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VELUZA. It's based on ikizukuri, a process where sashimi is prepared from LIVE SEAFOOD. That's right, the creatures are processed while still alive in front of the consumer... Though they die shortly after. I love the fish that fillets itself. Nothing is more metal than psychically removing your own flesh to become faster. AND THEN IT CAN ALSO REGENERATE ITSELF.
Lockstin, If you see this could you please do a video on how you do your research, I want to make a fakemon region but idk how to efficiently research the culture,traditions, and history of a country!
That's true! While still occasionally translated into 'demon' similarly to Yokai being translated to "demon" in the west, it is definitely a less accurate and christo-centric way to translate it. I gotta watch out for that.
There plain is not a good way to translate it, tgey are technically similar to the old fae, with having powers in phr world, cause they are from another, but most westerners do not understand that vomparison either anymore...
This would be a cool concept until you realize that Iron Jugulis is an offspring of a hydreigon and a cyborg so pokemon do still exist in that timeline but maybe some are extinct or endangered.
Ah yes, another place to say how much I love Quaquaval. As a bird person, it's many bird traits and inspirations that bridge bird mating dances with samba dancing made this guy into my 4th favorite Pokemon ever. It's personality is also unmatched
The concept is great, but there's really no reason for it to look like a human in a bird costume. I wish it looked more like a bird and I think it's tail should've had a bigger focus
@@spiritwyrmk8622 I don't really think it does personally. The only things really that human about it are it's legs and it's wings kind of looking like arms. It's less humanoid than Blaziken, which I would argue has it's bird inspirations that explain it too
Wasn't there like a director's cut or something where the director or somebody else said that somebody who was practically on his death bed saw creatures like that but it may have been a hallucination and managed to write down the concept of them?
I'm definitely curious about this, because there are Alebrije statues depicting super bright animals from the 1940s even. Is them being psychopomps specifically a later idea perhaps from Coco? I havent actually seen it. Digging in a bit more I think this is close to the case though. the earliest Alebrije just seem to be bright fantastical animals as an art piece. the Spirit idea coming later.
@ correct! I didn’t get a chance to write my whole comment, but yes, originally, back in the 1940’s, they were just colorful animals made by Pedro Linares. Unsure if there was any sort of spirit guidance from them prior to Coco, but that’s where I first heard about it.
@@Gnoggin what kevin says is correct but according to myth the role of guiding the spirits through the underworld Mictlan goes to the Xoloitzcuintle a dog breed native to Mexico in Coco the kid’s dog it’s a Xoloizcuintle
I love MandJTV and crew for the manic energy they have during their challenges. I love Wolfie for his deep dives into the competitive world. I love Hoops for his fakemon content. But you my dude are probably my favourite pokemon content creator because you don't stop using your gnoggin. I love seeing your takes on the entomology and possible roots of the inspiration for the different 'mon. Thanks for all the work you do!
Another detail supporting the "Snake with prosthetics" theory for Miraidon is the colors of its Future Paradox Energy: the one running in the metal parts of its body (limbs, back, handles) is entirely violet, while the one in its exposed parts (throat, tail, eyebrows) adds yellow and some white. It almost feels like the tri-colored energy is the real body of this Pokemon and the violet is only the external layer, seeping into the metallic attachments just enough to be able to control them.
Worth mentioninin Fuecoco's line might have another inspiration: Correfocs. Correfocs are a catalan and valencian tradition (east of Spain) where people celebrate playing with fire and lighting things up, sometimes people participating wear big costumes on top of them that look like dragons or reptiles to mimic a dragon's fire... that square in Fuecoco's belly? it's supposed to mimic the hole the people inside the structure use to be able to see while wearing them. also the reason why Skeledirge looks so 'unnatural', with straight lines is because he is made to look like he was handmade from plaster to resemble a figure molded into that shape... like the dragons from correfocs are.
An interesting fact about Crocalor. The English name Crocalor is a combination of Crocodile & Galore. Lastly, the Japanese name Achigator is more fitting, makes more sense, & it's name is a combination of Mariachi & Alligator.
I really think Brambleghast's design is inspired by Pablo Picasso (and Cubism), I don't know how that connects to the other themes of its designs (I'm sure there's something, knowing the Pokemon designers), but it just has to be in there. Pablo Picasso was one of Spain's most famous artists of all time, after all. I'd love a deeper dive into that to see how that does connect with the western and ghost town themes!
