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[Madao]

it's so common to see crazy pokemon that people lump in the "ran out of ideas" group which turn out to be very faithful to real animals that people don't know exist because people are ignorant.

the sand castle looks interesting. definitely grabbing one when i encounter it.

 

[Kusagari]

If Pokemon Lore is real then it doesn't make sense how people in that world aren't constantly dying. You've got Pokemon that steal souls, can cause earthquakes at will and all kinds of insane shit.

 

[Angry Grimace]

The Heatmor Pokedex entry is kind of gross.

"Using their very hot, flame-covered tongues, they burn through Durant's steel bodies and consume their insides."

 

[FinaruDensetsu]

Its imploed that cubone wears its mothers skull

What happens if a Cubone litter has more than 1 Cubone? Do they fight each other to the death for the right to wear the skull? Cause you know... There aren't any living Cubone who don't have skull helmets...

 

[MaximumSpider]

Humans used to marry Pokemon according to Canalava Library.

 

[Makonero]

Coconut crabs are like spiders with claws...

what's next, spiders with machine guns?

 

[Real Hero]

If Pokemon Lore is real then it doesn't make sense how people in that world aren't constantly dying. You've got Pokemon that steal souls, can cause earthquakes at will and all kinds of insane shit.

how do you know there are not? There's not that many people around in Pokemon games, your home town always has like 3 houses

 

[EloquentM]

IS THAT REAL???

Don't worry they mostly eat fruit

 

[Makonero]

What happens if a Cubone litter has more than 1 Cubone? Do they fight each other to the death for the right to wear the skull? Cause you know... There aren't any living Cubone who don't have skull helmets...

Sure there are! They're called baby kangaskhans. Kangaskhan was the first mother murdered, and her baby wore her skull, became a ground type, became a Marowak, got murdered, and then her baby became a cubone

The Pokemon cycle of life and murder

 

[BumblebeeCody]

Actually, looking at the official site, it says the Crabbrawler's arms sometimes fall off in fights and are apparently delicious, so there you go.

We still don't know if people farm or kill pokémon for food, but they're not above eating discarded body parts.

Slowpoke Tail and Tauros pies

 

[Fandangox]

I wonder if the rumored dolphin Pokemon will have a lore entry to the effect of, "For years the people of nearby Kanto hunted this Pokemon despite protest from other countries, and out of misplaced guilt they did not include it in their popular monster-collecting videogame until just recently."

That'd be so meta!"

No its gonna be something like "For years researchers ran tests to fully unlock the potential of this pokemon, but inadvertently trained it to assassinate the president of the united states"

 

[Insaniac]

i'd totally play a rated M horror pokemon game

 

[elkniwcire]

From Pokemon X/Y when you enter an "empty office"

EDIT: Also a lot of things in the Sinnoh region are very unsettling or bizarre... I love that region for that =3

Just experience this part last night. WTF???

 

[Thud]

Coconut crabs are like spiders with claws...

what's next, spiders with machine guns?

Spiders that shoot other spiders.

 

[PadWarrior]

it's so common to see crazy pokemon that people lump in the "ran out of ideas" group which turn out to be very faithful to real animals that people don't know exist because people are ignorant.

the sand castle looks interesting. definitely grabbing one when i encounter it.

Better grab it before it grabs you lol

 

[-Horizon-]

Pokedex lore can get pretty scary at times.

 

[PadWarrior]

Pokedex lore can get pretty scary at times.

Pokemon in general are scary these are basically living weapons of destruction. Imagined if they turned on mankind like the animals in the show Zoo.

 

[MatrixMan.EXE]

Yep, Crabrawler was revealed today. Pure Fighting-type, because it's based on the coconut crab, which only appears on land.

Like the coconut crab, it knocks fruit down from trees.

Yo wtf.

 

[Neiteio]

We still need a Pokemon based on the absolutely massive Japanese Spider Crab:

Also found this neat art:

 

[Inuhanyou]

A pokemon based off of quicksand. What WILL they think of next

 

[MCN]

how do folks get their protein in the Pokemon world?

Celadon City department store.

 

[Pie and Beans]

I like the working theory that the Pokédex entries are like an internet messageboard filled with tryhard shit that obviously isn't true as they don't gel with the Pokémon world at all.

"My mate Gary says that Herdier's can't look up!"

 

[NHarmonic.]

Yeah this and finding the regis were so cook back in the day

I always wondered how you were supossed to discover the way to get to the regis. Using surf/fly, moving x steps left or right? Wtf?


OT: love this aspect of the pokemon games, adds more mistery and coolness to the whole world.

 

[Neiteio]

A pokemon based off of quicksand. What WILL they think of next

The picture in the OP isn't the Pokemon's main design. Palossand is a grudge that possesses sand and disguises itself as a sandcastle to lure in unwitting Pokemon that it then drags underground, sucking out their souls to create more grudges.

 

[FleetingFlowAir]

-If sproinks ever stops bouncing, their hearts stop

In Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers your first mission is retrieving a pearl a Spoink lost in the second dungeon of the game. The Spoink says that they can't bounce without their pearl, so they're pretty much drawing closer to death until you get it back to them since even PMD follows some lore on the Pokedex.

 

[Nightbird]

I shouldn't have pressed on the pictures Neiteio posted.

