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''Star Fox'' (released as ''Starwing'' in Europe) was the very first of the ''[[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Star FoxFOX]]'' series. It was released in 1993 simultaneously as a [[Super NES]] video game and companion comic series; the comic actually began publication before the game itself was released, providing the first introduction to the game's story, setting and characters.

''Star Fox'' was the second best-selling title of the franchise, only outsold by ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|Star Fox 64]]'', ''Star Fox'''s own [[Continuity Reboot]] only four years later in 1997. ''64'' so overshadowed its predecessor that many ''Star Fox'' fans today are actually unaware of the Super NES game's existence.

A 1995 sequel, ''[[Star Fox 2 (Video Game)|Star Fox 2]]'', was completed in development, but [[Vaporware|cancelled]] and unreleased, only to be released later on the Internet as a ROM which has since been [[Fan Translation|Fan Translated]] to English.

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* [[Characterization Marches On]]: It's more accurate to say that the better-known ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|Star Fox 64]]'''s [[Continuity Reboot|rebooted]] characterization marched on from ''this''.

** 24-year old Fox was already fiercely self-reliant, having already launched his CDF career, and subsequently wrecking it (for a time) when he provoked Corneria's powers-that-be to exile him and his friends. This Fox was less [[Only in It For Thethe Money|In It For The Money]] than his rebooted incarnation, believing that the assets they stole from Andross [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules|should be liquidated]] [[Just Like Robin Hood|for the benefit of Papetoon's needy downtrodden]].

** 28-year old Falco was originally almost a decade older than his 19-year old rebooted persona in ''[[Star Fox 64]]''. He was not a [[Bishonen]], and his head sported more of a feather mohawk than the pointy tip in his later appearance. All this accomplished to make him more of a [[Big Badass Bird of Prey]] and certainly more masculine in appearance. It was specifically ''this'' incarnation of Falco that was specifically [[Expy|Expyed]] as Eric Bradley Hawthorne in ''[[The Class Menagerie]]'' ([[Hilarious in Hindsight|also]] [[Ambiguously Gay]]). One thing that didn't change much about Falco's characterization, was that he was [[Only in It For Thethe Money]] in both incarnations, and [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules|much to the annoyance]] of pre-reboot Fox.

** This 19-year old Slippy was not much older than ''64'''s 18-year old Slippy, but was notable for having no [[Viewer Gender Confusion]] whatsoever, being unambiguously male and boyish with a deep baritone voice, even while constantly wearing a bead necklace. In the reboot, when Slippy's sound become more [[Vocal Dissonance|feminine]], his appearance was made more masculine in contrast, and his trademark necklace had to go. Slippy also had a constant [[Speech Impediment|stutter]], and periodically punctuated his lines with "ribbit" -- this vanished entirely from his rebooted persona.

* [[Cute 'Em Up]]: The level 'Out of This Dimension' is to the rest of the game what ''[[Parodius]]'' is to ''[[Gradius]]''.

* [[The Exile]]: Fox McCloud Jr. and his companions were originally [[Ace Pilot|Ace Pilots]] in [[Redshirt Army|Corneria Defense Force]]. But after the incident that created the [[Unrealistic Black HoleHoles Suck|Black Hole]] and caused his father's disappearance, Fox and his friends protested. Cornerian leadership was terrified of Andross's growing power on Venom, and exiled the crew to Fox's ancestral home planet Papetoon to try to avoid Andross's wrath. [[It Got Worse|It didn't work]], and Venom soon conquered Papetoon and invaded Corneria, turning the latter into a tense warzone while Fox and his friends spent the next few years just trying to hide and survive. At the beginning of the main story, General Pepper suspended their exile and they smuggled themselves back to Corneria.

* [[Fun Withwith Acronyms]]: It's uncertain whether the '''S'''uper '''FX''' chip was named after '' '''S'''tar '''F'''o'''X''' '' or vice versa.

* [[Generation Xerox]]/[[I Am X, Son of Y]]: Fox McCloud Jr. is always being compared to his missing father Fox McCloud Sr., and in [[Flash Back|Flashbacks]] Sr. looks practically identical to adult Jr. (This was before the ''64'' [[Continuity Reboot]] gave ''James'' McCloud his trademark [[Cool Shades]].)

* [[Never Found the Body]]: The sabotage that created the [[Unrealistic Black HoleHoles Suck|Black Hole]] caused sucked Fox McCloud Sr. into it. {{spoiler|He lived.}}

* [[The Power of Rock]]: Thanks to music by Hajime Hirasawa, who left Nintendo after working on this game. The 1993 game and unreleased 1995 game had a much greater share of rock-themed soundtrack than ''[[Star Fox 64]]'' or its sequels. Some of Hirasawa's compositions were rearranged for ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'', both by him and by fellow composers like [[Kenji Ito]].

** Papetoon appears to be mostly desert with sparse arid vegetation and an exotic [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Karst |karst]] topography.

* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: Falco loathes having to be helped by Fox, even if he really needs it.

{{quote| '''Falco:''' ''(after being saved)'' Mind your own business, Fox!}}

* [[Unrealistic Black HoleHoles Suck]]/[[Our Wormholes Are Different]]/[[Warp Zone]]: Created when Andross sabotaged the device Fox McCloud Sr. was taking into the [[Asteroid Thicket|Asteroid Belt]]. The Black Hole sucked in fully a third of the Asteroid Belt, and remained in interplanetary space. Unlike real black holes, this one was fully visible as a purplish maelstrom in outer space, and it functioned more as a [[Warp Zone]] to other locations in the [[Space Zone|Lylat System]].