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Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 14:41:58 No.44927109 View View Reply Original Report

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Are pokedex entries meant to be serious? I have a hard time believing people would let children wander about with creatures that can topple mountains, feed on the souls of humans and are overall very dangerous creatures. In fact how did people even thrive in that environment lmao

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Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 14:44:39 No.44927132 Report

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>eats a whole mountain
nothing personnel, kid

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 14:45:21 No.44927139 Report

Quoted By: >>44927257

>>44927109
Nope. It's all embellished and bullshitted.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 14:46:33 No.44927153 Report

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They are 100% scientific and serious, congrats on discovering gamefreak is retarded

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 14:48:40 No.44927176 Report

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>>44927109
Didn't you know that Prof. Oak is a well known krack-addict?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 14:49:13 No.44927186 Report

Quoted By: >>44927213

>>44927109
They're not, because this world is meant to be fantastical and bizarre to us, so that we don't associate it too closely with our own world and start asking questions like
>do (some) wild pokemon starve to death?
>How does a region thrive with only a hundred or few hundred inhabitants?
>How would <this element of a pokemon> be anything but disadvantageous in the wild?
>Why don't pokemon world criminals use underhanded methods on, just kill, people who oppose them?
>What's the point of team yell?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 14:51:31 No.44927213 Report

Quoted By: >>44927357

>>44927186
>if there are so many fire pokémon using all these fire attacks, why are there so many forests? Everything would've probably burned fast every time a Magmortar got angry

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 14:55:53 No.44927246 Report

Quoted By: >>44927332

>>44927109
If it wasn't, it wouldn't be in the fucking game, and the entire franchise proves it to be true by showing it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 14:57:02 No.44927257 Report

Quoted By: >>44927332

>>44927139
All of the stuff stated in it actually happens in other Pokemon media. If it wasn't true, Game Freak wouldn't have put it in the game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 15:07:16 No.44927332 Report

Quoted By: >>44927349

>>44927246
>>44927257
[Citation needed]

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 15:07:43 No.44927339 Report

Quoted By: >>44931321

>>44927109
>Are pokedex entries meant to be serious?
Yes.
> I have a hard time believing people would let children wander about with creatures that can topple mountains, feed on the souls of humans and are overall very dangerous creatures. In fact how did people even thrive in that environment lmao
That means the setting is unrealistic and inconsistent, not that the dex is false.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 15:09:30 No.44927349 Report

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>>44927332
Look at any piece of Pokemon media that isn't the games. That proves that the Pokedex is true.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 15:11:02 No.44927357 Report

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>>44927213
>Why are anons on vp so retarded?
>Why do they strawman so hard?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 15:12:21 No.44927365 Report

Quoted By: >>44927541

The Galar fossils are proof it's all bullshit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 15:35:09 No.44927541 Report

Quoted By: >>44927636 >>44927656

>>44927365
No they're not. They're the only entries that are false because that's the joke. The entries are written under the assumption that they're actual Pokemon that existed that way in ancient times and not hybrid abominations.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 15:46:27 No.44927636 Report

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>>44927541
this dude gets it. It's literally a joke on how in the early 1800's paleontologists didn't know what was going on. Fossil hunting was a brand new thing for hobbyists and even led to some people believing the dino bones were actually proof of dragons. But specifically it's a reference to them assembling skeletons wrong because they didn't have much idea of what a dinosaur should look like.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 15:49:45 No.44927656 Report

Quoted By: >>44927664 >>44928919

>>44927636
>>44927541
Is this how coping looks like?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 15:51:21 No.44927664 Report

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>>44927656
>Hurr the story writers put false information in their story

The ultimate cope

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 15:51:59 No.44927672 Report

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>>44927109
>I have a hard time believing people would let children wander about with creatures that can topple mountains
So the fact that parents kick their kids out of house on their own at the age of 10 is okay then?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 15:52:57 No.44927683 Report

Quoted By: >>44928603 >>44928932

>>44927636
>It's literally a joke on how in the early 1800's paleontologists didn't know what was going on.
except that paleontologists in the 1800's arranged the bones in a way that organically made sense. this is always said and yet real life mix-and-match fossils simply looked like large komodo dragons or oversized iguanas. there was no shit like fish heads on tails

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 15:53:09 No.44927685 Report

Quoted By: >>44927715

Aren't children the ones writing the dex entries to begin with?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 15:54:15 No.44927691 Report

Quoted By: >>44927753 >>44927914

>>44927109
It's just how a fantasy world with weird physics of its own works.
It'd be like asking 'why doesn't the planet explode when Superman or the Flash move faster than light' or 'how can Ethan Hunt survive getting slammed onto a metal train at hundreds of miles per hour'. It's just fantasy physics/the writers not fully understanding or caring about the logical consequences of things.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 15:57:46 No.44927715 Report

Quoted By: >>44927753

>>44927685
That's a retarded reddit meme. It's stated in every game that the dex writes itself by automatically recording information about Pokemon you catch.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 16:02:01 No.44927753 Report

Quoted By: >>44929251

>>44927691
This. Another example of why people here really need to experience other franchises outside pokemon.

