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Referencing and fanservice is great, Gamefreak just manages to make it fucking horrible.
>Good fanservice
Nods and callbacks to previous characters, features and events, feels in place, can be a big event but leaves enough room for the original media to stand on it's own. Examples of good fanservice include
>PWT
>Engrish speaking ex-Rocket Grunt in Castelia city
>Red in GSC
>The ongoing story about the ghost girl
>Anabel in SM
>Crasher Wake in HGSS
>USUM postgame featuring all evil bosses
>Bad References
Blatant, not subtle, only service one kind of fan, take the place of something that should have been unique to whatever game that was. Bad example of fanservice include
>Alola only having Kanto alt forms
>the Kantonian gym in the Alola city that was based around Johto
>Leon's ace being a Charizard instead of a Pokemon from Galar
>getting a second set of Kanto starters in XY for no real reason other than Kanto
The common thread of bad references is the ONLY service fans of Kanto/Charizard. If you're a fan of Gen 2, 3, 4,5, 6 or 7 you get absolutely nothing from the list of bad references. People's issue with Charizard isn't Charizard itself, but rather the fact that there are tons of other Pokemon left to the wayside so we can have Charizard X, Charizard Y, G-Max Charizard, Charizard's anime special, Charizard as a ride Pokemon, etc.