So we got our Indian Elephant -> Copperajah retcon. When are we getting updated Ponyta Dex entries that substitute "Eiffel Tower" for "the Prism Tower of Kalos"?
that better be 5 yays
>>59678630So Gen 11.
Pokémon's lore was way better when it took place in our world
What references to our world are still left?
>>59679236We're never getting a China-based region, so Arcanine and Parasect won't have a place to be popular.
>>59679236After killing the "indian elephant" line, I'm not sure there are any real world references left. They moved away from that in Gen 3, it just took them this long to naturally replace that articular line (needed an elephant not immune to electricity, clearly didn't want to shove or shoehorn one in just because in the first 4-5 Gens).
>>59679243>We're never getting a China-based regionwhy do you think that? Digimon just made an entire Digital World for China
>>59678580When did they retcon Lt. Surge to have post-traumatic stress disorder upon his return to the WindWave region?
>>59679428Ching region never ever
>>59679243>We're never getting a China-based region, so Arcanine and Parasect won't have a place to be popular.Reconnected to "Distant land"—the very same place as Urshifu and the Ruinous Quartet of Paldea.
>>59679432Because it stops making since once your realize he could have uses Raichu-Y and killed it with focus blast but instead let that elephant kill his men. Why?
>>59679764Raichu y wasn't discovered back then
>>59679764Back then, Surge was a staunch anti-Pokémon partisan, but it was thanks to a Pokémon saving his life that he changed his ways.
>>59678580The Prism Tower blew up at the end of ZA and they turned the area into a park
>>59679787That reminds me of the fall of the twin Duralodons in New Tork.
>>59678580>So we got our Indian Elephant -> Copperajah retconSpeaking of retcons, what did Wailord eat before the creation of Wishiwashi?
>>59679913Plankton? Plankton are still canon.
>>59680492Maybe, they're called Prankton
>>59679787>This Pokemon can jump as high as the Prism Tower of Kalos. Such a statement would be difficult to prove due to recent events, however!
>>59680494Will we ever get a Pokemon-Pokemon smaller than Joltik, or arguably Zygarde Cell?
>>59680498Bacterio
>>59679432what was he doing in poke-vietnam?
>>59678580That "Eiffel Tower" thing was a burgerization of the original dex entry's "Tokyo Tower", so you're more likely to get it substituted for Silph Co. or something.
>>59680498One day someone will stuff a single pokerus virus in a ball.
>>59680498No. They've decided the absolute smallest average pokémon size is 4"/10cm.
>>59681664>or something.saffron gym
>>59681673Look, if Necrozma posessing another whole ass Pokemon, or Calyrex riding one with its own dedicated dex number, counts, I'd say a lot of trainers already did this.>>59682058Trading one gym for another. Someday we'll have a Pokemon comparable to... I dunno... Snowpoint Gym.
>>59679428I thought it was Asian culture in general?
>>59679378theres still room for gigantamax musharna and no I don't give a fuck that its a tapir
>>59679432Ah, yes. Lt. Surge, “The Lightning Unovan.”
>>59682486fuck, yeah
>>59681656Bringing "freedom" to a distant region, only to watch his friends die and see the Tiksians amass even more political power.
>>59678580Stadium said Eiffel Tower, FireRed said Ayers Rock
>>59678580what did they have against jeet elephants.
>>59684757Jokes aside, the Pokémon world and its lore are constantly expanding, to the point where they no longer need to rely on real-world references.Mongooses, Indian elephants, anchovies, America, and France all have their own Pokémon counterparts; I hope that, sooner or later, the same will happen for Russia and China—even if it’s just a matter of giving names to their respective Pokémon versions.
>>59678580>A chef aboard the S.S. Anne mentions several meat dishes: "Eels au Barbecue", "Salmon du Salad", and "Prime Beefsteak".For eel, we have several options: Huntail, Eelektross, and Wiglett.For beef, there’s a variety: Tauros and its variants, Miltank, or—if you want something leaner—Bouffalant.While it’s not a typical salmon, Basculegion fits the role perfectly.
>>59679236>Among the exhibits of the Nacrene museum, there is an African mask, referring to a place in the real world, in addition to being different from other exhibitions, which are related to the history of the Pokémon.
>>59683584See >>59681664They're both weird burgerizations of "Tokyo Tower". God knows why they changed which other real world location to change it to.
>>59679775Quality post.
>>59678789retard>>59686002That doesn't count. That just vaguely signals that there might be some Africa based region out there>>59679428TPC will never submit to the Great Dragon of Asia
>>59678580I just want muh damn Leafeon & Glaceon reissues.
