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! style="text-align: center;"| Domicile
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! style="text-align: center;"| Debut
| style="text-align: center;"| Email [[japanese cartoon]]<br />
<span class="small">(January 6, 2003)</span>
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! style="text-align: center;"| [[Category:Stinkoman Filmography|Complete Filmography]]
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! style="text-align: center; background: #ccccff;"| '''''Stinkoman 20X6'' Variation'''
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''This article is about the [[Characters|character]].'' ''For the [[Games|game]], see [[Stinkoman 20X6]].''

'''Stinkoman''' (occasionally spelled '''Stinko Man''') is [[Strong Bad]]'s [[20X6]] counterpart. He was introduced January 6, 2003 in the [[Strong Bad Email]] [[japanese cartoon]], serving as a parody of common [[Manga iconography|anime character design clichés]]. A sci-fi battler from the futuristic [[Planet K]], Stinkoman is vociferously obsessed with [[Challenge|challenges]] and fighting.

His trademark attack is the "[[Double Deuce|double deuce]]", which shows him holding his [[Lack of Visible Body Parts|fingerless]] fists in front of himself and shouting "DOUBLE DEUUUUUUUCE!!!" while a glowing aura surrounds him.

Stinkoman employs technology to arrange, engage in, and practice for his challenges. He has a [[Cell Phones|cell phone]] which he uses to challenge [[Marzipan]] in [[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 8.0]]. When the distance to his foes is too far, he whistles for the [[Stinkoman 20X6 Playable Characters|Stinkowing]] for transportation. Stinkoman uses his friend [[Vector Strong Bad]] as his "training simulator", as seen in [[alternate universe]], but when not preparing for upcoming challenges he relaxes by playing the NES at [[Stinkoman Headquarters]].

Stinkoman also stars in the [[Game|game]] [[Stinkoman 20X6]], the largest and most complex game on [[homestarrunner.com]].

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* [#Character_Design 1 Character Design]
* [#Fun_Facts 2 Fun Facts]
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* [#Character_Evolution 4 Character Evolution]
* [#Quotes_of_the_Week 5 Quotes of the Week]

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== <span class="mw-headline"> Character Design </span> ==

He is an amalgam of [[Anime|anime]] clichés. This includes having [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnimeHair spiky blue hair]; [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigAnimeEyes shiny big eyes]; and a mouth that is very small when closed, very large when open, and out of sync with his speech (a parody of [[Deliberately Poor English|poor dubbing]]).

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Stinkoman vs. Mega Man

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Various facets of Stinkoman's design refer specifically to characters in real-world [[Japanese popular culture]]. In particular, Stinkoman is very similar in build to the NES incarnation of [[Mega Man (character)|Mega Man]], who also had blue hair at one point. In fact, Stinkoman's sprite in ''Stinkoman 20X6'' is a modified version of the original Mega Man sprite. Elements of Stinkoman's design also recall [[Astro Boy (character)|Astro Boy]], a major influence on Mega Man. Stinkoman's lines, "Are you asking for a challenge?!" and "No way, you're just a kid! Maybe when you're older!" are very similar in both content and intonation to messages spoken by the ''[[Mega Man 8]]'' boss Tengu Man: "Are you worthy of my challenge?" and "It's just a kid, don't make me laugh!".

When Stinkoman grits his teeth, [[Plus and minus signs|plus signs (+)]] make up the cracks between them. This illustration style was common in classic Nintendo arcade art.

Stinkoman's condescending, dismissive attitude to the younger "kid" [[1-Up]] is similar to how Kaneda treats Tetsuo in the anime movie ''[[Akira]]''; his voice is somewhat similar to [[Cam Clarke|Cam Clarke's]] depiction of Kaneda in the 1989 dub. The 20X6-''Akira'' connection appears again in an Easter egg in [[3 Times Halloween Funjob]].

His charging "Double Deuce" energy attack, as well as his muscular form that makes tiny rocks float out of the ground, is similar to various powered-up attacks seen in the ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' series.

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== <span class="mw-headline"> Fun Facts </span> ==

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* The name "Stinkoman" was first heard in the email [[island]]: [[Homestar Runner]] used it as a nickname for Strong Bad.
* As [[japanese cartoon]] was released one week before [[dragon]], Stinkoman's birthday is exactly one week before [[Trogdor]]'s [[Trogday (holiday)|birthday]].
* Stinkoman is occasionally drawn with a [[Green Tongues|green tongue]].
* Stinkoman's favorite foods appear to be chicken soup with dumplings, [[Bread|bread]], [[Power Crunch|power crunches]], [[Pudding|pudding]], and [[Prawns|prawns]], as seen in Stinkoman 20X6.
** Stinkoman has a strange habit of eating dirt: in [[Under Construction]] when he tastes what he thinks is dirt (although it turns out to be pudding), and in [[time capsule]] he eats "four hundred bites of dirt" despite finding the taste unappealing.
* Most of Stinkoman's early appearances were accompanied by theme music: a cover of the track "Sunset Coastline" from the [[Nintendo|NES]] racing game ''[[Rad Racer]]'', occasionally with lyrics consisting mostly of the words "Challenge" and "Fighting" repeated.
** A full, original "[[Theme from Stinkoman]]" was written by [[Paul and Storm]], featuring interjections from Stinkoman himself alongside the lyrics. Although [[@StrongBadActual Tweets 2020|written in "like 2003"]], it went unreleased until 2020.

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[[Speed Racer]] [[3 Times Halloween Funjob Costumes|costume]] from [[3 Times Halloween Funjob]] Easter egg

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After consuming a Power Crunch in [[time capsule]]

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Stylized depiction from the ''Stinkoman 20X6'' box art

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Tongue of green

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"plus sign-endowed grill" seen in [[alternate universe]]

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"Stinko Man" Blue Ringer Shirt [[Store T-Shirts|from the Yahoo Store]]

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"Fighting and challenge tonight..."

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Concept art by [[SmallBu Animation Studio|SmallBu]] for the [[Stinkoman 20X6 Intro Cinematic]]

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Final redesign from the Intro Cinematic

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"Double Deuce" shirt by Jorge M. Velez for [[Fangamer]]

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[[Decemberweenvent Calendar Character Variations|A Decemberween tradition!]]

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Are you asking for an [[Decemberweenvent Calendar Character Variations|off-character-model challenge?!]]

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== <span class="mw-headline"> Character Evolution </span> ==

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| First design of Stinkoman
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| [[japanese cartoon]]; [[Main Page 17]]
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| Second Stinkoman
| 2003
| Toons from [[20X6 vs. 1936]]; various [[Strong Bad Emails]] starting with [[time capsule]]; [[Stinkoman 20X6]]
| Pants lighter colored and shaded; arms appear slightly longer, thinner and set higher up; his pants are also shinier.
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| 2008
| Toons from [[Twenty THANXty Six]]
| Highlights and shading are more detailed — pants now have shadow, circular highlights are two-tone, red shadows are lighter and slightly smaller, and the blue half-domes on his boots have more detail. His pants, body, boots and hands are animated more smoothly.
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