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COMPLETE: I Have A Pokemon Dream...

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I just want to make it clear that I am NOT the spammer on the Serebii and Smogon forums. He is posing as me and should be IP banned immediately. I find his actions rude and immature, and in no way do I condone them.
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(This is meant to be comical. Please do not take this seriously.)

I HAVE A POKEMON DREAM...​

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our region.

Seventeen years ago, a great Trainer, in whose symbolic shadow we stand developed a glorious game. This momentous game came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of young children who had been seared in the flames of lackluster entertainment. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long round of Night Shade. Years of trying to find ways the strengths of all Pokemon followed.

But seventeen years later, we must face the tragic fact that several hundred Pokemon are held in what the OU and Uber caucuses call "lower tiers". Seventeen years later, the life of many Pokemon is sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. Seventeen years later, many Pokemon live on a lonely island of rejection in the midst of a vast ocean of metagame prosperity. Seventeen years later, many Pokemon are languishing in the corners tier society and find themselves in exile in their own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.

In a sense we have come to our region's capital to check a webpage. When the developers of our game created the system by which we battle, they were signing a promissory note to which every Pokemon was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all Pokemon would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of equality, love, and appreciation.

It is obvious today that the Pokemon World has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of "lower tiers" are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, Smogon has given many Pokemon a bad webpage which has come back marked "UU/RU/NU." But we refuse to believe that the bank of Pokemon justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are different tiers in the great amounts of Pokemon of this region. So we have come to check this webpage -- a webpage which will encourage trainers to treat all Pokemon equally. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind the Pokemon World of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off by using Blizzard or to use Hypnosis to make this seem like a dream. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of Pokemon justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of Arceus's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of Pokemon injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

It would be fatal for the region to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the poorly treated Pokemon. This sweltering summer of the underestimated Pokemon's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Two-thousand thirteen is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the "lower tiers" needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the Pokemon World returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in the Pokemon World until each Pokemon is treated equally. The Whirlwind of Pigeot's revolt will continue to cause Golem to use Earthquake on the foundations of our region until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by following Team Plasma's example.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into dishonorable battle style. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the underestimated Pokemon community must not lead us to distrust of all OU and Uber caucus members, for many of our "Upper Tier" brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of Pokemon equality, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of battle, cannot gain lodging in the Trainer Houses of the highways and the Smogon-run Pokemon Centers of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the underestimated Pokemon's basic mobility is from a small "lower tier" to a larger "lower tier". We can never be satisfied as long as a Charizard cannot be used in competitive battling and a Blastoise in the "UU tier" believes he has no place in the "OU tier". No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty Pokemon using Waterfall.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from dark, dank cells of the "NU tier". Some of you have come from areas where your quest for equality left you battered by the insults of opinionated Trainers and staggered by the winds of Smogon brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Kanto, go back to Hoenn, go back to Sinnoh, go back to Unova, go back to the slums of the "lower tiers", knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Pokemon dream. Gengar shall never eat it.

I have a dream that one day this region will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all Pokemon are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Johto the sons of former "lower tier" members and the sons of former "upper tier" members will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the region of Hoenn, the region where the "NU tier" was first established, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into a Pokemon Center of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my Meloetta will one day live in a region where she will not be judged by the "UU tier" Smogon classified her by but by the content of her character and her true battling ability.

I have a Pokemon dream today.

I have a Pokemon dream that one day the website of Smogon, whose editors' lips are presently dripping with the words of tiership and inequality between Pokemon, will be transformed into a situation where little "UU tier" Pokemon and "NU tier" Pokemon will be able to join hands with little "OU tier" Pokemon and little "Uber" Pokemon and walk together as sisters and brothers.

I have a Pokemon dream today.

I have a Pokemon dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and Mt. Silver shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of Arceus shall be revealed, and all Pokemon shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the "UU" tier dungeon. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a Everstone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our region into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to faint together, to stand up for equality together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of Arceus's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My region, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers fainted, land of the Pachirisu's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."

And if the Pokemon World is to be great this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of Sinnoh. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of Hoenn. Let freedom ring from the top of Mt. Silver!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped mountains of Unova!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of Kanto!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Orre!

Let freedom ring from the Orange Islands!

Let freedom ring from every hill and town of Kalos. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from Blackthorn City and Pallet Town, from every region and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Arceus's children, "lower tier" members and "upper tier" members, Genwunners and Genfivers, believers and nonbelievers of Arceus, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Pokemon spiritual, "Equal at last! Equal at last! Thank Arceus Almighty, we are equal at last!"

(By the way, I wrote this whole thing because I learned that Meloetta was in the UU tier.)
 
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Sometimes it's better to laugh than to be angry. You'll find that helps in life. :)
 
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Well, if that's your opinion, then so be it. Most of my friends and several other forums enjoyed this. If you don't like it, that's fine, but it is awfully rude to say that I am immature and lack judgement. Let's just calm down and count to ten, okay? :)
 
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Yeah ... I appreciate that this is meant to be an affectionate parody, but I find it a bit crass.

