>>53325567>was the mascot for red>one of three choices for a starter, the other being a frog with a flower on its back and a turtle with cannons>only kantoooo starter of ash's to evolve>appears in gs's intro for no reason, turns out it was a holdover from spaceworld 97>was the mascot for firered>could pick a charmander in hgss after beating red>charizard bridge>could pick a charmander in xy, complete with a gift mega stone>one of two pokemon to have two mega evolutions>charizard is alola's flying pokemon instead of literally any other bird>galar was made to shill charizard>leon's ace is charizard so they had to give it a gigantamax form as a result, before venusaur and blastoise got theirs>hell, you couldn't use the bulbasaur or squirtle lines until home support was added>the only kantooo starter to be in paldea before dlc added the bulbasaur and squirtle lines>was the first post launch 7 star raid eventCharizard's popularity was forced since day 1. You can try to refute this but you know you can't.
