5th Gen More Unown?

[DXrobots]

An unown based on Japanese kanji? Maybe Elemental unown fire, water, wood, earth, and sky? Each one represented by the Respective Kanji and given a different type. Hell these could be another set of pokemon that are related to the Unown.

 

[Mortalis]

Knowing that the Unown represent the alphabet and were found in an ancient cave that only had the alphabet plus "!" and "?", they probably wont make more, seeing as they can't mess with ancient times and such.

 

[cantpickagoodname]

I'M SO SICK OF UNOWN. We REALLY don't need more Unown.

 

[NuclearWizard]

Twenty-eight is pretty much a good enough number of Unowns, and I'd really not like to go hunting for any larger number than that. When "?" and "!" was added back in the 3rd Generation, I just thought they added them in because they were highly popular symbols that are used with the alphabet. Other symbols like @, >, %, etc. just don't seem necessary. They serve very little purpose other than unlocking certain events in-game; occasionally showing up in other side-stories as well, such as the Arceus event in HG/SS where they showed up. They only learn one move [Hidden Power], have poor stats and don't do much other than float.

In short, please no more Unown forms.

Agreed. Eventually, though, Nintendo will get desperate.

 

[BleuVII]

An unown based on Japanese kanji? Maybe Elemental unown fire, water, wood, earth, and sky? Each one represented by the Respective Kanji and given a different type. Hell these could be another set of pokemon that are related to the Unown.

Oooo... this could be interesting. Not unown, but a pokemon LIKE unown. Though they would probably use the following symbols:

日 月 火 水 木 金 土

Which are simply the days of the week. How's this for an idea:
日 - sun (sunday) - psychic type
月 - moon (monday) - dark type
火 - fire (tuesday) - fire type
水 - water (wednesday) - water type
木 - wood (thursday) - grass type
金 - gold (friday) - steel type
土 - earth (saturday) - ground type

It could all be listed under the same pokedex number, but be considered different forms.

Ooo! Another brainstorm! What if it was one pokemon, but it's type changed based on the DS's internal calendar?! I think I'm having a stroke of genius!

 

[Ninja Caterpie]

They only need to add ten more Unown.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0

Once they've done that they can stop.

I wondered why it took nineteen posts to come up with the number idea. o_O

 

[Ωmega]

Sigh...

I want an actual USE for the Unown rather than simply being collector's items. In GSC, introducing them was such a great addition. I thought that the Unown would play some MAJOR part in the game, especially after watching Crystal's opening. Alas, I was proven wrong and disappointed when I learned there was no use. I want an actual USE for the Unown. Maybe if you organize certain Unown in six-letter phrases at certain spots, you get something. That would be nice.

 

[Myles]

I would like to see numbers. The only problem is the whole O/0 thing. :/ Maybe they could just ignore 0. I mean nowhere in-game is it explicably refered to as 'O' (that I know of), only in like the Pokemon cards. So it could count as both.

Also, the linguist in me is crying right now, so allow me a geeky moment. A-Z is not the English alphabet. It's the Latin alphabet, which we adopted and grafted the English language to.

I, personally, don't like the English alphabet being called the Latin alphabet. Sure the English alphabet is derived from the Latin alphabet, but it has significant changes. Over the years it gained five new letters (thorn, ampersand/and, J, U and W; before losing two of those) and changed the names of some of the letters.

 

[Guy]

I would like to see numbers. The only problem is the whole O/0 thing. :/ Maybe they could just ignore 0. I mean nowhere in-game is it explicably refered to as 'O' (that I know of), only in like the Pokemon cards. So it could count as both.

Technically a zero would have to be implied if they do consider putting in numbered Unowns, as zero is a very significant number. As far as the current Unowns go, "O" is considered the letter "O" because the first 26 Unowns derive from the alphabet. For the number though, they can simply include a stroke through the center of it (i.e. Ø) or they can slim the shape of the Unown itself like how O and 0 is differentiated.

I, personally, don't like the English alphabet being called the Latin alphabet. Sure the English alphabet is derived from the Latin alphabet, but it has significant changes. Over the years it gained five new letters (thorn, ampersand/and, J, U and W; before losing two of those) and changed the names of some of the letters.

