[JQ]The main protagonist of Pokemon Blue and Red is a twisted, sadistic freak.
He captures Pokemon and, after capturing them, records what he learns about them onto his Pokedex. Since he can only do this after capturing them, he must learn what he writes in the Pokedex entry from the Pokemon he owns. However, take a look at some of the entries this 'hero' records:
Raticate - "It uses its whiskers to maintain balance. It apparently
slows down if they are cut off."
To find this out, Red (or Ash, or whatever you want to call him) must have got a knife and hacked off the poor thing's whiskers just to see what would happen.
Golem - "Its boulder-like body is extremely hard. It can easily
withstand dynamite blasts without damage."
So Red has tried to use dynamite to blow up his own Pokemon. Oh, and there's more. Red is either extremely dedicated to scientific enquiry or just plain likes to hurt things. Therefore, Red's rival is the good guy trying to stop Red's mad experiments.
* Considering that Professor Oak gives him the Pokedex and sends him on the journey in the first place, Red is working as his lackey, probably to keep Oak ahead of his peers in "the field of Pokemon research." Whether Oak condones his more... violent experiments is debatable, but it wouldn't be surprising if he does.
o So, in effect, Red is Oak's Psycho For Hire?
+ And expanding on that, the data Red collected made Oak so successful that other researchers across the world are adopting similar tactics, recruting children both for their ease of manipulation and less restraint when it comes to harming Pokemon For Science.
+ However, you guys seem to be forgetting that Golem is an evolution of Graveler, which learns Self-Destruct, where it blows itself up anyway with extreme force, and the only damage done to it after using the move leads to it fainting, not dying.
* This might also explain why Red becomes a hermit in G/S/C; his experiments were discovered, and he was forced to go into hiding to avoid prosecution.
* Red Mengele, anyone?
* Oh god! this explains everything. And Red won't speak because he felt extreme guilt for the sins he commited and now can only scream in fear.
* AAAH! My childhood!
* This evidence is from Yellow...
Staryu - As long as the center section is unharmed, it can grow back fully even if it is chopped to bits.
* ...The man must be stopped.[/JQ]
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