This was a war crime.
>>12239970the elite four are above the law. even if they weren't, you can't exactly prosecute a guy for assault as a criminal yourself.
Why is the Pokemon world so fucked up? Slavery, war crimes, what else?
>>12239983mass environmental degradation and secret bioengineering projects down south.
>>12239983Animal mutilation with the whole Slowpoke tails too
>>12239983It also just plain doesn't make sense. Why doesn't everyone who lives next to the Safari Zone raise a Dratini and become God? Why do fishermen with six Magikarp challenge everyone they meet to battles?
>>12240818Bro, have you met people in real life before? A staggering percentage of real, living human beings out there would, indeed, challenge people to battles with a team of 6 Lv5 Magikarp if given a choice to.
>>12240818>Why doesn't everyone who lives next to the Safari Zone raise a DratiniThey have a thing for shotas. And I'm only half-joking, I don't doubt that for a pokemon like Dratini to bite that it'd have to at least want to see the trainer in question.Legendaries you back into a corner and they try to kill you, but generally rare pokemon probably show themselves for a reason.Also that's kinda like asking why everyone who lives in Michigan doesn't own a rifle and life entirely off of vension. Not at all impossible but most people have better things to do, a lot don't have the money for it, most are just really fucking lazy, and a decent number have moral objections to it.>>12240824
>>12240002Slowpoke tails fall off on their own and grow back. Literally a victimless crime.
>>12239983crystal treatment
>>12241120jesus fuck I remember seeing that on DA when I was twelve and completley forgot about it
>>12241101What happens when market demand outweighs the supply of tails that naturally fell off?
>>12239983It's like the movie Demolition Man. Most people are coddled in a peaceful utopia and can't comprehend wrongdoing so the few people with functioning ballsacks start steamrolling everyone.
>>12240818They're probably used to fighting other fishermen also using magikarps.
>>12241456The tails are just an emergency cash flow for when the RageCandyBar hustlers can't deliver
>>12241120what are the crystals?
>>12243609In the IVs you fucking retard. Are you blind?
>>12243615what the fuck are the crystals from
War crimes are a farce and the most extreme form of victor's justice, if you have good PR you can get away with anything
>>12243686War crimes are PR, by having laws against them you can justify violence.
>>12239983Yeah, it would be awful if our own world ended up having those things
>>12240818>Why doesn't everyone who lives next to the Safari Zone raise a Dratini and become God?What I got from the first 2 games is that pokemon are a new thing, recently discovered monsters that you must research. Like actual monsters, they probably existed in myths and legends, probably known by locals, but only recently seem to be this widespread thing in society. It's the only explanation for why a professor would tell you they only recently learned how they breed, or how only recently they discovered some evolutions. So maybe someone will raise a dratini to become a god, but it's too early. All this goes to shit with later games pretending real animals never existed and it was always pokemon all the time.
>>12241120Wow this is a throwback lol
No. It's fine, actually.See, back in the gameboy color days, Pokémon were wild animals that were tamed by people and followed orders provided the trainer was capable themselves (I.E. gym badges)Thankfully Pokémon grew as a franchise and the style guidebooks explained a lot of misconceptions.Pokémon don't jump at people from the tall grass to attack them, they want to make friends. Slowpoke tails actually grow back so cutting them off to sell as a delicacy isn't morally reprehensible (well it is but the important thing is that slowpokes aren't actually permanently harmed) Pokémon moves, no matter how strong (including hyper beam) cannot actually hurt humans in any way, because Pokémon are just that weak. Pokémon tamers don't use whips actually, those were just leashes.And let's not forget that legendary Pokémon are actually just looking for a strong human to be owned by.Isn't it great? I'm so glad Pokémon became a big franchise aimed at small children who don't want a Battle Frontier.
>>12241120poketoxoplasmosis is a serious threat that more trainers need to be aware of
>>12244416>It's the only explanation for why a professor would tell you they only recently learned how they breed, or how only recently they discovered some evolutionspretty sure agatha mentions battling in her youth with oak so that's just an in-universe way of saying they're new game mechanics. that wouldn't make much sense anyway, like if they were discovered recently how would oak and the other researchers be making a living? it'd be like if parapsychologists were studying psychic powers for decades and only recently found proof of their existence.
>>12239983I unironically believe the "pokemon is a post-nuclear war society" fan theory
>>12244948Pokemon is just Tajiri's memories of growing up in post-WW2 Japan collecting insects in the countryside amidst encroaching urbanization. Nukes were dropped, but it wasn't a nuclear war per se.
>>12244981Yes it was. Nukes were used, that makes it nuclear warfare.
