Pokémon goof thread - “Game Freak is really bad at world building"

[Cedric_Eff]

I love how despite not having gyms, the Pokémon League exists in Alola. Also Why was the Champion’s room in the Indigo Plateau in Gen 1 so tiny? Lance’s room was big as fuck and the champion gets a tiny ass room? I know in FR/GL they made it bigger, but why was it so small in Gen 1?

Spoiler: Lance’s room

Spoiler: “Champion’s room”

I know my rival was a bitch ass wimp, but this champion room is pathetic. I think Lance’s spending too much of the Pokémon League’s budget on himself.

 

[UntimelyDhelmise]

I honestly believe dex entries are made by children, since far too many of them are just way too damn nonsensical. Professor Oak even basically tells you to do his own work for him, so who's to say the trainer(s) aren't also going the extra mile and filling in dex entries with whatever bullshit pops into a 10-15 year-old's head. Some of them are fine but then you get absurdities like Larvitar eating entire fucking mountains before taking a nap to evolve and Slurpuff having a sense of smell 300 million times stronger than a human's despite having a tiny nub of a nose.

There's even points where the entries outright contradict the game on a mechanical level, like Escavalier supposedly zooming through the sky at blistering speed despite being one of the slowest fully evolved mons in the roster.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

I honestly believe dex entries are made by children, since far too many of them are just way too damn nonsensical. Professor Oak even basically tells you to do his own work for him, so who's to say the trainer(s) aren't also going the extra mile and filling in dex entries with whatever bullshit pops into a 10-15 year-old's head. Some of them are fine but then you get absurdities like Larvitar eating entire fucking mountains before taking a nap to evolve and Slurpuff having a sense of smell 300 million times stronger than a human's despite having a tiny nub of a nose.

There's even points where the entries outright contradict the game on a mechanical level, like Escavalier supposedly zooming through the sky at blistering speed despite being one of the slowest fully evolved mons in the roster.

Also why don’t we get the National Pokedex from the start or even have other people’s Dex data?

 

[Dunsparce]

Why is there always that kid in every region who says he likes shorts?

I mean, I get they’re comfy and easy to wear, but at the end of the day I don’t give two fucks about what you use to cover your no-no parts.

This is because the Youngster trainer class is called "Shorts Boy" in Japanese. In a similar vein, it's female counterpart, Lass, is called "Skirt Girl" in Japanese. The male and female swimmers are also known as "Trunks Boy" and "Bikini Girl" in Japanese as well.

 

[KingofNothing]

Why do these criminal organizations that were probably around for years keep getting stomped into the ground by kids out on their first day?

 

[PT 522]

Oak even basically tells you to do his own work for him

I feel like this is the biggest misinterpretation in series history, probably due to translation fuckery. The way I read it (and the way that makes way more sense) is that dex pages are prewritten by Oak because he spent his youth traveling, collecting, and studying Pokemon, but through one way or another he only has the starters left. So what he's asking you to do is not gather information, because he already knows, but make a "living dex" of all the Pokemon he's now missing, like a zoo.
Which is why you have to catch all of them, because he's an old man close to the end of life who wants to see all the animals he spent his life studying in one place again.

 

[Antipathy]

Why do these criminal organizations that were probably around for years keep getting stomped into the ground by kids out on their first day?

How do kids who have been on the road for maybe a month fight and win against fully grown adults who have trained their pokemon to absurd levels?


Also do people have sex with their pokemon? What are the logistics of that? Do Ditto turn into people if left alone with a human?

 

[PT 522]

Also do people have sex with their pokemon? What are the logistics of that? Do Ditto turn into people if left alone with a human?

Image removed over hosting concerns--it was a screenshot of Pokemon Colosseum where a woman refers to a Mightyena as "her boyfriend".

 

[Antipathy]

Man, I was thinking at least they'd limit themselves to the Human-Like egg group...

 

[PT 522]

Man, I was thinking at least they'd limit themselves to the Human-Like egg group...

If you want to bang a Mr. Mime then go right ahead

 

[Overcast]

I feel like this is the biggest misinterpretation in series history, probably due to translation fuckery. The way I read it (and the way that makes way more sense) is that dex pages are prewritten by Oak because he spent his youth traveling, collecting, and studying Pokemon, but through one way or another he only has the starters left. So what he's asking you to do is not gather information, because he already knows, but make a "living dex" of all the Pokemon he's now missing, like a zoo.
Which is why you have to catch all of them, because he's an old man close to the end of life who wants to see all the animals he spent his life studying in one place again.

