>>37125342Darkrai would have been hunted and probably killed had he not lost his memory irreversibly in Palkia's attack, therefore not posing a major threat anymore.
>Partner: Darkrai has lost his memory?!>Cresselia: Yes. Darkrai will likely never recover his memory... And he will wander lost through the world.>Partner: Darkrai...>Palkia: WE ARE DONE WITH HIM. HE WILL NOT LIKELY EXPAND THE DISTORTION OF SPACE AGAIN.His “redemption“ was losing himself like the MC suffered because of him, roaming the Dungeons like any mindless buttbot (to make it possible to recruit a Darkrai).
It is Wigglytuff that brings up the moral that there's meaning to every creature's existence, even the “bad“ one's.
Isn't that at least acknowledging the CHOICE of doing good or ill?
It was Super Mystery Dungeon that didn't even dare to show that a Pokemon could be evil BY CHOICE, by relating all evil to the influence of an impersonal Dark Matter (a concept that feels like a rip off from the Kirby series, where creatures of Dark Matter have the ability to possess people). Very underwhelming.
Yet Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky indeed doesn't make a claim of inherent evil in Pokémon. On the contrary, it concludes with the birthright to exist. Even without his memories and schemes of world domination, Darkrai will survive by fabricating illusions and nightmares. That's an asocial lot in life, but the hundreds of alternatives aren't better: Burning creatures alive? Drowning them? Freezing them? Eating them alive? All Pokémon are killer machines by design, yet without guilt for their monstrous condition.
What is evil? What is (the meaning of) life? Is life simply suffering? A balance of give and take? A rearrangement of elements? What is Arceus? Is it to blame? Has it not heeded to its birthright of creating things? Shit happens... and this thread is doomed to escape facts and logic sooner or later.
