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Why on this earth is it called "evolution" when a far more biologically accurate term exist?

Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 04:00:12 No.53244879 View View Reply Original Report

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 04:01:15 No.53244883 Report

Quoted By: >>53244909 >>53246946

Easier to verb, and shorter to fit into a GB text box. Simple as that.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 04:04:52 No.53244906 Report

Quoted By: >>53245639

>>53244879
How does Sunyshore City have a blackout if it runs on solar power? Some questions just can't be answered.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 04:05:33 No.53244909 Report

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>>53244879
Gonna go with what >>53244883 said about the text box. There's a reason they named Feraligatr the way they did.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 04:08:34 No.53244926 Report

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They may also have wanted to avoid the term "morph" given that Power Rangers were still popular at the time and Saban's lawyers are an absolute pain in the ass to deal with. (Look up the Chroma Squad controversy if you want to see something profoundly stupid)

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 04:16:38 No.53244963 Report

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>>53244879
Japanese named it shinka and it literally translates to evolution

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 04:20:03 No.53244978 Report

Quoted By: >>53246957 >>53250818

Because the games are Japanese, and the Japanese word for metamorphosis has another child-unfriendly meaning...

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 04:26:37 No.53245009 Report

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>>53244879
Evolution kinda has the additional implication that the pokemon has improved in some way, where as that's not really as clear with a word like metamorphosis

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 04:32:07 No.53245033 Report

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>>53244879
because GameFreak was retarded in the 90s and didn't realize what a shitstorm it'd cause with soccer moms and churches

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 06:44:00 No.53245639 Report

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>>53244879
wonky translation that stuck
same with stuff like "grass type" or "burn" or the marsh and soul badge names being mixed up
>>53244906
do you know what a blackout is

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 06:50:00 No.53245655 Report

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>>53244879
And Samus is a mercenary, not a Bounty Hunter but one of those sounds better in marketing.

Same deal.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 06:57:02 No.53245674 Report

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>Yeah my Bulbasaur just evolved!
vs
>Yeah my Bulbasaur just metamorphosised.
Which one sounds better anon?

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 06:58:35 No.53245676 Report

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>>53245674
evolved sounds better because it's been the standard for over 25 years

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 06:59:57 No.53245681 Report

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>>53245674
The verb is metamorphed. Or just morphed.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 07:16:15 No.53245706 Report

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>>53245639
Grass type is accurate to the original language version.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 07:17:01 No.53245709 Report

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>>53244879
Evolution isn't real

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 07:36:21 No.53245758 Report

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>>53244879
Not everyone wants to turn into a bug

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 07:36:45 No.53245760 Report

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>>53244879
Children are dumb and evolution is slightly shorter.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 12:15:08 No.53246564 Report

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Why would they when "evolve" sounds cooler, is shorter/easier to pronounce and means to change and improve?

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 12:29:29 No.53246614 Report

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>>53244879
Because it implies progress. Metamorphosis is "boring science" and most infamously associated with the man who turned into a bug and lived miserable, mistreated by his own family, died alone and no one missed him or remembered him at all. It's just nowhere near as marketable.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 12:31:20 No.53246626 Report

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>>53244879
evolving is closer to a power-up than morphing (in common language, not biologically I mean)

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 13:42:57 No.53246946 Report

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>>53244883
But JP also used the word for evolution instead of the one for metamorphosis

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 13:45:15 No.53246957 Report

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>>53244978
What's the other meaning?

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 14:41:44 No.53247184 Report

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>>53244879
"Evolution" sounds more scientific and thus ties into the science theme of gen 1 better

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 15:22:55 No.53247379 Report

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>>53244879
"Evolution" was a bit of a buzzword in the late 90s, kind of like "Extreme"

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 15:33:32 No.53247421 Report

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>>53244879
Because some pokemon lines dont fit that description

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 15:45:46 No.53247465 Report

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>>53246957
the word is hentai, anon.
obviously they don't want little jap kids typing "pokemon hentai" into a search engine.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 16:06:37 No.53247546 Report

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>>53244879
Do you know what metamorphosis means in Japanese?

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 19:49:04 No.53248847 Report

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Evolution is fast, the earth is only 5,000 years old

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 23:05:35 No.53249828 Report

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>>53245674
>my Bulbasaur just moulted

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Anonymous Sat 18 Feb 2023 01:54:31 No.53250769 Report

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>>53245681
>My favorite part in Pokemon is when Pikachu said "It's Evolvin' time" and evolved all over those guys

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Anonymous Sat 18 Feb 2023 01:56:51 No.53250787 Report

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>>53244879
Kamex, chou shinka!

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Anonymous Sat 18 Feb 2023 02:02:10 No.53250811 Report

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>>53247546
Nice photoshop. Almost baited there

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Anonymous Sat 18 Feb 2023 02:02:51 No.53250813 Report

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the japanese word for metamorphosis is literally hentai lmao

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Anonymous Sat 18 Feb 2023 02:03:30 No.53250817 Report

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>>53247546
Why is it like that? What's the connection?

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Anonymous Sat 18 Feb 2023 02:03:38 No.53250818 Report

Quoted By: >>53251050 >>53251076

>>53244978
>>53247465
how does a word for animal changing also mean sex and porn?

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Anonymous Sat 18 Feb 2023 02:04:38 No.53250822 Report

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>>53244879
Hmm yes I wonder why they didn't go with that word

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Anonymous Sat 18 Feb 2023 02:04:54 No.53250827 Report

Quoted By: >>53250830

Wrong. Metamorphosis should be translated into henshin, not hentai.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Feb 2023 02:05:38 No.53250830 Report

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>>53250827
This ain't Kamen Rider

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Anonymous Sat 18 Feb 2023 02:36:53 No.53251050 Report

Quoted By: >>53251076 >>53251223

>>53250818
変 (read as "hen" here) means strange or change
態 ("tai") means state, appearance
身 ("shin") means body, self, social position

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Anonymous Sat 18 Feb 2023 02:41:33 No.53251076 Report

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>>53250818
>>53251050
Also, "hentai" isn't the Japanese word for porn, it means sexual deviant. In places weebs say "hentai", actual Japanese people say "H" or "ero".

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Anonymous Sat 18 Feb 2023 03:07:06 No.53251223 Report

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>>53251050
So you change your body when a hen kicks you in the shin

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Anonymous Sat 18 Feb 2023 03:30:39 No.53251342 Report

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>>53244879
The theory of evolution wasn’t developed until after RGBY

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