Pokemon Weirdest Pokémon sprites?

don()shinobi said:
PsychedelicBreakfast said:
Looking at those old sprites it's so obvious that the Butterfree and Venomoth sprites were accidentally(?) switched. Venonat and Butterfree look identical! Coloring, eyes, mouth, antennae, feet.
No.
Butterfree is clearly a butterfly.
Venemoth is clearly a moth.
The physiology isn't right, but always a possibly. I mean, how could a gnat evolve into a moth anyway?
 
PsychedelicBreakfast said:
Looking at those old sprites it's so obvious that the Butterfree and Venomoth sprites were accidentally(?) switched. Venonat and Butterfree look identical! Coloring, eyes, mouth, antennae, feet. As for the weirdest/worst drawing, I'd say Charizard. I don't think most of them are that bad though, but I did start playing with Red/Blue, so that's probably just the nostalgia talking.
Accidentally: For sure not. How stupid do you think they are at GameFreak? Ever heared about testing? It's possible that they first designed (on paper) Venonat => Butterfree as a line, but even if they did, they knowingly made it so they aren't related.
Even that is very unlikely, as:
Take a look at this. The Caterpie-line was put into the game one after another, no mistake (123-125). They put Pokémon into the code pretty much in the order they were designed.
 
It is, it is. Their sprites got switched accidentally. IMHO about 60% of the Green sprites are half-baked splotches of pixels. Case in point? Venusaur getting killed by that huge flower, Vileplume having looong dangling arms and being skinny and the most LOL? Wigglytuff. Seriously, nothing every comes close to those eyes...anybody seen it?
 
I LOVE the old green/red/blue Oddish line, I wish they had stayed black, shadowy and creepy like that. They're still my favorite line in the game, but those sprites were just a tad cooler than the cutesiness they were later given.
 
I don't know how you can look at this comparison and say Butterfree was never supposed to be Venonat's evolution:
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd268/Myrtletribe/TheButterfreeVenomoththeory.png

I also wouldn't say Venomoth is *clearly* a moth. It resembles a swallowtail butterfly (Caterpie is based off the tiger swallowtail caterpillar) with the two "tails" on its wings. Its Japanese name is Morphon, which Bulbapedia and other sources say may come from the butterfly genus Morpho.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but this is one of the Pokemon theories that I do believe.
 
PsychedelicBreakfast said:
I don't know how you can look at this comparison and say Butterfree was never supposed to be Venonat's evolution:
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd268/Myrtletribe/TheButterfreeVenomoththeory.png

I also wouldn't say Venomoth is *clearly* a moth. It resembles a swallowtail butterfly (Caterpie is based off the tiger swallowtail caterpillar) with the two "tails" on its wings. Its Japanese name is Morphon, which Bulbapedia and other sources say may come from the butterfly genus Morpho.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but this is one of the Pokemon theories that I do believe.
Did you even read Teal's post?
 
don()shinobi said:
PsychedelicBreakfast said:
I don't know how you can look at this comparison and say Butterfree was never supposed to be Venonat's evolution:
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd268/Myrtletribe/TheButterfreeVenomoththeory.png

I also wouldn't say Venomoth is *clearly* a moth. It resembles a swallowtail butterfly (Caterpie is based off the tiger swallowtail caterpillar) with the two "tails" on its wings. Its Japanese name is Morphon, which Bulbapedia and other sources say may come from the butterfly genus Morpho.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but this is one of the Pokemon theories that I do believe.
Did you even read Teal's post?

Yup.
 
Luckyfire said:
You know what the funny thing is? That Pokemon evolves from Karrablast. o.o

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Thank you, I don't know how to read. :rolleyes:

You took that out of context because I explained myself after that. I said that meaning its appearance is ambiguous.
 
PsychedelicBreakfast said:
Thank you, I don't know how to read. :rolleyes:

You took that out of context because I explained myself after that. I said that meaning its appearance is ambiguous.

Never said you don't know how to read. I pointed out that you said it isn't *clearly* a moth, despite its species name being poison moth and the name having moth in it.

Also, the proof supporting your claim that the sprites were accidentally switched is shoddy at best; in fact, there are many reasons supporting the contrary. While it isn't a baseless claim, you can hardly call it an obvious one.

So I'm not completely off topic:
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^You guys and you habbit of using the pokémon names as evidence... Does Doduo look like a dodo? I don't think so... Beedrill is a wasp while Vespiquen is a queen bee, how about that?

Not to mention the pokémon classification...
 
Shining Raikou said:
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Enough said. Those eyes, that tongue... blech

Yeah, R/B Golbat gave me the creeps growing up. I preferred it's Green incarnation, which looks like it's "tipsy/drunk".
 
Starboard Driger said:
PsychedelicBreakfast said:
Thank you, I don't know how to read. :rolleyes:

You took that out of context because I explained myself after that. I said that meaning its appearance is ambiguous.

Never said you don't know how to read. I pointed out that you said it isn't *clearly* a moth, despite its species name being poison moth and the name having moth in it.

Also, the proof supporting your claim that the sprites were accidentally switched is shoddy at best; in fact, there are many reasons supporting the contrary. While it isn't a baseless claim, you can hardly call it an obvious one.

So I'm not completely off topic:
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I know. I was being facetious.

Obvious is a strong word. I shouldn't have used it. I do, however, still believe Butterfree was originally Venonat's evolution. How they were switched, or why they changed their mind, whatever, I don't know. I may be in the minority, but it's still what I think.

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This is just too good. Forgot how badass Gold sprites were.

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Tentacruel one has to be my favourite.
 
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