20 Years Ago, the Pokémon Anime Foreshadowed Scarlet’s Paradox Forms – Top

Latest Pokemon game, bright red And Purple, which features mechanics of strange Pokémon from the past or future, depending on the version. However, one of these past forms of “paradox” actually resembles a Pokémon anime episode that was released decades ago.

Paradox Pokemon bright red They are all based on ancient forms of modern Pokémon, showing what they looked like in the distant past. The idea of ​​delving into the past of the Pokémon world has been around since the beginning, with fossilized Pokémon like Dinosaur and Kabotop being the first iterations. Pokemon Anime loves this as well, often using time-traveling Pokémon, but one episode, like those games, sees an ancient Pokémon resurrected in the modern world.

In the episode “The Ancient Mysteries of Poképolis”, Ash, Brock, and Misty find themselves at a dig site where several archaeologists are excavating a temple. Ash and the others find an artifact so they can take a quick look at what they’ve found so far. However, archaeologists (and Team Rocket) are sucked into the artifact until it explodes in power and unleashes a giant Gengar covered in what looks like a tattoo. The remaining artifacts are similarly awakened, summoning an equally gigantic Arakazam with the same markings. The site’s prophecy says these two will destroy the world, so Ash and friends must stop them. Even Fatty tries to help, but can’t get them to sleep because of their size. However, Fatty’s voice activates the artifact that Ash finds and summons a giant Fatty, which can then put the Pokémon to sleep and seal them back—but not before every sleeping Pokémon that One can see. write letters on their faces.

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Although the ancient Pokémon seen in this volume are large and they bright red (Except for the big tusk) No, it’s interesting that the anime chose Jigglypuff as one of these ancient people.7 Ancient Paradoxes bright red, and Jigglypuff is the only group that overlaps between these two groups. The ancient paradox “Fatty”, known as “Screaming Tail”, is believed to date back a billion years. It’s much older than the one in the show, only a few thousand years old, as it was known in the Pokémon City civilization. Screaming Tail also does not have any tattoo-like markings, although this may be because the markings are actually some form of tattoo applied to each of these Pokémon, rather than physical features. their natural form at the time.

The fact that Jigglypuff was cast as the Ancients twice is a coincidence, but that could be due to Jigglypuff’s enduring popularity, which comes from the anime (and, to some extent, Super Smash Bros.).Given the idea of ​​regional variations, this now seems to be Pokemon The anime might be worth revisiting, if only to see some unrealized Pokémon inspiration.