First, two potential alternatives/counters/whatever to two of these:
– Re: Ghetsis and N not being related.
There is another option, you know. I can never remember if it was said in-game or just on Pokemon’s social media, but it is still canonically rumored (either in direct canon or Word of God canon) that N “may not be human”. N is the only character in the game universe to understand Pokemon to the level of clarity he can. Ghetsis repeatedly calls him inhuman, to a point that in Pokemon Generations the snippet N got to appear in was Ghetsis saying like 5 times in 3 minutes that N was a freak, a monster, didn’t have a human heart, didn’t belong to either world, etc.
Zoroark was the first Gen 5 Pokemon revealed, making it seem like it would be super important to the generation, and then it was event only for the first games, but never really given a reason for that. In BW2, you follow a Zoroark up a mountain and through caves down into the ruins of N’s castle, where you find N, but the Zoroark that led you is now nowhere to be seen. And then, of course, BW2′s Memory Link feature gives you a memory from the point of view of the person you’re talking to, “with only one exception”: a memory of N’s given to you by a Zoroark.
There’s a lot of smaller stuff that on its own would be pathetically weak but added all together with the stronger points builds up a pretty impressive pile, too. The hairstyles are similar. In the anime, at least for the first six gens, EVERY human character I can find has highlights in their eyes (excluding closed-eyed chars like Brock, who still has them during rare openings), except N. It’s very common for Pokemon to lack highlights. One of the Pokemon that raised him before Ghetsis found him was a Zorua, which could have been blood family or pack. “N” and “Z” are the same symbol turned 90 degrees. His bedroom is filled with Pokemon claw marks, and sure it’d make sense for his room to be covered in signs of Pokemon being there but it’s still interesting there’s not a myriad of things like scorch marks and feathers and the ground torn up and such, it’s only damage a bored Zoroark could have caused.
It’s certainly not provable by any means, but “N is actually a Zoroark, and potentially the most skilled/practiced human illusionist there’s ever been, who took on a form to resemble the human that took him in and lived as a human in order to use that platform to fight for his Pokemon brethren’s rights and freedom” is at least as valid a theory as any other.
– Re “Archie and Maxie are not friends”
Well, no of course they’re not now. They don’t secretly go out bowling in between missions or meet for candlelit dinners and secret trysts, nah. The other’s very existence infuriates them now, a living representation of everything they’re fighting against. They get on each other’s nerves both in causes and as people.
… but to say they’ve never been friends, that there couldn’t be any part of them that still wants to be, might be pushing it. As AllhailPokemonvillains noted, they were most likely a part of Sea Mauville together before it was shut down. They worked together once. For them to have been friends or even lovers in the past is not entirely implausible, and to have some sense of “I care about you as a person, and wish things could go back to how they were, if you’d just realize that everything you’re doing is asinine and stop trying to prevent my own goals and be a reasonable person for once” is a valid enough interpretation with little particular evidence for or against it. It can even add to the tragedy of everything, and be played as enhancing their anger toward each other. Someone who’s just always been a dick is easy to dismiss, but when fighting someone you used to care about, who used to care about you, there’s a sense of betrayal and a special extra brand of anger in the form of “I know you’re capable of being better than this so what the actual hell”. And that can be very fun to write about. :3c
– “Mew was the first Pokemon.” Oh my God people, pun intended, Arceus since its introduction has been touted to have been the first Pokemon that spawned the creation of this universe, while Mew only started being speculated – “some scientists believe” – to be an ancestral Pokemon in Gen 2. It was an afterthought never even followed up on and later proven false and there are still people who’d argue it. Mew is an ancient version of Ditto with some very impressive powers but that’s it. (I know this one’s not villain-related but it’s my oldest Pokemon pet peeve. Before Arceus was even invented this interpretation of Mew still bugged me. xD;)
– “James is gay lol.” James has shown interest in women, albeit rarely. Being flamboyant does not automatically make someone gay. He doesn’t have to be straight either; he can be bi, pan, aspec, abro, any number of things. Just, don’t ignore canon or base an interpretation solely on stereotypes.
– “Lusamine is irredeemable.” Lusamine was mentally unstable and acting out based on traumatic loss. She became obsessed with preservation so she’d never have to deal with change or loss again. She froze her Pokemon so she wouldn’t have to lose them like she lost Mohn. She “disowned” her children (while still clearly angry, hurt, and guilt tripping them for leaving her) with basically the same logic as “you can’t fire me, I quit”. Lusamine acted HORRIBLY and NOTHING SHE DID WAS OKAY but she was also a victim and deserves help to get better and try to fix things, not damnation.
– “Poor Guzma was a victim of abuse so everything he did is justified.” 8″) Please don’t, especially for people who also hate on Lusamine. Guzma is super sympathetic but it doesn’t change that he was a violent criminal who bragged about physically assaulting people and who absolutely would have thrashed a bunch of 11-year-olds if their Pokemon hadn’t been in his way. He deserves help and redemption but that doesn’t mean his past is totally excusable.
– People who see nothing about new!Tabitha except his weight. Please let this wonderful sassy arrogant science baby be all the wonderful things he is rather than relegating him to some gross jokes. :(
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