Ghost pokemon don't get lonely and crave the darkness. Especially the Gengar line.Wdym? He was lied to and left alone for years and years. How is that not traumatizing??
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Ghost pokemon don't get lonely and crave the darkness. Especially the Gengar line.Wdym? He was lied to and left alone for years and years. How is that not traumatizing??
So if he isn't lonely why was he upset his trainer left him? Why did Alison say " you finally found people who care about you". Weird for someone who isn't lonely...Ghost pokemon don't get lonely and crave the darkness. Especially the Gengar line.
I think ash vs Volkner was the last great battle in pwc. Everything has been mediocre or bad thus far. Didn't watch Marnie battle so can't comment on thatBeing left alone for years, waiting for its trainer to come back, only to find out that its original trainer actually abandoned it because he blamed Gengar for giving him bad luck sounds traumatizing to me. It wasn't physical abuse, but emotional abuse and trauma definitely happened too. Chimchar dealt with both physical and emotional abuse from Paul, so they haven't only dealt with physical abuse or trauma before.
On a different note, I'm just about to get to Ash vs. Volkner in the dub and I'm amazed that they actually have pair trainers for their matches in the Hyper Class. Admittedly, I'm not sure why I didn't think that was the case before given how Ash battles against more established trainers going forward in the PWC. I'll give them credit for that improvement, but I'm also baffled as to why that wasn't the case from the start. It might not have fixed all of my problems with the PWC, but getting rid of the random encounters with nobodies, making use of both the world tour gimmick and the huge cast of characters from the franchise's history and providing a bit of buildup for the matches by Ash learning about them ahead of time would have gone a long way to make the PWC feel like a big deal.
Given what I've heard about the latter matches, I'm not surprised. Ash vs. Volkner was one of the more hyped matches that I can recall too.I think ash vs Volkner was the last great battle in pwc. Everything has been mediocre or bad thus far. Didn't watch Marnie battle so can't comment on that
If I recall correctly we had Arbok and Weezing refusing to attack a doctor who healed them back in Kanto and I thought there was an episode later on where Wobbufett or Meowth got TR's others to stand down, but the memory is vague.Pokemon, like the companion, have been shown to have a moral compass. I can't see Pikachu or poplio attacking a child even if there trainers commanded them too. There their own characters.
Well, TR’s pokemon have reason to believe their trainers are up to no good, Sceptile probably thought “Ash” a plan of sorts… hopefully.If I recall correctly we had Arbok and Weezing refusing to attack a doctor who healed them back in Kanto and I thought there was an episode later on where Wobbufett or Meowth got TR's others to stand down, but the memory is vague.
On the flip side Sceptile used a referee as a human shield when he thought Ash told him to...which probably says a lot about Sceptile, really.
That sort of thing can definitely be interesting to explore.
Lol the sceptile comment genuinely made me laugh. I forgot all about that. Yeah maybe sceptile really does have a dark side lol.If I recall correctly we had Arbok and Weezing refusing to attack a doctor who healed them back in Kanto and I thought there was an episode later on where Wobbufett or Meowth got TR's others to stand down, but the memory is vague.
On the flip side Sceptile used a referee as a human shield when he thought Ash told him to...which probably says a lot about Sceptile, really.
That sort of thing can definitely be interesting to explore.
To be fair to Sceptile, he was pretty shocked by the order and even hesitated before ultimately complying. One also needs to take into account that Arbok and Weezing had been with Jessie and James for years and thus already knew what they were like. By contrast, Ash was being possesed, and Sceptile had no idea that was the case, which would just add confusion on top of everything else.If I recall correctly we had Arbok and Weezing refusing to attack a doctor who healed them back in Kanto and I thought there was an episode later on where Wobbufett or Meowth got TR's others to stand down, but the memory is vague.
On the flip side Sceptile used a referee as a human shield when he thought Ash told him to...which probably says a lot about Sceptile, really.
That sort of thing can definitely be interesting to explore.
