>>42256854If both are Butterflies then Butterfree is perfectly fine where it is and nothing of what you pointed out is proof of this not being a dumb fan theory.
>and don't tell me it was b&wYou are right, it wasn't, but when they gave them one color to represent them on the sprites, Butterfree got blue and Venonat/Venomoth got purple.
Lots of Pokémon, especially the first 151, have body parts drawn the same. That doesn't mean they were originally the same.