The world of Pokemon is just plain stupid

 <-While Pikachu may appear cute and cuddly, people seem to forget that it could electrocute you to death just as easily as Emperor Palpatine could. Fortunately, Pikachu forgets that too

As I was suffering from a major addiction to Pokemon Platinum, I got to the villains epic speech, and for a moment there, I just had to facepalm at the ideologies he was spouting.

Indeed, I am referring to the leader of Team Galactic, Cyrus. In the game, we meet him and hear about he wants to destroy the current order of things in order to create a new world without the flaws of the old one, sort of like Hikawa from Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne. However, today is not the day where I compare collecting Pokemon to collecting demons. This is the day where I state that Cyrus is stupid for complaining about the flaws in the Pokemon world, when it really has none.

We need to ask ourselves what is so bad about a world where we can safely send a 10-year old kid out in the wilderness with hostile animals, in order to do battle with horrible creatures, and come out a-OK. This is a world where we solve out problems with criminal organizations by having little creatures battle each other (only until they faint mind you!) until the other side runs out of little creatures, then the criminals give up their plans! Almost nobody pulls a gun, and Pokemon only very rarely attack people, and even rarer are Pokemon attacks fatal. Furthermore, the biggest crime syndicates focus their entire operations on Pokemon, rather than people. This is to say that without the Pokemon, the people would go largely unharmed, because the criminal organizations only seem to care about controlling them. Hence, the entire economy is run entirely based on Pokemon, while criminal activity that deals with other issues is largely unheard of.

Furthermore, we should look to the Pokemon themselves and realize that they too act in an idealized fashion. What is there to stop a wild Rhydon from killing a trainer after it KO’s all of their Pokemon? Nothing really. An Alakazam is said to have an amazingly high IQ. What is stopping it from using it’s powers of hypnosis to possess people, and use them to rule the world? Well, Mewtwo tried that in the first movie, but do you know what stopped him? HE DIDN’T FEEL LIKE CONQUERING THE WORLD! Him and his army of clones could have easily taken over civilization as we know it, but he didn’t because there was good in him.  Not to mention, there are several Pokemon like Tyranitar, Dragonite, Garchomp, and Gyarados that could easily crush cities with their powers, but we never see any villiages smashed because of them running around. Why? Because all of the REALLY powerful Pokemon have trainers that they listen to, despite being able to crush these trainers like the little flies they are. This means that the toughest beings in the universe are willing to just be captured and pit against each other, in futile battles that they never get killed in!

This is why I had a lot of trouble reading the speeches made by the team galactic leader. The worst part of the Pokemon universe is the threat of people stealing your Pokemon. Parents don’t even have to worry about bad thing happening to their children! These parents let their children go out and travel the world, mostly by themselves, and nothing ever happens to them! The kids come back fine, despite being attacked by monsters that could easily snap them in half, criminal organizations don’t shoot them for getting in the way, and society moves on just fine. They keep sending their kids out, and nothing bad happens, so they don’t feel the need to stop doing it! It’s basically a perfect world, where everything works out fine just because you love your Pokemon! Who would want to change that?

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