By now, ‘Fortnite‘ is not so much a video game as it is one of those childhood games where we’d mix Batman with The Powerpuff Girls and Super Mario with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The number of available skins in the game is countless. However, after adding dozens of characters, from Eleven from ‘Stranger Things’ to Eminem, they’ve now taken a small misstep by introducing Peter Griffin.
Pow, right in the kisser
The protagonist from ‘Family Guy’ has appeared in the game alongside Solid Snake, Freezer, and Cell from ‘Dragon Ball,’ or even The Weeknd, but there’s something odd about him: he’s absolutely muscular. And it’s not like the game doesn’t give a reason for it. In a video, we see how Meowscles brings him an expired sorbet from 2021 which, upon eating, makes him very strong. However, as justified as it might be, it’s a mistake.
Even if Seth McFarlane (or whoever manages his properties now) has agreed to modify the character to have him shooting in the new chapter of ‘Fortnite,’ the truth is that something doesn’t quite fit. If the game’s charm lies in different intellectual properties battling each other, why make one of them so utterly different from what we’re used to seeing?
Are they afraid there might be a non-muscular person on the island? Why can’t Peter Griffin have more original moves? It’s ‘Family Guy,’ and anything can happen, after all. The problem, in fact, isn’t with the animated protagonist but with giving free rein to change any characters they want to fit into the game’s canon. We’ve only had seven years of ‘Fortnite‘ (even though it feels like three decades), and there’s still a lot ahead: allowing this kind of digression isn’t a good idea if we don’t want to end up seeing real absurdities.
By the way, Epic has claimed they’re still in talks with Nintendo, but with no luck whatsoever, to bring Mario characters into ‘Fortnite.’ Obviously, they’ll never say yes, given the current situation. And they won’t be the only ones.
