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Did you know, the reason we depict the forbidden fruit as an apple is a pun? In Latin, Malum is a word that can mean Apple but can also mean Evil or Bad

I love the fact that Regenerator is a fitting ability due to the whole, "Cut off one head, two more rise up in it's place"

Given that the actual Hydra had blood that was _ludicrously_ toxic, I wouldn’t recommend eating the syrup. Also fitting we encounter them in the region that introduced Hydreigon.

Hydrapple's French name is "Pomdorochi", that we can translate as "Orochiapple". The Japanese name also seems to be based on Yamata-no-Orochi

“Syrpent” being named is absolutely wild to me! It is the latest non-Pokémon Pokemon, like Kangaskhan’s baby except even closer to an actual Pokemon because they’re confirmed as separate entities in the apple AND actually have a pun based name like many Pokemon do!

I always thought Dipplin was incomplete. Like theres no way that was its final evolution. Seeing Hydrapple...yep that fixed it. I LOVE IT ITS SO COOL AND SILLY

Hydrapple looks fierce and cute at the same time! I'm happy with how they approached the design. Definitely using one on my teams

I am 100% on board with making Applin the next pokemon who gets a ton of new forms.

I cannot stress how much I LOVE "syrpent" as a portanteau. It's PURE brilliance. Who thought of that word, GIVE THEM A DAMN RAISE. Also, HA, I covered the candied apple first.

Did you know that Dipplin's & Hydrapple's Syrupy Bomb will change from red to gold if it is shiny? The color change remains as the speed effect drops each turn too. I'm pretty sure this is the only time a shiny form has changed a move animation!

I like Hydrapple. Like, really like it. The design looks cool and well done. The two tails on the back remind me of Ghidorah’s two tails. It’s definitely my favorite out of its evolutionary line.

Hydrapple looks so much cooler than what fans thought it would be! Way to "tie" it all in together so quickly!

I bet Fawful's Minion would love to see the entire origin of Dipplin and Hydrapple. He already did to Flapple and Appletun after all

I got something you may have missed: hydrapple looks similar to gigatemax flapple/appleton. Perhaps hydrapple looks the way it does as a dna remnant of the potential if the Applen had evolve into the other two.

I think you should have talked about the Yamata no Orichi inspiration, it's French name is Pomdorochi, which come from pomme d'or (golden apple) and Yamata no Orochi, this could tie it even more with The Japan Based Kitakami .

i personally think Hydrapple is, albeit somewhat loosely, based on King Ghidorah, mainly because of the shiny colors and how it looks when all the heads join in when it uses Fickle Beam and the fact that this same gen introduced Baxcalibur, which is literally just Godzilla, so it would make sense to also add Godzilla's greatest rival as a Pokémon imo

Hydrapple looks so cool as "syrpents"!

Maybe I’m looking into it too much, but I always felt there was a distinct reason Dipplin/Hydrapple was added to Kieran’s team. It isn’t until Dipplin is on his team that we begin to notice a shift in his character, and by the time we see him again he’s a completely different person, this time with a Hydrapple. It feels like his relationship with Dipplin/Hydrapple kinda mimics the idea of temptation and corruption that we see in the story of the Garden of Eden. Not to say that Hydrapple is responsible for his character arc, but I think it draws a nice parallel for what could be some of Hydrapple’s inspiration.

Lockstin! You may have missed something about this Pokémon. In Spain we have a myth that relates well to it, it's called "cuélebre", a serpentine creature, usually winged, that belongs to the north iberian peninsula mythology, specifically in Asturias. And what is the typical drink in Asturias? Exactly, cider. So definitely hints of cuélebre too.

I find interesting that you need to go to two different locations far from Paldea just to get the new evolution for applin, in the same generation. Also the fact Hydrapple is the name of a group of Pokemon called syrpents. I think it would be neat to see Syrpents as a solo Pokemon one day. Alternate idea, Applin evolves into syrpents.

Hydrapplin is also a reference to the Yamato no Orochi story in Japanese mythology

I like the idea that the apple on it’s horn is it’s original apple from its days as an Applin, and the stick from it’s Dipplin form became a horn when it evolved, as we already know that Hydrapple’s main “apple” is actually just apple-shaped syrup. I’m not sure this theory 100% holds up under scrutiny but I like it.

