The aim of every generation is to devour succulent babes attract fresh fans, which necessitates simplicity.
Keeping a cretinous tone not only lures in tasty toddlers, but alienates a significant portion of the previous intake, freeing plotlines to be recycled for noobs.
Cod Kanto delights in digging up cadavers:
A Talent for Imitation! is Team Rocket helping Ditto with Transform.
As was Ditto's Mysterious Mansion.
From the days when retaining the face was a failing, not standard incompetence.
Geniuses only copied an adventure removed from continuity.
Ivysaur's Mysterious Tower! concerns 'Saurs gathering to evolve.
In no way reminiscent of Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden, or indeed the Venusaur-themed repeat in the future.
Ancient magic flowed from these woods, like a haven beyond the scope of Time.
A realm of the ages, rebirth and eternal life.
The secret world where Man dare not tread.
Well it's bulldozed and they're all dead.
This barbarity, exterminating holy beauty, echoes the ruination of Pokémon as a whole.
It's O's ping-pong school at last!
Nah, it's a Gym, for that's the one thing Vermilion's lacked all these years.
Destination Coronation! is Pikachu versus Raichu at Vermilion City Gym.
Unlike the above, it deigns to reference the pillaged predecessor, beckoning for defence.
When it pretends lifts are creative, fanboids lie these count as 'call-backs', 'cause stealing is meta acknowledgement, innit?
If it acknowledges repetition, on come the lectures of it being proof of undeniable canonical fidelity.
Feigning originality at least meant children weren't aware of poor facsimile, but flaunting imitations shows even greater contempt for an audience.
But it's an entirely new Gym Leader!
• Short, spiky blond hair
• Black fingerless gloves
• Flanked by a couple of biker mates.
• Short, spiky blonde hair
• Black fingerless gloves
• Built like a brick shit house
• Flanked by a couple of freak associates.
What a revelation, 'inventing' an identical character, and calling it a 'tribute'.
Theft ain't enough, it must be 'corrected': tough 'Nam soldier to Ronseal'd turtle fembot.