Huascar Bent Wing – Angry Birds
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Huascar_Bent_Wing
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:Aggravated_Avians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_Birds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%C3%A1scar
Acan Winefeather has sent you to look at the Avian Hatchery. One of the eggs was stolen. Huascar, a green Piggle, stole an Avian Egg and will make a meal of it if you don’t stop him.
It was suggested that because Huascar Bent Wing is green this is a reference to Dr. Seuss’ “Green Eggs and Ham”. That is a possibility, however; given the name of the Quest, “Aggravated Avians”, the similarity to the story line of the app, and the fact that the pigs in Angry Birds were originally green. I think Angry Birds is the more distinct possibility.
Angry Birds is a Finnish action, puzzle, and strategy based media franchise created by Rovio Entertainment. The game series focuses on the eponymous flock of colorful angry birds who try to save their eggs from green-colored pigs. Inspired by the game Crush the Castle, the game has been praised for its successful combination of fun gameplay, comical style, and low price. Its popularity led to many spin-offs; versions of Angry Birds created for PCs and video game consoles, a market for merchandise featuring its characters, Angry Birds Toons, a televised animated series, and two films; The Angry Birds Movie and its sequel The Angry Birds Movie 2. By January 2014, there had been over 2 billion downloads of the nearly 30 sequel games across all platforms, including both regular and special editions.
By July 2015, the series’ games had been downloaded more than 3 billion times collectively, making it the most downloaded freemium game series of all time. The original Angry Birds has been called “One of the most mainstream games out right now”, “One of the great runaway hits of 2010”, and “The largest mobile app success the world has seen so far”. The first main-series video game sequel, Angry Birds 2, was released on July 30, 2015.
The first game in the series was initially released on December 11, 2009 for iOS. At the time, the 2009 swine flu epidemic was in the news, so the staff decided to use pigs as the enemies of the Angry Birds. The company released ports of the game to other touchscreen smartphone operating systems, including Android. In early 2019, all remaining Angry Birds games released before October 2014 (with the exception of Friends) were discontinued and removed from app stores, though Bad Piggies was added back in early 2020. A recreated version of the original Angry Birds game known as Rovio Classics: Angry Birds came to mobile platforms on March 31, 2022.
Why was the name Huascar chosen? The only references I can find are either it is the Spanish word for a water cannon truck or Huáscar Inca (before 1527 – 1532). Huáscar was Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire from 1527 to 1532. He succeeded his father, Huayna Capac and his brother Ninan Cuyochi, both of whom died of smallpox while campaigning near Quito.
The current list of all the (known) Azteca references are located here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages.
Huascar Bent Wing image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Angry Birds image is (c) Rovio Entertainment
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