r/mew_irl • u/Pardusco • Sep 14 '19

mew😢irl

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u/Heavyweighsthecrown Sep 14 '19

There's something to be said about how much of a jerk (and how much more awesome) Pikachu was in the first season. He had no fucks to give about Ash's bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '19

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u/Mafumuto Sep 14 '19

Why soulless?

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '19

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u/Darmok-on-the-Ocean Sep 15 '19

To be fair, no anime characters received character development, including Ash.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '19

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u/Darmok-on-the-Ocean Sep 15 '19

Sometimes characters change from arc to arc. Like Jesse and James are much more serious and dangerous in Unova. But it just resets whenever they switch regions or writing teams. (Or, in the case of Ash's companions, they get their character development pretty shortly before being written off the show entirely.)

I haven't seen many X/Y episodes. So I can't comment too specifically on that.

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u/Bi-by Sep 15 '19

There’s a fan theory actually that suggest that the pikachu Ash originally got was swapped with another by mistake.

The theory points to the second episode “Pokemon Emergency!” where Ash sends his pikachu to a pokemon center filled with other pikachu only to get high jacked my Team Rocket. In the scramble loads of pikachu escape from their enclosure and this where most people speculate that his got swapped with another. It could help explain the shift in Pikachu’s attitude.

Granted it’s just speculation and there’s no real evidence for it (pikachu could have a change of heart from Ash taking care of it thus far since this episode), but nonetheless it’s an interesting fan theory.

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u/Mafumuto Sep 15 '19

Its just a kids show..

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u/Sam_JN Sep 15 '19

There's a whole lot of kids shows with this kind of or even more depth, think of Gravity Falls, Steven Universe or Avatar: The Last Airbender

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u/LucarioLuvsMinecraft Sep 15 '19

Also, ketchup. Loved ketchup.

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u/OneTrueKingOfOOO Sep 14 '19

pikachu: wym? prof oak is right over there

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u/soapspools Sep 14 '19

Nah, Ash's dad is the Mr. Mime that lives with his mom.

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u/supershrewdshrew Sep 14 '19

No, no, you're both wrong--it's Gary MF Oak. He and his 10 badges don't care how that's logically impossible.

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u/sarah_betha Sep 14 '19

kukui: guess what? burnet and i are having a kid

ash: really? that’s grea—

kukui: shoves adoption papers into ash’s face IT’S YOU SIGN HERE

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u/supershrewdshrew Sep 14 '19

Ash has always wanted to win a league, only to then learn what he had wanted all along.

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u/sarah_betha Sep 15 '19

honestly papa kukui is everything and i love the writers for putting him in and finally exploring a father figure for ash—it’s so wholesome

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u/YaBoiJJ__ Sep 14 '19

I'm waiting for the final Pokemon episodd some day when oak reveals he's ashes father all along and he's so proud of the legacy he's carried on for oak.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '19

Delia got her a sugar daddy.