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burninmylight on 21 May 2016
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Ka-pi96 said:
burninmylight said:

Lol, this is the same Pokedex that calls Blastoise a shellfish, calls Hypno a child abductor and says that a little boy had a Kafka-like metamorphosis and turned into Kadabra. Those English Pokedex entries aren't canon at all, and the translators really pulled ideas out of their ass in earlier games where there was less emphasis placed on consistency across regions.

A rat is no more of a big mouse moreso than a chihuahua is a big rat with less hair. A wolf is not a big dog. It is a wolf. A scorpion is not a spider. There is a reason we have different kingdoms, classes, families and species of animals and so on.

If Sugimori wanted Cyndaquil to be a rat, he wouldn't have drawn an something with traits of echidnas/shrews/honey badgers/porcupines and made  山荒 yama-arashi part of it's Japanese name, with yama-arashi meaning porcupine. Nowhere in that cocktail does Cyndaquil resemble a rat. Same with it's evolved forms.

Are you one of the people that still hold on to the idea that all the grass starters are based on prehistoric animals, even though Treecko, Snivy and Chespin (and now Rowlet) exist?

To be honest I'd never heard of either of those theories until this thread

And eh, Cyndaquil at the very least is still a rodent. That's kind of rattish. Oh and having a metamorphosis in to a Kadabra sounds pretty cool to me. Well... I'd rather not have spoons superglued to my hands, but other than that.

Humans and rats have similar biological makeup and DNA, so the Loch Ness monster is part of the Chinese zodiac as well then. ;)