Pokemon Design Misconceptions

[MachoCheese]

Okay, so simple, what mistakes did you have about Pokemon designs when you first saw them.

For example, I've been playing Pokemon since Red and Blue and for all these years I thought Poliwag's mouth was its nose. All these years... and I just figured that out this year.

 

[supersmew]

Poliwag's mouth was its nose.

Wait... That's a mouth?!

 

[☭Azimuth_055☣]

I once mistook Misdreavus's Gen III sprite's red gems on its neck as its mouth. Until then I learned of its design and felt stupid.

 

[koolaidman594]

Okay, so simple, what mistakes did you have about Pokemon designs when you first saw them.

For example, I've been playing Pokemon since Red and Blue and for all these years I thought Poliwag's mouth was its nose. All these years... and I just figured that out this year.

i always thought the same thing!
and i guess one of mine was that i thought kyogre was like voltorb in that it didnt have a mouth until i traded one to collosseum and battled with it, and when i saw its mouth ope ope i was like wait, whaatt

 

[Frost Mage]

Okay, so simple, what mistakes did you have about Pokemon designs when you first saw them.

For example, I've been playing Pokemon since Red and Blue and for all these years I thought Poliwag's mouth was its nose. All these years... and I just figured that out this year.

No, no, no, nO, NO, NO, NO, NOOO!

MY LIFE IS A LIE! D':

 

[Cassafrass1999]

Okay, so simple, what mistakes did you have about Pokemon designs when you first saw them.

For example, I've been playing Pokemon since Red and Blue and for all these years I thought Poliwag's mouth was its nose. All these years... and I just figured that out this year.

Really?! 0_o How did you figure out it WASN'T its nose?!

 

[MachoCheese]

Yeah, I know its hard to think of Poliwag in that way but look at Bulbapedia's image gallery of it

http://archives.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Category:Poliwag

The more pictures you see the more its recognizable as a mouth.

 

[Frost Mage]

I checked the Bulbapedia, and sure enough, that's a mouth... Jesus... this is weirder than the theory of Diglett's nose being a mouth with a tooth in it...

 

[Acdog]

All the way until I got to Hoenn in the anime last year, I had thought that Hariyama had a beak. The V-Shape of the rising-sun pattern is similar to the shape of a beak. Little did I know this was its chest!

http://img.pokemondb.net/artwork/hariyama.jpg

 

[Munchy]

A friend of mine told me that she thought that the red dots/areas on Armaldo's head were its eyes, while the actual eyes were ears. After she told me that, I can not unsee it hehe!!

 

[Dew Watatsumi]

Ok, who else thought that the only way Samurott can use razor shell is with his helmet?

Another one is that I thought Gardevoir floats instead because she has no legs...I found out otherwise when I played coliseum

 

[Bulba the Great!]

http://pad3.whstatic.com/images/thumb/c/c7/Get-Nosepass-in-Pokemon-Emerald-Step-4.jpg/550px-Get-Nosepass-in-Pokemon-Emerald-Step-4.jpg

The way its Ruby/Sapphire sprite was configured, I always thought Nosepass' right leg was actually a protruding mouth. I thought Nosepass was just a big floating head and therefore it seemed like the freakiest frikkin thing I had ever encountered.

 

[MurderofKrow]

I remember thinking that Woobat's nose was it's eye, then I saw the pictures for Woobat and found out that it's eyes were just covered by it's fur.

 

[Cyberra]

First time I saw Probopass I thought it had two stumpy winglike arms and a tail. Then I found out about the "mini-noses". And Roggenrola... "That's a weird looking eye... Oh. That's an ear."

 

[Cassafrass1999]

Yeah, I know its hard to think of Poliwag in that way but look at Bulbapedia's image gallery of it

http://archives.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Category:Poliwag

The more pictures you see the more its recognizable as a mouth.

Woah...well that would make sense, hehe... ;P

 

[Minedreigon]

Just like the jwitzz, I thought digglets nose was a mouth. I was so very dumb.

 

[Shayminslicker]

Did anyone else think that Lilignat's petals had faces on it?

 

[Cassafrass1999]

Wow...pretty much every single thing everyone is saying is what I thought about that certain Pokémon, or that the things you have now just told me I now will see forever since I can never "unsee" them! >.<

 

[fubufubu]

i thought snorlax's belly......was a huge chin.......yeeeeeeah.......i was 6 okay?

 

[Rayze Darr]

In the original Red and Blue sprites for Fearow, the way that its right wing was positioned made it look like it was part of its beak. I thought that Fearow was a toucan.

I also originally had Gardevoir's face backwards. I thought its pointed ears were actually a long nose and a pointed lip, and that it was looking up and to the right.