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I used to wish I lived in a world like Pokemon, with endless interesting creatures with crazy abilities
Then, I realized that Earth is that world, except we've just killed off most of the animal life. Even the fireflies... They used to be everywhere in summer, I recently met kids who had never seen one. I found two in the middle of the woods during summer - literally surrounded by miles of forest
We live on a dying paradise, and it's depressing
The coolest thing about Pokemon, to me, was how all those creatures are also completely safe and easy to take care of as pets, and very easily domesticated by a 10 year old.
Like, fuck earth. I want a pet bear that fights for me.
Beedrill is the only real pokemon in this picture. You ever see a Japanese hornet? Those fuckers are huge!
"Why do guns exist in Pokémon?"
Pokémon:
Digimon cannon parity
Literally Palworld
Exactly. Why do you think people like it so much?
In a world where Beedrill exists, I'm bringing fire pokemon absolutely everywhere. Hell, if they make a three foot cockroach pokemon, I'm never leaving the house again.
Oh no it's hot. Why is it hot
Hot did they make it why
So it's an albino cockroach that exudes overwhelming sex pheromones?
Apparently the sex pheremones travel through cyberspace and out of your screen.
Why’d they make it hot
Why did they make it hot?
Why did they make it hot
why did they make it hot
Snorlax randomly diverts traffic by napping in the worst place possible.
I named my Snorlax, Israel.
"I'm just going to take a nap here"
"Israel, this is arguably the WORST place you could settle down, you're surrounded by danger!"
Fortunately people have alternatives to driving and walking, because predatory birds (and some insects) grow large enough to carry a human.
How big is Pidgey?
Bulbapedia says 1', 4 pounds.
Still technically puntable but you're going to have a hell of a sore ankle afterward.
Pidgeotto is 3 feet tall and 66 pounds, it could steal your kids if it wanted to.
Just play the poké flute to wake it up. ♫♫♫
Then you have to battle the cranky thing
Sure, just wake it up. Its that easy.
They're frequently used in protests!
Imagine somebody unleashing a flock of Wailords in a protest
Considering the relative size of a pokeball and a Wailord, a Wailord is a bomb. Just take your pokeball inside any building you don't want to exist anymore, and release the Wailord.
In lore pokemon can supposedly scale their size which is part of how the ball works (forcing them to miniaturize), but I don't recall any show ever showing unlimited resizing