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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Mar 1, 2017 8:47:34 GMT -5
That's something that for some reason I never really wondered as a kid (guess I just assumed they were vaguely magical animals) but in recent years, I've really been wondering especially since as time goes, their nature seems to get increasingly confusing.
Most of them look and act like animals but the games (and I think the cartoon as well) have stated that regular animals exist alongside pokémons, meaning pokémons are something else, although they apparently do need to feed and reproduce sexually (except for some which are genderless), although they can all reproduce with one-another, implying that all pokémons are part of the same species, no matter how biologically different (or even non-biological) they appear.
But then, you've got stuff like Porygon, the man-made virtual pokémon that somehow became physical, implying they're at least partially mechanical or robotic. Also, I don't remember exactly but I think Dittos are at least implied to be man-made (without even going into the theories of them being the original pokémon or a failed cloning experiment or whatever) so what the f*** are those?
Then you've got ghost pokémons, which suggests that some of them are the souls of deceased people or animals and indeed, I know that at leasts Yamasks are stated to have been formerly human (which makes it really f***ed up that you can capture them and treat them as pets). And there are also many pokémons that can possess objects and make them part of their body, so are they demons? Or can they just take on the appearance of other things (which would also explain why so many of them look and act like animals despite not being animals)?
BUT THEN, there's also the fact that they can be turned into computer data as it looks like that's what happens when they get captured and of course you can send them via computer like e-mail.
So they're... biological numeric spiritual... things?
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Mar 1, 2017 8:59:14 GMT -5
well, they're not quite a pocket, they're not quite a monster, but man...ha ha ha.........
so to answer your question, i don't know
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Mar 1, 2017 9:05:45 GMT -5
Oh yeah, and I also forgot, you can teach them new moves from CDs somehow so I guess that confirms they're part computer.
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Mar 1, 2017 9:34:37 GMT -5
Oh yeah, and I also forgot, you can teach them new moves from CDs somehow so I guess that confirms they're part computer. i suddenly got an image of Hitmonlee being unplugged from the Matrix and saying "I know kung fu" |
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Post by Spiderf 4 on Mar 1, 2017 9:41:40 GMT -5
well, they're not quite a pocket, they're not quite a monster, but man... ha ha ha......... so to answer your question, i don't know Yeah, I knew I'd see this.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 9:53:45 GMT -5
They botched by saying regular animals also exist. It's way easier to wrap your head around if all non-humans are just Pokemon.
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Post by Mackenzie Gorn on Mar 1, 2017 13:00:05 GMT -5
They botched by saying regular animals also exist. It's way easier to wrap your head around if all non-humans are just Pokemon. They retconned it to that eventually. |
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Post by Zombie Mod on Mar 1, 2017 13:22:12 GMT -5
I believe they are either made from or can be made into candy.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 14:13:38 GMT -5
They botched by saying regular animals also exist. It's way easier to wrap your head around if all non-humans are just Pokemon. Basically this, references to normal animals are supposed to be "you didn't see that, move along"-tier. Not unlike the singular special stat in Gen 1. |
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Mar 1, 2017 16:39:20 GMT -5
So people eat Poekemon then? Or is everybody vegetarians in this universe?
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Post by The Unconquered Sun on Mar 1, 2017 17:04:11 GMT -5
They are money makers 😀
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 17:09:51 GMT -5
Slaves.
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Post by chazraps on Mar 1, 2017 18:21:07 GMT -5
So people eat Poekemon then? Or is everybody vegetarians in this universe? The only Pokemon that's been eaten on the show has been Magikarp. Otherwise everyone is vegetarian. |
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Post by Starshine on Mar 1, 2017 19:29:51 GMT -5
Playthings that I keep trapped in cramped spaces for which I use to fight until unconsciousness for my own enjoyment.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 1, 2017 19:41:47 GMT -5
So people eat Poekemon then? Or is everybody vegetarians in this universe? They sometimes do, though it seems like it's often stuff like eating Crabrawler's claws that fall off and grow back, anyhow, or eating Slowpoke tail, which also grows back. That said, though, they also sell "Takedown Steak" in Sun/Moon, and there's a Miltank and Tauros ranch, so they might slaughter them sometimes. |
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Mar 1, 2017 21:31:51 GMT -5
Don't people eat Farfetched too and that's why it's so rare?
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Post by MrBRulzOK on Mar 1, 2017 22:31:16 GMT -5
They botched by saying regular animals also exist. It's way easier to wrap your head around if all non-humans are just Pokemon. Basically this, references to normal animals are supposed to be "you didn't see that, move along"-tier. Not unlike the singular special stat in Gen 1. Try as they might, a Gastly turning into a Mongoose will forever live on in my heart. |
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Post by Glitch on Mar 2, 2017 0:25:28 GMT -5
I don't think the show ever mentioned regular animals or showed them.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2017 0:39:13 GMT -5
So people eat Poekemon then? Or is everybody vegetarians in this universe? They sometimes do, though it seems like it's often stuff like eating Crabrawler's claws that fall off and grow back, anyhow, or eating Slowpoke tail, which also grows back. That said, though, they also sell "Takedown Steak" in Sun/Moon, and there's a Miltank and Tauros ranch, so they might slaughter them sometimes. If nothing else one of the books in Diamond and Pearl talks about the proper procedure for disposing of the bones of a Pokemon you've eaten. |
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Post by Red Impact on Mar 2, 2017 1:57:18 GMT -5
bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Animals_in_the_Pok%C3%A9mon_worldSo yeah, animals are a thing, apparently through most of the series. So I'm guessing, from a biological standpoint, they'd have to be either their own unique domain or their own unique kingdom of animals, that had various divergent evolutions with the one common characteristic being that they came from eggs.
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