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(Note: Don't mind me if I seem to get too much into this. My roleplay character has tried to figure out the mystery behind his celebi for years, so this aspect makes me go into the subject quite deeply)

Celebi is one of the most mysterious pokemon out there. There's only so much we know on it and so little we can pin point on it's characteristics. In order to dive into this, we must first look at the basics, which is covered within the Pokedex:

Hoenn Pokedex:
This Pokemon came from the future by crossing over time. It is thought that so as long as Celebi appears, a bright and shining future awaits us.

Kanto Pokedex:
When Celebi dissapears deep in a forest, it is said to leave behind an egg from the future. Celebi wanders across time, and trees and grass flourish in the forests where it had appeared.

We know enough about Mew in the fact that it may have been in fact the very first Pokemon in existance. We also know that Jirachi comes from the stars high above. However, all we know about Celebi is that it travels through time and space, bringing peace in the forests it goes through. Pokemon of all kinds also seemed to respect Celebi wherever it appears. It's with these facts alone that people have dubbed it "The Guardian Of The Forest".

However...why is it the guardian of the forest? We can't just simply say that Celebi was simply born and was immediatly a guardian. We can't also say that Celebi is a god or goddess of sorts, as it is as mortal as any other Pokemon out there. It DOES, however, showcase it's unique attributes of being able to travel through time and space. This ability also questions if whether or not one or more celebis exist, as the fourth movie hinted. But given Celebi's time traveling abilities, it could be said that in the end, there could only be in fact just one true celebi.

It's aspects are quite unique, but the mysteries as to how it even possesses these abilities remain a mystery.

Feel free to discuss this as well as any other points I have may missed about Celebi.
 
I truly think all pokemon such as Celebi as gods. I mean they may have named it the guardian because it appears to like the forest and appear in it more than in other places. And the fact that it has plant like qualities.
 
Meditations on Celebii

Of course, as Celebii can move through time, there is no reason to believe that it was ever born. There could be just one individual existing in a closed-loop paradox that has always been there. It could even visit the same time multiple times, giving the illusion that there is more than one individual. Attempting to reconcile the nature of a creature that is capable of moving in more dimentions than we can (indeed, in more dimentions than we can perceive) is just a recepie for a headache :confused:

All the Legendary Pokémon seem to have some role in maintaining the balance of nature. That probably explains why Celebii (which is part grass-type) is the "Guardian of the Forest". All forests, of course, not just one.
 
I also wonder how Suicune fits into all this. I suspect that the two team up, one planting and one watering with pure water (could Suicune have created the lake at Mt. Kayna? Another topic ...). Unlike the absol that comes to help Jirachi, here is another Legendary that appears to help out another Legendary. The only other time you see this is Lugia (or Mew, if you count movie 8, but I'm apparently not going to see this for awhile, so I can't muse to much about it now). Celebii being Guardian of the Forest, to cynical old me, just means that the creators of Pokemon realized that there were no Grass Legends and they had a gap to fill.
 
Like how Rukario is Steel/Fighting?

Idk, thats what I heard.


Its just some sort of onion-headed pixie thingy to me. But theres not only one pixie...Maybe that infinite-loop paradox thing has something to do with that. The whole "is there more than one Celebi" thing drives me nuts.
 
I think there's got to be more than one Celebi, as well as every other Legendary out there, except Mewtwo. (Though, really the only solid proof we have of this is the baby Lugia, it's mother, and the male Lugia from the 2nd movie.)

Making grass flourish, and flowers appear could have a link to it's powers over time. Infact, I'm sure it does. Maybe Celebi can choose to focus its time powers on just one object, or even a person... making it's life speed up, while all other life around it continues to grow at normal speed. When Celebi is satisfied with the way it looks it returns time for the grass or flowers back to normal.
 
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I think that there is more than one Celebi, but there are certain Legendaries that appear to be one of a kind like Ho-Oh, Articuno, Zapdos, Suicune, Entei, Jirachi, Moltres, and Raikou.

Maybe Celebi can choose to focus its time powers on just one object, or even a person... making it's life speed up, while all other life around it continues to grow at normal speed. When Celebi is satisfied with the way it looks it returns time for the grass or flowers back to normal.
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This reminded me of Einstein's theories of general and special relativity. I wonder if either (or both) apply.
 
Akerin said:
I think there's got to be more than one Celebi, as well as every other Legendary out there, except Mewtwo. (Though, really the only solid proof we have of this is the baby Lugia, it's mother, and the male Lugia from the 3rd movie.)
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Sorry? What do you mean? In the Entei movie? Sorry, I'm from Australia so we may end up with edited/cut movies.
 
More than one Lugia

What Akerin was referring to, toisesquad, was a Master Quest (season 5) episode while Ash-tachi were in the Whirl Islands. They met a boy who had befriended a juvenille wild Lugia. We also later meet a parent Lugia (probably the juvenille's mother). The thing is that the adult didn't recognise Ash and did not seem to have the Legendary Lugia's ability to speak telepathically. This indicated that she was not the Lugia that Ash met in the second movie.

Ash, Misty, Brock and Snap also met a wild Articuno in the mountains of Johto, which did not appear to be the Articuno from the second movie, and...

Ash has met a third Articuno, again apparently not the one from the Shamouti Island chain and this time actually captured and tamed by a Trainer, in a recent Battle Frontier episode.
From these comes a common fan theory that there are dozens of members of the Legendary species (still a low number to explain why so few have ever seen them) but only one of these individuals becomes THE Legendary Bird or Dog or whatever, with the enhanced intelligence and the control over natural forces.
 
toisesquad said:
Sorry? What do you mean? In the Entei movie? Sorry, I'm from Australia so we may end up with edited/cut movies.
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Whoops. I meant from the 2nd Movie. n_n;;
There are so many.. sometimes I lose track of which movie is which.
 
BenRG said:
Ash has met a third Articuno, again apparently not the one from the Shamouti Island chain and this time actually captured and tamed by a Trainer, in a recent Battle Frontier episode.
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Actually...
It wasn't technically Noland's, it just hung around him
 
yeah there are more than 1 CELEBI for sure and CELEBI is a time Travel pokemon.....some Celebi come from future and some from past
 
But, by what you are saying, couldn't it just be the same one Pokémon?
 
Um, yeah...

In "Celebi and Joy", Ritchie's reaction to seeing Celebi is this: "Look, Sparky it's a Celebi! A real Celebi!" This seems to suggest there being more than one, though we do have to take into account that it not much is known about it by the people living in the Pokémon World.

Though I wonder how much Professor Oak has researched the subject, seeing as he has the personal motivation that makes many other people research a particular species...
 
I don't think Oak would obsessively study it the way, say, Gio studied Mew (or had scientists study Mew). Oak, unlike Gio, would understand that to study Celebii could risk its safety, so he'd let well enough alone, preferring to share secret memories with the Legendary than risk bringing gawkers due to a lecture of his.
 
I never suggested it would be obsessive and I think Oak knows that it can look after itself. It doesn't have to be like Giovanni. (Though did he ever encounter a Mew?) I was thinking more along the lines of the Magikarp Researcher towards the end of the Orange Islands.
 
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