>>39832838The Poke Balls functioning as they do also obviously bring up the potential for abuse by humans (
>>39832893 or Pokemon themselves like in the first movie), which is why N brings up the subject in gen 5, and says that he dreams of a day when Poke Balls are no longer necessary. So this icon of the entire franchise that is recognised by people the world over and also used as a prominent piece of iconography within the Pokemon world and was originally conceived of as a sort of abstract game mechanic for recruiting monsters actually represents a small imperfection in the utopia-like world of Pokemon. They're not brainwashing machines like some idiots like to think, nor are they prisons of any sort either, as Pokemon could supposedly walk away and return to the wild if they wanted even after capture, but they're still not a really 'natural' or wholly good thing, if that makes sense.
