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A detail I’ve noticed about Iron Valiant is that its chest is hollow. Since it’s based on Pokémon that are all about emotions, this implies that Iron Valiant has no emotions, being a stone-cold robot and all.

Some theories I’ve had regarding the Violet Paradox forms - “Iron” is the company that manufactured them. Lots of companies slap their names on their products, like Apple Watch and whatnot, so that consumers know where they came from. - Their typings were based on a limited understanding of the distant past (A winged creature with dark plumage? It must be a flying type. A monster with sharp spikes? It must have been part electric. Etc.) - The reason that they’re smaller than the pokemon that their designs are based on is so that they’re cheeper to make and more transportable. - They do get kind of “quarky” at night.

My favorite head-canon is that the robot that Hydreigon fell in love with is actually _Magearna_ purely due to the amount of irony that that couple would have.

Fun fact, Miraidon’s Pokédex entry calls it “Iron Serpent”.

I chose Violet, Caught the Titan Iron Treads, and named him Autobot Because he likes to *Roll Out*

One thing I want to point out, is while the future paradox mons are shorter than past paradox, Miraidon is somehow taller than Koraidon.

I feel like Iron Valiant is also meant to be representative of the 'Evil Robot Double' trope you see in fiction a lot. Built by an evil scientist in the image of two Pokemon that are traditionally meant to be caring and heroic. It has their moves, and despite not having psychic type it DOES learn psychic moves... but it lacks their heart and soul, thus the lack of psychic type. Seriously, it's even built by a mad scientist--Metal Sonic was the first thing that came to mind when I saw its style of LED eyes.

It's worth noting that Iron Moth's size difference compared to Slither Wing and Volcarona proper is possibly a reference to insects shrinking in size over the course of millions of years due to there being less available oxygen compared to the rich atmosphere of the prehistoric era!

I would also like to point out that Iron Leaves can be viewed as a corruption of justice, as someone created their own sword of justice aka “they made their own justice”.

The knowledge that Iron Bundle is a condensed metaphor for the commercialization of Christmas both makes me like the design more and makes me concerned for the future

The idea of Iron Valiant and Iron Leaves being able to combine into a stronger pokemon does bring to mind a different powerful green psychic type: Calyrex

One bit I want to mention: Iron Valiant and Iron Leaves are both capable of emotion once they are captured within a pokeball. In fact, Iron Valiant takes on it's more supportive and kind traits from Gardevoir and Gallade when it interacts with its trainer.

I'm surprised you didn't mention RoboCop at all when talking about Iron Hands. The dex entry sounds like the premise to RoboCop almost verbatim; a police officer (athlete) who was gravely injured and rebuilt stronger using advanced technology.

I have a theory on why Iron Moth is Poison-type. In the future, the skies were super polluted with poisonous gasses, blocking out the sun, so Volcarona tried to replace it like the Pokédex says but died due to the gas, so they built Iron Moth to do the same thing but with a natural resistance to the poisonous gas.

Rockstin is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters/people of all KZfaq

For those wondering... The mug disappears because F. Lockstin takes it, then returns it to him later in the video. There is no paradox. The mug has just been brought forward in time. Lockstin doesn't even immediately notice it, which is why he brings it up.

Iron Moth being a Poison-type could also reference it being a solar panel thingy and with how toxic/cancerous UV light rays are and how it could possibly utilize that, as well This thought makes it pretty cool to me now and makes me want to use it

Past paradox Lockstin is quickly becoming my favourite character in the Lockstinverse

What may be of interest in regards to an Iron Valiant's behaviour, is to refer to both Gardevoir and Gallade. Gardevoir and Gallade both use their Psychic abilities to communicate and sense another's emotions. An empath. Remove the Psychic typing, and they lose the means to be an empath. They're not driven by another's emotions anymore, driven to protect others because of said emotions. Now, they're killing machines. Made to protect themselves and ruthlessly attack anyone what who may be deemed a threat. It's rather upsetting.

One future paradox Pokémon I want to see is a Pokémon pulled from a “good future”, where the world is ecologically stable and a tree-like or tree themed Pokémon from the future would be hella cool

This comes out right when I’m making my Iron Valiant cosplay, perfect timing! Currently making the helmet out of aluminum.

