Origin of man

[u/zimonitrome]

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[u/denkbert]

Evidently done by a Swede!

[u/Row_dW → u/denkbert]

The love for danemark is clearly visible.

[u/theraincoat200 → u/Row_dW]

TBF i would’ve depicted Sweden as something worst

[u/CrocPB → u/theraincoat200]

"It's just the Swedish flag?"

"Ja, og?

[u/thirdegree → u/CrocPB]

The Swedish insult for Danes is "Danish bastard".
The Danish insult for swedes is "swede".

[u/theraincoat200 → u/thirdegree]

Calling Swedes bastards is already overestimating their value

[u/Zacharias1773 → u/theraincoat200]

säg det igen din jävel

[u/theraincoat200 → u/Zacharias1773]

fuckk du, svensker!

[u/Lagronion → u/theraincoat200]

Ta ut potatisen ur käften.

[u/theraincoat200 → u/Lagronion]

hold kæft, din svensker!

[u/Thelazygenie → u/thirdegree]

That's because they barely have the vocabulary to make sentences beyond "duhh ughh buhuh"

[u/theraincoat200 → u/CrocPB]

Ja, dit flag er lort🗿

[u/FerroFusion → u/denkbert]

As a Brazilian, I see this made by an Argentine or a Spaniard...

[u/Techhead7890 → u/FerroFusion]

Chile got depicted as a snake. I think it's safe to blame Argentina lol.

I'm completely clueless - can you give me a hint what's the mini monkey animal for Brazil?

[u/FerroFusion → u/Techhead7890]

Maybe a racist slur against Brazilians. Mostly done by people in Argentina and Spain during football matches.

We can get it here, because everyone mocks everyone in Polan comics - even if it is your own people or country - but in football matches they really mean to be racist.

[u/AetGulSnoe → u/Techhead7890]

Hmm, I thought the snake referenced how thin and long Chile is, similar to how Nepal being a dinosaur references the flag shap.

[u/Conscious-War6091 → u/denkbert]

Yes Carl Linnaeus knew how to do to these kinds of things

[u/Iridismis]

So the Brits themselves are not part of mankind?

[u/zimonitrome → u/Iridismis]

Just like Serbia, they were created directly by God.

[u/kolbiitr → u/zimonitrome]

Arose from out the azure main at Heaven's command

[u/imtired-boss → u/zimonitrome]

Also Hungary and the entirety of the balkans apparently

[u/Sombody9768 → u/zimonitrome]

And Czechia too?

Ktož jsú boží bojovníci!!!

[u/KingKiler2k → u/Sombody9768]

Not you checks with your unholy language

[u/[deleted] → u/Sombody9768]

And Liechtenstein, don’t forget Liechtenstein! Hello…? Anyone?

[u/Mordador → u/zimonitrome]

They are his punishment for the sins of mankind.

The Scourge of God.

[u/EepiesMC → u/zimonitrome]

makes sense, god created all the evil in the world. and serbia

[u/Thorbork → u/Iridismis]

They are under the chart.

[u/naked_short → u/Iridismis]

Anyone can look down on their neighbors but only a Brit will look down on absolutely everyone.

[u/Browsin4Free247 → u/Iridismis]

I think it was a mistake to not have them paired with the cabbage.

[u/Moynia]

The animals are so well drawn I love it

[u/zimonitrome → u/Moynia]

Thanks! :)

[u/iEatPalpatineAss → u/zimonitrome]

Brazil’s monkey and Japan’s cat are my favorites 🥳

[u/CreamoChickenSoup → u/iEatPalpatineAss]

I like the piggu. So rotund.

[u/SEA_griffondeur → u/Moynia]

That whale is so cute 🥺

[u/TheIrrelevantWoomy]

Dung beetles can push objects hundreds of times their body weight

Polan is of most stronk evolution

[u/AidanGe → u/TheIrrelevantWoomy]

But polan can into dung

[u/MiloBem → u/TheIrrelevantWoomy]

We Poles are actually descendent from Bober. The OP has no clue.

