>>58919513>all just made up.I should mention.
I'm not going to get into the reeds of Japanese wordplay, near-reads, and other shit that would take someone with an actual degree to explain competently, but Regigigas' ability being the same phonetics as Curse is almost assuredly not an accident. You don't HAVE to do this, there are many different ways to phrase things, especially in Japanese, and it is usually the case that someone has thought through why this way, and not another, especially in anything commercial like Pokemon. Pokemon moves and abilities are full of the kinds of wordplay, puns, and allusions that are simply taken as fact everywhere else.
It's about as reasonably binding as Huge Power being limited to rabbits, or things associated with rabbits. If Lunatone got Huge Power as a hidden ability, it would make complete reasonable sense, because it is a moon, and getting this power from the rabbits, while if say, Slaking got it, it would be strange, and people would start calling it an honorary rabbit, because there is no reasonable way otherwise.
The move Assist, is a multiple layer read of the phrase it references in Japanese. That the move sucks, is appropriate to the read in Japanese.
The odds that the ability is named what it is named on accident, is about the odds of a Marvel movie calling a cigarette a fag, and this being a complete accident, not in any way a joke, reference to a character, or shock humor, just an honest word choice that nobody thought about, that nobody on staff realized and pointed out to someone that there are other options.
So it's about as made up, as Iron Man handing Spider Man a cigarette, saying "fag?", and the fan base deciding Iron Man thinks Spider Man is gay, or not a real man or hero or some shit.
