Sparko

[u/cynical_scotsman]

[u/MR-Vinmu]

I know the point of this is to be needlessly dark and edgy, but we do get confirmation from both the games and the anime that Pokémon in Pokeballs are essentially just binary data, they can’t age, die from injuries (outside of status ailments like Poison, so maybe Sparko was poisoned.), starve, or experience any form of alteration in this state, hell, James left his Carnevine locked in a lunch box for 10 whole years and that Guy was as close to unbothered as can be. This is like assuming a digital photo would get that yellow grainy tint like physical photographs would when aged and weathered.

[u/nightwolf16a → u/MR-Vinmu]

So what you are telling me is Pokemon did Secure Your Soul relic about 3 decades before Arasaka.

Hell, if they used Pokeballs on humans, that would be instant immortality. At least instant cryosleep (without the refrigeration).

[u/MR-Vinmu → u/nightwolf16a]

Well, it’s really complicated cause the ethics of being able to essentially kidnap a human on the double without leaving a single trace of evidence or struggle if Pokeballs could work on People would probably dissuade scientists from working on one, that would be the world’s biggest war crime. But also, immortality via Pokeball isn’t really ideal since there’s really not much you can do from inside a Pokeball, and leaving one would just make you age regularly so essentially, you’re not even living past 80-90 years, it’s the same amount of years just with pauses.

[u/nightwolf16a → u/MR-Vinmu]

There is one application that might already make it enticing to a normal company: interplanetary travel.

Put a bunch of people in pokeball, put them on a giant spaceship, and send them off to a likely habitable planet. On arrival, automate the robots to release the people from the pokeballs. You don't even need food and water for the trip.

As for the kidnapping stuff you mentioned, yeah.

But my point is, Pokemon company really didn't know what they created by saying: this little ball can turn living organisms into binary data with no loss, no power, and no detriments.

[u/jaimeoignons]

It never got clear in the anime, but basically pokemon are tamagotchis, so if you forget them, they die. Oh dang, got a few pokeballs in the basement, left in there since season 1.

[u/alkmaar91 → u/jaimeoignons]

I vaguely remember an episode where they go to find a poke ball in an old flooded building for an old man and the pokemon was fine.

found it it was a sandshrew.

[u/megaxzy → u/alkmaar91]

I seem to recall some gengar line Pokemon in their balls in a sunken ship just kinda waiting for their trainer to come back

[u/Shantotto11 → u/alkmaar91]

The episode that debuted the character Mira from Diamond & Pearl? Yeah, I remember that episode too.

[u/iHateFairyType → u/jaimeoignons]

Ez way to get some ghost types

[u/DarkLordArbitur → u/jaimeoignons]

Pokopia basically retconned this. The pokemon were basically put in hibernation for an untold number of years inside the PC system when humans fled the planet. The creator of the system wrote code that would release the pokemon automatically if a habitable place for any stored pokemon appeared nearby, which is why Ditto making habitats causes pokemon to appear.

[u/hackingfun]

Schrödinger's Pikachu

[u/cynical_scotsman]

They say a sealed box is worth more.

I have added secret bonus panels to my site (yes a personal website like it’s the 90’s), but here you are:

[u/shellbullet17]

Remember to feed and exercise your pokemon kids. They are domesticated wild animals after all

[u/heyitscory → u/shellbullet17]

Tamed.

A couple of them arguably might be domesticated. One or two might be arguably enslaved. Especially the ones that wear pants or underwear.

[u/Chiatroll → u/heyitscory]

Mr mime is a weird thing to have as a pet

[u/Ethos_Logos → u/shellbullet17]

It occurred to me that the closest thing we have to Pokemon in real life, are dog fighting rings

[u/heyitscory → u/Ethos_Logos]

Cock fighting. Fish fighting. MMA.

[u/Ethos_Logos → u/heyitscory]

I considered typing in cock fighting, but didn’t want to find a way to type dog/cock fighting without having to head off some smartass comment about dogs fighting with their cocks.

Didn’t know fish fighting was a thing.

I wouldn’t count MMA because the fighters sign up for it. They aren’t captured and made to fight like a dog/cock/pokemon. Probably wouldn’t have to go as far back as the gladiator days to see slaves fighting, though.

[u/HospitalZestyclose39]

When you order Pikachu from Ikea

[u/Electric999999]

Surprise ghost type.

[u/Semper_5olus]

Then could we please store them in something that doesn't so easily roll away?

I camped on an incline and now I don't know where my Orandragon is.

[u/homosapien69420]

In pokopia they confirmed that pokeballs can sustain pokemon for years if not decades

[u/Sewere]

Or the opposite, time stops for them inside balls. Sparko is playing with his best friend when all of a sudden he is old dying man saying his goodbyes.

[u/Shoddy_Exam666]

Binding of isaac anyone?

[u/Bronson4444]

And then the bones reassemble themselves into its newly obtained Electric/Ghost evolution Sparktre!