Anarchocommunaltoad
10th December 2012, 19:50
In the Pokemon series, you quest to catch them all. Sounds innocent enough right? WRONG! While contemplating the series blatant animal cruelty, a more horrifying realization dawned on me. To catch a pokemon, you must trap it in a pokeball, a small sphere that digitizes the beasts into a portable form. These pokeballs are than carried to pokecenters, where the beasts are "healed" and made finally ready to be trained. Except that's a lie. In reality something much more horrible takes place. When caught, pokemon are broken down and recoded ever so slightly to make them more docile, which makes sense because beating a wolf into unconsciousness, caging it, them setting it free to fight for your amusement usually leads to either A) It fleeing or B) a mauling. A pokemon resisting being captured is merely the ball malfunctioning due to being unable to eliminated and integratethe animal into its programming without the creature being exhausted, because of the fact that a lucid beast would go insane and therefore unusable if it retained its awareness as it was incinerated. Pokecenters are even worse. Instead of healing a pokemon, the pokecenter merely resets the ball to a previously recorded data code, replacing the dead or wounded beast with a fully functional doppelganger. The horror.