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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Uses its claw as a gun (A literal pistol shrimp):

Beta Remoraid revealing that it was based on a gun:

Gigantamax Blastoise sporting a comical amount of guns:

Mega Blastoise:

Beta Octillary showing it is based on a tank:

Gigantamax Intellion uses its tail as a snipers roost and has a sniper rifle:

Dragapult is a Stealth Bomber:

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Team rocket is saying hello to my little friend again!

[-] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

The first few seasons of the Pokemon anime were wild.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I kinda like the retcon though - "Pokemon is a universe where people solve their problems with pokemon battles", like it just doesn't occur to people to use anything else. Red tears through Team Rocket HQ and all the grunts are like "he beat us fair and square I guess we gotta stop being criminals now."

That's probably why they have free healthcare and stuff. Lenin became the Pokemon Champion and pressed the socialism button and the bourgeoisie just had to accept it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think it makes the world more interesting too. Like I remember there was an episode where some evil dude was going to use a Tyranitar to fuck shit up, and someone just made their Growlithe use Thief Attack to take their Pokeball before they could even release it. It introduces fun ways to solve problems.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

ban a cartoon episode for displaying guns
regularly kill 5 year old kids in police raids

lole

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

also be so comically insecure about foreign cultures that you ban the word "rice" and pretend it's a donut

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That's localization companies

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

The ecoterrorist tentacruel episode was legit

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Pokémon Go to the polls and vote for Octillary

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

no vote for gumshooos! make alola great again

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

This is how the tankies win?!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Political power comes from the barrel of a pokemon

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago
[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

The remoraid octillary evolution finally makes sense now

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Wonder if one or both were going to be steel type originally

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Remoraid is still recognizably a Remington (with the context of its name) and Octillary is still recognizably artillery with its weird little barrel mouth.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I never clocked it I dont really know my guns. Makes complete sense now

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

yeah okay however "pokemon but you can murder not-pikachu with an assault rifle" just doesn't roll off the tongue the same way

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Water cannons are not guns

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Ok now you're just being picky soviet-pout

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

If being picky is being correct then yea I agree I am picky.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

ITS A WATER GUN meow-tableflip

[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Then why do the cops put them on tanks and shoot them at people?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Yes they are.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Palworld would be a thousand times cooler if they used this and things like Mantine's under-wing Remoraid Remington turrets to have a proper interpretation of Pokemon organized militarily rather than for sport combat. Like, little monkeys using pistols and big monsters carrying guns larger than a human can wield is valid, but by itself that doesn't use the material a tenth as well as it could be. Are there even psychic types using telekinesis for their weapons or anything? What about Pokemon physically being weapons like Dragapult uses? Some little Fairy Pokemon handling reloading for you? So much wasted potential.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago
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