- Tom Nook -

Pit: Lady Palutena, can you now PLEASE explain why there's a raccoon with an apron messing around here?
Palutena: His name is Tom Nook. And he's not a raccoon. To be more accurate, he's a tanooki.
Pit: Tonooke?
Palutena: It's tanooki. Tanooki's are japanese raccoon dogs. Obviously, Tom Nook's name even suggests this, hm?

*Pit isn't certainly impressed by the way Nook fights: The raccoon dog hits other opponents with everyday tools like a shovel or a net.*

Pit: Um, do they also use everyday tools for beating others?
Palutena: No, they don't. Actually, according to many myths of the Japanese folklore, tanookis are mischievous masters of disguise, using only a one leaf to shape-shift into anything imaginable.
Pit: Anything possible?! as in, ANYTHING?
Palutena: Yes yes... or so is rumored.
Pit: Then that raccoon has more gifts bestowed upon him than he knows. Why won't he use his skill of shape-shifting then? You know, instead of throwing around money, shooting with a slingshot, either digging up fossils with his shovel or whacking people with it, flailing around with a fishing rod, or something else very normal! He acts like a very ordinary individual who's gone crazy instead of a tanooki!
Palutena: This might then interest you Pit: while Tom Nook appears to be quite goldhearted upon ones he meets, he's a very well-known, determined businessman. This tanooki you're fighting against runs a huge marketing business in his country, the Animal Island.
Pit: *Completely surprised* Woooah. That is... completely new. I guess he didn't bother putting on more wealthy clothes for battle.
Palutena: And just adding, he even provides houses for the new residents of the Animal Island, though it's usual habit for him to never tell beforehand how costly the houses are before they make it in their new home. Despite all this, they must pay him a loan for it, they wanted it or not. He really seems to be slightly twisted for a businessman, yes?
Pit: I think I'll take it back. He is a tanooki. Also known as greedy jerks in a cute sheep's cloth.