>>12244948For me, it's "MC is a low functioning autist being humored by strangers and believing he's living a magical fantasy"
>>12240818Dratini line and the dragon type were basically supposed give the vibe of a boss only mon and being able to catch gives the same vibe as a playground rumor.>"If you use the super rod on this specific like in the safari zone, you may encounter the first stage of Lance's dragons"Also, as the other anon said, Pokemon are "new", according to the japanese guidebook people in-universe didn't know Venonat and Venomoth were part of the same line because there was no pulpa stage.And Red is supposed to be a prodigy so there's that.
>>12241120Damn, so that's why Misty left the show?
>>12240818 The majority of trainers are running 1-3 Pokemon that are common in their area. The safari zone is the equivalent of paying to hunt kangaroos at a high fence ranch in Texas, it’s out of reach to the average trainer. On top of that, you need a super rod to catch dratini, which is a high end piece of equipment most people aren’t going to have access to. Now raising a dragonite is a bitch, and Dratini sucks and has shitty moves. Most people aren’t taking the gym challenge and getting access to TMs which means you’re stuck spamming fucking wrap to level grind dratini until it learns slam, which still isn’t exactly great. Now , the BEST trainers are at victory road and the E4 and NONE of them have a level 56 Pokemon. Even Lance’s Dragonite isn’t at 56, implying he caught it full evolved. So even the dragon master of the region has not managed to raise his own Dragonite in gen 1. Red is referred to as a child prodigy by an NPC in victory road. Normie Pokemon trainers never travel the region, take the gym challenge, rarely battle at all, and their Pokemon never get beyond the 30’s in level in a lifetime of ownership. That is why nobody has done what you suggest.
>>12247560Speaking of most people not taking the gym challenges, there's also the matter of people without enough badges not being able to control their pokemon.
it's a world where a terrorist organization literally controls the government
>>>/vp/Back to your containment board. Now.
>>12239970He was okay, he was taken to the pokemon center after.
so the master system guy's just making pokemon threads now i guess
>>12247667Redundant. All governments are terrorist organizations to begin with.
>>12239970There is no war, that's just excessive force
>>12239970Don't be so dramatic. It's true that pokemon sucks but I wouldn't go so far as to call it a war crime
>>12244912Recently could be just in the past 20-50 years. Enough time to make them part of society but also recent enough for them to be mostly a mystery in a pre-internet society where information travels slowly.
What war did Lt. Surge fight in?
>>12249208The Lightning-American war.
>>12249208'Nam
>>12239970pokemon and humans share a common ancestor, humans just know how to speak instead of doing pokemon moves (same excuse given for why team rocket meowth can talk and doesn't know any moves)humans can still tank moves though, in the same way you can hyper beam a level 1 caterpie and be fine
>>12249208The Console Wars.
>>12251871Based lorechad
>>12251871>t.
>>12251871People still started some rudiments of a complex society without coherent languages though. Do we see the same with Pokemon beyond legendaries? Where are the bone and flintknappings to make tools?
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>>12253748By the way>This Pokémon wears the skull of its deceased mother. Sometimes Cubone’s dreams make it cry, but each tear Cubone sheds makes it stronger. >When the memory of its departed mother brings it to tears, its cries echo mournfully within the skull it wears on its head. Was this really fucking necessary? Now I'm sad, fuck you
>>12253748>>12253754fun fact, the mother HAS to die for it become a cubone. otherwise it is just a baby kangaskhan.
>>12253760The Cubone Industry Does NOT Want You To Know This...
>>12253760Explain how they come out of eggs already wearing skulls, then.
>>12253779Nta but it's a game
>>12243631Sinnoh underground duh
>>12253912>it's true if you ignore the way the game works/vp/edophiles literally play one game and don't know anything about it
>>12256097>doesn't understand ludonarrative dissonancemaybe finish high school before posting?
>>12256414>ludonarrative dissonancewhichever youtube essay you nabbed that one from must not have gone into much detail, because that isn't what this is
>>12253779First gen didn't have eggs and they didn't feel like retconning it the second gen so its just a weird contradiction but its alright because only autists give a shit.
>>12256441>retconningcubone and kangaskhan being related at all was a fan theory that never had any official basisthere was nothing to retcon
>>12256447That they come out of eggs was the retcon. In gen one you would just assume pokemon were born. Kangaskhan kind of reinforced that idea.
>>12239983Eugenics.>obsession with evolution and breeding>all public servants seem to come from "the same stock">whatever weird shit Oak has going on with your Mom and probably every female in Pallet town
>>12239983Yeah, so glad it's nothing like our world, right?
