When did this happen?

[chu52]

Hello, this is probally lame but a question has been plaguing me for quite some time...

What FF was the first to introduce the ever so deadly Tonberry? please someone help this lost soul.

[-N-]

I believe FFV.

[Bahamut2000X]

I know for a fact that FFVI had them, but I'm not sure if that was the first appearence. But I can't recall them showing up in previous FF's before VI.

[chu52]

hmmm, possibility anyone with screenshots or something?

[Sefie1999AD]

I think Tonberry first debuted in FF5. There were Tonberries in a water area where you get (SPOILER)Leviathan in the 3rd world. And didn't Ted Woolsey mistranslate Tonberry as Pug in FF6?

[nik0tine]

i thought they were in 4 but i am probably wrong. i know they are in five though.

[Ultima Shadow]

Yea, it's FFV.

[Bahamut2000X]

Ya I was thinking they were in V but I just couldn't think of anywhere they might of been.

[chu52]

thanks to you all that has been racking my brain.

[-N-]

S1999AD: Yeah, Tonberry = Pug. *gives Woolsey a hug and a cockslap*

[Storm]

Just to clear things up, the Tonberry/Pug creature in FFV was called a Dinglberry. Its battle sprite is in the attached image.

[DJZen]

Dingleberry? That's dirty! Anyhoo, Pug wasn't a mistranslation. It just wasn't a translation. Woolsey just renamed every enemy in the game (if it was him doing the enemy names, which I only suspect, I don't know for a fact). Marlboro/Morbols became Oscars. At that point there wasn't any real reason to keep monster names from one game to the next, because there were only 2 previous games, and monster and item names changed from one to the next in those games as well. FADE became White which became Pearl. Tonberry is not an English word, and I know for a fact that Woolsey's goal was to create language that was more comfortable for english speakers. In other words, change things around so that people aren't alienated by it. If he changed the name of the monster, it's probably because he suspected people would say "Tonberry? WTF is a Tonberry? Is that like a DINGLEberry? OMGLOLWTFROFLMAOBBLOMG!"