QotD: Which pokemon design is the best commentary on the real world?

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Today’s Question:
*QotD: Which pokemon design is the best commentary on the real world? *

Helpful Considerations: Gumshoos being a detective? Scraggy being a hooligan? Hawlucha wrestler?

Galarian Cursola → dead coral reefs due to climate change

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Psyduck get headache… explodes
100% accurate take on headaches lol

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Add in Muk, Weezing, and Trubbish along those same lines :upside_down_face:

Although I guess Galarian Weezing is basically a steampunk air purifier so some optimism there :slight_smile:

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The OG psyduck and its migraine/mental illness/chronic pain and alienation trope

I remember thinking it was a bit f* up to give a pokemon such a miserable life

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Unbelievably basic, but Ogerpon being shunned for being different and misunderstood gotta be up there

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RNG.

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You’re always expected to be side reshram or side zekrom it’s never that you’re side kyrem

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This was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the title of this thread. I’m glad it’s the first comment.

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Almost as though people expect things to be black and white

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Please explain the commentaries

I think it’s best left to interpretation :melting_face:

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It’s a weasel. Nothing more…

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Without any bias, alolan muk being an oil spill in tropical island is very fitting

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