>>59679236>It carries food bundled up in its tail. There was a famous explorer who managed to scale Mt. Everest thanks to a Delibird sharing its food.Poketibet is canon
>>59688031>vaguely signals that there might be some Africa based region out thereVaguely? Nibba, it’s right there, big as day, right in front of you!
>>59680492A Pokémon so small that its school form would barely be the size of a Pikachu.
>>59678580Speaking of retcons, when are they going to acknowledge that Lara Laramie had an XXL Ponyta, or that Whitney used a Totem Miltank in the manga?
>>59690303>At Dawn we ridekek
>>59690303>totemBro we say alpha now
Who's THAT Pokémon???
>>59690921Paldean Shellder, they acquire that color after being cooked.
>>59690921Dark/Water Shellder regional form; based on an invasive zebra mussel
>>59690179>its school form would barely be the size of a Pikachumore like the size of a Cradily
>>59690907perfect size for an onahole
>>59688031>retardAmerica, Russia, China, and India are all mentioned by name. What was so wrong with a fantasy version of Earth?
>>59679243It still exists even if we never visit it, the Pokedex has substituted China for "the East" since Gen 7.
>>59679236Possibly the moon landing of 1969.LGPE did change much of the dialogue, but it's still possible it happened on this date
>>59679236They removed Tiksiy and Rusia in the American, Spanish, and Korean versions of PLG, but kept them in the Japanese, Italian, and German versions—though in those, it’s called "Ponaya Tunguska." I really like how it’s written in the Italian version, "Ponayanguska"; it genuinely sounds like an official Pokémon region name.
>>59692039What, like the Pokémon World is currently?Because that's the issue, you dumb cunt, it WASN'T a fantasy earth, it was the real world with fantasy creatures (and I'd argue fantastical humans, given no cunt just "disappeared" the nosey kid fucking about in the criminal organisation's affairs). And then when Tajiri stepped back and backwards compatibility was deemed unfeasible, they went and rebooted the whole thing into a "fantasy earth", given the laces were inspired by the real world, but did whatever the fuck they desired, instead of following coherent geological and environmental factors (no desserts in the UK, but the island based off a UK crown dependency had a stinking big one in the middle of it in Gen 8)
>>59692258>it wasNTA, but this is for the best for the franchise; you have the freedom to change things since it’s not the actual Earth, but you can still use it as a reference, many games and anime do this.
>>59690303Wait, Rhyhorn is so tiny?
>>59692321Its proportions are deceptive; it isn’t very tall and its legs are short, but its head is huge.Furthermore, the original anime featured some massive specimens; it wasn’t until the XY that they began using a size more consistent with the versions found in the games.
>>59690303mini cows are cute, CUTE
>>59692464The game sizes are nonsensical garbage and should be disregarded. In no world is it acceptable for Nidoking to be fucking four feet tall.
>>59692562It's the average species size, dingus. It was never meant to say "EVERY POKEMON CAN *ONLY* BE THIS BIG" or that spits on the idea of Pokemon individuality. All of those small sizes are also because that makes them big relative to 11 year olds without being overwhelmingly massive (save for exception cases like Onix), that way they can be friendly just as much monstrous without having to be gentle giants all the time.
>>59679775Love this pic. Got a source? I need more like it.
>>59692580>It's the average species sizeI love that the games made the size variation canon.
>>59692691Sauce?
>>59692258What the actual fuck are you ranting about? No, seriously, are you a different anon or did you genuinely just get so mad over "fantasy earth" vs. "real world with fantasy creatures" semantics that you made an argument that's the exact opposite of what you were making earlier?>You're retarded for thinking the Pokemon world was just a fantasy version of Earth despite all the evidence in favor of that before GameFreak decided to start retconning shit for some stupid reason.>You're retarded for thinking the Pokemon world wasn't a fantasy version of the Earth.Pick a side and calm down holy fuck.
>>59692562>>59692691psaber97
>>59682486'NOVA!!
>>59693141Yeah, I genuinely don't understand spergs sperging about "fantasy earths" when the game word they met (let's be real, there's critically few actual genwunners here, meaning most you retards entered when the real world was culled entirely, as evidenced by Pokémon Heroes opening with a spiel on "the Pokémon world", to establish it as separate but similar to our earth) was a fantasy earth. Magical monstrous creatures in a world created by a fictional deity and technologically centuries ahead of our real world (even in Gen 1, insta-heal machines for the magical elemental monsters and fucking teleportation, that science in the real world only proved feasibly on a quantum level in the last 20 yearsand even then, it's not *true* teleportation). Maybe if you cunts weren't reared with txtng and l33tspk, yis would be able to actually explain using real worlds what the fuck you mean when you say "fantasy earth" that eliminates the fantasy earth doing a striptease in front of them.