>>44927715
It's probably common in reddit but don't act as if this wasn't a thing on /vp/(and the fanbase in general) since always.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 16:22:56 No.44927914 Report

Quoted By: >>44927972 >>44928651

>>44927691
Well those universes at least recognize the power of superheroes and respond to it accordingly. The way pokemon are portrayed in the games and their dex entries are a bit disconnected. I don't think the humans in the games are much different than irl humans. And why would they let ghost trainers anywhere near settlements when a good number of them eat human souls or are dead humans?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 16:29:39 No.44927972 Report

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>>44927914
>The way pokemon are portrayed in the games and their dex entries are a bit disconnected.

Gameplay and story are always disconnected in games, especially in turn-based RPGs.

The game mechanics don't allow for Pokemon to showcase the full extent of their powers. So you'll only see them at full power in stuff like the anime.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 16:32:02 No.44927989 Report

Quoted By: >>44928000

>>44927109
If they were meant to be taken 100% seriously, then humans would be on the mere brink of existence as most pokemon would be too dangerous to either tame or fend off.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 16:34:00 No.44928000 Report

Quoted By: >>44928344

>>44927989
You could say that about any fantasy world where humans co-exist alongside magical beings that are far more powerful than them. Pokefags need to experience other franchises.

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Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 17:09:58 No.44928225 Report

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>>44927109
I find it a fun addition and it expands their universe, but as in real life they should be updated as many feel obsolete or meaningless.

To cite an example in real life at the beginning of the 20th century it was believed that ostriches were cowards and hid their heads in holes, this due to travelers' tales of doubtful veracity, currently it is known that the ostrich is a very aggressive bird and that if it lowers its head it is because it is looking for food.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 17:22:56 No.44928344 Report

Quoted By: >>44928524

>>44928000
In a lot of those fantasy franchises humans are capable of going toe to toe with them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 17:43:37 No.44928524 Report

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>>44928344
Only if they have magic

Zelda, another Nintendo series, has non-magical humans being the dominant race when they live alongside sentient rock people, sentient fish people, and all sorts of monsters.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 17:54:51 No.44928603 Report

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>>44927683
>doesn’t understand what it means to take a hyperbolic and cartoonish approach to real world occurrences
This is what autism looks like.

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Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 17:56:43 No.44928614 Report

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>>44927109
Yes. Guyana.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:03:16 No.44928651 Report

Quoted By: >>44928667

>>44927914
>Well those universes at least recognize the power of superheroes and respond to it accordingly.
They really do not anon. One of the most popular DC comics is about how much shit would changed if only ONE powered being was real. And even that comes up short.

> I don't think the humans in the games are much different than irl humans
They actually are.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:06:10 No.44928667 Report

Quoted By: >>44928806 >>44928966

>>44928651
Everything in the series suggests that Pokeverse humans are exactly like IRL humans, minus the psychics and aura users.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:22:43 No.44928806 Report

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>>44928667
Yes, they're different in what they're different and the same in what they're the same.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:25:04 No.44928826 Report

Quoted By: >>44928848 >>44928863 >>44929339

>>44927109
Yes. Pokedex is bullshit, Pokemon doesn't have a world, the mons were basically drawn up like monster cards from the 80s. Of course you write something fancy on it for the kids.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:26:50 No.44928848 Report

Quoted By: >>44928875

>>44928826
>the mons were basically drawn up like monster cards from the 80s

That was only true for Gen 1.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:27:57 No.44928863 Report

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>>44928826
No, it's not. Everything stated in the Pokedex is shown actually happening somewhere in the franchise. It's all factual information about the monsters.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:28:33 No.44928875 Report

Quoted By: >>44928918

>>44928848
It is embeded into the dna of the franchise.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:28:44 No.44928876 Report

Quoted By: >>44928923

>Bro all pokemon can and will destroy humans, how do they survive?
>Multiple pokemon naturally protect humans.
Stop cherry picking.
>>44927109
>Are pokedex entries meant to be serious?
No TPC is a joke and anything they create will be.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:35:37 No.44928918 Report

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>>44928875
Not really, no. Back in Gen 1, they were just starting out. They were just making sprites and throwing Pokemon into the game without anyone overseeing the process. It's not like today where the design has to be drawn on paper and thought out as a living creature in Pokemon's world first. Back then they just made random monster designs with battles in mind.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:35:43 No.44928919 Report

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>>44927656
You literally put two different fossils together in the game and the dex treats it is if you don't, anon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:36:41 No.44928923 Report

Quoted By: >>44928959 >>44928973 >>44928976 >>44929020

>>44928876
If it wasn't serious, it wouldn't be in the fucking game. All you need to do to see that the Pokedex is true is to watch an an episode of the anime.

