Jynx.
Jynx's design and pretty much her existence as a Pokémon was always offensive to me, personally. Jynx has always been my least favorite Pokémon for a multitude of reasons, and not just because of her mediocre stats and the fact that several other Ice and Psychic-type Pokémon completely outclass her. Jynx's horrible physical defense even makes her borderline unusable. In fact, I'd go far as to say she's worse than Stonjourner, who shares a similar problem with her horrible Special Defense that even an Assault Vest in a Sandstorm can't save it from. Controversy definitely exists over what Jynx was supposed to be based upon. Many people argue that Jynx is based upon "ganguro," a fashion trend among Japanese girls that was popularized in the mid-1990s, characterized by a dark tan and makeup. However, whenever I look at the ganguro style, it looks nothing like Jynx. Hardly any of the girls have a similar body build to Jynx, nor do the girls ever portray themselves as dark as Jynx. It can also be argued that Jynx was designed shortly before the ganguro style became a thing. Everything that Bulbapedia tries to explain what Jynx is supposed to be based upon doesn't add up either.
Jynx is definitely not a Nordic Viking woman or goddess of the underworld Hel, as she doesn't have any type of European features and Europeans are never depicted as being that dark in any form of art or media. While Jynx could be based on a Yuki-onna, this might be true only in terms of lore. However, the basis in her appearance is a completely different story. Jynx is a weird Pokémon too. Of all Pokémon in the series, Jynx is supposedly the only one that other Pokémon can't understand. Other Pokémon can communicate with each other through their cries as mentioned in the game or by saying their names as shown in the anime, but Jynx is always depicted as using a language "similar to human speech" that only other Jynx can understand. This is even depicted in other side games such as Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, where it just has symbols for dialog. Jynx is also known to sing and sway her hips when she walks. Jynx's entire existence does not seem to be based upon anything in myth or popular culture. Instead, if you ask me, Jynx's entire existence, from her appearance and Pokédex entries, seems to be based upon Black women stereotypes.
Every time I saw Jynx move in the anime or wild such as walking around in the Crown Tundra, hear her cry, which is really weird, and just see her staring back at me with her big eyes and huge lips, I just feel creeped out. Jynx has absolutely
no business looking that humanlike, especially as a Pokémon. They say that Pokémon like Kadabra, Yamask, Phantump, and so on were once human, but what about Jynx? While I understand plenty Pokémon have a human shape, which is even an egg group, Jynx's features look
too human, all the way from her blonde weave, which looks worse on her than Alolan Dugtrio's blonde weave, all the way to that "dress" thing that she "wears." She even has obviously noticeable weird boob thingies on her chest. How is that appropriate? They changed Jynx's appearance to make her skin purple a long time ago, but it doesn't really do much to change Jynx's offensive design. Jynx is literally a Pokémon that is better off not either existing at all or at least have her design completely redone from the ground up. I've also never in my life ever heard anybody anywhere say that they were a Jynx fan, so I highly doubt she would be greatly missed if she was completely deleted from existence.
What was the point of saying that and then quickly deleting your post? Was that meant to be a jab at the length of my post or something? I really don't understand why you would do that. If so, please don't do that again. If my post is too long for you to read, then don't read it. It's that simple.
