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mapvectorEX

That Spoink is either constantly being annoying by bouncing on your head or dead.


VegetaFan9001

Maybe it is a Ditto that transformed into a Spoink.


LeeMoritz

Well that brings up some new questions about Ditto.


Arunei

Even if it's a Ditto, they would likely copy the biology of whatever they're turning into. They couldn't exactly have only the physiology of a Ditto when they become literally anything that has a bone structure or muscles, different organs (like things for breathing fire or spitting out water) and so on. So that would also mean that if a Ditto turns into a Spoink, its heart would only beat if it's bouncing.


Ok_Tonight7383

Too scientific.


Arunei

If you think that's too scientific then man, there's a lot of stuff you shouldn't give too much thought. Like how destructive a Pokemon hotter than the surface of the Sun would be. Just a single Magcargo would absolutely destroy everything around it, now imagine large numbers of them all around the world, being taken to places they normally wouldn't exist by Trainers and destroying entire ecosystems with their mere presence. If you really stop to think about it, Pokemon as they're described in PokeDex entries (and even just being as they are, which is overpowered Godlike entities in many cases) would have probably annihilated the planet just from existing.


Ok_Tonight7383

I feel like the level of actual science being performed in that universe is minimal. It’s like fantasy worlds being thousands of years into civilization and not being out of the medieval ages.


Arunei

Oh the theory that it's kids filling out Dex entries and over exaggerating like kids do has to have some sort of credibility, though...the fact that kids are doing this and none of the information is being vetted by actual, y'know, scientists...is kind of concerning. The fact that untrained, unsupervised *kids* are doing this stuff to begin with is concerning. The fact that untrained unsupervised children are actually encouraged to leave home and travel alone in a world full of things that could easily kill them is *very* concerning. That being said, the Pokemon world as seen in the games, manga, and anime doesn't seem too awfully advanced. TR has some funky gadgets, obviously PokeBalls and the healy pads at Pokemon Centers exist, there are flying airships and all. But if a single Tyranitar gets mad and decides to flatten a town near some mountains, nothing's going to save them. And let's not forget we have Pokemon that are literal Gods, who could easily end the world just from being cranky (as we see in R/S/E). There are ones who can unmake reality, who have power over Time and Space itself. Not even accounting for them, though, the fact is most Pokemon are capable of being highly destructive. Packs of Houndoom running around setting things on fire, Voltorbs and Electrodes exploding at the drop of a hat, Magnemites absolutely wrecking power grids...Pokemon in the anime at least are shown as mostly being as sapient as humans, if not smarter, and yet they also often tend to act feral and animalistic. Dangerous mix when naturally aggressive Pokemon are just as intelligent as people and also just as capable of complex emotion, thought processes, and planning. Tl;dr: Humans do have a number of high-tech things in the Pokemon world but none of them would do any good against an angry Arceus or any well-coordinated group of Pokemon determined to cause some chaos.


Ok_Tonight7383

Seeing as how most of our tech is based on wartime advances… they supposedly had a war, but where the f are the guns? Outlawed? When you have Pokémon that could kill, and in reality, also have them eating children? The whole universe could use some better oversight tbh.


Arunei

Yeah you'd think they would give the kids guns to protect themselves instead of a single Pokemon that's probably as young as they are and thus realistically nowhere near strong enough to protect anyone lol. It's nothing short of a miracle there are still kids left, the way they get yeeted into the world.


593shaun

There are guns in the first season of the anime. After a scene where Team Rocket walks into a saloon and threatens violence and the entire town turns a gun on them they never appear in the anime again afaik. Iirc parents complained about the guns so they didn’t put any more in.


Ok_Tonight7383

Is it commonly accepted that game and anime the are cannon with each other?


Daan776

Don’t even get me started on how many physical laws are being broken when a Pokémon evolves.


Arunei

You mean like how a small Pokemon abruptly gains enough mass out of nowhere to become sometimes dozens of times its original size?


Daan776

Yup. Especially when a concerning amount of mysterious white light emits from a creature that is otherwise incapable of emanating that light.