The English alphabet isn't known as the Latin alphabet, however it does derive from it like you say. As far as the changes go, I consider them quite minor over a significant change. The English alphabet originated from the Latin alphabet, so if one were to call them the same, then they aren't wrong because they share quite a large relationship.

 

[BleuVII]

Actually, it's now known as the "Basic Modern Latin Alphabet", and it includes all of the basic characters without any diacritics or ligatures (except for W, which is such a common ligature that it has become a letter in its own right). But you are right; original Latin didn't have J, U, and W.

As for numeric unowns, specifically O and 0, they could differentiate them by the shape of the eye. Maybe the numeric ones could have a lid-half-closed look like ! and ?

 

[Kid Ghandi]

Have an unown shaped like a mudkip head.

 

[Abnegation]

I feel that there isn't a great need for more unown. In the past if they needed to diaply a number they would simply just spell it. Unown never really had a great purpose in the games though, they were never really much of a mystery either.

If there are to be more additions I would hope that they would be at least somewhat more linked to the storyline and not just be there for the matter of obtaining seals etc.

They do look pretty cool in the Arceus event in HG/SS but again, I think they're just too much decoration and not of great praticality.

 

[Åzurε]

Won't somebody think of the Unnites? Those wonderful lower-case figments from the Speculation thread. It's a pipe dream, but having a team of Unown/Unnites fused into a word would be awesome. If they did that, I could stand more Unown.

A-z-u-r-e-!

 

[Myles]

Technically a zero would have to be implied if they do consider putting in numbered Unowns, as zero is a very significant number. As far as the current Unowns go, "O" is considered the letter "O" because the first 26 Unowns derive from the alphabet. For the number though, they can simply include a stroke through the center of it (i.e. Ø) or they can slim the shape of the Unown itself like how O and 0 is differentiated.

I didn't think of the cross thing. What made me think of the both used as the same idea was that that's how the original QWERTY keyboard worked, lol. But the cross would be good.

Actually, it's now known as the "Basic Modern Latin Alphabet", and it includes all of the basic characters without any diacritics or ligatures (except for W, which is such a common ligature that it has become a letter in its own right). But you are right; original Latin didn't have J, U, and W.

Yeah, but that''s really just made to accomodate people always calling the English alphabet the Latin alphabet imo. Since it isn't really used with real Latin.

As for numeric unowns, specifically O and 0, they could differentiate them by the shape of the eye. Maybe the numeric ones could have a lid-half-closed look like ! and ?

I forgot about the eye thing. Yeah, that'd work too.

 

[Germaniac]

I really want to see 0-9 Unowns, that isn't bad

 

[Lanturnista]

Meh, I think it would be pretty pointless to have more Unown. Aren't 28 enough?

 

[sirboulevard]

Period unown. A flying eye. Thats all it would be.

 

[EmeraldSerenade]

IMO, I think we already have enough Unowns. A period would be interesting though...

 

[Rapide]

I guess that's a start. But I don't think the Pokemon Company will put any more Unown in the game. They already have 28, (including the ? and ! Unown) and I don't think they need anymore. Who knows, it's still possible. We'll just have to wait and see.

 

[BleuVII]

Well, I got intrigued by the "legendary" unown idea that was brought up a couple of days ago and did a quick sketch of my concepts. To recap, Unowns only know Hidden Power, and there are 28 forms. When all 28 are caught, you get the opportunity to catch two gold-colored legendaries, styled after the Greek Alpha and Omega (A and [FONT=&quot]Ω)[/FONT]. These two, one male and one female, have full movesets that make them legitimately good pokemon. In addition, the two can only breed with each other, though the offspring will simply be normal Unown. The catch is that the Legendary Unown have the possibility of passing down Egg moves to the Unown. Both the mother and the father have equal opportunities to pass down the moves.


This is just a quick sketch that, in all, took me about 10 minutes to do, but it is my idea of how to style them. I tried to include a lot of triangles in their designs to differentiate them from the other Unown, who tend to favor curves. Remember, they ARE gold-colored. I just didn't have a gold pencil on me.

Here they are: Alfa (♂) and Ohmega (♀)