Chrono said:
Drowsy. What IS it? An elephant? A pig? A hypnotist? A pig-elephant-hypnotist?!
You don't know tapirs?! They're found in every zoo, and pretty popular animals! Their closest relatives are thought to be rhinos:
In Japan, there's a mythological creature called a Baku, which eats dreams. The Mythical baku is lion-like, but when Japanese explorers discovered the tapir, they named it a Baku just because it looked so goofy, like something out of a dream.
Since then, however, the mythological version has been portrayed as a tapir-like animal instead of lion-like, or in some cases, a tapir-lion hybrid. This could possibly be why Hypno has a beard-like mane, but that may just be meant to give him a creepy, old hypnotist look.
But the Pokemon I personally find creepiest? Scolipede, I HATE CENTIPEDES! Creepiest things in the world. Along with cockroaches.
That's hardly nice, why hate something for looking different? Centipedes are sleek, colorful, elegant predators.
With its round body and a single leg per segment, however, scolipede has many similarities to millipedes as well, which are gentle, slow-moving herbivores.
AND it reminds me of a velvet worm,
here is a pic of one that even has Scolipede's color scheme! Velvet worms are ancient tropical creatures able to shoot poisonous "glue" from their heads to kill prey...though Scolipede doesn't learn Gunk Shot, does it?
Most cockroach species are also harmless and even beneficial, they're absolutely one of my favorite animals and I keep several exotic, giant species as pets
This one is a "firefly roach," which is more colorful than usual but I think even the plain ones are adorable, like autumn leaves with legs...or little men in trenchcoats.
