>>5104545Vulva lol
>tumblr nose
>>5104545Fairly appropriate compared to most binomial names that are shitty pop culture references
>>5104555If i remember correctly this one isn't even a pop culture reference. The person who named it did it independently of pokémon
>>5104556>not a pop culture reference>animal is still more similar to its namesake than nearly any other pop culture nameEven better
>>5104563kek. I will never forgive them for "Gojirasaurus". That's the type of name you save for a 40+ foot theropod or a 100+ foot titanosaur
>>5104545>>5104556>>5104563>Bulbasaurus phylloxyron>phylloxyron literally means "leaf razor"No way the naming wasn't at least somewhat intentional
>>5104577Could be. I remember reading somewhere that the guy who named it said it wasn't a reference but that source could have been wrong
>>5104577It was. There are a number of species named after Pokemon or other nerd shit, often beetles or chitin because there are so damn many.
>>5104580Chitons*
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>>5104582kek
>>5104582I couldn't find a higher res version of the image
>>5104594
>>5104545Isn't Bulbasaur supposed to be based on a frog/amphibian-like creature.
>>5104599It very obviously is, i have no idea where people got the idea that it is a dicynodont. Venusaur is very obviously a giant warty toad
>>5104620Probably from the -saur
>>5104620All of the Grass type First Partners are based on Prehistoric creatures
>>5104556it literally has the same spots and shit as bulbasaur how the fuck is that possible?
>>5104637That’s random art done by literallywho you retard. The original description has nothing to do with that
>>5104599>>5104620>>5104624>>5104635I used to think Bulbasaur was a dinosaur. It literally has a saur in its name.
>>5104651Charmander has salamander in it's name even though it is lizard.
>>5104635You REALLY have to stretch it to make this pattern be true. At least it's not as bad as the "all water starters are based on weapons" one
>>5104726You don't. What frogs have ears and toenails? It's obviously a synapsid.
>>5104635>First PartnersFound the bulbapedo admin. No one calls starters that.
>>5104726It's not really that much of a stretch to notice there was a theme though until debatably gen 7 or 8. I can understand where these people are coming from desu.>VenusaurDicynodont/Beelzebufo >MeganiumSauropods >SceptileTheropods >TorterraAnkylosaurs/Meiolaniids >SerperiorTitanoboa >Chestnaught Glyptodont >DecidueyeSlit Owls>RillaboomGigantopithecusI have nothing on gen 9.
>>5104743Meowscarada is an Iberian Lynx.
>>5104743A bunch of those look nothing like the animals you are claiming. Mainly Serperior since it's obviously a vine snake
>>5104739It's a toad-like monster. Which i have to say it's something i miss a lot about older gens. Some pokemon were not literally just an animal but a monster that resembles that animal. Think how Kangaskhan is a kangaroo-like monster and not a literal kangaroo
>>5104749Serperior has arms. It's a basal snake.>>5104750Retard.
>>5104774is he wrong though? old gen pokemon had designs that had ambiguous monsters made with traits from different animals.
>>5104743Most of those have loose influence if any at all. This is just as much of a reach as the Chinese zodiac fire starters theory>>5104774>Serperior has armsNo it doesn’t
>>5104933
>>5104774>It's a basal snakeIt’s a fictional snake monster
>>5104556most of the people who name stuff after pop culture make up some lame excuse now so that they don't - get this - get sued. Same thing happened with Thanos, an I believe Abelisaurid.
>>5104936Cope.
>>5104938Projection
>>5104935
>>5104743Hilarious how gen 10 just fucking destroyed this theory now. What is prehistoric about an angry bird?
>>5104743Gen 4 starters were based on dieties with Torterra being based on the World-Tortoise of various Asiatic faiths, including some Native Americans. Calling it a glyptodon is a stretch.
>>5104997Not glyptodon, akylosaur. Got mixed up.
>>5104994>Final evolutions not even revealed yet>>5104998>>5104997You do realize there can be more than one inspiration for a pokemon design right? Grotle looks more nodosaur-like than an actual tortoise since it has segmented armor along it's back and no plastron while torterra looks similar to a meiolania platyceps.
>>5104997
>>5104743>Rillaboom>Gigantopithecus>RILLAboomOk
>>5104635how the fuck is a twink cat that throws bombs based on a prehistoric creature
>>5105329>Ivyschizo browses /an/ who knew.
>>5104545That Bulbasaur never drew a dime
>>5105329you could have edited the eyes to be purple, but you didn't. You blew it.
>>5105330Same way a grey dragon with purple wings or scyther with a big flat head are
>>5104994Literally all of that list except obviously Meganium is nonsense, I don't think anything is going to stop him from thinking Browt is a velociraptor or something.
>>5105330>>5104748Learn how a thread works.
>>5105372But an Iberian lynx isn't a prehistoric creature
American education strikes again. Antipattern schizos lost, deal with it.
>>5104545*gets sued by nintendo into extinction*
>>5104652I don't think the average normie really differentiates between salamanders and lizards.
>>5105524that's irrelevant to the point he was making, though.
>>5105581It was an irrelevant point in the first place because nobody was using names as a basis. Bulbasaur is superficially toadlike but if you actually look at it is clearly more reptillian in nature and no it is not lE GEneRiC FroG MoNsteR CoPe because there are tons of those in Japanese media and they all manage to look like frogs somehow.
>>5104994It can evolve into a terror bird, dodo, moa...
>>5105613they jump like frogs.
>>5105880Because they have short legs. Are corgis frogs?
I love the logic here. "These pokemon clearly based on modern animals are actually based on prehistoric ones because of my predisosed conclusion that every grass starter has to be one"
>>5104743>VenusaurBeelzebufo wasn't even described until over a decade after Gen 1. Bulbasaur also looks nothing like a Dicynodont or any other kind of stem-mammal people claim it is, and quite frankly it's hard to imagine they would've made a design based on these extremely obscure Permian animals back in gen 1. It's just a frog with cat ears.>SerperiorLooks nothing like Titanoboa, it isn't even as large as a modern anaconda.>DecidueyeIt is not a stilt owl, it's the Pueo Owl which is still alive today and is connected to ghosts/ancestor spirits in Hawaiian folklore. It also has a "hood" around its face just like Decidueye. Decidueye doesn't even have long legs by the way.>RillaboomIt's not even as big as a modern gorilla. Has nothing to do with Gigantopithecus at all.No one would think that Serprior, Decidueye, or Rillaboom were any kind of prehistoric animal in isolation, people only imagine them to be because they want to fit them into this supposed pattern. But if you look hard enough you could find literally any prehistoric animal to claim relation to, that's how evolution works after all. These 3 are very obviously just modern animals and don't look anything like their supposed extinct inspirations.>>5104997The patternfag is a retard but Torterra very obviously has ankylosaur features even if it's also based on world turtles. The head is obviously ankylosaurian.
It's not even the worst reference-bait scientific name, we live in a world where "Hotwheels sisyphus" is a valid taxon.
