Do Anti-Pokémon people honestly think that pretending to kill ONE Pokémon or a Pikachu will get rid of all the Pokémon? Pikachu isn't all Pokémon's about!
Some people happen to have the common sense of a two-year-old.
The people who wrote alot of those Anti-Pokémon articles out there are so stupid. It's obvious they know absolutely nothing about the show or the games, yet they still feel qualified to offer opinions on it. Same deal with Potter haters.
Anyways, this is where you make commentary on pinheaded articles and post it for all to see.
Here's a little PokéHater's article with my commentary added.
Lousy Pokemon lessons
{Oh, goodie. I can't wait.}
1) In one episode, where Ash needs to get a ghost Pokemon to defeat Sabrina and Kadabra, they walk to Lavender Town. Team Rocket is already in the Lavender Town Tower to capture Pikachu. James falls through a floor at the top of the tower. Then Mewoth sees a ghost Pokemon, Gastly. When Mewoth sees Gastly a second time, he scratches Jesse to kill it. Jesse grabs a poker and flings Mewoth around the room and into the hole.
Is this any way to treat your teammates when you’re working together?
-(Um...dipwad...before you get too excited with your brilliant deduction, let me explain to you the rest of this situation. Jessie, James, and Meowth are about as evil as a sack of potatoes; they're about as brave as one too. So, when they wander into Pokemon Tower and are assaulted by Ghost Pokemon it is in their best interest to fight back. In the nature of the Ghost Pokemon, they trick Meowth into scratching up Jessie. Jessie, in turn retalliates by chucking Meowth down a hole. If you had cared to watch more of Team Rocket in past episodes, you'd know that Jessie doesn't stand to get scratched by Meowth. How would you respond if someone came up to you and took a big chunk out of your face? Knowing you, you'd smile like a moron and walk off, thanking them for causing you the pain that you deserve just for being alive.)
2) In another episode, James creates a Team Rocket Arbo-Tank to destroy everything. It has boxing gloves to punch out natural terrain like mountains. James takes out money from Jesse’s, Mewoth’s, and his account.
Is that any way to treat your friends—take money out of their accounts without telling them?
-(Uh oh! STOP THE PRESSES!! To further your cause, they've stopped being teammates and are just friends? I guess that Meowth incident above fractured the relationship beyond repair, huh? Anyway when you are working together with your "friends" you tend to share things, hence the "working together." We can assume they shared money, and I guarantee you he didn't take out much. Again, if you cared enough about bad morals to watch the series you'd know that Team Rocket couldn't afford a $2 riceball.)
3) In the same episode, Pikachu, inside the Arbo-Tank, electrocutes the interior so it starts fizzling and stuff like that. Charizard stops the tank just so Pikachu and Togepi can escape. When it really starts going to explode, Jesse and James jump into the tank, thinking that they can save it.
Is that the way to teach children—to try to salvage something that is inevitably going to blow up?
-(What the Hell are you saying? Let's teach children to lose hope? How about let's teach them to never give up even when the cards are down? And also, I don't think they're trying to teach children to salvage things that are going to blow up anyway...idiot.)
4) In several episodes, Misty and Ash engage in an argument. When it gets out of control, like it usually does, Pikachu electrocutes both of them.
Is that the way to bury the hatchet and settle the argument or a dispute? It of course teaches that electrocuting is the way to settle a dispute.
-(Who ever said electrocution was a good way to settle an argument? I've never even seen this situation occur, so it doesn't happen all that often. And again, haven't you even seen your parents argue? Probably your dad yelling about how your mom is crazy and how a dipwad child like you couldn't possibly be his. Haven't you wanted to stop that argument? Usually by throwing something or screaming? If you could administer a small shock so they could get the idea, I'm sure you would do it... so shut the Hell up you crazed moron.)
5) In every episode, or most episodes, Team Rocket always gets “blasted away.” They fly to such a height that they disappear like a star. When they fall to their destination, they should be immediately killed. They aren’t.
This really teaches that anyone will survive if they get “blasted away.” Is that the way to teach children that?
-(Yes, and we all know how often kids get "Blasted Away" into the sky only to fall to their death. That, combined with the Power Bouncers epidemic and the whole human race is doomed!)
The answer to all these, is, of course, no. This is why Pokemon is stupid. These are the stupid lessons Pokemon teach to kids.
-(Okay, you just made a dumb article even dumber. You've proven nothing except that rats should not electrocute people, and children should know that when they are "blasted away" they will die when they hit the ground.)
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Other Stupid facts
1) It’s also not possible of Pokemon’s power. Dragonite, for example, can shoot water, breath fire, and produce lighting. Impossible! Furthermore, Pidgeot can fly up to 2 times the speed of sound with a person on their back! Hello?
-(Look, Pokemon aren't real, they don't hide in your closet and plot to kill you. Even though the world would be a better place without you this is not the case. In the GAME (yes, Pokemon is a game after all) Dragonite CAN learn learn Surf, Fire
Blast, and Thunder Wave. I'd like you to find me a dragon that can't breathe fire, and then I will believe you. Oh, and in the game the PokeDex says that a Pidgeot can fly that fast, and since POKEMON DON'T EXIST we can only take this to be the truth. What's the fun of making things up if you can't bend reality a little? Your childhood must have been a really lonely one.)
2) Why do Pokemon trainers think that Pokemon actually like battling? In one episode the final of the Orange League, which of course has Ash in it, it appears that they actually hate fighting.
-(Dare I comment on THAT one?)
Battling Charizard, Team Rocket, Tauros, and Squritle exhaust Dragonite, but Drake refuses to let him rest! Animal cruelty to the extreme! Drake is being stupid. He should resign the match if he thinks Dragonite is too tired.
Ash is just as bad as well. Dragonite electrocutes the Tauros that Ash brings out, and lets him get electrocuted. Dragonite also sprays Charizard with his water gun, but Ash still lets him in until he almost faints.
-(Dragonite is a tough Pokemon, and if I remember this episode correctly, Dragonite willingly fights. I'm pretty sure Drake thanks his Pokemon for the effort. And what is wrong with hitting a fire pokemon with water? It's their weakness, and a good strategy.
And Ash's Charizard is not what one would call a "good" pokemon. If he wants to stop fighting, he'll stop fighting. The fact that he continued fighting is not cruelty it's will alone. That's the message that's being sent to kids: never give up. And what's with this "Animal Cruelty" garbage? Pokemon aren't even animals!)
He then finishes by saying the same thing he said before. I'll spare you of the stupidity.
Edited by Alan Mask, 15 August 2003 - 04:13 AM.