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Hippo Model

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Hippo Model
Hippo Model LA Switch screenshot.jpg
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.

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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