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NeoSioType
03/01/24 1:43:25 AM
#1:


Are the pokemon an invasive extraterresial species that wiped out most animals?

But there are pokegods or at least reality-bending beings manifested as pokemon. Maybe humans are the invasive species?
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Lokarin
03/01/24 2:13:55 AM
#2:


humans and pokemon used to be the same, according to a bookshelf in the first game (IIRC)

...but I think they may have dropped that canon, IDK

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ParanoidObsessive
03/01/24 6:41:56 AM
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Humans are obviously the ultimate evolved form of Mankey.

But the Kanto Catholic Church refuses to accept the idea and it's become forbidden to teach in schools.

Not that any of the kids are going to school if they're all getting kicked out into the streets at age 10 to hunt monsters. No wonder nobody in that world knows shit.

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captpackrat
03/01/24 8:03:26 AM
#4:


Some Pokemon ARE (or were) humans. Mostly the ghost type.

Phantumps are created when the spirits of children who became lost in the woods possess tree stumps. Yamasks are human spirits that carry masks that were their faces when they were alive, and they retain their memories of their previous life as a human. Gengar was once a human, and now it wants to kill people and turn their spirits into Pokemon.

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Venixon
03/01/24 3:34:22 PM
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Phantump, Mr. Mime, Yamask...

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SinisterSlay
03/01/24 5:09:46 PM
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https://youtu.be/L5EgpeFviJo
None of it makes sense

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JoeDangIt
03/01/24 5:19:36 PM
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The one thing that all pokemon have in common is being able to shrink down and fit in pokeballs, humans can't, so humans are just regular monsters.
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ParanoidObsessive
03/01/24 6:19:34 PM
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JoeDangIt posted...
The one thing that all pokemon have in common is being able to shrink down and fit in pokeballs, humans can't, so humans are just regular monsters.

That's not a function of the Pokemon, though. That's a function of the Pokeballs.

In theory, you could capture humans in Pokeballs. All they're really doing is digitizing a life-form that can be stored as computer data (sort of like how Flynn gets zapped in Tron). And the anime has shown other things being captured (like inanimate objects), so there's nothing inherent in Pokemon themselves that is a necessary part of the process.

The implication is that Pokeballs are probably designed with safeguards to prevent targeting humans specifically, for obvious reasons. But you could probably design/create one that could (though it would likely be extremely illegal in-universe).

But also, we're talking about a franchise made for children. I've probably put more thought into the concept in this post alone than anyone actually working on the game did, because they didn't really care.

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FrozenBananas
03/01/24 6:27:30 PM
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Is mr mime part human?

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JoeDangIt
03/01/24 7:01:21 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
That's not a function of the Pokemon, though. That's a function of the Pokeballs.

In theory, you could capture humans in Pokeballs. All they're really doing is digitizing a life-form that can be stored as computer data (sort of like how Flynn gets zapped in Tron). And the anime has shown other things being captured (like inanimate objects), so there's nothing inherent in Pokemon themselves that is a necessary part of the process.

The implication is that Pokeballs are probably designed with safeguards to prevent targeting humans specifically, for obvious reasons. But you could probably design/create one that could (though it would likely be extremely illegal in-universe).

But also, we're talking about a franchise made for children. I've probably put more thought into the concept in this post alone than anyone actually working on the game did, because they didn't really care.
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"And that's where Pok Balls come in! Pok Balls are a recent invention, you see. Throw one of them at a Pokmon, and...why, the Pokmon will shrink down and fit inside the ball, comfy as can be. And with that, you've caught a Pokmon!"
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