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Pokemon Biology Theories

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Pokémon biology

This is a topic I find particularly interesting, and something I would like other people to be able to talk about: The biology of Pokémon. Thinking about Pokémon in a scientific, realistic sense. How exactly does Pokémon physiology work? For example...

The bulb on Bulbasaur's back, how does it interact with the animal part?
Why does Charmander have a flame coming out of its tail?
When Squirtle sprays water out of its mouth, where the heck does it come from?
What exactly are TMs and HMs, and how do they work?
What exactly happens when a Pokémon evolves?

The following link has a few articles on the subject, and I wanted to share it with all of you. http://www.kyogrelair.net/pfiles/files.htm

So, let's open it up. What are your theories on the biology of Pokémon?
 
One of my theories for most of the elemental moves was that it was their Aura that got automatically coverted into a specific element since they can't handle raw aura.

Its like how apparantly Buizel tried to use Aura Sphere in the Maylene episode but wound up using Water Pulse.

This could be like multiple threads because its not like there is a one line answer for each. I mean I actually wrote an entire essay-type thread on Parasect and had an extensive theory on Cubone and arguing how it is not a Kangaskhan baby.
 
Why does Charmander have a flame coming out of its tail - same with Chimchar line too.

And I don't know if this applies at all to bulbasaur, but maybe Bulbasaur was created by Symbiogenesis as one creature combined with a plant to create bulbasaur? - the merging of two separate organisms to form a single new organism. It was shown in Star Trek voyager episode when Neelix and Tuvok found an orchid on a planet and when they beamed back to voyager with the orchid it combined with their dna to make one being, "tuvix" which had both tuvok, Neelix and ther plants DNA in him via Symbiogenesis when the two, plus the plant got beamed up, their particals scattered and the plant was able to combine with tuvoks and neelixs, casusing the Symbiogenesis that the plant uses..

Its like how apparantly Buizel tried to use Aura Sphere in the Maylene episode but wound up using Water Pulse.
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Suppose buizel seeing lucario use aura sphere, it made it try to do similar, but since it could not learn move, it learned water pulse as its a sphere like attack too.

I noticed that in Anime as i thought water pulse looked more different than buizels? but then do different pokemon use moves in different ways. But buizel, compared to others that used the move, only created the ball and hurled it, rest of other pokemon that used move in anime created abll then released water as either waves or a stream.

I have often wondered too, how mnay pokemon when they hatch out of egg are usually a certian size and don't change size, but khangaskhans baby is small and tiny, yet we either see it or the normal one, its fully grown size, but never a one thats in between sizes e.g. "growing up" we never see pokemon growing or changing sizes, with exception of giant pokemon
 
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And I don't know if this applies at all to bulbasaur, but maybe Bulbasaur was created by Symbiogenesis as one creature combined with a plant to create bulbasaur? - the merging of two separate organisms to form a single new organism. It was shown in Star Trek voyager episode when Neelix and Tuvok found an orchid on a planet and when they beamed back to voyager with the orchid it combined with their dna to make one being, "tuvix" which had both tuvok, Neelix and ther plants DNA in him via Symbiogenesis when the two, plus the plant got beamed up, their particals scattered and the plant was able to combine with tuvoks and neelixs, casusing the Symbiogenesis that the plant uses..
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Oh, what a cool theory, Shinx3000!! I remember that episode well (yup, Voyager fan here), and that makes sense when you think about Symbiogenesis and try to apply it to Bulbasaur. Very interesting! Plant + Animal + Symbiogenesis = Bulbasaur? But hmmm... I wonder how that work really work in the Pokemon world. They have Pokeball transporters, but they're INSIDE the Pokeballs and I don't know how plants would be able to be tangled with the Pokemon's genetic code. Maybe scientists from earlier days were toying with a primitive transporter? The possibilities are endless.
 
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I have kinda wondered, when a pokemon evolves, it changes form, shape etc... but how does it automatically know what is evolved into and does its brain or memories at least stay inta ct? it becomes a new creature afterall, but it still has memories and feelings etc... from before it evolved.

I have always been wondering too how pokemon can go long peorids without eating anything and surviving. I know that some pokemon won't do much if they get hungry. Burmy in "Some enchanted sweeting" would not fight meowth because it was too hungry to fight. In pikachus vaccation, togepi was hungry and crying because it wanted food.

You see meowth from TR get hungry from time to time too. But, James carnivine seemed fine when it was let out of its pokeball for the first time in anime. He had not been in Sinnoh since he was young and had carnivine then and it stayed fine in its pokeball for that long. So a pokemon not eating won't kill it, maybe something inside a pokeball keeps the pokemon inside alive if it does not eat?

This brings up the question of what happens to a pokemon when its in pokeball? At first, I thought it was in a kind of statis so its energy and form was preserved until it was let out again, but then how would pokemon snap out of confusion after being put inside pokeball and how would pokemon such as TR's wobbuffet or Mistys psyduck keep coming out of their pokeball at random times? They can't be in stasis.

