Has anyone ever heard this before or have any source for this information, or is it just complete bullshit?TvTropes said:
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Popping it into Pokemonamie in my copy of X ....
The there does seem to be a blinking animation, which would imply those are indeed pupils (the coloring is different too), but uhhh they dont close all the way? It's weird, some of the eye animations look like normal eyelids and others look like its closed but moving around.
The pupils move around and follow you...maybe?
Bulbapedia claims that the Elemental monkeys have some connection to the Three Wise Monkeys, but then admits that Simisage, who should represent Iwazaru, the monkey that speaks no evil, has no obvious connection to that motif, and claims that Simisear is based on Kikazaru, who hears no evil... based on the fact that it has big ears...? So honestly I'm thinking that one's a bit of a reach, but if you want to read into it then Simipour would be Mizaru, who sees no evil, so being blind makes sense.
At the very least having pale pupils is the one singular aspect i can see maybe directly meant to call to the wise monkeys so hey got that going for it as opposed to the utter NOTHING present other wise that people have been bending over backwards to make connections (or INVERSE connections) for the better part of a decade.
I believe the association is based on the fact that Pansear has one hand to its ear (as if trying to listen to something) in both its regular art and gen 5 front sprite. Simisear just inherits the supposed connection from its pre-evolution.
Fuck, good point.
I've also seen a theory that the Simis are based on Japanese delinquents, but I can't remember the specifics.
Now we’re talking NYC.
The core anime PLA tie-in special came and didn't show any Hisui mons that weren't shown prerelease. Same thing with Hisuian Snow.
Kleavor and Ursaluna will probably be fit into the Paldea anime or whatever they concoct for Gen 9, but for the rest of the Hisuian forms as well as Origin Form Dialga and Palkia... are they just never gonna be shown animated?
Kleavor and Ursaluna will probably be fit into the Paldea anime or whatever they concoct for Gen 9, but for the rest of the Hisuian forms as well as Origin Form Dialga and Palkia... are they just never gonna be shown animated?
They're not evolutions of Porygon, so they probably will appear eventually.
PLA sold well enough that I would be surprised if there wasn't like a movie or something dedicated to it at some point in the future. Probably some time travel nonsense because causality just doesn't exist in the Pokemon universe.
Also, it seems like Snom's only appearance in any manga so far was one panel of Adventures.
I just learned a few Mega Evolutions, such as Mega Abomasnow or Mega Medicham, never appeared in the TCG.
I no longer play the game or collect the cards, but good Lord, this bothers me.
I no longer play the game or collect the cards, but good Lord, this bothers me.
Actually we got two cards of previously unrepresented megas in the tag team era: Mega Sableye and Tyranitar GX, and Mega Lopunny and Jigglypuff GX.
That's still not all of them, but you give me hope.
From passively following the TCG, I think the issue with megas is they (obviously) kept them exclusives to super rares and they evolved from other super rares and there's only so many of those per set. There were some megas that they snuck in through like promo boxes or whatever (& much much later, two tag teams) but even with multiple megas per set the room for everything probably became an issue.
Gigantamaxes have almost ran into the same issue but with some promo sets and some extra, smaller sets, and generally only having a total of 30 to worry about, the only ones currently missing are Appletun (which, like, we have Flapple VMax so...who cares....) and much more confusingly Hatterene.
HattereneV exists, so you'd think V-Max wouldn't be too far behind especially when its counterpart Grimmsnarl already got one, but somehow no.
We only have one more normal set (Paradigm Trigger) and a primarily-reprint set (VMax Climax) so time's kind of running out on that one.
Gigantamaxes have almost ran into the same issue but with some promo sets and some extra, smaller sets, and generally only having a total of 30 to worry about, the only ones currently missing are Appletun (which, like, we have Flapple VMax so...who cares....) and much more confusingly Hatterene.
HattereneV exists, so you'd think V-Max wouldn't be too far behind especially when its counterpart Grimmsnarl already got one, but somehow no.
We only have one more normal set (Paradigm Trigger) and a primarily-reprint set (VMax Climax) so time's kind of running out on that one.
So people have mentioned various Pokemon not appearing in the anime or the TCG but here's a new one: Pokemon that have not yet appeared in the Adventures manga.
Adventures is usually incredibly thorough when it comes to showcasing every species, including mythicals. Some of the missing Gen VIII Pokemon are probably due to debut at some point - the SwSh chapter has just gone to the Isle of Armour so Kubfu will almost certainly appear before long, so there's little point bringing those up. Yet even though the XY, ORAS, and SM/USUM chapters have concluded, Volcanion, Marshadow, and Zeraora have yet to appear in any capacity.
Adventures is usually incredibly thorough when it comes to showcasing every species, including mythicals. Some of the missing Gen VIII Pokemon are probably due to debut at some point - the SwSh chapter has just gone to the Isle of Armour so Kubfu will almost certainly appear before long, so there's little point bringing those up. Yet even though the XY, ORAS, and SM/USUM chapters have concluded, Volcanion, Marshadow, and Zeraora have yet to appear in any capacity.
Eh I’m not really bothered by this, I mean a lotta mythicals just don’t have enough lore to make em interesting enough for me to be invested in a story for them. iirc at points they do have multiple stories running don’t they? Like end of Gen 6/start of Gen 7 had overlap unless I’m misremembering. You can see why they’d skip a mythical or two in that case (especially since its basically required to have a certain amount of chapters dedicated to it)
My mindset here is pretty much the opposite. A lot of mythicals (particularly the ones I mentioned) have so little lore that they often have to *rely* on side canons like the manga to make them interesting. Jirachi and Deoxys for instance were better served by the manga than other canon imo. But I admit that's a personal preference.
If anything the blank slate makes them ideal for just making up a story around them. Like how the anime made up the whole alternate universe where Ash teamed up with a guy with a Zeraora. Or how I Choose You made Marshadow an envoy of Ho-oh for some reason.
Legendary Pokémon also has different lore in some continuities.
Does anyone remember the legendary birds in the second film? In this film, they are depicted as titans who can destroy the world if they clash, and also there's a prophecy about Ash who is the only one able to calm them alongside Lugia.