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Should Pokemon TF be in the normal games and anime? not just in PMD?
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You seem to be posting about the same idea weirdly a lot....
Short answer: No.
Long answer: TF is not a theme you should take lightly -- but not for any reason unique to TF itself. There are many ideas and concepts for any series that can have unexpected consequences if the writer tries to incorporate them but does poorly at it. For example, just look at the "Time Turner" from the Harry Potter series, which was used literally once then forgotten about, but the mere existence of it in the first place raised a lot of potential implications and discussion among fans, to the point that Rowling herself joked that if she had one, she'd use it to go back and warn her past self NOT to introduce it in the first place.
Canonically, the only confirmation of a human being turned into a Pokemon in the main series was a one-off event with Bill in Gen 1. Otherwise, this is more or less PMD's unique territory, which all use the element quite well, basing their entire story around it.
Short answer: No.
Long answer: TF is not a theme you should take lightly -- but not for any reason unique to TF itself. There are many ideas and concepts for any series that can have unexpected consequences if the writer tries to incorporate them but does poorly at it. For example, just look at the "Time Turner" from the Harry Potter series, which was used literally once then forgotten about, but the mere existence of it in the first place raised a lot of potential implications and discussion among fans, to the point that Rowling herself joked that if she had one, she'd use it to go back and warn her past self NOT to introduce it in the first place.
Canonically, the only confirmation of a human being turned into a Pokemon in the main series was a one-off event with Bill in Gen 1. Otherwise, this is more or less PMD's unique territory, which all use the element quite well, basing their entire story around it.
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Maybe for like one side character who is an human turned into a Pokémon or a Pokémon turned into an human, or a legendary backstory where they're humans who became Pokémon. But not the main characters, and it should'nt be like the whole point of the plot. Yes, they can stay turned into a Pokémon or into an human for the whole lenght (or almost the whole lenght) of the plot, but it should'nt be seen as important to it. Just a plot point.
For example, the whole point of SMUSM is that a woman lost her husband to jellyfish from another dimension, so she went crazy and obsessed pathologically by the monsters of that dimension, so her kids ran away, and the woman sends scientists to fight her kids and their friends, and you have to turn the woman back to who she was before losing her husband.
Silvally being a chimera made to fight Arceus? Nebby growing up to be the cover legendaries? Those aren't the point of the plot, but they are plot points.
For example, the whole point of SMUSM is that a woman lost her husband to jellyfish from another dimension, so she went crazy and obsessed pathologically by the monsters of that dimension, so her kids ran away, and the woman sends scientists to fight her kids and their friends, and you have to turn the woman back to who she was before losing her husband.
Silvally being a chimera made to fight Arceus? Nebby growing up to be the cover legendaries? Those aren't the point of the plot, but they are plot points.
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