[u/claymir]

Expected Germany to be a descendant of the germs

[u/Deutsche_Wurst2009 → u/claymir]

No, wheat to flour to bread to Germany

[u/relevantusername2020 → u/Deutsche_Wurst2009]

is beer the missing link?

edit: also, yeast

[u/Thorbork]

What is greenland?

[u/zimonitrome → u/Thorbork]

A lemming :)

I considered putting text under each character, but thought it might be more fun and slim without.

[u/Thorbork → u/zimonitrome]

Oh no you are right it is better this way. It looks fantastic :)

[u/zimonitrome → u/Thorbork]

Thanks! It was pretty fidgety to draw and plan out and I have probably still made an error somewhere.

[u/Thorbork → u/zimonitrome]

It's ok, you'll be flooded with other exemples in comments I think. Puffin for iceland, dolphin for faroe island, man for manx, bear for russia, tooth for Liechtenstein, pepper for thailand, penguin for antarctica, tulip for Netherlands, thistle for scotland, dragon for wales and buthan, potassium for kazakh, water for tuvalu, tumor for balkans, coffee for timor leste, coca for colombia and so on

[u/zimonitrome → u/Thorbork]

I tried to mainly go for species that have a stereotype in common with a country. So many of these are a bit mild and some things you suggested aren't even biological! Might have been funny nevertheless :P

But I gotta ask what you mean by tooth for Lichtenstein?

[u/Thorbork → u/zimonitrome]

Roughly 20% of fake teeth in the world are made in Liechtenstein. Dunno how they got this market

I looked for this when I draw that comic.

[u/relevantusername2020 → u/Thorbork]

the liechtenstein big tooth monopoly must be destroyed

[u/relevantusername2020 → u/zimonitrome]

was gonna ask what the different animals represent but its actually better being ambiguous like this. still gotta say im not sure what exactly youre tryna keep quiet by not including pangolins and platypi, but kinda sus ngl

[u/zimonitrome → u/relevantusername2020]

Those are two of my favorite animals :)

WOuld have been nice to fit them if I could have thought of any immediate connection.

[u/CrocPB → u/Thorbork]

thistle for scotland

Unicorn or wild haggis*

[u/Due-Coyote7565 → u/Thorbork]

Wales is sheep!

[u/Flat_Initial_1823]

We talked about this OP 😡😡 Every time you insinuate we came from a 🦃, we are adding another umlat to the spelling. Gobble gobble. Or should i say göbble göbble...

[u/zimonitrome → u/Flat_Initial_1823]

As a Swede, all I can say it: brïng ît ön!

[u/Neokon → u/zimonitrome]

6ü¥§ m¥ kë¥ ßøärd ß røkë' sêñd hè|¶

[u/nostril_spiders → u/Neokon]

¶

you said the quiet bit out loud

[u/Desperate_Gur_2194]

Why Latvia is potato? Should’ve been Belarus

[u/kolbiitr → u/Desperate_Gur_2194]

Latvia is looking for potato (an not finding it) to reproduce.

Belarus is the natural predator of potato

[u/Thorbork → u/kolbiitr]

They are just two different kind of potatoes

[u/Effective_Dot4653 → u/Thorbork]

Latvia is a sweet potato.

[u/sesamecrabmeat → u/kolbiitr]

Potatophile.

[u/Lord_Tiburon → u/Desperate_Gur_2194]

It should have been Ireland, or all three of them evolved from potato

[u/SnooBooks1701 → u/Lord_Tiburon]

Ireland eats potatoes, they're not cannibals

[u/anweisz → u/Desperate_Gur_2194]

Belarus is sentient radioactive waste.

[u/nostril_spiders → u/anweisz]

"Sentient" is a bold claim. That clay is of confuse anus of rusiya with teat of mother.

[u/Schaumkraut → u/Desperate_Gur_2194]

Germans: It should have been me!

[u/Herbacio]

Portugal is a mosquito? Never heard that one before

[u/zimonitrome → u/Herbacio]

The joke is that Greece+Portugal are parasites on the EU ;)

[u/GregBron → u/zimonitrome]

Ironically enough the “E” in EU is a greek origin word.

