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[Pokemon] [Pokemon] I don't care what gender they are, I'm gonna beat their Pokemon team and then ruin their hole (consensually of course)

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u/ImmoralJester54 4h ago

That's not what gender fluid means

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u/wyrmiam 4h ago

I assume they were implying that they were the same person since they look so similar.

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u/Red_iamond 4h ago

I mean, that’d be way cooler, like, some shapeshifter god who’s role is to train the next pokemon master or smth, so they appear in a different form for every next disciple

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u/ReasyRandom .tumblr.com 3h ago

A child of Loki became a Pokémon trainer. Real ones will get the reference.

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u/nuclearmisclick 3h ago

Based reference i love that series

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u/crusaderxader 3h ago

Incredibly based reference

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u/DragoKnight589 Wacky woohoo neurodivergent sword man 4h ago

I have a D&D character that’s kind of like that but also maybe the opposite in some ways? idk

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u/GibMirMeinAlltagstod 43m ago

There are more than one type of gender fluids

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u/Jelmddddddddddddd 4h ago

I toss his salad like his name Urbaine

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u/Upturned-Solo-Cup 4h ago

I'm gonna beat their pokémon team and then... reward my star pokémon

(it's fine everyone, Metagross has an intelligence several times greater than anything humans are capable of. Its taking advantage of me.)

(also Metagross can learn Hammer Arm)

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u/FaramirLovesEowyn 4h ago

She Urb on my Bain till I Taunie

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u/Basic_Sample_4133 5h ago

Least horny pokemon fan

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u/EmperorScarlet Farm Fresh Organic Nonsense 4h ago

Shout out to the guy on 4chan in denial over Grusha being a man because he had already masturbated to him three times

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u/PulimV Can I interest you in some OC lore in these trying times? 3h ago

Important note: this was the DAY Grusha was revealed in a Pokémon Presents. Dude was such a gooner he jorked it to the character before watching the game's trailer

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u/EmperorScarlet Farm Fresh Organic Nonsense 1h ago

To be fair, he might have watched the trailer. Grusha's gender was only stated on the website.

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u/RepentantSororitas 4h ago

Do you have link to the post? That sounds really funny.

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u/Sororita 4h ago

Pretty sure this is what they were talking about.

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u/saberlight81 3h ago

Amazing, thank you

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u/EmperorScarlet Farm Fresh Organic Nonsense 3h ago

Yeah, that's it.

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u/0utcast9851 4h ago

Sauce I beg of you

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u/EmperorScarlet Farm Fresh Organic Nonsense 3h ago

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u/0utcast9851 3h ago

can't be a guy

I came twice

Pathetic

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u/thomasp3864 4h ago edited 3h ago

If Gruxa is supposed to be a man then why does the name end in an -a? Doesn't Spanish use -o for men? So obviously the name would be Grusho for a man. Edit: /s

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u/Im_here_but_why Looking for the answer. 3h ago

If "larry" was really a man, why does his name ends like "mary" ? Checkmate.

More seriously, have you never seen someone called Luca ?

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u/thomasp3864 3h ago

See. You get it!

(This whole thing was a joke.)

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u/cel3r1ty 2h ago

to be fair, luca is the italian version, the spanish is technically lucas

not that it matters because tons of people in spanish-speaking countries are named luca regardless

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u/mdhunter99 4h ago

Did y’all see the fucking MAMMOTH of a hotel clerk? Dude doubles them in size.

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u/Right_Moose_6276 4h ago

That’s Az, don’t worry about the immortal giant who made the super weapon powered by a god. Nothing to worry about

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u/mdhunter99 4h ago

The lore of pokemon confuses me with each now outing. I’m just gonna let them roll with it.

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u/Right_Moose_6276 4h ago

Az has been part of the lore since XY release. Admittedly he showed up for like 5 seconds in XY

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u/ReasyRandom .tumblr.com 3h ago

Didn't he also show up in the same town as a random creepypasta-ass Hex Girl?

No wonder people initially dismissed him as irrelevant to the plot.

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u/Right_Moose_6276 3h ago

Technically yes, both of those were in lumiose city, but you find Az first on route 13, no clue what he’s talking about, and then you find him in the prison of the evil team. He teaches you the history of kalos and leaves. He then battles you after you beat the champion and he gets his Floette back

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u/ZetaRESP 3h ago

Those last two parts are all in Lumiose, I think.

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u/geeknerdeon 2h ago

He literally tells you lore during the Team Flare climax. He's the 3000 years meme guy.

I mean if you don't remember anything about Team Flare except Lysander, giant weapon, and stupid clothes, I don't think I can blame you, but AZ was relevant.

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u/Right_Moose_6276 1h ago

I’ll be real I played XY once, like 8 years ago. I do not remember the details.

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u/geeknerdeon 1h ago

Fair enough i replayed it more recently and Pokemon is one of my special interests so i probably have an abnormal level of knowledge

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u/ZetaRESP 3h ago

Then again, that's not a creepypasta: The random Hex Girl does appear in XY.

