ShopKeeper

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The ShopKeeper.

"Put that down! You don't have enough Scarabs!"

— The ShopKeeper

The ShopKeeper, or Shabunga, is a character from the Nintendo GameCube game, Star Fox Adventures. He runs the ThornTail Store in ThornTail Hollow on planet Sauria. He is a rude, bad-natured, stone-hearted creature. He is widely considered by fans to be a thief, after stealing various things, such as the Hi-Def Display Device (original owner Star Fox Team), the SnowHorn Artifact (original owner blue old SnowHorn) and Tricky's Ball (original owner Prince Tricky). He has no legs at all and thus, floats like a ghost. He also has the ability to teleport from place to another.

Quotes

• "No! That's too low."
• "I don't need business from cheapskates! Get out!"
• "Nope, I'm movin' to Cape Claw."
• "Oh, this drafty old cave!"
• "Noisy Warp Stone, gives me a headache!"
• "For 200 years I've been pushing around these goods."
• "How about playing a little game?"

Trivia

• Occasionally the ShopKeeper will mutter something about moving to Cape Claw.

• From time to time, you see him in different areas, but he will teleport away if you get too close to him.

• Instead of directly saying how much the item you want costs, he says "You pay this much" and shows the cost of the item in his gadget decorated as a Scarab. This may imply that he either doesn't know the numbers or he is just plain rude. The gadget is used to select the amount you want to pay for the item. If you enter an amount too low, the ShopKeeper will refuse. If you do this three times in a row, he will call you a cheapskate and tell Fox to leave the shop. Curiously, Fox can also pay overprice for the items, without any visible benefit.

• He is one of the few dinosaur characters in the game to not have his tribe specified.
• He's the only dinosaur that can speak to Fox without the need of a translator.
• The Shopkeeper is over 200 years old, making him the second oldest character in the series, the first being the Warpstone.