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Loved him from the first time I saw him. Thought it was a nice throwback to muk and weezing, a poison type based on human pollution. I liked the concept of living rubbish, as I like the concept of living toxic sludge. Was genuinely surprised that people hated it, I thought genwunners especially would love it.
IMO, Trubbish and Garbodor are really great executions on those designs. They manage to look recongisably like rubbish bags while retaining a sense of being a unified, living thing. Making the bag handles ears is a sweet detail, as well as using iron bars like bones. Most people who hate it, hate it for there being a trash Pokemon AT ALL, not for being a bad execution of that concept. The same's true of Vanniluxe. I just can't get behind that. The idea that certain things should just NEVER be made into Pokemon seems so small minded. Of course you can criticise the execution of a concept; I don't really like Rhyperior's design, but I have nothing against the core concept of a tank-rhino. But if you're the kind of person who thinks just saying "it's an ice cream" or "it's a trash bag" is a sufficient criticism, I really think you're playing the wrong franchise. Pokemon can be animals, plants, ghosts, rocks, eggs, magnets, mimes and amorphous blobs of toxic waste, to go no further than generation one.
