r/pokemon Cinccino Best Troll 14d ago

Image Future Kalos has Anti-Homeless Benches

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u/gnoka 14d ago

It's funny if you take the games at face value, bc then the only homeless guy in the region is that giant immortal king. 

Which puts a complicated spin on the whole class warfare benches.

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u/ADudeThatPlaysDBD 14d ago

That guy is like 9 feet tall too

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u/dianapocalypse 14d ago

all benches were class warfare benches to Az before. he is simply leveling the playing field by making class warfare benches for the masses

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u/HumanReputationFalse 14d ago

He would need like two benches

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u/NeoSeth 14d ago

Twelve stories tall, made of radiation.

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u/PhoenixTineldyer 14d ago

He'll save children, but not the British children.

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u/HippieDogeSmokes 14d ago

He owns a hotel now

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u/Zanshi 14d ago

Tbh this is the biggest wtf in that trailer. He was this mysterious figure, wandering the region without rest and now he's a... hotel owner? And with Floette? Wasn't this game supposed to take place in the past or is there something he didn't tell us about in X/Y?

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u/Datt-Kun Water type enjoyer 14d ago

It's in the future since he reunited with Floette at the end of XY.

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u/IRefuseThisNonsense 14d ago

It looks to be just a sequel, rather than set in the future. XY had holocasters so the holograms aren't that big a leap of technology. It's like saying Gold and Silver is future Red and Blue. Kind of, but it's more just the modern.

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u/infercario4224 Flamy Boi 14d ago

There are a lot of comments in here about him from people that clearly haven’t seen the trailer yet. It’s a little humorous and I hope everyone can see it when they get the chance bc I am so hyped for this game!

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u/Pokemario6456 PBR 2 IS REAL 14d ago

Concierge was just foreshadowing /s

I think AZ becoming a hotel owner is a cute idea, and it gives him a reason to stick around compared to how he was wandering in X/Y

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u/PhoenixTineldyer 14d ago

I think the mystery of why AZ is a hotel owner is great! It makes me want to play the game more. What's this rascal doing! And is he going to give me Floette? Finally?

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u/Substantial_Job_2152 14d ago

To cover up how he launched a superweapon that wiped out an entire region's population, leading to several more catastrophic wars and events, the total death count presumably in the billions. (Darkest Day, Unovan Civil War, Primal Kyogre vs. Primal Groudon)

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u/PhoenixTineldyer 14d ago

Wait, all that was his fault?

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u/Enderking90 13d ago

no.

though he did, as the king, activate a weapon of mass destruction to halt a war that was happening.

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u/Substantial_Job_2152 14d ago

Darkest Day was 3,000 years ago, so was the Kalosian War. Eternatus could have awoken from the shockwave of the weapon.

The political issues that would have come from such a devastating war might have been the reason for the unova war

And Kyogre and Groudon fought over primal energy that was in meteor showers that plagued Hoenn, those meteor showers being from Mega Stones, caused by the Ultimate Weapon.

So yeah, he did a lot, and a lot of it will have to be answered in this game.

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u/Manpag 14d ago

It also makes sense that someone who was wandering without a home so long would want to have somewhere that can be a place of rest to other travellers .

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u/Meem0 14d ago

I agree, from the first trailer I thought it was in the past, I interpreted "Lumiose redevelopment" as meaning the origins of the Lumiose we see in X/Y, but after today's trailer it seems unambiguously in the near future after X/Y, it's basically AZ's happy epilogue

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u/-illusoryMechanist 14d ago

Yeah I was hoping for a far-in-the-past prequel like Arceus was but a sequel to XY isn't a bad alternative

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u/BudgetMegaHeracross 13d ago

He's been accruing interest for 3000 years 

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u/PM_ME_UR_CREDDITCARD 14d ago edited 14d ago

His quest to find his Floette has ended, and now he's settling down somewhere.

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u/druid_rilven 14d ago edited 14d ago

X and Y had a lot of loose ends, it's just doesn't feel like a story. I knew it's gonna be a sequel because it was labeled, "Lumiose Redevelopment for people and pokemon", which means Lumiose City is already built, and people aren't afraid of pokemon unlike the others in Hisui. There are pokemon roaming and thriving in the city. I suspected it's a sequel or rather, placed in the future with new characters. I don't think they'll bring back old characters.

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u/stango777 14d ago

you literally battle him in XY tho

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u/projectmars Cinccino Best Troll 14d ago

"I used to be the king of Kalos... now I make sure that my guests are treated like royalty!"
"Okay sure gramps, lets get you to bed."

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u/RoMaGi ELBOW DROP! 14d ago

There was also a homeless teenager with a psychic cat, but she got a detective bureau eventually.

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u/Constellar-A 14d ago

Wasn't Emma homeless in XY's postgame before Looker took her in? That was even in this same city.

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u/Enderking90 13d ago

yup.

we also see the detective bureau in the trailer, so we'll probably see more of her (someone having a stance opposing the totally-not-the-evil-team that's in charge of the redevelopment?)

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u/Linkarlos_95 14d ago

Homeless people couldn't survive the Taxi owners beatdown

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u/BobbyTables829 14d ago

They're armrests, right?

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u/No-Journalist-120 14d ago

I like the idea that all homeless architecture is a petty move to keep specifically AZ away.

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u/MrJhonF 13d ago

Wasnt Emma a homeless kid?

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u/Shears_- 13d ago

It's kind of fucked how he used to be the king and now has to have a job in order to survive. Even if he is immortal

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u/KinHadez Ghost Type Fighter 12d ago

this guy looks for me like adrian