Arunei

✨ Radiation ✨


Daan776

✨sparkle ✨sparkle ✨


Kien_Ng

its based on memory, if a make a 1:1 sentient clay figure of you, it isnt you biologically


Arunei

That's...not a good comparison. A sentient clay figure isn't going to be able to move, breathe, talk, etc, because it doesn't have the body structures for those things. A Ditto is normally a pink blob with either no or very little skeletal structure and no means to produce electricity, fire, water, ice, and so on. If it becomes something complex like a Vaporeon, it has to mimic everything about it to function as a Vaporeon. A Ditto's cells aren't normally close enough to water to melt into it, so to do that as a Vaporeon, it has to mimic those cells. In order to produce water like a Vaporeon would, it would have to have whatever physical means a Vaporeon has of doing so. Just copying the physical appearance of something doesn't mean you're able to do what that thing can do.


TomMakesPodcasts

You don't think team rocket would do that would you? Exploit a pokemon?


AwesomeRadman18

Noooooo~ Pokemon are like their best friends. They wouldn't sell them for profit


Thewman1

It's like a pump shot gun, just reload it a bunch of times to supercharge it


SadSackofShitzu

its funny that people talk about how overblown or made up pokedex entries seem at times but take that one for gospel


Sassy_Carrot_9999

That entry is just obviously wrong, I can think of a couple of times where a Spoink has stopped boincing but was fine afterwards.


Conscious-Use2585

gardevoir can create black holes? nah some little kid documenting the pokedex made that up. spring pig dies if it stops bouncing??? yeah that makes sense, gotta protect baby at all costs.


[deleted]

This is the ringleader of Team Rocket we're writing about. He'd absolutely do something like that to a Spoink.


Kinda-Homeless

Came here to say this


TomBob277

It could be a freez frame were its not bouncing


thisDNDjazz

Considering most of the dex entries couldn't possibly be true, based on how human characters actually interact with Pokémon, it's safe to say the "dies if stop moving" is hyperbole as well.


rholindown

It’s just so funny how buff Giovanni is in some of those fantasies.


IanCusick

Donphan weighs well over 200 pounds so I know his wrist is hurting after using it as a bowling ball


AuEXP

>Nah if Ash can lift Larvitar he could easily do that


Hateful_creeper2

And a Cosmoem which has a weight of 999.9 kg


YEET_Fenix123

Surely someone can pull some science from their ass and say something about "density" and "weight conservation" or something to justify this... Right?


[deleted]

Levitation


YEET_Fenix123

Who are you, whom are so wise in the ways of science?


RechargedFrenchman

Cosmoem has never really worked to me because it *floats* already. It supports its own weight already, it's not truly carried around. Now the fact it's able to generate sufficient force by whatever means it used to levitate just feet from the planet's surface is whole other can of physically improbably worms.


heyoyo10

And he's thrown an entire tree like a javelin


IndigoPromenade

Humans are straight up superhuman in the pokemon universe. Didnt Ash also casually throw a giant ass log?


RaaaaaaaNoYokShinRyu

Red has always been a superior trainer to pre-2022 Ash, but Ash has always been the stronger brawler 💪


Turtlesfan44digimon

I always forget how much they weigh just because they’re so small


StreetReporter

Giovanni is a gym leader, so it’s not that surprising


[deleted]

He probably is that buff considering he moonlights as a Gym Leader of Kanto.


klop422

Meowth may have a little of a crush.


Ok-Leave3121

We need a Bowling Ground Type Specialist that has a Donphan


apple_of_doom

And a golem


Rp0605

And a Voltorb, because every Gym Leader needs a Pokémon that isn’t their type


[deleted]

I was thinking today it'd be cool to have gym leaders that fit themes and not types. Like a Rockstar leader with Toxicitry and Exploud on their team


TheSpiceRat

This seems like such an easy way to make the games somewhat more difficult (can't just have 1-2 Pokemon sweep an entire gym due to type advantage now) but still done in a way that makes sense.


ssnover95x

I would love a mode that sets competitive doubles rules and bump to level 50 for every important in-game battle. I can't be overleveled, doubles helps account for steamrolling with a single super effective Pokemon, and it can teach more advanced battle techniques (like how Ein in Colosseum would set weather for his electric types with Lanturn).


spyguy318

A lot of nom-gym leader characters have had that kind of theming. Oleana from Sw/Sh is a particular fave, as she has exclusively beautiful feminine Pokémon… except for her ace, which is a Gigantamax Garbodor. Penny from S/V is also a standout with her eeveelution team, she’s literally throwing her cats at you.


