I clicked on that wikipedia link you posted for H. fleischmanni and was surprised to see that the section talking about the frog’s natural predators was titled “enemies” instead of “predators.” The word “enemies,” at least to me, seems strange in this context because it seems to anthropomorphize the frogs, which as far as I’m aware is something zoologists try to avoid doing with animals. Is there a scientific reason for “enemies” to be used here, as opposed to “predators”?
Regrettably, a huge number of problems of this kind have been built into Wikipedia by the Wikipedia Education Foundation-supported courses. Students carry out an 'assignment' that involves a dramatic expansion to a given wikipedia page based on any literature they can find. That revised page is then subjected to 'peer review' by their classmates. But because they are unfamiliar with (1) the literature, (2) the contents of other wikipedia pages, and (3) how wikipedia actually works, the resulting pages are often full of misinformation, redundancies, and weird formulations.
You have accurately identified one such idiosyncrasy. 'Enemies' was a very common formulation for 'predators' in the 1800s and early 1900s, but we have largely left it behind, for precisely the reason you say, and hence it sounds jarring to our ears. In this case it is a minor problem (you should have seen how the Paroedura masobe page looked before I cleaned it up), but irksome nonetheless.
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you know, I actually think the moment byleth steps in front of that blow meant for edelgard, an action that changes EVERYTHING about their fate, really is monumental, especially after warriors came out and added context
you have this mercenary who’s known for being stone cold, emotionless, and who can annihilate entire mercenary camps in minutes blank faced, as we saw with shez - by all means, they should never, WOULD never take a blow like that so carelessly for someone they don’t even know, much less with such an angry, determined expression - and yet.
the game draws some clear parallels between byleth and edelgard, and in all routes they have a connection that seems unbreakable - all of this starts at that very moment, when the merciless demon gets swept by a wave of emotion so strong that they throw rationality out of the window.
idk, one of my favourite fe3h analyses mentions the ‘literal divine intervention triggered by edelgard’ and that’s exactly what that moment is. not even because of sothis, but because that’s exactly when byleth takes their first step towards humanity and their freedom - i honestly think that byleth only fully regaining their humanity in crimson flower is the only outcome that makes sense, since that’s exactly what we see in one of the first scenes in fe3h. excellent foreshadowing, I’d say
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Okay I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure Leo has the most episodes that are mainly focused on him, which is interesting
This was a very interesting question and I wondered if that was the case! So I went and tried to take a look.
What I found going in is that Leo seems to be in the most non-Ensemble episodes, and the episodes that focus on him stand out more since they tend to not have the rest of the cast (as in, Hueso stands in as his other focused character, rather than one of Leo’s family members like most everyone else gets.)
Leo’s focused episodes also tend to have the entire Ensemble as supporting characters, again rather than the one or two other main characters that his bros and April tend to get. What is most notable I think is that while other characters have just about as much focused episodes, Leo’s (and Donnie’s) in particular seem to focus on their personal struggles more rather than just an outside conflict, so they stand out more than others in that way too.
Honestly going through the episodes it’s pretty amazing to see how overall even things are? Like even if some got more focus than others, the range is under 8 points for the four bros, which is nice to see.
Below is a messy and hard to read culmination of my research which undoubtedly contains mistakes here and there. Fair warning that this is based on my own memory and of episode synopsis and the like, and I didn’t include the movie but that one is pretty obvious. It’s also fairly subjective what one may consider to be a “focus” or not. I tried to take into account what happens within the episodes, so hopefully this is fairly accurate? Beware it’s long so I’ll put it under a read more-
Notes to take into account before the scores-
Full Focus means that a lot of time is spent with the character and they’re one of the “focuses” of the episode outside of an ensemble way. Example of this is Minotaur Maze which is both a Leo and Ensemble episode, but Leo gets the Full Focus while Ensemble in this instance gets-
Partial Focus just means that the characters are present in the episode and have enough focus put on them to differentiate them from the Ensemble. They have a notable part in the episode but it is not about them, and this can even include when they are directly involved in the conflict. And example of this is Donnie’s Gifts which is an Ensemble and Donnie episode where despite Donnie being the driving force, Ensemble gets the Full Focus and Donnie gets Partial Focus but-
Main Character is the scoring which takes into account whether the episode centers around a specific character or characters. Note than even if a character has Full Focus, it’s possible that they’re not the Main Character, and even if the character has Partial Focus, they can still be the Main Character. Main Character scoring does not add into how I calculated the-
Overall Score - aka the culmination of both the Full and Partial Focuses. Full Focus gets 3 points, and Partial Focus gets 2s.
Here is the scoring-
April - 3 2 3 2 3 3 3 2 3
Full Focus: 6
Partial Focus: 3
Main Character: 5-6
Overall Score: 24 (range 23-25)
Raph - 3 2* 3 2* 3 3 3* 3 3 3 3*
Full Focus: 9*
Partial Focus: 2
Main Character: 9-10*
Overall Score: 31 (range 30-32)
Donnie - 2 2* 2 2 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3
Full Focus: 9
Partial Focus: 5
Main Character: 8-10
Overall Score: 37 (range 33-37)
Leo - 2 3 2 2 3 2 3 3 3 3* 3 2* 3
Full Focus: 8*
Partial Focus: 5
Main Character: 8-9
Overall Score: 34 (range 33-37)
Mikey - 2 3 2 3 3 3* 3 2* 3* 3 3
Full Focus: 8*
Partial Focus: 3*
Main Character: 6-8*
Overall Score: 30 (range 29-30)
Splinter - 1 3 3 3 3 3* 3 3 3 3
Full Focus: 8
Partial Focus: 1
Main Character: 9*
Overall Score: 28 (range 27-28)
-!Bonus!-
Draxum - 2 2 3 3 3* 3 2
Full Focus: 4
Partial Focus: 3
Main Character: 4-5
Overall Score: 18 (range 17-19)
Casey (Sr) - 3 2 3 2 3
Full Focus: 2
Partial Focus: 2
Main Character: 3
Overall Score: 13 (range 12-13)
Ensemble - 3 2 2 3 2 3 3 3 2* 3 1 3 3* 3 3 3 2 1* 3 3 1 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 2 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 3
Full Focus: 25
Partial Focus: 17
Minimal Focus: 3
Overall Score: 112
*’s (it’s not very easy to decipher what asterisk leads to what, sorry):
*1: Mascot Melee is pretty ensemble, but Raph does quite a bit in it
*2: Stuck on You is majorly ensemble but Raph is still focused on quite a bit
*3: Hot Soup: The Game has ensemble qualities, but is mainly Mikey and Casey Sr
*4: You Got Served can arguably be a 2 as well since major focus is also on Hueso
*5: Turtle-dega Nights: The Ballad of the Rat Man can arguably be considered more of a Donnie and Splinter episode so Mikey will get a 2 here
*6: Repairin’ the Baron - same as above sorta. All three of Mikey Raph and Baron have big roles to play in this episode but as they share them with each other, it’s arguable whether these 3s should be 2 1/2s.
*7: The Hidden City Job - despite Leo being the only main character really present, the main focus is more on Hueso and his brother
*8: Finale can be considered high for both Raph (he had a lot of great focus) Casey Sr. (she was a major part of the finale AND we learn her name) and especially Splinter (literally everything he did tbh)
Main findings for this are than Raph and ESPECIALLY Mikey deserve more episodes tbh. I hope I didn’t miss any episodes, but it was a bit difficult to keep track of everything haha.
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