I actually learned a new word from your post, "crass", thank you kindly. :)

Some may find it a bit lacking in sensitivity, but sometimes it is better to forget all the issues of our world and just try to enjoy ourselves. Try to read it only thinking about Pokemon, and just have fun with it. I understand that some may find it a to be slightly controversial, though I wrote this with the intention to make people happy. It's unfortunate that I've only stirred up controversy with this. That's not at all what I intended. Let's just try to enjoy things and forget about the issues of the world for a few minutes.
 
This is great, I laughed the whole time I read it. I support your cause, this system of injustice must be eliminated! Down with tiers!

(Also, you didn't mention Little Cup, what about them? And how about Borderline?)
 
OMG I loved this so much!!! It's kinda true with tiers, they do kinda segregate many Pokemon from competitive battles...

I loved your word replacement, really clever. Though I am wondering the same thing as Pokenoodle2...why didn't you mention the Little Cup and the Borderline Tier? Don't they count too?

Also, are you gonna reword any other famous works or speeches? I really want to see you do another.
 
I really like this.

The grammar's good, the flow is great and I didn't see any glaring errors. And the "pokéfication" of the speech was very well done and it flowed naturally.

Despite the sensitivity of the speech material (it's quite obvious that you parodied MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech), it's quite good. And to be honest, it's a fairly tasteful parody.
 
This is great, I laughed the whole time I read it. I support your cause, this system of injustice must be eliminated! Down with tiers!

(Also, you didn't mention Little Cup, what about them? And how about Borderline?)

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!

I totally forgot to mention Borderline and Borderline 2 for that matter! I guess there's so few Pokemon in those tiers that it just didn't need a part in the speech. And as for the Little Cup, I just didn't find them necessary to mention. I mean, would you let an 8-year old boy compete in a boxing match with a 34-year old man? That's my reasoning for not including the Little Cup. Though I just love Mudkip and Oshawott. :)

OMG I loved this so much!!! It's kinda true with tiers, they do kinda segregate many Pokemon from competitive battles...

I loved your word replacement, really clever. Though I am wondering the same thing as Pokenoodle2...why didn't you mention the Little Cup and the Borderline Tier? Don't they count too?

Also, are you gonna reword any other famous works or speeches? I really want to see you do another.

Hmm, I'm not planning on doing any other speeches for now, but who knows, maybe I'll get an idea and do one someday.

I really like this.

The grammar's good, the flow is great and I didn't see any glaring errors. And the "pokéfication" of the speech was very well done and it flowed naturally.

Despite the sensitivity of the speech material (it's quite obvious that you parodied MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech), it's quite good. And to be honest, it's a fairly tasteful parody.

Thanks, it was an idea I had for quite some time. I wanted to do it for the 50th anniversary of MLK's "I Have A Dream" speech, and it seems to have worked out quite well. It was fun to make too. :D
 
Are you sure you can't maybe do another speech? Or how about a movie? That would be so cool, a Pokemon rewritten movie. I would pay to see that! Maybe The Wizard of Oz? Or The Avengers? That would be so cool!
 
Hmmm. I have mixed feelings here. I honestly believe that this was an affectionate imitation and not a subtle way of comparing the Civil Rights Movement to something as trivial to Tiers or something ridiculous, so it's not that. I got a good laugh, honestly, and the writing was quite quaint and entertaining.

On the other hand, I ended up skimming through the last half because I know, or have a vague enough idea from history lessons, basically every non-proper noun of your work. I got a bit bored, because I've seen the exact same text (minus the nouns) quite a few times, and while reading the individual differences and pondering the Tiers or whatever was interesting, it didn't do much to help the fact that I've read what is probably a more compelling (but in your defense, MLK simply had more compelling subject matter. That's nothing you can help XD) version of the speech before.

So like. I know that you're not claiming this as your own, but I'm... tentative to review it as such, I guess? Like. I found a link somewhere a long time ago to what was basically the text of Wicked but they had Chistery the chimchar instead of the monkey and Mistara or something instead of Elphaba, and some of the adaptational references was nice and I think it was an Ash/May vs Ash/Misty pairing or whatever, but that author had basically taken one of the bestest most wonderfulest musicals ever, changed a few nouns, and got praise for it. I didn't like that, even though the adaptation was alright, because, like... there wasn't much work put into it?

That being said, it does seem like you put a good measure of work into this. It's not yours, but the noun choices are apt and smooth. So I can't even get mad at you for improper plagiarism or something, lol :>

So I guess I want to say good job, but be sure that you're putting more effort than just replacing the nouns with the other nouns? XD

...uh, yeah. Good job. ^^
 
Are you sure you can't maybe do another speech? Or how about a movie? That would be so cool, a Pokemon rewritten movie. I would pay to see that! Maybe The Wizard of Oz? Or The Avengers? That would be so cool!

