You know, sometimes I get confused on how game freak creates a pokemon's art or anatomy, so I've had my misconceptions...constantly. Is there a pokemon you can think of that you just get confused by the anatomy, or the artwork of it? If you could, how would you fix that? (or would you?) Like for example, I couldn't understand why Sudowoodo was a rock type, yet it have its "branches with leaves". Also, I used to think that Cradily's actual eyes was its teeth; probably something I probably wouldn't fix, but, it was just...weird the first time I saw a Cradily, when I was still just a kid.
I thought that Graveler's second set of arms (below the first ones) were just rocky patterns that happened to
look like hands.
Similar to Cradily, I thought the black eyes on Kabuto's shell were its
real eyes...until I learned otherwise. Got a bit cooler/creepier with those ominous red orbs...
You know how everyone thinks the main bulbous part of Wobbuffet is really Wobbuffet? On TVTropes, someone posted a theory of
the black tail being Wobbuffet's
true self, with the big blue part just being a decoy. Its various PokeDex entries reference how Wobbuffet is overly protective of its tail, to the point where offensive strikes on the tail cause Wobbuffet to become aggressive. Not to mention, the tail
does have a face on it and sticks out like a sore thumb...could THAT be the secret that Wobbuffet has been hiding? (as its DPPt/BW Dex entries hint at) Have we been falling for it all this time...?
The image of Masquerain can get
really weird when you imagine the wings as its
actual eyes, and you imagine the red "nose" as the mouth of the body.
Nosepass's RSE sprite drove me bonkers at times - I keep on thinking that its right leg is actually its mouth in a whistling form.
Mawile is like Pokemon anatomy confusion incarnate at first glance. XD
I thought Carvanha didn't have a mouth, but apparently the "red" section opens to reveal its jaws!
I've always thought that the lower dots on Wailmer are the eyes, but some people contest that... @_@
I just thought Barboach was some ugly thing because I could not figure out where the heck its eyes were supposed to be. In actuality, it looks a bit cute. :)
Ah..Cradily, the original disguise culprit. Very surprising. Like many, it seems, I thought the yellow circles on the green skin were the actual eyes, and the yellow orbs in the black void were...something else, I guess its teeth? It used to look very ugly to me. Then I found out that the yellow orbs are the TRUE eyes, with the yellow-on-green-skin circles serving as decoys. The design got
way cooler for me.
I thought Snorunt was just some big old horrible mouth gaping its pitch-black mouth open-wide at me. It looked very weird at first. But then the anime showed me that the little faint blue dots are EYES! Insta-cuteness! ^^
I'm just going to say that I thought (and still think) that the "Braille markings" are their eyes...
Jirachi has a THIRD EYE?! WTF? That was a
major creepy moment of the
Jirachi Wishmaker: Wishing Star of Seven Nights movie; I thought that yellow circle was there for DESIGN! 0_0
Rhyhorn and Skarmory's back sprites just looks
weird compared to the front sprites.
WTF is wrong with Fearow's neck? It looked alright from the front, but geez...? An accident or what? Thankfully, I don't have to see such horrendous cervical crookedness (for the most part) in Generation 5.
Tauros has QUITE the humpback...
Giratina Sinnoh dragon trio...where
is are your mouths? Oh... (the confusion is more evident in Sugimori and anime artwork, I suppose). Their roaring also helps. But with their mouths closed, you probably wouldn't even know where the mouths
begin.) >_>
Admittedly, I also saw (and still see) the patterns on Cradily's head as its eyes, and it's true eyes as teeth. I likely wouldn't do so much as to fix it as to make reference of it in a Pokédex entry.
"The pattern on the head of this ancient Pokémon resembles a set of eyes, intimidating and confusing foes."
Would have brought a
lot of much-needed clarity...
xD I'm glad that we have enlightened you.
Another for me was Diglett. Someone tried to point out that it's nose was actually Diglett's mouth and the shiny part of it was like a tooth.
https://i56.tinypic.com/347ihip.png
It's a nose for sure, but I'm always reminded of that misconception. >_<
I saw that on the
Can't Be Unseen website...I got so annoyed. >.<
There are no designs that I'd like to change as of now...let me rummage through the Generation 5 sprites...the only ones that come to mind regarding anatomical issues so far:
Uh...apparently, Emboar has a fire
beard...I thought that was just flame decor... >_>
And Beartic has an ice
booger beard. -.- It doesn't even
look like a decent beard...