3:51 aside from birds birds are well known for singing and some can even talk For anyone saying “birds aren’t reptiles” birds are in the clade archosauria which is the same clade as crocodilians and theyre closer to crocodilians than any other reptiles and crocodilians are closer to birds than they are to any other reptiles plus species don’t evolve out of a clade
It's also interesting that the four treasures of ruin are ACTUAL treasures, not the bodies, but they form these elemental bodies to move, battle and all that comes with it.
5:37 Just to clarify, birds of paradise are from New Guinea, not South America, also it was Ladon that guarded the golden apples not the hydra. Other than those little details great video overall 👍
When you bought up the pictures at 22:02 for the medieval knight. This is actually what i think of regarding Greavard and Houndstone; those two give ghosts n ghouls vibes. The way the fur drapes off houndstone is like the cloth ontop of the horse. I also think you could say Greavard could have Greaves in his name as in the the piece of medieval knight armor. Also...his name sounds like graveyard which is cool for my ghosts n ghouls theme.
Palifin is hands down my favorite gen 9. I was sad that I had to replace it with walking wake who is easily another favorite but i only replaced it cause i love using new mons
“Who thinks tuna salad is too spicy.” Hi from Minnesota…the state where many think ketchup is too spicy. Not me, though. I was raised in Buffalo, NY…where I was strengthened by the almighty Buffalo Wing.
Gods I cannot say this enough, but ANNIHILAPE IS PEAK!!! I've always had a soft spot for Primeape, and now it learned the ways of the Satsui-no-Hado after a fatal crash out. And it's competively viable?! Sign me up!
Something I haven't seen mentioned with the Nacli line is that its cubic nature is a reference to the actual crystalline structure of salt. Most people seem to assume it's just a Minecraft reference.
Lokix Bug/Dark typing also plays on both the darker and even monstrous nature of most Kamen Riders who were changed or transformed into riders due being made from the same technology used to create the enemies they often fight. Most of them have resisted brainwashing of some kind therefore the psychic immunity.
Thank you for this marathon of a video! Holy moles I do not want to imagine how work that was. I also find it funny that you brought this endcredits song back, after I asked you about it a few days ago. Is that a coinncedent or was there something more to it?
i feel like the treasures of ruin represents the four horseman of the apocalypse : chien pao is death, ting lu is starvation, chi yu is war and the snail thing is pestillence
Evolutionary biologist/paleontologist here, I think the main connection between Lemurs and Shrews is that treeshrews are more closely related to primates than they are to other shrews and both belong to the group called Euarchonta (the shrew-form has evolved like 10 times in mammals). But treeshrews belong to the group Scandentia, which along with the Dermoptera (Colugo), are closely related to primates. Additionally, alongside the lab rat stuff, the closet related group to Euarchonta are the Glires (Rodentia+Lagomorpha[wabbits]), together they form the mammalian superorder, Euarchontaglires. That is why working on rodents in the lab has benefits that extend to humans, we are more closely related to little rats than we are pigs or other mid-size livestock. Great video!
1:09:10 Dinosaurs 65 million years ago: exist Random space bolder: "im about to end this man's whole career" Dinosaurs 65 million years later: *"THEY FLY NOW!"*
People talk about how tinkaton is evil for killing corviknight, but tinkatuff is arguably worst because it goes after children(Pawniard) Incredible video! Also, Dudunsparce IMO was a dissapointment. My favourite new one this gen is Kingambit, i'm a Bisharp simp what can I say? And the anime made it like Alakazam. I even made an animation video over Kingambit, it's how much I like it!
18:54 would also like to mention that thank to the placement of NACL you get, Salti (Salty), Saltstack, and Gargasalt much sounding like gargle salt which is a common remedy for sore throats
45:00 I have rather a simplistic head canon explanation of the names for Glimmet and Glimmora. Glimmet = Glimmer (shine, shimmer, sparkle etc) + floret (small flower shapes often found in nature, especially the individual parts of cauliflower. The full leafed cabbage looking thing is called the flower, and the white puffy mini mushroom cloud explosion shaped parts are called florets) Glimmora = Glimmer (see above) + Flora (Latin for flower, ie flora and fauna) I don't mind if I'm proven incorrect because I haven't done any research. Just interesting name etymology I noticed.
