>>31915843The deception of Mawile isn't quite like a venus flytrap, though.
We don't see it much in-game since we just do battles, but the idea is that it lures in prey with its cute face before whipping around and snapping at them. Flytraps are something dangerous that just sits still and slowly entraps its prey.
Presumably Mawile has more to do with some japanese yokai about a cute girl with hungry hair, or some shit. Through coloration and typing it also invokes bear traps.
We also got an explicit venus flytrap next generation, and in Gen III GF was trying to introduce more Steel and Dark-types.
