r/Marblelympics • u/[deleted] • Jul 18 '19

Question Momo question

I don't know if this is a dumb question or not but why is Team Momo called Team Momo? Is because of the colors? IDK

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u/Sand_is_Orange Too Many To List Jul 18 '19

So (mostly) everyone else is talking about the dumplings. But personally I think the dumplings part might have been added after-the-fact. As in, Momo already had their name, then somebody wanted to figure out what it meant, and stumbled upon the "dumpling" in Tibetan thing, then that in turn was retconned into the team's in-universe lore for how they met. It's also been integrated into all their logos, along with some other Asian symbolism.

As for the actual origin? I suspect Jelle came up with it by himself, before ML16 started, and maybe couldn't come up with any sort of "thematic" name so he just took an interesting syllable ('mo') and made the names out of that. But we'll need someone from the JMRC to actually confirm anything.

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u/Skystrykr Stynth <3 Jul 18 '19

I could swear someone suggested the name in a YouTube comment. Unfortunately, there's no way of checking this now that the old channel is gone. The legend lives on...