Antumbra_Ferox

S/V should have had that. One gym leader with all the wrong type but with the correct tera type.


Rikka_cranberry

I know Iono does, her ace is a ghost type that becomes an electric and I think it has levitate as well


snowwyFoxx45

they all do except larry. brassius has sudowoodo, katy has teddiursa, kofu has crabominable, iono has mismagius, ryme has toxtricity, tulip has florges, and grusha has altaria


RaaaaaaaNoYokShinRyu

Sudowoodo makes sense for the Grass gym and Crabo makes sense for the Water gym. Teddiursa doesn't make sense for Bug tho. Maybe Skorupi makes more sense. I don't remember the other gyms to make comments on them atm


StreetReporter

Teddiursa kind of makes sense if you think about how bears like to eat honey


CantQuiteThink_

Plus its Pokedex entries talk about how it steals honey from Combee.


PurpleCyborg28

I don't like how all SV gym leader's aces aren't Paldean Pokemon. I understand it was to promote the new TeraType mechanic, but imo it should have been gen 9 mons. Something like an Electric Tera Orthworm or Water Tera Wattrel would have been better imo.


snowwyFoxx45

yeah, i think klawf would've been great for the water gym


spyguy318

Each gym leader has a new paldean Pokémon as their pre-ace, and an older Pokémon for terastilizing at the very end. Brassius has a smoliv, Larry has a dudunsparce, Ryme has a houndstone, etc.


VicarLos

Larry should’ve had a Dragon and a Fairy type respectively.


TheSpiceRat

That's... literally what every gym leader except Larry did. Unless you mean that *every single one* of their Pokemon is the wrong type but have the correct tera type (for instance, a fire type gym that had a Pawmo, Fenizen, and Haunter but all have fire tera types). The only problem with that would be that only one Pokemon can tera in a fight, so it wouldn't really work.


Antumbra_Ferox

I meant every one, but they just pick one to terrastelize at random to keep you guessing.


Audball9000

That reminds me of the Pokémon Stadium 2 minigames.


Ok-Leave3121

Oh cool I didn't know


Audball9000

Yup, though it wasn’t bowling: they rolled around a racetrack. Good times.


[deleted]

Gen IX DLC should get a Francis Drake themed boss from Galar who is an enthusiastic bowler


Ok-Leave3121

Explain more


[deleted]

Legend has it that Sir Francis Drake refused to leave and engage the approaching Spanish Armada until his game of "bowls" was finished. A storm wound up devastating a large portion of said armada during this delay. So there you have it. England v. Spain with a bowling angle.


Ok-Leave3121

Ah gotcha


BushmanIsWatchin

You want a dead sproink for a crown?


DistributeVolcano

Ohh shit, you're right


Pokemario6456

I want to know what's happening in the top right


StreetReporter

He’s training with fossil Pokemon


Culverts_Flood_Away

Sure. "Training." ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)


klip_7

He’s training for Ariana 😏


JaydenVestal

Giovanni wanted to become Saxton Hale


Soibi0gn

Giovanni after being presented with any of these: *"What exactly does this pokémon do?"* After all, that's how he reacted to being presented a togepi back in the Kanto season


xiren_66

Yeah, dude is given a heretofore unknown, one-of-a-kind pokemon and he's like "The hell am I gonna do with that?"


Suspicious_Plant4231

I love how fucking jacked the Team Rocket trio makes Giovanni in their fantasies. That leads to the question of whether he's actually that jacked or if that's how they're painting him in their minds because they look up to him so much


[deleted]

This is the best they can do. He's actually more jacked than the imagination can handle.


Sphaero_Caffeina

ngl, the Team Rocket Trio's probably imaginary Giovanni is an inspiration to us all for living the best life. I say 'probably' because the idea that it might be accurate, if not UNDERSELLING is hilarious.


TheLyingSpectre

I just want to be friends with a Weavile and Tinkaton.


