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Who looks more Phoenix-like?

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    As the title says,who looks more a lot like a phoenix?Moltres or Ho-oh?
    and why?


    My oppinion is Ho-oh. state your oppinion.
     
    Depends on which branch of mythology you're talking about. When it comes to the Arabic phoenix, I'd say that, sure, a bird on fire seems like a good likeness to a phoenix. However, with Asian mythology, sure, Ho-oh has the regality and fierceness (and multiple colors, for that matter) of the bird.
     
    Hmm...well Moltres looks more like the phoenix on the front of the Harry Potter book XD
     
    moltrez cauze ho-oh isn't even based on a pheonix in the littlest bit, ho-oh is the rainbow pokemon , they made it fire, cauze fire can be all these different colors.
     
    im just going to say ho-oh be its looks more pheonix like to me
     
    I would say Moltres looks more like a typical or more common phoenix, while Ho-oh would represent more of a rare phoenix.
     
    Well, my picture of the phoenix has always been more of the asian variant, so Ho-oh looks more phoenix-like to me. Moltres...well, it just doesn't have that same regal (and rather arrogant) flair to it. To me the grandiose tailfeathers are also an important part of the phoenix image so yeah, Ho-oh it is. :3
     
    Moltres looks more like a Phoenix to me than Ho-Ho, who looks like a overgrown Peacock. :D
     
    moltres and ho-oh are based on the phoenix
    Moltres is based on the phoenix of Arabic legend
    but moltres looks more like the phoenix than ho-oh is my opinion
     
    Moltres. Can't get more Phoenix-like than a bird with wings of flame. Ho-oh is just colorful.
     
    Moltres: Flaming bird, doesn't get anymore Phoenixish than that.
     
    Alter Ego said:
    Well, my picture of the phoenix has always been more of the asian variant, so Ho-oh looks more phoenix-like to me. Moltres...well, it just doesn't have that same regal (and rather arrogant) flair to it. To me the grandiose tailfeathers are also an important part of the phoenix image so yeah, Ho-oh it is. :3
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    What a truly ignorant thing to say. You basically slapped Egyptian culture and it's mythology in it's face. It shows how much you know about the mythology behind the phoenix.

    It doesn't matter which one looks more like a phoenix. They're both flaming chickens.
     
    I would guess Ho-Oh as the phoenix. Not only do I see it more in Ho-Oh than Moltres, but If Moltres was a Phoenix, then what would that make Zapdos and Articuno? D=
     
    Me2UJus4Free said:
    What a truly ignorant thing to say. You basically slapped Egyptian culture and it's mythology in it's face.
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    What part of 'to me' don't you understand? Like I said: the first phoenix I got acquainted with was the Asian one; not the Egyptian, thus my idea - the intellectual default, if you will - of what a phoenix is supposed to look like is tailored accordingly. There are many overlaps between mythologies (Including an Asian variant of the phoenix, featured in a fairy tale I heard when I was young, thus why it's so firmly imprinted in my mind), having heard of one before the other doesn't make me any more ignorant than you (Just as how preferring the western default of a dragon (basically a big lizard with wings and claws) isn't any more ignorant that sticking to the snake-like design from Asia), and I never claimed that the asian phoenix was in any way superior to the Egyptian one, so kindly dismount your Egyptian high-horse and stick to the topic. If anything, your statement is proving you just as ignorant as me for discounting the fact that Egyptians don't have a freakin' copyright on the phoenix. xP
     
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    Jax Malcolm said:
    Depends on which branch of mythology you're talking about. When it comes to the Arabic phoenix, I'd say that, sure, a bird on fire seems like a good likeness to a phoenix. However, with Asian mythology, sure, Ho-oh has the regality and fierceness (and multiple colors, for that matter) of the bird.
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    Thst's true. Both look like phoenixs to me.
     
    Moltres. Can't get more Phoenix-like than a bird with wings of flame. Ho-oh is just colorful.
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    you took the words right out of my mouth. Houou is like one of those fruity birds. When I think of Phoenix I think of fire and Houou doesn't show and Fire on its body but Moltres does




    :t354:TG
     
    Honestly I was actually shocked when I read that Moltres was based off of a phoenix...that's not what I pictured any kind of phoenix to look like at all...then again, Ho-oh doesn't look much like a phoenix either...but moreso than Moltres, so I'd say Ho-oh.

    Also, I'm strongly aware of what an Asian phoenix looks like, but not so much Arabic...although Moltres looks nothing like the phoenix/simurgh of Iranian/Persian mythology.
     
    Hou-ou means Phoenix in Japanese, so you know where my vote is.
     
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