>>51453638Yes Yuri Geller widely popularized it but it's a common magician trick and it has been used in media as a standard display of telekinesis. How are you gonna say spoonbending is completely inseparable from Geller when Alakazam is named after Houdini(so by your logic is nothing but a reference to the single individual that is his namesake) and yet it looks pretty much identical to kadabra and still spoonbends?
Look at these pictures, you simply cannot on good faith say that Kadabra is a reference to a person in the same capacity as Obstagoon.
>>51453621No, read the above. Take for instance Jigglypuff, it's also music themed. Obviously it's not directly based on a specific real life singer. Lulling enemies to sleep is a common power in folklore and media(unlike making signature band poses that apparently block you). If the devs had decided to name it after a real singer that is known to have an enchanting and soothing voice then sure, that would have been a totally fine "reference" and it wouldn't suddenly make it so Jigglypuff is now unequivocally based on that singer and a walking reference of it.
>>51453595Pathetically disengenuous. I don't even know if you're referring to it being a reference to a Pokeball or the rpg mimic trope but regardless we've been through this and it's a shit tier analogy that has nothing whatsoever to do with irl people references.