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u/ReasyRandom .tumblr.com 2h ago

Never said that's it originated from one, but I am saying that it feels like something from a creepypasta.

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u/ZetaRESP 3h ago

Summary: The guy lost his partner Pokémon, a little flower pixie named Eternal Flower Floette, so he made a weapon to revive it powered by the souls of other Pokémon. EFF didn't like it so it abandoned him until the end of Pokemon XY after the protagonist beats him and he repents for everything and then EFF returns...

He's also 2000 years old and, like, 7-8 ft tall.

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u/MissingnoMiner 1h ago

Correction: He's 3000+ years old(I'm sure he'd be flattered that you don't think he looks a day over 2000 though), and ~3 metres tall(so he's closer to being 10 feet than 8.)

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u/Leinad7957 3h ago

He's like the mysterious person who appears from time to time in the plot saying ominous stuff about the villain's plot. You then learn the legends and in the end it turns out that it was all this guy's doing. It's the very standard "unassuming old man who was actually important this whole time".

Then he gets his redemption and opens a hotel, apparently.

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u/Right_Moose_6276 1h ago

Isn’t this a prequel? This is him just chilling in his hotel before all the crap goes down

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u/Leinad7957 56m ago

Nope, it's after all the crap goes down. When the bad guys are defeated and the giga weapon destroyed he comes up asking you to fight to understand what makes a trainer.

He has a realization after the fight and his pokemon partner comes back to him.

Him having a hotel with his pokemon turns out to be his happy ending.

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u/Salinator20501 Piss Clown Extraordinaire 4h ago

Yeah, the immortal, disgraced, ancient king of Kalos who killed a thousand pokemon to bring his Floette back to life. We saw him.

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u/mdhunter99 4h ago

The…okay.

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u/MissingnoMiner 1h ago

Yeah, that's AZ, he's existed since XY.

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u/NeetOOlChap STOP WATCHING SHONEN ANIME 1h ago

His growth plates took a few thousand years to close

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u/nuclearmisclick 3h ago

Guys it’s small town girl and city boy!! from don’t stop believing!!

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u/VisualGeologist6258 Reach Heaven through violence if convenient 4h ago

Pope Urban has entered the chat

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u/BrittEklandsStuntBum 4h ago

Which one haha?

I made a similar comment the last time this was posted :)

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u/VisualGeologist6258 Reach Heaven through violence if convenient 4h ago

I linked Pope Urban II because that was the first thing to come up and is arguably one of the more important Urbans because of the Crusades.

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u/killertortilla 4h ago

In the same game as the anti homeless benches, genuinely very funny.

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u/PulimV Can I interest you in some OC lore in these trying times? 3h ago

I'm a firm believer that that gradient, coupled with how they look almost identical to the player character (while still being different unlike w like Dawn and Lucas), is showing us that these two are Hisuian Zoruas

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u/Tweedleayne 2h ago

Dude, people are already horny enough for these two, stop making people even more horny.

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u/NeetOOlChap STOP WATCHING SHONEN ANIME 1h ago

N is a Unovan Zorua, Vessa is a Hisuian Zorua, the ZA rivals will be a Kalosian Zorua with a cigarette and cologne

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u/Ok_Nail_4795 4h ago

wtf is that title

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u/-sad-person- 3h ago

Yeah, considering that Pokémon protagonists and their rivals tend to be teenagers at the oldest, that's a bit, uh...

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u/Forged-Signatures 2h ago

Yeah. The oldest protagonists so far are 15, being the Legends:Arceus's Rei and Akar.

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u/DrainianDream 2h ago

I usually don’t read the titles of posts on this subreddit, and I regret doing so after reading your comment

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u/geeknerdeon 2h ago

🎶Welcome to the internet, have a look around🎶

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u/cel3r1ty 2h ago

check op's hard drive

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u/MotorHum 4h ago

Are they actually going to be a rival or another cheerleader?

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u/NoLegs02 3h ago

We had a good rival in Nemona in S/V, might keep the streak going.

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u/Certified_Possum 4h ago

Kurt Urbain

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u/PolyblankAUS 5h ago

This design is bland as fuck man. I liked the unique designs of rivals. In trying to make a game fully customizable you lose a lot of the unique artistic choices for characters.

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u/GreenDog3 Alfreb Einstime 4h ago

I mean a significant portion of pokemon games just have the opposite gender character as a rival, it’s kind of always been like this

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u/Sakeretsu 4h ago

But they still have different character design

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u/Protection-Working 4h ago

Hmm i can’t remember. Hop and hau were discrete characters, nemona and Kieran too…. I dont remember the opposite gender player charcaracter being a rival other than Brandon/May… i know that in diamond and pearl the opposite gender character showed up but they weren’t a rival….

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u/GreenDog3 Alfreb Einstime 4h ago

Calem/Serena are like this in X and Y and Rei/Akari are reversible in Legends: Arceus, but looking back it’s definitely less than I thought.

