Current Events > It's a fact that people eat Pokemon.

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Slowpoke tails and Farfetch'd are canonically food. Brock and Ash fantasize about eating a Magikarp. It's just logical that Pokemon like Cherrim and Vanilluxe are eaten.

Now the question is: would you eat a Machop? A Snorlax? A Mr. Mime?

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Too stringy. Instant heart attack. That's a predator.

I don't think Cherrim is eaten but it probably provides fruit since people eat Cherubi's little ball thingy. And Vanilluxe is shaped like a cone but it's just ice water probably.

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I'd eat the fuck out of a Jigglypuff. Bet they taste sweeter than sugar.

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pegusus123456 posted...

Slowpoke tails and Farfetch'd are canonically food. Brock and Ash fantasize about eating a Magikarp. It's just logical that Pokemon like Cherrim and Vanilluxe are eaten.

Yes. Miltank, Taurus, lots of fish Pokemon, and many others too. Clawitzer's Pokedex entry specifies that when its giant claw falls off, it is a delicacy to be eaten.

pegusus123456 posted...

Now the question is: would you eat a Machop? A Snorlax? A Mr. Mime?

N- no? Arceus no!

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Pit roasted snorlax sounds delicious.

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To be fair, it does look banging.

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I mean, this is definitely canon. Pokemon outright replace animals in their world, and all those meat produces (as seen with the curry ingredients in SwSh) have to come from somewhere.

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I'm very sleep deprived and I thought that said "eat out"

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Imagine Kingler claws.

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Turbam posted...

I'm very sleep deprived and I thought that said "eat out"

Well, knowing this board...
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Mist_Turnips posted...

Well, knowing this board...

Mommy Miltanks

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Solar_Crimson posted...

I mean, this is definitely canon. Pokemon outright replace animals in their world, and all those meat produces (as seen with the curry ingredients in SwSh) have to come from somewhere.

I couldve sworn that I remember them mentioning real animals in one of the earliest episodes of the anime
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Abra brains

togepi eggs

steelix meat

https://youtu.be/sSza6rAFEL8

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Eat Gardevoir if you know what I mean ;D

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YookaLaylee posted...

I couldve sworn that I remember them mentioning real animals in one of the earliest episodes of the anime

Iirc there are actual real birds in the original series

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Is it true British people drink out of Polteageist
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I would be a Pokemon meat aficionado. From Blastoise bisque to Greninja legs.

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Samurontai posted...

Iirc there are actual real birds in the original series

The head writer of the original anime series mentioned that any showing of a real animal was a mistake by the animation staff because there are no real animals in the pokemon world.

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Piplup_Sniper posted...

The head writer of the original anime series mentioned that any showing of a real animal was a mistake by the animation staff because there are no real animals in the pokemon world.

Ghastlys Pokdex entry in Fire Red literally mentions the Indian Elephant

In later series there are real butterflies flying around some battles.

Not to mention how Vespiqueen shoots real bees as an attack.

They definitely exist, maybe not as numerous but they definitely do.

Also in the Kanto safari they use shrew and mice and stuff like that as food for the animals or something

Ash mentions catfish in an episode

Muskrat kebabs are a thing.

These arent animation errors lol, these are specific written in mentions


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Samurontai posted...

Ghastlys Pokdex entry in Fire Red literally mentions the Indian Elephant

In later series there are real butterflies flying around some battles.

Not to mention how Vespiqueen shoots real bees as an attack.

They definitely exist, maybe not as numerous but they definitely do.

Also in the Kanto safari they use shrew and mice and stuff like that as food for the animals or something

https://dogasu. bulbagarden.net/movies /pm_lord_unknown_tower_entei/lord_unknown_tower_entei_mythical_third_movie.html

those dex entries couldve been placeholders since a lot of real world references were scrubbed as the series developed.

