How Come Gardevoir Can Be A Boy? Page 2

Started by Nidoking76 March 27th, 2014 7:50 PM
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Simple, they're animals (Pokemon are animals, right?). As animals, their secondary and tertiary sexual characteristics differ from our own, often causing confusion as to their true gender. Many children often immediately assume dogs are male unless specifically told otherwise, and that butterflies and ladybugs (Hue) are female. I wouldn't be surprised if male gardevoirs actually did have a distinguishing visual aspect in universe, and that it just doesn't show in games.

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I have a male Gardevoir on my team, I don't mind one bit. Men can be feminine, Females can be masculine. I don't care what genders my pokemon are except where breeding is concerned.
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Before it's mega evolution came along (which is obviously based on a wedding dress) I would have agreed that gardevoir was based on a knight rather than a female. However you cannot tell me that with Gardevoirs mega form that it is not based on a female wedding dress lol. Plus Gardevoir has a male counterpart in Gallade, so I just consider male gardevoir crossdressers or transgenders now :]

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Us wondering how there can be male Gardevoir is like Venusaur saying "How can there be female humans? None of them even have a seed growing out of their back! That's soooo masculine...."
You have a good point here. We all think other things are weird because we don't understand them. Us thinking that it is weird that Gardevoir can be a boy is weird in the same way for us as it would be for a Machamp thinking it is weird for us to wear shirts.
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Why wouldn't it be able to be? If it were supposed to be 100% female, it would have been. As it's not, well... I'm assuming that making it appear feminine in the first place wasn't the intention.

(This does not, of course, explain why Gallade is 100% male, but I could chalk that up to some property of the Dawn Stone that only allows it to work on a species of Pokemon if it's a specific gender... y'know, considering it evolves Snorunt into Froslass, too.)

Also the female Machoke comments... come on, people, ladies can be bodybuilders too. It's not that weird.
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Why wouldn't it be able to be? If it were supposed to be 100% female, it would have been. As it's not, well... I'm assuming that making it appear feminine in the first place wasn't the intention.

(This does not, of course, explain why Gallade is 100% male, but I could chalk that up to some property of the Dawn Stone that only allows it to work on a species of Pokemon if it's a specific gender... y'know, considering it evolves Snorunt into Froslass, too.)

Also the female Machoke comments... come on, people, ladies can be bodybuilders too. It's not that weird.

Weird enough to weird most people out, as do men in dresses.

Even kilts are regarded as bizarre by some (mostly by those who are ignorant and cannot make the distinction between the two).

And while it is true that- being Pokémon- their gender distinctions can play be very different rules than our own.

But I just thinks it's only logical that with two genders- if one evolution is gonna be gender-specific, the other should be the- well- other.

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Before it's mega evolution came along (which is obviously based on a wedding dress) I would have agreed that gardevoir was based on a knight rather than a female. However you cannot tell me that with Gardevoirs mega form that it is not based on a female wedding dress lol. Plus Gardevoir has a male counterpart in Gallade, so I just consider male gardevoir crossdressers or transgenders now :]

Again, you're only looking at things based on our preconceived notions about real-world human sexuality. Having a lower body that looks like a wedding dress (personally, I think it looks more like a lotus blossom) could be just as sexually innocuous to pokémon in the amorphous egg group as a human having curly hair.

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Again, you're only looking at things based on our preconceived notions about real-world human sexuality. Having a lower body that looks like a wedding dress (personally, I think it looks more like a lotus blossom) could be just as sexually innocuous to pokémon in the amorphous egg group as a human having curly hair.
This. I'm sure Gardevoir have looked the way they do since loooong before we humans have been wearing dresses.
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Male Gardevoirs and Female Machamps are considered transgender
Eh, no? Maybe you are considering them like that, but officially there's nothing weird about it.
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People often think that gardevoir has feminine features but in reality the Pokemon is based off a light paladin witch if you have played ff4 ciecil is a paladin with long hair and a cape and gardevoir has a cape and sort of long hair
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