Remoraid · Neo Revelation (N3) #50

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   No Name

   (2 years ago)

   I’ve never understood how this little fish managed to evolve into an octopus.

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     NosNo Name

     (2 years ago)

     Some Pokemon evolutions represent growth stages of real animals, or sometimes reflect real like relationships between species. In the case of Remoraid, it’s a little more creative: it starts as a gun, and then evolves into a cannon. There are a few other evolutionary lines that don’t make sense when you look at them phylogenetically, but thematically they do. Some examples being Clamperl and deep sea creatures or the Swinub line and tusked animals.

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       No NameNos

       (2 years ago)

       I think Clamperl makes even less sense! What is the connection between a clam and the deep sea creatures? It’s not like clams can turn into fish…

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         TwylisNo Name

         (2 years ago)

         It’s no weirder than a caterpillar forming a chrysalis and then liquefying itself and turning into a butterfly. Pokemon evolution is a type of metamorphosis, not merely stages of growth.
         It’s also no weirder than the idea that geese grow from goose barnacles (hence the name), which was once a very common belief, and it’s also not unheard of for the opposite to happen where scientists discover that two unrelated animals are actually different growth stages of the exact same species (or cases of wildly extreme sexual dimorphism).

         Animals are often very weird, historical beliefs about animals are often very weird, so it stands that fictional animals can also be very weird.

         If it helps, you can also think of Clamperl’s “body” being an egg that the fish hatch out of.

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         TwylisNo Name

         (2 years ago)

         It’s also worth noting that Game Freak was quite happy to disregard common sense when it comes to biology since day 1 anyway. Early in the franchise, Pokémon and animals were considered to co-exist (bearing in mind that they likely didn’t know we’d end up with 900+ Pokémon back then to populate the world), and some Pokémon were even considered to be related to real-life animals or even the ancestors of them.
         The strangest example of this is the official Japanese Pokedex book asserting that Kabuto is a common ancestor of both hermit crabs and turtles.
         https://lavacutcontent.com/1996-creatures-pokedex-translation-7/

         Notably, Kabuto has some basis in horseshoe crabs, which were recently discovered to be more closely related to arachnids rather than crustaceans. So if we were operating on real-world biology instead of Pokémon logic, Kabuto would be more related to spiders and ticks than anything else.

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   Warnock 2022

   (2 years ago)

   First appearance of “Sharpshooting“! This attack later shows up on {P}, {D}, and {F} types.

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