More doubts about Legendaries

[Feathing]

WEll, I saw lots of threads talking about who was the first Pokemon, who is the most powerful, how did they came into the world, etc.

But I have another question: Are they unique or there are several Legendaries of the same kind?

Based only in the games, I think they're unique, because there are no signs of Legendaries being more than just one, and also because they're genderless (except Heatran).
It happens the same with the Manga, but in the Anime there's a problem.
In the movies they seemed to be real Legendaries (super powerful, ancient, unique) but in the regular episodes they're not shown like that. We have seen a family of Lugias (WT!) and sometimes when Ash meets with someone he says 'Oh, it's A Entei/Mew/Etc.'

Personally, I like to think they're unique. I have real arguments for Mewtwo (he is a clone) and the three Johto dogs (Ho-oH brought them to life only one of a kind; he didn't create a family of them).
In the other hand, Manaphy and Phione are quite special and enigmatic for me (I hope you guys come up with a good theory) and Heatran cannot be unique, because he has gender.


OMG I always do long threads!! Haha

 

[MyLove]

The only pokemon I consider legendary are:

The trios in each generation (birds/dogs/rocks/cute little things)
The final pokemon in each region's pokedex that cant be caugh legitimately (mew, celebi, etc)
The cover pokemon (ho-oh,lugia, that whale and red thing, dialga, palkia, and giratina)

For pokemon like: cresslia, heatran, rotom, I just like to think they're super rare, which is why it's a one time deal with them.

 

[The Ebon Blade]

In the games, they are unique. In the manga, they are unique. In the anime, they are not. There are some, such as Mew, Mewtwo, Ho-oh, the three legendary beasts, the three legendary dragons, the three spirits, and Arecus, that are unique. However, we've seen more then one of the three legendary birds, Lugia, Celebi, Shaymin there's actually tons of, the Regis, and others. Manaphy and Phione supposedly only one can exist at a time, same with Celebi but since Celebi can travel through time... we saw tons of them. Some people sa that the Mew we saw in the first movie and the Mew we saw in the Lucario movie are different Mews but that's not true.

 

[Artyte]

In the other hand, Manaphy and Phione are quite special and enigmatic for me (I hope you guys come up with a good theory) and Heatran cannot be unique, because he has gender.

I consider those 2 pokemon special too because phione can't evolve into manaphy although manaphy breeds phiones. And i found out why this was the case as manaphy's parents were phiones. And for heatran's status of not being unique to you, do you consider cressila unique as it is an all feminine?
The thing about mew was true, as mew's population dwindled with time, therefore there were 2.

There is always a reason why they are legends. Moral of the story: anime+manga+games-error=perfect

 

[turtwig fan]

Legenedrys i don`t think anything is unike i have 3 Pakils and two can breed ledgenderys are calles that becouse it sounds good i can kill my Deoxys with my Turtwig both lv 100

 

[Feathing]

I didn't know Cresselia was always a female. That puts her in the same cathegory of Heatran.
Manaphy's parents are Phiones??
May be Manaphy is something like a "blessed" Phione. Only one Phione can evolve into Manaphy. And it does so when the actual Manaphy dies.

So, there are some legendaries that are not unique.
What with Deoxys? It came from a single virus, so it'd be unique... or not??

And for last... Is Unown considered a Legendary?? I'd say no..

 

[~MasterMind~]

they shouldent of had as many legendarys because cmon! there suppose to be super rare and how many do we have???

 

[nssfleahedgehog]

I believe in the games' Pokedex, some of the legendaries (Articuno, Moltres, Entei, etc.) are said to have multiples (ex. An Entei is born every time a volcano erupts.) But anyway here's what I believe with the legendaries' uniqueness:

Articuno/Zapdos/Moltres: I'm not sure if they're unique or not.

Mewtwo: Only one, he's/it's the clone of Mew.

Mew: Multiple, because it's supposedly the ancestor of all Pokemon, thus there must have been multiple for other Pokemon to exist.

Raikou/Entei/Suicune: I'm not sure again, because while it's said that Ho-oh created them, Entei's Pokedex entry says there're multiple, so what if in the fire, Ho-oh just made the three random Pokemon into Raikou, Entei, and Suicune, but others of them already exist?

Lugia: Only one, because it's really powerful and legendary

Ho-oh: Same as Lugia

Celebi: Multiple, because they're guardians of the forest, so each one protects a forest. Plus, if it was the same Celebi that just traveled through time infinately, a time paradox would happen if it met itself.

Latias & Latios: No one's mentioned these two, and Latias is female, while Latios is male. They're siblings, so I think they're unique, but I'm still not sure.

Regirock/Regice/Registeel: Again, not sure. Hoenn and Sinnoh send mix messages on this trio.

Kyogre: Only one, same reasons as Lugia & Ho-oh

Groudon: Same as Kyogre.

Rayquaza: Same as Kyogre

Jirachi: As the legendary wish maker, I'm gonna go with only one.

Deoxys: Came from space virus, so I go with only one again.

Uxie/Mesprit/Azelf: Arceus created them specially, so only one

Dialga/Palkia: Same as Uxie/Mesprit/Azelf.

Heatran: Dunno again.

Regigigas: Same as Regirock/Regice/Registeel

Giratina: Rules over Torn World (or whatever it's called), so only one.

Cresselia: Dunno again.

Phione/Manaphy: I know there must be multiple Phione. Manaphy, not sure, and these two are confusing with the whole breeding thing

Darkrai: Dunno again.

Shaymin: Dunno again.

Arceus: God of all Pokemon = only one