Marnie and Raihan were both as good.I think ash vs Volkner was the last great battle in pwc. Everything has been mediocre or bad thus far. Didn't watch Marnie battle so can't comment on that
Meh raihan was decent, but the last fight with Lucario was just bad imo.Marnie and Raihan were both as good.
It also require the characters to be nuanced as well. I just can't see ash or the companion being effective characters for this kind of plot. They aren't the most complex or barely flawed, and just too nice.I think it's because moral/ethical issues require a lot of nuance that needs to be very well thought out, especially for a kiddie show like Pokémon, even more when you take into account that the show has never really approached the "grey area" too much. Morality issues were never something the show was thought with in mind, unlike something such as, say... ATLA or etc.
But I'm all for exploring morality with the Pokémon themselves. I mean, you tell me that Pokémon are essentially as sapient as humans are and (nearly) every single one of them is always gonna be good? That there's basically no Pokémon that is objectively bad? Or even morally grey?
Because like, animal irl can't be fully distinguished as "good" or "evil" because they don't have enough sapience to understand human concepts of morality and ethics, but Pokémon are. And they say that ever since day one, with even some being canonically smarter than humans.
Bottom line is: I get why it might be difficult to do that, but I think it's a lot of new ground the writers could explore if they wanted to.
I suspect this is partly Ash's long-running underdog factor at play--if he sent out a Garchomp against Paul he'd have a perception of being the stronger of the two (side note: looking back I find it odd Paul didn't have a psuedo back in DP as I recall. It's not like those were locked off or anything since Tyson used one in AG).One thing I think it's worth noting is that despite the whole "no Pokemon is truly evil" deal, the anime still has some noticeable biases when it comes to depicting certain species which actually often mirrors how certain animals are more prone to being villainized than others: stereotypically cute and/or cool Pokemon are almost always depicted in a heroic and sympathetic light, while the more intimidating-looking ones are, although rarely outright villainous, still more likely to be in an antagonistic position, most notably being under the command of rivals. I mean, during DP Paul was the most hostile rival Ash had ever had, and just look at his team: almost every single Pokemon he's seen using is a species that's either large, intimidating, or a combination of both, and the most egregious exceptions (Chimchar, Azumarill, and the Starly trio) were quickly removed.
This, and the hero's signature Pokemon is a mouse. It just makes perfect sense for one of the main villains to be one of Pikachu's natural predators. Though granted, this is also something that stems from real-life animal stereotypes, namely the "(cute) prey animals good, predator animals evil" stereotype, and indeed, the cat/mouse dichotomy is probably the most recurring example of that archetype.I wonder how Meowth fits into that, though--he's very, very cute despite the most famous one being a villain, but on the other hand cats are very prone to villainization
Although I do appreciate that the show plays with the cat/mouse rivalry in a few ways; the mouse is the by far the physically superior one, the cat isn't looking for a snack but to capture the mouse to ultimately make them work with them, and the two are oddly amicable at times.This, and the heroe's signature Pokemon is a mouse. It just makes perfect sense for one of the main villains to be one of Pikachu's natural predators. Though granted, this is also something that stems from real-life animal stereotypes, namely the "(cute) prey animals good, predator animals evil" stereotype, and indeed, the cat/mouse dichotomy is probably the most recurring example of that archetype.
I actually recall reading once that the artist for the Electric Tale manga had apparently mentioned that he had trouble with the Drake battle for this reason--he wanted Dragonite to look cute but still come across as powerful.Lastly, I will be somewhat fair on the writers in that the cuter-looking species can sometimes be harder to pass off as powerful threats. One example being Harley's Wigglytuff: you can tell that the writers wanted the viewing audience to fear that thing to the point that they drew it with a permanent evil glare on it's face, but if you asked me, that backfired horribly and mostly just comes off as downright comical. Like, no writers, no amount of you trying to make this soft, pink marshmallow look scary is gonna hide the fact that it's a soft, pink marshmallow XD