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Psyduck: Duck or Platypus?

Is Psyduck a duck or a platypus?

  • Duck

    Votes: 21 50.0%

  • Platypus (this is what it actually is based on, it's really not a duck)

    Votes: 21 50.0%
  • Total voters
    42
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Rayquaza Master777

#1 May Fanboy
I got into an argument with Bynine over something with an obvious answer: is Psyduck a duck or a platypus? It's obviously a platypus. Just check the Animals that aren't Pokemon thread and the What Pokemon are Based On thread. The only thing it's missing is the beaver tail, but that's not important. The duck part of its name comes from "duck-billed" as in "duck-billed platypus."
Anyway, what do you think?
 
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Rayquaza Master777

#1 May Fanboy
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Rayquaza Master777

#1 May Fanboy
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KingRaichu

Hail to da king baby
I'd say duck...but because it looks mammalian and lays eggs...platypus..and besides, it has claws...and no wings...so there
 
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xspicysnowballx

Woof, meow, moo!
Looks like a duck who acts like he's high most of the time.
 
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Rayquaza Master777

#1 May Fanboy
KingRaichu said:
I'd say duck...but because it looks mammalian and lays eggs...platypus..and besides, it has claws...and no wings...so there
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Yes! That's exactly why it's not a duck: no wings!
 
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Grei

not the color
It's both. It's called Psyduck because it has a bill, like a duck, and ducks are more well-known than platypi.

Ducks have wings. Psyduck has claws. However, Platypi have beaver-like tails, Psyduck has a duck-like tail.

So it's both.
 
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BynineB

Wielding Übersaw.
KingRaichu said:
I'd say duck...but because it looks mammalian and lays eggs...platypus..and besides, it has claws...and no wings...so there
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Doduo doesn't have wings...

And every Pokemon lays eggs..

Also, jesus christ, you could have made the poll options slightly less biased.. now everyone's going to vote Platypus. If I made the poll options biased towards ducks, it would probably be the opposite.
 
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Munchy

Munchy

=)
Heh it's a pretty hard one. I voted for duck just for the fact that it says duck on the name, but yeah, it does resemble a platypus more.
 
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Dattebayo

Banned
It looks more like a cross between a duck and a platypus.
 
octoboy

octoboy

I Crush Everything
Platypus for sure. Were psyduck truly a duck, it'd have a little something I like to call WINGS. Really, who's heard of a wingless duck? Psyduck's clearly got four mammilian limbs, which makes it clearly a mammal.

I hate it when people are sticklers to pokemons' names. Really, why trust the word used for the creature more than its actual appearance? Psyduck's name at least always had the word, "duck" in it (it was koduck in Japan), but insisting that infernape's an ape just because of the English name? What ape has a frickin' TAIL? It's clearly a mandrill, and anyone who insists that it must be an ape because a dubber saw fit to name it after one seems pretty dense to me.

But going back to the subject of ducks, now that I think of it, the duck wasn't really done to justice in Pokemon, really. One "duck" nobody can even agree on if it's really one or not, and the one that's obviously a duck (farfetch'd) wasn't even given the water type. The duck was given the versatility of being able to both fly and swim, some ducks actually known to fly as fast as a plane, and, of course, being renowned for their swimming abilities, yet the water/flying type combination was instead given to a great, wingless sea serpent, while the only true duck was left without the aquatic inclination the duck is famed for.

But considering how pokemon treated things like the dolphin and squirrel, I think the duck family can come to forgive Pokemon.
 
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tahhato

Glaceon be the Best
i would say platypus, i have never really thought of it b4...but now that i do it is definatly a platypus....if it had wings, well thats a diferent story

o and octoboy, mantyke mantine wingull and pelipper are all water flying too dont forget
 
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BynineB

Wielding Übersaw.
Let's not forget; Psyduck is yellow. Now, what's the stereotypical colour for ducks? Yellow. Yuh. It also is missing the beaver-like tail of a platypus. It, however, does have arms... But it is definately coloured something like a rubber duckie. I'm guessing that Psyduck is a duck-based Pokemon with platypus features, and it isn't purely based on either.
 
octoboy

octoboy

I Crush Everything
But if you look at psyduck next to pikachu, it's actually orange. It's the same colour as raichu, so calling psyduck yellow is calling raichu yellow.

tahhato said:
o and octoboy, mantyke mantine wingull and pelipper are all water flying too dont forget
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Course I didn't forget, but they aren't ducks either.

Only wingull and pelipper are water and flying types taken from things which both swim and fly. The rest are just swimmers which sort of look winged (mantyke doesn't look in the least bit aerodynamic) and fully aquatic pokemon, simply given the flying type as a handicap to prevent cheapness.
 
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ijea4444

Well-Known Member
When sugimori is making it he's not like. This pokemon will be only duck!. He just designs them with what comes out of his hand and, as far as I know the pictures of animals he is viewing while drawing them. I know that when If I drew a fake animal I would look at several animals and combine the features that I like. Whats the point of making a fake creature if you only use the features of one real animal? It would just be a redesigned version of the animal, not a fake. Which basically is what pokemon are.
 
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BlazeXX

WisdomTree Trainer
ijea4444 said:
When sugimori is making it he's not like. This pokemon will be only duck!. He just designs them with what comes out of his hand and, as far as I know the pictures of animals he is viewing while drawing them. I know that when If I drew a fake animal I would look at several animals and combine the features that I like. Whats the point of making a fake creature if you only use the features of one real animal? It would just be a redesigned version of the animal, not a fake. Which basically is what pokemon are.
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this thread is pointless. Read the name-Psy(DUCK) jesus christ people...
 
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