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Zaraki42 @lemmy.ca

3d ago

Credit to Chris McCoy | Safely Endangered Comics

https://safelyendangered.com/blogs/comics

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The plot of Pokemon is the kid bounding down the stairs the morning he turns 10 and announcing that he’s going to do all of those things and the mom is just like, “Fine. Please call sometimes.”
- Then his single mom starts spends an inordinate amount of time hanging out with the Pokémon professor...
  
  Don’t forget Mr. Mime…
  
  If Red/Ash's mom married Professor Oak, would he call Blue/Gary (Oak's grandson) his stepson? Stepdad? And would Giovanni (Blue's father) be his stepfather? Stepson?
  And why does Game Freak refuse to answer my emails?
  
  Bow chica wow wow...
- The show, yes. The game is more like the comic.
- Stole the plot of Earthbound I see.
- Does he call? Asking for a concerned mom.
  
  If you actually go back to your home city there is literally nothing to do there.
  You would have thought that at some point they would have added some special item or quest that you got if you actually went back but nope. In every game of Pokémon I have ever played there is no incentive to return to your home city and talk to your mother.
  
  Pretty sure you can call her to leave some money with her to prevent going broke when getting wiped in battles. In some of the games at least.
  
  Sometimes

their whole economy is built upon rat fighting tho
- Also friendship!

Um, an electric rat
- Or if you link up with your mom's PhD boyfriend, you have a choice between a lizard someone set on fire, a different lizard with a fungal infection, or a regular ass turtle.
  
  that ass turtle is a powerful turtle, water starters are slept on
  
  Uh, it's not a lizard with a fungal infection, it's clearly a frog/plant symbiote. Gosh
- Pika Pika!

Which is why the plot is bad ass. Its like being a viking without killing folks.
- And that's why Pokemon ZA setting sucks ass...
  Seriously? We're going to be in an urban city environment the entire game?....
  
  My favorite thing about the internet right here. Games not even out yet and it sucks ass/is the second coming of Christ. There is no in-between.
  
  there's a Pokemon game with South Africa as the setting?
- Huh?

... Also your Mom is banging the guy who gave her the rat.

kid's dream though.
- Only doing it if I get to periodically boot the queeniest corporate flaks into orbit

7th gen:
mom can i go do this island's ritual of growing up right after i moved into this place?
Sure hon, have fun!
and then they went into alternate dimension to stop their friend's crazy mom

Isn't the plot that he is in a coma and dreaming all of it? 😌
- No, that's just a fringe fan theory
- That’s why Pikachu is electricity based, he represents all the stuff plugged into the unconscious boy in the hospital

I mean ashs mom is a single mom and he's a latchkey kid so he probably drank hose water and grew up to vote republican (I think Shinzo Abe's party is that in Japan)

Forgot this comic, thought it was about ratshaker

This would be funnier without the last panel

Could the punch line be any lazier?

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