In addition, Hydrapple now has regenerator as an ability, fitting for the hydra Pokémon

Hydrapple is the perfect mix of a goofy and cool cool design I love this fella SO much i also l love how big it is in game 10/10 design

I think it's interesting that Dipplin got a Hydra evolution in the same region where we first encounter Hydreigon

i wonder if flapple and appletun will get the same treatment

I wish Hydrapple was part of the main game. I love Hydras. One of my favorite dragons and monsters.

Archaludon and this guy are by far my favorite new Pokemon from this DLC. Its a good time for gen 8 dragons I guess

Shiny Hydrapple reminds me of Ladon, Greek myth's other many headed Reptile, also slain by Hercules. Depicted with heads varying from one to one thousand, Ladon guarded the Garden of the Hesperides, particularly the Golden Apples.

hydrapple a precious i love him

Now I just need a third stage evolution for Appletun, because that's by far my favorite branch of the little apple wyrms. He's such a chonky good boi.

The poison type of the wyrm inside the apple could also be a reference to the seeds of an apple containing arsenic and so being highly toxic.

7:08 Weird, this reminds me of Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3-Body Connection from the Toei Yugioh movie, which served as protoype for Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon except instead of fusing with the spell card called Fusion (aka Poylmerization in the TCG and English dubs of the anime series), they were bound together by the spell card called Wicked Chain, which used three Blue-Eyes White Dragons as a tribute to summon Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3-Body Connection -(a stark contrast to summoning Harpie Lady Sisters with Elegant Egoist, as you do not need to tribute a Harpy Lady to summon Harpy Lady Sisters and you only need one on the field, not three)-

I love Hydrapple, one of my new favorite pokemon. It looks so goofy and silly yet it looks like if you look at it the wrong way it will blast you to the 27th dimension.

Fun fact about Johnny Appleseed In his time. Apples were mainly used in the production of alcohall. It wasn't until after prohibition That they were more commonly eaten. So Johnny appleseeds more inclined to alcohol than eating apples, the more you know.

0:49 For context, that's not actually Captain America but a clone created by a living cosmic cube. This may have been the intention all along or a retcon because of the backlash and we'll _never_ know the truth because _of course_ they'd either avoid the question or say it was the plan all along.

Fun fact: Johnny Appleseed was planting apples to make booze. According to Michael Pollan, he was a reclusive fellow who would buy land and plant apples from seed, which notoriously don’t sprout the same apple as the parent apple. Most apples are pretty gross to eat, but they’re great for makin’ hooch! So JA would plant orchards in remote places and move on when those places got too populated. And I think he also sold the apples or booze and made a tidy living.

I love how each of their eyes look different, you can easily see this when they do this animation at 3:16

Fun fact: in actual greek mythology its never stated that the hydra grows 2 heads in the place 1 is cut off in just that it regenerates its heads, Its often a added myth from a later author that stated it grew more heads but in the classical times and the commonly depicted times at the time it only regrew its heads

The original greek word for dragon just meant "Big snake" which is why the hydra looked more snake-like without the influence of western dragons.

I've always loved the Applin line

The lernean hydra is the ONLY type of hydra that can grow back it’s head from Ancient Greece, the other types was just 1-2 headed and just breather fire, ice or poison

I just noticed that the apple stuck in Hydrapple's left horn is actually meant to be the tiny apple it had back when it was a tiny 8 inch tall Applin. Now it's a big 5'11" tall Hydrapple with an artificial apple made of syrup to nest in, but still keeps its original apple stuck on its horn like the apple on a stick it's based on. Neat-o beans!