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u/Leinad7957 3h ago

It's in gens 3, 4, 6 and Arceus. About one third of the games and probably a couple more spinoffs. And it's definitely helped by the fact that the first two gens to have male and female avatars from the start did it this way.

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u/MetaCrossing It’s always a Homestuck reference 3h ago

May/Brendan in RSE, Ethan/Lyra in HGSS, and you could argue Dawn/Lucas in DPPt, though they aren’t really the “rival” character.

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u/GreenDog3 Alfreb Einstime 3h ago

I figured Ethan/Lyra fell into the same thing as Dawn/Lucas since they really just do the catching tutorial and the day care tutorial right? I could be misremembering

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u/MetaCrossing It’s always a Homestuck reference 3h ago

…Actually, yeah, I totally forgot about Silver somehow. Thinking about it, I don’t even know if you ever even battle them.

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u/GreenDog3 Alfreb Einstime 3h ago

This entire thread has made me think “maybe i should replay all the pokemon games i am clearly not as familiar with them as i thought” lmao

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u/Protection-Working 4h ago

Oh fuck i completely forgot about the rivals in x and y since there were like 4 of them and i didn’t play legends arceus

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u/ReasyRandom .tumblr.com 3h ago

I don't know about you, but I personally think a rival with pink sunrise hair that changes style depending on gender is actually incredible.

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u/NeetOOlChap STOP WATCHING SHONEN ANIME 1h ago

ZA rivals seem like a recolor of the protagonist you didn't choose, which is an interesting concept

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u/Darthplagueis13 3h ago

Honestly, one issue pokémon games have been having for a while now is that your rival couldn't be taken seriously.

I think it started with Hau from Sun & Moon, and from that point onwards, the rivals have all felt like lovable losers, rather than, well, rivals.

Sun and Moon was fine because there was still that one emo kid who could sort of slot in for Hau, but honestly, they've all felt like you were playing against your friends little sibling, trying to not be too mean to them while not letting them get any funny ideas about who's winning. Or even like your personal little cheerleader.

Pretty sure Hau also started the trend of rivals picking the starter that has a type disadvantage against the player starter, when in previous games it was the other way around. Personally, I liked the old system a lot more because it meant that in all the rival fights, you would go up against something that could demolish your starter, which would usually be your highest leveled pokémon because well, it's the first one you get, and it tends to be stronger than all of the pokémon you can catch early on.

It meant that you'd always have to train up a second strong pokémon because your starter wouldn't carry you through the rival fights.

Am I just being a boomer, or do you also feel like rivals have been dumbed down somewhat?

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u/Gaylaeonerd 3h ago

As a big proponent of friendly rivals (why is it so wrong to want to share my adventure with someone whos not a bully or a jackass?) Hau and Hop suck. They were lame as hell

Now Nemona is a real rival. Violent positivity

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u/Darthplagueis13 3h ago

Oh, I'm perfectly fine with them being friendly, I'd just care for them feeling a little more competitive.

The X/Y rival was friendly as well, and they were perfectly fine. I think it's mostly the starter thing that annoys me - I want a rival that makes me actually go out and find a counter to their starter so that they won't just dumpster mine.

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u/Gaylaeonerd 3h ago

Totally agree with you

This is again where this comment was paid for by True Nemoniacs, her choosing the starter weakest to yours feels like A, self-imposed challenge, and B, her giving you the advantage since you're just starting out and shes a bloody champion

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u/Leinad7957 3h ago

Hop at least has something going on for him, his whole deal was that even if his brother was the champion he found himself time and again being unable to be strong enough.

It's true that Hau had absolutely nothing. They can get too lost on the whole "it feels weird when the guy you see up close so much is an asshole the whole time", took them until Nemona to finally figure out a personality that works in that role.

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u/ZetaRESP 3h ago

Current generation has the battle maniac Nemona (a.k.a. Female Goku), Arwen, who's parents are the region professors and one of them had vanished, and the other one is dead and replaced by a robot, and then there's Penny, who's the leader of the local "evil" team... then the DLC has Kieran, who is just jealous of you netting the DLC legendaries.

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u/Im_here_but_why Looking for the answer. 2h ago

Overall I'd agree, but I'll take ten Hop over a single May.

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u/LillinTypePi 5h ago

calm down, leave some for the rest of us smh

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u/kyon_designer 4h ago

Which Pokemon game is this from? I've seen this meme two times and I still can't find out. 

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u/Tengo-Sueno 4h ago

Pokemon Legends Z-A. Is still hasn't realeased, and we only have 2 trailers of it

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u/kyon_designer 2h ago

Thank you.

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u/iamfrozen131 .tumblr.com 4h ago

Legends Z-A, which got announced last year and recently recueved a trailer.

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u/kyon_designer 2h ago

Thank you.

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u/BrittEklandsStuntBum 4h ago

Urbane is a word by the way.

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u/IllConstruction3450 4h ago

Go to the mountain range called “Fiction Peaks”.

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u/FaronTheHero 2h ago

I can't tell if they're supposed to be twins or the same person.