Yeah, but you know, danger in the pokémon world is relative.
The worst thing that can happen when you face mafia/terrorists/wannabe dictators is they will make your rat fight theirs. I guess they’ll take your lunch money every time you lose, so that’s a thing.
Haha oh nooo. The official lore can be surprisingly fucking dark. Even in the games, the reason Jubilife exists is because wild Pokémon smoked an entire village. Burnt the fucking thing to the ground and gave the Galaxy Clan’s commander PTSD.
Also in the beginning of Arceus, your rival has only just recovered from hospitalisation after they took a thunderbolt from a Shinx.
Then there are literal wars that break out. And some of the Pokédex entries. And the mangas go fucking dark too at times.
The losing your lunch money is just a game mechanic.
The whole lore is an absolute mess, to be fair.
There’s Pokémon who should be ridiculously dangerous to even get close to, but no safety measures are required whatsoever and people use them all the time with no consequences. Villains are ready to destroy the world or whatever it takes to reach their goals, but they still won’t attack you, or anyone opposing them, directly with their Pokémon. And that’s just two of the huge holes in the worldbuilding.
I love the series (well, at least up to XY), but the lore constantly swings between “happy-go-lucky kids-friendly game” and “deep character-driven narrative/creepypasta material”, with no coherence between the two. And I love both sides, but trying to make sense of it all is pointless unless you go full theorycrafting and make up your own headcanon.
You can’t even use secondary sources because everything has their own canons and you can’t make sense of the game through manga information, for example (even though I really wish the game plot was as good as Pokéspe’s).
I like the way it’s handled in PL:A. Before Pokémon have developed a symbiotic relationship with humans, they will straight up just attack you in the wild.
I do too. It actually felt a bit like a world filled with potentially dangerous animals, as opposed to magical pets.
I wonder how many trainers simply starve to death because they suck at battling
Team Rocket is a lot more sinister when you realize they’re running around causing generations of children to starve in the wilderness
but a fucking cool electric rat
Pikachu is known as the electric mouse, he’s not as rat
You’re allowed to return home anytime you want. Just walk your character into their bedroom, tuck them into bed, save, exit to the main menu, and delete the save. Congratulations, you have just completed the alternate ending to Pokémon.
I know I’m replying to my own comment but this reminded me of a joke I once read about the first Bioshock game (Bioshock spoiler incoming)
Title
When Andrew Ryan told me to kill him at the end of Bioshock, I shut off the game and deleted the save. A man chooses, a slave obeys.
The NEET ending.
And in the latest games you go to school and then they want you to explore the whole region. They absolutely shook up the plot by making the headmaster want you to explore rather than your mom! It’s revolutionary!
/S
Tbf pokemon has cracked the code, nobody wants the plot shook up. They want new 'mons and new mechanics shit like berries and the RTC.
That and let’s be real, these games are meant for kids. If you played RYBG, you’re kiiinda supposed to have aged out by now. Any kid picking up the new new it is expected that they did not play many of the previous gens. If you’ve picked up every one since the GBC, you should know what you’re getting yourself into.
I would ague this is almost a perfect comic
Did OP genuinely not think it was close enough to illicit the comparison that they needed to explain it?
I’ve never played Pokemon, so, yes.
not true the mom does not give him a rat professor oak does.
Also prof oak is almost certainly giving it to your mother.
Meanwhile professor oak:
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Meanwhile the kid collects more rats, each one more powerful than the last, instead of collecting other animals
Until he finds the top 1% of rattatas.
He also like short because it’s comfy and easy to wear
And the 10 year old wants to be the very best, like no one ever was.
Momma had a hot date
last panel ruined it
Yet somehow it’s in the top 20 posts of all time in this community.