on a sideline... as someone living in a town next to Barcelona, i absolutely hate it when people who are not spanish pronounce Barcelona with the 'th' sound. "But it's a way to honor the local pronunciation, isn't it?" well... No. 1. For starters, if you want to honor the spanish pronunciation you have to get rid of the way the 'o' is pronounced, as it is not Bar-theh-low-nah. But Bar-the-loh-nah. 2. Is not even 'how the locals' pronounce it, it's just how the spanish-speaking locals pronounce it. Barcelona is historically a catalan city (tho in recent history it has become more and more spanish-centric)... meaning the 'local' pronunciation for the catalan language would be Bar-sah-loh-na. (in fact the Barelona futbol club is called 'Barça', pronounced 'Bar-sah', because of this). In catalan the 'th' sound doesn't exist... sure, using the spanish pronunciation is not 'wrong' but if someone is using it to 'honor the locals' keep in mind... you are only honoring half of the locals while ignoring the historical main language of the city and over 40% of its speakers (tho, again, now there are more spanish speaking people in Barcelona than catalan). Either way, it's wrong, because Locals wouldn't call it Barcelona, they normally call it 'Barna' in an affectionate manner.
One bit you can add to Ogerpon is that the “Pon” comes from the jp word “Ponkotsu” (ポンコツ). Literal translation is “junk” but is often used to describe airheaded or ditzy characters, which in my opinion, is how ogerpon comes off with its idle and walk animations.
I get _why_ Bellibolt is the way it is but I really wish the bulbs were the actual eyes. I would like the design if it looked more like a frog than a disguised Chansey
Minor biology quibble regarding the orthworm segment. Earthworms aren't related to annelids, they ARE annelids. Polychaetes (generally bristley marine worms) and oligochaetes (earthworms and other generally smooth terrestrial worms) are the major subclasses.
1:31:44 I dont know if it was intentional or not, but over in the TCG, there is a Fezandipiti ex card that is used a lot because of its ability also called Flip the Script, which lets you draw 3 extra cards if one of your Pokemon were knocked out by your opponent on their previous turn
13:16 says larger locust, shows a weta (cricket relative). Also locust is like a vague group within grasshoppers just being the ones that swarm. Nothing particularly with size just like one of the largest European grasshoppers is the migratory locust
15:45 Just gonna let you know that the proper pronunciation of dachshund is "Dacks-hoond," or "Dacks-sund," for Americans. Sorry to be a nerd, but it's a pet peeve of mine when I know a word is being pronounced incorrectly.
Honestly, the future is almost undoubtedly going to be using combustion vehicles, due to basically being impossible to match the energy density (in both weight and volume), and it can be produced by pumping energy into distilling it from the air. (Of course, as of currently, that isn't even close to be economically viable when a few thousand years of the black gold is still relatively easily accessed. But should fusion take off, or we eventually reach that mythical "peak oil" that was supposed to happen some 50 years ago, then it could come around as an alternative.)
I do want to say that I also think part of the design lore behind Armorogue and Ceruledge is megaman. The arm cannon is literally Megaman X's X-Buster and Ceruledge is clearly a reference to Zero. Hence the energy sword, also the ghost typing could reference how Zero sacrifices himself in the first game. Also their color schemes are swapped. X's mostly blue colors onto Ceruledge, and Zero's mostly red onto Armorogue.
I dont think ive ever seen anyone make this connection, probably due to the lack of strength, but I always saw Fuecocos name as being a reference to Cocoa beans, mostly due to Mole Sauce as for the most part, it uses chocolate or pure coca and the sauce is quite spicy.
24:13 i think its funny that the comments seem to hate you pointing out how avocado-like Bellibolt is, cause the first time i ever saw it, i was like :OOO avocado pokemon!!! only to find out its an electric frog 😂
So, fun fact: All the Japanese names for the Future Paradox Pokémon (with the exception of Miraidon) have the word tetsu (鉄) in them, which roughly translates to iron, but can also be used to describe most metals in general
Given that starting with Sword and Shield and Legends Arceus, they're doing cross-gen evolutions again, I hope we see some cross-gen evolutions of some of Paldea's Pokemon in the future. Like I could see pre-evolutions of Dondozo and Cyclizar being pretty cute.
awesome video, but quick correction, those bird of paradise photo are actually from island of Papua in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, and have nothing to do with Amazon or Spanish/Portugal colonization
Great Video 😊 I want to add: Toedscool and Toedscruel are based on Truffles to. Their heads are the Truffle and the legs could symbolize the underground spore network. Toedscruel is based on variants of black truffles like the perigord truffle and Toedscool is based on the white Alba-Truffle. They have the ground type because Truffles grow inside the ground.
