Does Bulbasaur have a Frog trait to it?

Does Bulbasaur have a Frog Trait to it?

  • Yes

    Votes: 12 57.1%

  • No

    Votes: 9 42.9%
  • Total voters
    21
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Simple question. Something afew friends and I debated a little about.

Where else would be more appropriate than the Bulbapedia forums to ask this :p

I was arguing it's obviously a bulb + a dinosaur, but they argued otherwise.

So what is it, do you guys think?
 
Yes I have always thought that it looks similar to a frog, as well as dinosauric features, but could just very well be a coincidence.
 
Well, frog are amphibians and if Bulbasaur was an amphibian it would be part water. I think of it more of a dinosaur type creature, maybe like a stegosaurus.
 
I always picture it as some sort of lizardish behemoth. Or just a chubby dinosaur.
 
Venusaur looks more like a bearded dragon than a frog or dinosaur. A picture I found of Venusaur irl showed that.
 
Actually "Saur" doesn't come from the word Dinosaur it comes from the Greek word Saur which mean Lizard.
 
Ghetsis-Dennis said:
Venusaur looks more like a bearded dragon than a frog or dinosaur. A picture I found of Venusaur irl showed that.
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Any chance you can post the picture? I'm kind of curious about it.

To answer the OP, I don't think so. The Bulbasaur family has always looked reptilian to me, not amphibian. Though I can understand where the confusion comes from.
 
In my kid times I thought it was a frog.

Nowadays I can clearly see that it is some kind of weird lizard/dinosaur.
 
It kinda looks like both a frog and a dinosaur. And a plant.
 
Ever since I was a kid, I always thought the Bulbasaur line looked like frogs, even the Red and Blue sprites made them look like large frogs.
 
I voted Yes... I've always thought that it had a frog-trait to it. The Green-version sprite especially looks that way (and the Red / Blue sprites look kind of like a frog in jump).
But as for how it acts (in the anime)... no, it's not really like a frog at all. If anything it's a dinosaur with some cat-like traits (the ears, the fact that it is affected by Pokénip, etc...)
I'm pretty sure that the saur is short for dinosaur and not the Greek word for lizard... it really doesn't at all resemble a lizard in any way. It does however, resemble a dinosaur, specifically a ceratops (without the beak, horns, ridge on the back of the head, or tail).
 
What I mean is, just because it's its own word doesn't mean that it literally means that. Take Butterfree for example... "butter" is a word but the name obviously comes from "butterfly", not "butter".
Likewise, dinosaur comes from "terrible" + "lizard". A dinosaur is not a type of lizard though... they aren't even related past the fact that they are both reptiles.
It's possible that Bulbasaur is the same way. It's some reptile that someone named Bulbasaur from "bulb" + "lizard" even though it really bears no real resemblence to a lizard.
 
How do you guys not see the resemblance between Venusaur and a common toad?
220px-003Venusaur.png
toad-picture.jpg
 
I have to agree that they look a bit like amphibians, moreso for Bulbasaur. Aside from their visible ears (which non-mammals lack), their stance look like the position in which the frog stands, minus the hopping legs.

So yeah, their stubby limbs, combined with their posture, makes them frog-like.

Thanks for reading.
 
Um... Well, I had never thought about this until now, but you guys are giving me some compelling evidence to say, yeah, Bulbasaur is a bit frog-like. The more I think about it, the more I agree.
 
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