What if legendaries arent legendaries...?

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In the pokemon chronicals lugia got captured and so did its baby lugia. so what if legendaries arent one of a kind? for example - mew, if you delve into the old games and old cards you can find out that it was plentiful and somehow became extinct - exept for the mew that we've seen in all the movies etc. so what if there are several moltres, zapdos, groudon etc. if they decide to later on in the show or games etc. to implement more than one legendry they would most probably say (in the show of course) that it hadnt been discovered until now..... so what do you guys think?
 
We know that the legendaries aren't one of a kind. We've know that for awhile now.

Aside from Mewtwo who was man-made, and possibly the beasts since they were created by Ho-oh, all the others have offspring and live throughout the land. That doesn't make them any less legendary though.
 
At the present time I think it's safe to assume that Jirachi is one of a kind as well.
 
I'm going to go out on a limb and say Ho-oh, Rayquaza, Groudon, and Kyogre are all one-of-a-kind... Because it would be stupid to have multiple copies of such legendary Pokemon.

Then again, they managed to give Lugia a child of all things....
 
You have to wonder if the Kyorge in the 9th movie is the same one Team Magma captured.
 
One has to remember that it is humans who deem Pokémon legendary, not the Pokémon themselves.
 
yes indeed... but beasts? made by ho oh? can somebody please fill me in on that XD but yes mewtwo is man made therefore should be called a 'monster' ehehe, not a 'pokemon'. but whatever the case, i think that the only pokemon that can safely be called legendary is jirachi,rayquaza and mew(unless they come up with some weird excuse there is only one left the others are now extinct). i asked the same question to some friends and they said deoxy's is definatly a one of a kind pokemon, but for those who dont know deoxy's was created on a research center in space, and was created when they put the genes of jirachi into a human volunteer. i do believe they were testing to see if they could give him wish granting powers or something...
 
not only that i think latios and latias are on of a kind too. werent they guardians of the soul dew or something?
 
Latios and Latias are not one of a kind. Remember? They had a dad... I think MOST of the dogs are uniqe, exept Entei. (Unless he came back to life after the third movie and then somehow 'forgot' how to speak thewn appeared in the Anime...)
 
In the movie, there are at least two Deoxys. There are also multiple Latios/Latias as well, according to the legend (which was in the Japanese version but cut from the dub).
 
V Faction said:
I'm going to go out on a limb and say Ho-oh, Rayquaza, Groudon, and Kyogre are all one-of-a-kind... Because it would be stupid to have multiple copies of such legendary Pokemon.
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But then there's the question if these one-of-a-kinds are immortal.Groudon oversees the expansion of the landmass,and Kyogre oversees the expansion of the sea.So if either of them dies,does that mean the planet is screwed?


I've always believed that there are 'Prime Legendaries' so to speak.There's more than one Groudon,Kyogre,Rayquaza,and so on,but there's THE ONE that reigns over everything else.Like every bird in Revelation Lugia was the prime legendary of it's own species.And the other Zapdos in Johto,and the other two Articuno we've seen are lowly members.
 
Krucifier said:
but for those who dont know deoxy's was created on a research center in space, and was created when they put the genes of jirachi into a human volunteer. i do believe they were testing to see if they could give him wish granting powers or something...
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Um... what?
 
Nomekop Oen said:
But then there's the question if these one-of-a-kinds are immortal.Groudon oversees the expansion of the landmass,and Kyogre oversees the expansion of the sea.So if either of them dies,does that mean the planet is screwed?
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In the case of Kyorge, Groudon, Rayquaza, and so on? Yes, they are.

Or rather, "Yes, that's what I put my trust in." I couldn't imagine a Pokemon that wasn't immortal or of an absent greater power to be in their positition.

They're the guardians for a reason. They've got to be up to snuff.
 
Unregistered said:
There are three Deoxys now with the new special.
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Not that it affects the thread since we alredy know there is more than one Deoxys, but do we know that for sure? It might be one of the two we saw before.

Krucifier said:
i asked the same question to some friends and they said deoxy's is definatly a one of a kind pokemon, but for those who dont know deoxy's was created on a research center in space, and was created when they put the genes of jirachi into a human volunteer. i do believe they were testing to see if they could give him wish granting powers or something...
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Where does this creation story come from? While humans have the ability to explore space, (Mossdeep Space Center/Porygon2,) I don't recall any of the canon suggesting that humans have gone as far as to set up a base in space.
 
You're right,maybe they're rare species.But that Deoxys might be the second one from the seventh movie.They're either rare species or they constantly reapear.And if there is a baby Lugia, does that mean that the Lugia from the second movie was a girl?
 
Krucifier said:
In the pokemon chronicals lugia got captured and so did its baby lugia. so what if legendaries arent one of a kind? for example - mew, if you delve into the old games and old cards you can find out that it was plentiful and somehow became extinct - exept for the mew that we've seen in all the movies etc. so what if there are several moltres, zapdos, groudon etc. if they decide to later on in the show or games etc. to implement more than one legendry they would most probably say (in the show of course) that it hadnt been discovered until now..... so what do you guys think?
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I was at first under the impression that legendaries were called legendary because they were one-of-a-kind. But the anime makes it clear that there are more than one to a species, like you said.

At this point, I feel that there are only two one-of-a-kind legendaries: Mewtwo and Ho-oh. Because Mewtwo was created, there is only one. As for Ho-oh, I do not have any evidence to support that there is one, except that it seems to be the most, well, legendary of the legendaries. (It appeared to Ash, Mew transformed into it during the prologue in the 8th movie, and it created the three beasts/dogs.)

Anyway, back to the point of this thread: Like I said, I used to believe that to be a legendary Pokémon meant that there must only be one-of-a-kind to a species. However, I now think that to be a legendary Pokémon means that there are many stories about it, and/or it plays an important role in nature.
 
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