I read somewhere online that a pokeball reads specific DNA from a pokemon and blocks human DNA like a locking mechinism so humans can't be caught, but its instant when a human is hit, nothing happens except some pain from being hit.

pokeballs raise another question, probably not related:

What does each type of pokeball do to a pokemon?

and kinda off topic, wonder if Satoshi Tajiri-Oniwa knew his creation would end up with questions like this so long after he started with his idea?
 
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I go with Rowan's theory that atleast form most Pokemon it is a way of maturity.
 
Shinx3000 said:
Why does Charmander have a flame coming out of its tail - same with Chimchar line too.

And I don't know if this applies at all to bulbasaur, but maybe Bulbasaur was created by Symbiogenesis as one creature combined with a plant to create bulbasaur? - the merging of two separate organisms to form a single new organism. It was shown in Star Trek voyager episode when Neelix and Tuvok found an orchid on a planet and when they beamed back to voyager with the orchid it combined with their dna to make one being, "tuvix" which had both tuvok, Neelix and ther plants DNA in him via Symbiogenesis when the two, plus the plant got beamed up, their particals scattered and the plant was able to combine with tuvoks and neelixs, casusing the Symbiogenesis that the plant uses..
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Of course, we must keep in mind that that that particular piece of Treknobabble has no relation with real world physics. But Pokemon is a similar case so this is all fine.

Trek fan here too by the way!
 
Hi, there. Been away from pokémon in general and just got back into it with Diamond and Pearl.

I think it's a mistake to think that pokémon biology is recognizable and comparable to physical biologies; after all, such pokémon exist as Misdreavus. From all of my recent reading, it seems like pokémon exist in a combination of ecology and spiritual hierarchy. Sinnoh myths seem to confirm this to a T; this would also explain why they can breed with one another in seemingly biologically incompatible ways. They don't have traditional organs or recognizable biologies that can be dissected on a physical level and understood. They do, after all, create energy out of nothing. This also explains why there's still all those "mysteries" as to how pokémon do what they do.

I'll admit this. I come from a very animistic background, and a lot of pokémon seems to be a combination of an excessively animistic culture mixed with a modern veneer. Ash/Satoshi/Whoevertheheck even appears to be part of a culture in which children traveling in the wilderness to attain adulthood is the norm, quite similar to already shamanistic cultures globally. We also know that psychics exist and spells can be cast in this universe, meaning our physics don't apply at all, though there actually appears to be an underlying physics model that closely parallels an animistic world (Dalgia and Palkia, for example, don't appear to just rule time and space, they appear to be time and space). Also, Unown don't even seem to be pokémon until they enter the physical world from the between-place where those two reside. In addition, note that not just anyone can go to school and learn to make a pokéball, it's specific families and family-owned companies that do it. This is reminiscent of shamanistic cultures' behavior toward jobs and magic in general (my clan, for example, is supposed to be the only clan with knowledge of healing spells and poultices or what have you). More such behavior occurs in Sinnoh mythology, specifically, the tale of the sword or the story of how pokémon and humans interact, both of which are quite reminiscent of deals made in the world (for example, the air promises to keep you alive so long as you breathe it). Also, bear in mind, spirits have jobs, and sometimes those jobs entail eating animals or one another or even behaving like an animal in the wilderness in the absence of the actual animal, so the barrier between animal and spirit is actually very fuzzy in such cultures, almost as fuzzy as the line between alive and not alive, because in such a culture, rocks are alive and sentient, and you have festivals just to let them know you appreciate them being there.

Let's go back to the Misdreavus example. It feeds on fear. This means that in that universe, fear produces an energy that can be eaten. If it can be eaten, it can be detected. In Pokémon Special, Blue has a device that allows her to detect the presence of specific pokémon by their influence on the world around them, and the ability to see through illusions generated by psychics. This lines up with the idea that they're working with a different set of physics over there, because our physics does not work like this, and it's a matter of figuring out what it is. I suggest looking at a lot of Shinto, Tao, and Native American (specifically, Pacific Northwest, though I grew up with Seminole) mythology for clues, since there's a large amount of obvious synergy there.

tl;dr: I don't think pokémon are entirely animals, I think they're animistic/shamanistic spirits on some level.
 
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I have kinda wondered, when a pokemon evolves, it changes form, shape etc... but how does it automatically know what is evolved into and does its brain or memories at least stay inta ct? it becomes a new creature afterall, but it still has memories and feelings etc... from before it evolved.
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This may be similar to metamorphosis in real life.
 
hey, you may be right there with the metamorphoises theory.

I was thinking again on how pokemon don't always need to eat like real world animals, but they do from time to time get hungry. But how to Poliwhirl/Poliwrath feed? They have no mouthparts, just a hypnotic swirl on there chest that covers from where their mouth should be to their chest.