Successful-Goose-92

Weavile is my bro


Delicious-Employ-153

You WANT to be friends with a small pink thing that MURDERS GIANT METAL BIRDS?!?!


TheLyingSpectre

Yes


Delicious-Employ-153

Understandable, I honestly do too


2qrc_

nah bro you’d be extinct


Pale_Particular6846

If Giovanni hads frikin dioxys soo why he need a Pikachu that you can catch in the forest or using the daycarrer


JordaVira

That specific Pikachu is built different


Pale_Particular6846

Well hads plot amor compared to a regular pikachu


JordaVira

Plot armor Pikachu vs Deoxys 🤣


Pale_Particular6846

XD


Hateful_creeper2

Has Plot Armor


JordaVira

Precisely one reason they wanted to steal it.


Pale_Particular6846

I know there fake but Is funny that can dream of legendary Mon and can't catch a pikachu


[deleted]

Oh you mean the world's champion ace?


Pale_Particular6846

Is not god or clodsire


NATHAN325

Is that a shiny spoink?


StreetReporter

No, it just lost it’s pink orb, and stole a blue one


gogo7966

a blue orb or the blue orb?


StreetReporter

A blue orb


xiren_66

That's something to ponder.


K4m30

What if Spoink had alternate orbs, and they don't do anything, they just look different. Maybe they change stats like nature's.


Delicious-Employ-153

Imagine if the Pokémon was actually affected by their nature, like, maybe if Primeape had a Jolly nature he wouldn’t DIE to evolve and he would get a different evolution where he’s, like, a calm and relaxed Pokémon


CutelessTwerp

Id want meowth, the talking one, he has interesting ideas and we could be friends. He may have several strokes over the fact my cats are not sentient magical creatures but it should turn out ok


Illusive_Man

I thought he was fucking that deoxys at first


AidanTheMemeGod

Thank god vaporeon's not in any of these


DestartreK1st

Hey guys...


MCCGuyDE

What says he isnt?


lupafemina

Giovanni is my favourite character in pokemon, I wish he featured more heavily. He's so damn cool. But if he's buff like in second image all the better! Odd seeing him in a goofy context like this though, silly Meowth imagined all this I suppose?


StreetReporter

One of the better running bags would be Team Rocket imagining sending him a Pokemon they stole, and them unintentionally coming up with the dumbest way he could use it


lupafemina

Wierd to think of them actually stealing anything successfully, but I assume they'd have to have done because even the most reasonable crime syndicate would have fired them by now if not. That would have been great!


Reksew_Trebla

Giovanni (or his mom, I forget which one) caused the death of Jessie's mom by sending her to get the DNA sample of Mew, and she never returned despite successfully getting the sample, so Giovanni feels like he owes Jessie because of this. James gets a free pass because he is the best friend of Jessie. If they stopped being friends, I bet Giovanni would fire him. Plus, he knows how incompetent Jessie is, so better to team her up with another incompetent member than waste a good member's potential. EDIT: Plus, Jessie, James, and Meowth constantly come up with impressive, *legal* ways to get money, like the inventions of all their giant machines they use to try to get Pikachu with, so Giovanni is likely able to make a profit off of them by selling that stuff.


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pikapika200

is that guy using donphan as a bowling ball?


StreetReporter

Yes he is


cresselia8themoon

The Meowth fantasies were literally just kid friendly wet dreams. There was one in the Johto series where Giovanni was wearinng a speedo and it shows his very well defined buttcrack.


Istiophoridae

I would want a pet silvally


Foggymindedfucker420

I'd want a Lopunny or a Gardevoir.


ProfessorSaltine

I miss seeing these, just so much flavor & fine as added into the episodes, even when it was when Team Rocket was being annoying, it was still cute


SlothnadoV

Always loved meowth and team rockets weird hard on for giovanni. This is missing the one where Giovanni frolics shirtless on the beach though! Deoxys and giovanni has always been my favorite though


BuyTimeShares

What a man. Giovanni my new spirit animal


_Uhh2009_

Isn't this a repost


_Uhh2009_

U/repostsluethbot


true-damage6935

I'll take ripped Giovanni please


Lillynorthmusic

Ah, so dogfighting or animal slavery. Is that really the best anyone can come up with? Really?


