If Pokemon were real and you were battling a guy and... Page 3

Started by dragontamerandrea May 31st, 2010 11:41 AM
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I guess I'll just go on ahead and contribute to the actual question in the first post.. >_<;
Well first I'd laugh uncontrollably. Then I would return my Pokemon and say "noob" to the guy, turn, and walk off. XD

I don't like the idea of people owning legendaries in the anime or games. [besides yourself really]
It's a challenge yeah but it irks me. Legendaries are supposed to be these mighty god-like beings.. it's like keeping a grizzly bear as a house pet.
Very odd and perhaps the tiniest bit risky. ._.; It wouldn't work out as well as Open Season did that's for sure.

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Another point I'd like to add
Ash has had alot of very rare experiences with legenderies and seen alot first hand, so much more than 99% of everyone else
And when he sees Entei in Pokemon the movie 3 he says
"You are not Entei" if there was more than one Entei (and Ash would know these things) he would say "you are not a real Entei" rather than "you are not THE real Entei"

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"You are not Entei" if there was more than one Entei (and Ash would know these things) he would say "you are not a real Entei" rather than "you are not THE real Entei"
That doesn't really matter. In the anime they refer to all Pokemon (Legendary or not) by their species name as if the specific Pokemon is an individual. If the Unown had created any other Pokemon Ash would have most likely said "you are not the real _______". I'm positive that Ash didn't know anything about Entei at all. In fact, he still probably doesn't know much about it. Ash doesn't seem to know much about the Pokemon world in general.

I hope that made sense. :P

"A" is simply an indefinite article. Its use does not imply a plural, or even objects outside the one being demonstrated.

If I have a pear, I have a pear. If I see a rabid raccoon, I see a rabid raccoon. These statements alone do not tell you whether I have more than one pear or this is my only one, or if I know there are more than one raccoons about.

Or, to chalk it up to programming, it is slightly easier to put "It's a [pokemon name]!" and apply it to every pokemon as opposed to applying it to the majority and having a special legendary message appear for legendaries. If the message was more direct ("Look! It's the one and only Ho-Oh that exists!"), then I will agree with your point. Until then, I am a skeptic.
Perhaps that was a bad quote. :S

They are definitely implying that there are multiples here. In that same video another character states "This is the first time I've seen one up so close." That right there pretty much shows that Ho-oh is not a unique species. I suppose that sentence still can be taken another way if you take an in-depth look at it, but if there weren't multiple Ho-oh that would be a very strange choice of words.

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Guys, I find the "is there more than one legendary" debate just as fascinating as the rest of you, but please take it to a new thread. I'll let one of you make the new one but until you do, please don't discuss that in here--that's not what this thread is for. D:

That aside, if I ran into someone with a legendary, I probably wouldn't even realize it was legendary. I'd probably just assume it was a highly-evolved form of something I wasn't familiar with and then get my ass handed to me. If I did know what it was (unlikely if I were a typical resident of the Pokémon world :P), I'd simply be honoured that my opponent thought I was enough of a threat to call out their legend. XD;


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That aside, if I ran into someone with a legendary, I probably wouldn't even realize it was legendary. I'd probably just assume it was a highly-evolved form of something I wasn't familiar with and then get my ass handed to me. If I did know what it was (unlikely if I were a typical resident of the Pokémon world :P), I'd simply be honoured that my opponent thought I was enough of a threat to call out their legend. XD;
Would you not sort of feel bad for it though? Like idk it kind of reminds me of bear dancing, where they capture this powerful animal and use it for entertainment, like imagine a lugia supposed to be roaming the seas! D:

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Well it's a trainer battle, "You can't run from a trainer battle!", so I guess that ruins my idea of running away screaming. I guess it would be just like in the show, where my weak little pokemon have an epic battle with a giant pokemon, and when they lose I hug them and cry about how it's just too powerful. lol

But in "reality", they would probably get stomped into the ground by Giratina or Arceus.

What I don't get though, is why Arceus, the god of all pokemon, would willingly go into a trainers pokeball and be "owned" by it. It's the god of all pokemon, it doesn't have to take spit from some puny trainer!
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Haha I did always wonder what the other trainer must be thinking (if they could think) if I would send out a big legendary type Pokemon.
I know if one was pulled out on me I'd be like "No fair!!"

It doesn't really make sense that we can catch them, but I still do.
I rarely ever use them for battle though. They don't fit in with the rest of my party. The only ones I ever use that are Legendary are small cute ones, like my Mew that I have right now. :3



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Guys, it's simple! They're not really unique. Just dupe them on Silver or Gold. :D

But seriously, I've wondered that too... I mean, the Pokemon episode in the anime where Ash battled the dude with Articuno really baffled me until he said "Oh he isn't really mine lol."

I may go through again catching the legendaries, but not battling with them.
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Well it's a trainer battle, "You can't run from a trainer battle!", so I guess that ruins my idea of running away screaming. I guess it would be just like in the show, where my weak little pokemon have an epic battle with a giant pokemon, and when they lose I hug them and cry about how it's just too powerful. lol

But in "reality", they would probably get stomped into the ground by Giratina or Arceus.

What I don't get though, is why Arceus, the god of all pokemon, would willingly go into a trainers pokeball and be "owned" by it. It's the god of all pokemon, it doesn't have to take spit from some puny trainer!
I think you could flee from a battle like that though, they shouldn't have a legendery beast under their control i think fleeing a single battle wouldnt get you into that much trouble :p
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Yeah, I agree with the first few posts.
I think the legendaries were really created to keep balance in the Pokemon world, if you were to catch one, wouldn't that mean you're upsetting the balance?
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well, actually i think it's a legendary opinion. in the episode where the articuno was with the guy, it was by the legendary pokemon's choice. i think if they battled using a legendary, it wouldn't really be theirs and i would cry out "no fair!" just before my poor weak pokemon were stomped into pancakes poffins. badly cooked poffins. but really, i don't think the deity legends would work with trainers. only the more minor legends.
also, if i didn't cry no fair and they had somehow caught the legends, i'd probably call officer jenny or someone to help... i mean, yeah there are unfair battles and that happens, but that's just too much.
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I'd probably react as if some said that he'd show me his pet and it'd turn out to be a mythical animal like a griffin or something. It's a myth that shows to be true in front of your eyes.

I'd give it a shot with my team and think it was cheap of the trainer, but still feel honored enough that he'd consider me enough of a threat to use an arsenal against me that I'd have to chance of getting and that in normal situations would be very far out of my league.

Or just think that he just was the cheap type of person who just wants to win no matter what. But still it takes a lot of skill to catch a legendary. But you don't really need a flamethrower to kill ants, if you get what I mean.
Same with me, for someone to go to the ENORMOUS effort and work to capture one I would just think they were showing off mostly rather than trying to be uber strong (although being uber strong would be a part of it) I would be quite impressed and distressed at once