So on that, I'd tend to dsy a pokemons inner system is most likley not the same as ours or animals. Gulpin/Swalot seem to fit my theory as they seem to be over 70% stomach. Another way this fits my theory is that (as far as its been seen) pokemon don't bleed, nor do they break bones. if that were the case, they'd be far more cautious about battling and probably would not have many of the attacks they do. But they do die, so I assume two things, pokemon live for a certian amount of years then pass away, or a combination of the years they live plua the damage receved in battle could make them die in a certian peorid of time. (minus ghosts which are already dead, so I'd say they would always be around) And I would think that pokemon such as magnemite line would just need to be "repaired" if they get weak, its basically balls of metal with nuts and bolts, but maybe it has something inside we don't see.
 
Only thing is, ghosts moght not be even dead pokemon, they might be Ghost species. Maybe they have their ways of nourishment(How else would a Magnemite eat a berry?) or its a way we don't see.
 
But how to Poliwhirl/Poliwrath feed?
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I always figured that their belly was made out of a different substance and had a different structure than the rest of their body, and this allowed them to suck up nutrients from liquids or something like that.

What does each type of pokeball do to a pokemon?
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I'm guessing that you mean exactly how it does it. Because if you wanted to know the difference between each type of pokeball, you could easily just go to bulbapedia and find out the answer on the Pokeball article. So, if you did mean what I'm guessing you did, I've provided my theories below:

For all pokeballs: maybe it injects certain hormones or chemicals so that the pokemon itself gets tired or paralyzed to a certain extent and stays in the ball? Perhaps great balls, ultra balls, and master balls contain more of this hormone or chemical then normal pokeballs, which produces a higher chance of keeping a struggling pokemon intact? Heck, perhaps this chemical is only found in the apricots that were used to catch pokemon long ago.

Also, maybe some pokeballs have chemicals that only work with pokemon with certain DNA. Such as the moonball, for example. Maybe there is a chemical that it inserts into pokemon, and that chemical only affects species that have DNA that forces them to evolve only by moonstone.

A repeat ball might contain a chip or something that allows it to connect with that trainer's pokedex or their account from the trainer's PC.

As for other balls, such as the love ball or timer ball- I have no idea. The only idea I can get for those would be that they can see the entire battle going on around them. Any other ideas on how those would work?

(OMG! My Mom read this after I finished typing, and she found it so perverse! XD I will never see the term "a trainer's pokedex" the same again!! XDD. She also said: If any of you guys don't understand what I meant, re-read it again, but with biological human sexuality and human-psycho sexuality while reading that. Oh, and to imagine "pokeballs" as male and pokemon as "female" XDD))
 
Words like "psycho-sexuality" are generally a good sign that you're headed off into the bizzaro-land commonly known as the "humanities." (what they have to do with human beings is beyond me...) Remember kids, too much liberal-arts education will either rot your brain or elevate you to a plane of thought beyond the reach of the philistine plebs. (I'll let you decide which you think it is...) However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel: you'll provide plenty of lulz for the rest of us.
 
Sigh....My mom read this, and decided to talk. So, here's my mom:


(Your mom is the real perve there if she got that out of that)
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Words like "psycho-sexuality" are generally a good sign that you're headed off into the bizzaro-land commonly known as the "humanities." (what they have to do with human beings is beyond me...)
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Hi Mom here, all I want to say is I'm not a perve, I'm a psychology student very soon to graduate. And if you read what she wrote it is the same description of human sexual situations, physically and mentally, but in Pokeman slang!
 
At some time I really want to get into the Bulbasaur discussion, as I've always been a huge fan of it.

But for now my post particularly regards the metamorphasis theory of evolution. And while that would be a simple explanation for the changes of it's structure and capabilities, it doesn't really talk about the Pokemon itself, and how some (in the anime at least) take on different natures, characteristics, or personalities upon evolution.

Would that be like a rapid hormonal growth, an increase or decrease of testosterone/Estrogen, what? And if so, a question to ask would be how that would tie into the metamorphasis itself? If that is indeed what it's considered.
 
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*goes back and reads it* Nope, still can't get that out of that.

You seriously need to get your mom off your back.
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Agreed. I've never gotten that out of pokemon and pokeballs, etc.

Hell, I've known people that were HUGE perverts that wouldn't have drawn that from what was stated.

XD
 
I thought that a pokeballs energy was similar to how the transport system in Star Trek worked, the pokemon is beamed into tiny particles and stored this way inside the pokeball. Different pokeballs use different forms of this transport energy depending on how the pokeball in question works.

I thought this as a theory because I watched an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Reg Barkley had to transport to a science ship and you could see him in the transport system, alive. But in pokeball terms, the particals that make up the pokemon would not be moved about, just kept in the one place and this would make it possible for pokemon to break out of their balls like how TR's wobuffett or Misty's Psyduck has done before.
 
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