Pokémon
Summary
ThePokémonanime has changed a lot over the twelvemonth , but one of the biggest and weirdest changes over the twelvemonth has to do with something that causes some actual mental confusion in damage of the series canon : the inclusion of real fauna . Animals seem in the first time of year of Pokémon with some geometrical regularity , put up a sight of questions , especially when it come to what materialize to them .
While there are now over a thousand Pokémon , that evidently was n’t always the case ; when the anime first debuted , there were " only " 151 different mintage available . There ’s also an logical implication , although it ’s never submit outright , that the universe of Pokémon is a fairly new occurrence . Instead ofPokémon live in place of fauna , early episodes rather portray Pokémon existing alongside animals . In the first installment , for model , Ash sees a Pidgey rive a worm out of the ground and rust it .
So if animals existed in the Pokémon anime world in the very beginning … what happened to them ?
Pokémon’s Biggest Retcon is Eliminating Animals
Are Pokémon making animals go extinct?
While fauna mostly appear in desktop or in minor shots like the Pidgey mentioned above , they ’ve sometimes engross a self-aggrandizing theatrical role in the story . In the episode " The Ghost of Maiden ’s Peak , " a Gastly morph itself into a mongoose , as it sees a mongoose as a instinctive marauder of snakes , like Ekans . Animals are sometimes run into in the context of nutrient as well , with a cooked lobster seeable in the instalment " Battle Aboard the St. Anne . " Pisces are perhaps the most usual animal to be get word ahead of time on , often in the background of subaquatic or aquarium injection , commonly alongside Pokémon .
There are other moments which inculpate the cosmos of animals , such as the use of colloquial phrases that reference animals , or the fact thatthe Orange Islands ' badgesare base on seashell , which suggest the existence of lettuce and other mollusk . While it ’s rare for these moments to be central to the report , it was a coherent front throughout the early season . References to real animals became rare as the issue of Pokémon increased , but it never fully went off ; as previous asSun & Moon , the show would still show the universe of non - Pokémon creature like coral and starfish .
While one could perhaps excuse a sudden disappearing of animals entirely as a retcon , or change to persistence after the fact , the continued occasional reference to real brute become especially confusing . Is it possible that in thePokémonworld , animals are being slowly out - competed by Pokémon , and going extinct as a result ? Could that be why animals show up so much less often in later serial publication ? The loss of animals also created some actual honorable problems with food in thePokémonworld , to the point where inHorizonsthe quality almost alone evince eating sweets .
The real reason , of course , is that as the telephone number of Pokémon have increased , there ’s been less need to fill in the background with real fauna . Why show a cow , when you may show Miltank ? This is particularly obvious in the submerged shots , as there are now dozens of specie of fish Pokémon , so there ’s no understanding to show real fish anymore . Horizonshas yet to cite any existent animals directly at all , so perhapsPokémonhas at last reached the point where real animals are just no longer useful .
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Cast
Ash Ketchum , a ten - year - former from Pallet Town , embarks on an adventure to become a Pokémon Master . With his first Pokémon , Pikachu , Ash sets out to catch and train Pokémon while battle other trainers in Pokémon Gyms to pull in badges . Joined by his friends Brock and Misty , Ash systematically thwarts the plans of the nefarious Team Rocket , all while making raw friends and encountering Pokémon across various regions .
Ash Ketchum, a ten-year-old from Pallet Town, embarks on an adventure to become a Pokémon Master. With his first Pokémon, Pikachu, Ash sets out to capture and train Pokémon while battling other trainers in Pokémon Gyms to earn badges. Joined by his friends Brock and Misty, Ash consistently thwarts the plans of the nefarious Team Rocket, all while making new friends and encountering Pokémon across various regions.