I love the Applin line, so glad they’re getting more love

Honestly the ENTIRETY of the Applin line is perfect and adorable too. It's definitely in my top 3 favorite Pokémon lines

Fun fact about Jonny Appleseed: The type of apple he planted was not suitable for eating, but was used to make alcohol Also, the reason he planted a bunch of apples was because the new country basically gave out free land, on the condition that you claim it yourself and develop it, so he traveled west, claimed a bunch of land by planting booze apples, and then sold that land to settlers who weren’t fast enough to get their first Aka, the American dream

I love the idea when you hit Hydrapple, it’s friend comes out to help like “yo, you messin with my cuz?”. Then you hit both and both their friends come out ect.

mild correction. the Hydra of Greek Myth couldn't be able to make two new heads grow back when they were cut off. it just regrew that one head and it only had nine heads with the head that was the main one being fully immortal and unkillable

Fell for this adorable design the moment I saw it, and I've loved the whole Applin family since their debut in Galar! Honestly think that Hydrapple might be on my top ten! On another note, something that caught my eye in Scarlet's dex entry was the mention of the little wyrms themselves: ✨Syrpents!✨ Seeing them directly call them out has me curious if these Syrpents have some (possibly planned?) regional variant potential! They could take over other fruits, or maybe even foods?? Perfectly happy with Hydrapple, but there's also so much potential, hope they revisit the idea sometime! A whole... Can of wyrms... If you will 🪱

Hydrapple managed to become my favorite Gen 9 Dragon and one of my favorite Gen 9 Pokémon altogether, and I haven't even played the Indigo Disk yet

While I do admit that the fact that only one member of the Applin line actually get to evolve is a bit weird, Hydrapple did grew on me.

I love caramel apples and already loved the other forms of this Pokemon, this on might be my new favorite once I get it in game.

It's line has become my favorite pokemon, I want to get 3 shiney ones and have them as each evolution

The fact it has two tails kinda reminds me of King Ghidorah, who also was inspired by the Hydra, so maybe it's just a coincidence.

One interesting thing that the poison part reminded me of is that real-life hydras have venomous tentacles like their relatives the Portuguese man o' war. Which, incidentally, is also a colonial organism that happens to be named after an Iberian ship, how perfect can you get?

I would also mention Yamata-no-Orochi, another multiheaded serpent in Japanese folklore, tying it with the DLCs japanese fairytale theming

Wouldnt the horned serpents also be the same horned serpents associated with Isold Sayer and the founding of Ilvermorny story?

7 syrupents, that's exactly one head and tail short of Yamata-No-Orochi. Might not be a coincidence.

Knew this was coming,was waiting for it too

3:12 now i kinda wish they did a prevolve baby of applin called syrpent thats so clever!

This is the BEST way to learn about a new pokemon! I haven't played S/V yet and I knew about Dipplin but!! A hydra based apple pokemon!! I'm in love!!!!

Flapple was my favorite pikemon before but now its some super tough competition i think hydrapple might just beat it out. The whole Applin line is fantastic i love them so much I think i wanna do a whole playthrough of just the apples

0:44 No, you don't "Hail" it. You instead get on the Hydra's back!

*Munches on a green apple.* Okay I'll have to get this evo now. This just makes Dipplin so much better!

Syrepent is such a fantastic name for the little guys also yeah the Japanese inspired Candied Apple evolution being a multi-snek also makes sense as a connection to the Yamata-no-Orochi

It's really neat how the small apple stuck on the main head's horn resembles a Leppa Berry!

Blueberry academy being off the coast of Unova was news to me, I mean I never looked into the geographical location. I assumed it was either still the Iberian peninsula/an island by the peninsula or more towards Italy

I didn’t know Johnny Apple Seed (and the accompanying festivals) were states specific- we have whole fairs dedicated to it in mine!

About the Paradox forms of the Legendary Beasts: while Past-Paradox!Entei isn't an ornithopod, it is still an ornithischian, meaning it and the other two Past-Paradox Beasts represent the three clades of Dinosauria: Theropoda (Walking Wake), Sauropodamorpha (Raging Bolt), and Ornithischia (Gouging Fire). It is known that theropods, sauropodamorphs and ornithischians are more closely related to each other than other archosaurs, the exact relationship between the three clades and which two are closer to one another than to the third is still being debated.

lockstin & gnoggin: "don't hail it!" me thinking of marvels hydra: "hail hydrapple!"

Looking forward to hydrapple, hydreigon, dugtrio, dodrio and magnetron team!

I hope Flapple and Appletun learn Dragon Cheer to evolve something unique evolution in the future generation much like Hydrapple.

