Things you didn't notice for years Page 2

Started by Mackened April 27th, 2014 2:26 PM
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Khoshi

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I only recently found out that Remoraid evolved into Octillery. I always thought Octillery was a standalone Pokemon. How a fish becomes an octopus, I'll never know...

I also recently found out that shiny Pokemon were really rare...around when Platinum came out. After I already ran away from one in Diamond. ;_; I just thought they were another colour of Pokemon, easily found in the wild.

Lusus

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In Gen 2 games, only 3 Unown forms can be shiny because Unown forms and shininess are both determined by IVs in those games.

Forgot which 3 forms, also forgot if they are always shiny (prob not, since the chance of being shiny back then was way lower than today)

Nah

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For a long time I didn't know that Brendan wears hat. For some reason I thought that was his hair....
Nah ンン
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Khoshi

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For a long time I didn't know that Brendan wears hat. For some reason I thought that was his hair....
THIS.

I always thought Brendan had white hair with a bit of black to the side. I thought it was both really unique and pretty awesome. Then I find out it's a hat (or rather an oddly designed beanie), and my world gets shattered. A kick to the face.

Candy

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This is kind of stupid, but one thing I always thought about Poliwag was that the large swirl thing was its mouth, and the little pink part above it (which I now know is its mouth) was the nose. Then I realized the swirl was its intestines, like how tadpoles have visible intestines, and that made so much more sense.

But yeah, until recently, I always thought Poliwag (and by extension Poliwhirl and Poliwrath) just had a really big mouth.
Oh goodness, I was guilty for this lol.

It took me a close inspection on a shiny Poliwag I caught to actually notice that. xDD
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Timbjerr

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For a long time I didn't know that Brendan wears hat. For some reason I thought that was his hair....
I've known this for a while, but I still choose to believe that Brendan had white hair. The alternative would mean that he's wearing an extremely odd hat. o_0;
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I've known this for a while, but I still choose to believe that Brendan had white hair. The alternative would mean that he's wearing an extremely odd hat. o_0;
This. My self-delusion goes so far that I genuinely keep forgetting that he's wearing a hat XD

What. Whaaat?!! WHAAATTTT-

... This is news to me. Imagine a Skitty saying to a Wailord "That's my boy!".
May I introduce you to these. ^_^



It took me ages to figure out how to pronounce Suicune's name. I was pronouncing it soo-ih-soon...which bears an unfortunate resemblance to "suicide", and I think I freaked out my grandmother a time or two :3c It wasn't until I saw the fourth movie that I finally figured it out.

That actually goes for a good number of Pokémon names; I pronounced them entirely incorrectly (I thought Gengar was pronounced like ginger, for Arceus' sake ;-;) until I heard them spoken somewhere or otherwise figured out how to say things.

And...well, it wasn't exactly years, but I had no idea the B/W legendary deer (hoofbeasts? Whatever you'd call them XD) were based on the Three Musketeers until I read something that said so.
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I only recently found out that Remoraid evolved into Octillery. I always thought Octillery was a standalone Pokemon. How a fish becomes an octopus, I'll never know...
It's because Remoraid is supposed to be a 'gun', and Octillery the 'cannon'. Smarty pantsy Game Freak.

For years I thought Sudowoodo was a Grass type, Politoed Water/Grass, Huntail Water/Dark and Gorebyss Water/Psychic.
Z not far...

Khoshi

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It's because Remoraid is supposed to be a 'gun', and Octillery the 'cannon'. Smarty pantsy Game Freak.
Ah, that slipped my mind :s forgot about all the weaponry stuff.

Anyway, something I only found out recently was about Lugia's typing. In my mind, it just seemed so much like a Water/Flying or Water/Psychic, and it ends up being Psychic/Flying. It's just like, what. It's the guardian of the sea, and it gets that.

MurkMire

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Neither Drowzee NOR it's evolved form, Hypno, can actually learn Dream Eater through levelling up.

That's just nuts. Even their Pokedex entries say they feast on dreams... >_>

pastel_fallout

Sayounara

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For the longest time, I never noticed the truck in RBY.
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Nah

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For the longest time, I never noticed the truck in RBY.
Wait, what truck? There's a truck in Red/Blue/Yellow?
Nah ンン
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Sayounara

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Wait, what truck? There's a truck in Red/Blue/Yellow?
Yuss. It's over by the S.S. Anne in Vermillion City.
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But it's like no matter what I do, I can't convince you, to just believe this is real♬

Nah

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Yuss. It's over by the S.S. Anne in Vermillion City.
I just saw the truck now. How the hell did I never notice it before?
Nah ンン
“No, I... I have to be strong. Everyone expects me to."

Hikamaru

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The fact that I discovered the Deino line's names were based on the German words for "one, two, three" and I often mispronounced Zweilous' name until discovering that.

I even couldn't say the names of the legendary beasts (Raikou, Entei, Suicune) for years. Now I actually know how their names are pronounced, in fact watching the anime made me learn how to say some Pokemon's names.
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For quite a long time, I was convinced Farfetch'd evolved into Doduo. Of course, it never really mattered, because, after all, nobody uses Farfetch'd anyway.

Back in 2008, I decided to replay my Pearl version. In need of a Water-type, I picked up Psyduck because it's a decent Pokemon and available very early on. I had it in my party throughout all but the very beginning of the game, and I still never realized it wasn't part Psychic type until I threw it out against Aaron and his Bug-moves weren't super-effective.

Not sure if this counts, but it took me quite a long time to realize that there were items that could only be found on Wild Pokemon. I remember, on my Crystal version, the only Pokemon I never caught for completing the Pokedex (excluding Mew, Celebi) was Kingdra, because I could never find the Dragon Scale, which can only be found this way.

Cherrim

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This! Only realized a year ago or so.

And the same for suicUNE, raikOU and entEI which is kind of french "une", english "two" and german "drei". At least I think that was what they were aiming for, but in a less obvious way to the gen I trio.
I dunno about this one. I think the names are mostly based off SUI (水, water), RAI (雷, thunder), and EN (炎, fire) in Japanese than an amalgamation of Western langauges, since the names are mostly unchanged from the original Japanese names. (The latter half of the name seems to be various ways to say king/emperor for all three.)

Anyway for my answer to the thread, it's embarrassing to admit but Probopass was one of my favourite Pokémon for like a year or two before I realized that its moustache was indeed a moustache and not a nose hair 'fro. :( I'm still disappointed from the realization.


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moon

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Thought Cincinno and Mincinno were pronounced Sin-Sin-Oh and Min-Sin-Oh.
Wait what, they aren't?
xD
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The theory about Venonat originally being meant to evolve into Butterfree blew my mind when I first saw it lol :)


In terms of what's been mentioned: Brendan and his hat/hair lol as well as being majorly confused about Attack/Special Attack and Defence/Special Defence :)
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