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Piplup_Sniper posted...

https://dogasu. bulbagarden.net/movies /pm_lord_unknown_tower_entei/lord_unknown_tower_entei_mythical_third_movie.html

those dex entries couldve been placeholders since a lot of real world references were scrubbed as the series developed.

Doesnt matter, real animals are vocally mentioned as being a delicacy in certain episodes.

Heres this. Pretty interesting read about it.

shorturl.at/chFPT

As late as Pokmon XY they are referencing a real life starfish, not the Pokmon version either

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Samurontai posted...

Iirc there are actual real birds in the original series

Simply because the Pokemon world wasn't fully-established back then. Back then, it really was our world, but with Pokemon added, so real animals showed off every so often.

However, as more Pokemon were introduced and the Pokemon world itself became more established, real animals were eventually retconned out as there were Pokemon that could more easily take their places.


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pegusus123456 posted...

Now the question is: would you eat a Machop? A Snorlax? A Mr. Mime?

Um we don't eat all animals.

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In fact, there's a Pokemon marketing manual that explicitly states that the Pokemon world is NOT Earth and should never been mentioned as such, and that there are no real animals in the Pokemon world as the Pokemon replace them.



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I mean... Aren't Pokemon the only form of wildlife in that universe? Not so unusual that some of them are eaten.

Edit: nevermind, the post above explains that lol.

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Are humans highly evolved pokemon

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Solar_Crimson posted...

there's a Pokemon marketing manual that explicitly states that the Pokemon world is NOT Earth

https://youtu.be/NmTzB0PV-uw?t=36

sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

https://youtu.be/NmTzB0PV-uw?t=36

From the early days of the anime before the Pokemon world as we know it know was fully established.


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TeaMilk posted...

Are humans highly evolved pokemon

I've wondered this, and I have no reason to believe that they are not.

I even came up with a concept of a fossil Fakemon that was based on archaic humans.

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Forget that, do Pokemon eat humans?
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it wouldn't even make sense for real animals to exist in the pokemon world. birds like spearow and ratatta would eat every other bird/rodent. I wouldn't be surprised if some pokemon were human/pokemon hybrids

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thronedfire2 posted...

it wouldn't even make sense for real animals to exist in the pokemon world. birds like spearow and ratatta would eat every other bird/rodent. I wouldn't be surprised if some pokemon were human/pokemon hybrids

There are no hybrids, thats dumb.

Solar_Crimson posted...

I've wondered this, and I have no reason to believe that they are not.

I even came up with a concept of a fossil Fakemon that was based on archaic humans.

Solar_Crimson posted...

I've wondered this, and I have no reason to believe that they are not.

I even came up with a concept of a fossil Fakemon that was based on archaic humans.

Masuda has mentioned that Pokemon and humans are two completely different groups.

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Duncanwii posted...

Forget that, do Pokemon eat humans?

It's implied that some do.

The Pokedex says how people who go into jungles inhabited by Victreebel never return, and then there's Guzzlord, and how it was explicitly stated to have killed a previous Faller.

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Piplup_Sniper posted...

There are no hybrids, thats dumb.

Masuda has mentioned that Pokemon and humans are two completely different groups.

Yeah, I figure that he would have to sidestep some rather unfortunate implications.

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Nukazie posted...

I hate this

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I'm pretty sure they mostly eat jelly donuts

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SerperiorThanU posted...

They're literal icicles so that would be kind of hard.

That looks really old to me. https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Animals_in_the_Pok%C3%A9mon_world
And also in SM in the restaurants they list actual animal/plant terms like fish and cherries. There are also obviously real plantlife in the Pokemon world despite there also being plant Pokemon. The pokedex labels the Pokemon as "X Pokemon" (example, Pikachu the Mouse Pokemon), so how could they be labeled that if they didn't exist? I think they're very rare and possibly only exist in specific scientific/conservationist labs/farms.

