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Pokemorphs?

I have a slightly better understanding of Pokemorphs from the MSN conversation I had with Seijiro, but what I'd like to know is how the Pokemon can transform and why they do it.

Can someone please pass on some information?
 

Yami Ryu

Well-Known Member
To my knowledge a Pokemorph isn't a transformation attack/ability :/ it's like an anthro. Or a hybrid. But usually how a Pokemorph comes about, the cliche way is Human and/or pokemon dna being mixed in one of the species. They can also be brought about by mating, cloning, splicing. Or if psychic and know transform (IE Mew and tech Ditto even if Normal), partial transformations.

Pokemorphs also aren't human with clothing in the color of their species. They aren't Power Rangers like some poor people believe :/ Pokemorphs retain charistics of both human and pokemon. Though some lean more heavily one way or another. Like one person used as an example; her Growlithe Pokemoprh seems utterly human. Save for the fact he has the plume tail of a Growlithe. While her other character, think a Pikachu, is so heavily a pikachu, well, she acts more like a Pikachu. They dn't randomly turn into a human either.

Pokemon can't transform into pokemorphs, like humans can't transform into pokemorphs. Does that explain it better?
 

Seijiro Mafuné

Diogomainardista!
...problem with your explanation is, the term 'morph' indicates that it's not necessarily just a static mutation (like the one you explained), but also continuous ones (example: where the person/creature's cells, being unstable, shift and morph, altering their body composition into other forms).

...other than that, yes, someone ought to shove the bleeding Sues into their own tombs and leave them to rot. Seriously, the amount of plotholes the typical authors do...
 

Orange_Flaaffy

Jello Pokéballs
I just answered this question in another form when asked about it in reply to my story Fable:
It was around the same time as Animorphs that the idea was made. The very first pokemorphs were not human/pokemon mixes but characters who could: 1)Turn in pokemon fully at will and/or 2) Characters who were somehow fully turned into pokemon and could never go back into being human.
At that time the term for a human/pokemon mix was a Hybrid, and was made only by the mating of a human with a pokemon or in a Team Rocket lab.
Nowadays both terms mean pretty much the same thing.
Although, I think my type may be a 3rd all together, as to me, the idea of vampires fits the idea of pokemorphs like glove. It was such a simple idea that I was surprised it was not already written when I started my fanfic. Since then, my idea of 'Lineage' has grown much deeper than what it started as:) ...
 
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Yami Ryu

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Um yeah. Then why is it in all the pokemorph pictures, role plays, stories and such. THE CHARACTERS WERE unable to return to what they once were? Oh yes. Because they were stuck in that form. Usually how a pokemorph came about, as I told you, was being spliced. Meaning a Human injected with like, Arbok DNA suddenly morphing/changing, or gradually, turning, into a naga like human/pokemon hybrid. Or Pokemorph.

It is not something that can be switched on and off. It's not something you can choose to be. If that was so, then all the role plays where you are hunted for being a pokemorph, being turned into a half human, half pokemon creature, would be null, because you could easily turn full human or full pokemon.

Pokemorph is just a fancy word for Anthro/Hybrid/etc and so forth. I've seen it used on a few other things I can't name atm, but they weren't able to switch from being full to the other.

So as I said. Pokemorphs aren't fully human, nor fully pokemon. Or able to become so once again. Sheesh.

Edit: Beaten to it by Flaaffy and;
or in a Team Rocket lab.

Even I and a few friends are guilty of that big cliche hole >.> .. THEN WE USED TEAM MAGMA AND AQUA *gets shot*
 
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Psychic

Really and truly
Well, Pokémorphs have come to mean everal different things. But most times when the term is used, it means the following:
A human and Pokémon mixed and put into one body. It will almost always, without fail, have the base of a human, but have body parts and such from whatever Pokémon they are mixed with. If a human was mixed with an Espeon, for example, they would have purple fur all over their body. They would have a pair of fox-like ears on top of their head, a tail split into two parts and a red jewel on their forehead. They can usually use the attacks this Pokémon has, so this Espeon would be able to use moves like Psybeam and Morning Sun. This would be their permanent form, and they would not be able to change.
These Pokémorphs are usually created in a lab by mixing DNA or by interspecies breeding, so their form is stable and it cannot change. They are usually branded freaks by both humans and Pokémon alike, and are feared and hated.