I was hitting the back button on my browser like

 

[Orochinagis]

A pokemon based off of quicksand. What WILL they think of next

A heavy duty worker pokemon, oh, there is already one of those, maybe a tv poke...oh that one is already out too

 

[Inuhanyou]

The picture in the OP isn't the Pokemon's main design. Palossand is a grudge that possesses sand and disguises itself as a sandcastle to lure in unwitting Pokemon that it then drags underground, sucking out their souls to create more grudges.

...POkemon is scary

 

[ZiggyPalffyLA]

I'd love to have a Gengar to keep my place cold. I love the cold, haha

I have an entire Gengar shrine in my bedroom and I always keep my AC blasting. You'd like it.

 

[Octavia]

A heavy duty worker pokemon, oh, there is already one of those, maybe a tv poke...oh that one is already out too

I'm waiting for the inevitable mcdonalds(r) happy meal(tm) with mcnuggets(tm) pokemon.

 

[Krabboss]

these hot takes that pokemon is dark and disturbing need to end

 

[Brakke]

Don't worry they mostly eat fruit

"mostly"

 

[DedValve]

Coconut crabs are like spiders with claws...

what's next, spiders with machine guns?

Australia probably had those before a violent gangwar between them and hornets with bazookas ended with the extinction of both.

Spoiler

for now.

Also this is the first new pokemon I'm seeing (bar the starters which I accidentally saw) since I'm on a blackout. WIsh the games were 2d for the possibility that its sprite will always contain a dead pikachu.

Please do this gamefreak. Just leave it there. Forever.

 

[exfatal]

Daaamn nature you scary!

Shedninja pokedex entry always scared the shit outta me as a kid.
Glalie Pokedex entry was no joke too
"Glalie has the ability to freely control ice. For example, it can instantly freeze its prey solid. After immobilizing its prey in ice, this Pokémon enjoys eating it in leisurely fashion."

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

On a somewhat related note, old Sugimori artwork was reeally strange.

What are these from?

Man, it's harder than you'd think to find collections of OG Pokemon art even in Japan

 

[adamantypants]

My favorite low-key fucked up Pokemon

Muk:

Wherever GRIMER has passed, so many germs are left behind that no plants will ever grow again.

Dusclops:

Dusclops’s body is completely hollow—there is nothing at all inside. It is said that its body is like a black hole. This Pokémon will absorb anything into its body, but nothing will ever come back out.

Drowzee:

If your nose becomes itchy while you are sleeping, it's a sure sign that one of these Pokémon is standing above your pillow and trying to eat you dream through your nostrils.

It remembers every dream it eats. It rarely eats the dreams of adults because children's are much tastier.

 

[woopWOOP]

We still need a Pokemon based on the absolutely massive Japanese Spider Crab

Okay now you're just doing this on purpose

My hair already stands up whenever I dive up one of those bastards in Animal Crossing New Leaf

please no spidercrab pokemon ever

 

[Delio]

We still need a Pokemon based on the absolutely massive Japanese Spider Crab:

Also found this neat art:

Would not shock me if we got this one day.

 

[darklin0]

I always wondered how you were supossed to discover the way to get to the regis. Using surf/fly, moving x steps left or right? Wtf?


OT: love this aspect of the pokemon games, adds more mistery and coolness to the whole world.

The dots you find in caverns are clues and instructions. To most it seems like gibberish but easily translated because it is braille.

 

[Creaking]

Its imploed that cubone wears its mothers skull

If every Cubone wears its mother's skull, does that mean the mother Cubone always dies during pokebirth, or does every Cubone kill its mother?

 

[Strimei]

If every Cubone wears its mother's skull, does that mean the mother Cubone always dies during pokebirth, or does every Cubone kill its mother?

Its best not to think about it too much.

Like how you can breed Yamasks, despite them being human ghosts. Though I guess you could explain it as the newly hatched Yamask is a freshly dead person.

 

[clockworkinyou]

This thread makes me want a Pokemon x Shin Megami Tensei game

 

[CMojicaAce]

I got reminded of this video:

3 Pokémon Who Could Kill You

 

[GiantBreadbug]

I don't know why but Sigilyph terrifies me. I love the Pokemon, but it looks like the spawn of Claydol and Xatu, and it was created by ancients to be safety patrol sentinels. Actually, they remind me a lot of the sentinels from NMS, but with weird frantic flapping just trying to keep themselves in the air.

Actually any of the "automaton" Pokemon (including Golurk and Claydol) simultaneously fascinate and terrify me.

Spoiler

Also the shiny for Sigilyph is amazinggggg

 

[Pinko Marx]

I got reminded of this video:

3 Pokémon Who Could Kill You

Just 3? Pretty sure the majority of them would wreck a human.

 

[MissCauthon]

Pikachu is dead?

 

[PhoenixSFT]

"Although Gorebyss is the very picture of elegance and beauty while swimming, it is also cruel. When it spots prey, this Pokémon inserts its thin mouth into the prey’s body and drains the prey of its body fluids." — AlphaSapphire pokedex entry

Based on the real-life hagfish

I just realized Gorebyss has a shell bra like Ariel.

 

[HyperCubed4]

Don't forget the OG Creepy 'Mon:







Sinnoh went one step past that:

Hypno's pretty fucked

 

[MuchoMalo]

No shit it's dark the whole idea of the game is Pokemons cook fighting.

Well, we just got the Franky Pokemon, so I guess that Sanji would be relevant here.

 

[Chunky]

Poor Cubone.

cubone's always been a sad little bugger, but this comic actually got me a bit teary-eyed irl
fuck man


fuck