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|ja=タランザ | |ja=タランザ | ||
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|jaM=Derived | |jaM=Derived from「タランチュラ」([[wikipedia:tarantula|tarantula]]).「チュ」(''chu'' / "tu") was removed as it sounded too cute, and「〜ザ」(''-za'') was added to create ambiguity to his alignment and goals.<ref>{{cite|For instance, there’s Taranza, the mysterious silver-haired enemy who abducts King Dedede in the opening sequence. We started from the image of a tarantula, but changed the ending to make it more ambiguous – we didn’t want players to be able to tell from the name whether he was an ally or an enemy!|[[Shinya Kumazaki]]|[[List of HAL Laboratory Miiverse posts - Kirby: Triple Deluxe|Miiverse]] ([https://web.archive.org/https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAAAYUKltqk3nAA archive])}}<br>{{cite|他には、デデデ大王をさらった、銀髪のインテリお坊ちゃんの「タランザ」。 「タランチュラ」というクモが由来ではありますが、語感的に「チュ」がどうも可愛くなってしまって… そこで、敵の先兵の使い魔かはたまた巨悪か、そんなナゾを秘めたい意味も込め、「〜ザ」と、響きやイメージで考えたものもいます。<br>Another is "Taranza", the silver-haired intellectual who kidnapped King Dedede. Although it comes from "tarantula", a kind of spider, the sound of the word "chu" is too cute... so in order to create ambiguity as to whether he is a great evil or simply a minion of the enemy forces, we added "-za", which has a sound that fits that image.|[[Shinya Kumazaki]]|[https://web.archive.org/web/https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAAAYUKlS4jBL5w Miiverse (Japanese)]}}</ref> | ||
|zh=塔狼蛛 | |zh=塔狼蛛 | ||
|zhR=tǎ láng zhū | |zhR=tǎ láng zhū | ||