist]

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Why does iago kinda look like post white-ification Michael Jackson

omg

[natsuki208]

FE Fates Week - Day 3: Forgotten

(This is once again part of my AU/rewrite of Fates)

Anankos was the wisest and most compassionate of all of the first dragons… or at least that’s how he use to be.

Overtime, the people of Valla grew resentful of his unlimited powers and soon feared and turned against him. The royal Vallite family did their best to suppress the matters but such problems never faded away from Anankos’ mind. It drove him insane.

The king of Valla at the time, a gifted sorcerer of long, black hair and golden eyes, knew something had to be done after the dragon began to cause damage to his own kingdom. He quietly allowed his wife and toddler daughter to escape for Nohr as he tried to reason with Anankos himself.

Unfortunately, even with all his gifted magic and wisdom, he couldn’t talk him out of it and repaid his failure with his own life.

Feeling betrayed by everyone he use to held close, his madness led him to destroying the entire kingdom and ruling it with his own undead armies - using them to invade Hoshido and Nohr.

But first, he must do something about the recently deceased king of Valla as a brutal punishment. And so he revived him but erased his memories, changed his name and send him to Nohr to work under the rule of their depressed king. Perhaps he could eventually bring torment to his exiled family too.

Nobody was left to remember the tragedies which occurred within the Invisible Kingdom; except for the Silent Dragon himself.

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For @fates-week

[starlightreign]

Hear me out, Iago from fe fates

Based as fuck honestly. I love that evil cunty mage.

[bloodsoakedlionsrevenge]

OneBloodsoakedLion's Incorrect FE Fates Quotes #76

[splashysketchdump]

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