The weird eyes the pokemon get whn it faint in battle!

[WindBlast]

Hey everyone,It is a tradition that whenever a pokemon loses a battle and faints (in the anime) it get those two twister-like eyes signaling it's defeat.I believe this takes away the seriousness of the battle sometimes (like the episode when Satoshi battled Harrison in the silver league)Things where intense and serious but when finally Charizard fainted and had those eyes things were....meh!
So,What is your opinion?do you think this is a good way of showing the loss of a pokemon?

 

[Scarlet Devil]

Re: eThe wierd eyes the pokemon get whn it faint in battle!

Well... I always thought only small and weaker non-evolved pokemon should have the dizzy eyes. It just look wrong on stronger pokemon (like metagross or houndoom) it takes away how intense a pokemon looks and makes them look goofy

 

[Ho-oh]

Re: eThe wierd eyes the pokemon get whn it faint in battle!

That's cause they technically don't faint. It's like a boxing match. Most of the time, boxers are really "knocked out". They just can't get up in time. In the anime, if a pokémon is unable to fight, it's defeated.

Still, it's sadistic to treat animals that way while humans enjoy it...

 

[MasterTrainer]

Re: eThe wierd eyes the pokemon get whn it faint in battle!

It's one of the reasons why I think battle has gotten kinda lame over the years. Yeah, the Blaziken vs Charizard thing was splendid until the part where Charizard stupidly faints with those dumb swirly eyes.
(faceplam)
No wonder I like Indigo League so much! When a pokemon used to go down back then they used to keep their eyes shut!
I guess they wanted to remove the cockfghting similarities or the accusation that "Ash killed someone's pokemon because we never see that guy's/gal's pokemon again" or some nonsense like that. The swirly eyes are there to prove that the defeated Pokemon has fainted; the ensuing lameness is only an afterthought.

 

[Idon'tcare]

Re: eThe wierd eyes the pokemon get whn it faint in battle!

I too sort of remember Pokemon fainting with their eyes close in the past. I also remember them fainting with crosses over their eyes when the show no longer had pokemon fainting with their eyes closed. Not sure when they stopped doing this and changed it into the swirly eyes.

In Diamond and Pearl there was one case of a Pokemon fainting with its eyes shut. It was Brock's Croagunk when he got stabbed right in the gut by Saturn's Toxicroak's Poison Jab. The way that whole scene was animated made it look like Croagunk just got killed.

 

[dman_dustin]

Re: eThe wierd eyes the pokemon get whn it faint in battle!

I actually don't mind the swirly eyes since its part of the show, and its become natural to see it.

It honestly (to me) doesn't make the fight any less intense or make the Pokemon look "stupid" since its just letting the viewers know the Pokemon is knocked out. I'm actually fine with it.

Of course maybe I just don't watch enough Sponge Bob type cartoons for it to bother me. So basically it's like the only show I watch that with swirly eyes so I don't associate it with silliness.

 

[QuietDragon]

Re: eThe wierd eyes the pokemon get whn it faint in battle!

In Diamond and Pearl there was one case of a Pokemon fainting with its eyes shut.

That isn't the only one. I remember another instance, but sadly, I can't remember if it was Hikozaru/Chimchar or another. All I remember is that it involved Shinji/Paul in someway. xD; -really should remember-

I don't know, I'm pretty used to swirly-eyes from comical anime (or at least comical dizzy scenes in otherwise serious anime), so it doesn't bug me too much.

 

[Dogasu]

Re: eThe wierd eyes the pokemon get whn it faint in battle!

I also remember them fainting with crosses over their eyes when the show no longer had pokemon fainting with their eyes closed. Not sure when they stopped doing this and changed it into the swirly eyes.

Probably because, in the later seasons, 4Kids would paint those out. So the Japanese animators probably just switched to using the swirly eyes for *all* fainting instead.

Once PUSA took over, it seems like they attempted to gradually re-introduce non-swirly eyed fainting into the show.