There exist mouse, dog and fox Pokemon but no actual mouse, dogs or foxes. Thats just what theyre called in universe but that does not mean that real mice and dogs exist. For any early animation it has already been mentioned by the head writer of the original anime that all those appearances are animation errors from the animation staff, he mentions that real animals do not exist in Pokemon and I believe Masuda said the same as well. Any mention of them is a mistake or could be a placeholder.

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Samurontai posted...

Ghastlys Pokdex entry in Fire Red literally mentions the Indian Elephant

In later series there are real butterflies flying around some battles.

Not to mention how Vespiqueen shoots real bees as an attack.

They definitely exist, maybe not as numerous but they definitely do.

Also in the Kanto safari they use shrew and mice and stuff like that as food for the animals or something

Ash mentions catfish in an episode

Muskrat kebabs are a thing.

These arent animation errors lol, these are specific written in mentions

Yup, full retcons. The bees Vesipqueen shoots are supposed to be individual combee, iirc.

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In the same way humans in our world are a type of animal, are humans in the Pokmon world a form of Pokmon?

Masuda: Humans are definitely separate from Pokmon. The way you think about it is different than how we think about animals in relation to humans on Earth. For example, on Earth we have mammals and reptiles all these different categories. *In the world of Pokmon, they are all Pokmon.* We dont really categorize them in exactly that way. Its kind of a different way of looking at it. So yeah, humans are definitely separate from Pokmon. For example, humans cant learn four different moves like a Pokmon can.

Source: https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2016/07/13/pok-233-mon-39-s-burning-questions.aspx

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Tom Clark posted...

To be fair, it does look banging.

Are slowpoke tails made of ice cream? How the fuck are you supposed to cut through that with a spoon? Who serves curry with a giant hunk of meat?

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SerperiorThanU posted...

Wow, if anything that actually implies that animals do exist, since one of the most common fan theories is that that the reason there are stuff like human psychics and human ghosts is that humans are a type of Pokemon. If they're not that means they're their own seperate things which could mean there are other organisms that are their own separate things like other animals. Plus, it means that stuff like fossilized fish/fossilized bird confirms there are actual non-Pokemon versions of those since as he said, Pokemon wouldn't be categorized into something like "mammals" and "reptiles", orbirds and fish.

that doesnt imply that. He implies they dont exist since he is contrasting the way we view animals to how the people of the Pokemon world view pokemon. As I already said for the 5th time real animals have never been a thing in pokemon. The pokemon themselves exist to fill in that role but in a fictional and fantasy manner. That handbook is not outdated since its an introduction to 3rd parties to the pokemon franchise. We at least know some of their rules are in effect mentioned by that handbook such as the pokemon not allowed to wear clothes rule mentioned by the film makers of detective pikachu


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pegusus123456 posted...

It's just logical that Pokemon like Cherrim and

Vanilluxe is a stalagmite with snow on it. It's not edible.

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Slowpoke tails ain't gonna saut themselves.

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SerperiorThanU posted...

He is outright saying that Pokemon are something separate from the rest of the natural world. That would imply there are animals that are separate from Pokemon. He's not saying the Pokemon are the animals and other natural roles of their world. He's in fact saying the opposite. Pokemon are their own things, that humans, (and plant-life, and diseases) are not part of.
That handbook is definitely incredibly out-dated. Looks like it dates back from the RBY days.

SerperiorThanU posted...

He is outright saying that Pokemon are something separate from the rest of the natural world. That would imply there are animals that are separate from Pokemon. He's not saying the Pokemon are the animals and other natural roles of their world. He's in fact saying the opposite. Pokemon are their own things, that humans, (and plant-life, and diseases) are not part of.
That handbook is definitely incredibly out-dated. Looks like it dates back from the RBY days.

Pokemon ARE the natural world, thats the thing. If anything its humans who are the unnatural element of the Pokemon universe. IIRC that handbook dates to the 5th or 6th Gen so its not old old. One of the pages has Lucario in it so at the least its around Gen 4.

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