>>54820724I feel like the second movie completely ruined people's perception of legendaries. The movie made the bird trio look super special, but in reality most legendaries are just rare pokémon and very few of them have a role to fulfill in nature.
Also, only the zapdos, moltres and articuno from the orange islands are special (since there's multiple of them in the anime, but the rest aren't important to the world's balance).
And they are only special because they happen to live near Lugia. IIRC the lightning, fire and ice of the legendaries creates proteins that serve as the basis of all life and these are carried by Lugia's underwater current. Those legends are the source of all living beings, but only because Lugia basically acts as a womb who's constantly receiveing their load to shit out babies all over the world