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heracross is a jojo reference, and you can't convince me otherwise

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    >main colour is blue, alternate colour is pink: giorno's main colour has historically been blue in all the games with a very similar pink as his alternate palette (used in the anime adaptation)
    >learns close combat, THE mudamuda beatdown move
    >is a stag beetle, a direct reference to how
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    >has a mega evolution form, which is obviously a
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    >was designed for generation 2 which started with a release in 1999 and development would have been running up to then, through the serialisation of part 5 (1995 - 1999) and made its debut in pokemon GOLD, yknow like....like golden wind

    so clearly, i am unequivocally correct, heracross is the ultimate jojo reference
    obviously i jest, but that got me thinking, what other "jojo references" are there in pokemon? are there any legitimate jojo references in pokemon? is it possible that this list of very far reaches actually highlights a pokemon designer influenced by jojo? who knows?

     

    Sorvete

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  • oh god how have I not noticed this before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! looks so obvious now :oo
     
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    I want this theory to be true so badly you have no idea. ;w;
     
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