Hmm, well, for now I'm a bit busy, but perhaps in the future I could put something together. I did rewrite the entire Wizard of Oz (movie script) as an inside joke for my friends, but that took several weeks of writing. Who knows, maybe I'll make something at some point.

Hmmm. I have mixed feelings here. I honestly believe that this was an affectionate imitation and not a subtle way of comparing the Civil Rights Movement to something as trivial to Tiers or something ridiculous, so it's not that. I got a good laugh, honestly, and the writing was quite quaint and entertaining.

On the other hand, I ended up skimming through the last half because I know, or have a vague enough idea from history lessons, basically every non-proper noun of your work. I got a bit bored, because I've seen the exact same text (minus the nouns) quite a few times, and while reading the individual differences and pondering the Tiers or whatever was interesting, it didn't do much to help the fact that I've read what is probably a more compelling (but in your defense, MLK simply had more compelling subject matter. That's nothing you can help XD) version of the speech before.

So like. I know that you're not claiming this as your own, but I'm... tentative to review it as such, I guess? Like. I found a link somewhere a long time ago to what was basically the text of Wicked but they had Chistery the chimchar instead of the monkey and Mistara or something instead of Elphaba, and some of the adaptational references was nice and I think it was an Ash/May vs Ash/Misty pairing or whatever, but that author had basically taken one of the bestest most wonderfulest musicals ever, changed a few nouns, and got praise for it. I didn't like that, even though the adaptation was alright, because, like... there wasn't much work put into it?

That being said, it does seem like you put a good measure of work into this. It's not yours, but the noun choices are apt and smooth. So I can't even get mad at you for improper plagiarism or something, lol :>

So I guess I want to say good job, but be sure that you're putting more effort than just replacing the nouns with the other nouns? XD

...uh, yeah. Good job. ^^

Thank you! I'm glad you like it. It was actually easier to make than it looks, as the topic fit very well with the replacement. It only took a half of an hour to be honest, though I had the idea for months ever since I learned Meloetta was in the "UU tier". The rewrite was fun to make, and originally I was just going to show it to a few friends, but then I decided that it would be fun for some Pokemon communities to see as well. Plagiarism was not in mind when I wrote this. Actually, I wanted to stay as close to the original speech as possible. That's why there aren't many added sentences, rather most sentences are slightly edited, just beyond noun replacement.

Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
 
You should edit the speech and mention the Little Cup and the Borderline tiers!! Also, are you going to redo the speech once the X and Y "metagame" appears?
 
This. Is. The. BEST!

I can't get over this, I love it sooooooooo much! I can't stand Smogon to be honest, they act as if they own Pokemon and make the "real" rules. I say we have battles with any Pokemon, anytime! Down with the tiers!
 
Smogon is annoying to be honest, there should be no "banned" moves/Pokemon/strategies. I think everything should be allowed, regardless of Smogon's stupid rules! You should rewrite another speech making fun of Smogon.
 
I just want to make it clear that I am NOT the spammer on the Serebii and Smogon forums. He is posing as me and should be IP banned immediately. I find his actions rude and immature, and in no way do I condone them.

You should edit the speech and mention the Little Cup and the Borderline tiers!! Also, are you going to redo the speech once the X and Y "metagame" appears?

I think the speech is good as it is. As for X and Y, I'm not sure yet, I'll have to play the games first.

This. Is. The. BEST!

I can't get over this, I love it sooooooooo much! I can't stand Smogon to be honest, they act as if they own Pokemon and make the "real" rules. I say we have battles with any Pokemon, anytime! Down with the tiers!

It is rather annoying how Smogon acts like a king making divine rules for battling. They do have good strategies though, just too restricting.

Smogon is annoying to be honest, there should be no "banned" moves/Pokemon/strategies. I think everything should be allowed, regardless of Smogon's stupid rules! You should rewrite another speech making fun of Smogon.

There should never be any "banned" strategies, but Smogon finds it acceptable to ban one every week. I'm not sure if I'm going to do another speech though.
 
I think you should start some kind of battle type where ALL Pokemon are accepted, rather than Smogon's restricting battles to one specific "tier". You should do that, I'd join you!
 
I think you should start some kind of battle type where ALL Pokemon are accepted, rather than Smogon's restricting battles to one specific "tier". You should do that, I'd join you!

That kinda makes me want to try that, we should do that sometime! We could call it an Equality Battle! It would be so fun, and all inspired through this great speech.
 
I apologize for my absence in the recent weeks, I have been delivering this speech to high schools around the nation. Also, I have been training others to read the speech for me in areas which I cannot travel.

With the dawn of X and Y, we realize that a new "metagame" is certainly going to be formed by Smogon, and more Pokemon will face the brutality of the "tier" system. Thankfully, super-training makes it more time-viable to EV-train those Smogon throws to lower "tiers" rather than ignoring them entirely. We must continue to fight for the equality of all Pokemon, no matter how many generations it takes us! Long live Pokemon Equality! Free at last! Free at last!
 
I'm really upset right now because I was writing chap 1 to my Fanfic and it all disappeared reading this reallycheered me up
 
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