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Uri Geller and Kadabra.

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    So this is for Kadabra~!
    Okay,
    So Kadabra is a banned card. Y'know. Kadabra. That cool guy. He's been breaking your Kitchen utensils.
    Wanna know why? Well...
    There was this man, his name was Uri Geller. Uri Geller was this Jewish Psychic who's signature move was to bend a spoon.
    Now note that Uri Geller is JEWISH, for this helps in the future of the story.
    Kadabra is based off Uri Geller. Kadabra has this whole Star of David thing goin' on on his head, and he has the bent spoon, and his Japanese name is literally "Yun Geller."
    But there's a problem.
    Kadabra has three little stripes on his stomach (I'm sorry I can't bring up a picture, just find one yourself on google images.)
    These three stripes, look like a certain Nazi symbol popular in the Waffen SS of Nazi Germany.

    Uri Geller is Jewish. Kadabra is based off Uri Geller. Kadabra has a somewhat similar symbol to that Nazi symbol.
    Uri Geller sued the Pokemon company for 60 million yen (100 Million US Dollars!) and said:
    "Nintendo turned me into an evil, occult Pokémon character. Nintendo stole my identity by using my name and my signature image."
    Sadly, Uri Geller didn't get anything. No money.
    But Kadabra for some reason was banned because of that. Well--banned in the TCG. Not in the games.
    Here's the mystery: Unlike Jinx, Kadabra was not censored.
    Also, I might as well say right here, Pokemon tried to skip Kadabra in many ways. They made an Abra card with the Pokebody "Super Evolution" which means that he skips Kadabra and goes to Alakazam.
    They also made an Alakazam SP card (Basic card.)
    So, the mystery, that Kadabra was not censored, is actually a little bigger than you think.
    Kadabra has a NAZI SYMBOL. That's pretty much just as bad as supposedly Jinx being a racist image.
    Now Kadabra doesn't REALLY have a Nazi symbol, but it got banned for what it seems to be.
    The last Kadabra card printed was in the Skyride Expansion.
    I'm lucky enough to have a Kadabra card.
    Kadabra cards for some reason aren't too rare, but there are no more printed versions.
    I encourage you to research into this and see if there's anything I missed. :P
     
    There isn't any productive discussion I can see coming from this topic, so I'm closing this.

    And for the record, Kadabra was never actually banned. They just rotated it from play, and probably got bored of the Abra-Kadabra-Alakazam line when the Ralts-Kirlia-Gardevoir line debuted. The TCG tends to focus on the newer Pokemon and the Pikachu family.
     
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