Poor Cubone.
Oh nooooo...
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Pokémon lore can be very dark and disturbing (or, How TPC killed off Pikachu today)
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Oh nooooo...
SpaceCadetKeon
Banned
Klefki's keys fall off of it when it faints. It seems a bit morbid to me.
D:
Oh god!
D:
peanutbutterlatte
Member
My head canon is that the designer of Raichu thought that up...
Whats dark with this?What about humans eating Pokemon?
Anyone want some sharpedo fin soup?
Today's menu: eggxecute stuffed kingler, fried pidgey wings, bulbasaur bulb salad
The Sinnoh myth referring to Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf:
"Look not into the Pokémon's eyes.
In but an instant, you'll have no
recollection of who you are.
Return home, but how?
When there is nothing to remember?
Dare not touch the Pokémon's body.
In but three short days, all emotions
will drain away.
Above all, above all, harm not
the Pokémon.
In a scant five days, the offender
will grow immobile in entirety."
In essence, if you look into Uxie's eyes, you will lose all memory, if you touch Mesprit's body, in three days you will seize to have emotions, and if you harm Azelf, your body will be completely paralyzed.
"Look not into the Pokémon's eyes.
In but an instant, you'll have no
recollection of who you are.
Return home, but how?
When there is nothing to remember?
Dare not touch the Pokémon's body.
In but three short days, all emotions
will drain away.
Above all, above all, harm not
the Pokémon.
In a scant five days, the offender
will grow immobile in entirety."
In essence, if you look into Uxie's eyes, you will lose all memory, if you touch Mesprit's body, in three days you will seize to have emotions, and if you harm Azelf, your body will be completely paralyzed.
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
Why does she have no walking animation?
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Pokemon has always had its dark undertones. That whole Lavender town thing...
Bonus: Heres an old remixed lavender town I made that accompanies this thread well: https://m.soundcloud.com/peacetimemusic/lavendertown-peacetime-remix
Bonus: Heres an old remixed lavender town I made that accompanies this thread well: https://m.soundcloud.com/peacetimemusic/lavendertown-peacetime-remix
Amauri14
Member
I like Cacturne.
That's how the Komodo Dragon hunts a prey larger than him.
SkeptiMism
Member
This seems like a shit post to be honest.
You don't think it's at all dark and disturbing that in this series that is generally considered very kid friendly, there are these creatures that steal the life force of other creatures, and leave their ill will behind?
The creature is something that might just as well be in some horror movie (but I guess, in your opinion a person can't consider a horror movie dark and disturbing either, because horrible things happen in real life, right?), but it being in a setting from which you wouldn't expect something like this, it makes it a bit more disturbing still.
Pokemon can leave their balls at will, they don't have to stay in there.
What about humans eating Pokemon?
Iirc didn't someone stop their daydreaming in its tracks and tell them that Magikarp arent actually edible?
Evidence of ghost.
Yep, they are only scales and bones.
Doesn't look like she is floating though...more like the animation just bugged out and got stuck.
NHarmonic.
Member
Sinnoh did the whole "haunted place" thing better, with that mansion in the forest.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Yoshi's Island
PhoenixSFT
Member
Honestly I never looked closely and thought it was fins.
With the crazy butler with Rotom? Oh my god yeah.
That dead pikachu could be..
Nope, mimikyu is actually just a pokemon that is sensitiveness to light and so it wears a veil to protect itself. It drew on its veil to make it look like pikachu because the popularity of pikachu merchandise in the pokemon universe, hoping to make friends with people.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
What's the point of catching them then? If they were willing to follow someone you wouldn't need to force them into the balls, which they clearly don't want to be in since they try to break free when you first catch them.
The game would not be fun
Many Nintendo games are screwed up in one way or another.
Poor Cubone.
One thing that always lingered in the back of my mind. If cubone jr. mom is a cubone, what happens to the skull the mother was wearing? Do they just swap skulls? Has this ever been explained?
It just makes sense for individual cubones. There are far to many running around that this is thing to be taken serious.
That confuses me as well. Presumably they're written on the idea of how that Pokemon would function in our world and not Pokemon's.
Pokemaniac
Member
The anime generally implies that Pokemon are fully capably of leaving their balls whenever they want.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
"There's a Master Ball above the bar"
titiklabingapat
Member
That humans in that world are just Pokemons, too
WTF is that?!
And to the people saying "lol its like nature what's dark about that?" Well nature can be absolutely horrifying, sometimes even more than the wildest of imagination. Case in point, that ungodly picture 0_0
Erdnuckel01
Member
Thats's a caterpillar fungus, a parasitic fungus that uses caterpillars to grow. If you want to know more use this wikipedia link.
kiunchbb
www.dictionary.com
May be there is a reason why the Pokemon world spent so much time, technology, and resources on cockfighting. The society even consider it more important than school. May be living in that world is a constant non-stop human vs nature war for survival. The whole pokemon training/battle is just a training program preparing kids for the real war.
