User blog comment:Silkworm Bot/Unpopular opinion/@comment-2054732-20170509052254/@comment-30385427-20170510005336

The Mind Player
1. In Generation I, there were no arachnid Pokemon, which kind of lowers your statement a bit. Most (if not all) bug types at the time were at least loosly based off insects (coughscythercough). Anything else can be seen below:

Pokemonboy3000

 * True, but pesticides are being modified a lot, like the flu vaccine, except the flu vaccine never caused cancer (i think). Also, that statement kinda helps me a bit. The poison killed the weak bugs, but the stronger bugs could resist the pesticides, thus the effect didn't work out the way as planned, making the bugs stronger than the poison.
 * While Poison was a really common type, I can't really remember most of them being used (and I once beat Rockets in Mt. Moon, Lavender Town, Silph Co., and the Game Corner). The ones I do remember are from the Zubat fanily, the Koffing family, the Ekans family, the Grimer family, and I think a few Tentacruel. I only remember fighting a Rocket with Grimer & Muk sparsly, and I only remember Jessie & James having the Koffing/Weezing and Ekans/ CHAAAAH-bok! Arbok. I feel like Poison was supposed to represent villains less so because of Team Rocket and more because poison creatures are seen as vile, and, let's admit it, many Gen I venom users looked menacing (Beedrill, Tentacruel, Arbok, Victreebel to name a few).
 * So? At that point, I doubt a Poison type Gym would live anyway, since so many good Grounders (Graveler/Golem (depends if you can trade), Dugtrio, Sandslash, Nidoqueen, Nidoking) that are availible could easily KO them, not to mention the only other type I could see Koga using would be Ghost, and that would be a grave mistake (badumtss).as Ghost is versatively useless, even if he did make them learn Toxic.
 * Now you're confusing game with anime/manga. Sabrina was more mystifying than evil in the games (although I do wish I could go thru in the game what Ash went thru in the anime, it seems fun and challenging), and Mewtwo was more of an escapee than a cruel, vengeful villain. Also, most Psychics were more goofy than anything in Gen I, especially the lovable Slowpoke line. If Poison had no evil conotations at all, then Psychic had less.

That being said, I think this should be a thread, as to not clog up WikiActivity.