As a guy from Spain I want to share with you a joke about Quaxly. When we discovered that Paldea was going to be based on our country we associated Quaxly with a style from here called "cayetano". Explanation for that. Conservative rich people that wear puff vest and they have regional forms (yes). So when we discovered Quaquaval it was hilarious. It was like seeing someone that when they were young they were super homophobic, but turns out they were gay all the time
*Pawmot is most needless Pokemon. 13:30 I just like his design a million times better than Pawmot, the hair tuff, size of the arms, and general large stature of Pawmot are overdone imo.
I'm gonna point out something pretty cursed. Belibolt's false eyes remind me of the Dark Souls basilisk enemies. Those giant bulbous things? False eyes. Their real eyes are tiny beady things right above their mouths.
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Who's your favorite from this gen? I defiantly adore Tinkaton! AD: Thank you to Factor for sponsoring this video! Head to factor.yt.link/jd1Sby2 to get 50% off and free shipping on your first Factor box and 20% off your next month of orders with code LOCKSTINFIFTY.
VELUZA.
It's based on ikizukuri, a process where sashimi is prepared from LIVE SEAFOOD. That's right, the creatures are processed while still alive in front of the consumer... Though they die shortly after.
I love the fish that fillets itself. Nothing is more metal than psychically removing your own flesh to become faster.
AND THEN IT CAN ALSO REGENERATE ITSELF.
Agreed on Tinkaton being the best one this gen.
SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PSEUDO LEGENDARY TOO!
SCOVILLAIN!!!
@@Gnoggin Lokix. Liked it so much I bred a shiny. His name is Tommy.
Lockstin, If you see this could you please do a video on how you do your research, I want to make a fakemon region but idk how to efficiently research the culture,traditions, and history of a country!
23:15 Want to clarify Jinn are not demons, they are spirits and can be either good or evil.
19:11 am I missing a joke here
That's true! While still occasionally translated into 'demon' similarly to Yokai being translated to "demon" in the west, it is definitely a less accurate and christo-centric way to translate it. I gotta watch out for that.
@ Thank you for responding loved the video and was surprised you saw my comment.
Lol9lo
There plain is not a good way to translate it, tgey are technically similar to the old fae, with having powers in phr world, cause they are from another, but most westerners do not understand that vomparison either anymore...
An hour-long video from Lockstin? *Grabs a small snack and settles in to watch.*
and a blunt
1:39:25, it's a feature length film 😂
Is this a compilation of previous vids or all new?
@akiradkcn I think it's a compilation
My head-canon is that Ancient Paradoxes come from a timeline without humans, and the Future Paradoxes come from a timeline without Pokémon.
Wait this is actually really neat and creative
Surprised this comment isn’t getting more attention it’s actually really clever
This would be a cool concept until you realize that Iron Jugulis is an offspring of a hydreigon and a cyborg so pokemon do still exist in that timeline but maybe some are extinct or endangered.
It's the whole Pokemon and Humans need each other thing again, I could definitely see Gamefreak going for that ö
@@_friedtofu that was stated in a dubious magazine i don't think that's canon
Tinkaton's Origins are just that she's just a lil gremlin and we love her
Ah yes, another place to say how much I love Quaquaval. As a bird person, it's many bird traits and inspirations that bridge bird mating dances with samba dancing made this guy into my 4th favorite Pokemon ever. It's personality is also unmatched
EXACTLY!!!!!!
The concept is great, but there's really no reason for it to look like a human in a bird costume.
I wish it looked more like a bird and I think it's tail should've had a bigger focus
@@spiritwyrmk8622 I don't really think it does personally. The only things really that human about it are it's legs and it's wings kind of looking like arms. It's less humanoid than Blaziken, which I would argue has it's bird inspirations that explain it too
@noahberan6498 that's what I mean. From the waist up, great design. From the waist down?? Abomination🤣
It’s one of my favorite bird mons! Such clever design.
Alebrijes actually aren’t spirit animals, that was just a creative liberty done in Coco.
Wasn't there like a director's cut or something where the director or somebody else said that somebody who was practically on his death bed saw creatures like that but it may have been a hallucination and managed to write down the concept of them?