Something to note, Buzzwole has the same kind of liquid energy as the future paradox mons so that's something

I'm now imagining a paradox form of Muk made almost entirely out of that mysterious liquid.

I was hoping you would talk about Iron Moth's cute and expressive LCD eyes. It makes me think it's not just an observation drone of some kind, but it's specifically meant to earn the trust of families or children, and observe more closely. It also does the exact thing you mentioned of its wings fitting together into a sun shape during certain attack animations, even moving the wings in front of its body and causing them to glow brighter, as though releasing stored solar energy.

I actually like the future paradox mons and how they contrast well with the past paradox mons. If they focused more on speculative evolution or nuclear mutations, I feel like they would have been seen as too similar to the latter.

Lochrome coming in clutch and showing how creative these guys can be! Too many people tend to stop at a surface level once they see the future Paradoxes are all robots, but there's much more behind them that is constantly overlooked just because the first impression wasn't the best.

The 'Iron Energy' (mentioned at 44:46) is probably just man-made or rather a refined version of Booster Energy. The Held Item that the Paradox Pokemon hold. As they drain Booster Energy's for... well a boost, similar to how machine's would run off of a battery. BUT, the reason why I say 'man-made' is because Past Paradox Pokemon can also use Booster Energy, but instead of doing this through electricity, they do this through photosynthesis... or well Protosynthesis, but you get the idea. My simple hypothesis is that Booster Energy is basically a sort of super-solar energy that was once very common across the planet or at least where/when Past-Paradoxs where around, and was eventually lost due to time. But some scientist in the future was able to find and integrate this Booster Energy into the Iron Line of Paradoxs. I mostly like this idea, because it not only has parallels to things like fossil fuels, but because Booster Energy is just the weird thing that no one really talks about when talking about the Paradoxs. If only SOMEONE would do a video about it...

Part of me REALLY feels like Occulture is playing a bigger part in this Paradox Pokemon phenomenon than we might currently know. Also, wild query, but if the red of Scarlet depicts the far past and the purple of Violet the far future, then what about the green of Teal and the blue of Indigo? Maybe closer to the near past (green) and perhaps the present (blue)?

I heard long ago a theory that said all Future Paradox also has some type of energy in their inspirations like: Iron Moth - Solar or Chemical iron Thorns - Nuclear iron Bundle - Hydraulic iron Hands - Electric or Magnetic Iron Leaves - Aeolic Iron Threads - Motion Iron Valiant - Maybe life energy? probably Mechanical only because they use a weapon

Iron Moth always reminded me of the idea of a Dyson Sphere, a bunch of orbiting solar panels around the sun that a more advanced civilization may be able to harness

Iron Moth's fire/poison type could also be explained by it being a futuristic Volcarona. Volcarona is a substitute sun, the pokedex mentions that if the sun is being blocked a Volcarona can temporarily take its place by flying into the sky and producing flames from its wings. Iron Moth is an artificial substitute sun, with that in mind it's possible it is conducting thermonuclear fusion in its wings. The plasma produced is represented by the fire type and the radiation it produces is represented by the poison type.

I think you missed that Iron Leaves’ run animation is inspired by real-life quadrupedal robot movement, which move in roughly the same way

Heres an interesting idea: Could the Tera crystals and Terapagos be related to the Anomalies from Primeval?

Idk if it’s been mentioned in the video because I’m only half listening but I just wanna say that creating the perfect psychic type has been a theme in Pokémon for a LONG while

I think the future paradoxes are similar because of standardization/uniformization. Like I know technically all individuals of a Pokémon species look the same because of game limitations, but I imagine the past paradoxes would have a lot of individual differences, while the future paradoxes would have barely any (one rare anomaly of a shiny when the painting machine ran out of ink). Just a clean design copy pasted over and over. Actually it's possible to check the size of a Pokemon in S/V, right? Can they have different sizes?

Iron Jugulis not revisiting Hydreigon’s original incarnation as a tank is a crime tbh. I get that Iron Treads is the war machine but man, it’s such a missed opportunity.

