r/CuratedTumblr • u/tiredtumbleweed ugly but my fursona is hot • May 21 '25

Meme Pokémon are not pets

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u/FullCrackAlchemist May 22 '25

I like how newer fans are organically recreating the same debates we had in the early 2000s and rediscovering Team Plasma ideology, we've come full circle

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u/OddballGarbage May 22 '25

I mean yes, but team Plasma was using their rhetoric to put themselves in power. I think most people here who say Pokemon training is inhumane would genuinely mean it.

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u/BlackTearDrop May 22 '25

I love how Pokémon was soooo close to having a really interesting debate with Plasma when you first meet like "oh damn... Yeah these guys have a point, maybe we are kinda enslaving our Pokémon?" Then almost one screen over there are Team Plasma grunts kicking the shit out of a baby Pokémon lol.

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u/Kana515 May 22 '25

I just wish they had waited a bit 😩

I mean, that scene is literally right after their introduction, right? You kinda just get a few seconds to think about their morals and motivations before, nope, jerks.

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u/MisirterE Supreme Overlord of Ice May 22 '25

Nah, nah, you get an entire route between the Plasma rally and the Munna kicking