Things you didn't notice for years Page 3

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

The typo Queen

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For me it was the "Palette Town" and all the names in the first generation based on colors! (I did unterstand the colors, but not the "palette" thing). And Articuno is Blue, Moltres is Red and Zapdos is Yellow, all the primaries colors!
I miiiiight be back?
And why am I not a supporter anymore >.<

orangeralts21

Newfound Respect for Wobbuffet

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Route 102
Seen March 10th, 2022
Posted August 26th, 2014
130 posts
10.2 Years
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.
Nice Speculation, but the actual idea I believe is the number of point's on the Beast's crest.

Raikou has 4 points on it's crest/snout.

Entei has 5 points on it's crest/eyebrows(?).

Suicine has 6 points on it's crest. (the BW sprite was bad)
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9 Years
These patterns continues even for Registeel and others!

For me it was the "Palette Town" and all the names in the first generation based on colors! (I did unterstand the colors, but not the "palette" thing). And Articuno is Blue, Moltres is Red and Zapdos is Yellow, all the primaries colors!
I didn't see that coming, votre aide est très aimé.

The initial trio is RGB!

ORegan

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12.9 Years
I was thought that in R/B/Y, that the guy outside Cerulean Cave had one of those furry British guard hats and it turns out to be the cave entrance is just behind him.

I also found a shiny Golbat in Victory road in Gold and thought it was a special roaming boss Pokemon like the red Gyrados. I knocked it out, restarted from a previous save, and searched for it. Found it a second time in about five minutes and knocked it out by accident again. Restarted a third time and proceeded to search in the same area for a half hour, this time catching it. I had no idea how lucky I was until about four years ago.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Juno

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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
Super late reply but yeah, it actually wasn't until I played X and saw Poliwag in 3D that I realized where its mouth was, since it was opening and closing it in the animation. :P Blew my mind.

Juno

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Oh my goodness, I learned quite a few things from this thread... ಠ_ಠ

Well for a while I used to see Metapod with angry-looking eyes.

Oh, me too. I thought it was facing the other way, like the pointy part on the right side was its nose or something. :P

Megan

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It took me to X and Y to realize that Sharpedo was a cut in half shark. BeforeI I thought, his tail was simply hidden behind his body (the sprites looked that way and since I never used one by myself...).

To be honest: I wish I'd never realized, because it makes him from being kinda cool to not so much anymore.
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moon

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15.5 Years
Oh, me too. I thought it was facing the other way, like the pointy part on the right side was its nose or something. :P
Oh no... Childhood ruined. Wait, I think I realized before that it actually has 2 "noses" and thus they are more like limbs than noses haha. But I still have a hard time seeing that side of it as the front. Really didn't look like it in the anime.

It took me to X and Y to realize that Sharpedo was a cut in half shark. BeforeI I thought, his tail was simply hidden behind his body (the sprites looked that way and since I never used one by myself...).

To be honest: I wish I'd never realized, because it makes him from being kinda cool to not so much anymore.
Yeah, why did they even do that xD It's not like it makes it look better or more imposing or give it an easier time moving around on land or anything. If anything, they should have done that instead, kind of like Dewgong actually could crawl around on land if it wanted to.
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Noir

Sir Lucious Left Foot

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Cambs
Seen March 20th, 2023
Posted November 19th, 2021
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10.5 Years
I was thought that in R/B/Y, that the guy outside Cerulean Cave had one of those furry British guard hats and it turns out to be the cave entrance is just behind him.
omg hahahaha I remember thinking the exact same way and I thought it was awesome that his hair could block you from the cave like that, ah the nostalga :')

It took me the longest time in the world to realize that Rock did not, infact, resist Rock and that Rock did not resist Bug. I also thought Stone Edge was 120BP for a good 2 years or so. Also I didn't notice that Arbok's belly patterns tended to change ever so slightly depending on the game that it was in:

vs vs vs

Hoenn vs Kanto (RBY) vs Johto (GSC) vs BW Arbok patterns

Brendino

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It took me to X and Y to realize that Sharpedo was a cut in half shark. BeforeI I thought, his tail was simply hidden behind his body (the sprites looked that way and since I never used one by myself...).
Agh, that bothered me to no end when I found out about it. The official art always left it looking ambiguous, and I'd even seen fan art of it with a tail, so since I'd never used one, I always just assumed it had a tail. Then in one of the later games (can't remember which), I used one in the Battle Frontier, and found out the truth.

Pepperton

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Posted February 3rd, 2021
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9.5 Years
I always that the red rectangle on Masquerain's body was its mouth, and that those circles were oddly shaped fangs or something - now that I see them as eyes, it's like an entirely new Pokemon. Weird to look at one now, because I have to remind myself that they are in fact eyes. Makes Masquerain seem a lot less... menacing.