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iPhone_7 posted...

They may as well change the line The Pokmon fainted to The Pokmon was scared away.

Because after the battle their corpse- I mean their fainted bodies are nowhere to be found.

That's because Pokmon shrink as a defense mechanism. That's why there's no body, Pokmon only get exhausted after battles so being tiny makes it easier to find a safe place and rest.

Solar_Crimson posted...

It was the opposite, at least, as far as the wild/captured dynamic goes. That female Meowth was owned by a rich woman and looked down on Meowth because she saw him as gutter trash. But when Meowth essentially crippled himself to learn how to walk and talk like a human to impress her, she still rejected him because now he was a "freak".

Yup. IIRC Meowth was also a stray Pokmon. He was rejected for being unnatural and trying to mimic being human. What's funny is that modern Meowths walks on two legs by default but back than they didn't.

Fun fact, Meowth being able to talk was the decision of the anime staff in order to have a way for the Pokmon to be able to communicate with the audience. According to Shudo this is one of the reasons Team Rocket shows up frequently. In an old interview from 2000:
https://lavacutcontent.com/tajiri-tsunekazu-ishihara-interview/

It's mentioned that Satoshi Tajiri made an IQ chart for Pokmon in the context of talking about Team Rocket's Meowth in order for the anime staff to get a better sense of which Pokmon to pick for the talking role, apparently Tajiri wasn't down with the idea of talking Pokmon but it was a necessity in the context of the anime. In the end Shudo mentions that Meowth was picked because he appeared charming and evil.

On the topic of domestic and wild Pokmon I don't think that was ever really talked about in the anime afaik. But it is something that the games touch upon with Dr. Footstep quotes:

Level 4: "Some wild Pokmon frown upon others for traveling with humans. They jeer that the caught Pokmon have "forgotten the wild." But that view is mistaken. They have just never met a Trainer who could be a great partner. A great partner like <player>, in other words..."

What's interesting about this dynamic in the series, for Shudo this dynamic was more of being seen as slaves and unfree, is the implications that wild Pokmon look down on domesticated Pokmon because they're *jealous* rather than having a sense of being free and superior.

Level 5: "<player> is... A remarkable human and Trainer. That I can always perform the best any <Pokmon> possibly can... I attribute that entirely to my partner <player>. When we travel, I can see wild Pokmon eyeing us enviously..."

This is implied on other dr. footstep quotes like the one with scary pokemon:

Level 4: "Not for a moment did I think I would be traveling with a human... If my <Pokmon> friends were to see me now, they would be shocked. Or would they be envious of me...?"

This is pretty much spelled out with this one:

Level 5: "There are no Pokmon that dislike humans... Only humans that dislike Pokmon... We <Pokmon> are especially shunned... But <player> always treats me as a friend and partner..."

Mind you this quote originates from Pokmon classified as "scary". The dynamic in Pokmon is that Pokmon are creatures that are naturally friendly towards humans and can bond with them as long as one has love for them. There is still assholes in the Pokmon world that abuse and abandon their Pokmon like with the Pokmon village in kalos made up of Pokmon that escaped their abusive owners.

This viewpoint is the foundation of Legends of Arceus as the game implies that the reason Pokmon act aggressive towards humans is because humans fear them but when humans bond with Pokmon they become a lot friendlier. The lady by the pastures mentions that Pokmon must want to be friendly with humans if they haven't escaped, and really the only thing holding them is a small wooden fence. This is seen thought the game as people start to learn more about Pokmon. In a lot of ways Pokmon are very much like dogs, creatures in the real world that are naturally affectionate towards humans thus it's no wonder that the man who created Pokmon pretty much describes them as being like dogs in his biography.