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Except Great Tusk barely looks like a woolly mammoth at all. Dang wasted opportunity. And Walking Wake looks weird.Donphan's an elephant.
Giving it hair makes it a wooly mammoth.
Also, Walking Wake is literally a veliciraptor.
Not just any Velociraptor.Alright, you've done it. You've activated my character design card.
All the Scarlet Paradox forms are intentionally meant to give the Pokémon dinosaurian traits, mainly long tails and spikey jagged bits on their bodies.
Obvious examples include Great Tusk and Slither Wing:
They both take their respective inspirations (Donphan and Volcarona) and change up the body types to give them spikes and spines, sharp teeth, and more reptilian tails. Slither Wing's eponymous wings are even meant to mimic a typical dinosaur sailfin, like a Dimetrodon or a Spinosaurus.
Sometimes they have to get more creative though.
Scream Tail's long ponytail with its frayed hairs are once again supposed to mimic a spiny lizard tail. Sandy Shock's whole body is constructed like a rudimentary dinosaur-shaped thing made out of trash, it's especially obvious if you look at it from the side. It's tail is the long metal coil sticking out the back, and all those sharp magnet filings make up the spines.
Walking Wake is perhaps the most obvious example. They literally turned Suicune into a velociraptor.
That was mainly a joke, since we already have a wooly mammoth in Mamoswine.
Ok. Maybe they did creativity well or something. I consider myself a dinosaur/prehistoric animal nut and the designs don’t really resonate with me but I guess they have a measurable quantity of expressed creativity. Would I have preferred they actually designed animals that were supposed to be these creatures ancestors based on the real world fossil record instead? Yes, I think that would be cooler than just making random dino hybrids. Would I have not done a past version of Magnemite at all? Yes? Does the existence of Sandy Shocks bug me? Yes.Alright, you've done it. You've activated my character design card.
All the Scarlet Paradox forms are intentionally meant to give the Pokémon dinosaurian traits, mainly long tails and spikey jagged bits on their bodies.
Obvious examples include Great Tusk and Slither Wing:
They both take their respective inspirations (Donphan and Volcarona) and change up the body types to give them spikes and spines, sharp teeth, and more reptilian tails. Slither Wing's eponymous wings are even meant to mimic a typical dinosaur sailfin, like a Dimetrodon or a Spinosaurus.
Sometimes they have to get more creative though.
Scream Tail's long ponytail with its frayed hairs are once again supposed to mimic a spiny lizard tail. Sandy Shock's whole body is constructed like a rudimentary dinosaur-shaped thing made out of trash, it's especially obvious if you look at it from the side. It's tail is the long metal coil sticking out the back, and all those sharp magnet filings make up the spines.
Walking Wake is perhaps the most obvious example. They literally turned Suicune into a velociraptor.
Well, that's the thing.
Well these Pokémon aren’t literally ancestors of their modern countrrparts, you see. That’s part of the reason why there’s a prehistoric Magnemite, even though that doesn’t make any sense. That’s why they just look like normal Pokémon twisted around to resemble generic dinosaurs.
And that idea is weird and doesn’t gel with me a much as other potential ones. Sorry.
It could be anyone in this very room.
Don’t know why you’re apologizing but ok
I was more thinking along the lines of
That the script writer for The oG Full Metal Alchemist was the same script writer for the Infamous anime Boku No Pico
The good news is, with the unstoppable passage of time, we're inching ever closer to the inevitable Kalos remakes!
Boy you did not just call Dimetrodon a dinosaur.
Maybe. It'll be nice if more weaker mons got it, they mostly went for popularity. But c'mon Flygon should've got one. Though in general, most of the starters should get them. Infernape should just turn into something like Beast Gohan or SS4 Goku and I mean that from the bottom of soul.The good news is, with the unstoppable passage of time, we're inching ever closer to the inevitable Kalos remakes!
So new megas should be coming some time in the next decade
Idk. Feels semi appropriate here. Especially since the only thing that’s happening is a disagreement of preference.
Yes I know Dimetrodon isn't a dinosaur but it's a prehistoric reptile that regularly gets grouped in with the dinos and I was trying to make a point DAMNIT
Noipoi purposely spreading misinformation online for a bit moment
Seconding this, I feel if Gigantamax forms weren't attached to a controversial mechanic they'd be more well liked as design-wise I felt they were more consistent. Megas IMO were more hit or miss, with some doing a good job evolving the original Pokemon's concept like Banette, but a fair chunk feeling like they were trying a little too hard to be cool and just threw in some extra details on with little thought to it like Aerodactyl or X.
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