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Today I had a really upsetting realization of living in the Pokemon World and hitting one with your car.
You usually don't think about them together a lot, do you? There's the Pikachu Beetle of course, and a few variants over the years, but cars in the Pokémon games are virtually absent in most cases, and it's rare you're ever tasked with crossing a street in the games.
In the anime, which doesn't have to obey the limited space and computing power the games afford, cars are a little more common---for some reason the anime loves the gag that nobody with a car, such as Bertha or Scott, can drive---but often the gang hangs out in the woods or at a camp.
But I was watching an episode in the recent series, where most of it takes place in a pretty grounded version of Vermillion City which is more or less "modern urban Japan", and a scene with Eevee and Grookey almost getting run over by a car sent me to a strange place of anxiety and disgust.
Like...imagine driving along, and having the fear you could run over a Pokémon. I mean it's bad enough in real life thinking about hitting someone's pet, but Pokémon (especially in the show) are generally portrayed as having human levels of intellect for the most part, more than your average dog.
I don't know man, if I lived in the Pokémon World I don't think I'd drive...not simply because there's cool Pokémon I could be riding on (like the rumor the new Legendaries can transform into motorcycles) but like, I don't wanna be the one to accidentally hit someone's Slowpoke in traffic. Or man, slamming into a Gardevoir that happens to teleport right in front of your car and watching its thin, limp body slump itself over your windshield. Fuck that'd mess me up.
