User blog comment:Silkworm Bot/Unpopular opinion/@comment-2054732-20170509052254/@comment-30385427-20170510115505


 * True, but then the "smaller bugs weak to poison" thing I said wouldn't make sense. I meant that the bugs simply beat the poison, but whatever.
 * D-did you not read "I feel like Poison was supposed to represent villains less so because of Team Rocket and more because poison creatures are seen as vile..."? I was listing the few Poison creatures I remember that they used. I wasn't arguing that they used them all the time or even a lot.
 * The reason Sabrina had a whip was less so to imply she beat her Pokemon and moreso because it was a leftover sprite that originated from when HUMANS would battle against Pokemon, not Pokemon themselves. In fact, iirc, a good handful of trainer sprites had whips.
 * Koga was a doctor who kept rare Pokemon safe? Strange, I would assume Sandslash is rare, but I sure do remember him spamming Toxic on mine (badly poisons Pokemon).
 * ...I played thru most of Yellow a few times, and I don't remember a kid being kidnapped by a Hypno in that game. I think you were thinking of FR/LG, where after you become champion, theres a sidequest where a kid is captured in the Berry Forest (thank nuzlocke comics that I know this).
 * Okay, let's see the fully-evolved Poison list here:Poisoners.png
 * Okay, so the second and third are based off venomous creatures and portrays them pretty relatically.....and all others go to hell. Venusaur, a large, monstrous Pokemon, doesnt look like any animal other than a horned frog (which is neith.er venomous or poisonous) with a flower on its back, Nidoqueen/king resembles Baragon more than any real-life creature I can think of, Golbat (while vampire bats do have toxic saliva) doesn't really look like a bat at all, rafflesia aren't poisonous, Venomoth, with the exclusion off it's wings, doesn't LOOK like a moth, and you know the rest. Compared with my chart of Psychic types, this looks more like a menacing, monstrous team.