What was the best part of yesterday’s Splatoon 3 Nintendo Direct? Splatfests? Card games? Dressing room? Unsurprisingly, it looks like it’s Deep Cut, the game’s new music host. They are becoming a huge hit despite replacing the Squid Sisters, but one particular member of this trio has stolen the heart of the internet.
Joining the Octoling Shiver and Inkling Frye is a very large manta ray – Big Man. We’ve never seen anyone happier just to exist, really. Big Man is a mantra of few words; It seems the only word he can say is “ay”, which is really a substitute for every word imaginable because then we get a translation of what he’s actually conveying.
As one of the game’s three ‘idols’, Big Man will step up each Splatfest to represent one of the three teams. For the first piece, coming August 27, he represents ‘scissors’, which he says are ‘complicated’ and ‘work your mind’. We assume that having no hands doesn’t help either, there it is!
Look, we love him, okay? And it looks like most of the others use Twitter too. Immediately after the big manta ray was revealed in Live yesterday, people flocked to social media to share their thoughts on the latest addition to the game.
Big Man has proven so popular that he has even become part of a Twitter trend where fans of something throw the word ‘scan’ at the end of a hashtag to try and get something. something in vogue. #BIGMANSWEEP that’s then.
But Big Man not only attracted a huge fan base when he debuted, but he also received a sizable amount of fan art. We don’t blame everyone – he’s just a big, happy mantra, and we all need a little more of that in our lives.
These are just some of our favorite reactions and fanart pieces about Big Man, and we’re sure we’ll see more of them in the months and years to come.
Splatoon 3 is coming out on September 9, but you will be able to see Big Man in the game at the earliest August 27 when Splatfest World Premier access times.
Are you a Big Man fan? Let us know what you think of the male idol in the comments!
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