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Can Pokemon become ghosts or zombies once they die? I've been wondering this for quite some time because that'd be awesome to see dead pokemon rise from their graves. So do zombies excist in the Pokemon world?
 
Well, in gameverse there was the ghost of "Cubone's mother" (why they didn't just call her a Marowak is beyond me), and in Special, there's dead pokemon controlled to act as zombies.
 
No there are not. Although some people in the games make references that they become spirits
 
As for becoming ghosts, well, ghost-type pokémon have to come from somewhere, right?
But as for zombies, there's a lot more gray area. I guess Shedinja counts, being the re-animated carapace of a Ninjask, but, then again, the Ninjask was never dead in the first place, which suggests possession rather then reincarnation.
And even if Shedinja is considered a zombie, I don't think that other pokémon can become zombies, that is, unless there's no more room in hell, somebody tampers with military property drums, asteroids bathe the entire planet in radiation, et cetera, et cetera.
 
Well apparently ghost-type pokémon aren't real ghosts, just look and act like them.
 
Khom?s said:
What about Giratina and Spiritomb, then?
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Well isn't Giratina canon Poke-Satan?

And Spiritomb is a ghost Pokemon that possessed a rock. Like an undiscovered ghost Pokemon.
Like... Like a green Gastly or something.

But with a rock.
 
What about Giratina and Spiritomb, then?
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Giratina is just a ghost in name. It was one of the first pokemon ever made, so how can it be a real ghost? It can't be made of a dead thing if nothing was even dead at that point...

Like the others said, most ghost pokemon are only ghosts in name. They aren't actually the spirits of dead pokemon, they just look and behave like fictional ghosts, so that's what they call them. The only two that really are made of dead spirits are Spiritomb and Drifloon, but even then that's rather errorous. The original games made it quite clear you couldn't capture the soul of a pokemon, so how can you capture pokemon made up of nothing BUT souls? Furthermore, how can a bunch of dead things comprise a living creature that breeds? Spiritomb in particular, your saying it's a species of pokemon? That every single one of them happens to be 108 spirits that were so evil they got stuck to a rock?! I can maybe believe one pokemon having that backstory, but a whole group?

All and all, ghost pokemon are kind of a big error anyways. Originally it was the trainers who made the pokemon evil, so how can ghost types actually behave this way naturally? Furthermore, how can you possibly catch ghost types that end up loving you and behave well? Most of them are described as feeding off of fear, hate, etc. How can any of these relationships even work? I mean, ghost pokemon are probably my favorite type of all, but I do think most of their backstories are rather idiotic. It's like "here, look at this ghost type, isn't it cool and cute? But...erm. The pokemon world is too happy and loving...why don't we give these ghost pokemon evil backgrounds so it has some edge?"
 
Jirachi Wish Maker had a reincarnated Groudon... which appearantly didn't go over so well, what with its enormous size, horrific appearance, death touch, and blue tentacles.
 
If Pokémon became zombies, would Ash turn into a Leon Kennedy wannabe and switch his Poké Balls for Poké Guns? I don't think that would work.

Seriously, I agree with Yotsuba: Ghost Pokémon are "classified" that way because of their looks, behaviour, habitat and abilities, which resmeble those of ghosts, but not because their the true spirits of previously dead Pokémon. It has been proved in-game that when Pokémon die, if indeed they become ghosts, they retain the species they were when being alive, such as the Marowak ghost in Lavender's Pokémon Tower - it was still a Marowak, not a Haunter or Gengar.

@HerSilverHammer: Satan is not a ghost, so what relation would it have Giratina being an equivalent of a Poké Satan with the ghost type?
 
Jethro Q Walrustitty said:
As for becoming ghosts, well, ghost-type pokémon have to come from somewhere, right?
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I am not from the camp of "Pokemon turn into ghost pokemon", that doesn't make any sense (to me). Ghost Pokemon aren't actually ghost, they are ghost-like. (Wasn't this already referenced in the Anime as well that ghost pokemon just live a long time?) Just like Pikachu isn't actually a mouse, it is mouse-like.

Still to the original topic, yeah that stuff was in Special, and ghosts were in the games (and Anime? Wasn't there a ghost pokemon in the first series?), so it's plausible.
 
Take this into consideration. In Gen I, you have to fight the ghost of Cubone's mother. But physical attacks still do damage.

Zombiez?
 
I have a question that is kind of in the subject of this forum. Ok in the games it says that pokemon can die. So all pokemon can die right? What about Gastly can he die? Is he the result of a dead pokemon? I mean how can a pokemon be born dead??
 
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