The Pokedex is meant to be taken literally, because that's exactly what the whole fucking franchise.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:37:16 No.44928932 Report

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>>44927683
Greyhounds aren't electric type in real life

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:41:32 No.44928959 Report

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>>44928923
>Anything TPC does is a joke
>TPC controls what is put into the games
>What TPC puts into the game isn't a joke
Can you find the contrition?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:42:12 No.44928966 Report

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>>44928667
The anime and PokeSpe depict humans as significantly stronger, durable, and faster than in real life, and then there's stuff like a Team Rocket Grunt not dying to Lance's Dragonite's Hyper Beam, Chuck lifting and tossing a boulder his size, Kukui allowing Pokemon to beat on him to learn about them, psychics like you mentioned, the Shadow Triad and Koga in LGPE being bona fide ninjas with super speed, etc. in the games.
Also, though Pokemon throws real world physics and biology mostly out the window, I don't think its the biggest stretch to assume humans in the Pokemon world evolved (literally) to grow strong and tough enough to adjust to their surroundings. Or it's typical 'even the allegedly normal humans are superhuman' like in action movies/comics/other video games.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:43:33 No.44928973 Report

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>>44928923
This guy gets what the entire franchise.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:44:18 No.44928976 Report

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>>44928923
When did larvitar eat a mountain?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 18:50:43 No.44929020 Report

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>>44928923
>actually taking info from the official sources
nah, bro, its all about headcanon and youtube theories, that's where the important stuff is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 19:26:59 No.44929251 Report

Quoted By: >>44929276 >>44929309

>>44927753
>It's probably common in reddit but don't act as if this wasn't a thing on /vp/(and the fanbase in general) since always.
It was literally just a meme to emphasize how over the top and hyperbolic the pokedex entries are. You’re basically using rage comics to justify “MUH DEEPEST LORE”.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 19:29:58 No.44929276 Report

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>>44929251
>It was literally just a meme to emphasize how over the top and hyperbolic the pokedex entries are
Maybe it was created in that way but people do bring that up as if it were fact. Jokes and theories do not have a place in this fanbase sadly as pokemon fans mix them with fact all the time.

> You’re basically using rage comics to justify “MUH DEEPEST LORE”.
I don't think the entries are fake nor that are written by kids.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 19:34:17 No.44929309 Report

Quoted By: >>44929469 >>44931240

>>44929251
No, it was a joke that normies got ahold of and started taking as fact.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 19:37:55 No.44929339 Report

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>>44928826
>Pokemon doesn't have a world

It obviously does, the battles have to take place somewhere. Pokemon just suffers from the Harry Potter problem; just like how Harry Potter has no world outside of Hogwarts, Pokemon has no world outside of Pokemon training and battling.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Sep 2020 19:59:22 No.44929469 Report

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>>44929309
>normies
That's the case in any other fanbase and I wish pokemon was at least the same but the fanbase also goes with shitty misinfo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 26 Sep 2020 00:17:27 No.44931240 Report

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>>44929309
Yikes

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 26 Sep 2020 00:19:27 No.44931253 Report

Quoted By: >>44931262

>>44927109
No. Go full headcanon with this series they can't even keep their continuity straight.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 26 Sep 2020 00:20:59 No.44931262 Report

Quoted By: >>44931271

>>44931253
Like in Gen 5 they had an official timeline then in the next generation they threw it all away with parallel universes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 26 Sep 2020 00:22:30 No.44931271 Report

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>>44931262
The parallel universe shit didn't happen until ORAS

Until ORAS, everyone just accepted that remakes replaced the originals in canon

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 26 Sep 2020 00:29:25 No.44931321 Report

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>>44927339
This. The world is unrealistic to us and very inconsistent but the Pokemon can do the things listed in the dex even if it doesn’t make sense.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 26 Sep 2020 00:31:19 No.44931338 Report

Quoted By: >>44931389

Being able to do something and actually doing it are two different things.

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Anonymous Sat 26 Sep 2020 00:38:28 No.44931389 Report

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>>44931338
It’s unrealistic to assume that none of them actually do them though. A larvitar can eat a whole mountain, it has happened, how else would they know its possible?

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