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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 09:57:01 No.51578541 View View Reply Original Report

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>episode 43 aired in the US on September 8th, 1998 where charmander evolved into a disobedient charmeleon
>episode 105 aired in the US on September 2nd, 2000 where charizard started listening to ash again
>it took 1 year and 306 days for US viewers to see charizard do more than lay around or shoot fire randomly outside of movies
Why was Ash's Charizard considered cool during that time?

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 09:58:22 No.51578545 Report

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>>51578541
Because it's Charizard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 09:59:53 No.51578550 Report

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>>51578541
>cool attitude
>shat on Ash
>had the power to justify his behavior
>great battle against Blaine's Magmar

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 10:00:47 No.51578554 Report

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>>51578541
ameritards were autisticing over a card of charizard it's not like they needed anything of worth for it to be special

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 13:32:14 No.51579140 Report

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>>51578541
It really exposed the mentality of a burger jr, to go and worship the guy who ruined what was supposed to be the climax of the series

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 15:06:15 No.51579482 Report

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>>51578541
Because those rare times when Charizard did things were cool, and a few of them were before the first league.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 15:10:38 No.51579510 Report

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>>51578541
I hated Charizard, but him not giving a shit about Ash was Based.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 18:08:53 No.51580443 Report

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>>51578550
>great battle against Blaine's Magmar
Would've been cooler if Charmeleon evolved during that battle and not that shitty Aerodactyl.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 18:20:26 No.51580500 Report

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>>51578541
I would've preferred it to stay a charmeleon for longer than 3 episodes or whatever it was

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 18:21:28 No.51580507 Report

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>>51578541
Charizard was the strongest card in TCG and n00b kids thought that was law.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 18:21:35 No.51580509 Report

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>>51578541
Late 90s America was a very irreverant and rebellious culture. Him ignoring Ash made him look cool. You wouldn't understand if your age starts with a 2.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 18:41:36 No.51580607 Report

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>>51578541

He started listening to Ash and did even better. Him and Snorlax pretty much carried the Johto League.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 18:59:47 No.51580702 Report

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>>51578541
Because Charizard was an unreliable super weapon of a Pokemon. He was like Ben 10's Alien X before Ben 10 was a thing. The allure of Charizard is the mystery of when will Ash be able to get Charizard to enter serious mode, because that's when the opponent is in trouble. After Ash gained complete trust of Charizard in the Poliwrath episode, they had to gradually tone him down to still allow Ash's other Pokemon to get their own spotlight moments.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 19:09:22 No.51580740 Report

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>>51579140
Ohhh so charizard is israel

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 20:55:04 No.51581302 Report

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>>51578541
2cool4school. You wouldn't get it because you just use Zoom calls for your education and have never interacted with a human being other than your single mother.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 21:00:28 No.51581322 Report

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>>51579510
This

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 21:13:10 No.51581380 Report

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>>51580509
Damn 90s america was immature as fuck

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 21:30:38 No.51581461 Report

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>>51580509
>rebellious
>faggots dying of aids
LOL sure faggotmerican
>if your age starts with a 2.
AMERITURD is 30+ and still familyless wasting its life on a pokemon board. So rebellious isn't it? (laughs)

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 21:42:22 No.51581553 Report

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>>51578541
>>episode 43 aired in the US on September 8th, 1998

October 30th according to Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon:_Indigo_League

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 22:10:53 No.51581717 Report

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>>51578541
Zard was a way to show Ash was far from trying his best when it came to training his pokemon. Ever since the evolution to Charmeleon he didn't try to understand and work out their issues, he just labeled his pokemon as difficult and hoped next time it'd be more cooperative. Then Charmeleon evolved on his own, for his own reasons, and felt he owed nothing to Ash. He essentially was like "if my trainer doesn't listen to me why should I listen to him?" which went on that long because Ash was afraid of his own pokemon and treated the disobedience as something inevitable.

Why was it "cool"? Simple, because it was beyond the reach of normal Ash. Helps that it's based on a dragon (visual appeal) and that it was his first high level evolution (strength, rarity) but the selling point was the concept of "this pokemon is beyond the skill of the main character and will only fall in line against a worthy opponent or when Ash steps up his game".

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Anonymous Mon 03 Oct 2022 22:21:11 No.51581770 Report

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>>51578541
Sterotypical shounen protagonist. It's like getting an extremely powerful weapon early on in an RPG, you know there's some catch. Everyone knew Ash would win because he worked hard to gain Charizard's trust.
Then they had to subvert expectations and have Ash lose in the most embarrassing way and kill Pokemon.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Oct 2022 00:12:18 No.51582356 Report

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>>51578541
People had longer attention span.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Oct 2022 00:20:42 No.51582395 Report

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>>51580507
>strongest card in the tcg
Maybe if you didn’t play the tcg

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Anonymous Tue 04 Oct 2022 01:24:44 No.51582690 Report

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>>51581770
>Then they had to subvert expectations and have Ash lose in the most embarrassing way and kill Pokemon.
yeah and original ending of old Ash
>He’s going on a journey not to catch Pokémon or become a Pokémon master, but to discover the meaning of existence, to discover how to coexist with others.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Oct 2022 02:52:05 No.51583074 Report

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>>51581770
>he worked hard to gain Charizard's trust
When did this happen? Between the evolution and the tournament match I mean.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Oct 2022 03:00:08 No.51583109 Report

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>>51580509
better times

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