Submitted 2 weeks ago by early_riser@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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?
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 killed leader of some kind.
They might, one supposes, form organizations in which they all trained together for the promotion of their interests.
What would they call such a facility? Perhaps a gymnasium, given that facilities of that name are already used for training human bodies.
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…
War Horses.
War Elephants.
K9 units.
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? 🤔
If these creatures existed, they would rule the Earth.
They’d be used to provoke conflict.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m surprised by the lack of PETA in that universe. You know, the Pokemon Ethical Treatment Association.
Endmaker@ani.social 2 weeks ago
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)
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
I mean… don’t we consider dog fighting to be animal abuse?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.