GhastlyGastly
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Alright everybody, it's been a while since I've posted here, but I had a bit more Pokémon speculation I thought I'd share.
Basic thesis: Gastly's evolutionary line is a manifestation of a transdimensional Ghost Pokémon, seen at three stages its attempt to enter our dimension (with Gengar being the end result of that attempt). In other words, Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar are three representations of a single Ghost Pokémon, at different degrees of physical manifestation. That singular Ghost/Poison-Type Pokémon will be referred to as "Gengar" through the remainder of this thesis.
Consider: Haunter's Generation I Pokédex entries suggest that it is transdimensional.
R/B/LG:"Because of its ability to slip through block walls, it is said to be from another dimension."
Haunter and Gastly are the only pair of Pokémon which are an evolutionary pair that are of identical weight; they are also the Pokémon with the least mass. Yet, though Gastly gains no weight upon evolving into Haunter, upon evolving into Gengar, it gains 89.1lbs (Gastly and Haunter are each 0.2lbs). This is somewhat peculiar, since Haunter is a full foot taller than Gastly, at 5'03", Haunter is four inches taller than Gengar (4'11"), and a full foot taller than Gastly (4'03").
Why is it that Gastly gains no mass upon evolving into the larger Haunter, yet a full 89.1lbs are added upon evolution into Gengar, which is smaller than Haunter?
Hypothesis: Gastly and Haunter, being largely gaseous in physical makeup (as confirmed repeatedly in their Pokédex entries), are of identical weight (or at least as near as can be measured by the system of weighing used for Pokémon), are the preliminary phases of a Gengar attempting to seep through dimensional barriers and enter our world. Gengar's body is a condensed mass of poisonous gases (or toxic vapor-like particles of some sort), weighing 89.3lbs when fully manifested and compressed: Haunter and Gengar represent bundles of Gengar vapors in two phases of entering our dimension, but before it is fully able to condense itself and take its proper Gengar form. Gengar would thus possess far more gas than Haunter or Gastly, however on Earth Gengar is physically smaller than Haunter due to the condensation of those gases into its body. Gengar in fully vaporous form, in order to be sufficient to produce an 89.3lbs increase in mass when condensed down to its 4'11" form, would likely be gigantic, perhaps on the order of the gigantic Black Fog found in the Pokémon manga.
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Black_Fog
Most likely, Gastly and Haunter represent the phases at which the Gengar are not yet powerful enough to force the preponderance of its vapors and mass into our dimension. Theoretically, Gastly represents Gengar's "skull" manifested, and surrounded by surplus vapors; Haunter represents the addition of "tissue", and perhaps a fragmentary "skeleton" (minus the legs, and parts of the arms); Gengar represents the finalized development.
Speculation: Haunter evolving into Gengar via trade is hypothetically a metaphoric indication of its transdimensionality. A Haunter evolves into Gengar when it's traded into a different game: perhaps a sort of metaphorical "different world". Conjecture can also be made with regard to the dimension from whence Gengar comes originally: perhaps the same Distortion World which the Ghost-Type Giratina presides over. Or, given the apparent lack of Gengar encountered in the Distortion World (not necessarily proof that they aren't somewhere in the dimension), perhaps they inhabit a different dimension unto their own, perhaps one accessed or contained somehow in regions of shadows or darkness in our world (possibly implies by many of Haunter's and Gengar's Pokédex entries).
Conclusion: I have come to think of Gastly, Haunter, Gengar, and the Black Fog as a single species of Ghost/Poison-Type Pokémon, at various forms or stages of physical manifestation in our dimension.
Thoughts anyone?
Basic thesis: Gastly's evolutionary line is a manifestation of a transdimensional Ghost Pokémon, seen at three stages its attempt to enter our dimension (with Gengar being the end result of that attempt). In other words, Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar are three representations of a single Ghost Pokémon, at different degrees of physical manifestation. That singular Ghost/Poison-Type Pokémon will be referred to as "Gengar" through the remainder of this thesis.
Consider: Haunter's Generation I Pokédex entries suggest that it is transdimensional.
R/B/LG:"Because of its ability to slip through block walls, it is said to be from another dimension."
Haunter and Gastly are the only pair of Pokémon which are an evolutionary pair that are of identical weight; they are also the Pokémon with the least mass. Yet, though Gastly gains no weight upon evolving into Haunter, upon evolving into Gengar, it gains 89.1lbs (Gastly and Haunter are each 0.2lbs). This is somewhat peculiar, since Haunter is a full foot taller than Gastly, at 5'03", Haunter is four inches taller than Gengar (4'11"), and a full foot taller than Gastly (4'03").
Why is it that Gastly gains no mass upon evolving into the larger Haunter, yet a full 89.1lbs are added upon evolution into Gengar, which is smaller than Haunter?
Hypothesis: Gastly and Haunter, being largely gaseous in physical makeup (as confirmed repeatedly in their Pokédex entries), are of identical weight (or at least as near as can be measured by the system of weighing used for Pokémon), are the preliminary phases of a Gengar attempting to seep through dimensional barriers and enter our world. Gengar's body is a condensed mass of poisonous gases (or toxic vapor-like particles of some sort), weighing 89.3lbs when fully manifested and compressed: Haunter and Gengar represent bundles of Gengar vapors in two phases of entering our dimension, but before it is fully able to condense itself and take its proper Gengar form. Gengar would thus possess far more gas than Haunter or Gastly, however on Earth Gengar is physically smaller than Haunter due to the condensation of those gases into its body. Gengar in fully vaporous form, in order to be sufficient to produce an 89.3lbs increase in mass when condensed down to its 4'11" form, would likely be gigantic, perhaps on the order of the gigantic Black Fog found in the Pokémon manga.
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Black_Fog
Most likely, Gastly and Haunter represent the phases at which the Gengar are not yet powerful enough to force the preponderance of its vapors and mass into our dimension. Theoretically, Gastly represents Gengar's "skull" manifested, and surrounded by surplus vapors; Haunter represents the addition of "tissue", and perhaps a fragmentary "skeleton" (minus the legs, and parts of the arms); Gengar represents the finalized development.
Speculation: Haunter evolving into Gengar via trade is hypothetically a metaphoric indication of its transdimensionality. A Haunter evolves into Gengar when it's traded into a different game: perhaps a sort of metaphorical "different world". Conjecture can also be made with regard to the dimension from whence Gengar comes originally: perhaps the same Distortion World which the Ghost-Type Giratina presides over. Or, given the apparent lack of Gengar encountered in the Distortion World (not necessarily proof that they aren't somewhere in the dimension), perhaps they inhabit a different dimension unto their own, perhaps one accessed or contained somehow in regions of shadows or darkness in our world (possibly implies by many of Haunter's and Gengar's Pokédex entries).
Conclusion: I have come to think of Gastly, Haunter, Gengar, and the Black Fog as a single species of Ghost/Poison-Type Pokémon, at various forms or stages of physical manifestation in our dimension.
Thoughts anyone?
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