>>12680509At least Charizard is a more acceptable play on words. Char could mean it belongs to the Charmander evolutionary line, deriving it from "Charm".
Ninetales is a pun on Ninetails, an actual mythological japanese creature.
Voltorb and Bellsprout at least combine smoothly.
Houndoom's combination of words go acceptable due to the "d".
But "Talon" and "Flame" don't even combine in any way. I admit its name is so first gen, alright.