>>45145178>It'd feel way too awkward to make Missingno a canon Pokemon in any form or matterRead a fanfic on a now defunct site(I think it was trose or tmrocket or something like that), where essentially it was an experiment done by TR on cinnabar to create another perfect legendary like mewtwo. Caveat was that since Mewtwo turned out to be uncontrollable, it was going to be an all digital pokemon, like porygon(I assume the closest thing to this idea being canon is the existence of dubious disk and porygon-z). The fanfic was cool, it even acounted for some variants evolving into weird things, like rhydons, clefairies and kanghaskhans, at weird levels
there was a thousand different ways they could have turned something like this, even if it was an accident, into a proper line of legendary/hidden pokemon. countless games gave shoutouts to glitches that happened in the previous games, some even changed the gameplay loop due to them, to make things more interesting or challenging, or incorporated these glitches into official features, there is no excuse
But then again, this is the same studio that never gave as much as a "we will hear back from you" for pic related, despite him being both extremely loved and charismatic, as well as potentially marketable. Guarantee you other studios would jump on the idea to make him one of the mascots of the series(not like he would ever eclipse, for example, pikachu or ash, so there is no excuse)