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wakakokoko a dit : I hope they don't reveal the entire damn pokedex by November in those update videos |
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wakakokoko a dit : does that include or exclude alolan forms in other news I made this my new phone background :D ![]() |
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That's pretty cute Chris |
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tokyoghouled a dit : kk thanks ill try doing that but not yet i gotta see if ill be able to get my omega ruby back so i can use the code on it |
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Hey guys, so I noticed something the leader for Team Skull said and I think it actually has a ton more significance to where Team Skull might have been inspired from. Ok, so, before I start I just wanna make sure we all realize, Alola is HEAVILY based off of Hawaii, the Pokemon Team even went to Hawaii to study the island and what goes on there. Now that we know that, let me lay down what I'm about to suggest to you; Team Skull could very easily be based off of the racial tentions between Native Hawaiians and White People. Now I'm sure you're thinking that's a big claim but I got a ton of evidence for it, and if it's true, damn, Pokemon went deep. And I'm sure you're thinking "Chris, Pokemon wouldn't apply an entire race to the bad guy team, that's silly and bad for the company" but no they did it before, remember? I talked about how Pokemon made Team Aqua look like Islanders to fit the water theme of them. They aren't afraid of racial stereotypes in their games. Which is super cool imo, it just adds to the game imo. Anyway, this is the big part of this theory, but in Hawaii, there is a LARGE prejudice against whites by the native Islanders. Source But the cool thing is actually what the leader of Team Skull said. ![]() Now we don't know the context of this, but when I saw it the first thought was "who are you?" for the context, and I think I may be right, if I am, it makes you wonder, all of who we've seen from Team Skull is white, and he's saying they're all captain rejects, by captain I think he mean Trial Captains. Now realize this, about half of the characters so far shown, appear to be native Alolan, (Native Hawaiian) But what's more interesting is almost all the known Trial Captains we've seen are Native Alolan, that being Kiawe, Professor Hala, Lana and Mallow. Now there's 5 Islands and 4 of the Trial Captains we know appear to be Native Alolan, even Mallow and Lana while they has a lighter skin tones are still obvious. There's just a single white Trial Captain, that being Sophocles. Now here's the thing, the admins of Team Skull clearly would be capable of being a Trial Captain, by being Admins, it's kinda implied they're very powerful, the thing I'm thinking is, could it be they were rejected due to prejudice? I think it's a really interesting idea. What do you guys think, could my theory be right? You have to admit knowing there's a ton of prejudice towards whites in Hawaii, it might be interesting knowing Pokemon applied that to the game. |
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It's interesting but I don't think Nintendo would risk those kind of race issues |
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ebotthegreat a dit : again, like i said they already did with Team Aqua, they would totally risk those race issues just to add deepness to an aspect of the game. |
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Mousechris a dit : They would? I thought they changed team aquas race to add more diversity bc at the time there were like 3 colored characters and everyone was mad about it; personally I like the change made, and I prefer their newer designs over their older ones because they're more interesting than before. But back on topic, idk man who knows what they'll do in game freak headquarters |
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ebotthegreat a dit : the entire team was Islanders tho, and more than that out of all the races they chose Islanders for the water team, I think I can safely say pokemon did that to add a water theme rather than add more diversity. And idk personally I always thought Pokemon's diversity was just fine. Not sure what you're talking about saying there was only 3 colored characters before then. There are many Asian Characters from the earlier games, Brock is clearly not white, Lenorra and Iris from Black/white, Grant and Olympia from X/Y. Really there's just a large absence of racial diversity from the general characters but the problem there is those characters as the name implies are general, they have a fixed sprite. Which means if you make one general character white, you make them all white, and vise versa with black, which means again no diversity. |
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So then, no Alolan Pikachu or Cubone. Interesting, to sat the least. The little sea cucumber guy is pretty cool, though, but if his ability really kills everything that makes direct contact with it upon its death, it would suck to fight in a Nuzlocke. |
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official video e. lOOK HOW BIG WISHIWASHI GETS ![]() Dernière modification le 1470921120000 |
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Almost 27 feet tall, according to the website. |
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team skull what the actual fuck and the bone pun in the trailer too I mean, at least the grunts look like thugs and not complete circus acts...? but man I was hoping for a cool bad guy team leader not IT'S YA BOI GUZMA edit okay mousechris I'm not sure that theory's true but it did make me fucking laugh all the bad guys are white while most of the good characters aren't (bet the blonde chick is a mean character even if she's not a criminal, judging by her frowning in the artwork anyway) Dernière modification le 1470922560000 |
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IT'S YA BOI, DAT BOI! AKA GUZMA tfw everybody forgets about lillie and hau AND HALA Dernière modification le 1470925920000 |
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Ok so watching trailer @45 TEAM SKULL THEME SONG (what I assume that is) SO FAR SOUNDS EPIC ANd.... the way Purumeri walked right there was just, idk somehow very mysterious and seemed as if she was someone very serious about what she's doing, it gave off a "team skull is not to be taken lightly" vibe and I haven't felt that since Team Rocket. And did anyone notice she threw an Ultra Ball? Not that it's important to the story but wow, that's a different detail. @1:05 Guzuma gives off a feel similar to Sidney from ORAS, I like it, it's more like an enjoyable feeling like he isn't there to cause anyone trouble, he just wants to show his own power. Also I can't read in Japanese so I'll have to wait for the English trailer to confirm to context of what Kukui said to Guzuma. @1:20 Looks like shit @2:00 Wishiwashi is honestly one of the cooler Pokemon i've seen from recent leaks and this trailer only makes me more curious as to what it can do. @2:25 ha ha ha ha it pukes it's innards but ew @2:40 Alolan Mewouth sassy afuq, it looks like something that would try to mate with Meouth from the Anime just because. @3:05 Marowak looks amazing for this gen, love what they did, love the idea behind it. @3:30 Raichu looks stupid ',' and then the trailer ends. Doitsudoitsu a dit : yep aha ha ha ha, I honestly think it's true, I mean, out of all the people who take real life stuff to inspire them for something, Pokemon would surely do it with this and the Native Hawaiian vs White prejudice. And it's not a bad thing, I think that's generally what makes people think stuff like this could never be true, I'd even say it's a good thing because when you take it into consideration you actually have a bit of sympathy for the antagonists. Oh... that's something else Pokemon is known for, giving your at least one thing to be sympathetic for towards the antagonists :^) can't cite all the instances but I know in each team there's at least one member or part of the team that has a story behind it that we as the player can relate to. Edit: Just found the English trailer here, and while he the context wasn't "who are you" the context still fits with my theory :3 ha ha Dernière modification le 1470926580000 |
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I like how Team Skull isn't all orderly and intelligent like the last few evil teams have been, they feel more like thugs, people who actually do bad things, than the older villains did. Though that pose looks stupid. |
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Knightofpiza a dit : I don't see how they don't look intelligence, or how they're in disorder, Purumeri looks like she knows what she's doing and the grunts appear to be using team work and the pose isn't stupid at all, they pose like that to look like a skull, that's actually really cool. Pretty sure their intelligence is just fine. .___. |
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I'm not saying they're stupid, I'm saying they look more, let's say casual compared to the more formal evil teams. I didn't get much sleep today. :U |
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Knightofpiza a dit : Yeah thats what I feel too, and because of that for me they don't seem as intimidating as the others. |