User:Chaotic Marin/Headcanon

Pokemon

• Even a Chansey can beat you up rather easily in a fist fight; it's called super powers. People who insist on letting their pokemon hit them have a tendency to wind up in the hospital.
• Cofagrigus eat gold to later form the masks of their children.
  • Cofagrigus eat humans because they need their spirits to form Yamask. Female Cofagrigus process human spirits into yamask and lay them as eggs.
    • Male Cofagrigus may or may not transfer the spirits of humans they eat to their mate. Else, what would the purpose be of males also eating people / gold?

Humans

• Most humans cannot reach more than 1 in any base stat regardless of whether they're fit. Exceptional humans may reach 2 in some base stats.
• Humans in the pokemon world often have a very hard time functioning without pokemon, as they're simply too used to having convenient, super powered, friendly creatures around to make things easy and efficient.
  • Simply removing pokemon from the equation alone is a recipe for an apocalyptic disaster.

Human-Pokemon Relations

• Guns don't exist because the simply don't have any practical use. In a world full of quick, powerful, durable super powered monsters what is the point of a gun? Hand held weapons are simply incapable of hurting pokemon for the same reason shooting superman never, ever works. Therefore, almost nobody bothers making them.
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Government and Culture

• Kanto / Johto culture is based very heavily on japanese culture, much more so than any other region. Hoenn and Sinnoh are cultural plotholes, Unova is based on a very urban America and Kalos is based on a very rural France.
  • Things like the white hand referenced in RGBY are just obscure japanese culture and were never meant to be taken literally by westerners. A white hand on your shoulder refers to a metaphorical burden someone is carrying, much like we say a chip on someone's shoulder; This is usually in the context of someone close to them dying. Kanto / Johto natives probably wouldn't find this saying frightening at all.

• In the pokemon world it is a wildly held belief that one's prowess in battle is a reflection of their internal wisdom. This has managed to survive for so long because evil dudes tend to be dicks that don't treat their pokemon all that well and thus wind up losing when it comes down to the grit, making N all the more terrifying of an exception.
  • Gym Leaders are basically the equivalent of a town's mayor. Their function as an actual combatant is to prepare young and upcoming trainers for the real world; to this end they will restrain or use weaker pokemon against weaker trainers. In the instance of an unusually strong / veteran trainer facing them (Level 60+ ingame) they are simply verifying that trainer's strength and will take their loss with extreme grace, perhaps even light-heartedly joking about how the trainer has simply come too far to be led along by the hand anymore.
    • The reason no dark type gym leaders exist is that they tend to be dicks and a dick is not a suitable personality type for the job description.
      • The Pokemon League in contrast holds no punches and there is no expectation of the elite four or champion to 'help' their challengers. Pre-rematch levels are simply a form of 'easy mode'.
  • Children beating the pokemon league or even becoming elite four is reasonably unusual. Most children simply lack the skills to compete with veterans, and most children don't have the benefit of training against a Team Evil along the way. For your average person the learning curve is significantly less convenient. The protagonists are simply very gifted. Occasionally however a startlingly young person winds up the champion of an entire region... Iris.

The Anime

• The anime suffers from too many consistency errors to be regarded as a source of canon. A canonity that frequently contradicts itself is simply an unhealthy basis to be making conclusions on.
  • This is not the fault of the anime's writers but rather the medium itself. TV shows tend to be episodic by nature because the medium puts profit against good writing. It is very hard to balance the two, and the pokemon anime honestly does a better job than some other shows.
    • Despite being a poor source for canonity, the anime is definitely good food for thought. It is a decent way to inspire ideas, so long as they are checked first and not accepted blindly. Things like descriptions of attacks are particularly useful things to take from it.
• Ash's age, as well as most other young people in the anime, are simply non-canon. The writers view it as shit nobody cares about and with good reason. Actually looking at Ash's and any of his companions appearance reveals that they not only are not ten but have apparently gone through puberty. This is never clearer than when you watch Ash dwarf 'little kids' despite the fact that he's 'supposed' to be one himself.
  • Sailor Moon is supposed to be 14, but take one look at her and tell me that's not bullshit. Pokemon is simply a less extreme instance of this yet-to-be-named trope.

The Manga

• The manga is an amazing adaptation of the games with a respectable and usually non-self-contradictory canon. It is however not compatible with the games, simply because of things like original content and characters that don't necessarily match up to their game counterparts.
• Like the anime, the manga is great food for thought.