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Sudden obvious realizations in Pokemon?

Frozen Lotus

Frozen Lotus

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Has there ever been something Pokemon related that you just suddenly realized, in spite of it having been incredibly obvious?

A big one for me was... realizing Lugia has fingers. I use to love Lugia to obsessive levels, and it took me more than a decade to realize it has fingers. I have no idea how I missed this when it was so obvious.
 
Frozen Lotus

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Achromatic said:
I'm gonna move this over to Pokémon General as really it can apply to anything in the Pokémon universe! :)
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Fine by me... does it still count towards the event? >> lol I actually have no idea if threads in Pokemon General count or if they have to be in PGC.
 
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Not gonna lie, even though Sharpedo's name made it obvious (shark + torpedo), I went through the entire 3rd generation not realizing that Sharpedo didn't have a tail. The way the RSE sprite was angled just made it look like it's back half was hidden out of view, so I didn't think anything of it until I tried using on in Pokemon Platinum.
 

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Osiris said:
Not gonna lie, even though Sharpedo's name made it obvious (shark + torpedo), I went through the entire 3rd generation not realizing that Sharpedo didn't have a tail. The way the RSE sprite was angled just made it look like it's back half was hidden out of view, so I didn't think anything of it until I tried using on in Pokemon Platinum.
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... So THAT is why!

*realization*
 
TheFattestSnorlax

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Could be me, but it was only a few years ago that I realized that Jessie, James, Cassidy, and Butch are named after American outlaws, Jesse James and Butch Cassidy. I'm Australian, but I thought that should have been obvious.
 

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Osiris said:
Not gonna lie, even though Sharpedo's name made it obvious (shark + torpedo), I went through the entire 3rd generation not realizing that Sharpedo didn't have a tail. The way the RSE sprite was angled just made it look like it's back half was hidden out of view, so I didn't think anything of it until I tried using on in Pokemon Platinum.
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I literally didn't know that until I read this post... I thought its second fin was its tail peeking out... its new back sprite looks surreal to me now!
 
PageEmp

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The Lopunny and Delcatty lines were version exclusives in BW2. It's funny because while they are both normals with similar stats-one is a friendship evo, and the other evolves by stones!
 
Junier

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Guys. Guys guys guys guys. Guys.

Remember Razz beries? Razz berries? As in raspberries? Isn't that cool!?

I also seem to learn something new about Bug types every time I fight one/use one. "What you mean Fairy types are resistant to Bug!?"
 
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I literally just realized Drew from the anime is based off the cooltrainer sprite from R/S/E yesterday, after watching most of Advanced Generation.
 

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POLIWAG

FOR YEARS I THOUGHT THE SPIRAL WAS ITS MOUTH AND ITS ACTUAL MOUTH WAS ITS NOSE

IT'S NOT AS CUTE TO ME ANYMORE
 
ORegan

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I use to be completely confused by many of the R/B sprites...especially the back sprites....a couple of them still do to this day.
 
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Actually, today I discovered that Krokorok's gen 5 sprite had its arms crossed. {XD}
 

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R.F. said:
Actually, today I discovered that Krokorok's gen 5 sprite had its arms crossed. {XD}
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Krokorok is not amused at that, that's why his arms are crossed. ;)

TheFattestSnorlax said:
Could be me, but it was only a few years ago that I realized that Jessie, James, Cassidy, and Butch are named after American outlaws, Jesse James and Butch Cassidy. I'm Australian, but I thought that should have been obvious.
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How about Ned and Kelly? lol. That should be an interesting duo. XD.
 
Delirious Absol

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I also didn't realise Sharpedo doesn't have a tail until Gen 6. I even went searching up it's R/S sprites and so on. It looks so weird to me now!
Also - Swoobat has legs. It took me a good while to notice that.
 
PageEmp

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Not poke related, but if we have animals called bees, why don't we have animals called A's?
 
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