Pokemon Mythology! 🐢🐒🐧 The Lore and Design of the Sinnoh Gang

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I think the three starters are based on different myths from across the world: Infernape: Sun Wukong Torterra: the World Turtle Empoleon: French people

you could argue that the Sinnoh starters' theme is "Heaven, Earth, and Man" it's a theme I've seen in more than one chinese novel

While I get that the "Mythology" Theme isnt super strong I think that there could be some argument about the Trio being based on beings that defied the World's Natural Order, which also plays into the Creation theming of Sinnoh in general. Napoleon tried to conqure Europe. The World Turtle is a representation of animals(maybe humans) shaping the world around them and changing its landscape beyond what it should be. As well as representing nature in a controlled, docile form and the Monkey King is Famous for Kicking the Ass of all of Heaven so hard they had to call big daddy Buddah to control him

I'll never be able to look at Monferno the same way ever again...

Son Goku is literally the Japanese reading of the characters for Sun Wukong. Iconic move by absolute legend Toriyama

So with the whole thing around 20:40 about Monferno's weird tail flame issue, I believe it could be that the tail is just a pipe to burn off those gasses further from the body, like a gas flare on oil well sites. They're pretty common here in North Dakota, its basically just a big pipe with a flame at the end to burn off excess or unusable natural gas while extracting oil.

4:27 Gentoo penguin, also know as delibird

25:18 considering Quaquaval is somewhat based on a peacock, and male peacocks have vibrant colors to attract female ones. Quaquaval is the straightest one here.

penguins can fly in water!

I find it funny that every time he talks about the world turtle, he shows it carrying four elephants that are carrying the world, without mentioning them at all. I feel like if you didn’t know about Discworld, you’d be confused as to why the elephants were also there…

Any gen with a bird starter makes the bird starter my default choice. Empoleon, Decidueye, Blaziken, and Quaquaval are my favorite starters. Bird Pokemon are the best

Even though Fire/Fighting was repeated twice in a row, we got Grass/Ground and Water/Steel, two new type combos in a single starter trio. Pretty nice!

21:48 I learned about this guy from the Persona series. Fittingly enough in SMTIII Nocturne, he even evolves into Seiten Taisei (aka The Monkey King aka Son Goku aka Sun Wukong. it's the Japanese translation of Wukong's self-proclaimed title of "Great Sage Over Heaven" ) .

Gen 4 easily had the best Starter Trio. Never have I loved all 3 so equally. Unova is a close second though.

18:25 "Japanese macaque is japan's only primate species" bro forgot about humans 😂

Collectively, the gen 4 starters are my favorite. Not individually, but overall together; great designs all around.

12:46 "A turtle made it to the w- wait, that's a tortoise! What are you doing?!"

Probably my favorite group of Starters They’ve ever done

You can tell Lock loves Piplup when nearly half the entire video is dedicated to its evolutionary line.