Tag: pokemon

tyrantisterror:

The more I watch that Detective Pikachu the more I really dig it.  It calls to both my inner child AND the hollowed our husk of a human being with broken dreams I’ve grown into.

Like, the part where the main character is approached by an adult he respects, and the adult is like, “You had a dream of being a pokemon trainer when you were young!” in a clear attempt to inspire him, but the main character just laughs and tries to end that line of discussion with a strained, “Yeah that really didn’t work out…”  I get that.  That rings true.  That’s relatable.

And then there’s the shots of a world filled with pokemon, with adventure, and the world is a bit dingy and mundane, but also fantastical enough where the pokemon don’t seem FULLY out of place.  And the child in me can come out while the jaded adult thinks about what it was like to just have those dreams without the cynicism that crushed them.  It’s… nice.

I’m looking forward to the movie.

radicalposture:

taki-on-the-go:

Generation 4: Make a nice, homemade pastry for your Pokémon! With some berry infusion it’s sure to be tasty!

Generation 6: Play fun games and collect sweet tasty puffs for your Pokémon to eat! They’ll surely love them!

Generation 3: We used our SCIENCE GRINDER to mash berries into PERFECT MATHEMATICAL CUBES that pokemon CANNOT RESIST for their GEOMETRICAL REGULARITY

Generation 7: travel to the mythical Beane Land™…. meet the Beanse Guardian……. Collect Bean™ for yuor creatures?. maybe you will return. maybe not. unlock ALL secret beanes islands for ALL your beaning. needs

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highly-radioactive-nerd:

highly-radioactive-nerd:

Ultra Beasts are to Pokemon what Angels are to Lillin(All Life on Earth, as defined by Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Lillin are made from LCL, the primordial slime from which the chemicals that make up our DNA originated. LCL is the Angel Liliths blood. Lillith is the Seed of Life born from a Fruit of Knowledge, one of the terraforming eggs dispersed across space by the First Ancestral Race.

Children of the Fruit of Knowledge are defined by the inability to project or alter their physucal form or AT Fields. However, they have capacity for emotion and learning, making art, building society. They are also mortal.

Similarly, Angels 3-17 originate from the first Angel, Adam, whose body was destroyed in the South Pole Contact experiment in 2000. Adam was the Seed of Life from a Fruit of Life. Children of the Fruit of Life have no intelligence or emotion, but are functionally immortal (via S2 engines) and can project their AT fields and can alter their form at will. This allows them to exist in abstract forms (see Ramiel and Armisael.)

Despite these differences, Lillin and the Angels share 97% of their DNA. They are the same kind of life, only the form they exist in is radically different. Knowledge exist responsively, adapting based to environmental stimuli, Life is self directed, based on the individuals whim allowing for abstract forms that can either emulate our understanding of life or defy it.

Ultra Beasts are essentially the same thing, minus the Christian mythology inspired mythos that has been scattered across several forms of media.

Ultra Beasts are functionally identical to pokemon. They level up, learn pokemon attacks, have pokemon typing. (This is because Its a video game about catching monsters, so it makes sense to have your weird space monsters fit within your games core concept.) Game Freak has stated that pokemon are designed to function in nature, to look like exaggerated but feasible living beings. Even strange creatures are shaped the way they are because they’ve adapted to their environment to survive, so whether one is a lizard that has a burning tail living in volcanos or a haunted chandelier droppingbon unsuspecting victims in an old house, pokemon distinctly look like what we recognize as living beings.

Ultra Beasts are not necessarily the same way. Ultra Space is an environment unlike any on earth. It is inhabited solely by Ultra Beasts, the laws of physics do not function the same, the world is in a constant state of chaotic change. There isn’t a stable environment to adapt to, and thus Ultra Beasts develop in strange ways that only might appear familiar to us. Possibly even based upon their own designs and will.

The takeaway is that even pokemon based on inanimate objects look like living beings. Chandelure has a face, Trubbish, Grimer and Koffing look like living beings.

Ultra Beasts Buzzwole and Pheromosa look like living beings. Kartana and Nihilego are made from non-living materials that emulate life. Xurkitree and the new UB-06b “Build” look neither alive or emulative. They are the Ramiel and Armisael of the Ultra Beasts.

It’s also interesting to consider pokemons potential role in the development of humans and regular animals in-universe.

If my theory is correct, and pokemon are hyper-specialized extradimensional aliens that have evolved to fill niches on earth, it makes sense to assume that they replaced or coexist with other forms of life on The planet. This may be why we can use terms like mouse and snake to describe a pokemon. It’s not really a snake, But an alien that looks and behaves similarly to one.

What seperates humans from other animals then? Why do we see human characters but never dogs or elephants? The technical answer is that it’s too much to put in a game centered around befriending super-animals. Why would you play with a regular cat when you have a lucky cat monster that brings you money? But that’s the boring explenation My fun answer has to do with the Pokemon Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf.

According to Sinnoh myth, these pokemon shared the gifts of knowledge, emotions and willpower with human kind. It is believed they gave us Spirits. I don’t necessarily believe pokemon literally gave us souls, but I do think that receiving those pokemon blessings are what allowed humans to connect with pokemon so deeply. It’s what allows us to form bond’s with pokemon, to understand them and bring out their strengths. It’s what connected us to pokemon above regular animals in the world.

And a great deal of native species may have been hunted to extinction by the alien species, but that’s kinda sad to think about…

Come to think of it, Sun and Moon does have a lot of material relating to invasive species within it, between the Ultra Beasts and Yungoos being imported to deal with Rattata.

TL:DR Real animals exist alongside pokemon but nobody pays much attention to them because humans can bond deeper with pokemon because they shared their souls with us.

All the old R&B pokedex entries only discussed normal animals on the mainland…

I do think Gamefreak should go back to acknowledging the existence of normal animals, if only by like having an elephant skeleton in a museum. Or so they can have awesome underwater visuals.