>>54177843You're misunderstanding, when something dies, the spirit that inhabits the body during life vacates, there's an afterlife and certain Pokemon, like Dusclops, lead spirits to it, while other Pokemon, like the Litwick line, eat them for sustenance. There's also "life force" which is is just the spirit inside a living being which ghost Pokemon tend to eat if they don't hunt dead spirits.
>>It will open the branches of its head to envelop its prey. Once it absorbs all the life energy it needs, it expels the prey and discards it.Similar dex entries exist for all kinds of ghost Pokemon, the common theme being leaving the body intact after they eat the soul inside. Certain Pokemon are born of these spirits, sometimes just an individual (Yamask) and other times a whole host of spirits can clump together (Spiritomb, Dhelmise), but in all of these cases, they cease to be simply a "dead" spirit with no body and come back to life again as a living "ghost" creature with spectral powers, that need to eat to survive and can die, and then become actual legitimate ghosts as seen by the Lavender town Marowak and Acerola's Mimikyu in the anime. Sometimes inanimate things end up becoming ghost Pokemon for whatever reason, either a wayward soul inhabits something tangible (Phantump, Honegde), or maybe a strong feeling of resentment brings the Pokemon (back to) life (H-Zoura, Banette), but in every case, all ghost Pokemon are living things.
Then there's Pokemon that are living beings that come in contact with spirits and become ghost type either willingly (Skeledirge, A-Marowak), or just off the spirits' influence (Ceruledge, Basculegion). Lastly, there are the ghost Pokemon that are just living beings with spectral powers (Decidueye, Mimikyu(???)), and there are ghost Pokemon that don't seem to come from anywhere and are just spooky ghosts (Misdreavus), but the lore is consistent for all of them.
They're not ghosts, they're Pokemon.