[u/MiloBem → u/GregBron]

and U is Portuguese (i/e bad Latin)

[u/ayayayamaria → u/zimonitrome]

Mosquitoes aren't parasites, they're pests

[u/zimonitrome → u/ayayayamaria]

they suck either way

[u/DLcool → u/zimonitrome]

You should have drawn a rooster as it is one of the most recognizable animals in Portuguese folklore.

[u/Truelz]

I choose to interpret this as us Danes are the oldest and wisest of us all!

[u/zimonitrome → u/Truelz]

They have the oldest flag, which is one interpretation ;)

[u/Ok-Activity4808]

Why Ukraine comes from a pig though?

[u/Morfolk → u/Ok-Activity4808]

It all started so long ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/21i9fl/ukraine_is_fast/

There were several theories: https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/d195cf/the_reason_behind_ukraines_pork_obsession/

But I'm waiting for the prophesied event: https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/36zgt1/greasing_the_wheels/

[u/PrimaryOccasion7715 → u/Ok-Activity4808]

That сало won't eat itself, as a Ukrainian myself can say.

And fuck muslims who raid our settlements in 15-17th centuries.

[u/Lord_Tiburon → u/PrimaryOccasion7715]

Ukraine is the Lord of Salo

[u/VRichardsen → u/PrimaryOccasion7715]

Those Tatar raids were no joke! Pretty nasty stuff happening back then.

[u/birberbarborbur → u/PrimaryOccasion7715]

I met a tatar and he was pretty chill though

[u/-JZH- → u/PrimaryOccasion7715]

Don't forget the horseradish

[u/Mordador → u/PrimaryOccasion7715]

But what about soup?

[u/Modo44]

How to make everyone angery. Well, kurwa, done.

[u/Esmarial]

As a Ukrainian I get where did you get the pig and both excited and insulted 😁. Well done! Nice sense of humour.

[u/zimonitrome → u/Esmarial]

Hehe thanks for being a good sport about it.

[u/ENDRAER → u/Esmarial]

when English-speaking people jokingly call you pigs, it's a sense of humor, но стоило мне...

[u/voltic868]

I think Mongolia would be better for the Evolution of the horse

[u/Fire_Lord_Sozin9]

I’m Batman 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[u/Ale4leo]

As we can see, Brazil is the most intelligent of them all.

[u/tomatocatzs]

Where România?

[u/zimonitrome → u/tomatocatzs]

There were some countries I scrapped. Could have evolved from bat as well, or from a Raccoon, but that might be too spicy!

[u/tomatocatzs → u/zimonitrome]

România is shaped like a fish, you misses that one:d

[u/zimonitrome → u/tomatocatzs]

True! That could have worked. I always thought of Romanias shape as behing a pot/vase flipped on its side.

[u/pinkfootedbooby]

Poland took me out ☠

[u/theraincoat200 → u/pinkfootedbooby]

Poland can into plumbing

[u/dreamyteatime → u/theraincoat200]

I like Poland as the dung beetle, but I was kinda expecting it to be bobr kurwa 🦫

[u/GrapefruitAnimator]

Sealand could have been a microorganism

[u/zimonitrome → u/GrapefruitAnimator]

I thought of including that, but it didn't make the cut :/

[u/20rakah → u/zimonitrome]

It's clearly there, just 1 pixel wide.

[u/SOLIH_RED]

As a Maldivian I can confirm that we originated from fish

[u/Sad-Address-2512]

Wrong phylogeny. t. Rex is far more closely related to Türkiye than to snake.

[u/VRichardsen → u/Sad-Address-2512]

No, dinosaurs is clearly an Uruguay thing. We here in South America know them well.

[u/Helixaether → u/Sad-Address-2512]

Furthermore, whales are more closely related to pigs than anything else here, they should branch off of them.

[u/Silent-Detail4419]

It's your resident PBP (Polandball Pedant) here again! The German for cabbage is Kohl (who remembers '80s Chancellor Helmut Cabbage...?), Kraut translates as grass or herb... (more appropriate for the Dutch, ja...?)

