Who needs guns and tanks when you’ve got a dog the size of a horse that can run at 258 mph and breathe fire? And he’s biddable enough to be commanded by a ten year old.
Who needs guns and tanks when you’ve got a dog the size of a horse that can run at 258 mph and breathe fire? And he’s biddable enough to be commanded by a ten year old.
I mean, yes, but it is also a well-established bit of the lore. It even shows it in the first anime when Charizard is so unimpressed by Ash that he usually refuses to fight at all, and the one time he does fight (because the other Pokémon was strong enough to interest him) he just does his own thing and doesn’t listen to anything Ash says.
Because, when you think about it, what are you really going to do against a giant fire-breathing lizard that says ‘no’ when you ask him to fight? Especially if you’re a ten-year-old kid.