>>48732871But that's what the games present them as? I mean it's hard to argue with the visual cues that are all over the place. Also Mewtwo is a legendary which in Pokémon context means he's no ordinary beast.
>>48732475IQ has nothing to do with anything shown in that image and doesn't really matter anyways since it's fiction. To be sure the series beats down on you that Pokémon aren't even people and presents them as a collective so there's no barrier among the non-legendaries saying one is more bestial than the other. No, they're all equally bestial. It takes special pleading to go against it, whether it's crying about design or perception on an individual Pokémon personhood that often stems from one's inane headcanon. Verily if that was the case they wouldn't be so adamant in using pet imagery and tying it so closely to the Pokémon themselves.
Just as in real life fascist regimes such as Mussolini's made extensive use of Roman imagery to create an imaginary link between his regime and the Roman Empire. Basically trying to evoke the image of Rome. In Pokémon it's painfully clear what the Pokémon themselves are meant to evoke and intelligence plays zero role in that since it's fiction. One only has to tune in to any modern cartoon to see worlds full of intelligent talking beasts and pets who exhibit more human behavior than 99.9% of Pokémon. Anything else is a cope.