13:40 Android 16 IS an Android. He is made entirely of mechanical parts. He was just made to resemble Dr. Gero's son. He isn't a Cyborg (The other ones are though).

My own personal theory on the "iron" in the names and whatever energy the Future Pokémon run on is that it's Iron from the cores of stars and that the Quark Drive ability seems to mean they run on quark gluon plasma. This is further proven by Miraidon's Hadron Engine as when the plasma hadronizes you get a reaction that produces matter and antimatter which when they annihilate each other produces a huge amount of energy. Although I'm more curious as to how this fuel source works on Ancient Pokémon via the Booster Energy.

I think Iron Bundle/Mecha Delibird is probably also a reference to Doraemon. Doraemon also has a 4D Pocket that he can pull a bunch of gadgets from, kind of like a futuristic bag of toys from Santa.

About Mega Tyranitar and those spines, have you ever noticed how Tyranitar's body looks Exactly like Pupitar grew a rocky outer body around itself reminiscent of its former Larval self? Anyone ever think maybe the Larvitar hasn't actually escaped the Pupal stage just grew a whole new ambulatory shell around its original pupal shell? >.>

Unpopular opinion: I actually like the future Paradox Pokémon more than the past versions, although I do like the past ones as well. If you couldn't tell, Iron Valiant is my favourite of them all.

It seems to me that the future paradox pokemon have an underlying theme of futuristic warfare and spionage going on. So, maybe there's some kind of war in the future? I also think Iron bundle may be based on the idea of ooparts (out of place artifacts), basically, it's an object that is found as part of a past civilization that due to its design or properties that resemble more advanced technology seems to belong to a future era without a concrete explanation. But this one indeed comes from the future and somehow ended in the past (maybe because certain professor used a time machine to send pokemon to other era). Which is essentially what created the paradox that brought those pokemon to present time (the professors got obsessed with the creatures from the scarlet/violet book, created a time machine, brought the paradox pokemon to the present and then traveled to their desired eras at the end of the game and they made sure to send some pokemon to Heath's era for the scarlet/violet book to be created in the first place in order for them to get obsessed with them and create the time machine (creating the entire time loop and maybe accidentally sending one Iron bundle way too far into the past). Basically, it's a bootstrap paradox.

0:42 when he said "futuristic sci-fi post apocalypse" I immediately thought of Virus Groudon this could be a good way to bring him into the games and canon

What I like about the Future Paradoxes is not that they are robots (that is kinda lame xD), but the idea of What exactly pushed humans to even build these robotic Pokemon. What sort of future gives birth to these "creatures"? And that thought is interesting... and scary D:

These are becoming equal parts entertaining and informative. Laughed and learned a lot. Please keep past and future guys as cameos!

One thing I love about Lockstin’s Analysis videos is that he goes so in depth that it helps give a new found appreciation for the designs or makes me love the mons in question even more!

I think the secret to paradox comes from the iron juggulis idea. What if all paradox Pokémon are the results of time traveling Pokémon. Roaring moon is a descendant of Salamanca but also it’s ancestor creating a Bootstrap paradox. Iron bundle is the first attempt at creating a robot copy/mate/baby of a time traveling delibird. The result of which is kind of failed. An ancient attempt if you will. We don’t know how much time passes between each attempt at a new paradox mon.

Still I think the Paradox Pokémon are just fictional creations from the Scarlet/Violet books. That explains why the designs are so basic (past= dinosaur, future= robot) and how Heath could see the Paradox mons 200 years before the "Time Travel" machine even was invented. And this isn't a *_GAAAME THEORY_* but the game itself points out to that question.

Clicked faster than Usain Bolt

Excellent analysis! also glad to see Bakugan being alluded to at 15:21

Never noticed until the end of the episode when they talk about the shiny portions of the Pokémon, but I do love how each of them has a different color to them.

