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Fuck that Uri Geller faggot

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 14:31:32 No.15656088 View View Reply Original Report

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>Kadabra has not been printed as a TCG card since the Skyridge expansion. This may be due to Nintendo and Pokémon Card Laboratories' desire not to provoke Uri Geller's litigious nature.
>>For possibly the same reason, Kadabra has not made any anime appearances since Fear Factor Phony.
>>Kadabra also didn't appear in Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia, whereas Abra and Alakazam did.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 14:33:15 No.15656111 Report

Quoted By: >>15656145

I never realized how much the Abra line looks like Dragon Ball characters before X/Y.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 14:35:33 No.15656145 Report

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>>15656111
What?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 14:39:09 No.15656199 Report

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Also in RF there are two guys talking about a guy that can bend spoons but it looks like a scam..

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 14:47:46 No.15656327 Report

Quoted By: >>15656772

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Geller#Copyright_claims
>In November 2000, Geller sued video game company Nintendo for £60 million over the Pokémon character "Yungerer," localized in English as "Kadabra", which he claimed was an unauthorized appropriation of his identity.[81][82] The Pokémon in question has psychic abilities and carries a bent spoon. Geller also claimed that the star on Kadabra's forehead and the lightning patterns on its abdomen are symbolisms popular with the Waffen SS of Nazi Germany.[82] The katakana for the character's name, ユンゲラー, is visually similar to the transliteration of Geller's own name into Japanese (ユリゲラー). He is quoted as saying: "Nintendo turned me into an evil, occult Pokémon character. Nintendo stole my identity by using my name and my signature image." US District Judge Vaughn Walker dismissed Geller's complaint for want of jurisdiction.
#REKT

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 14:51:21 No.15656380 Report

Quoted By: >>15656401

Kadabra clearly tries bring jews and nazis together

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 14:52:42 No.15656401 Report

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>>15656380
>inb4 Swastika is a Nazi symbol

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 14:53:46 No.15656421 Report

Quoted By: >>15656458 >>15656535

I just wish TPC weren't so chickenshit being afraid of accidentially offending somebody. Seriously, their only solution of problems is distinctively Japanese: SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 14:56:07 No.15656458 Report

Quoted By: >>15656484

>>15656421
Do you mean TPC or TPCi?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 14:57:54 No.15656484 Report

Quoted By: >>15656524

>>15656458
...both

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 14:59:45 No.15656524 Report

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>>15656484
Well, TPCi's boss is a Japanese guy so yeah.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 15:00:29 No.15656535 Report

Quoted By: >>15656568

>>15656421
This whole shit with Geller makes me think GF/Nintendo want to scrap Kadabra's existence.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 15:02:33 No.15656568 Report

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>>15656535
Given how Game Freak left a bug unfixed throughout the whole of Generations IV and V in which Kadabra would still evolve into Alakazam even if holding an Everstone... Yeah.

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Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 15:08:35 No.15656659 Report

Quoted By: >>15656696

Where do the tail/markings come from/go /vp/?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 15:10:40 No.15656696 Report

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>>15656659

He evolved passed the need for them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 15:15:05 No.15656772 Report

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>>15656327

That doesn't mean he got rekt. It means he was told if he wanted justice on the issue he needed to provide proof of Nintendo assenting to be sued over copyright issues in the states (which has happened since then) or bring it up with Japanese representation overseas.

Having your case be dismissed =/= rekt.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 15:16:11 No.15656785 Report

Quoted By: >>15656866

To be fair, he was as much of a reference to Geller as Hitmonchan and lee are references to... well, Chan and Lee

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 15:22:05 No.15656866 Report

Quoted By: >>15656999

>>15656785
Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee are just references to Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee, respectively, in their English names.

Hitmonchan's Japanese name is Ebiwalar (エビワラー), which is a reference to Hiroyuki Ebihara, the Japanese world champion boxer.

Hitmonlee's Japanese name is Sawamular (サワムラー), a reference to Tadashi Sawamura, who was originally named Hideki Shiraha, one of the world's earliest popular kickboxers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 15:23:25 No.15656882 Report

Quoted By: >>15658812

Lol so is this the reason Alakazam cards werent released

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 15:29:44 No.15656999 Report

Quoted By: >>15657017 >>15657420

>>15656866

And yet none of those 4 sued Nintendo for "stealing their identity".

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 15:30:36 No.15657017 Report

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>>15656999
Well, Ebihara couldn't as he's been dead since 1991.

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Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 15:37:07 No.15657144 Report

Quoted By: >>15657420

>Some fake-psychic who swindles people out of their money
>Trying to swindle money from a huge corporation

Why are you guys surprised?

Also
>mfw those religious groups who were trying to get houndoom banned see Mega-houndoom

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 15:39:15 No.15657173 Report

Quoted By: >>15657190 >>15657240

So they can't put Kadabra on the anime, cards or spinoffs yet it's perfectly okay to keep him in the main series games? How does that work?

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Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 15:40:18 No.15657190 Report

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>>15657173
>So they can't put Kadabra on the anime
But they can.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 15:42:58 No.15657240 Report

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>>15657173
They can, they'd just rather not to. Same reason they don't want Porygon on the show even 15 years later.
Removing them from the games however is likely to cause ruckus and fallout in the fanbase so...

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Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 15:53:47 No.15657420 Report

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>>15656999
Can't find any Probopass pics in my folder at the moment, so have this instead.
>>15657144
>trying to get houndoom banned
Never actually happened, even if everyone expected it to happen when they first saw it. Stop making shit up.

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Anonymous Wed 06 Nov 2013 17:05:38 No.15658812 Report

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>>15656882
They are released, although Abra always had a excelled evolution PokeBody that skipped Kadbra.

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