I'm definitely curious about this, because there are Alebrije statues depicting super bright animals from the 1940s even. Is them being psychopomps specifically a later idea perhaps from Coco? I havent actually seen it.
Digging in a bit more I think this is close to the case though. the earliest Alebrije just seem to be bright fantastical animals as an art piece. the Spirit idea coming later.
@ correct! I didn’t get a chance to write my whole comment, but yes, originally, back in the 1940’s, they were just colorful animals made by Pedro Linares. Unsure if there was any sort of spirit guidance from them prior to Coco, but that’s where I first heard about it.
@@morgancrabtree6248 no source specifies “near death bed”, but he did dream them up when incredibly sick. As you said, likely as a hallucination
@@Gnoggin what kevin says is correct but according to myth the role of guiding the spirits through the underworld Mictlan goes to the Xoloitzcuintle a dog breed native to Mexico
in Coco the kid’s dog it’s a Xoloizcuintle
I love MandJTV and crew for the manic energy they have during their challenges.
I love Wolfie for his deep dives into the competitive world.
I love Hoops for his fakemon content.
But you my dude are probably my favourite pokemon content creator because you don't stop using your gnoggin. I love seeing your takes on the entomology and possible roots of the inspiration for the different 'mon.
Thanks for all the work you do!
Another detail supporting the "Snake with prosthetics" theory for Miraidon is the colors of its Future Paradox Energy: the one running in the metal parts of its body (limbs, back, handles) is entirely violet, while the one in its exposed parts (throat, tail, eyebrows) adds yellow and some white. It almost feels like the tri-colored energy is the real body of this Pokemon and the violet is only the external layer, seeping into the metallic attachments just enough to be able to control them.
Thank you, Lockstin. Now I can proudly proclaim that I have trivia knowledge on all 1025 Pokemon to date :D
Worth mentioninin Fuecoco's line might have another inspiration: Correfocs.
Correfocs are a catalan and valencian tradition (east of Spain) where people celebrate playing with fire and lighting things up, sometimes people participating wear big costumes on top of them that look like dragons or reptiles to mimic a dragon's fire... that square in Fuecoco's belly? it's supposed to mimic the hole the people inside the structure use to be able to see while wearing them.
also the reason why Skeledirge looks so 'unnatural', with straight lines is because he is made to look like he was handmade from plaster to resemble a figure molded into that shape... like the dragons from correfocs are.
I already loved the Fuecoco/Skeledirge line, but knowing this part of its inspiration makes me love it even more! Thanks so much for sharing!
An interesting fact about Crocalor. The English name Crocalor is a combination of Crocodile & Galore. Lastly, the Japanese name Achigator is more fitting, makes more sense, & it's name is a combination of Mariachi & Alligator.
There's also the "Calor" which is heat in spanish
"Aztec marigolds" hahahaha, I finally know what the frocking Cempasúchil are called in English, I feel like I can conquer the world
I really think Brambleghast's design is inspired by Pablo Picasso (and Cubism), I don't know how that connects to the other themes of its designs (I'm sure there's something, knowing the Pokemon designers), but it just has to be in there. Pablo Picasso was one of Spain's most famous artists of all time, after all. I'd love a deeper dive into that to see how that does connect with the western and ghost town themes!
I love how Kingambit is animated so it looks like they can’t handle the speed he’s scooching at.
3:51 aside from birds
birds are well known for singing and some can even talk
For anyone saying “birds aren’t reptiles” birds are in the clade archosauria which is the same clade as crocodilians and theyre closer to crocodilians than any other reptiles and crocodilians are closer to birds than they are to any other reptiles plus species don’t evolve out of a clade
They're dinosaurs, dang it
Fuecoco is the most adorable derp-baby that Pokémon has ever created.
YES! I love the most precious derp
THANK YOU! The whole charm of Dunsparce is that it's Dunsparce. It's not supposed to be cool. It's an underdog!
Time to light a cigar and listen to Lockstin
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Time to light a blunt and listen to Lockstin
@@flavorfulsoups 👀
Legends ZA being in Kalos, can there be a part where you pass through Pokémon's version of Andorra to get to Paldea?
It's also interesting that the four treasures of ruin are ACTUAL treasures, not the bodies, but they form these elemental bodies to move, battle and all that comes with it.
