12-18-2010, 06:11 PM
(12-10-2010, 10:34 PM)Baegal Wrote: are HitmonLEE and HitmonCHAN really braced off of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, or just coincidence?
Nope, like Chad said, they were only named after them in ENGLISH, but the hitmons were based on Hiroyuki Ebihara and Tadashi Saramura, boxer/kickboxers, thus their Japanses names are Ebiwalar and Sawamular. Hitmontop's Japanese name comes from a Brazilian fighting style which involves spinning kicks.
(12-14-2010, 09:09 AM)D2S-Speed Wrote: "Pikachu"
Pika- is a small mammal belonging to the Ochotonidae family in Japan.
Kind of describes Pikachu being the small mouse poke'mon.
This also may be a coincidence, like pachirisu pikachu's name is made up of wordplay, in Japanese pikapika is an onomatopoeia of sparkle, and chuchu is the sound of squeaking for mice (this is the mouse part).
So the pika animal part is very very unlikely.
(12-18-2010, 03:14 PM)munky cheez Wrote: If anything, Groudon and Kyogre created the world.
How is Mew v Arceus hard to understand? First of all the movies are not cannon and Arceus is NOT God. It's a Shinnoh legend. Secondly, even if Arceus was God and created everything, think of mew as a stem cell. That's why it was based on an unborn baby, it has all the *DNA* for Pokemon becuase it is a "fetus".
Even if Arceus was God, that's like being confused as to what came first, God or babies?
BABIES MUST HAVE COME FIRST BECAUSE THEY ARE BLAH I'M FUCKING DUMB.
Everything is legend, Groudon and Kyogre were only said to have created Hoenn, the main legends of 4th gen created Sinnoh, and Mew is a pokemon that has roots to all pokemon.
Creating Arceus did create some holes, but Arceus is a pokemon that creates worlds, and it's plates are the source of its power, without them its just a regular pokemon. You say it's all legend but the games have proved enough that the pokemon does SOMETHING, God or no God, it's the strongest of all pokemon, and created dialga/palkia/giratina. And people seem to forget legend says Arceus was born from an egg that appeared from nowhere before the universe began, so the legend does stretch a lot of shit like the 1000 arm thing, but Arceus still holds power to create shit. That's how gamefreak handles things, give pokemon power to do shit and add "in legend" just for the sake of people not going overboard with stuff. Either way the mystery of mew vs arceus won't ever be properly answered, so leave it alone.