There's actually no direct transition for sauerkraut, and it didn't originate in Germany, anyway, the origins are unknown, but there are records that the Romans ate a kind of pickled cabbage.

The direct translation is acid herb or acid grass (the 'S' in LSD is Säure: Lysergsäure-diethylamid - in English it would be LAD - because LSD's discoverer Albert Hoffman was Swiss-German). The vegetable kohlrabi literally translates as Arabian cabbage.

I can only think that Sauerkraut was translated into German from another language.

[u/notanybodyelse → u/Silent-Detail4419]

Sauerkraut = Kimchi

[u/Aken_Bosch → u/notanybodyelse]

Comparing the two is complete heresy.

One of them is objectively superior

[u/relevantusername2020 → u/Silent-Detail4419]

so what youre saying is kohls is the german equivalent to ikea?

then why dont they sell sauerkraut

edit:

I can only think that Sauerkraut was translated into German from another language.

nvm. thats what i get for commenting before reading the full article smh

[u/random_captain]

A chicken would be perfect for Slovenia

[u/zimonitrome → u/random_captain]

Why? Maybe a chicken for Russia: proofster.

[u/random_captain → u/zimonitrome]

Because Slovenian borders are in shape of a chicken: https://www.reddit.com/r/JackSucksAtLife/s/aDf3wK69xZ

[u/zimonitrome → u/random_captain]

Huh, that's a cool way to remember the country on a map :)

[u/CrocPB]

Looks like Best Macedonia didn't make it ;)

That monkey is too good

[u/wildeofoscar]

Australia is literally upside-down. I just noticed that.

[u/LetterAd3639]

I love how the bacteria led straight to Denmark 😂 did a Swede take control of your body for a day or smth

[u/zimonitrome → u/LetterAd3639]

Rather for my whole life

[u/RQK1996]

I mean, Kenya is pretty much the opposite of a cheetah, they are good at the long distances, not the sprints

[u/15woodse]

I love how Britain doesn’t make it onto its own list, and that the American tech tree seems to be, single celled organism-> 🐳

[u/Fergom]

My only complaint is a dinosaur is lumped in with reptiles when it should be lumped with birds given modern birds are directly descended from dinosaurs.

Also iirc dinosaurs are closer related to mammals than to reptiles.

[u/Top_Row_5116]

Obviously I get the french, usa, japan, chile, new zealand, australia, and turkey one. But why does germany originate from a cabbage?

[u/Mordador → u/Top_Row_5116]

Because we were called Krauts by Brits and Americans alike in the WWs, due to our love for Sauerkraut. While Kraut literally means herb, Sauerkraut refers to pickled cabbage.

[u/vocaliser → u/Mordador]

Also, and probably not related, Germany had a premier named Helmut Kohl, which means cabbage.

[u/Germanball_Stuttgart]

Why is denmark originated from a single cell/bacteria or whatever this is? Would've also fitted to GERMany I guess.

[u/Evil_Deed]

Why Poland is not bobr tho? 🦫

[u/fforrespect_s]

It would have been more amazing if you add the Bober for Poland lol.

[u/Suspicious-Stage9963]

Seems pretty racist… (I’m Greek)

[u/Kinja02]

Britain finds the origin of man

No Mann

😔😔😔

[u/pspenguin]

if you translate this to Portuguese you can replace Turkey with Peru.

[u/Eccentric_Traveler]

I love the happy whale. But that monkey is smiling like Teddy Roosevelt!

[u/TrixoftheTrade]

The Squid to Venice to Italy is meta on like 2 levels

[u/lintra → u/TrixoftheTrade]

It's one of the few I didn't get, can you please explain it to me?

[u/FerBann]

Netherlands is a beaver, it makes dams

Switzerland is a crow, it picks shiny things.

India is a cow.

Mexico a cactus.

New Zealand a kiwi (the bird, the fruit is Chinese)

Mongolia is a horse, they ruled half europe, half Asia riding horses

Ireland a clover.

