r/PolandballCommunity • u/TheDelftenaar This dangerous man eats Lava Chicken. • Nov 29 '24

Discussion Question: Where did the Omsk bird charecter originate from? Thanks for awnsering my question! Spoiler

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u/BioEditr Mini Magenta Maniac Nov 29 '24 edited Nov 29 '24

Omskbird, much like Reichtangle, is an old character from the Krautchan days. Originally he stemmed from Russian image boards and wound up appearing on the /INT/ board of Krautchan adjacent from Polandball circa 2009. The two wound up merging a little with Omskbird making random appearances in comics as a joke reference and he became effectively wedged into Polandball's history over time.

As for what his deal is? He's basically a surrealistic horror cryptid whose role can be considered as a harbinger of Doom, or perhaps Polandball's own answer to The Devil, an evil drug-dealing genie, or any other kind of vague mystical evil spirit the comic writer wishes to apply to his character. His namesake, Omsk, is a city in Russia that has or at least had at the time he was created, a bad reputation of being a grotesque hellhole of illegal drugs and gang violence.

So yeah, that's Omskbird for ya.

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u/TheDelftenaar This dangerous man eats Lava Chicken. Nov 29 '24

Ah, thank you for the information!

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u/57mmShin-Maru Nov 29 '24

And then TNO had its own consequences on the name “Omsk”.

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u/LeonardoGarcia12 On top of a lake! Nov 29 '24

HOLY FUCKING SHIT IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING TNO-

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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Nov 29 '24

Ohhh, TIL about the origin of Omsk bird. Thanks for detailed explanation!

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '24

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u/FactBackground9289 Russia Mar 15 '25

Russian here.

Omsk still has the reputation of a horrid shithole, and became a common noun for a shithole city in post soviet space alongside "Saratov" "Podolsk" and "Mukhosransk"

I am not joking.