>>47586175>both squirtle and wartortle are based on a mythical turtle that grew a tail>wartortle's most notable trait is its bigger tail>blastoise suddenly loses it for no reason and changes entirely into a cyborg firefighter turtleI know it would have been another it-just-gets-bigger line but Blastoise is too much of a break of the theme. Charmeleon has the growth on its back, that later depictions of charmander omitted, that lead to charizard growing wings and bulbasaur obviously has the bulb on its back that becomes venusaur's plant but blastoise just has literally nothing to do with its pre-evolutions.