{"id":353039,"date":"2022-12-07T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T21:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/?p=353039"},"modified":"2022-12-07T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T17:40:17","slug":"travis-touchdown-original-name-luke-suda51-no-more-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/travis-touchdown-original-name-luke-suda51-no-more-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Touchdown’s original nickname was, it seems, pure Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Add copyright law to the list of things Travis has almost sh*t on<\/h2>\n

Travis Touchdown<\/em><\/a> and the No More Heroes<\/em><\/a> series both turned 15 this week and, to celebrate, franchise creator SUDA51 shared some unique information<\/a> about his murderous mascot. Even longtime fans of the franchise such as myself were shocked.<\/p>\n

My Japanese is lousy, but I can read the language well enough to recognize the characters “Ru-Ku” in the image above. That translates to English as “Luke”, which alone would have been enough to make Lucasfilm’s lawyers foam at the mouth. Reading through the blurb is a little tougher for me, but per a confirmed A.I, translation from NMH<\/em> super fan Travis Dies Every Day<\/a>, the full text reads:<\/p>\n

“Modern Jedi Master ‘Luke’. Danshiya ‘Luke’. His real name is Travis Touchdown. A geek and a thug of the hitman business, I will take on any boring killing. There is no creed at all. I go to the mall four times a week. In other words, if you don’t have work, you don’t have time, and you don’t have friends.”<\/p>\n

“He runs danshi [boy?] with homemade sabers. All [of] his weapons, Naomi is making. He is currently ranked 11th in the UAA rankings. Fanatical fan of Japanese anime, especially the witch system is a favorite. Now I love it. I love T-shirts.”<\/p>\n

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Anyone who’s played the series knows that this isn’t too far from how the actual in-game dialogue might sound. Other than the gun in his left hand, and the overt announcement that Travis is, in-fact, a Jedi named after Luke Skywalker, all of this could, plausibly, have been official!<\/p>\n

And wait a minute, wasn’t SUDA51’s company rumored to be working on an Aliens game<\/a>? That franchise is just one degree of legal separation from Star Wars<\/em>! Maybe gun-toting Travis with this Skywalking nickname still has a chance of making it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Add copyright law to the list of things Travis has almost sh*t on Travis Touchdown and the No More Heroes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":353136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"article_type":"","ub_ctt_via":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[609,352,1923,353,20229,15536],"internal-label":[],"invoiceable_action":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[{"id":19,"display_name":"Jonathan Holmes","user_nicename":"jonathan-holmes"}],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/TravisLukeSwdW.jpg?fit=1000%2C500","author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Holmes","author_link":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/author\/jonathan-holmes\/"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/TravisLukeSwdW.jpg?fit=1000%2C500","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353039"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353173,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353039\/revisions\/353173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353039"},{"taxonomy":"internal-label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-label?post=353039"},{"taxonomy":"invoiceable_action","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/invoiceable_action?post=353039"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=353039"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=353039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}