>>5104545
Vulva lol

>tumblr nose

>>5104545
Fairly appropriate compared to most binomial names that are shitty pop culture references

>>5104555
If i remember correctly this one isn't even a pop culture reference. The person who named it did it independently of pokémon

>>5104556
>not a pop culture reference
>animal is still more similar to its namesake than nearly any other pop culture name
Even better

>>5104563
kek. I will never forgive them for "Gojirasaurus". That's the type of name you save for a 40+ foot theropod or a 100+ foot titanosaur

>>5104545
>>5104556
>>5104563
>Bulbasaurus phylloxyron
>phylloxyron literally means "leaf razor"

No way the naming wasn't at least somewhat intentional

>>5104577
Could be. I remember reading somewhere that the guy who named it said it wasn't a reference but that source could have been wrong

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>>5104577
It was. There are a number of species named after Pokemon or other nerd shit, often beetles or chitin because there are so damn many.

>>5104580
Chitons*

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>>5104582
kek

>>5104582
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>>5104545
Isn't Bulbasaur supposed to be based on a frog/amphibian-like creature.

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>>5104599
It very obviously is, i have no idea where people got the idea that it is a dicynodont. Venusaur is very obviously a giant warty toad

>>5104620
Probably from the -saur

>>5104620
All of the Grass type First Partners are based on Prehistoric creatures

>>5104556
it literally has the same spots and shit as bulbasaur how the fuck is that possible?

>>5104637
That’s random art done by literallywho you retard. The original description has nothing to do with that

>>5104599
>>5104620
>>5104624
>>5104635
I used to think Bulbasaur was a dinosaur. It literally has a saur in its name.

>>5104651
Charmander has salamander in it's name even though it is lizard.

>>5104635
You REALLY have to stretch it to make this pattern be true. At least it's not as bad as the "all water starters are based on weapons" one

>>5104726
You don't. What frogs have ears and toenails? It's obviously a synapsid.

>>5104635
>First Partners
Found the bulbapedo admin. No one calls starters that.

>>5104726
It's not really that much of a stretch to notice there was a theme though until debatably gen 7 or 8. I can understand where these people are coming from desu.
>Venusaur
Dicynodont/Beelzebufo
>Meganium
Sauropods
>Sceptile
Theropods
>Torterra
Ankylosaurs/Meiolaniids
>Serperior
Titanoboa
>Chestnaught
Glyptodont
>Decidueye
Slit Owls
>Rillaboom
Gigantopithecus

I have nothing on gen 9.

>>5104743
Meowscarada is an Iberian Lynx.

>>5104743
A bunch of those look nothing like the animals you are claiming. Mainly Serperior since it's obviously a vine snake

>>5104739
It's a toad-like monster. Which i have to say it's something i miss a lot about older gens. Some pokemon were not literally just an animal but a monster that resembles that animal. Think how Kangaskhan is a kangaroo-like monster and not a literal kangaroo

>>5104749
Serperior has arms. It's a basal snake.
>>5104750
Retard.

>>5104774
is he wrong though? old gen pokemon had designs that had ambiguous monsters made with traits from different animals.

>>5104743
Most of those have loose influence if any at all. This is just as much of a reach as the Chinese zodiac fire starters theory
>>5104774
>Serperior has arms
No it doesn’t

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>>5104774
>It's a basal snake
It’s a fictional snake monster

>>5104556
most of the people who name stuff after pop culture make up some lame excuse now so that they don't - get this - get sued. Same thing happened with Thanos, an I believe Abelisaurid.

>>5104936
Cope.

>>5104938
Projection

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>>5104743
Hilarious how gen 10 just fucking destroyed this theory now. What is prehistoric about an angry bird?

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>>5104743
Gen 4 starters were based on dieties with Torterra being based on the World-Tortoise of various Asiatic faiths, including some Native Americans. Calling it a glyptodon is a stretch.

>>5104997
Not glyptodon, akylosaur. Got mixed up.

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>>5104994
>Final evolutions not even revealed yet
>>5104998
>>5104997
You do realize there can be more than one inspiration for a pokemon design right? Grotle looks more nodosaur-like than an actual tortoise since it has segmented armor along it's back and no plastron while torterra looks similar to a meiolania platyceps.

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>>5104743
>Rillaboom
>Gigantopithecus
>RILLAboom
Ok

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>>5104635
how the fuck is a twink cat that throws bombs based on a prehistoric creature

>>5105329
>Ivyschizo browses /an/
who knew.

>>5104545
That Bulbasaur never drew a dime

>>5105329
you could have edited the eyes to be purple, but you didn't. You blew it.

>>5105330
Same way a grey dragon with purple wings or scyther with a big flat head are

>>5104994
Literally all of that list except obviously Meganium is nonsense, I don't think anything is going to stop him from thinking Browt is a velociraptor or something.

>>5105330
>>5104748
Learn how a thread works.

>>5105372
But an Iberian lynx isn't a prehistoric creature

American education strikes again. Antipattern schizos lost, deal with it.

>>5104545
*gets sued by nintendo into extinction*

>>5104652
I don't think the average normie really differentiates between salamanders and lizards.

>>5105524
that's irrelevant to the point he was making, though.

>>5105581
It was an irrelevant point in the first place because nobody was using names as a basis. Bulbasaur is superficially toadlike but if you actually look at it is clearly more reptillian in nature and no it is not lE GEneRiC FroG MoNsteR CoPe because there are tons of those in Japanese media and they all manage to look like frogs somehow.

>>5104994
It can evolve into a terror bird, dodo, moa...

>>5105613
they jump like frogs.