Huh.

Almost makes me sad for not going out of my way to catch every Pokemon.

Almost.

 

[Crocketron]

Pokemon in general is a big mindfuck.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Remember how they had to change Nurse Joy's dialogue from "We hope to see you again soon!" because it implied she was a sadist who gets off on treating your Pokemon?

 

[XYZpdq]

Why is there always that kid in every region who says he likes shorts?

I mean, I get they’re comfy and easy to wear, but at the end of the day I don’t give two fucks about what you use to cover your no-no parts.

sharing the Good News about shorts is important, that's why John Cena always repped the jort life

I feel like this is the biggest misinterpretation in series history, probably due to translation fuckery. The way I read it (and the way that makes way more sense) is that dex pages are prewritten by Oak because he spent his youth traveling, collecting, and studying Pokemon, but through one way or another he only has the starters left. So what he's asking you to do is not gather information, because he already knows, but make a "living dex" of all the Pokemon he's now missing, like a zoo.
Which is why you have to catch all of them, because he's an old man close to the end of life who wants to see all the animals he spent his life studying in one place again.

I was under the impression that the impetus to Catch Em All (tm) was more a marketing thing from outside Japan?

 

[Francis York Morgan]

You even have pro-breeders at the daycares telling you they have no idea how it got there. Are they even watching your pokemon? And what the hell are Pokemon professors even studying half the time if they can't even figure out where these eggs are popping out from?

I always interpreted that as people not wanting to have "the talk" with random 10-12 year olds.

 

[PT 522]

I was under the impression that the impetus to Catch Em All (tm) was more a marketing thing from outside Japan?

Well yeah but we could explain away literally every post here with a meta "it was for marketing/humor/developer laziness" like that so it strikes me as lazy. I mean it's a thread specifically about how things work weirdly in-universe after all.

 

[Creep3r]

I always interpreted that as people not wanting to have "the talk" with random 10-12 year olds.

If that was the case then they wouldn't need to bring it up at all. They would just show you the egg and ask you if you want it. Also the Pokedex already mentions Pokemon laying eggs and mating. And that journal from the first game about Mewtwo mentions Mew getting pregnant and then giving birth in both the original games and remakes. Just feels like something needlessly silly that they could have avoided by just keeping quiet. Unless this is a Prelude to something silly like a stork Pokemon that delivers eggs but then that begs the question of why it hasn't been introduced yet after so many years of "we don't know where these eggs came from".

 

[Dunsparce]

fun fact: In Japan, that's just ganguro -- a fashion trend that rebelled against the traditional ideal modest beauty of pale skin and dark hair. But once Jynx made it to America, some "cultural critic" saw it as "racist blackface."

So that's why Jynx looks like an eggplant lady now.

Also there was a manji on a Golbat TCG card, but once the card reached the West, an anti defamation league was offended because the manji happens to be called "swastika" and has certain connotations in the West. The manji was removed.

Jynx has a high chance of not being based on ganguro at all.

On the Origin of Species: Jynx - Bulbanews

bulbanews.bulbagarden.net

To add on to this article, the beta versions of Red and Green that were leaked recently had Jynx in them, and predate the fad even existing.

 

[Dunsparce]

Still doesn't mean it's racist.

Did I ever say I thought it was? I was just pointing out that the most commonly believed basis for Jynx is most likely not true at all. At this point we would have get word from Game Freak themselves to figure out what the inspiration for Jynx was.

 

[Creep3r]

Jynx has a high chance of not being based on ganguro at all.

On the Origin of Species: Jynx - Bulbanews

bulbanews.bulbagarden.net

To add on to this article, the beta versions of Red and Green that were leaked recently had Jynx in them, and predate the fad even existing.

I can probably buy all of that but wasn't Jynx also based on the old kaiju Woo from Ultraman?

There was even an anime special that showed her in effeminate clothing (and lack thereof apparently).

I really don't care if she's blackface or not tbh as I honestly preferred her old look over the eggplant thing she's got going on now.