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Anybody else ever get perplexed by the fact that, in the pokemon anime, nobody ever cares how much collateral damage is done during gym battles, frontier battles, and even contests?
They have a gym battle, the gym is torn to pieces, and yet the gym leader has absolutely no problem giving the challenger a badge. They do it all the time (note that I haven't seen any pre-Sinnoh gym battles or frontier battles in a long time), sometimes in small amounts and sometimes in extreme proportions.
*When Ash fought Candice and she took down Gliscor it left a gaping crater in the wall. They didn't take any notice of it at the time, but certainly they had to hire someone to patch up the wall later. Then notice how many ice boulders were shattered; if Candice wants to maintain a battlefield that gives her pokemon a home field advantage, she must have someone come in once in a while to replace the ice. That's also the problem at Roark's gym; so many boulders are wrecked in each battle, surely he needs to replace them once in a while.
* When Ash battled Byron, Chimchar got the upper hand on Steelix by digging a network of tunnels, thus weakening the floor and causing a cave in under Steelix. Byron must have done something to fix the floor afterward, right?
* The biggest one: when Ash battled Maylene, the crossfire between Lucario and Buizel blasted the roof off the gym. Even though they didn't show it, there were probably a large number of roofers working on the gym for the next few days.
I just find it odd that none of these issues are ever addressed at all, what do you think?
They have a gym battle, the gym is torn to pieces, and yet the gym leader has absolutely no problem giving the challenger a badge. They do it all the time (note that I haven't seen any pre-Sinnoh gym battles or frontier battles in a long time), sometimes in small amounts and sometimes in extreme proportions.
*When Ash fought Candice and she took down Gliscor it left a gaping crater in the wall. They didn't take any notice of it at the time, but certainly they had to hire someone to patch up the wall later. Then notice how many ice boulders were shattered; if Candice wants to maintain a battlefield that gives her pokemon a home field advantage, she must have someone come in once in a while to replace the ice. That's also the problem at Roark's gym; so many boulders are wrecked in each battle, surely he needs to replace them once in a while.
* When Ash battled Byron, Chimchar got the upper hand on Steelix by digging a network of tunnels, thus weakening the floor and causing a cave in under Steelix. Byron must have done something to fix the floor afterward, right?
* The biggest one: when Ash battled Maylene, the crossfire between Lucario and Buizel blasted the roof off the gym. Even though they didn't show it, there were probably a large number of roofers working on the gym for the next few days.
I just find it odd that none of these issues are ever addressed at all, what do you think?