>>49159424>Even it's pokedex entries make clear that it's more of a thief/thug than a witch.You mean the Pokedex entries that either ascribe supernatural or creepy elements to it (curses people with bad luck, lures them into dark forrests) or traits found in literal real world fucking crows (liking shiny things, stealing shiny things)?
I would be being extremely generous if I were to call Murkrow a witch crow with some gangster elements, but in reality what's far more likely is that Murkrow was a witch crow that was retroactively fitted into being a gangster crow. Not in the final release of Gen II, mind you, but in fucking Gen IV because Gamefreak was too god damned lazy to come up with a good evolution to the fucking thing and wasted their witch design on god damned Misdreavus
Mismagius has a really good design, mind you, but that's hardly the point.