I noticed how it was said that Iron Hands was possibly the only Future Paradox that had organic parts But given how Miraidon somehow had DNA, as stated by AI Turo, I think that may not be the case (edit: silly me, pausing just before they talk about Jugulis lol) But also, I'm just pleased that Lockstin's doing a Future Paradox video, aince they're my favorite Paradoxes haha

One detail I like is how all the scarlet paradoxes are larger than their original counterparts (referencing ‘dire beasts’ and other large prehistoric versions of modern-day animals like wolves, bears or sloths), while Violet paradoxes (barring Miraidon obvi) are all smaller, referencing technology becoming more streamlined and compact Also the killer sci-fi robot aesthetic rules and I’m glad they didn’t clutter the theming up too much with going for too many interpretations of ‘futuristic’, it’s what holds the scarlet paradoxes back with their lack of thematic cohesion

14:20 When Lachrome said the robots of his time boxed, I IMMEDIATELY thought of 'Real Steel' As a kid, I loved it and still do; Noisy Boy was my favorite in terms of design & potential. I wished we got to see him more instead of letting him be a punching bag for Midas.

My theory for the future forms is that they are cybernetic recreations of modern day mons. That's why they are so similar, because they are made to be like the original.

My theory is that Iron Treads isn’t actually a paradox form of Donphan due to its different face, and proportions. I think this is because it’s a paradox form of a future evolution of Donphan, one that we haven’t seen yet, one that evolved to be even better at rolling which explains why Iron Treads is shaped so differently. This seems more likely since in the Titan battle Great Tusk goes “DON PHAND” thus Donphan, but Iron Treads goes “WHIRRR DONN” maybe eluding to it not being Donphan The reason it could be referred to as Donphan is because that’s the closest thing it looks like without being the exact creature. In fact we’ve seen a similar thing in BDSP and Legends Arceus. The story of Manaphy book includes a “Qwilfish with large spikes” which turned out to be an Overqwil, a pokemon that wasn’t released yet. What if the Violet book does the same thing with Iron Treads?

As much as people say its unoriginal, but I happen to like the uniform chrome shinies, in large part because the cause those starry liquid energy... things to pop out more. Really gives the impression that they're meant to be important for something.

4:30 Best Part of the Video. "It can recognize every grandma but it consciencesly decides on whether it will avoid them or not."

I was so happy when I saw Rockstin... I was starting to miss him!! I'm also so hyped for the Paradox Pokémon creation explained video whenever it comes out...

I've always loved Gardevoir and Gallade (NOT for the Rule 34 reason), and after learning about a fusion of the two whilst also being an awesome robot, it quickly became my favourite Pokemon. The dual halberd is an amazing futuristic extension of Gallade's own blades, and the unique typing is just a cool lore idea, with it being both Gardevoir and Gallade, but failed Psychic type. I also loved Iron Leaves' design as well, as I love the entire Swords of Justice. So, I was glad to know that a Virizion Paradox form was in Violet. And this video, explaining how the two could be connected with their switched typings, just solidified my love for them.

Lockstin called moth larvae "worms" so confidently that I had to double check that they're called caterpillars

The entire skit with rockston at 28:17 being scared of the video card made me actually notice it where I would never do before.

I always thought of iron bundle as a fire extinguishing robot. Its red, water type, and the bundle in it's name could be where it stores water to shoot at the fire. Its head coming off could allow it to reach higher and spray the water from its beak. I know it's a silly theory, but i still believe it

I have a theory that the bright liquid in the future paradox mons is the remains of the original pokemons after being pulped and poured into artificial bodies that are similar to their previous ones.

