Kappa
A kappa is a Japanese turtle-like monster that lives in rivers. Although free to leave their watery home, a kappa becomes dangerously weak if the plate on its head is not filled with water.
Fiction
Beast Wars II cartoon
When Scylla fell flat on her face while trying to run after Tasmania Kid in mechabeast mode, the latter asked if she was like a kappa on land in that they both don't do well outside of water. Megastorm's Reckoning
Car Robots cartoon
When Gelshark tried to recall the name of the Cappadocia ruins, he was at first stuck on associating the word with kappa. He mistakenly recalled the name as kappa no heso ("Kappa's Navel") and kappa no sara ("Kappa's Plate") before he got it right. While subsequently recalling his conversation with Gigatron about the ruins, he remembered that Gigatron also believed that the ruins were called kappa no heso and that he himself back then already thought it was kappa no sara. Gigatron's Raid!
Notes
- The Beast Wars parody manga published in Super Lifeform Transformers Beast Wars Official Guidebook does not make explicit reference to kappa, but one joke has Rattrap's brain falling out when he makes a polite bow. This evokes the need for a kappa to always have the plate on its head filled with water and the go-to way to get rid of a kappa by tricking it into politely bowing so it'll spill the water.
External links
- Kappa at Wikipedia