Of course most people are sick and tired of these characters, and they usually have a cliché story/life/past/personality.


The other types of Pokémorphs are, to my knowledge:

Taken from the Animorph series with the same idea. A human can turn into a Pokémon at will. Sometimes there are certain restrictions, like only being able to turn into one specific Pokémon and so on.

A human infused with a certain Pokémon on a soul level. Similar to First Nation religion, a human can turn into a certain Pokémon. Sometimes can use its attacks while not in Pokémon form, or can become a hybrid.



As mentioned, they are not Power Rangers of the Pokémon World- aka they are not people who wear armor or clothing with ears and tails shaped to look like Pokémon. This is NOT a Feraligatr Pokémorph. This IS a full Charizard Pokémorph. This IS a full Umbreon Pokémorph.

You can tell because they look human but have the attributes of a Pokémon.


We also have these in the real world. Anthros, furries, morphs, they're humans with animal characteristics. An eagle anthro will be covered in feathers, have a beak for a mouth and talons for feet, and either have wings on their back on in place of hands.


You just have to do a wiki of DA search to find your answers.

~Psychic
 

Xobuttsubso

<- Best DP Legendary
I'm pretty sure the "Animorphs Ripoff!" ones came around LONG before the "Spliced together with Pokémon DNA!" ones, at least as far as the American Pokémon fanbase is concerned.

Mainly because I know that the "Animorphs Ripoff" ones have been in existence since late 1998/early 1999; back when Red/Blue were NEW, people actually thought that Mew was under the truck, and fake, glitchy "Pokégod" codes lurked around every corner.

Regardless of which type of human/Pokémon mix was actually thought up first (I'm guessing the "furries" and/or DNA-spiced mutants came first in Japan, since Animorphs was an American book series), I'm pretty much 100% sure that the "Animorphs Ripoff" type was the first to be called "Pokémorphs."

EDIT: Orange Flaaffy also had the right idea, I just missed this post the first time around:

It was around the same time as Animorphs that the idea was made. The very first pokemorphs were not human/pokemon mixes but characters who could: 1)Turn in pokemon fully at will and/or 2) Characters who were somehow fully turned into pokemon and could never go back into being human.
At that time the term for a human/pokemon mix was a Hybrid, and was made only by the mating of a human with a pokemon or in a Team Rocket lab.
 
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Pink Parka Girl

I wish I could change my username
Yeah, the pokemorph term can mean so many things - the OP probably originally meant it in the "Animorph-ripoff" sense, and indeed, the pokemorphs.com domain was originally owned by someone writing those kind of stories (though that was waaaaaaaay back when I first entered the pokemon fandom a good seven to six years ago).

From what I've seen, the story claiming to be the "first Hybrid/anthropomorph story on the net" was from "mid 1999" (although the Gold/Silver english names obviously led me to suspect they greatly inflated the original writing date, although they could have originally been Japanese and then changed later), although whether they truely were "the first" I don't have any idea. If it was "the first," than it also established many of the cliches that are still used excessively, including a raichumorph main character (and many of the other main characters as "the cool canids" such as eevee, umbreon, and houndoom [growlithe and smeargle not being "cool"]), Team Rocket goons who kidnapped them and morphed them, and "life on the run" (which doesn't stop them from stupidly entering towns where just about everyone can see them).

The anthro-style pokemorph certainly existed in artwork pre-2000, however, although I don't remember reading pokemorph fiction of this type until near late 2000.

And just how the pokemorph term is never set in stone, sometimes the two different types can be crossed over. Although it's true that my own main morphic characters (the growlithe and pikachu Yami mentioned), and many others of the "anthro type" do not shapeshift and are basically stuck the way they are all their lives (mine, for example, were born the way they are, which seems to be a scarce thing to do given the obsession with kidnapping and morphing teenagers), some of them do, in either the animorph sense (taking the form of the pokemon they are morphed with and/or their human selves, but only for limited periods and always having to return to the morphic form) or even in the Tokyo Mew Mew sense (usually human, but able to take the anthropomorphic form at certain times). And as much as I personally hate characters who are basically "humans in fur" - morphic characters with NOTHING of the pokemon inside, just outside (heck, even my Growlithe acts like a dog every once in a while) - they seem to be the most common kind of creature labeled a "pokemorph."

In short, it's all very confusing ^_^'
 
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