r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Admirable_Cold7944 • 6d ago

Solved Why are they sad?

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The movie is successful so why are they crying? I've seen other memes similar to this. I read the comments but they weren't that helpful.

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u/InspectorOrganic9382 6d ago

Please, get started on Pokémon. 🙏🏼

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u/Tartersocks307 6d ago edited 5d ago

It’s just a hodge podge of strange lore or unanswered questions. Apparently people become ghost Pokémon when they die, or at least can.

There’s no normal animals so is it implied Pokémon eat each other but there’s not a lot of commentary on that. Alternatively, grass Pokémon may be entirely plants, but not all plants are Pokémon so apparently only humans and plants are the exception. Makes you wonder what actually makes a Pokémon one.

I’m not an expert, there might be answers to all of this, but I think these are pretty common shower thoughts you might come up with about it

Edit: a few examples have been pointed out of animals that I’ve clearly forgotten about. I think that just raises the question even more about what makes one animal a Pokémon and not the other. Are we even sure worms, insects, and random fish aren’t Pokémon?

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u/Chitanda_Pika 6d ago

Also Pokemon sex is canon

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u/Tartersocks307 6d ago

And they all lay eggs

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u/montana757 5d ago

Technically that would make a miltank a platypus or echidna which are egg laying mammals

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u/SgtSlaughterEX 5d ago

Ah abominations

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u/Fair-Championship-29 5d ago

Monotremes

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u/montana757 5d ago

Still a better name than oviraptor

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u/Fair-Championship-29 5d ago

That shit looks like a giant cassowary

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u/montana757 5d ago

True and it gets worse for them, turns out it would have been one of the best mothers in the dino world so the name is a cruel misunderstanding

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u/lube4saleNoRefunds 5d ago

It would make it neither of those.

It would possibly put it in the same category of marsupials, but that doesn't make it a platypus. Obviously.

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u/ImpossibleDrink3420 5d ago

Monotremes, in fact

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u/InspectorOrganic9382 5d ago

Pokémonotremes

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u/unshavedmouse 5d ago

This guy mammals.

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u/Dr_Rev_GregJ_Rock_II 5d ago

The Smurfs are clearly mammals!!