EVERY Pokemon Badge ANALYZED!

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For as basic or confusing as Johto's badges are, I wanted to take a moment to nerd out about the hidden genius of the Mineral Badge. Look at Jasmine's badge. Now look at Brock's badge. It's a polished down Boulder Badge. Brock uses Onix. Jasmine uses Steelix. There's even an npc in the lighthouse who brings up how she used to be a rock type leader before the advent of steel types. It's a good example of Johto's theme of times moving forward and evolving.

What better way to spend a cancelled day of work than hearing Lockstin talk about gym badges for an hour 20

4:46 You dont need to go out of your way to explain Kogas and Sabrinas Badges. Due to a localization error, the names of the Soul Badge and the Swamp Badge were swapped in the US versions of Pokémon Red and Blue. The US version also serves as the basis for the other languages. This error was also adopted in later media to avoid confusion.

Honestly the Galar Badges get a pass for me because it feels like it’s a unification theme. Like all of them together represent the League and unlocks the final challenge Paldea… feels like Geeta or someone else standardized it

For the Rainbow Badge, it is because Celadon City's Japanese name is Tamamushi, which comes from the coloration of jewel beetles that live in Asia. These beetles have shells that appear green when looked at directly, but when viewed at other angles will appear rainbow-like due to light reflection. The Earth Badge from Viridian is referred to as the "Green Badge" in the Japanese versions of the game. It doesn't really effect that much in the first generation, but consider that your rival was originally named Green before the version names were changed for international release. So in the Japanese versions of Gold, Silver, and Crystal you are getting the Green Badge from Green. Well played, Game Freak.

1:08:38 Surprised you didn't mention that rock climbing is a sport and the levels of the bedge are bronze, silver, and gold, like winners in events like that.

I thought the earth badge is a leaf because Giovanni was "turning over a new leaf". he does disband team rocket after you get the badge.

I believe the reason for the most recen two generations of gym badges being "Uninspired" being the corperasation of the gym challenge over all! In Galar almost each Gym was a carbon copy stadium build by the rose coorperation (or the league) and in Paldea its heavily implied that each gymleader is just employed by Gita who is the chairwomen of that league. the Gym leaders and gyms themselves have become easily replacable (paldea doesnt even have proper stadiums just designated open spaces and a company branch building) Looking at the designs throughout the generations you can see an evolution to the pokemon league anś a corperate entity: In the first 3 Generations each gym could be a place that has been there even before a proper league was established the gyms having their own unique historic badges that need to be collected to enter the new league. in gen 4 and 5 we see that the badges now all share a thematic theme, roundish with silver borders in sinnho and long with gold borders in Unova, possibly a result of the league having taken over badge production causing theam to look like a proper set, perhaps the designs are still co-made by the respective gym leaders as well. In Kalos i believe their badges are just more Detailed because each Gymleader was allowed to design their own badge or they are modernizations of culturally important badges from the past. Alola being culturally different from the other reagions still has to establish their gyms and league but they have made an effort to modernize their traditional islande challenges as a stamp card attraction. Now back to the new games, I really believe here the Pokemon Gyms have lost most of their history in favor of being a sport competistion, with the Galar Gym Challange literally being a reoccuring Football tournament and in Paldea it just being kinda there for students of the big pokemon academy? You can complain about how gamefreak lost inspiration sure but i believe it should not be missed that the Badge designs becoming bland is spelling out another subtle narrative of how in the Pokemon Universe Gyms and the Pokemon league have changed over time. I think thats a very interesting aspect to it that should be pointed out aswell

Is this a compilation of all of his previous badge videos? If so, I love how seamless the transitions were. Especially compared to the last compilation video.

I always appreciate the "old" YouTube layout on these kinds of videos lol. "Big yellow button" "5 stars" and video responses . Man, HOW long ago was all that?

1:09:47 I believe the yellow on Korina’s badge is meant to represent the roller skate paths throughout her gym. Same with the colours and textures, but probably less so.

Carmine from the Hidden Treasure of Area Zero has so much more meaning behind her name, knowing the origin of cochineal beetles. (Her hair matching the same tone is gorgeous)

Vermillion city’s badge looks like a sun because it’s mentioned that the port is a good place to watch sunsets, which are also the same color as the name :-)

Paldea may have basic badge designs, but it's the photos that are more important, and the fact there are technically 18 "badges", one task of every type whether it be Gym, Team Star, or Titan... the photos are to mark story completion the same way traditional badges used to, similar to Alola's stamps

16:33 they’re called ladybugs because when their gardens and crops were consistently getting consumed with no way to stop, the people prayed to the Virgin Mary and in time, ladybugs came in and started consuming the pests for them. Thus, they named them after the Lady Virgin Mary

I heard that Giovanni (or the Viridian gym in general) was going to be a flying type gym. The badge is a feather because of that and was just left over from development. So now it’s forever the ground type gym badge.

I lowkey wish they would bring back the overly designed badges rather than the kinda bland pin badges or jigsaw pieces in the new gens.

Did Locksin just called Cilian, Chili, & Cress "Twinks"! That is hiliarous! I never thought about that till now! Love this channel! :face-blue-smiling:

The thunder badge could represent a sun flower. So possibly solar power.