I will die on the hill that skeledirge is the greatest fire starter ever made
Long form, long form, long form, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go. Long form content Lockstin & Gnoggin is the best Lockstin & Gnoggin.
5:37 Just to clarify, birds of paradise are from New Guinea, not South America, also it was Ladon that guarded the golden apples not the hydra. Other than those little details great video overall 👍
40:53 Dekotora, yeah those guys who disrespected lightning McQueen at the beginning of CARS
39:10 Again, Juan Carlos the First is NOT Francisco Franco's son. This was a big mistake in Palafin's video that got called out several times.
--- The fix has been made in the youtube editor! it will take a few hours to process though. I'm a dingus for letting that one stay in the script.
This
54:54 also when standing it looks like a staple remover
Kingambit “running” looks like those unlockable videos in F-Zero GX where the pilots ride around in invisible cars
@Gnoggin
Thanks for adding in the Butcher/Baker/Candlestick Maker theory I commented about for your gen 9 dog video last year.
1:00:45 so what your saying is... they're ultra beasts?
Yep, pretty much! Just Ultra Beasts that showed up via Terapagos and Tera crystal powers instead of via Nebby and Ultra Wormholes
Bellibolts.. eyes.. and its an avocado? Mind blown.
When you bought up the pictures at 22:02 for the medieval knight. This is actually what i think of regarding Greavard and Houndstone; those two give ghosts n ghouls vibes. The way the fur drapes off houndstone is like the cloth ontop of the horse. I also think you could say Greavard could have Greaves in his name as in the the piece of medieval knight armor.
Also...his name sounds like graveyard which is cool for my ghosts n ghouls theme.
Palifin is hands down my favorite gen 9. I was sad that I had to replace it with walking wake who is easily another favorite but i only replaced it cause i love using new mons
“Who thinks tuna salad is too spicy.”
Hi from Minnesota…the state where many think ketchup is too spicy. Not me, though. I was raised in Buffalo, NY…where I was strengthened by the almighty Buffalo Wing.
Gods I cannot say this enough, but ANNIHILAPE IS PEAK!!! I've always had a soft spot for Primeape, and now it learned the ways of the Satsui-no-Hado after a fatal crash out. And it's competively viable?! Sign me up!
Protect Ogerpon at all costs
Something I haven't seen mentioned with the Nacli line is that its cubic nature is a reference to the actual crystalline structure of salt. Most people seem to assume it's just a Minecraft reference.
NOT THE LORIGINS 😭😭😭🤚🤚🤚🤚
The timeline where there's Pokemon robots everywhere, call that Horizon Zero 'Mon
Lokix Bug/Dark typing also plays on both the darker and even monstrous nature of most Kamen Riders who were changed or transformed into riders due being made from the same technology used to create the enemies they often fight. Most of them have resisted brainwashing of some kind therefore the psychic immunity.
Thank you for this marathon of a video! Holy moles I do not want to imagine how work that was.
I also find it funny that you brought this endcredits song back, after I asked you about it a few days ago.
Is that a coinncedent or was there something more to it?
Yes, I'll take this unusually longer video as a Birthday/Christmas gift, thanks Lockstin! 🎂 🎅🤩
My Favorite Gen 9 Pokémon are easily Armarouge and Ceruledge.
Where what the hell did you get that sinistea cup? It's freaking adorable!
i feel like the treasures of ruin represents the four horseman of the apocalypse : chien pao is death, ting lu is starvation, chi yu is war and the snail thing is pestillence
Evolutionary biologist/paleontologist here, I think the main connection between Lemurs and Shrews is that treeshrews are more closely related to primates than they are to other shrews and both belong to the group called Euarchonta (the shrew-form has evolved like 10 times in mammals). But treeshrews belong to the group Scandentia, which along with the Dermoptera (Colugo), are closely related to primates. Additionally, alongside the lab rat stuff, the closet related group to Euarchonta are the Glires (Rodentia+Lagomorpha[wabbits]), together they form the mammalian superorder, Euarchontaglires. That is why working on rodents in the lab has benefits that extend to humans, we are more closely related to little rats than we are pigs or other mid-size livestock. Great video!
