>>45740699I appreciate and respect you being able to be nuanced about that, actually.
Do not get me wrong - I agree it is a hell of a coincidence, in fairness. I also think it was fucking stupid Movie 20 made it run like a gorilla than the animators taking the time to look up anything regarding big cats or even ask the devs if they can make its hands and feet look like paws. Buuuuuut this is like, the one time a nu-starter can look/act like a real-life animal inspiration pretty well and have a biological excuse for the wonky proportions, and I'm shocked fandom DIDN'T take to that way more often as an excuse for a quadruped fire starter/tiger mon alike. And by that point "top-heavy tiger with big front paws" in pokemon style isn't worse than "godzilla with super-stubby short limbs" or "fire dragon with a beer gut".
I 'unno, maybe I'm just old enough to say make the nu-starters act like their animal counterparts anyway, even if Incineroar has a better excuse than most to do so.