Hi, once again I'm here to explain German Pokémon Names, this time it's about the future Paradox Pokémon of course. I also did this for the past Paradox Pokémon in the comments of their dedicated video. But first, there are some things that were pointed out in the replies and I want to adress them here. First: "Windewoge", the German name for Walking Wake may come from "Winde" which can mean a few different things, but in this sense it's the plural of "Wind", which literally the German word for wind. Also, I have been informed that I didn't mention Koraidon's title, as it is called the "Winged King" in the English translation. In the German Version it's title is known as "Schwingenkönig", which, literally translated, means "Wingking". (Schwinge = wing, König = king) One last thing I start: The German names for these Pokémon all have "Eisen" before their name, which literally means iron. So, without furderado, let's go over the future Paradox Pokémon. Iron Treads is called "Eisenrad" in German and literally means "Iron Wheel". The word "Rad" mostly refers to wheels but can also be used to refer to a bicycle. Next up is Iron Moth and it's German name is "Eisenfalter". "Falter" is a word that can refer to butterflies and moths alike, even though there are two sperate words for them. So, "Eisenfalter" literally means "Iron Moth" in this exact context. Iron Hands is next and it's German name is the most similiar to the English name and very straight forward. In German, this Pokémon is called "Eisenhand" and it literally means "Iron Hand". Then there is Iron Jugulis and I must say, "jugulis" is a weird word. In German, we call this Paradox Pokémon "Eisenhals". "Hals" is a very common word an means "throat" or "neck". So this name translates to "Iron Throat" or "Iron Neck". Just like "Eisenhand", the German name for Iron Bundle is very close to it's Englisch version. We call it "Eisenbündel". A "Bündel" literally means "bundle", so that's very straight forward. But I guess this is a good point to bring up some letters, that are not used in the English language: ä, ö and ü. In the past Paradox Pokémon explanation I told you about the ß and explained it. These three letters are a bit harder to explain though. The 'ä' is pronounced like the 'a' in "tan" and the 'ö' would be pronounced like the 'o' in "word". For the 'ü' I couldn't find a word that makes this exact sound. But you can try to say 'wit' but "round your lips as if whistling" as the Internet told me is how you do it. But enough about that. The next Pokémon is Iron Thorns and we call it "Eisendorn" in German with "Dorn" meaning "thorn". So "Iron Thorn" is the literal translation. Iron Valiant's German name is "Eisenrkieger". The word "Krieger" means Warrior, so it translates to "Iron Warrior". Very straight forward. As I am writing this, i realize how many Names a almost identical when translated. Iron Leaves is called "Eisenblatt" in German, which literally Translated means "Iron Leaf" with "Blatt" being the german word for "leaf". And now, the last one. Miraidon is known as the "Iron Serpent" and the German version of this title is "Eisenschlange", which means "Iron Snake" or "Iron Serpant". Once again, very similar. "Schlange" means "serpent" or "snake". But the word can also mean "line", like in a waiting line for example. This has nothing to do with this Pokémon, but I just wanted to point that out. And that's it for today. I hope I did leave nothing out and that you enjoyed this, even though it's a lot of text. Once again, I want to thank all of you for reading. This is always a lot of fun, espacially reading your replies, so feel free to share your thoughts and even talk about your own language. See you guys next time!

Who here loves Iron Jugulis as much as I do? He my favorite.

another really interesting inspiration for Iron Valiant is the result of magnum opus in alquemy, the Rebis, a being beyond gender that is pictured on top of a dragon, that explains why it is the fusion beetween gallade and gardevoir and keeps the fairy type, since it is stronger than a dragon, that also gives an interesting fact if you compare Iron Valiant to its counterpart, Roaring Moon, because Iron Valiant obviously beats the crap of it. I think this works because in game it is said that the inventor of Iron Valiant was trying to create the perfect psyquic mon and Rebis is represented as the perfect being

I am impressed that you managed to make such a long material from future paradoxes😅

My favorite is Iron Jugulis simply because I love the pretty colors given to “new Hydregion.”

I absolutely agree with the descriptor of “impostor” when it comes to the future paradoxes. They really don’t feel like Pokémon, they feel like imitations that replaced the original Pokémon.

My mind is blown *AGAIN* with how deep each one of these Paradox Pokemon actually are! I hope some of your theories prove true in the DLC.

