My point wasn't that they look the same ( although most of them do ). It just strikes me as laziness on the part of the designers to fill up roster space with redone versions of... wait, where do I know this from?
Yes, babies and added evolutionary lines are the "clones" of the Pokemon world. And so are things like Bidoof and the weak bird that evolves into a strong one and the weak bug that quickly evolves into something you can throw away a few hours later.
Note that I'm exaggerating a little. But there's just so many of them that it's plain boring.
So, err... Mime Jr.
Mr. Mime is a pantomime, Mime Jr. is a clown.
Granted, Lucario is modeled after Anubis. But who would associate Anubis with fighting and steel and the whole "wave" thing?
Sure, it's just "the wave thing", but it's something. Remember Cubone? It has a sort of backstory. Its mother dies as it's born and it wears her skull and stuff. That is AWESOME.
Too many Pokemon are just like "This is a thingy that looks like some other thing. It does things. Look at the stats and potential moveset!"
Lucario has sort of a background, which not many Pokemon can claim to possess.
By the way, I'm still really tired, so I apologize if my posts are unstructured and hard to understand.