>>26878802Even if the designers try to remove the tongue for a brief respite of consistency with the ninja mentality, they would have to deal with the grotesque, chummy, and desolate expanse of skin, flesh, and height that encompasses the ugly and unsightly portion of the Pokémon’s neck, mouth, and lower jaw, with somehow less grace, sympathy, or pleasantness than a standard frog or toad. Perhaps this is the only feat of artistry committed, in trying to hide this sickly feature from sight and mind- albeit a mediocre one nevertheless.
I am only too eager to display and enumerate for you all how the concept of a “beautiful spirit” or of “what’s on the inside that counts” or a “soul that redeems the spirit” is ultimately probably the most pretentious, stupid, perfunctory, dogmatic, ignoble, and above all, destructive “maxim” to have ever reared its ugly head upon the face of humanity ever since the petty, glib and depraved Socrates uttered it to hide his grotesque face under a metaphysical and “spiritual” cloud of sleight. To be brief, I will quote one of Herbert Spencer’s essays where he wisely stated "the saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying". Perhaps I will elaborate on this in greater detail at a later time.
The only solution, then, is to ignore the absurdity altogether.