ITT: meaning of pokemon names
>Mankey
> Man + key
ITT: meaning of pokemon names
Oliver Cox
Lucas Butler
>Ledian = Lesbian
Aiden Martinez
>Zigzagoon
>Zigzag + gooner
Owen Perry
>Squirtle
>SQUIRrel tail + water botTLE
Anthony White
>Pikachu
>"Pick me!" + "I choose you!"
Ian Rivera
two of these are factually, objectively wrong
Kayden Russell
>Koffing
>koff (cough) + ing (short of engineering, which produces gases that makes one cough)
>Voltorb
>sounds like Voltaire
>Slowking
>slow (because his speed stat is slow) + king (a chess reference - the king piece can move only by one tile, referencing again the slow speed)
>Whirlipede
>pun on velocipede - Whirlipede looks like a bike wheel and it's whirling just like a bike wheel
>Malamar
>from Italian "malamore" which means "bad love", because Malamar is evil so it cannot love in a good way
>Pumpkaboo
>pump + kaboo(m) - it's pumping itself until it explodes (proof is that it can learn Explosion)
Joseph Wood
>Gardevoir
>garden + voir(french word)
Ethan Cruz
Dragapult
>dragging
>pulling a trailer
Jason Taylor
>Spinda
>spin + dalmatian
Chase Davis
>Rayquaza
>Ray + kawaii + za(is a)
A very cute ray indeed.
Julian Morales
It's actually "pick and choose"
Jackson Rodriguez
>Voltorb
>sounds like Voltaire
Fucking lost it
Owen Fisher
>Ray + kawaii
I hate to break it to you, but it's pronounced Ray-quay-zah
Elijah Morris
>Latias = "Latina ass"
Charles Fisher
Swinub
Swine+noob
Kevin Stewart
>regirock
>reginald + rockstar
Asher Phillips
Benjamin Brooks
latinx*
Mason Lewis
Heracross = Hera, wife of Zeus in Greek mythology + cross, the symbol of Christianity. This pokemon represents harmony between Christians and Pagans.
Leo Rogers
>Porygon
> porn and gon, character from anime hunter x hunter
Michael Smith
>Mamoswine
>Mam (mammy, a name given to black house-slaves in charge of children) oswine (o + swine, a pig)
Honestly don’t know how Gamefreak got away with this
Jayden Jones
>Cofagrigus
>Co (as in joint, mutual) + Fag (gay person) + Gri (the first part of Gringo) + Gus
Before they died and became Ghost-type Pokemon, Cofagrigus' were a collective of gay white Americans named Gus.