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I guess the reason it doesn't look as much like Jynx was thanks to that controversy in the 90's. Take it with a BIG grain of salt, but I think that's why they replaced beta Smoochum.Smoochum is just bad. “Hey, let’s draw attention to Jynx by giving it a sunburned baby form!” Besides that, Chingling and Happiny are my least favorite baby Pokémon. They’re both completely pointless, not as cute as other baby Pokémon, and use the confounded incense breeding system that bugs me about the cross-generational babies from Gens 3 + 4.
Yea, but with Jynx being unfavorable enough as it is, I don’t know why they bothered even giving it a baby form.I guess the reason it doesn't look as much like Jynx was thanks to that controversy in the 90's. Take it with a BIG grain of salt, but I think that's why they replaced beta Smoochum.
Well, I always thought they gave it a pre-evolution to go with the ones that Magmar and Electabuzz received since they looked like they formed a typical elemental trio. Doesn't help that Jynx's Psychic-Type looks like an after-thought.Yea, but with Jynx being unfavorable enough as it is, I don’t know why they bothered even giving it a baby form.
Well, I always thought they gave it a pre-evolution to go with the ones that Magmar and Electabuzz received since they looked like they formed a typical elemental trio. Doesn't help that Jynx's Psychic-Type looks like an after-thought.
Well... Mr.Mime was also supposed to get a baby in gen 2.
People pair Electabuzz, Jynx and Magmar together, while i have always paired Jynx and Mr.Mime together, since both are Psychic types and are humanoids and this is supported in gen 4, when Mime.Jr became a thing to go with Smoochum.
But, on the other hand, another hand, Jynx didn't learn any Psychic-Type moves naturally until Gen V, and the ones she could learn are also shared with Electabuzz and Magmar.Definitely. Plus, they're both themed around a kind of physical performance art - miming for Mr. Mime, and dancing for Jynx. And considering how even Jynx's original Pokédex entry mentions that it can cause people to dance along with it (presumably through psychic persuasion), I'd say that if any element of Jynx feels like an afterthought, it's actually her Ice typing, which, at least personally speaking, I've never seen much of an immediate justification for. The claim in Bulbapedia's origin section for Jynx it is based on a yokai called the yama-uba, on the grounds that the yama-uba is "described as always wearing a tattered red kimono, having whitish-blonde hair, control over snow, dark-colored skin, and large lips," is as near as I can tell quite slanted to fit Jynx's profile, because even a cursory Google search for "yama-uba" yields no majority of such depictions, and plenty of alternative ones. (Though that is not to say that the yama-uba couldn't have been an inspiration for Jynx - there are aspects that I think match up, I just don't think it would specifically be the inspiration for Jynx's Ice typing. Sometimes I wonder if they really did just tack it on to add some type diversity, because without Jynx, the only Ice-types in Gen 1 are all weak to Electric, and we actually know that they aren't necessarily opposed to making a Pokémon have a certain type for such reasons, because that's kind of what happened with the likes of Stunfisk and Jellicent in Gen 5 - as I recall, they were originally designed as Water/Electric and pure Water, respectively, but adjustments were made to give Unova a slightly better range of types.)
Also, I think Mr. Mime and Jynx both have unusually pronounced hands, though that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
But, on the other hand, another hand, Jynx didn't learn any Psychic-Type moves naturally until Gen V, and the ones she could learn are also shared with Electabuzz and Magmar.
I've never liked Mime Jr. I like Mr. Mime being its own weird little thing, and Mime Jr. takes away from that.