Fuecoco: not the spiciest pepper but the most passionate. My little rockstar cheese-bellied baby guy
My violence inhibitors are a joke. No, really. I only keep them enabled because of how funny they are
We are eating with such a long Gnoggin video
Fitting with how food focused this generation is
1:09:10
Dinosaurs 65 million years ago: exist
Random space bolder:
"im about to end this man's whole career"
Dinosaurs 65 million years later:
*"THEY FLY NOW!"*
NOT LISBON 😭😭😭😭🤚🤚🤚
The Space-Godzilla reference you are looking for is most likely Mega Tyranitar in design
It's really Kingambit driving around on his Golf Cart.
People talk about how tinkaton is evil for killing corviknight, but tinkatuff is arguably worst because it goes after children(Pawniard)
Incredible video! Also, Dudunsparce IMO was a dissapointment.
My favourite new one this gen is Kingambit, i'm a Bisharp simp what can I say? And the anime made it like Alakazam.
I even made an animation video over Kingambit, it's how much I like it!
when archaludon walks, its back reminds me of a staple remover
18:54 would also like to mention that thank to the placement of NACL you get, Salti (Salty), Saltstack, and Gargasalt much sounding like gargle salt which is a common remedy for sore throats
Obligatory ‘It's been 2,000 years’
I've been looking forward to this one!
I don't want to go to bed quite yet... perfect!
I love when you make looong videos
45:00 I have rather a simplistic head canon explanation of the names for Glimmet and Glimmora.
Glimmet = Glimmer (shine, shimmer, sparkle etc) + floret (small flower shapes often found in nature, especially the individual parts of cauliflower. The full leafed cabbage looking thing is called the flower, and the white puffy mini mushroom cloud explosion shaped parts are called florets)
Glimmora = Glimmer (see above) + Flora (Latin for flower, ie flora and fauna)
I don't mind if I'm proven incorrect because I haven't done any research. Just interesting name etymology I noticed.
ITS FINALLY HERE!!!!!!! IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG!!!!!
on a sideline... as someone living in a town next to Barcelona, i absolutely hate it when people who are not spanish pronounce Barcelona with the 'th' sound.
"But it's a way to honor the local pronunciation, isn't it?" well... No.
1. For starters, if you want to honor the spanish pronunciation you have to get rid of the way the 'o' is pronounced, as it is not Bar-theh-low-nah. But Bar-the-loh-nah.
2. Is not even 'how the locals' pronounce it, it's just how the spanish-speaking locals pronounce it. Barcelona is historically a catalan city (tho in recent history it has become more and more spanish-centric)... meaning the 'local' pronunciation for the catalan language would be Bar-sah-loh-na. (in fact the Barelona futbol club is called 'Barça', pronounced 'Bar-sah', because of this).
In catalan the 'th' sound doesn't exist... sure, using the spanish pronunciation is not 'wrong' but if someone is using it to 'honor the locals' keep in mind... you are only honoring half of the locals while ignoring the historical main language of the city and over 40% of its speakers (tho, again, now there are more spanish speaking people in Barcelona than catalan).
Either way, it's wrong, because Locals wouldn't call it Barcelona, they normally call it 'Barna' in an affectionate manner.
One bit you can add to Ogerpon is that the “Pon” comes from the jp word “Ponkotsu” (ポンコツ). Literal translation is “junk” but is often used to describe airheaded or ditzy characters, which in my opinion, is how ogerpon comes off with its idle and walk animations.
I get _why_ Bellibolt is the way it is but I really wish the bulbs were the actual eyes. I would like the design if it looked more like a frog than a disguised Chansey
Absolutely incredible video, as usual! I was so shocked to see my name in the patron list, but it was super nice
Minor biology quibble regarding the orthworm segment. Earthworms aren't related to annelids, they ARE annelids. Polychaetes (generally bristley marine worms) and oligochaetes (earthworms and other generally smooth terrestrial worms) are the major subclasses.
1:31:44 I dont know if it was intentional or not, but over in the TCG, there is a Fezandipiti ex card that is used a lot because of its ability also called Flip the Script, which lets you draw 3 extra cards if one of your Pokemon were knocked out by your opponent on their previous turn
26:23 Frigatebirds *can* hunt for themselves, picking up fish from the surface of the water.
13:16 says larger locust, shows a weta (cricket relative). Also locust is like a vague group within grasshoppers just being the ones that swarm. Nothing particularly with size just like one of the largest European grasshoppers is the migratory locust
15:45 Just gonna let you know that the proper pronunciation of dachshund is "Dacks-hoond," or "Dacks-sund," for Americans. Sorry to be a nerd, but it's a pet peeve of mine when I know a word is being pronounced incorrectly.
