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Anonymous Mon 13 May 2019 23:13:29 No.38551553 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>38551570 >>38551575 >>38551586 >>38551815 >>38552385 >>38553417 >>38553444 >>38554207 >>38554884 >>38555511 >>38557781 >>38559471 >>38559485 >>38560765

Why do some people remember Pikachu having a black-tipped tail?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 May 2019 23:15:08 No.38551570 Report

Quoted By: >>38551586

>>38551553
Because they’re brainlets with bad memory
Destined to get early onset alzheimer’s

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 May 2019 23:16:07 No.38551575 Report

Quoted By: >>38551586

>>38551553
They’re retarded and/or never actually cared about Pokémon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 May 2019 23:17:22 No.38551586 Report

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>>38551553
because they're 30 year old boomers who likely looked at an ad where it was drawn wrong
>>38551570
>>38551575
fuck off niggers

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 May 2019 23:23:47 No.38551639 Report

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because it looks better

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 13 May 2019 23:25:54 No.38551667 Report

Quoted By: >>38552500 >>38553494 >>38554799 >>38554884

i blame Gamefreak for the confusion

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 May 2019 23:43:52 No.38551815 Report

Quoted By: >>38551824 >>38554799

>>38551553
combo of the ears having black tips and memory being pretty flawed

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 May 2019 23:45:16 No.38551824 Report

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>>38551815
This. It's easy as fuck to mis-remember something.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 00:52:46 No.38552385 Report

Quoted By: >>38552500 >>38555931

>>38551553
because of this retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 01:05:08 No.38552500 Report

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>>38552385
>>38551667
What’s the truth

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 02:55:45 No.38553417 Report

Quoted By: >>38553494 >>38553985

>>38551553
I think I do, but it was much thinner than that. I think it may have been a 4kids fuckup I remember seeing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 02:59:14 No.38553444 Report

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>>38551553
Your justing remebering Pichu

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 03:08:29 No.38553494 Report

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>>38553417
>I think I do, but it was much thinner than that.
Same and I thought it was the gender difference for Pikachu. I feel the need to mention I thought this long before >>38551667
I owned a Lego Pikachu kit probably around 2006 or 2007 which I swear included in the manual that you needed to make the tail tip black if it was a girl. Later I discovered this was false and figured the manual was just wrong.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 04:18:55 No.38553985 Report

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>>38553417
Yeah it was thinner and the tip of the tail was sloped. The line was sloped with it.

I don't know what caused me to think it though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 04:46:30 No.38554187 Report

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Wait...what. I thought pikachu did.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 04:49:48 No.38554207 Report

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>>38551553
even if you never thought it had the black tip, you can't say that it doesn't objectively look better with it. Just fleshes out the color scheme way better.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 05:28:22 No.38554428 Report

Quoted By: >>38554987 >>38557870

Does this count?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 05:36:33 No.38554470 Report

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some later bootleg merchandise had the black tip

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 06:35:35 No.38554799 Report

Quoted By: >>38554812

>>38551667
>>38551815
this and also in addition to >>38551667 pokemon didnt have super consistent designs in the beginning so i wouldn't be surprised if pikachu got drawn with black tipped tail a few places here and there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 06:37:43 No.38554812 Report

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>>38554799
I wouldn't be terribly surprised either, but it's interesting this theory has been going around for while and no ones been able to find an offical image of it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 06:56:04 No.38554884 Report

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>>38551553
I've been playing since Gen 1 and I don't ever recall there being a black-tipped tail on any Pikachu design other than >>38551667, which came years later. I honestly have no idea where the confusion came from, and nobody I knew at the time ever mentioned it, either. Out of curiosity, around what generation did the people who remember a black-tipped tailed Pikachu start playing? Maybe there was a piece of promotional art for something post-gen 2-3 that featured one as a mistake?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 07:15:50 No.38554987 Report

Quoted By: >>38557202

>>38554428
why'd they ever do away with the fat pikachu design

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 09:10:43 No.38555463 Report

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Because some people are idiots

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 09:24:16 No.38555511 Report

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>>38551553
Mandela effect

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 10:20:26 No.38555728 Report

Quoted By: >>38559678

The outline was 2 px thicker at the tip in yellow version.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 11:08:22 No.38555931 Report

Quoted By: >>38556018

>>38552385
Exept kids drew black tip Pikachu tail before Pichu was even revealed

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 11:24:53 No.38556018 Report

Quoted By: >>38557639

>>38555931
I drew everything with a black tip as a kid for some reason.
>car
Black spoiler
>any animal with a tail
Black tip tail
>tank
Black muzzle brake
It's a very easy to do and adds a little detail, especially when your drawing ability barely stretches beyond coloring in the lines, so why not just color in the lines some more.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 15:03:08 No.38557153 Report

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Mandela effect duh

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 15:12:18 No.38557202 Report

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>>38554987
No one likes fat fucks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 16:25:12 No.38557639 Report

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>>38556018
I use to draw pikachu with the black tip too

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 16:47:23 No.38557781 Report

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>>38551553
Because some magazines drew "totally not Pikachu" in their cartoon sections and altered the design so as not to infringe on copyrights.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 16:56:29 No.38557870 Report

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>>38554428
This, but unironically. The water coloring of his tail left the tip a different color. That in conjunction with the ears having black tips makes you remember it as having a black tip.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 16:58:59 No.38557880 Report

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What's strange is I used to draw Pikachu with a black-tipped tail years ago, but I never figured out why I did so. I think my brain wanted to complement the black-tipped ears with something to strike a balance, and it uses the tail to do so. Since then, I've seen plebeians and artists alike do the same thing whenever they drew Pikachu from memory—Youtubers, mainly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 17:08:15 No.38557962 Report

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It's Mandela blasting his inter-dimensional moon beam to my head that makes me remember shit wrong.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 20:05:34 No.38559365 Report

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It's consistently drawn that way by people who don't care about Pokémon and aren't bothering to use a reference (eg as part of a political cartoon about the fad period)

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 20:08:59 No.38559378 Report

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I used to draw it like that in like, 2nd grade, and then I got a guidebook with a pokedex in 3rd, and saw how his tail really looked and it blew my mind. I think maybe it was because they don't show his tail that often in the anime before he gets Iron Tail, and maybe my brain logic'd its way into giving the tail a black tip to match the ears. Idk.

Debi Virsaladze

Debi Virsaladze Tue 14 May 2019 20:21:51 No.38559448 Report

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They accidentally color it black to match it to the ears

And there are some OC pikachu that have different designs, some of them have black tip tails

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 20:25:17 No.38559471 Report

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>>38551553
Pattern recognition. Brain subconsciously sees the black tips on Pikachu's ears and expects the trend to continue

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 20:27:27 No.38559485 Report

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>>38551553
They most likely thought "If the ears have black tips then the tail must have a black tip to!"

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 20:55:41 No.38559678 Report

Quoted By: >>38559700

>>38555728
Jesus fuck, can you even take a good picture you fucking retard

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 20:58:23 No.38559700 Report

Quoted By: >>38559723

>>38559678

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 21:00:47 No.38559723 Report

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>>38559700
Mine is perfectly visible, but whatever
His looks blurry as hell compared to mine.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 22:28:50 No.38560463 Report

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There were some (probably bootleg) toys where pikachu was given a black tip

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 May 2019 23:09:42 No.38560765 Report

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>>38551553
Because it did. I even remeber drawing Pikachu with a black tipped tail when I was a kid.

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