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Misty's gyarados got hit with the red laser and shrugged it off, prompting her to say, "It doesn't want to return, " in a distressed and incredulous fashion. This capacity to resist the pull of the Poké Ball always stood out to me and honestly, when I think of them as energy sapping mechanisms it makes sense for an angry and volatile Pokémon like Gyarados to be able to do that. Even if they don't drain energy but interact with the shrinking physiology some other way, it still seems apt for a Gyarados to say fuck off like that. Like shrugging off a hand job.