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Diglett’s underside has always been and always will be one of the greater mysteries of the pokémon universe. You’d think after all these years some Professor would simply try to pull one out of the ground, but until that day all we can do is speculate.
Of course, there are countless memes depicting Diglett as a small part of a larger monster, or some ripped out humanoid figure not to even mention some other very disturbing speculations. But there are plenty of theories out there that hold scientific ground, too.
For example, MandJTV Pokevids has this video where he describes Diglett as a mole. It is a mole pokémon, we have support that Diglett’s underside can’t be too huge, and in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Diglett explicitly states that he has feet.
All of this leads the youtuber to deduce that Diglett is some kind of small mole pokémon, with little legs and little claws to dig like this:
However, ProtoMario has a similar video with a very different theory. He claims that diglett is essentially half-ditto, and his bottom half morphs into whatever it needs to. For example, you can place diglett on a chair or on a table, and nothing would be underneath, because his lower half essentially becomes part of what he’s standing on.
Which is all a great theory, but I have a simpler one. That pile of rocks at the bottom? Those are its feet.
I’m imagining it as a mollusc-like food, like a snail or like Gastrodon–a series of complex muscles that it uses to slide around on by undulating through the soil. In fact, in bivalves, like clams or oysters, their foot has evolved specifically for the purpose of digging. Not unlike a worm, but with a snail’s foot.
We see Diglett plenty of times popping out of the ground without his foot, usually when they’re moving through the ground:
But as shown before, Diglett always has the rocky, gravell-y looking foot even when it was just picked up from a dirt or grass environment. So in this gif the foot is still there, but just underneath the soil such that diglett can use it to dig/walk around.
Earthworms dig by essentially just pushing the dirt out of the way, and Diglett probably does the same with its complex mobile feet.
Diglett has a complex series of muscles in a mollusc-like foot, which it uses to dig around. The foot is disguised as a pile of gravel, misleading many into thinking there’s more to the mystery.
That’s just my idea. And it’s only one in a infinite pool of possibilities. Reblog this with your favorite theories about Diglett’s underside!
