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.
War Horses.
War Elephants.
K9 units.
Fucking dolphins: The US actually uses dolphins to patrol the waters around naval bases.
We already do this in reality, without the animals having superpowers.
But also, if you go by Gen 1 descriptions, Alakazam has an IQ of 5000, so… probably this would not end well for humanity.
At this point, half the legendary pokemon are like, the avatar of the concept of space-time itself, so…
Yeah
Would that mean no armies would ever lose numbers? Since ghost types would exist, you’d just be changing what kind of 'mons are in the fight as they die. What happens to a ghost pokemon if it… dies? 🤔
Both sides of every conflict would use them. Every military would have divisions dedicated to a particular fighting’s style and they would have a mix of pokemons to match the purpose.
Reminders when every army still relied on horses? Exactly like that, but with pokemons.
Perhaps trainers who were fond of a particular type would all rally around one remarkably skilled figurehead. A leader, if you will.
They might, one supposes, form organizations in which they all trained together in specialized facilities for the promotion of their interests. What would they call such a training area? Well, to pull a word out at random, why not a gymnasium? Considering that facilities of that name are already used for training human bodies.
To continue down this road of totally arbitrary supposition, I’d imagine any particular region could support 8 of them. Not sure where I got that number, just pulling it out of nowhere.
And that’s how you fuel the war machine with fresh pokemon and trainers…
I’m surprised by the lack of PETA in that universe. You know, the Pokemon Ethical Treatment Association.
The way I see it, the vast majority of people with pokemons treat them as house pets (e.g. Poketoon: The Slugma-Powered Home). Only a small percentage actually use them in battles. A way smaller percentage actively abuse pokemons (i.e. the villains)
I mean… don’t we consider dog fighting to be animal abuse?
Pokemon enjoy battling tho. There’s an important part of consent here. It is their way of playing.
Some could argue that the way a dog is raised might make it entertained by fighting as well.
Not me, though
The lore pretty much says that Pokémon jump at humans cause they want to challenge them and fight whoever they have.
Turns out they’re all little crashouts.
Well sure, we have to narratively excuse it somehow. Otherwise… take a Pokémon game and replace all the Pokémon with pit bulls and rot weilers &etc and then you have dog fighting simulator.
Pokémon are as smart as humans though. Sometimes smarter. It’s not really the same thing, is it?
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.
That sounds strangely similar to something my neighbor with the Confederate flag out front would say.
I’m joking, but for real, read it in that context.
If these creatures existed, they would rule the Earth.
They’d be used to provoke conflict.
