The origins of Exedor?

[Keith]

Flipping through the channels this evening, I came across an episode of Mork & Mindy, which I haven't watched in countless years. So it surprised me when I saw this character:

Exidor http://www.startrekitaliamagazine.it/Stand...one/exidor2.jpg

Who bore a striking resemblance in both hair, slight facial features, and name to this character:

Exedor http://www.rtucn.com/epic/people/jpg/exedore.jpg

Coincidence?

[LtStick]

A very striking resemblance. Makes you wonder if that wasn't the basis of the character.

[TheLoneWolf]

Good catch! The next time Mikimoto appears at a US convention someone should ask him.

[bob joe mac]

lol neat find reminds me of years back when people compared the heat miser from the old claymation Santa Claus movies with kakazaki

[Mr March]

LOL It's a plausible connection at the least. Weirdness.

[protodeviln]

LOL - That is priceless :lol:

[wolfx]

But exedor now has been retconned to be green, have a bulbous head and tentacles.

[Keith]

But exedor now has been retconned to be green, have a bulbous head and tentacles.

The redesign only applies to post SWI Exedor, the original still stands upwards of the mid 2010's.

[Exsedol]

There is no "Exedor" in Macross. It's Exsedol Formo

[JB0]

Not this again.

[Exsedol]

Not this again.

LoL

Seriously though. Isn't this site about Macross?

[Keith]

LoL

Seriously though. Isn't this site about Macross?

Exedor is a valid romanization no one here is talking about robotech.

[RichterX]

Exedor is a valid romanization no one here is talking about robotech.

It could be worse he could be wanting us to write things in katakana or hiragana or which ever it is used...

[jenius]

OOh, somebody didn't get the memo. Millia has been updated to Miria and Exsedol Formo is now known as Exedor Folmo. Sorry.

I SAY REGULT!

NO, IT'S REGULD!

Fun with languages

[VF5SS]

The romanji for the katakan is RIGAADO. So it should really be Reguld. Regult is a mistake.

[Exsedol]

LoL it doesn't matter how the name SOUNDS. Spelling is spelling. And Exsedol isn't some japanese version of Exedore. His name is Exsedol. That's Zentran. I think to many people have been watching that Fan Subbed version of Macross 7 where they call them Exedore and Miria and thought those were the official subs

[Ignacio Ocamica]

Exsedol is a zentran, zentraedi, zentradi or zjenthlauedy

I'm being serious

[Sumdumgai]

As long as it's pretty close to how it sounds, whatever for me now. Now if you start calling Hikaru, Rick, and Misa, Lisa, and Kakizaki, Ben... Then you're likely to get poked by everyone.

By the way doesn't DYRL Exedore remind you of the Talosians from Star Trek TOS episode "The Cage"?

[Mr March]

There's so many egg heads in science fiction Exedol resembles any one of a hundred different creatures from the Grey Aliens of X-Files to "The Leader" from the Incredible Hulk.

[JB0]

I propose a universal naming scheme.

ブリタイ・クリダニク is henceforth to be referred to exclusively as "Chromedome"

エキセドル・フォルモ shall be known exclusively as "Ol' Lumpy"

ミリア・ファリーナ・ジーナス will be referred to as "Hot Mom"

I feel this new naming scheme should remove any confusion, and make it quite clear that we're talking about the Macross characters as opposed to their Robotech counterparts, who are referred to under the new system as "Poopyhead," "Poopyhead," and "Hot Poopyhead.

[Keith]

I propose a universal naming scheme.

ブリタイ・クリダニク is henceforth to be referred to exclusively as "Chromedome"

エキセドル・フォルモ shall be known exclusively as "Ol' Lumpy"

ミリア・ファリーナ・ジーナス will be referred to as "Hot Mom"

I feel this new naming scheme should remove any confusion, and make it quite clear that we're talking about the Macross characters as opposed to their Robotech counterparts, who are referred to under the new system as "Poopyhead," "Poopyhead," and "Hot Poopyhead.

I agree with all of the above except:

ミリア・ファリーナ・ジーナス

Should be referred to as "Super hot MILF raining down hellfire!

[Pat Payne]

First -- to the "Exedore/Exsedol" fight -- "Lum" "Lamu" "Lam" "Ram" "Ramu" "Rum", all coming from "ラム•インベーダー", and all used at one point or another on official tchotchkies from Studio Pierrot.

And while I'm not discounting the uncanny similarities between Robert Donner and Exedor Folmo, (and the names of the characters) I don't quite buy that the character "Exidor" influenced the character "Exedor." Original drawings of the character (from Perfect Memory) show him to be macrocephalic and bald, and those were done well after the Exidor character first was introduced on Mork and Mindy. It could be that Mikimoto was influenced by Donner's characterization and look, but it seems a stretch.

But then again, stranger things have happened, and nothing's created in a vacuum, either

Oh, and JBO, I'm whole-heartedly behind your naming convention. )

[1/1 LowViz Lurker]

Really good thread. And I agree with the comment about the new exedor with tentacles looking like The Leader from the hulk.

That's always what I'm reminded of when I see broccoli head.

Maybe many thousands of years ago, Exedor was once a supervillain in a comic book until the PC captured him and made clones for themselves?

Edited February 13, 2008 by 1/1 LowViz Lurker

[Mr March]

That was me. And yes, that's the guy...er, thing

[Exsedol]

The big brain alien thing started in the 60's in comics and toys. Startrek carried the torch and then mork and mindy. Big brain aliens have been around for a long time

[taksraven]

I always knew that the Robotech novels were crap but when they tried to equate Exit Door with Exedore, I knew that they were really trying to fill up page space.