BombermanBoard

Duke Serkol · #4 Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 10:54 am

Dark Zaphe wrote:

Bomberman can make a peace/victory sign whenever he wants to.

Exactly, hence my theory which I will now proceed to explain:

First off, I'd like to remind everyone here that regardless of what Hudson may have made of him at this point, Bomberman originally started out as a robot.
Therefore, I imagine his hands to be covered in some kind of rubber like soft malleable polymer.
When he makes fingers, I imagine he's either altering the shape of the polymer itself, or stretching it outwards with an underlying bone like structure. The latter seems more likely since we don't see him turn his hands in weird shapes, just fingers.

Now if we go by the latter, whether Bomberman's hand are made of some rubber polymer or an elastic organic tissue, we can then presume that contrary to our hands that are naturally open when relaxed, the natural relaxed position for Bomberman's hands is to be balled up into fists and he has instead to do a conscious decision to open them (or rather to stretch out his fingers).

As for peculiar Bombermen that are displayed as having regular hands all the time, there may be different explanations. If they are cyborgs, like Bagular's creations, it may have been his design.
If they are supposed to be regular Bombers it may be chalked up to either of these possibilities:
A - If Bomberman are still to be thought of as robots to this day, then that specific Bomberman may have been designed differently.
or
B - They want to look cool by keeping their fingers outstretched. This may very well be a necessity for them to wear gloves as they would otherwise fall off were they to let their hands ball up (essentially they would be "holding their gloves" by keeping their fingers outstretched much like we would hold a remote by curling our fingers around it)

Oh by the way, yes, the above counts has evidence that I have no life.