>>51845015Ok, now you’re just proving my point and disproving your own theory.
Expanding what you can put in each slot of the Zodiac makes the theory far less credible as you’re exponentially the probability that it’s a coincidence.
Like as an example, I’m making up a bullshit thoery that says a bunch of Gen 1 Pokemon are based on the Chinese Zodiac.
We have some obvious contenders like;
Dragonite for Dragon
Pikachu for Mouse
Mankey for Monkey
Arcanine for Dog
Tauros for Ox
Arbok for Snake
Wigglytuff for Rabbit
and Ponyta for Horse
But wait, we’re missing Goat, Chicken, Pig, and Tiger
No problem. While everything else so far has been pretty direct and sensible, let’s now pull a Zodiacfag and stretch more than the assholes of Pulse Night Club victims.
Tiger, we can just put Electabuzz in there. It’s not a tiger and is an oni, but based on an oni that wears tiger pelts. Not too much of a stretch, but still definitely not direct like previous Pokemon.
For Chicken, we can use Fearow. Now Fearow is very much different from a chicken, only relation being a bird, but it looks “close enough”. This is very much stretching but we still need more.
Well with Goat, we can put Rapidash in. What? But Ponyta is already in. It was heavily implied this pattern applies to the entire line for each slot, but we’ll pretend like it was never implied at all. And Rapidash is the closest thing to a Goat in Gen 1 since it’s a mammal with hooves and a horn. even though it’s a unicorn with 1 horn, it’s “close enough”. Similarly, let’s apply this logic by having Primape represent both the Monkey and Pig slots. It is the Pig Monkey after all, even though it’s really weird that there are 2 lines that both take up 2 seperate slots.
And for the hell of it, add Snorlax to Pig slot because he’s a fat fuck like a pig and a mammal too.
I made this shit theory entirely up and it’s 100% no different that the Fire Starter one and both have multiple stretches of logic
