Squidguts

Squidguts
Squidguts in the anime.
English Voice Actor(s):	Terry McGurrin
Japanese Voice Actor(s):	Harii Kaneko
Medabot(s)	Various
Gender	Male
Race	Human

Squidguts, known in Japanese as Shiokara (シオカラ), real name Guido Guttaluchi (シオカ ライゾウ, Shioka Raizou in Japanese),^[1][2] is a character from the Medabots series.

Description

Squidguts is the oldest of the four cadres of the Rubberobo Gang, playing the role of the team's "muscle". The polar opposite of Shrimplips, he has trouble with kids, and is a firm believer in senior superiority. Called upon whenever brute force is required, Squidguts is sadly good for little else, being infamous for his stupidity, even among the scatterbrained legions of the Rubberobo Gang.

Despite his low intelligence, Squidguts is very much aware of both his own shortcomings and the fact that the Rubberrobo Gang is simply not very good at being villains. He briefly considered leaving the gang to start over and find a new career, but was inavertantly persuaded to instead become a better villain by Karin.

Appearances

Medarot 2 and Medabots (GBA)

Squidguts first appears on Mt. Odoro, being the first of the four Rubberobo Gang leaders Ikki Tenryou Robattles with. Ikki gains a Medal after his defeat. He is also fought in the quest to obtain the Cat Medal and in the Rubberobo Gang hideout.

In the Kabuto/Metabee version, his main Medabot is Dashbutton, a boar type, and he also has Giggly Jelly. Ikki gains the Spider Medal after defeating him for the first time.

In the Kuwagata/Rokusho version, his main Medabot is Aviking, a giant squid type. In Medarot 2 he also has a Specter. Ikki gains the Phoenix Medal after defeating him for the first time.

Medarot 3

He has three Passghouls.

Medarot 4

Under his real name, Shiokara was working as a loud instructor at the Sazanka Dojo in Sazanka Town. When it is discovered he was behind the Medarots causing trouble in the town, Ikki faces Shiokara alongside Retort and Homare. Like the previous game, he has three Passghouls.

Medabots AX

Squidguts has Crimson King as his main Medabot, and he also has a Belzelga with Crimson King arms.

Medabots Infinity

In this game Squidguts uses Aviking, a giant squid type Medabot.

Medarot DS

Medarot 7

Medarot Dual

Shiokara appears in one of the downloadable missions. His Medarot is Nio-Heiko.

Medarot S: Unlimited Nova

In the main story he is fought on chapters 7 and 20. His Medabot is a Gobanko with a Bear Medal, and he is accompanied by Wild Ukon (Cat Medal) and Hippopo (Moon Medal) in the first Robattle, and by Badhacker (Cockroach Medal) and Shisaku 2-Gou (Elephant Medal) in the second.

In the retelling of Medarot 2 he is fought on chapters 2 and 5, and twice on chapter 11. His main Medabot is a Dashbutton with a Knight Medal, and he is accompanied by two Medabots with the heads from Dashbutton, the arms and legs from Giggly Jelly, and Tortoise Medals. In the second battle from chapter 11 he uses two Avikings with Sniper Medals and a full Giggly Jelly with a Tortoise Medal.

He is also available as a Medafighter equipment.

Other media

Anime

Squidguts is a bumbling and incompetent member of the Rubberobo Gang that sometimes caused more difficulty for his fellow Rubberobos than to his enemies, such as when he found Metabee's Kabuto Medal and placed it on Agadama in For Better, For Worse - Part I and II, and when he accidentally revealed that the zoo was run by the Rubberobos in The Birds and the Metabees. After each of the four top members got a new Medabot from their leader, Squidguts got Gobanko and proved to be a powerful Medafighter, although he was unsuccessful in defeating Ikki and Metabee.

Etymology

Shiokara (塩辛, lit. 'salty-spicy') is a food in Japanese cuisine made from various marine animals that consists of small pieces of meat in a brown viscous paste of the animal's heavily salted, fermented viscera. This includes the guts from squids, possibly being the origin of his English name.

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