Also explain why Ash is still 10 after 20 years, must be taking anti growth hormone to avoid being sent to the war, and he can't win tournament, because once Ash got recognized he would be drafted for the front line.
Elaugaufein
Member
The Pokedex is weird in that entries vary from plausible, to failures of science (almost anything that uses quantitative measures*), to urban/folk legend , to mentions of locations on our Earth, to obvious lies.
*The temperatures of many Fire / ice Pokemon would end all life on the planet. An IQ iq of 5000 is a) meaningless (doubly so since it would be normalized to the sentient species taking it) and b) if we pretended it mapped to human is 1 in 1.16*10^23175 . That's a number with ~23000 more zeroes than the number of atoms in the universe multiplied by the age of the universe in seconds.
*The temperatures of many Fire / ice Pokemon would end all life on the planet. An IQ iq of 5000 is a) meaningless (doubly so since it would be normalized to the sentient species taking it) and b) if we pretended it mapped to human is 1 in 1.16*10^23175 . That's a number with ~23000 more zeroes than the number of atoms in the universe multiplied by the age of the universe in seconds.
Humans in the pokemon world tend to be able to endure a lot of shit. Your average day in PokeSpec would kill your average JoJo's side character.
C.Olimar788
Member
Paras and Parasect are my favorites. I love the fact that the same zombie-inducing-mushroom that inspired The Last of Us is also the inspiration for a pocket monster. Y'know, for kids!
Also I am somewhat concerned over the number of Pokemon that explicitly eat their prey alive. Like Glalie, for instance:
Also I am somewhat concerned over the number of Pokemon that explicitly eat their prey alive. Like Glalie, for instance:
The Mother Kangaskhan and Baby Kangaskhan are essentially joined at the hip. There is no one without the other. They are likely one single Pokemon. Female Kangaskhans are born with a Baby already in their pouch.
When the Mother Kangaskhan is killed but the Baby survives (the Mother is said to fiercely protect the Baby), the Mother is reduced to (at minimum) a skull and bone. The Baby Kangaskhan picks up it's Mother's bone for use as a club and puts the skull on it's face, and undergoes a Pokemon evolution to become a Cubone (a helpless half-Pokemon makes itself semi-whole again using weapon-and-armor derived from it's deceased half). A Cubone is no longer a Kangaskhan. It can never go back. It has changed on the Pokemon level.
If a Cubone evolves into a Marowak, the bones become sleeker and seem to become a more integral part of the creature (more like an exoskeleton than a helmet).
If a Cubone or Marowak gives birth, the resulting Pokemon isn't a Kangaskhan (nether Mother or Baby or both), it's a Cubone. This newborn Pokemon is born lonely and grief-stricken, wearing it's dead mother's skull, and that dead mother was for all intents and purposes a Kangaskhan (even though technically it's mother was a Cubone/Marowak), because this Pokemon is a creature of sadness, trapped in an endless loop of sadness. A broken and bandaged Pokemon whose children will never even be able to regain the happy innocence that was lost.
Jorok Goldblade
Member
You can't fool me. That's a Purge mask.
Can't unsee. So thanks for that.
Did people forget about the Rockets and the Slowpoke Well in GSC?
They were going in there and cutting off the tails of Slowpokes to sell for a ton of money.
(Also, you can eat them too.)
And IIRC, the manga had instances where Pokemon could straight-up be killed or lose limbs.
Like this poor Arbok...
They were going in there and cutting off the tails of Slowpokes to sell for a ton of money.
(Also, you can eat them too.)
And IIRC, the manga had instances where Pokemon could straight-up be killed or lose limbs.
Like this poor Arbok...
Usually it's "folk tale" style entries for the pokedex, you almost never see the 'mons doing what it says in some of those passages, either in-game or other media like the show, especially the really dark ones. It's like old stories about faeries and boogeymen and stuff like that (although it IS presented as a scientific "entry", so it's kind of off balance).
Things like "it's the mother's skull!" on cubone feed into that. It stops making sense as soon as you look at them as a species with breeding and stuff like that, since they hatch with a skull on them (?), or holding the leek, or any other myriad of objects certain pokemon seem to "come with", whereas if it was like a story someone's telling you about this monster (pokemon) it makes more sense that it'd be this mysterious thing.
It is distressing that there's a picture of it actually doing as described in this case though!
Things like "it's the mother's skull!" on cubone feed into that. It stops making sense as soon as you look at them as a species with breeding and stuff like that, since they hatch with a skull on them (?), or holding the leek, or any other myriad of objects certain pokemon seem to "come with", whereas if it was like a story someone's telling you about this monster (pokemon) it makes more sense that it'd be this mysterious thing.
It is distressing that there's a picture of it actually doing as described in this case though!
How is that death even possible.
Aaronrules380
Member
The arbok didn't actually die though...
http://m.imgur.com/gallery/5vQxV
Crabrawlers pincers are sometimes torn off during its boutsand they are said to be delicious.