Reasons why pokemon are stupid

[Fox Mccloud]

Here's some stupid things I thought of. Before you pp (Pro pokemon) and aap (anti anti pokemon) say that I never watched Pokemon, and I don't know what I am missing, I'll let you know I have watched it, and found this to be stupid.

1. Pokemon can only say there own names. This is stupid because if you can say your name, you could say other things. Also, they make a whole language out of their names? Fox! Fox Mccloud! cloud!! Mccloud! (Fox Mccloud Pokemonese: That is stupidly ********!!!!!)

2. Pikachu is clasified as a mouse pokemon. Mice do not exist in the series, so how could Pikachu be a mouse pokemon?

3. How do you shrink Pokemon into those little balls? If you shrank Onyx (last I checked he was the bigest, at 25 feet) into a tennisball and expect it to live? Once inside, how does it eat, drink, breath, and go to the bathroom...

4. A "trainer" walks by and sees a pokemon. He calls out one of hes pokemon, Kicks the Pokemon's butt, and then the Pokemon is loyal to him?? Yeah right!

5. Everything is about Pokemon in their world. They are on signs, pop culture, and even more popular than the real world, and noone ever gets annoyed?

6. Many say Pokemon teaches not to fight, but it is just like cockfighing. Only, unlike of cockfighting, the Pokemon are shooting fire, and tearing eachother apart. If a pokemon s another Pokemon, It doesn't die?

7. There are no difference's in Pokemon gender, it is just he and he, or it and it. That means they have to be gay to reproduce.

8. Evolution takes thousands of years for anything to happen, not 2 seconds. It doesn't even happen in a flashy light thing, and some need a rock to evolve?

9. Team rocket. They lose every time, and it has gotten soooo annoying. I wish they would just win and get it over with. In real life they would've taken Pikachu by now

That's about all a can think of right now.

 

[Louis XXIV]

You talking about the show?

A few of those things are different in the actual game that started everything.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

The show = Stupid. As. Heck. It has actually more moralizing than my local church, so I can't figure out why the religious types distrust it, and after about 5 minutes of an episode I can predict the next half-hour with uncanny accuracy.

The GBA game = actually pretty decent.

 

[Strato]

Why pokemon is bad for you. This was brought up somewhere else a while ago, and I had a decent IM convo with a friend one day about it... Here's a link that shows Pokemon as being immoral

http://www.almenconi.com/topics/games/Pokemon.html

This evolving is almost Darwinian, as the critters get larger

Not sure how that works... over time, haven't most animals gotten smaller. I remember something from my schooling days about mega fauna and stuff.. That's not really important here in this discussion though. The important stuff is coming up!

But anyway - another reason why Pokemon are stupid? Because it's always about the 'love' between trainer and pokepet (ok, I'm jealous because my pets don't do what I ask - stupid fish! ). And lets not forget the fact that some bird pokemon are really small (like Pidgey) but still able to fly the trainer around. How does that work?

 

[Tomoyo]

Former pokemon fan here...

10) There are no other animals in the Pokemon world, except for the odd bird.

11) Pokemonbugs are big.

12) Why is a ten-year-old traveling alone? (well, he was[/]i)

13) Kazumi didn't kiss that other guy in the last episode.

14) How exactly does evolving help them?

15) Catepillars do not evolve into cucoons who do not evolve into butterflies.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Why pokemon is bad for you. This was brought up somewhere else a while ago, and I had a decent IM convo with a friend one day about it... Here's a link that shows Pokemon as being immoral

http://www.almenconi.com/topics/games/Pokemon.html

Your site is in error. They have little credibility to start with when being a ministry discussing Pokemon, "Magic Potion" is an error, the mention of "horoscope" signs is completely out of whack with reality, and in general the whole site is on a level with "USA caused the Tsunami" conspiracy theories.

The TV show is a moralizing piece of crap, like I said.
The card game is good.
The GBA game is moralizing but still good.

 

[Tomoyo]

"Magic Potion" is correct. The way the potions work is unexplained; therefore, it must be magic.

Actually, potions heal. Vitamins power up. Teachin'em to eat their vitamins.

 

[Strato]

@Erik Mesoy I know the site is a load of crap. Made me laugh when I read it initially. That's why I put it in.

The GB game is ok, but the practice behind catching them all by having to go out and buy the different versions seems a bit, well stupid really.

And I thought of another one for the GB game - magical warp tiles!

And don't get me started on how it is a group of people like the elite four haven't gone after the legendary birds/dogs or MewTwo.

