Leaked manuscript from Gold/Silver's development:
>okay, the dragon guy from red/green's gonna be the final boss.
>okay, so he'll obviously have a dragonite, what else...
>let's give him that new dragon seahorse that his cousin uses so he won't have such a huge ice-type weakness
>oh wait, no. tajiri specifically said not to do that. he wants his waifu to remain special. damn
>oh well, charizard can take down ice-types. it's basically a dragon anyway
>hmm, and let's give him a gyarados just to be extra sure he doesn't have an ice-weakness
>um, shit. out of dragons. let's give him an aerodactyl
>implying pterodactyls aren't dragons
>fuck this, my lunch break's soon, i'll just copypasta that dragonite to finish off his team.
>okay, on to kanto. okay, first of all, all the trainers have to be horribly low-leveled...
