Arcanir
An old friend evolved
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The idea is based on
British scientists haphazardly putting fossils together and incorrectly arranging different specimens into a non-sensical creature. I've seen complaints about the Frankenstein concept, but that's the point. Hell, some cryptids were accidentally created through this flub IRL. I find it interesting how these are the first ever Pokémon to:
-Get this close to being fusions
-Might reference the hilarious fusion generator the fandom is known for
-Be part of a line-up of four incomplete creatures we have no records of in-universe apart from being discovered half-way
Pretty much, one infamous example (though not British) is the "Bone Wars" where two rival Paleontologists (Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh) got ridiculously competitive with each other and tried to outdo the other by finding the most species. While it did lead to many new species, one of the negative effects of their competitiveness with each other was that in their haste to beat each other they haphazardly threw together bones to quickly get another new species under their belt, and that and the resulting descriptions ended up leading to misinformation about those species for years that had to be cleaned up by future Paleontologists.
So something like this is a very interesting take since it shows a different side to Paleontology and the history of it. There have been cases where new species are 'found' that didn't exist or species are given traits that they never had, and having something like that in Pokemon is a great concept on top of allowing for some fun experimentation.
So something like this is a very interesting take since it shows a different side to Paleontology and the history of it. There have been cases where new species are 'found' that didn't exist or species are given traits that they never had, and having something like that in Pokemon is a great concept on top of allowing for some fun experimentation.