And the burnt out mansion on Cinnabar Island which isn't really burnt out - if its burnt out, and most likely old, wouldn't it be structurally insecure, and so require demolishment. How could anyone let a kid in there.

Oh, and reading Tomoyo's post, with the bugs, how is it a trained Caterpie or Kakuna can perform tackle when its meant to be immobile?

But of course, its just a game, and that's all that matters. Pokemon aren't stupid, its the parents who give in to child demands to buy the whole lot that are.

 

[civ2]

Pokemon is the worst Anime I ever saw!!!
I like DBZ and YGO very much.
And BTW GAMES are also much better when the source is better.
Any YGO fans???

 

[Reno]

Pokemon is the worst Anime I ever saw!!!
I like DBZ and YGO very much.
And BTW GAMES are also much better when the source is better.
Any YGO fans???

Those that you mentioned are not even anime, :shakehead atleast in my standards.

 

[civ2]

Here we go again..!!!
And WHAT Anime do YOU like???

 

[Reno]

Here we go again..!!!
And WHAT Anime do YOU like???

First i like only movies and not tv shows, and the best kind of movies are Hayao Miyazaki movies. Nausicaa, etc.

 

[civ2]

Well the only Movies I have seen were Mononoke; Shihira(???); and some Movie versions of the shows.
But I have seen some 30 shows!
And BTW Anime is a style and not an opinion.

 

[Fox Mccloud]

This thread has gone off topik.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

The GB game is ok, but the practice behind catching them all by having to go out and buy the different versions seems a bit, well stupid really.

And I thought of another one for the GB game - magical warp tiles!

And don't get me started on how it is a group of people like the elite four haven't gone after the legendary birds/dogs or MewTwo.

Nope. I buy one version. I still haven't caught everything on that one. After that, it's the shiny pokemon next...
Bother the versions, catching all available = catching all given one version.

Warp tiles? Imagine Escher-type trapdoors, then.

Well, they have a job, they're supposed to be ready to challenge at any time, they can't go out looking for the legends or whatever...

 

[Tomoyo]

Here we go again..!!!
And WHAT Anime do YOU like???

Oh, brace yourself.

Card Captor Sakura, but not Cardcaptors, which should have been called Cadcraptors (Nelvana... ), and it is even worse than Pokemon, and I like most of the CLAMP mangas, and the corresponding anime shows, like Angelic Layer, Chobits, Magic Knight Rayearth, etc. There's always the typical Moe show, like Sister princess which is so kawaii and funnyish, Happy Lesson, which is a bit odd, but is very typical moe, with overly genki characters. There are also classics like some Miyazaki movies, and robotech, which, with Sakura Taisen, which, for some reason, became Sakura Wars, is the only mecha anime I like. Then again, there are other genres of anime, like the generic shounen and shoujo groups. I kind of liked Princess Nine, which was just a stupid soap opera disguised as a sports anime, which all suck anyway. Then there's also that...

 

[The Omega]

Oh, brace yourself.

Card Captor Sakura, but not Cardcaptors, which should have been called Cadcraptors (Nelvana... ), and it is even worse than Pokemon, and I like most of the CLAMP mangas, and the corresponding anime shows, like Angelic Layer, Chobits, Magic Knight Rayearth, etc. There's always the typical Moe show, like Sister princess which is so kawaii and funnyish, Happy Lesson, which is a bit odd, but is very typical moe, with overly genki characters. There are also classics like some Miyazaki movies, and robotech, which, with Sakura Taisen, which, for some reason, became Sakura Wars, is the only mecha anime I like. Then again, there are other genres of anime, like the generic shounen and shoujo groups. I kind of liked Princess Nine, which was just a stupid soap opera disguised as a sports anime, which all suck anyway. Then there's also that...

ARgh, you fool! You got Tomoyo talking about anime! We'll be stuck here for hours!

 

[Tomoyo]

And then, to add, almost anything CLAMP touches turns to gold, so I'll include some manga as well, specifically Tsubasa: Resevoir Chronicles, xxxholic, and Wish. Especially wish. I wish we had the lovey glomp smilie here. Oh wait, let me find it... Here it is:

So, anyway, Wish is one of the best Manga of CLAMP, but it just isn't well-suited for animated series. Also, if you are actually reading this, Then, in other anime, there are ones like DNAngel, which is very good. Also, Neon Genesis Evangelion, which is not really a mecha anime, since evas aren't mechas. So stop saying that it is!

 

[odintheking]

I liked the TV show, but that was when I was seven. As for the games, they peaked at Gold and Silver. After that they got boring. Pokemon Yellow was a dissapointment.

 

[Tomoyo]

I thought the original Red and Blue were the best... clearly the hardest...