With all this talk about Applin, Dipplin, and Hydrapple I'm now kinda hungry for candy apples! 🍎🍏

I wondered where the Actual Apple in this Pokémon went, and it’s fitting that the Head Syrupent wears it like a little crown!, so cool!.

When will the Paradox Pokemon Battle Royale happen?

Wow already a video for hydrapple

funny you should mention the spanish hydra guarding a golden apple cause the shiny form of hydrapple is gold.

I'd be low-key down for Applin turning into a new Eevee and having like 7 evolutions

Not just in japan, in Brazil syrup candy it's also used in them in some festivals (June fest is the more common)

While it's one head short of having the proper Yamata-no-Orochi inspiration, it would've been fitting for Kieran's ogre/oni-themed team, you know, the one with an OGRE Darner Pokemon in it, since the Yamata-no-Orochi sired an oni.

Herensuge from Basque mythology is also a seven headed dragon, that could be the inspiration for the number.

Unrelated to this particular video, but I'm watching a video about "eggcorns" (a linguistic thingy) and they explained "damp squib" vs "damp squid" and now the ability damp makes a little more sense. It's still stupid but at least I know what they were going for with it

I will always love Pokemon. As much as the graphics and optimization sucks, they're still filled with so much creativity and soul

Hey, little something to look deep into for you Lockstin & Gnoggin, the story of Kitakami and blueberry academy appears to potentially be a jab at the Pokemon community, both as a whole and the competitive field, how there is so many complaining about this or that, this Pokemon not being in, this Pokemon not being balanced etc, and Kieran is a prime showcase of the company's actions. In the Kitakami storyline it is super easy to defeat the trainers there, it is so easy and there is so many added Pokemon in, and Kieran slowly deteriorates into what we see in part 2 at the blueberry academy, but specifically the way it looks in part 1 seems to be a showcasing that the Pokemon company finally bowed down to those that kept complaining and made a lot of additions to the dex and made various good additions to the game while people kept complaining, so they made part 2 where it got tougher, it got more challenging, it showcased Kieran's new look and demeanor which jabs at the Pokemon competitive group's toxicity, yet the battle against Kieran itself is easier than all of the elite 4 battles as a whole, which may showcase the fact that the Pokemon company is finally running out of steam. When you defeat Kieran and they get upset saying this wasn't supposed to happen, it could showcase that the Pokemon company as a whole is finally beginning to wonder what to do anymore against all of the people in the community of Pokemon that keep complaining so much and that the company had done so much for them only to be pushed down even more by the group who just cant take a hint.

I think the fact that apples are acidic also fits with the poison thing (since a lot of poisons are), but you also got poison apples and the fact that apple seeds contain a tiny amount of poison.

This is what I thought what *Applin* is gonna look like when it evolves instead it's a Apple cow and a flapping apple, I'm glad to see diplins evolution is the one I thought it would be

Blueberry Academy being in New Jersey also works well because blueberries are the state fruit. Wouldn't be surprised if there's a rival school called Cranberry Academy (another prominent fruit in the state, NJ being the third largest cranberry producers in the US) to be the red to its blue.

"Which is why they're trash--" caught me so completely off-guard I just donkey-brayed like an idiot. XD Long time lurker here, I should say while I'm out in the open that your channel might be my very favorite on the tubes. I learn so, so much about the most random things PLUS pokemon PLUS your delivery is always super enjoyable. Thanks for doing what you do!!

IM SO HAPPY!!! I did research months ago and had the laden theory!! and I was waiting to find out if I was right .. and omg I feel so smart rn

Wyrm is also said Worm

I love how when he shows the trubish bug and say put trash in it he puts ampipom in it

I love that evolves by learning the move dragon call

Love the video really good! But I have a question, how many takes did you do for the apple

*Hail Hydrapple*

Oddly enough, I think Hydrapple is the first Hydra I've ever seen who's heads are all different. Best other media have done is a two headed dragon with opposing personalities.

The real OGs will remember “syrupent” as a piñata snake from vivá piñata. I miss that game.

Hydrapple also (kinda) sound like "hide in apple" to me. An incredible pun.

This evolution is so great it makes me feel sorry for Applin's other evolutions

Dude really straight up hating on New Jersey.