Deaths in Pokemon

[Glowstick_cult]

Pokemon die when you accidently drop your gameboy into a pot of boiling water, and all your data gets erased.
There are other way they can die too! Be creative 8D

and Y do trainers make such a big deal when there pokemon is in the pokemon center

If, say your dog was suffering from some... I dunno... tuma or something (?), and had to go under some harmless operation to get it cut out, you wouldn't exaclty feel neutral toward the whole ideal, wouldn't you? Same goes for when your Pokemon is writhing helplessly and out of breathe. I wouldn't be too happy about it either.

 

[Comis Patronus]

Latios had the only death we actually seen.!_!

 

[Akerin]

I don't believe any Pokemon is immortal. Some probably live longer than others, but I believe everything will eventually die. Ninetales, as someone said before me, apparently can live for a hundred years or more (so can sea turtles in the real world, so it's not that ridiculous).

In-game trainers will say their Pokemon died, and even in the cartoon we've seen a select few deaths. (Lucario and Latios are the first ones that come to my mind) though unless I'm forgetting something, none of those trainers from the game will say how... but obviously your own Pokemon aren't going to die. Just imagine how many people would have a fit about that? Say you've just about got your prized Pokemon up to level 100. It's at level 99, with only 1000 more experience points to go, then suddenly it drops dead in the middle of the last battle. "Your Pokemon has died of old-age." Now wouldn't that be awful? : (

If Pokemon were really real though... well, nothing lives forever.

 

[Leon Phelps]

Pokemon do die. I rememeber an old Saffron episode in the anime where people were paying tribute to their dead pokemon by putting them on rafts and sending them off to float downriver. It was pretty sad. The people were crying and stuff...

 

[XxGreivousxX]

Of course they X.X, it would be funny though if the trainer died first and the pokemon never came out again and sufficated in the balls. 0.O

 

[Leon Phelps]

Of course they X.X, it would be funny though if the trainer died first and the pokemon never came out again and sufficated in the balls. 0.O

Nah, they wouldn't suffocate. Just die of starvation.

And since you brought it up: Way back when, in the Orange Island episodes, there were 300 year old pokemon who were waiting for their master who got old and died.

 

[Jakley]

I wonder if Ghost Pokemon are actually 'transformed' souls of dead Pokemon... or if they are just Ghosts

 

[Zim Del Invasor]

They do die. There's Pokemon Tower and Mt. Pyre, and they both have at least one trainer mention dead Pokemon. A woman at Mt. Pyre says something like, "Are you paying respects to dead Pokemon? How kind." Or something. It's something like that. In the games, though, your Pokemon never die.

 

[Captain Brain]

Of course they die. Even video games characers die (They just seem to have alot of live is all). Its a part of nature. Except maybe legendarys but they might just be reborn.

Legendaries die and beside there are more than one. Look at Mewtwo (the original) he came from a bone of Mew and then we Sam Mew. So unless they shed bones Mews do die and therefore must reproduce. Also Nolad has an Articuno and we all know if one of the island Legendary birds leave their respective island the world goes a muck. So legendary reproduce and die because if they didn't having a legendary Pokemon would be more common. ;025;

 

[Jakley]

Nah, they wouldn't suffocate. Just die of starvation.

And since you brought it up: Way back when, in the Orange Island episodes, there were 300 year old pokemon who were waiting for their master who got old and died.

Is that the one with the Ghost Captain and teh Haunter and Gastly?

 

[EmpressMyuu]

Legendaries die and beside there are more than one. Look at Mewtwo (the original) he came from a bone of Mew and then we Sam Mew. So unless they shed bones Mews do die and therefore must reproduce. Also Nolad has an Articuno and we all know if one of the island Legendary birds leave their respective island the world goes a muck. So legendary reproduce and die because if they didn't having a legendary Pokemon would be more common. ;025;

Actually, according to the anime's story, Mewtwo was cloned from a Mew's fossilized eyelash. Whether or not it was the same Mew he battled in the first movie, we'll never know. Hair can be fossilized, and Mew is said to be immortal.

In the anime, Pokémon deaths are easier to portray because no one's really effected in their life except the characters, and let's admit, deaths add drama which leads to a better movie sometimes. In the game though, Pokémon are said to die, but your own never do unless you restart your game ("killing" the ones from your old save). It makes the game more challenging, but at the same time it's too aggravating and sad, like the Lv. 99 example. And what about the different ways to die? Like say, you breed a Pokémon and it's "stillborn"? Truly a heartbreak, and an unpreventable one. Your Pokémon just weren't supposed to die. If you remember the Playstation game Digimon World, your Digimon would die eventually, and this is probably one reason why it didn't do as well as Pokémon as far as video games go.

And if Ghost-type Pokémon are breedable and produce one of their own kind, then they're Pokémon all their own.

 

[Akerin]

^ Where did it say that was an eyelash? I always thought it was a bone from the end of Mew's tail.
It makes more sense, because eyelashes don't fall out on a stick like this -->

...They fall out one by one...

 

[EmpressMyuu]

True, but even though Mew's tail is skinny, that really doesn't seem thick enough to be part of a tail bone. Almost all sites I've been to (now dead/lost) have confirmed it as an eyelash; if I'm right, I think that's even what Dr. Fuji says it is in the Japanese radio drama "The Birth of Mewtwo". Either way, if Mew is claimed to be immortal, I doubt it being a bone.

 

[Akerin]

Bone doesn't necessarily have to be exactly as thick as it looks on the outside. Mew could have fat stored in there or it could have extra long fur. I've never heard from anyone other than the fans that Mew is immortal. Personally, I believe there's more than one just based on how different the one in the 8th movie acts compaired to the one in the 1st movie.

 

[Abraace]

I'm guessing they have different lifespans.

Ninetails, most psychic Pokemon, Torkoal, Relicanth and Blastoise all probably have longer lifespans than say...bug types.

When a Pokemon dies, does it become a ghost Pokemon?

 

[Steinhauser]

Pokémon die. See:

Dunsparce + Body Slam + about 10 Headbut flinches = dedd

When a Pokemon dies, does it become a ghost Pokemon?

Doubtful. Else they wouldn't be able to mate. (With the living!!)

 

[Captain Brain]

Bone doesn't necessarily have to be exactly as thick as it looks on the outside. Mew could have fat stored in there or it could have extra long fur. I've never heard from anyone other than the fans that Mew is immortal. Personally, I believe there's more than one just based on how different the one in the 8th movie acts compaired to the one in the 1st movie.

Even though I have yet to see the eight movie Mews changes could be related to his change of lifestyle. Before his battle with Mewtwo he just floated around and slept in rivers, but after he had a hard slap of how cruel reality really is and after teaching Mewtwo and the clones what life is really about I'm sure, like any one else would, went through see some radical changes. We may have a few more reasons why the Mew in the eight movie acts so different then his "former" self. I, however, do believe there is more than one Mew. ;025;

 

[ellie]

I think they can die just like people. They die of sickness, old age, harsh battle, or any number of things. The only reason they don't die in the games is because if would seriously suck if your level 100 EV-trained Wobbuffet went and died when you turned on your GBA.

 

[Abraace]

And what about all those edible Pokemon?

Farfetch'd would probably be eaten a lot less if he didn't carry his own seasoning.

 

[Flame Haze SnS]

They'd die except for some pokemon like Gastly, Haunter, Gengar, some Legendary Pokemon, etc.