Do we know what happened to Ghetsis's arm? I remember there was some discussion of it among fans back during Gen V, but I can't remember what came of it. His model in USUM just reminded me, because he has his other arm hidden. (Figured I'd ask you since I know you're pretty up on Gen V lore )
I'm confused by Gladion's whereabouts in the post-game. There is unused text about him training in Kanto and Johto, but the used version just mentions training (Wicke is the one that hands out Type: Null).
Lillie apparently stays in Alola for the island challenge. Boring.
Giovanni doesn't disband Team RR. What gives? Especially given his multiverse dominion goal.
Not to self-advertise, but the initial chapters of my fanfic are up. The link is in my signature.
I actually have more chapters written down, but I want to revise some of them. Not to mention that it could overwhelm potential readers if I posted everything at once.
So Marshadow possesses a bunch of Pokemon at an attempt to kill Ash and the other three trainers. Okay...
This makes me uncomfortable because it's another case of a movie treading close to my view of Neo Celebi, except... not really because there is no backstory to justify this extreme attitude. Plus, it's small in scale.
Welp. There goes my interest in the franchise down the drain.
I'm pretty sure that they did consider a cross-platform release at one point, which would explain Eurogamer and the Switch TBA slip-up. But it clearly isn't a cross-platform release, and a fifth version, even for the Switch, would be ridiculous. I hope they realize that, but who knows anymore.
A great example of how multiple timelines -shouldn't- be done. Please don't ever do anything like this, Game Freak. I mean, you did mess up the XY-ORAS connection, but at least you didn't invalidate anything major from the older timelines.
See my posts in the movie thread (I'd link you if I could).
The movie isn't even close to a celebration of the original series... Seems like a way to promote Kanto sequels to me, with Ash getting a reboot for the hell of it. I honestly expect Brock and Misty to be in their 20s now, which would explain the odd replacements.
It figures that some people would complain about Sun and Moon getting a third version over XY. I won't deny that XY are the games that "need" it more, but this move is not about "fixing" anything. It is childish to see it that way.
Sun and Moon are obviously easier to upgrade than XY are, and a lot more people are interested in them. That's all there is to it.
For some reason I can't reply here or post anything too long. How do you do it?
Anyway, I still think that a plot revolving around a deadly epidemic would be a very refreshing change of pace. Perhaps Lusamine ends up spreading her disease unintentionally? Maybe her symptoms will be even worse in Stars.
To be honest, while I somewhat liked the idea of using Necrozma in Kanto rather than Alola, I can do without an "Ultra Beast threatens a region" plot again. They can take Lillie and Lusamine's story in a different direction... after tweaking the story we've already seen.
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It is often speculated that he lost his arm, but the first thing to note here is that, as of BW, at least, he still seems to have both arms, it’s just that the right one... is strange:
https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/55/Ghetsis_right_arm.png
It’s not clear as to whether that was an error, or it *was* intentional and his hand is meant to be either discolored, gloved, or a prosthetic.
But it’s also not just his hand - his VS sprites in Gen 5 and, indeed, his pre-battle model in USUM, show that his mouth is somewhat misshapen on the right side. In addition to that, he has that eye patch over his right eye, which in his concept art is shown to be scarred (or I guess it could be a strange birthmark):
https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/3d/Ghetsis_Concept_Art.jpg
Something is up with the right side of his body altogether.
Now, in B2W2, after we defeat Kyurem, he says, “Now I have to go recapture Kyurem, don't I? But first, I'll take down this disgusting Trainer with my own hand!” The fact that he refers to his hand in the singular *could* suggest that he lost it in the two years between BW and B2W2 (if the opening scene of BW wasn’t a mistake), but I myself have heard that expression used generally in both singular and plural, so it could equally mean nothing. It may be worthwhile to mention that in Generations’s recreation of this scene, he is very briefly depicted as holding his cane in his right (but still gloved) hand.
So whether he ended up losing the hand or not is ambiguous. But that still leaves the question of what happened to the right side of his body to begin with.
There is no official answer as far as I know. One intriguing theory I have read - I think it was from someone’s blog on here, but I can’t remember whose since it would have been about six years ago - is that he might have had a prior encounter with Kyurem at some point. He must know of its existence somehow, and the idea suggested there was (I think) that the darkened skin on his arm in the BW opening could be indicative of frostbite. In general, falling prone to some kind of Pokémon attack appears to be a common theory, and there is at least one article in which someone claims that they heard Masuda cite a Pokémon attack as the cause. But I don’t know how reliable the article is, especially since they say they couldn’t make out everything Masuda said:
http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/old_news_archive/december_2012.html
(It’s around the middle of the page.)
Still, a Pokémon attack doesn’t seem like a wild guess, especially since he is implied to physically abuse Pokémon (the ones that built N’s castle are said to have been overworked and then deliberately placed around N so that he would empathize with their pain, and of course, Ghetsis’s Hydreigon in B2W2 uses Frustration at full power). But officially, it remains a mystery.
It’s not directly related, but there were some curious images that Masuda showed off in 2012, of some early concept art for BW. The pictures of N depicted him as looking almost feral in one image, and then looking calmer in a second image but with a discolored/scarred *left* arm:
Angry/Feral N: http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/000/518/518940/c20120805_poke_014_cs1w1_640x480.jpg
Discolored arm: http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/000/518/518942/c20120805_poke_016_cs1w1_640x480.jpg
I think Masuda showed off that same Ghetsis concept artwork that I linked to at the same time, so I don’t think it’s necessarily a matter of the arm discoloration being something they planned for N and then transferred to Ghetsis later on. Perhaps they were *both* going to bear these physical markings at first, but then the idea was scrapped or reworked.
I’ve always found this stuff interesting, but I’ve never been able to find much more on the topic other than what I’ve posted here.