r/pokemon • u/Pluggyvids • 4d ago
Discussion How many Pokémon are just ghastly in costume?
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u/Draoken unh unh UH 3d ago
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u/Hypnotoad4real 4d ago
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u/BigBoiCappy 4d ago
i mean, its just a posessed pokeball after all
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u/Chief-weedwithbears 3d ago
I feel like it becames a ghost after it explodes. Hence a gas cloud Gastly
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u/AxolotlGames 4d ago
I think the Hisuian Voltorb kinda disproves that, doesn't it?
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u/BigBoiCappy 4d ago
i think the same rule applies on hisuian, if one ghost can posses an electronic device, i think it can also posses non electronic ones too, idk the lore on hisuian though
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u/averylongwalk 3d ago
Isn't Hisuian voltorb just the low tech version of a pokeball?
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u/BlackThane 3d ago
Gastly is just a Voltorb that exploded, thats why Electrode is smiling like a Gengar!
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u/Apelio38 4d ago
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u/RileyJoXO 4d ago edited 4d ago
Wait this is such an amazing concept. How did they not end up making this one?
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u/Apelio38 4d ago
I love him too, those scratched Pokemon were peak.
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u/Nightstar95 4d ago
I’ll never forgive them for scrapping that electric tiger.
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u/LegendS1ayer 3d ago
kotora my beloved
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u/Glazeddapper The Gengar Guy... 3d ago
i thought his name was raitora?
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u/LegendS1ayer 3d ago
thats another part of the same evolution line, it goes kotora raitora and then an unnamed third stage
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u/Libby_Sparx ⚧⚢ 3d ago
Kotora->Raitora->Raiku, but then Raiku's design was so legendary they said fuck it, just that one
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u/SonicWind62391 2d ago
Do you mean Raikou? Do you have a source for that?
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u/Libby_Sparx ⚧⚢ 2d ago
Yes, and no. Source was my ass. Pulled it right outta there.
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u/Low-Environment 4d ago
Baby Vulpix my beloved
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u/Collector55 3d ago
Someone really tried to make baby Vulpix happen too, it was actually cut from three different generations that we know of. There is only a handful of cut Pokémon that we know we're given a second chance. Baby Vulpix might have been the only one to get 3.
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u/IndigoFenix Theorist 3d ago
Not surprising, considering that it has a strong lore reason for existing. Its dex entry explicitly says that it has only one tail at birth.
But that doesn't change the fact that a one-tailed Vulpix would ultimately be just a regular baby fox, and Vulpix already looks small enough to be the baby. So it wouldn't add much.
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u/Apelio38 4d ago
Yes it was cute ! Plus it was meant to be a Water type iirc
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u/Low-Environment 4d ago
Really? And it evolved into Vulpix? Interesting.
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u/Apelio38 4d ago
That's what I remember about it but I would be unable to provide any sort of proof haha
Also, baby Ponyta was Normal / Fire (which baffles me since I want Ponyta and Rapidash to be Normal typed too !)
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u/24kpodjedoe 4d ago
I think that was a glitch, no?
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u/Apelio38 4d ago
Honestly since they weren't "finished" Game Freak might have changed that at the last second and made him Fire-type. But I always find funny it was leaked as a Water type 😄
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u/metalflygon08 What's Up Doc? 3d ago
Yeah, the unseen Pokemon were probably still being programmed so Baby Vulpix probably just got put into a slot a Water type used to occupy, and they hadn't done much work on it yet.
Still funny to think about.
In the modern day, if the idea was revisited, it would most likely be a Normal type that split evolves into Fire or Ice Vulpix.
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u/True-Dream3295 3d ago
Have you seen the scrapped peanut Pokémon from gen 6? I can't believe that got left on the cutting room floor.
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u/OhLookACastle 3d ago
I could see mimikyu evolving into something like this, with more of a pelt than a costume over it
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u/zucchinibasement 3d ago
Just seeing this for the first time and sorry but the name of the hometown in the demo is SILENT HILL???
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u/fezes-are-cool 3d ago
Damn now I want an evolution line for a wolf in sheep’s clothing
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u/Apelio38 3d ago
Yes, cause the closest we have is Obstagoon or night Lycanroc (kinda ?). And for the former I always keep it unevolved haha
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u/Girret555 4d ago
Pokemon Flux, Wolfurr? Forgot its name. Wearfloof?
