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fierykitten2 · 3 months ago

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Something a bit weird about the Proto Beasts and Neo Swords - so I’ve seen fan concepts of the Proto Beasts from before Bolt was announced where the three of them were all theropods like Wake. Nothing against those fan concepts but I feel like if they took that path the three of them would have been too samey. On the other hand, the Neo Swords who are infinitely more samey than the Proto Beasts would have been if they were all theropods (at least partly because the Swords of Justice are a lot more similar to each other than the Legendary Beasts are to each other I mean I guess there’s also the fact that the Past Paradox Pokémon don’t know how to stick to a theme while the Future Paradox Pokémon all perfectly understood the assignment) feel like the way they’re all similar to each other makes them the perfect trio

#proto beasts #neo swords #pokémon #I don’t mind how the Future Paradox Pokémon are all samey btw #they realised they had a theme and they stuck to it #the Past Paradox Pokémon didn’t even realise their main theme until Wake was shadowdropped #and even then Fire and Bolt struggled with it #I can’t blame them to be fair I’ve been too harsh on them #it probably takes real skill to turn mammals into ceratopsians and sauropods while avoiding the lion/bear/etc and giraffe allegations #but like with Crown being based on Cobalion (it wasn’t obvious to me okay)#they are pretty clear you just have to know that’s what you’re looking for #you can say the theme was “Pokémon but prehistoric” not “Pokémon but dinosaur” but the tails suggest otherwise #like mammoths didn’t have tails like those #plus Flutter Mane is explicitly stated to be a pterosaur because trust me no one would’ve got that if it wasn’t pointed out #the only thing it has in common with pterosaurs is the fact that it flies and even then I’d say it floats not flies

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