The future paradox Pokémon are just so cool in motion. As a jpg I can understand finding them plain but they had so much detail put into the mechanics of their movements

God I just love how passionate you are about pokemon. Love your videos

You know I did think that this would be an interesting idea for their naming convention where instead of just using iron use other metals / alloys / minerals like titanium, copper, gold, silver, & more or technology / scientific terms like atomic

“Robot penguin is animatronic like Freddy Fivenight” -Rockstin 2023

I don't know if it's covered in this video or not, but Iron Moth's Poison Type MAY also come from the ozone layer, and how ozone rays tend to be rather hazardous without it, so Iron Moth is pretty much the sunburn/skin cancer Pokémon, thus tying back to the sun motif it has, thus also justifying the fire typing ONCE AGAIN XP

Again, Iron Bundle is one of the funniest Pokémon to ever exist and is supremely epic because of that

A cave man calling Freddy Fazbear "Freddy Five Night" is the comedic gold I'm here for, that one got me

I love the gimmick and commitement of past, present and future lockstin. it speaks to my theater kid. Iron Valiant is my favorite of the future paradox mon.

I love all the effort put into the videos. Also I feel some of the future forms are underrated. Plus the dream theory makes more sense the actual being past vs future.

Wasn’t Hydreigon’s beta design going to be a tank? Its design still has the red tread marks. Maybe they made up for the lost design by making Iron Treads and Jugulis

"And here we see humans still fighting over melanin and hormones, hence our lack of contact." Goes hard af

Is it wrong that I love all 6 versions of Lockstin and Gnoggin in this vid and have rewatched the little skits in the middle 5 times each?

Just in time to listen to at work!!! Love your videos, keep it up!!!

I love past and future Lockstin so much😂

The Violet paradoxes are so much more interesting than “jigglypuff with a haircut” or “misdreavus messed up its mascara”

I think Iron Moth's typing is a reference to radiation. Solar radiation, toxic light, poison fire.

I had always figured that the Future Paradox Pokémon were essentially mass produced man made Pokémon, implying a sort of cyberpunk capitalist dystopia in the future. It would explain why all of them are made of the same material, have the same look, and why they all have "iron" in the name. It's almost like they're part of a series of mass produced toys, like "get excited about the newest member of the Pokémon Iron Collection, introducing Iron Hands." It would also explain why, for example, Iron Bundle is like a cheaply made Christmas toy, like it was a hastily put together addition to the series for people to buy for the holidays. Maybe the shiny forms are ones that never got painted but managed to get activated or bought anyway, which is why they're rare.

Paradox are basically Pokémon that already exist. The Legend of Arceus did this already. In Hindsight, they could have made a futuristic Legend of Necrozma and created futuristic poké evos to balance it out.

“That’s the price of a Big Mac in my time” quacking in anticipation of even further crippling inflation

"robot penguin is animatronic like freddy five night" comedy gold

I love the future Pokémon even tho they are just robots I still very much like them and it made useless delibird into a powerhouse😂

I find the future forms to be badass the Pokémon world has never had anything like them before We have explored the past numerous times through fossils and PLA but the future is unknown and that’s exciting And the idea of a dystopian future is interesting I mean people have said they want Pokémon games to be more mature The future forms are cyborgs not robots similar to armored mewtwo but the enhancements became permanent part of their physiology cuz if they were robots they’d all be pure electric and/or steel oe dual typed but they don’t they all retain at least one of their original types meaning that it’s lineage/biology is still part of it deep down either they did it to themselves or humans did it as a way to either act inhumanely or as a way to preserve them I think they all just overtime just became cyborgs down the line without going extinct maybe endangered or a way to keep them from being endangered Or just a way to advance evolution in a selfish way The reason the lore calls them robots is because they don’t know much about them so all the modern day people are doing is assuming

Rockstin crying out in terror of the dangers from the future is how I was in my play through of Violet because I to know that the outside world is a scary and dangerous place

been looking forward to this one! awesome video as usual dude. also I LOVE that you compared it to the unknown at the end, I had that thought too honestly.

I had this thought where if Paradox Pokemon could breed. They’d all share an egg group. Past Paradox are all in Monster and whatever other egg group their counterparts are in while the future paradox mons are in Mineral. Also I had this messed up thought of a lobotomized Beast Wars Megatron being mistaken for a Paradox Pokemon.

Hey Lockstin, was wondering if you could break down all the monsters from Rain World? I don't know If there's anything there or not for you, but I was just asking! Love your content!

Been here since 20k, so glad to see your growth dude!

Iron Valiant is TOTALLY an Eggman Robot!