I think it went like this. Since in generation 1 there weren’t many Pokémon, and it was extremely early in the series, the idea of Pokémon and real life animals hadn’t been explored and fleshed out quite yet. However, once the series grew and evolved over the years, the developers probably went with the idea of Pokémon eventually becoming the animals of the series as a whole since there were enough of them after a certain point. This would also go for other early things in the anime too like Pokémon levels, and what moves they can learn that just changed and evolved over the years. That’s just my take on it

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Stars are not planets, yes the brights light on the night sky might be Jupiter, Venus. The major off them are starts like the sun The sun is not a planet

Was a good listen, thanks for sacrificing your sanity for it 😂

18:20 Bro Sunlight IS Starlight. Idk wahr You are talking about, exploding planets 😂😂😂😂

Pawniard, Bisharp and Kingambit also look like tokusatsu villains. Pawniard look like weak minions, Bisharp like a powerful rival to the heroes and Kingambit like the big bad that is almost always sitting down and plotting schemes.

Best spider is the green lynx spider, I love them

Simple: the creators eventually just focused on the pokemon aspect rather than the normal natural order of things. The show had pokemon seem like outside alien creatures at first, but then later as earthly inhabitants.

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Sould have tested who does n doesnt have a mouth with the pokemon refresh and amie, where you can feed the mons puffins and beans

Pokemon is a a game intended for children. Real animals were a way to give context to children they are familiar with to a new world. They were replaced with new Pokemon as the series went on. I think Lt. Surge was a cool concept for a gym leader. Who would have came off to children as really lame if he has not served in a war. Early Pokemon games had no mention of any form of government. So how could a military be formed with no structure to create or support it?

My theory is that the Pokemon world was a planet that humans found that was inhabitable by us and we simply sent some plants and animals from earth beforehand to "prepare" this planet for our arrival but turned out it was already inhabited by pokemon which turned out to be intelligent enough to become friends with us and when we sent these plants and animals this planet was inhabitable but not very hospitable and as we arrived and pokemon realized we made that world hospitable by sending these plants they decided to take the role of the animals they had already eaten by then and that's why we have animals references and why prof oak only knows about 150 pokemon because humans had barely arrived a few years ago by then

I just say in my opinion they shifted into pokemon

Castleback orbweavers are my favorite currently

Love how frequently the animal references are brought up by the fandom in Pokemon, but the fact of Grass pokemon existing alongside non pokemon plants isn't as mind blowing to peeps introduced to the topic.

This is one of the most BDG Unraveled coded videos I've ever seen

What's this game

Togemega is cool but hear me out, pikachu+yanmega rocking a lightball and speed boost ability

Shout out to Pokémon for being the only story other than Rikki Tikki Tavi to teach children what a mongoose is and does.

This is the bed of a proud trans vampire

Gud work would recommend

For Lapras, friendly and gentle to humans doesn't necessarily mean herbivore (see: orcas and dolphins). Also it's based on a plesiosaur which is a carnivore

A really raw theory could've that humanity kept eating animals until they forcibly evolved, and now they can maybe eat things like magikarp and tauros still, but not too much else.... (Albeit NOW they want to train with creatures instead of eating them)

Trans coffin is something i would decorate my house with (because I am trans and it is a coffin)

to not forget stuff take more breakes when writing or filming your videos and/or plan your notes out better that definition of human egg group is not good. A lot of pokemon are bipedal like charizard and blastoise, by that definition beedrill and wigglytuff are human-like. electabuzz is a tiger skin wearing oni, Lockstin & Gnoggin has a lot of videos if you want in-depth origins

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@7:20 We *do* have pillbug Pokémon: Wimpod and Golisopod.

Probably the pokemon preying on the pokemon their based off of making them the new animals on earth

Since you're so much like Brock, I think it would be fitting for you to cosplay the guy. 😆👍✨

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my theory is that the pokemon are the animals and your rlly not smart 😂😂 a pokemon is literally god he created more of him self just like real god

Not really? Isn't Brock also into Pokemon science? (Breeding specifically, but still)

Maybe animals were creatures that were untrainable because they’re not sentient enough to understand language? Like you can train a rattata but not a hamster.

when pokemon first came out they were supposed to be like yokai or cryptids and were never meant to be actual animals but after a while they just decided to chamge that and around gen 3 pokemon were the animals now and not yokai

Believe it or not but when ash goes to fight misty for the badge the under ground aquarium had regular fish not single magicarp

Canonically, animation errors. Real world animals dont exist in the pokemon world. Non-canon explanation - when pokemon firat branched from animals in the pokemon world, the regular animals (predators included) were the prey species for the pokemon. When normal animals were wiped out, pokemon started to prey on each other. Thats why you have references to raichu's thunderbolt being powerful enough to stun an african elephant.

Our brains couldn't perceive them at the time of filming. Lol

They were never really there. They most definitely were not retconed out of the series! 😁👍

uuuuuuuhm what did he say at 25:32 / 39:52 cuz spiders are not insects

are u suggesting that people eat pokemon (in that world)? u seem to suggest that most or all animal ref are just a type of pokemon we don't know of yet. Like how pikachu can be called a mouse type, & there for called a mouse.

Thanks for aging me with doodle bears... you unlocked an old childhood memory. *sad 30s+ sigh* Fantastic video and the hawlucha excitement is real lol One day we will get a Coqui pokemon for us lol

I feel this episode needed a fallout "war, war never changes" reference with the amount of times war said lol But still an amazing video as always.

The fish on Slowpoke at 4:19 looks like an even more generic Basculin

Another banger is dropped keep up the great work!