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Why Pokemon Is Evil

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8BitPoipole

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Reason I: Lavender Town
-In Lavender Town, there was a tower where trainers mourned their Pokemon. There were many gravestones, and even ghosts. Now it's a radio tower, and the dead Pokemon somehow aren't rotting al over the floor. So, what with the entire graveyard being re-built, where does that leave the ghosts? That upstairs bit that you can't get to. They moved the bodies up there, and the ghost Pokemon found a new home in various other areas. Never trust radio companies.
Fun Fact: Gary actually went to Pokemon Tower to mourn his Raticate...

Reason II: Gary
-...That you killed. That's right, Raticate fainted and didn't survive the wounds because it was his weakest Pokemon. In the space between the SS Anne battle and Vermillion's Pokemon Centre, Raticate died from brutal wounds it suffered thanks to YOUR Pokemon. Because of this, he avenges his Raticate by swearing to beat you forevermore, but fails every time. When he finally becomes the champion, you again defeat him, and you cause his Grandfather (his only surviving relative besides Daisy) to lose all respect for him. In the space of 20 hours of gameplay, you manage to bring a 10 year old down from optimistic excited child, to a broken gym leader who has to sit near the foot of the mountain that taunts him because you'er constantly up there with the strongest Pokemon team in-game.
Fun Fact: Assuming Lt. Surge was the same age as Gary's parents, they fought a war together long before your journey started, meaning that Gary lost his parents very early as a result of a war, and had to go through the pain of battling a man who survived the war that orphaned him.

Reason III: Team Rocket special
-In Pokemon Red/Blue, you assume the task of taking down the criminal syndicate to save Kanto. This is a harmless task, right? WRONG.
Giovanni was a poor man, so he set up Team Rocket to try and conquer Kanto, Sevii Islands and Johto. He failed miserably. He has a son you see, a son who he can support by succeeding in said criminal syndicate, but he fails. Fair enough Kanto is saved, but what about his poor son? His 7 year old son who he can't support?
Because of this failure, Giovanni takes on the Sevii Islands, and the evil child Red stops them there too, despite their best efforts.
What happens next? He spends 3 years establishing Team Rocket in Johto to try his luck there. By this point, his son is 10, but they are still poor. He steals a Pokemon from Elm's lab because, living a poor life, has grown up robbing to become successful, so because of this professor Elm calls the police. Not knowing that this poor boy has rejected his father's offer and just become a rough rebel just to survive another day. He sets himself an ambition, to become the champion, and you stop him from doing so. The current champion Lance also knocks sense into this poor boy's head and causes him to doubt his father's logic and lifestyle, but you still put him down. You're about to exit Victory Road, and he battles you, but because you beat him, he has to go back to the nearest Pokemon Center and heal his sick Pokemon (thankfully none of them die). He has to trudge to that nasty cave again because of your own personal gain.
At this point, you've also beaten Team Rocket in Johto, and Giovanni is in a cave listening to his minions' progress, listening to them fail. He has nowhere to go, and has no choice but to listen to his 3 year plan go to waste. He disappears from said cave and is never heard from again...
Silver is alone, and remains in Johto. Now, you're all happy in the Kanto region, stopping the last member of Team Rocket. After all this, you earn 7 gym badges and trek to the desolate island of Cinnibar and talk to none other than the broken 13 year old. You battle him in Viridian City, and you defeat him.

In the space of three years, you break an orphan and force him to fail everything he tries... twice... and you also try your best to keep Giovanni and his red haired son Silver a poor father and son.

YOU'RE ALL EVIL.
 
It's a humourous thread pointing out some potential deep flaws :D
 
Are you not looking a bit too much into it? Especially the Lavender town stuff. :))
 
You know it's petty logical that Gray Just put his Raticate in the PC after seeing how weak it was, He has over 50 pokemon in his PC why would he keep such a weak one?
And where did you get the Idea that gary's parents are dead?
 
Raticate: What was he doing in Pokemon Tower in the first place? Ok, I know Red was passing through but that's because he was on the trail of Team Rocket, whereas Blue/Gary had no proper reason for being there. Besides, when he gets new Pokemon, they're added instead of come out of the PC.

Parents: LT Surge fought in a war. He looks to be about 20-25 years younger than Oak, meaning that he may have fought in the war with Mr and Mrs Oak. Since Blue/Gary lives with Daisy and in the same town as his Grandad at the age of 10, his parents must be dead. If not, we should've seen them by now.
 
Keep in mind that Blue likes catches tons of Pokemon. So logically, he'd be in the tour to catch Pokemon. IIRC, he even mentions at one point that he caught a Cubone.
 
He keeps his earliest Pokemon. Ratatta being like, his second caught Pokemon. It was still pretty tough, and Abra was WAY weaker.
 
Abra sucked, meaning that he put up with his worst Pokemon.
Anyway, comment on the other points people.
 
skaraflame said:
Raticate: What was he doing in Pokemon Tower in the first place? Ok, I know Red was passing through but that's because he was on the trail of Team Rocket, whereas Blue/Gary had no proper reason for being there. Besides, when he gets new Pokemon, they're added instead of come out of the PC.
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Gary wasn't in the Tower, he was just in town. Because he wants to catch every Pokemon, and needs to visit everywhere to do so...and he claims to have caught over 50. Knowing his mindset, it's not surprising if he switched his Raticate for a better Pokemon. Only Youngster Joey has the top percentage Rattata/Raticate.


As for the Pokemon Tower having a radio station built over it...
If you do some paranormal research, you'll find that many people come to the conclusion that ghosts communicate through radio waves.
So I'm pretty sure the ghosts of the tower are okay with/the ones who possessed the workers into building the radio station there, for their own sinister plans.

Just thought I'd throw that out there~
 
Interesting... Now, my other reasons need coverage too. Read them!
 
Giovanni was Evil, and he didn't seen to care much about his son, he also did nothing and did not care about Johto, it was his minions who were extremely loyal who did that.
 
Oh honestly, the RBY's rival's Raticate didn't die. He simply boxed it for another Pokemon. It's not that hard a concept to grasp!
 
skaraflame said:
It's a humourous thread pointing out some potential deep flaws :D
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Okay, there are two problems with that.

1. It isn't funny.

2. It's not deep, it's just a unpleasant, bad interpretation of the original work.
 
You got the ages wrong. Gary is more likely to be 11 considering that Red is 11 in the games. That age 10 thing is anime only.

I've always believed the theory that Raticate was killed. Why box it when there is space on your team, even if it is your weakest mon? Furthermore, he asks what the player is doing at the tower when none of the player's Pokemon have died. It sort of implies that he has a reason to be there, that one of his Pokemon has died.
 
^There is no proof either that his Raticate died. This is pure speculation.

And yeah, this thread is hardly funny, imo.
 
Please note: The thread is from 14 years ago.
Please take the age of this thread into consideration in writing your reply. Depending on what exactly you wanted to say, you may want to consider if it would be better to post a new thread instead.
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