• @Chais
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    They can vocalise more than just their names, so if anything, they’re Digimon.

    • bullsaint
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      138 months ago

      now THATS a hot take. “Pokemon are Digimon.”

      • @[email protected]
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        238 months ago

        That’s not what he said. He said humans are Digimon, not Pokémon. Pokémon are Yugiohs, duh.

    • Solivine
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      118 months ago

      I don’t think this is true, there’s some Pokémon that speak normal language like meowth, lucario, legendaries etc…

      • @Chais
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        88 months ago

        But they’re few and far between. Every Digimon can talk.

        • @[email protected]
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          Every human can talk because they were taught. Meowth couldn’t talk until he taught himself how(to try and impress a girl meowth 😭). Humans don’t teach their Pokemon to speak, and most don’t have the inclination to teach themselves. So for all we know every Pokemon is capable of human speech if they were taught.

      • @[email protected]
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        Pikachu speak at the very least has some structure to it. “Pika-Pi” is Ash’s name, for instance.

    • @[email protected]
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      48 months ago

      Only those who have beaten the Pokémon league can be digimon. Because in order to be a digimon you must be the champion

    • LazaroFilm
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      28 months ago

      So does Meowth… does that mean… no… it can’t be…

      • @Chais
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        18 months ago

        Yes. Used to be human but was turned into a Pokemon for his crimes.

      • @mindbleach
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        18 months ago

        Team Rocket doesn’t evolve him because he’d turn into a biblically accurate angel with a really bondage-y costume glued to his fantastic rack.

    • sheepishly
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      128 months ago

      And then in Legends Arceus suddenly humans barely understood how to interact with Pokemon barely a few hundred years before modern times. What genius came up with that nonsense?

        • sheepishly
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          28 months ago

          I feel like they’ve been forgoring since around gen 7. There’s been a weird shift in how the relationship between humans and Pokemon has been written for a while now and I don’t like it. But that’s a schizopost for another time.

  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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    No, as regular animals exist in the Pokemon world, too. The original games had cats and dogs in some houses. The cartoon showed non Pokemon birds flying alongside pidgeys and such.

    The original games also made the claim that Pokemon came from space. They only showed up after a meteorite.

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        Which part? That Pokemon came from space or the inclusion of common animals like dogs and cats? I didn’t even know the show continued beyond my high school years until I saw all the talk about the show finally ending recently so I personally have no idea what they changed but the recent games I have played make the origin of the pokemon more mystical.

        • @[email protected]
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          58 months ago

          As far as I’m aware, the inclusion of real-world animal species in the older anime and games was due to the lack of variety in existing Pokemon species. The last time I know they referred to a real animal was in 2016, where the Pokedex entry for Raichu says it can knock out an Indian elephant. More recently, Raichu’s Pokedex entry was updated to instead say it can incapacitate a Copperajah.

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      58 months ago

      Can you put normal animals in a pokeball or is the tech bound to the specific alien dna of pokemons and can humans be put in pokeballs, and how dos this all fit in human trafficking technology?

  • darq
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    158 months ago

    Pokeballs get really sinister when you think about them too deeply.

    • Neato
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      Pokemon is glorified dog fighting.

      But wait, it gets worse. Do Pokemon experience time inside the pokeballs? It’s so, they’re essentially spend 99% of their life in prison.

      If not, then nearly all their life is spent fighting.

  • kubica
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    Yes. Because answering “no” is more troublesome.

  • FedFer
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    48 months ago

    I thought Pokémon were not animals at all but their own beings separate from the animal kingdom

    • @[email protected]
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      There are a handful of shots of regular fish in underwater scenes but that’s probably due to lazy animators that didn’t give a shit about the franchise they were working on.

    • 🔍🦘🛎
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      Eh, pretty much only the first seasons of the anime reference non-pokemon animals. All the media for the past 20 years only mention other Pokemon when talking about food, prey, etc.

  • Lux
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    Aren’t there non-pokemon animals in pokemon?

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    all humans are animals

    all dogs are animals

    therefore humans are dogs

    not a very good argument imo

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      You’re doing all A are in C, all B are in C =⟩ A is in B, which makes no sense and isn’t what they said.

      They said all A are in B, all B are in C =⟩ A are in C, which is true by the transitive property.

      All humans are animals

      All animals are Pokemon

      Therefore all humans are Pokemon

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      All humans are animals All dogs are animals Not all animals are dogs Not animals are humans But all the animals in modern Pokemon are Pokemon So the question is Does animal == Pokemon If so human are Pokemon But if animal != Pokemon Then humans != Pokemon and human == animal