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Hippo Model
| Hippo Model | |
|---|---|
 The Hippo Model in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening for Nintendo Switch | |
| First appearance | The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993) |
| Latest appearance | The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019) |
| Species | Hippo |
- “Leave me alone! I'm trying to sit still so Schule can paint my portrait!”
- – Hippo Model, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
The Hippo Model is a minor character in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. She is a female hippo wearing a yellow ribbon on her head. The Hippo Model appears in Schule Donavitch's studio in Animal Village, posing for a painting. If Link approaches her as the painting is being worked on, she sits down and looks the other way, demanding Link go away. In the Nintendo Switch remake, she specifies that she must be still while being painted.
In the Japanese version for both the Game Boy and Game Boy Color versions, the Hippo Model is posing nude for a painting. She has an exposed pair of breasts and has a towel covering the lower half of her body. This was censored in English releases of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening and all western releases of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX, where she is instead given a featureless torso. The censorship is altered in the Nintendo Switch remake, where she again has a large bosom, but has it entirely covered by a toga.
Gallery[edit]
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening sprite
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX sprite
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX sprite (Japan version)
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | モデルのカバ Moderu no Kaba |
Modeling Hippo |
| Spanish | Hipa | Hipa |
| French | hippopotame modèle | Hippopotamus model |
| Dutch | nijlpaard | hippopotamus |
| German | Hippo-Model | Hippo Model |
| Italian | ippopotama modella | Hippopotamus model |
| Russian | бегемотиха-модель begemotikha-model' |
Hippopotamus model |
| Korean | 모델 하마 Model Hama |
Model Hippo |
| Chinese | 模特儿河马 (China) / 模特兒河馬 (Taiwan) Mótè ér hémǎ |
Modeling Hippo |