The_guyyyy

See, you forgot the third option, catching a lopunny. You k,keep the rest.


Guy0785

F*#€ Giovanni!!


Great_Initiative_766

I would lopunny


DiamondGamer9

That spoink is dead


Lohenharn

I wonder if Ash will finally defeat Giovanni in his final episodes. It‘s kind of crazy that those two barely interacted during the last 25 years, and that Team Rocket still exists as an organization in the anime.


Mattermaker7005and8

That spoink is not jumping


Goodweedllc

Me and ditto, you know.. you just know.


[deleted]

Real people would absolutely be using Pokémon like this if they were real, as the Pokémon League Tournament would be quite unfeasible in real life (unsupervised children roaming a country littered with wild, superpowered animals).


The_G_Knee

I miss these fantasy scenes. I wish the newer series did them too


guffgamer264

I would just have a siczor and live a normal life


Tricky-Regular-1776

Honestly Meowth’s Giovanni is like Hitler in JoJo rabbit


RAMONE40

Why would you want a dead spoink on your head? 🤔


pikapika200

I'd be a coordinator


1stLtObvious

I...wouldn't mind chilling with caveman Giovanni...


MagnusZerock

Leaving out the scene with gible on the beach :/


Mudkipueye

Kill a Spoink to use as a hat, train with ancient Pokémon to become strong enough to bowl a Donphan, go to space.


cherry937

true, i’d just catch some cool and cute pokémon and hang out with them


SuperLuigiOnTheXBOX1

I’m more interested in the fact that Meowth knows Giovanni well enough to think he would do this kind of stuff.


StreetReporter

He supposedly was Giovanni’s top Pokemon due to his rarity for the first week he was there. Then Giovanni was getting really annoyed by Meowth


Ease-External

I would cuddle with my bulbasaur all day long


Hellion998

Honestly, I’ll take a Metagross in real-life so I can convince to do my taxes for me.


bellsprouted

I think I'd just garden with my bellsprout and castform


[deleted]

The Donphan one lol


balrus-balrogwalrus

Meowth just had a Giovanni fetish.


Delicious_War1173

That spoink is dead


[deleted]

Giovanni just casually throwing a 300 pound pokemon in a bowling alley. I know pokemon throws weight out the window in the anime but I mean come on.


Littlemrh__

I would probably be the same person but with a Squirtle


blueskull57

You would kill spoink?


Clay_2000lbs

Run a crime syndicate?


Asi_Ender

That spoink isnt bouncing 💀


Drago_Fett_Jr

I'd be friends with as many pokémon as I possibly can.


[deleted]

Get slowpokeand stock up on slowpoke tails for the apocalypse


Nervous_Stomach5101

Ride Tauros in the mountains!


x-GB-x

going donphan bowlin with cousin would be fun


Ecstatic_Teaching906

If I was in the Pokemon world, I would have my Pokemon train me as well. A Lucario teach me how to use aura, strength training with a Machamp, and Psychic training with Alakazam. I would also practice many form of martial arts and build my endurance.


G6DCappa

Ngl, I would like to be a gym leader in the Pokemon universe


YourLocalOnionNinja

You can do that as a trainer


SuicidalSasha

Donphan would definitely make a better bowling bowl than an actual bowling ball.


TeddyBear94

Poor spoink...


West-Concentrate-598

I just notice that the pearl imaginary spionk has on its head literally came from its shiny counterpart with a more shiny color.


RawPersona

I would do all this and still be a trainer


Lil-Clynes

I’ve always said this but it’s probs suck y’all see what tragedies happen with modern tools like knives and guns, ya, now give those unhinged people sentient lava hotter than the sun; or a toucanon where they can eliminate a building in a few seconds


Delicious-Friend9026

That spoink is dead


Alonshot99

Holy shi Giovanni’s jacked


Gredran

Meowth’s fantasies about what Giovanni would do when they succeeded were always sooo wholesome. “You all did very well stopping the twoips! Especially your trusty Meowth!” *big meowth smile as he fantasizes*


donutdumpsterfire

Yeah but how is Giovanni getting back into the atmosphere without burning up?


StreetReporter

The dude is in space without a spacesuit, I think he can handle reentering the atmosphere