I was thinking it, too. I had also wanted to comment about it. Thank you for taking the lead on that.
1:00:10 You mean crest?
Honestly, the future is almost undoubtedly going to be using combustion vehicles, due to basically being impossible to match the energy density (in both weight and volume), and it can be produced by pumping energy into distilling it from the air. (Of course, as of currently, that isn't even close to be economically viable when a few thousand years of the black gold is still relatively easily accessed. But should fusion take off, or we eventually reach that mythical "peak oil" that was supposed to happen some 50 years ago, then it could come around as an alternative.)
Been waiting for you to cook with a video like this great work
your depth of research is so impressive please i want to meet you researcher omfg
I do want to say that I also think part of the design lore behind Armorogue and Ceruledge is megaman. The arm cannon is literally Megaman X's X-Buster and Ceruledge is clearly a reference to Zero. Hence the energy sword, also the ghost typing could reference how Zero sacrifices himself in the first game. Also their color schemes are swapped. X's mostly blue colors onto Ceruledge, and Zero's mostly red onto Armorogue.
Also Arboliva's arms look like a Roman Head Reef.
I love how Gamefreak's designs keep getting more complicated and lore rich even when the pokemon seems simple at first.
I dont think ive ever seen anyone make this connection, probably due to the lack of strength, but I always saw Fuecocos name as being a reference to Cocoa beans, mostly due to Mole Sauce as for the most part, it uses chocolate or pure coca and the sauce is quite spicy.
I always thought Spidops might have a bit of a Spider-Man inspiration too, the shiny colors are kinda similar
24:13 i think its funny that the comments seem to hate you pointing out how avocado-like Bellibolt is, cause the first time i ever saw it, i was like :OOO avocado pokemon!!! only to find out its an electric frog 😂
So, fun fact: All the Japanese names for the Future Paradox Pokémon (with the exception of Miraidon) have the word tetsu (鉄) in them, which roughly translates to iron, but can also be used to describe most metals in general
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Roses are red
Lockstin has a brother
The great tusk elephant was big
But not as big as the 'Your Mother'
Given that starting with Sword and Shield and Legends Arceus, they're doing cross-gen evolutions again, I hope we see some cross-gen evolutions of some of Paldea's Pokemon in the future. Like I could see pre-evolutions of Dondozo and Cyclizar being pretty cute.
How did it take me this long to realize the sponge thing you wash your pokemon with is in the shape of a mareep?
awesome video, but quick correction, those bird of paradise photo are actually from island of Papua in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, and have nothing to do with Amazon or Spanish/Portugal colonization
Great Video 😊 I want to add: Toedscool and Toedscruel are based on Truffles to.
Their heads are the Truffle and the legs could symbolize the underground spore network. Toedscruel is based on variants of black truffles like the perigord truffle and Toedscool is based on the white Alba-Truffle.
They have the ground type because Truffles grow inside the ground.
perfect video to clean my room to
As a guy from Spain I want to share with you a joke about Quaxly.
When we discovered that Paldea was going to be based on our country we associated Quaxly with a style from here called "cayetano". Explanation for that. Conservative rich people that wear puff vest and they have regional forms (yes). So when we discovered Quaquaval it was hilarious. It was like seeing someone that when they were young they were super homophobic, but turns out they were gay all the time
Did you ever notice that paradox Entei's crest and horns resemble Ho-oh's rainbow wing item and feathers?
Rellor looks like a muppet and I love it
I will always argue against "dunce" being part of dunsparce's etymology. Also the cuelebre is a potential influence on dudunsparce
Thank you I’ve bin waiting this!!!
Honestly, regardless of what you think of the gameplay, this gen's Pokémon goes hard af.
Literally waited 2 years for this video
finally someone gets dundunsparce and why hes the best normal type besides furret
*Pawmot is most needless Pokemon. 13:30
I just like his design a million times better than Pawmot, the hair tuff, size of the arms, and general large stature of Pawmot are overdone imo.
43:58 It’s Big, Scarry and Pink!
I'm gonna point out something pretty cursed. Belibolt's false eyes remind me of the Dark Souls basilisk enemies. Those giant bulbous things? False eyes. Their real eyes are tiny beady things right above their mouths.
You should analyze Gen 9 gym leader designs.
Y’know, Bramblin’s red highlights make it kinda _look_ like spaghetti in addition to the spaghetti western thing.