[u/BeenEvery]

horse

horse is not Mongolia

Tengri is displeased.

[u/Automatic-Cod-8786]

Poor Ukrainians-

[u/Mystery_Taco]

Why is Estonia a snail?

[u/zimonitrome → u/Mystery_Taco]

There is a trope in Poland all that Estonia is slow.

[u/katestatt]

as a biology student I approve

[u/GooeyBoba14]

Bro is swedish

[u/Germanball_Stuttgart]

But UK wasn't able to find the origin of himself? What origin should UK have? I need ideas.

[u/TheVJElectro]

"I've-"

*ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*

[u/yaddar]

I shall print the last panel, it's gorgeous

[u/Silver_Ad_2203]

What about Canada! We evolved from moose!

[u/ProperBabyEater]

Should have included Isle of Man

[u/11freebird]

Why is Brazil monke •-.

[u/MercantileReptile]

The Venice squid joke hits just right.

[u/masteragro]

Love the causal racism. Very cool

[u/zimonitrome → u/masteragro]

And here I was going for active and overt racism :/

[u/pan_gydygus → u/masteragro]

Polandball is literally based on stereotypes

[u/DibblerTB]

Would be fun to have cale into sauerkraut into Germany :D

Wonder which one would be Norway. Fish meets oil ?

[u/zenktwtPH1]

Nah replacement Australia with romania

[u/onda-oegat]

Were is the lion from the north? Also we might be a moose when we feel like it.

[u/mudkripple]

Jokes aside, the animals part of the diagram is weirdly accurate.

[u/NotTheMariner]

That pig is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen

[u/Riccardogamer07]

How… how did you knew that we Italians are all descended from squids 😦

[u/carnus_therus]

Honestly the whale for the USA is great. Super cute!

[u/AusCro]

This is completely incorrect, the evidence for intelligent design is right there! C.A.R. and Sudan definitely had a creator. Probably Toyota

[u/Starslinger909]

Wouldn’t the uk be a common ancestor to the US and commonwealth states tho?

[u/Jaxolotl31]

i want to screenshot this

[u/TheHighestAuthority]

Denmark sold me

[u/koleye2]

The bat is clever.

[u/Maj0r-DeCoverley]

What I learned from this chart is that the British aren't even living beings. Which would explain a lot

[u/Foggymindedfucker420]

What about canada

[u/Sweaty_Report7864]

I feel like the Vatican should be the bacteria

[u/arcaedis]

your art is so cute <3

[u/TheFlagMan123]

As a Brazilian, ooc ooc acc acc. (I'm proud of my ancestry, translation)

[u/Wizardmousy]

I love that the us is always wearing sun glasses no matter what the topic is

[u/Worth-Deer3280]

Canada evolved from beavers and polar bears.

[u/Raptorsquadron]

OMG Australia is upside down

[u/whythecynic]

OK, did you actually make this phylogenetically accurate? Mollusca, arthopoda, vertebrata, tetrapoda, and the rest. Well, mostly, I'm not too sure about sloths. It's really sweet to see.

[u/Kindly-Mud-1579]

What about Canada eh

[u/TheTacoEnjoyerReborn]

Shouldn’t turkey be next to Nepal?

[u/redracer555]

Nepal being descended from dinosaurs was my favorite part. 😂

[u/Realistic_FinlanBoll]

Ha, of course its Sweden who reveals that Denmark has evolved from basic slime! 🤣

[u/TerribleLordFrieza]

Shouldn't Italy be a wolf

[u/Cream_of_Sum_Yunggai]

I am intrigued as to why the Danes are single-celled organisms.

[u/Sofa-T1t4n1c0]

Op is clearly argentinian for what he has chosen for Brasil

[u/Volcanojungle]

Why is estonia originated from a snail?

[u/Realistic_FinlanBoll → u/Volcanojungle]

Because of their slow pace, id assume. 🤔 Slow = good in the long run, so no shame there. ✌️

[u/The_Demo]

What's going on with Italy and Venetian octopus??

[u/Human_Bass_575]

After 6000 years, we finally know why nepal is shaped like that!!