Angry Birds Evolution

All of AB's "LGBTQ+ Representation" is just slapping labels on a disposable minor character that will be barely used outside of their debut game/media, or solely exist for twitter brownie points. The first example of this is when they gave the J.K. Rowling "Dumbledore is gay" treatment to 3 birds in Pride month of 2018: https://twitter.com/AngryBirds/status/1012706772077776896

Notice how all 3 of the birds all haven't appeared in anything significant since AB Evolution and their "queerness" is only stated on social media, not even a HINT in the game itself.

The next instance of Rovio's disposable "representation" is Dusk, who didn't even get a proper name until 628 days after their textless 2022 comic. The proper context to their backstory and their personality is still unknown.

Out of the 2 Token Nonbinary characters, Jo's the most "fleshed out". Well... as fleshed out as a DeviantArt/Tumblr Oc (ie: They have one of those Buzzfeed quiz personalities and is the only bird to have a canon age).

They're a great value version of Willow that dances. Their Grandpa Tom and they are activists because Rovio doesn't know "All Squares are rectangles, but not rectangles are squares" means. Outside of the Movie Universe, who's Jo and their deceased grandpa acting against to protect/obtain lgbt rights? Since they're birds, the Piggy Kingdom would rather steal their eggs than persecute them for being queer (With how simple pig society is , they probably wouldn't put in the effort to make anti-lgbt laws in the first place). The bird population on Piggy Island isn't big enough to need laws, Gale most likely views everyone as equally below her and Eagle island is completely out of the question. Is there a secret homophobic bird society we haven't heard of? Is that where Melody is from?

Side tangent aside, Rovio would do anything but say "[X main flock member] is bi" for rep. The closest thing they've got to making any significant character LGBT was Stella X Gale in a scrapped game turned APRIL FOOLS joke, and when they "accidentally" gave Matilda a gf BEFORE choosing to make her female.

Honorable Mention:

The Pride Flags from the Birdsona maker were removed in February of 2024, which could've been explained with "Oh, it was just seasonal" ...if the Christmas stuff was left intact. They were re-added after the backlash, but probably as a PR move instead of being out of genuine care.

Conclusion:

Rovio is one of many corporate entities who pretend about LGBT during for the sake of brownie points and do the bare minimum in terms of "rep"

He-hey, look who stumbled upon this place again? Either way, I've kind of already left, as you can tell, as I’m very occasionally lurking here. But that doesn’t stop me from really wanting to finish this series. I've got plans to combine the entry about the generic puzzle games in one, but I haven't played like half of them, so I'll have to do that first. Along with that, I also want to make an entry for Journey, Bad Piggies, Stella and possibly Reloaded with the help of some people who do own an iPhone, since I don't. I don’t know if I need to disclose this, but the original series were by Mike4678. Hey and to add to this mess of an intro, most of this post is just me nitpicking small things and complaining about everything that I can complain about, so this post is not entirely true to my actual opinions. Now, with that out of the way, let’s err get evolvin’?

1. Ah, Angry Birds Evolution, a.k.a. Angry Birds Action 2: Electric Boogaloo

2. This game tries way too hard to be all edgy. Remember what happened when SEGA tried to be edgy? Yeah, the result wasn’t that great.

3. The original flock wasn’t present in the story initially, but rather only available as event characters that are stupidly difficult to obtain without emptying your wallet, so later, they added lower power versions of said characters just so that they’re still present in the story. But the 5-star event variants of these characters are still available in events. That’s kind of forced, innit?

4. Clans really feel like they’re just there for that one clan quest thing. Seriously tough, that’s it? No donating?

5. The Blues don’t appear outside of some weird mecha thingy, despite the blue colored characters obviously being based off of them

6. So, the characters just sorta take a snooze cruise after attacking? Like, c’mon, is running around that exhausting that you freaking fall asleep on the battlefield?

7. The white bird ability is nowhere based off of Matilda. Apparently it’s hard to stay consistent with everything else?

8. The roadblock quests are genuinely a pain in the butt, they just give a feeling of story and do nothing else besides slowing down the game’s pace. Period.

9. You can mess up a sequence where a pig is supposed to escape by killing him with overlevelled birds, so what does the game do? Turn a blind eye and pretend that he did escape successfully. Scripted events are hard to make, I know.

10. Terence with a tuxedo is both the best thing that I ever wanted and really disturbing.

11. No Hal? No Stella? No Bubbles? No Ki- Okay you know what, scratch that, I’m gonna be busy all day if I don’t stop with this now

12. You can’t change your slogan for arena banner fights, resulting in the slogan “you’ll never defeat my awesome team of birds” always displaying under these circumstances. Quite cringy, innit?

13. Apparently you can hatch adult birds from eggs. Cool

14. Also this game has a gacha system because money

15. King Pig as well as Leonard have been snapped out of existence and replaced by this generic rich pig dude

16. The pigs have turned berserk because of some weird poison thing. Hmm, I wonder where that plot point’s been used before?

17. The game just starts recycling stuff after you’ve completed it, and the worst part is that they try to hide it. Seriously, a decent amount of games do this, but they at least admit to it.

18. The music is a bit more on the generic side

19. Like all games with this rarity-based gacha system, low rarity birds fall off faster than the school grades of your average school bully

20. Most designs are a bit too realistic, which ends up with them looking a bit eerie

21. Also, most birds are generic, forgettable and lack personality

22. Due to the 2 branch-evolution system, you are allowed to own and use multiple of the same bird. Quite logical.

23. The voice lines are really annoying, and they didn’t make any unique voice lines for anyone

24. I have no idea why this game has a backstab mechanic gimmick

25. Okay, the game is overly edgy, the plot and characters are generic, the gameplay loop gets stale faster than a bottle of milk outside of the fridge, and the entire dam- I mean freaking game is a cash grab, you hear me?

Okay, expect me to release the next parts within a span of now until February at most, and afterwards I’m probably going to move on from this place (and possibly from the Discord server too)

Previous Parts:

Part 1: Angry Birds

Part 2: Angry Birds Seasons

Part 3: Angry Birds Rio

Part 4: Angry Birds Friends

Part 5: Angry Birds Space

Part 6: Angry Birds Star Wars

Part 7: Angry Birds Star Wars II

Part 8: Angry Birds Go!

Part 9: Angry Birds Epic

Part 10: Angry Birds Transformers

Part 11: Angry Birds Fight!

Part 12: Angry Birds 2

Part 13: Angry Birds Action

I just found this on the app store (implying ab evolution)

Should I add anything?

If you have the game of course

Is this officially our clan?

Angry birds evolution is its own universe, like reloaded, because it has classic red, chuck, bomb, and pig. Please someone fix this on the movie dimension tab at the bottom of things from movie dimension (see below).