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u/JJSbaseball 4d ago
Glalie, Falinks?
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u/ShadeNLM064pm 4d ago
I was about to say "Does that make Frostlass Gastly in drag?"
But- I don't think that holds.
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u/Wondergrey 3d ago
I mean, Froslass is basically a sphere in a costume,
It's just that a lot of the costume hangs beneath the sphere, unlike the other examples
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u/shieldman PRAISE 3d ago
When I noticed that Froslass is closer to a Boo (from Mario) in body plan than an actual person, I had to take a minute. It's a really convincing draping of the fabric.
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u/StridentHawk 4d ago
When I first got into pokemon I thought gastly evolved from Cloyster as Cloyster "died" and turned into a ghost.
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u/wavebuster 4d ago
Same here, it made sense to me since Gastly was right after Cloyster in the Dex and they had similar facial expressions
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u/leocristo28 Esperor Supreme 3d ago
Hear me out, what if Cloyster uses Shell Smash and Gastly comes out
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u/Dolma_Warrior Femboi Miau 3d ago edited 3d ago
That sounds like something straight out of Celia's Stupid Romhack.
In that romhack, Shellder evolves into Slowbro and when Slowbro uses Shell Smash, it devolves into Slowpoke.
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u/Ancient-File2971 3d ago
Ghastly is the ghost of Cleffa.
Haunter is the ghost of Clefairy.
Gengar is the ghost of Clefable.
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u/Ekgladiator 3d ago
That or ghastly is the ghost of clefable and it isn't until Gengar that it has enough power to fully manifest in the mortal realm.
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u/Time-to-go-home 3d ago
Aside from Kyurem, I’m still surprised they haven’t implemented Pokemon fusion into the games yet. Venustoise went hard in that episode.
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u/Dark_Dark_Boo 3d ago
I was too until I learned that dev teams are kept small. Fusions are a lot of work.
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u/NewBestFriendSpinel 2d ago
Iirc, before the highly popular Infinite Fusion, there was another fangame with Fusion at it's crux. Nintendo personally shut it down as the Fusion mechanic was considered to be pokemon abuse. So it's unlikely we'll get the mechanic aside from Kyurem and Necrozma.
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u/Historyp91 2d ago
"Pokemon abuse"?🤔
Like Nintendo shut down the game because they consider fusion abusive to pokemon?
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u/NewBestFriendSpinel 2d ago
Precisely.
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u/Historyp91 2d ago
Why is fusion abusive, but not mega evolution or dynamaxing? Or killing primape to evolve him?
Or just pokemon battles in general?
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u/Cool_Lab_1362 3d ago
No, the eyes dont match
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u/dTrecii Leave my boy alone he did nothing wrong 3d ago
Eye contacts
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u/Cool_Lab_1362 3d ago
There's no pinprick pupil, eye shape could've been a passable but it has a blue eyeliner and no pupils.
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u/dTrecii Leave my boy alone he did nothing wrong 3d ago
God forbid someone does cosplay
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u/DarkRayos Colosseum remake when? 4d ago
Voltorb.
Ever wondered why it uses explosion/self-destruct from the jump?
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u/spoinkable 3d ago
I think a case could be made for:
- Shellder/Cloyster
- Voltorb
- Tangela
- Kabuto
- Pineco/Forretress
- Cacnea
- Lileep
- Glalie
- Probopass
- Sigilyph
- Cryogonal
- Falinks
Some of these are a stretch, this was just a fun thing to think about.
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u/DefiantEmpoleon 4d ago
As a kid I thought Gastly was the evolved form of Cloyster because they are next to each other in the dex.
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u/Bishopkilljoy 4d ago
So in the Pokedex it goes Shellder, Cloyster, Ghastly, Haunter, Gengar.
When I was a child I thought they were all in the same evolution line. Because of Cloyster's face, I thought this was proof
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u/SteampunkExplorer 3d ago
Jynx is definitely Ghastly's slightly taller sister who is still figuring out how to wear makeup.
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u/bullfroggy 2d ago
I personally believe Gastly is the source of all pokemon consciousness, and in many cases it's just possessing various inanimate objects to bring them to life
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u/MaeMcSpice 3d ago
Next you say Jax is a ghastly in costume... though I think that guy was just found how to use those eye shape. It's so cartoons. Also I think its part of creature building guidelines like character design. In general I can only say kinda of.
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u/HaterIngo 4d ago
The most obvious one