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So we all know how consistant Pokémon at being inconsistant. Share your favorite examples here! Note, please try to bear in mind which are actual errors versus which are simply either dub errors, or errors concerning things that didn't exist yet (Ash confusing Articuno for Ho-Oh in the second episode), or differences between versions (the apparently nonexistance of Janine in the animeverse).
Maybe we can have fun trying to explain these things too.
-So the episode with Eusine aired early December 2001, followed a few weeks later with Legend of Thunder, in which he also appeared. Tell me, why does he act so dramatically different? Why is he a raging impulsive asshole in the Ho-Oh ep while in LoT he's a laid-back guy who warns Kenta "A time like this is when it's most important to be calm. If you rush in blindly, you won't accomplish anything!" (from a fan translation), something that seems to go against his very nature in the episode?
Does something about being around Morty just piss him off or something? Because if these had aired in the opposite order, I could have seen why he would have changed--seeing Raikou in danger would have brought out his hypervigilant, overprotective side. But in this order it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, especially in the span of a few weeks! And we know LoT happened given that Jackson, Marina, and the three Rockets appear elsewhere in the series. Unless they exist without the special having happened...
-Also in LoT, Eusine says that Raikou once lived in harmony with humans. But that *also* goes against the Ho-Oh episode, as well as any other time the legend of the Legendary Dogs is given (including other episodes and the games themselves). Every other time, they were created by Ho-Oh from creatures that had died in the blaze, and set off across the land immediately.
-So where the hell did James get Weepinbell anyway? Sure he has that flashback to catching it, but that was years later and we can never trust their memories or their presentations.
-Ash tries to stop everyone he can from capturing Legendaries...so then why does he try to *help* Nelson capture Entei? And why does he say absolutely nothing when Brandon shows up with not one, not two, but ALL THREE Regis?
-Ash and friends were presumed dead with the sinking of the St Anne. Yet not two episodes later, he runs into his mother on a jolly vacation with Professor Oak. She's surprised to see him, but not *that* surprised. Even if she'd found out he survived, wouldn't she want to grab him and hug him and all that? Look how she reacted to him *risking* his life in the second movie.
-For that matter, Mewtwo blows up the Rocket headquarters, ruining no doubt millions of dollars of irreplacable equipment, supplies, information, and structures...to say nothing of how many agents were in there at the time. Giovanni is the only person we see crawling out of the rubble, and yet the very next time we see him, he's lounging on the beach relaxing. Given his need for control and power over everything he commands, I honestly can't see him agreeing to take a day off in that situation unless he'd been heavily sedated.
More will no doubt come later. I look forward to seeing yours as well!
Maybe we can have fun trying to explain these things too.
-So the episode with Eusine aired early December 2001, followed a few weeks later with Legend of Thunder, in which he also appeared. Tell me, why does he act so dramatically different? Why is he a raging impulsive asshole in the Ho-Oh ep while in LoT he's a laid-back guy who warns Kenta "A time like this is when it's most important to be calm. If you rush in blindly, you won't accomplish anything!" (from a fan translation), something that seems to go against his very nature in the episode?
Does something about being around Morty just piss him off or something? Because if these had aired in the opposite order, I could have seen why he would have changed--seeing Raikou in danger would have brought out his hypervigilant, overprotective side. But in this order it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, especially in the span of a few weeks! And we know LoT happened given that Jackson, Marina, and the three Rockets appear elsewhere in the series. Unless they exist without the special having happened...
-Also in LoT, Eusine says that Raikou once lived in harmony with humans. But that *also* goes against the Ho-Oh episode, as well as any other time the legend of the Legendary Dogs is given (including other episodes and the games themselves). Every other time, they were created by Ho-Oh from creatures that had died in the blaze, and set off across the land immediately.
-So where the hell did James get Weepinbell anyway? Sure he has that flashback to catching it, but that was years later and we can never trust their memories or their presentations.
-Ash tries to stop everyone he can from capturing Legendaries...so then why does he try to *help* Nelson capture Entei? And why does he say absolutely nothing when Brandon shows up with not one, not two, but ALL THREE Regis?
-Ash and friends were presumed dead with the sinking of the St Anne. Yet not two episodes later, he runs into his mother on a jolly vacation with Professor Oak. She's surprised to see him, but not *that* surprised. Even if she'd found out he survived, wouldn't she want to grab him and hug him and all that? Look how she reacted to him *risking* his life in the second movie.
-For that matter, Mewtwo blows up the Rocket headquarters, ruining no doubt millions of dollars of irreplacable equipment, supplies, information, and structures...to say nothing of how many agents were in there at the time. Giovanni is the only person we see crawling out of the rubble, and yet the very next time we see him, he's lounging on the beach relaxing. Given his need for control and power over everything he commands, I honestly can't see him agreeing to take a day off in that situation unless he'd been heavily sedated.
More will no doubt come later. I look forward to seeing yours as well!
