>>51156995>Which is something a lot of gen 1 bugs have.It's something paras, venonat and pinsir have which makes perfect sense with them being regular land bugs. Venomoth gained them later with redesigns and even then they arent pronounced at all. The fact that they gave a butterfly pokemon such prounounced mandibles from the start is significant. Moreover Mothra's signature power is releasing a cloud of poisonous dust from its wings which is exactly what the pokedex describes butterfree doing.
>it was meant to represent the concept of Pokemon evolution in a way kids could comprehend.the fact that you're able to understand this makes me wonder why the fuck are you even bitching about butterfree's existence
