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This pokemon breaks the lore
Jeremiah Bell
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Austin Brooks
Its back looks like a little violin? You expect me to believe this shit?
Juan Morris
Not necessarily, if it evolved fairly recently. It's not in PLA, so it didn't exist back then, which makes sense. Say for example pokeballs were invented in the year 1850, and the first foongus with a pokeball pattern were found around 1950, that's 100 years for it to evolve into the form we see today.
Nathan Robinson
>It's not in PLA, so it didn't exist back then
To be fair, it probably wouldn't be in PLA even if it DID exist back then.
But I expect if there's a Legends game in Unova they'll have an alternate form for Foongus, unless the timeline is moved forward significantly from PLA.
Grayson Cooper
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Interesting example of quick evolutive changes in species.
Essentially, come the industrial revolution
the soot in the air made it so that the environment where the moth used to hide from predators changed, selecting for darker coloured moths to survive thus changing the look of the species.
After the industrial revolution was finished and the air quality improved, the whiter moths were selected for the cleaner environment and their prevalence increased.
Dylan Bailey
Why do Arg*ntinians look so sickly?
Parker Morales
Consider the fact that, canonically, the Klink line has existed for only 100 years and Elgyem for 50.
Foongus being a very recent new species isn't out of place.
Liam Russell
Elgyem has only been on Earth for 50 years but that doesn't mean it didn't exist before then.
Blake Brown
there is only earth. find jeezus
David Wright
Then how do you explain the Kecksburg UFO incident, genius?
Brayden Jones
Darwinian evolution does not exist in Pokemon
Nolan Perry
No, PLA broke the lore. In many ways.
Mason Russell
What is interesting is what evolutionary pressure selected foongus which had a pokeball design on their caps?
its supposed to be mimicry right? They are traps for trainers, meaning they get something out of attracting trainers to them by mimicking a pokeball.
Do they eat them? Do they fight them and get exp out of it that makes them stronger and allow them breed better? What do foongus get out of their decoy?
Bentley Jackson
They attack trainers, who then drop tasty treats while running away in fear.
Julian Cox
Wild Pokémon think it’s a Poké Ball and don’t fuck with it
Carter Butler
This is probably true too. I wonder if Pokeballs developed in different places around the same time as they did in the PLA timeline.
Benjamin Perez
Probably they spread all over the (civilized) world shortly after they were invented.
Landon Hughes
They're white
Nathaniel Butler
There actually is an excellent theory for why Foongus looks the way it does. History lesson time.
Do you know what kind of mushroom Foongus is based on? Amanita muscaria, which is the generic red mushroom with white spots you see all over pop fiction. In fact Paras and Parasect both resemble them as well purely because red spotted shrooms have become the standard recognizable cartoon mushroom. The reason it became the titular toadstool is because once ingested, amnita muscaria has a psychoactive effect where it makes people feel as though they are either much larger, or much smaller than they actually are. This is why Mario mushrooms make you grow big.
Before Mario, size-altering mushrooms were a pivotal part of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland where the main character eats them to change size, and THIS (and the Disney adaptation) is what popularized red and white toadstools as the modern trademark fantasy mushroom. But this only popularized it. Where did Alice's Adventures in Wonderland get the idea? Well the true origination of red and white mushrooms was a few centuries prior, it became known to our culture through common depictions in fairy paintings. People were getting high off these mushrooms that made them feel 3 inches tall, like they were a fairy, so fairies got associated with them in paintings. This is also why garden gnomes go hand-in-hand with red and white toadstools, because gnomes are small people like fairies.
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Samuel Hill
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Anyway, the reason I go over all that is just to explain the fairy/mushroom connection. Now in X and Y we got the Fairy Type and Laverre City, and guess what? The entire fucking place is littered with these mushrooms. Immediately outside Laverre is also a route that has Foongus in it, and close by is.....the Pokéball Factory.
So look—what probably ACTUALLY happened is a Game Freak designer in Gen V noticed that Pokéballs are red, white, and round, and so are these mushrooms. So they cleverly combined the 2 and made Foongus an RPG mimic, but then honestly didn't really bother coming up with an in-universe justification to make sense how they evolved to look that way. They just didn't think about it. Amoongus's Japanese name even basically hints that Amoonguss doesn't make any fucking sense and there's no way any human being would actually fall for this shitty Pokéball disguise.
Buuuut......If you're looking for an in-universe excuse, this is as good as you'll ever get. The Pokéball Factory in Kalos is SURROUNDED by these goddamn mushrooms. There was probably some sort of accident that mutated Foongus to have a Pokéball pattern, maybe one fell into the machines. It would mirror the story of how Voltorb was created in a freak lab accident gone wrong, at least.
Jaxson Davis
>It lures people in with its Poké Ball pattern, then releases poison spores. Why it resembles a Poké Ball is unknown.
>No one knows what the Poké Ball–like pattern on Foongus means or why Foongus has it.
That's from the dex. There's no actual reason other than GF wanting to make another pokeball mimic
Benjamin Long
>maybe one fell into the machines
this is a hilarious idea