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| 13 Jul 2011 04:02 PM |
Banette, while creepy enough in appearance (a maliciously grinning, red-eyed, ghost-creature with a zipper for a mouth), are explained in the in-game Pokédex as being possessed dolls seeking revenge on the children that threw them away. Also, you wouldn't be able to tell if it's the doll you threw away. So children, if you've thrown away a doll, and you find a Banette, don't risk it and hope it's someone else's problem, run away screaming and peeing your pants. Or simply use your completely overleveled Pokémon to absolutely maul it and faint it. Problem solved!! ___________________________________________________________________________Parasect: Parasect, because it was a cute little Paras that becomes consumed and controlled by a fungus. The Pokédex entry says that in Parasect, the mushroom has grown so large that it literally sucks the nutrients from Paras' body to the point that it's stunted Paras' growth permanently. In case you didn't notice, Paras is a Nymph (IE: Larval stage) insect. Parasect is STILL a Nymph. Only the mushroom has grown! Plus it's said to make the timid Paras into a VERY aggressive Parasect. One can imagine it crossing the line from sucking on trees to killing and growing from its prey's nutrients... Long story short: The evolution from Paras to Parasect represents the point at which the fungus seizes control of the insect's brain, leading to Pokédex entries for Parasect like the following: "The bug host is drained of energy by the mushrooms on its back. They appear to do all the thinking" and, perhaps even creepier, "When nothing's left to extract from the bug, the mushrooms on its back leave spores on the bug's egg." Many Pokémon will take a real species' characteristics and exaggerate them in some way, but the Paras family seems to have taken the Cordyceps-insect relationship and made it even more sinister. Rather than simply killing its host, the fungus infecting the creature essentially becomes its host. That's right; by evolving it into Parasect, you just let your cute lil' Paras have its brain hijacked by a parasitic fungus, turning it into some kind of fungus zombie, because you wanted a stronger 'mon. Oh, suddenly I'm the jerk. Perhaps this explains why the Paras in "The Problem With Paras" didn't want to evolve. And now that episode is 100% Accidental Nightmare Fuel. Poor little paras. It knew of the fate they were trying to force it into, didn't it? Even worse, Paras exists in real life. Just Google "Zombie Ants." Go ahead. We dare you.
TL;DR version: Banette is a possessed doll that remembers who threw it away and tries to get revenge. Parasect is practically a zombie and the mushroom took over its brain.
Anyone else have any good Pokemon nightmare fuel. |
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Broskiing
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| 13 Jul 2011 04:03 PM |
| Banette kinda creeped me out the first time I saw it. :/ |
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| 13 Jul 2011 04:05 PM |
nova
You do know he sealed himself on New Moon Island so he wouldn't hurt anyone, right? It's not even his fault he causes nightmares ._. |
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| 13 Jul 2011 04:05 PM |
| O_e WHAT HAPPEN TO THE OLD BANETTE CRAP. |
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| 13 Jul 2011 04:08 PM |
@Italy
This was just for people who were afraid to see this stuff off OT. |
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| 13 Jul 2011 04:09 PM |
| Looks, there's a thread for tropers, so why don't you go there. |
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| 13 Jul 2011 04:13 PM |
Why don't you just go here: http://www.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=50506897 |
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| 13 Jul 2011 04:17 PM |
Heres on that couldn't go unnoticed.
Wobbuffet and Wynaut are cute, funny, and surprisingly awesome. But they're also creepy, for two reasons. The first is that they're usually banned in tournaments, due to their ability, Shadow Tag, which prevents the opposing Pokémon from switching out. Also: its tail. Speaking of those tails... it's mentioned in the Pokédex that there's a secret about them, and that Wobuffet are oddly protective of their tails. Someone else figured this out, when looking at how Wobuffet looks and acts like an inflatable punching bag. Perhaps because it is. The 'eyespots' on Wobuffet's tails are its real eyes, and the tail is in fact the actual Pokémon- the entire body is merely a protective decoy! Am I the only one that noticed a rather disturbing personality trait of the Wynaut/Wobbuffet Pokémon? It has Shadow Tag, which prevents you from swapping out, and the only moves it knows protect itself from being afflicted by any weird status conditions while doling out punishment in retaliation. So basically, you can burn, electrocute, freeze, poison, and generally brutalize a Pokémon who refuses to let you leave the battle until one or both of you are knocked clean out, or you capture it and force it to do your bidding? |
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| 13 Jul 2011 04:19 PM |
| Where I went. But seriously, don't post offsite addresses. |
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| 13 Jul 2011 04:24 PM |
| Does anyone else have anything they want to post? |
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| 13 Jul 2011 04:25 PM |
| Look, if your gonna be pessimistic, go to RT. |
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| 13 Jul 2011 04:33 PM |
I should?
Okay Hypno, who is Child('s Dream-)Eating Pokémon. It leads children away by hypnotizing them and they're never seen again. There is a shirt that played upon this, featuring a photorealistic Hypno leading away silhouettes of actual children◊. In FireRed and LeafGreen, The child Lostelle loses her way in the Berry Forest on the third Sevii Island. You'll find her in the deepest depths of the forest, crying about a scary Pokémon chasing her - no prizes for guessing the species of her pursuer, since it will attack you too, as the player character is also a child. It's even inadvertently dangerous, as the anime shows us that if you innocently ask your Hypno to help cure your insomnia, the psychic waves will wash all over your town, causing all your children to think that they're Pokémon... The worst thing? Pokédexes imply that you may sometimes wake up to find one of them standing over your bed, catching and eating your dreams. Eep. Even before evolving, Drowzee is just as bad - one of them canonically abducted a baby Pokémon in the second Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. You get to teach him a lesson. And then later in the game, the same Drowzee (now completely reformed and repentant, thank God) sends you into the same Azurill's dream world. That the 'dungeon' is not only void of food items but populated by such disturbingly cute yet powerful Pokémon like Wigglytuff and Miltank is downright creepy. Then there's "Cresselia"'s Mind Screw at the end. Granted, it's at this point that we learn that it was actually Darkrai who was messing with you, and that the real Cresselia is actually quite kindhearted... does this make it better or worse? In a random conversation with Buena from HGSS, she says that DJ Mary of Professor Oak's Pokémon Talk used to own a Drowzee, and that it made her fall asleep all the time during her show. Knowing what its evolution is known for doing by reading this page, that little chat goes from odd to downright TERRIFYING. And one more thing — if this Pokemon kidnaps you, you're not getting away. Hypno's ability is Insomnia. It never sleeps. Actually, it also has Forewarn. Which may mean it knows when you're about to try to escape. |
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Duskeh
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| 13 Jul 2011 04:36 PM |
Wow. I suddenly feel bad for changing Paras to Paris Hilton on that one onld Pokemon card I had. ._. |
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| 13 Jul 2011 04:37 PM |
| Paras Hilton? What were its attacks? Sing to death and Go to jail? |
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yenzen
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| 13 Jul 2011 04:38 PM |
| This thread is now a TV Tropes general. |
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xtreamk12
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| 13 Jul 2011 04:41 PM |
| Try to find something about Mr. Mime/Mime Jr. |
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