"I like harassing people with my vicious POKéMON!" - Random Biker in Pokémon Yellow, Cycling Road.
What ?_? just gonna casually say this in a Pokémon game?? Okay then.
Well the guy who said that looks like this:
He looks like a guy who'll send out his Pokemon to harass people (especially those who wonder onto his group's "turf" which is the case of the Cycling Road). And note in Gen I most Bikers used the Koffing and Grimer line (with only one on the Cycling Road that uses two Voltorbs), so sounds like the harassment they're doing is having their Pokemon blow smoke or releasing a foul odor (or, in the Voltorb guys case, actually shocking people).
Not sure if anyone else has highlighted this but I love Kiawe's "But but HOW" during his trial, as if the answers to the dances weren't extremely obvious.
I wonder if the joke there is that Kiawe
tells you to observe the dances, which are the same, that he himself completely misses that at the end either the Marowak are in different poses or an additional element added themselves in. It's why he gives you the option to see the dance again even though the dance doesn't matter, that's what he's (too) focused on.
Uh... Scyamore? Fam, did you not listen to a single thing he just said?
Obligatory.
Though being serious, the way Sycamore ignores/pushes aside Lysandre's "genocide positive" rant reminds me how Malva praised Lysandre. Makes me wonder if at one point they were maybe considering having Sycamore a member of Team Flare; do a sort of "deep conspiracy" plot point where you didn't know who official you could trust or not. But I guess they just weren't ready to do the antagonistic Professor plot point yet (which they still haven't), or being Sycamore is the only Professor in Kalos we meet there would be no one to replace his duties aside from a nameless scientist which works in his lab.
I never really thought about this, but Lysandre is basically just redheaded Thanos.
Sorta but also not really. While both want to do mass genocide for the sake of "cleaning things up", they do have different goals in mind: Thanos is obsess with "balance" so not only does he want to wipe out exactly half the universe but it'll be an equal amount of "good" and "bad" people who are either blipped or remain. Meanwhile Lysandre just plans on only having those who are members of Team Flare remain (and be granted eternal life), everyone else (and all Pokemon) are to be wiped out. Both are obviously insane and want to do evil acts which involves the death of many so need to be stopped, but I wouldn't call the two the same.
But it's a pretty funny in-universe thing because never would you think that a type interaction would actually be given an explanation in-universe.
Would like to see them take a crack at explaining more of the obscure Type interactions, especially anything relating to Bug.
That explanation bothers me because it implies all Dragon types are inherently
cold blooded, like real world reptiles. While there are some Dragon types that this would make sense, like Goomy, Dratini, and Flygon, a lot of Dragon types should have adaptations to resist the cold. Altaria is covered in warm feathers and flies at high altitudes, Drampa lives in cold mountains, and dinosaurs are most likely believed to be warm blooded, like birds, so dragons like Tyrunt and Haxorus should be able to regulate their body temperatures. It's like how Flying types are weak to Electric moves due to being in the air, but doesn't account the Pokemon to just stand on the ground. Just more ways to create a type chart than anything else.
There's always going to be exceptions as the Type Chart simply serves as a game mechanic, not a real life biological function. The best that can be done in those cases if give individual explanations why the Pokemon is weak to the Types they are even if flavor-wise it doesn't make sense the normal ways.
Like for Altaria and Drampa, yes, they live in a cold environment and have thus developed protection from the cold, but Ice-type Moves is concentrated cold energy that temperature goes WAY below freezing and is either being sent toward a target as a projectile or sudden physical contact at high speeds/great force. Altaria isn't bothered by cold updrafts or Drampa bothered by a snowstorm, but targeted by a -100 C beam of piercing cold or hit by a punch that's generating a massive amount of frost? Similar how Pokemon weak to Water are fine in the rain or some being submerged; it's not the water itself which hurts its assume they have biological defenses for that, but the water being forcefully used against them which overload these defenses or disturb a biologically system.